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Friday, February 20, 2004 

UKIP's Dual Standards over Contacts with Racists

Andrew Edward's UKIP membership was recently 'permanently terminated' by Party Secretary Derek Clark for circulating an article about the probation service to two BNP members on his e-mail recipients list.

We highlighted the discrepancy between his treatment and that of Nigel Farage and Peter Troy in similar circumstances. We have received several e-mails about Peter Troy since our return to his case and for the first time since this matter was publicised in The Northern Echo almost a year ago, an attempt has been made to explain and justify his actions. One friend of Troy's has asserted that he has 'a memory like a sieve' and in carefully reviewing all the events, particularly the crazy financing system devised by Party Chairman Lott in respect of the Hartlepool Office rentals, I am prepared to accept that Troy might have forgotten or overlooked the fact that Agnew had been a BNP member, when as Agnew said, he received a UKIP membership card 'out of the blue' from Peter Troy. It is a possibility, therefore, that Troy did not knowingly recruit Trevor Agnew as a known BNP activist, though of course it was indeed well known within UKIP, by many party members in the North East, that such was indeed the case.

In our view this does not excuse the actions of Party Secretary, Derek Clark, who acted so disproportionally in the case of Andrew Edwards, while having turned a totally blind eye to what was going on in the North East one year ago.

The fact of complete contrasts is even greater in the case of Nigel Farage, who having been photographed with two BNP members and failing to provide a proper explanation of such, was allowed to top the South East Region MEP list in the 1999 Euro elections with many other questions also outstanding. Fuller details of this incident, where the photograph in question is reproduced can be found in Notes from the Borderland Issue 4 Winter 2001 - 2002 from Politicos Bookshop or via their website Notes from the Borderland, click here.

posted by Martin |10:53 AM
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