ACTIVISTS accused anti-immigrant Ukip of hypocrisy yesterday after the party was found to be paying eastern Europeans to deliver its leaflets.

Ukip posters and leaflets loudly warn that millions of Bulgarians and Romanians are eagerly waiting to steal British jobs.

But the head of company Fast Leaflet — which Ukip uses to distribute its immigrant-bashing propaganda in south London — said the company employs several people from eastern Europe.

Anti-racism campaign Hope Not Hate’s Simon Cressy said that if the reports that Latvians were delivering the leaflets were true then “it just goes to show the hypocrisy that lies behind their attempts at scaremongering.”

Former banker Ukip leader Nigel Farage was keenly promoting the party’s ethnic minority candidates at a campaign meeting on London on Wednesday, despite being caught up in a string of controversies over Ukip members’ apparently racist and homophobic views.

Hundreds gathered outside the Nigel on Tour London event to protest.

South London school student Nathan Rogers told the Star that he was there because he opposed “all forms of right-wing extremism.”

He said: “People have fought and died to make racism unacceptable in society.

“If you just let this bunch of bigots, homophobes, racists and capitalists in again then … it happened in the ’30s and might well happen again.”