Ukip supporting taxi driver quizzed by cops after covering his house with SWASTIKA banner calling for Brexit
Timothy 'Dusty' Miller covered the top floor of his three-bedroom detached home with the 22ft by 8ft message calling for Brexit
A Ukip member who hung a giant banner covered in swastika on the front of his house has been quizzed by police.
Timothy 'Dusty' Miller covered the top floor of his three-bedroom detached home with the 22ft by 8ft message calling for Brexit.
The first line of the banner read: “Have we British forgotten the last attempt to remove our freedom and democracy?"
Separated by the huge swastika, a second line then adds: "We did not fight two world wars to surrender and be ruled by a corrupt EU!"
Taxi driver Mr Miller, 66, said police contacted him saying members of the Jewish community were “incensed”.
But Mr Miller said: “There is nothing wrong with the sign, it's perfectly legal.
"The sign is shown in a historical context referring to nothing other than freedom of democracy.
"I can very well understand their views if I was, in any way, promoting the far right but it's not that at all.
"People want to read that I'm anti-semitic but that is not the truth. I'm referencing what will happen if our freedom of democracy was threatened.”
He added: “Neighbours are obviously upset, which is understandable, and I apologise to them and anybody else I've upset who read it out of context."
He vowed to keep the poster on show after police spoke to him this morning.
A Hampshire Constabulary spokeswoman said: "Officers have visited the occupant on the morning of Friday, April 22 to speak to him about the poster and the offence it could cause to other members of the community.
"He has been advised to consider taking it down to avoid any possible complaints which may be investigated as criminal offences but he has chosen to continue to display the poster."
Mr Miller, who lives alone in Hedge End, Hants, has attracted controversy in the past with other posters containing outrageous straplines.
In December last year, he was accused of 'crossing the line' by neighbours with a 22ft banner when he asked for a Koran for Christmas.
In red and white letters, it read: "Dear Father Christmas, an EU exit is the only present for me if not, it had better be a Koran and lessons in Arabic".
He said at the time he was prompted to put up the banner by the "failed social experiment" of open borders in the EU.