AN MEP and Sussex parliamentary candidate has slammed a spoof television documentary depicting what Britain could be like if UKIP were elected to government.

Ray Finch, MEP for south east England and UKIP’s general election candidate for Lewes, described Channel 4’s ‘UKIP: The First 100 Days’ as “malicious and unfair”.

Monday night’s spoof ‘mocumentary’ depicted scenes of intense rioting and non-stop immigration raids under a Nigel Farage-led UKIP government.

Mr Finch told The Argus: “The Channel 4 documentary is typical of the scandalous way the establishment attacks any threat to its power.

“It was not only malicious, but it was unfair and had travesties such as showing ‘help for heroes’ banners at staged ‘far right’ protests.

“This underlines precisely what the London intelligentsia thinks of patriotic people.

“We don’t see any LibLabCon spoofs because they are, in David Cameron’s words, ‘all in it together’.

“They all went to the same schools and universities and eat at the same Islington restaurants.”

Mr Finch, a close ally of Nigel Farage, is hoping to win the Lewes seat from long-standing Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker.

If elected, he revealed one of his biggest priorities would be reviving “devastated” Newhaven.

He added: “The town centre is like a ghost town. The west beach is now French-owned and fenced off.

“If we are to bring life back to Newhaven, we have to reopen the beach and have a plan to restore the town centre. Newhaven is the biggest town I know of without a bank.

“But I picked Lewes because of the radical history of the constituency. I won my hustings in the pub where Thomas Paine held his political meetings. UKIP are the heirs to Paine and believe in freedom in the sense he fought for.”

Mr Finch accused MP Mr Baker of leaving his ministerial seat in government early in a bid to “try and save his political skin”.

He added: “The people won’t forget the Lib Dems sold out their policies and their supporters to get their feet under David Cameron’s table.”

In response to the comments, Mr Baker said: “UKIP’s anti-EU and anti-renewable energy policies would be disastrous for Newhaven which relies on links with France and where I have helped secure around 300 jobs for the port to assemble and maintain the offshore windfarm.

“I hardly think Ray Finch is in a position to comment on Newhaven as he lives in Hampshire.”