UKIP Uncovered

UKIP Uncovered
What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?

Monday, May 12, 2003

Our Moment Arrives but....

Following the splendid anti-EU coverage provided by Simon Heffer and the Daily Mail in the last few days, we now have the Daily Telegraph proclaiming the following in its leader today:-

Europe: the wolf is here
(Filed: 12/05/2003)

This is it: the moment that we have repeatedly been told would never come about. The EU is about to transform itself, de jure and de facto, into a single state. The European Convention, which has been meeting this past year under the chairmanship of the former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, will issue its final text in June. That draft will be adopted by the EU's leaders next year, and a new polity will be born.

We realise that we are making a huge claim. Some readers may think we are being alarmist. If we are honest, Euro-sceptics have occasionally been a little too ready to decry each new Brussels initiative as a mortal blow to Britain's independence. Like the boy who cried "wolf!", they may have damaged their credibility. But the point of that story is that the wolf does eventually turn up, and that is the moment we have reached now.

To read the whole editorial click this linkTelegraph Leader The wolf is here

What an opportunity for UKIP, the moment of take-off could be here. Just as predicted by disqualified MEP candidate Martin Cole in his speech at Neville Hall, Newcastle on 28th January, 2003
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We thus have not much more than two and a half years to prepare for the greatest electoral turnaround in the country’s history, but nothing less will do. Never have our freedoms and traditions been so much under threat. The Convention chaired by French ex-President Valery Giscard d’Estaing will report this summer and the lie that the EU is not becoming an undemocratic and potentially totalitarian giant super-State will be finally nailed, thus providing the essential ammunition which UKIP has till now been lacking in our election campaigns.
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Chairman Lott who attended that meeting and received an advance copy of the speech, was sufficiently aware of this section as he was heard to use the same expression "the lie will be finally nailed" himself. So what preparations have been made by the party to maximise new members as a result of this well forecast boost in publicity for our cause? The answer predictably and regrettably is of course NONE.

In fact the situation is even worse than that, for not only have no plans been made, it appears that even if we rushed into action immediately there are no funds for leaflets. In reply to a request for a nationally co-ordinated leaflet to be made available to benefit from the Daily Mail article Chairman Lott has advised over the weekend :-

This is very difficult to do quickly especially as we are a bit short of funds after the various elections

Having hocked our future with three year memberships we have nothing with which to sieze the moment! Incredible!

Can the situation in which the party now finds itself really be ascribed to plain and simple gross incompetence, or is it a case, as seems to some increasingly likely, that the leaders of UKIP are actually actively engaged in a strategy to undermine the anti-EU forces which are now on the rise in the country at large?

What motivates the leadership of UKIP and now another question must arise How long can UKIP members tolerate their continuing in office?

posted by Martin |9:09 AM