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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?

Tuesday, November 04, 2003

MEP Deposits

One item on the Emergency N.E.C. agenda is the question of the five hundred pound deposits to be paid by UKIP's prospective MEP Candidates.

It seems many are balking at handing over five hundred pounds in addition to the one hundred already submitted on making their application. Blog readers will be hardly surprised!

The state of UKIP accounts and unseemly fighting over who gets control of the still remaining income are both disgraceful.

What does it say about the prospective MEPs however. Here we have a group of people, supposedly all worthy and respectable individuals, dedicated to the aim of removing their country from the control of the EU, not trusting the party in which they plan to ask voters to place their faith with their deposit money shortly to be lodged with the Electoral Commission.

The sales methods being used from Ashford have to me had the whiff of fraud since first I began to learn the details. But suspecting those one, three or five year memberships being hard-sold over the phone might seem to have no value is almost impossible to prove. Especially while the pretence of those running the party to be acting against the EU could be maintained. While there was hope the party would still be there in the future, one could not claim that a membership subsription for 2004 and beyond, in spite of having been already spent, might not at some future point be inevitably completely worthless.

How can such a pretence be maintained today, however, when those in the vanguard of the party and at the forefront of its electoral efforts over the next twelve months lack the trust to even hand over their deposits for onward lodging with the Electoral Commission. How can these same MEP Candidates justify to themselves the fact that ordinary members of the public are being sucked in by slick newspaper advertising to part with their hard-earned cash for the cause of a party that they themselves won't trust to honestly use for a short period of time.

Such is the United Kingdom Independence Party of today!

The list of MEP Candidates is below. Not all are necessarily so distrustful of the leadership that they have not paid. Some may indeed have done so:

North West: WHITTAKER JOHN, BEAMAN GREGG, BROWNE JOHN, KELLEY GERALD, BROWN LESLEY, WEDDELL ALAN, ROXBOROUGH STEPHEN, BUTTREY RICHARD, CANNON GRAHAM, HOPWOOD ROY.
North East: JOHN PEARSON, BULL CHARLOTTE, SCHOLEFIELD TONY, GILLMAN IAN
Yorkshire:BLOOM GODFREY, ARNOTT JONATHON, NUNN JOHN, MARTINEK HELEN, BROWN WILLIAM, PEARSON TREVOR, PIKE RALPH.
West Midlands: NATTRASS MIKE, BRADFORD RICHARD, BROOKES DENIS, CHAMINGS RICHARD, KINGSLEY CHRISTOPHER, WARWICK GREVILLE, MOORE ANDREW, BALU BIMLA, ADAMS RICHARD,
CONYNGHAM HEATHER, HANNAN TONY.
East Midlands: CLARK DEREK, GILLMAN IAN, BAKER PETER, SWAIN MARILYN, BROWNE KENNETH, MAHONEY BARRY, WARD-BARROW MICHAEL, ROSEBLADE KENNETH, SHERRATT BERNARD, BARTROP DAVID,
Eastern: TITFORD JEFFREY, WISE TOM, PAGE ROBIN, AGNEW STUART, SMALLEY BRYAN,
PHILLIPS MICHAEL, AYLETT BRIAN, LORD ROGER, SMITH ANDREW, CURTIS GEORGE.
South West: BOOTH GRAHAM, KNAPMAN ROGER, COLMAN TREVOR, BURTON ELIZABETH, EXMOUTH PAUL, JACKSON MATTHEW, FAULKNER MICHAEL, REED STEPHEN, WATNEY MARCUS
WILSON DAVID.
South East: FARAGE NIGEL, MOTE ASHLEY, LOTT DAVID, MACKINLAY CRAIG, CROSS TIMOTHY
ORAM STANLEY, HOLDSWORTH PETRINA, ABBOTT DAVID, HARRIS STEPHEN, WIGLEY MICHAEL, HAWKINS LISA, DENNY DOUGLAS, WEBB VICTOR, PHILLIPS ALISON, COLLINGS PHILIP.
London: GERARD BATTEN, DAMIAN HOCKNEY, PRATT CHRISTOPHER, DE ROECK JOHN, SCHOLEFIELD TONY, CRONIN JANICE, GARNER KATHLEEN, KHAN HARUN, ATKINSON RALPH,
ELMS JEREMY, MOSS DANIEL, PUGSLEY JUSTIN, WEBB LAWRENCE, ROBERTS GERALD.

It would be gratifying to see that the above leading lights of the UK Independence Party, (which appears to include the entire NEC), now showing such concern about the security of their MEP Candidate deposits, so that the matter is a main topic of tomorrow's scheduled Emergency NEC meeting DEMONSTRATED similar concern regarding the subscriptions of new members daily being drummed up by the Ashford Telesales Campaign!

posted by Martin |10:39 AM