High Peak Liberal DemocratsTalk of 'repatriating' of immigrants sends a cold shudder up my spine as I remember the 1970s rhetoric of when that phrase applied exclusively to those from the Commonwealth.
As a European candidate in the East Midlands, the same region Ayling is from, I want voters to be informed the true face of UKIP.
For a party which many commentators speculate will reap the most votes in next May's European elections there has been far too little scrutiny of UKIP's long history of consorting with the Far Right.
For UKIP questions remain as to which decade or century their views on diversity are located. Analysis of the positions of UKIP and the BNP show remarkable similarities, and UKIP spokesman Christopher Monckton is quoted as urging members of the far right British Freedom Party to "come home" to UKIP.
French Far Right leader Marine le Pen has boasted of her links with UKIP and former MEP Godfrey Bloom, who was kicked out after spontaneously combusting at this years' annual conference, has a few questions to answer over his alleged links with the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group.
These undercurrents are exacerbated by UKIP's policies and pronouncements. At the last election UKIP produced a 'pocket guide to immigration' which promised an "end support for multiculturalism and promote one, common British culture." As far as dog-whistles go this couldn't get much louder.
Their 2005 manifesto went further advocating that all incoming immigrants should be "subject to health checks" for "communicable diseases".
Farage has a habit of making false statements including that more immigrants came to Britain in 2010 than the previous 1,000 years, and his claim that four million Bulgarians wanted to move to Britain.
The fact Ayling remains unrepentant and that Nigel Farage has leapt to her defence speaks volumes, as does his strong links with some of Europe's more crackpot parties.
UKIP claim they are only referring to Eastern European migrants but their rhetoric, like Ms Ayling's, is often ambiguous and has a detrimental impact on families who have lived here as British citizens for decades.
This blurring of the line between EU and non-EU migration inadvertently envelopes Black and Asian communities and contributes to a hostile atmosphere were prejudice thrives against anyone who is not stereotypically Anglo-Saxon.
Language can have a powerful negative effect on community relations and quickly undo years of positive work. Awareness of this drove many to complain about Theresa May's "Go Home" immigration poster.
These myths all contribute to a negative climate on immigration which impacts on the whole of multicultural Britain regardless of how established they are.
UKIP is a party attempting to harvest large swathes of the mainstream vote, yet most are unaware of their noxious views or undesirable company.
We have seen many stories about the extreme views of individual UKIP candidates but so far the higher echelons of UKIP have remained relatively immune.
Farage's defence of Ayling should be a signal that more scrutiny is needed especially for a party seeking to portray itself as credible and electable.
* Issan Ghazni is Chair of the Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats and former National Diversity Adviser for the Liberal Democrats. Issan blogs here
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