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Sunday, January 18, 2004

Some Sense Still Stands in UKIP (just!).

The web-site for UKIP's London Mayoral Candidate, Frank Maloney, continues to carry the disclaimer from Farage's disgraceful letter bombing statement, that managed to imply he had comprehended the minds and/or instinctively understood the motives of the Bologna letter-bombers and then seemingly involved all existing UKIP members in appearing to condone these actions. Regretably this does not seem to have been grasped by others in UKIP's Leadership, who signed the disgraceful statement that appears in the posting immediately below this.

We reproduce below a copy of a letter sent by an NEC member of UKIP to his colleagues, that indicates at least another in the higher ranks of the party is still fighting to avoid its complete self-destruction following its clear degradation:-

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To : NEC
Date: 8th January 2004

I have only today seen copies of the two press releases put on 6th and 7th
January.
Obviously, the enemies of UKIP will make capital out of these unfortunately phrased press releases and accompanying press comments.
The first point is to get the facts right. It is worth remembering that Greg Lance Watkins put out an email featured on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph at the time of the murder of Anna Lindh which said "I hope that there will be patriots in Britain with the courage to deal with traitors that has been shown in Sweden". It is now reported that, far from the action of a Swedish patriot, the person accused of murdering Anna Lindh is a Serbian refugee with a history of mental illness.
Similarly, how could Nigel Farage say he could "understand the reasons behind them [the letter bombs]" when no-one at present knows who sent them. There are no grounds for assuming that the perpetrators acted "because they were denied democracy" in the EU. They were probably Italian anarchists who use violence as a matter of routine. Similarly, the
parallel with Denis Healey is strained. He spoke of "riots in the street" not letter bombs.
The statement about "understanding the reasons behind the bombs" should be withdrawn:
(a) It is untrue because we don't know.
(b) It is out of the Sinn Fein lexicon.
(c) Suppose a letter bomb was sent to a UKIP person by an enraged europhile, we would be outraged if a europhile MEP said he understood the reasons behind it.
1. A dignified statement along the lines of Frank Maloney's should be put out.
2. An investigation into how the 6th January press release got composed with its perfunctory condemnation of the bombers in the fourth paragraph should be made.
3. I do not know who issued the email stated by Gary Titley to have been sent to Party members.
4. We should obtain from Gary Titley the details of who sent him offensive emails and, if they are truly offensive and if they are UKIP members, they should be expelled.
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posted by Martin |2:23 PM