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Friday, October 31, 2003 

Lost Court Proceedings

Looking at the outcome of the huge High Court set-back UKIP suffered this week it would be easy to assume it was yet another controversial event involving the incident prone Party Treasurer John de Roeck, who as Acting Returning Officer was the individual named in the action.

The "decision" to illegally disallow the election of Nikki Sinclaire to the NEC and wrongly deprive her of her place, was taken, we are told, as could only be expected, by Nigel Farage and Jeffrey Titford.

It will be useful for the more recent members of the NEC to now have an independently minded member among their number who was working at the centre of the party during so many of its formative dirty dealings. Michael Harvey, now the Party General Secretary, one assumes must be far from ecstatic as will those NEC members involved in the break-in of the London Head Office, the non-constitutional EGM, the rigged Atkinson/Titford Leadership election, the missing membership data base, the theft of the BBC video copyright, the use of party funds in personal legal disputes, questionable accounts, the dismissals of press officers, the matters uncovered in the Brian Webster Gardiner report, etc, etc.

Reading the list it becomes pretty clear why past leader Jeffrey Titford, who was involved in some of those matters and of course, Nigel Farage, whose name would seem to be involved in the majority of those affairs might, given their tendency to skirt with the fringes of the law, have been perfectly prepared to invent a reason for denying Ms Sinclaire the NEC place to which the voting entitled her, on an entirely spurious basis which seems to have been what happened.

Another UKIP Returning Officer recently disqualified an MEP candidate on equally spurious grounds and with similar disregard for constitutional procedures. Will those who instructed Michael Harvey in that matter now learn a lesson and issue instructions for the disqualification to be withdrawn and an apology issued?



posted by Martin |8:33 AM
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