A RADCLIFFE-based MEP has called for the UK Independence Party to prove it will not tolerate extremists by expelling one of its members.

Mr Gary Titley said the UKIP had offered "excuses" for the parcel bomb attack on his Spring Lane office earlier this year.

Now Mr Titley, Labour leader in the European Parliament, said the discovery of anti-Semitic messages being forwarded on the Internet by Peter W Watson, chairman of UKIP in West Dorset, should result in him being kicked out.

He said: "The politics of the UKIP have already been demonstrated to be nasty, with members of that party offering excuses for the terrorist attack that targeted myself and my staff, but this marks a new low."

Mr Titely's wife, Charo, suffered slight burns to her hands when she opened the explosive device on January 5, thought to have been sent by an anti-EU anarchist group in Italy.

The MEP said: "UKIP say they will not tolerate extremists in their ranks and now they have to prove it. Peter Watson should be immediately expelled from their party. UKIP should be asking themselves how people with views end up in such prominent positions with such frequency in their party.

"Mr Watson might claim he did not originally write the remarks but he did publish them and he did it in an e-mail he wrote that claimed the Prime Minister's speech to Goldman Sachs promoted "anti-English hate politics for money". I challenge UKIP -- expel Watson now and vow never to tolerate this sort of filthy politics."

But the UKIP MEP Nigel Farage said that Labour was reduced to playing the race card.

He said: "I find it remarkable that the leader of the UK's Labour MEPs should find the time to devote to concocting smears."

Mr Watson said: "It is curious that Mr Titley should become concerned about discussions which took place over two years ago between people of total political insignificance. I absolutely and categorically refute his allegations of anti-Semitism."