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Thursday, December 25, 2003 

UKIP's Press Officer Caught Again

The Sprout December 2003

UKIP PRESS RELATIONS-BY-NUMBERS - CROUCHER CRACKED BY A SLIP

Journalists know only too well about the risks associated with running curtain-raiser stories - especially if the information provided comes from the spinmaster of a political group. But not all press officers are wary of writing a press release before the event occurs and being vulnerable to looking plain stupid.

Pray silence for nice-but-dim Mark Croucher, the press officer for the rabidly eurosceptic UK Independence Party (amusingly based in the London office of the European Parliament) who recently made a schoolboy error when he fired out his party's response to the Queen of England's speech at the end of November. The speech is the way in which a UK Prime Minister curtain raises his (or her) policy platform for the next year.

"The failure to mention the EU Constitution is symptomatic of this government's attitude to democracy," raged Roger Chapman, UKIP's leader. Shame his rage was premature though as the Queen did in fact announce that "My Government will play an active role in preparing the European Union for the accession of ten new member states next May. They will work hard to conclude negotiations on a new constitutional treaty for the European Union, following which they will introduce legislation to implement the treaty." When questioned about this faux-pas by 'The Sprout', Croucher floundered, then chuckled, "Oh, er that one sort of slipped through the cracks, didn't it...? I have to confess that I didn't listen to the whole speech myself...er".
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Merry Christmas to all readers of UKIP Uncovered.......we are getting closer to the truth!

posted by Martin |9:07 AM
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