“Every refugee” should be tracked and ‘controlled’ by injecting them with microchips disguised as vaccinations, a councillor has said in an online rant.

Conservative Neil Cohen of Buckhurst Hill Parish Council made the bizarre claim on Facebook on November 18, saying it could monitor security threats.

After using the phrase “rag head scum” in an earlier post, cllr. Cohen also suggested drugging water supplies in Gaza, to allow government forces to “clean house properly”.

He 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 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?”

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!”

When contacted, cllr. Cohen defended what he had said online.

Although he apologised “300 per cent” for his choice of phrase, he went on: “Taken in context of some terrible terrorist acts, I guess it is not so outrageous.”

He added: “Did I say it as councillor Neil Cohen?

“No I did not, I said it as Neil Cohen, I am saying it as a normal Joe Bloggs and that is how I said it.

“Does that mean I should not say anything on Facebook?

“No it does not.”

He also defended his idea of monitoring refugees, claiming it was similar to points made by American businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Cllr. Cohen said: “You have to be able to monitor a vast number of people.

“One of the ways you could do that is with technology already available.

“I would be quite happy if everybody – in fact me, my daughter and wife – all had something like a barcode because I have got nothing to hide.

“You have to start scratching your head – is the current security strategy working?”

In 2014, cllr. Cohen apologised after appearing to endorse violence against former Labour leader Ed Miliband, by ‘liking’ a comment describing the politician’s “very long and painful” beheading.

The chairman of Buckhurst Hill Parish Council, Conservative councillor Aniket Patel, has been contacted for comment.