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Wednesday, May 28, 2003 

UK Independence Party North East Membership Irregularities

Although it is now over two months since the UKIP Party Head Office staff were first alerted to potential membership list anomalies in the North East region of the party they continue to try and shrug the matter off as if it were unimportant. Having yesterday disallowed the appeal against Martin Cole's disqualification as an MEP candidate, it now seems an apt time to reveal some of the evidence available as to the extent of these irregularities. This evidence is, of course, well known in the upper reaches of UKIP.

Among those receiving unsolicited and unpaid UK Independence Party membership cards, were new North East area recruits to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). One such Mr S.J. Walker of SJW Steel Erection County Durham signed a statement on the 4th April that he applied to join the FSB and not UKIP. He nevertheless received a UKIP membership card through the post and appeared as a new recruit in UKIP membership lists. He has now agreed to this fact being made known on this Blog.

Mr Walker is not alone in this situation having applied to join an organisation protecting the interests of small businessmen and finding himself suddenly a member of a political party. Followers of this Blog will recognise the similarities with the claims made by Mr Trevor Agnew in his letter to The Northern Echo on the 2nd April. Such claims were discounted by the UKIP senior hierarchy on the grounds of Mr Agnew's BNP affiliation, on what basis one wonders are they now ignoring Mr Walker's statement?

The original articles can be obtained from the archives for Monday, 14th April or from this link First Northern Echo Articles

posted by Martin |4:19 PM
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