UKIP Uncovered

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

Sunday, October 19, 2003

Further Exchanges on Finances

David Lott has now provided what he states will be his last reply (see earlier exchanges below).

>Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:32:55 +0100
>From: "david lott"

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I will reply for the last time and certainly not to threats or 'charges' that you could not bring yourself to make in public. The people dealing with the advertisements and their analysis, which will be more thorough and detailed than you can possibly imagine, know what they are doing and do not need your advice. We have the experts in PR and the experience. But that aside this exercise is costing the UKIP nothing I say again nothing nil nix zero 0 zilch got it? So your hard earned money is not being risked spent used wasted invested wisely or any thing else it is simply not being used for this exercise.

You heard David Rowlands tell the conference how well spent the money was in Wales which is what I think you are on about. It was a cheap election less than half the cost of fighting seats per candidate in the General election and a massive amount more successful than the GE which it dwarfed in its results. I was not at the helm for the GE!

At the last NEC I took the lead with initially some opposition because telesales in London was draining money from the party. I urged the NEC to vote to close it down. They agreed and it is now closed. I shall recommend that all telesales operations in future are stand alone and that the party is indemnified against loss. Ashford is currently at worst cash neutral but is getting a good return from the advert and with the research being done will produce much more. Much of the return will go to national coffers which will improve the cash flow.

I helped raise money to get us out of an immediate short term difficulty and am engaged in an exercise with an a properly qualified accountant working with John de Roeck to reach a fuller understanding of the head office financial operation. The figures that we had to work on in the past did not reveal at all clearly where we stood financially. Once that analysis is done the appropriate action will be taken according to well defined priorities.

As I wrote all is under control and in addition being thoroughly analysed but I cannot spell out all the ins and outs of every single aspect of my job which is truly massive and conducted by me with no secretarial support whatsoever.

You will be able to see in June 2004 whether we achieve our aim until then do please show some trust in the way we handle things rather than looking for problems that do not exist. I have just spent the afternoon leafleting for a major meeting on the IOW and by the way three days after a (edited) I too was back at work for UKIP.

I shall not respond to any more queries on this subject as I simply do not have the time and you will hear about the plans for advertising and the alterations with head office in due course. Would you now please be so good as to get off my back.
David

This response is not at all surprising to those of us who have experienced almost exactly similar forms of response from the Party Chairman when he is confronted with questions he is not prepared to answer.

We will shortly be posting the point by point rebuttal to this nonsense!

posted by Martin |10:34 AM