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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Tuesday, November 04, 2003 

Eurosceptic Betrayals

Reading yesterday's posting regarding the upcoming Emergency NEC meeting, one cannot help but be struck by the huge distance the leaders of UKIP seem to have travelled away from the ideals of the cause for which they are supposed to be fighting.

How far apart is the public image from the private reality? Well in the case of the Party Leader, Roger Knapman, we could not ask for a better illustration than that provided yesterday and an item in this month's edition of the 'Oxford Student' Magazine.

This link will take you to the article titled 'The European Question is introduced as follows:

Former Tory minister, once whip for William Hague, and now leader of the UK Independence Party, Roger Knapman is perfectly placed to present the case for British Euro-sceptics. Patrick Foster and Zoe Flood caught up with him before his speech to European Affairs Society last week.

Now consider that article against the reality presented in this excerpt from yesterday's post:

A member of the NEC tried to raise one item which had been censored off the agenda, and distributed a paper on it (just the party's finances, you know, nothing important!!!!) and the Party Leader himself ostentatiously tore it up in front of the rest of the NEC. Such juvenile behaviour makes a total mockery of the rules & regulations of the Party. For the Party Leader to do this beggars belief!

Throughout the present crisis engulfing UKIP, Knapman, has never once been seen to try to show a lead or take control. Remember, he himself was appointed to his position, just as the Tories are about to arrange for the annointment of Michael Howard! These present day Conservatives and ex-Conservatives have no place for democracy it is clear.

When I first discovered the membership padding and other irregularities in the electoral process for MEP candidates in the North East, before my own resulting disqualification and the unconstitutional suspension of the North East Regional Committee, and complained of such to Knapman, he attempted to laugh it off as a simple matter of 'dead Grandmothers'. Such is the calibre of "Former Tory minister, and whip for William Hague".

Roger Knapman, busily destroying the eruorealist cause as it once flourished within the United Kingdom Independence Party. For more on his one time Conservative party colleagues, click this "Link" to read this morning's post.


posted by Martin |8:43 AM
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