A CANDIDATE vying for a seat in this week’s British general election has been suspended after he was covertly filmed threatening to shoot a rival.

Robert Blay, who wanted to represent the controversial UKIP party in the House of Commons, vented about Conservative Party candidate Ranil Jayawardena, who some had tipped to one day be Britain’s first Asian Prime Minister. (In the UK, the term Asian includes people from the sub continent, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka).

The 55-year-old told an undercover reporter from The Mirror: “If he is I will personally put a bullet between his eyes.

“If this lad turns up to be our Prime Minister I will personally put a bullet in him. That’s how strong I feel about it.

“I won’t have this f***** as our Prime Minister. I absolutely loathe him.”

The shocking comments were made at a public meeting on Saturday attended by party leader Nigel Farage.

The seat the two men are both trying to win is considered a safe Conservative seat that was won with a majority of 18,500 at the last election.

Speaking about his own prospects of defeat by Mr Jayawardena in the election, the UKIP man told The Mirror’s reporter: “It makes me quite sick. But I’ve always said in my constituency you could put a monkey out there with a blue rosette on and it would win.”

He went on to say: “His (Jayawardena’s) family have only been here since the Seventies. You are not British enough to be in our parliament.

“I’ve got 400 years of ancestry where I live. He hasn’t got that. I said to his dad about two months ago — ‘When did you come to Britain?’ He said ‘In the “Seventies’.”

“I said ‘Why did you come?’ He said ‘Things weren’t very good politically in Sri Lanka and I came here and I could train as an accountant’.”

“So he’s come here and ponced off us hasn’t he like all the East Europeans are? That’s what is happening. Continually.”

Blay continued: “His name’s Jayawardena and I’m told that name is a Tamil name. Well the Tamils were Indians which went to Sri Lanka to take it over and they got their asses kicked. So he comes here, ponces off us and then his son’s in our political system.”

Mr Blay’s outrageous accusations also included a suggestion that Jayawardena, whose parents are from Sri Lanka, had deliberately got his wife pregnant in order to win votes.

The UK Independence Party, commonly known as UKIP, has attracted fierce debate in the UK with its calls for the withdrawal from the European Union and tighter controls on immigration.

It has been branded “racist” by many of its opponents but is widely expected to win more many more seats in Parliament than the two it currently has.