UKIP Uncovered

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Thursday, November 13, 2003

UKIP BRANCH CHAIRMAN WITH BNP LINKS IS POLICE INFORMER??

Information reaching UKIPuncovered reveals that Peter Troy, the disgraced former UKIP M.E.P. candidate for the 2004 Euro elections, is a Police informer.

Despite being found guilty of several irregularities in the recruitment of UKIP members, Troy remains UKIP's Branch Chairman of Sedgefield. He was found by Party Treasurer John de Roeck earlier this year to have paid for new members out of his own pocket to boost his chances of becoming a UKIP M.E.P. candidate. He resigned as M.E.P. candidate when the full details of his activities became known, but remains a prominent UKIP official and prospective UKIP M.E.P. candidate for Scotland.

Having considerable experience of the strange world Peter Troy seems to inhabit, we report on this matter in the knowledge that it could be one of the elaborate charades this individual sometimes chooses to act out and we urge caution to those reading the account below to treat what appears as the facts with a certain wariness.

UKIPuncovered has obtained the following information:

* That Peter Troy is in regular contact with at least one named Detective Sergeant in the P7 (Intelligence) divison of Cleveland Police
* In this capacity he has used his position to supply the Police with information about at least one member of UKIP, some of it inaccurate and potentialy libellous
* He meets with the Police, apparenty on a regular basis, is treated to lunch with them and e-mails them home with reports
* In one e-mail we are aware of, he wrote to his Police contact (verbatim):
"More detail [about named UKIP member] on request. Very many thanks for lunch last Wednesday"

One very serious question that arises from this and other information in
this e-mail is this: What business is it of Cleveland Police, who one woud
have thought were busy enough trying to prevent and solve crimes in the
area, to try and elicit this sort of information from anyone, let alone a
UKIP member? Another question is: Why is a very senior UKIP member
co-operating with the Police in revealing details, true or untrue, about a
fellow Party member - one who stood at the last General Election for UKIP
and obtained well over 1,000 votes for the Party?

The role of Troy becomes of even more concern when it is known that he is
very close to Nigel Farage M.E.P., the effective Leader of UKIP for many
years. Peter Troy was installed as the paid Regional Organiser for UKIP
covering the North East, North West and Yorkshire Regions three years ago.
There was sustained opposition to his appointment in all three regions, yet
oppressive disciplinary action was taken against those who opposed him and
none was taken against Troy despite his deceitful conduct in paying for
people to become members without telling them - in the weeks immediately
before there was to be a crucial members' vote on who would be UKIP's lead
candidate in the Euro elections.

We must also mention Troy's suspected links with the British National Party.
It will be remembered that Peter Troy recruited one Trevor Agnew to become a
UKIP candidate, only for it to become known shortly afterwards that Agnew
was a longstanding member of the local BNP Branch. This caused UKIP major
embarassment in April this year.

Although we cannot go into detail, suffice it to say that there is material
in the e-mail which we are aware of to give rise to a suspicion that Troy
continues to have significant links with the BNP. This impression is
reinforced by a recent written statement made by Trevor Anew. Agnew wrote:
"We have pictures of many UKIP members at BNP events or with BNP members,
including Troy with one Paul Thompson. Thompson is a long-standing BNP
activist with a conviction for football-related violence."

Again there is an intriguing connection with Nigel Farage. News of Farage
being photographed with two prominent members of the BNP emerged just before
the Euro elections in 1999 and may have lost UKIP tens of thousands of
potential votes.

We hasten to add that we have not at this stage seen the original e-mail,
containing as it apparently does many untruths which could be the subject of
further action.

The question remains as to why UKIP allows Peter Troy to continue his
manipulations within the Party month after month, causing much disrepute,
but without any sign of disciplinary action or reproof against him.

If this report is well-founded, or is anything other than another of Peter
Troy's infantile ploys, surely it is the final chance to boot him from the
Party.

posted by Martin |1:56 PM