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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 

Creating Branches to Prevent an EGM

On 6th January and again on 10th February we posted on the proposed EGM Rule Change, the latter is linked from here.

We now learn that in anticipation of that rule change going through new branches are suddenly appearing. This report just in:-

Lott Sets Up Phantom Branches - They Want An EGM To Be Made Impossible!

So terrified are the cabal (Farage, Knapman, Lott, Nattrass and Clark) of the membership, and the growing dissent across the country, that they have proposed an artful constitutional amendment to make it impossible to stage an Emergency General Meeting (EGM) of the party. Members are voting on it now.

Given the fact that no-one has staged an EGM for over four years, why this sudden move to make the threshold higher?

At the moment 20 branches can call an EGM...the new proposal makes it a percentage of the total branches, and a fee of £100 from each branch. And there are a host of other minor changes which will make the planning of one impossible. With the leadership trying to remove anyone through discipline panels who asks awkward questions about where the money is going, and the
appointment of cronies or jellies in their place, the leadership think they will then face no opposition and can take up their highly paid posts after 10th June with no party to speak of to oppose them.

Very clever maybe, but they have now faced a battle for control with a group of reformers who are blowing the whistle on all fronts...and the cabal fear that the reformers will stage an EGM and throw them all out in full public view. Particularly when the legal actions begin to bite and the cabal will want to use party money to pay for them.

An e-mail from the Reform UKIP group went to all branch chairmen urging them to vote against the amendment, rightly claiming it was specifically designed to prevent an EGM...and that David Lott has provided a false (artificially high) number of branches to be in existence - and these include large numbers of paper branches under the control of either them or their employees. Thus the percentage needed to sign for an EGM could never be achieved.

More details of these dodgy branches and an explanation of exactly how they are harrassing members will follow.

But we have a little news for the cabal. Your constitutional amnedment is invalid anyway because of an important legal mistake you have made. Anyone with a mind could simply have it overturned...and this is indeed what will happen if you try to enforce it...

The Ceaucescu moment on the balcony is not here quite yet for the cabal, but it is not that far off.

posted by Martin |3:32 PM
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