UKIP Uncovered
What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Thursday, February 26, 2004 

UKIP's Battered Image

The Guardian's1 pm update says the following: Ms Hardy denounced the way groups such as the British National Party and the UK Independence party were piggybacking on the council tax protesters' cause, which she fears may damage the single issue campaign. Such attacks and associations could always have been expected from that newspaper, but these assaults are now coming from all sides.

Today's Daily Telegraph this morning, linked from here, had this quote:

Fellow campaigners have deserted Miss Winkfield, 83, alleging that the United Kingdom Independence Party, of which she is a member, was using protests by the Devon Pensioners Action Forum to promote its anti-European views.

They were incensed to discover that Max Clifford, the publicist, who handles public relations for the UKIP, was representing Miss Winkfield.


This quote appeared in yesterday's The Times:-

Christine Melsom, the founder and head of IsItFair, a non-political group organising the protests, told The Times that she was very unhappy.
"I felt sick when I read about it in the paper. I would like to distance my group from UKIP and any attempt to associate us with them."


Internet fora are of course abuzz. One comment we found particularly striking:-

"Pensioner poverty and the council tax shouldn't be highjacked by odious Right-wingers like UKIP or the Mail!"

When will the odious rightwingers this commentator sees in the party finally step aside and return the party to its moderate members? UKIP now corrupts all that it touches! How can it promote any cause with its present leaders and their spinners still at the helm??

posted by Martin |5:47 PM
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