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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Is UKIP's SW Regional Organiser a Tory Activist?

The following very curious e-mail exchange was circulating on internet fora yesterday;-

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Dear Malcolm,

One expects one's political enemies to distort the truth, but eurosceptics (we prefer the term eurorealists) Conservatives and UKIP should be making common cause to fight our case.

Having listened carefully to Howard being subjected to the usual Today programme grilling and attempts at entrapment, Howard came over pretty well, whatever one's misgivings of him might be, and made it clear that he and the Conservative party are implacably opposed to the Constitution. Croucher's quotes, out of context, one can only presume were deliberately aimed to give the impression that, on this issue, the Conservative party cannot be trusted.

If we are going to be allies in the European elections, it is not very clever having the UKIP press officer sniping at one's back.

Regards, Bill &Ann

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There followed another longer e-mail discussing tactics in a similar vein, both of which then apparently received this extraordinary reply:-

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----- Original Message -----
From: Ukswcoord@aol.com
To: office@ti.....
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [eurofaq] Tory policy on EU Constitution 'wilfully
misleading' - UKIP Pre...

Dear Bill,

I caught the Today interview myself and it is true that Naughtie was trying to entrap Howard as to whether his opposition to the constitution would last through to him entering Downing street as the Telegraph suggested he should do this morning.

I presume that you & I are together on wanting him to commit to a referendum whether the constitution is signed by Blair or not. Whilst it may not be realistic for him to announce his intention to lead us out of the EU (having repeatedly said he would not) his committing to a referendum seems the bare minimum we can expect.

Perhaps you could reassure me that we are of one mind on this narrow point?

As far as Croucher is concerned it is a common fallacy that UKIP are all Tories like you and I but this has never been the case. You might be interested to know that Mark comes from a Labour background and will feel no compunction in having a crack at Howard at the same time as Blair and Kennedy. My agenda has always been to save the Tory Party from itself by the carrot and stick of fear on the one hand and opportunity on the other but that's my personal gospel.

Regards

Malcolm
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Extraordinarily the 'Malcolm' concerned seems to be none other than the salaried UKIP SW Regional Coordinator Malcolm Wood, (albeit the name having a different spelling on the UKIP SW web site linked from here).

Earlier mention of this individual and his role in the apparently deliberate destruction of the United Kingdom Independence Party are linked below:-

'Aiding an Advancing BNP' 20th March 2004.

'UKIP/BNP Is There a Difference?' 9th February2004

'In Defence of Andy Edwards' (Part Three) 7th February 2004 (see also preceding posts).

'UKIP's Malcolm Wood announces BNP Electoral Pact' 25th January 2004

'UKIP's SW Regional Organiser' (Petitions furore) 4th January 2004

AND similar numbers from last year most notably, from my point of view, on 27th May when he rejected, apparently single-handedly my appeal against wrongful canditature disqualification 'Cole's Appeal against Disqualification Rejected'

Readers can now draw their own conclusions as to Wood's motivations and the means by which he has been undertaking the undermining of the UKIP.

posted by Martin | 9:19 AM