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AN AIDS awareness charity called Ukip's former deputy leader "ignorant and apoplectic" yesterday after he blames the illness on gay "promiscuity."
The Terrence Higgins Trust was reportedly outraged with the comments of Lord Christopher Monckton - a one-time Conservative adviser - to far-right website WorldNetDaily.
The charity's acting policy director Daisy Ellis said: "These words come as no surprise from a man who has previously called for people with HIV to be quarantined for life."
"Lord Monckton's views on HIV and sexuality are not just from another time but practically another planet."
"There is simply no place for this kind of thinking in modern society," she told gay news channel PinkNews.
Among other things, Mr Monckton stated that "homosexuals had an average of 500-1,000 partners in their sexually active lifetime, and that some had as many as 20,000. One wonders how they found time for anything else."
He went on to define HIV-Aids as "the wages of promiscuity" and as "chiefly a disease of homosexuals and drug-abusers."
Monday is World Aids Day.
