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Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Dr North and Peter Troy

Yesterday's posts on the scandalous treatment of the three officials of the North East Regional Committee clearly illustrate the lengths that UKIP's illegitimate leadership will go to accommodate the election rigging Peter Troy. How did Troy contrive to inveigle himself into such a privileged and apparently well protected situation?

As was mentioned in covering the illegitimate EGM, (which our further researches now indicate was not called with the required number of properly elected Branch Chairmen's signatures) it was in January 2000 that we have first had reports of Troy's being a UKIP member. In the newsletter 'On the Grapevine' edited by Tony Bennett, edition of 26th February 2001 we learn that:-

It was also Dr North who supported the appointment of one Peter Troy to be Regional Organiser for UKIP's northern 'regions', North West, North East and Yorkshire/Humberside - and was then responsible for the day-to-day supervision of his work.

Dr North in an internal report dated 28th January: "On behalf of the MEPs - and on their direct request to do so - I interviewed Mr Troy, several times, and negotiated his contract with him..........

The article then continues with this:

DISAPPEARING BUCKET

The appointment was a disaster. Anger was caused in the North West when Peter Troy attended a meeting there and, when a bucket collection was taken for Party funds, it was discovered he'd taken it home and used it for his travel expenses! Not surprisingly the North West Committee called for his dismissal - as long ago as November - but no action was taken, on the good Doctor's advice. By January the entire Regional Committee told Jeffrey Titford they would resign unless Peter Troy was banned from working in the North West. When the Party leadership still declined to act, I took a call in Chelmsford from one of the Committee saying the entire Committee would resign their posts unless they received a letter that day terminating Troy's work in the North West. I had to get Jeffrey on the mobile and get his authority to write that letter, which arrived in the nick of time.

We strive to steer clear of sensationalism and rumour on this blog; but now hear reports that Dr North, in spite of his recent move to the Conservatives, is still attemtping to influence UKIP policies and activities. His close ally, Peter Troy, remains firmly in place. We now publish the story above, which has been known to us for a long time (together with reports of another similar incident in the North East), to highlight the truly despicable nature of the suggestion that the North East Regional Committee officers be permitted to stand for re-election and re-appointment only on the proviso that all their actions and continuation in office be entirely subject to the whims of a man such as Peter Troy.

This illustrates the true nature of those who imposed such a provision on a four member disciplinary panel that had initially reached an entirely contrary decision.

posted by Martin |8:46 AM