Nigel Farage, one time leader of UKIP Picture: AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS

A WANNABE politician in the UK probably won’t ever become one after she reportedly said she found gorillas “sexually attractive”.

Octogenarian Gisela Allen made the startling comments about her peccadillos as she announced her UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidature for upcoming elections to Glasgow’s city council.

According to the Scottish Sunday Herald, when 84-year-old Ms Allen was asked to set out her policies, she called for castration for violent criminals, withholding some treatments from the elderly and bringing backing the guillotine.

So far, so extreme.

But it was when she was asked about her views on gay people that Ms Allen really raised eyebrows.

Kumbuka the gorilla isn’t attracted to UKIP candidates, sadly. Picture: Facebook/ZSL London ZooSource:Supplied

In an attempt to strike an analogy as to why she believed gay people should keep their sexuality to themselves, Ms Allen delved rather too deeply into her love for the king of the jungle.

“I am not anti-gay — but how can you call that a community? Sex life is everybody’s private affair. You do not come out and declare openly,” she told the Sunday Herald.

“Do you think I am going all over the city and saying my idea of a sexually-attractive creature is a gorilla?

“When I go to a zoo and I see a gorilla my hormones go absolutely crazy. I find a gorilla very attractive.”

Cue stunned silence across the British Isles.

Nigel Farage, one time leader of UKIP Picture: AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLISSource:AFP

When the anti European Union UKIP did respond, the party backed away slowly from Ms Allen’s various positions.

On her earlier comments about capital punishment, the party’s deputy chair Suzanne Evans said Ms Allen had gone “massively off-piste” with the comments.

“I can assure you this does not feature in our local manifesto or national manifesto. Not over my dead body. Guillotined or otherwise.”

However, the party has tried to laugh off the ape attraction.

Kevin Newton, a fellow Scottish UKIP member said the remarks were meant in humour.

“She has advised me that they were made as a joke, and certainly not meant to be taken seriously.

“She was genuinely shocked that they were,” she told the Mirror.

“Ms Allen was voicing her personal views in her inimical and jocular way and that these are not the policies of UKIP Scotland.”

Ms Allen’s policies also include banning golf courses “to help the environment” and stopping free bus travel for older people as “these people should be encouraged to walk.”

Asked by the Herald if he feared a backlash for her comments, she said not at all.

“I can stand in the street and say aloud what I think. A lot of people love me.

“I get kissed and cuddled in the street. It takes me ages to get home.”