Ukip election candidate suspended over alleged antisemitic comments Nigel Farage, Ukip leader, speaking at a meeting in Scarborough this month. Photograph: Michael Mayhew/Sportsphoto/Allstar A Ukip candidate in next month's local elections has been suspended after reportedly posting antisemitic comments on a conspiracy theory website. Anna-Marie Crampton, a candidate in East Sussex, told the party her account on the site Secrets of The Fed had been hacked and she was not responsible for the posts, including a claim that the second world war was "engineered by the Zionist." A party spokesman said she had been suspended pending an investigation: "We are investigating. If she was hacked, we will apologise for suspending her. A user posting under Crampton's name claimed the second world war was a Jewish conspiracy designed to bring about the creation of the modern state of Israel and that Jews murdered each other in the Holocaust. The poster stated: "Only the Zionists could sacrifice their own in the gas chambers ... It was thanks to them that six million Jews were murdered in the war." The same account also showed photographs of Crampton posing with Ukip leader Nigel Farage. The incident came after Farage admitted that some of the party's local election candidates could be BNP members or have criminal records. Farage said candidates that he would "rather not have had" could be standing in the elections because Ukip lacked the means to fully vet them. Earlier this week it emerged that another candidate had been thrown out of the party when it was discovered that she used to be a BNP member. Susan Bowen, a retired sheep farmer from Boscastle in north Cornwall, had been selected to stand in the Tintagel ward on 2 May. She was once a BNP activist and spoke at a far-right meeting in 2010, footage from which is on YouTube. But Ukip has refused to condemn Caven Vines, 62, a local election candidate in Rotherham with close links to the BNP who thinks there are too many Muslims in Britain. Farage told the BBC's World at One programme that the party had to rely on candidates being honest about any criminal convictions and other issues. He said there may be "one or two" council candidates that Ukip would not be happy with, but said it was not possible for the party to vet all 1,700 in time. "When it comes to the general election and the European elections, we have put in place a very rigorous testing procedure - testing people's knowledge, their ability with media - you know, full credit checks, police checks and all the rest of it," said Farage. I'll be honest with you, we don't have the party apparatus in a very short space of time to fully vet 1,700 people. We have made people sign declaration forms, expressing the fact that they've never been part of political parties that we consider to be wholly undesirable. By that I mean the BNP. And, you know, we ask people if there is a problem with a criminal record or whatever else it may be, please tell us. I have no doubt that among those 1,700 one or two people will have slipped through the net that we'd rather not have had. Political analysts have predicted that Ukip is set to make the "most serious fourth party incursion in English politics" since the second world war - with the Tories as the main victims. John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said on Wednesday that around 16% of Tory supporters at the last election say they would now vote Ukip. A Ukip spokesman said: "We've got the honesty to admit we're not perfect. We don't have absolutely 20:20 vision on all our candidates. We ask people questions. We like to take people's words on it. However, sometimes we get burnt. But when we do get burnt we act.