No action is being taken against a councillor who claimed “every refugee” should be tracked and ‘controlled’ by injecting them with microchips disguised as vaccinations.

Conservative Neil Cohen of Buckhurst Hill Parish Council also used the phrase “rag head scum” and suggested drugging water supplies in Gaza over the course of two Facebook rants.

Although parish council chairman Aniket Patel said cllr. Cohen will not be standing for re-election, this was of his own accord and he has not been disciplined after the online outbursts.

On November 18, cllr. Cohen said: “I have a mental idea how to control refugees and track their movements and even listen to what they say to others….I figure EVERY refugee should be injected with a tiny micro chip each numbered and recognised by a main frame which would automatically track movements in and out of Syria etc”.

He added: “Then enable the listening devise (sic) to assess the level of threat, of course it could be done in the guise of vaccination against Ebola or smallpox etc It could be issued to everyone world wide to enable security to eavesdrop if your movements warrant concern.”

He also suggests drugging the water supplies in ISIS stronghold Raqqa before saying it could also be done in Gaza, asking “Is it such a mad idea?”

Despite many considering cllr. Cohen’s comments to be hugely discriminatory, the parish council and the Conservative party are not taking action against him.

Cllr. Patel said: “The views expressed by cllr. Cohen are in no way representative of the views of the parish council.

“Cllr Cohen has gone on record as saying that the comments he made on Facebook were entirely his own views and not made in his capacity as a parish councillor.

“He has also apologised on record for his choice of phrases.

“Cllr Cohen has indicated that he will not be seeking re-election to the parish council in May.”

In his earlier comment on November 15, cllr. Cohen condemned a Facebook friend’s post calling for peace after the terrorist attacks which killed 130 people in Paris two days earlier.

He wrote: “Your perspective is not anywhere like the perspective of the rag head scum that want to anihilate (sic) Jews world wide and convert everyone to becoming their ideal…”

He added: “In Genesis written 2000 years ago it says they will be thieves and murderers for ever and ever....How right it was!”

The Conservative party also decided not to discipline cllr. Cohen in 2014, after he appeared to endorse violence against former Labour leader Ed Miliband by ‘liking’ a comment describing the politician’s “very long and painful” beheading.

After repeated requests for comment, yesterday (December 15) a spokeswoman for the party said: “His comments are completely unacceptable and it is right he has apologised.”