A UKIP candidate has been deselected over his ‘nutty’ election flyer and ‘disgusting’ online comments, in which he suggested some people were ‘intended by nature’ to be slaves.

David W Griffiths was chosen by Hounslow UKIP Group to represent the party in Isleworth, where he lives on the Ivybridge estate, in the local elections on May 22.

However, group leader Councillor Colin Botterill barred him from representing the group after seeing his ‘nutty’ election literature, featuring the party’s colours and UKIP’s website address, in which he listed his two big issues as ‘old people’ and 'breastfeeding'.

In the flyer, he described women's 'real work' as 'that of the child-bearer and nurturer', saying everything else was 'inconsequential froth'.

Further checks revealed Mr Griffiths had previously stood as an independent parliamentary candidate in Twickenham in the 1992 general election, when he reportedly made bizarre claims about a conspiracy to cover up plans for a nuclear waste transportation staging point in Strawberry Hill.

He also posted comments on an internal UKIP forum - shortly after the death of Nelson Mandela, who fought successfully to end apartheid in South Africa - in which he quoted from Aristotle’s Politics, saying some people were ‘intended by nature’ to be slaves and were ‘marked out for subjection’ from birth.

When asked about his comments on the forum, Mr Griffiths said: “I tossed off three quotations. One from Aristotle, one from William Blake, and one from the Hindu Law Book ‘The Laws of Manu’.

“The thread was moderated and left to run. That moderator found the discussion acceptable, so I can only assume it was.”

Mr Botterill said Mr Griffiths had passed an initial interview and been told he could represent the party but had not mentioned his previous comments when asked if there was anything ‘in his past’ about which the group should be aware.

“A couple of weeks later he sent me a leaflet which was very similar to the one he distributed. It had slightly different wording but was still nutty,” added Mr Botterill.

“I told him to go away and reword it but heard nothing from him. About a week later I received an anonymous email from someone with a copy of the leaflet, which he’d sent out without permission, and links to stories about his past.

“It emerged he had made comments online which weren't acceptable. They were disgusting; no one’s born to be a slave. I made the decision he couldn't stand, and we have since found another candidate to replace him in Isleworth.”

When interviewed in March, Mr Botterill had refused to reveal any names of potential candidates before the nominations were in because he didn’t want to risk anyone ‘saying the wrong things as a candidate’.

Asked whether the group had tightened up its vetting process in the wake of what happened with Mr Griffiths, the group leader said he was confident all 16 candidates chosen to represent UKIP in Hounslow at next month's local elections were ‘honest, hard-working, down-to-earth people’.

“Google is a great research tool and for some reason Mr Griffiths slipped through the net, but everyone else has been thoroughly vetted and we’re very happy with all our candidates,” he added.

“Mr Griffiths has no authorisation to use the UKIP logo or make any reference to the party. We're trying to prove we’re a respectable and serious party. I can’t have anyone like that in my group.”

Mr Botterill added that the party would have 16 candidates in total standing across the borough’s 20 wards in the local elections.

Asked if he planned to stand as an independent, Mr Griffiths responded cryptically: “Would it be too nutty to suggest that CB (Colin Botterill) is some kind of Conservative mole; installed to **** up UKIP in West London? I consider myself to be the REAL UKIP.”