UKIP Uncovered

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

Friday, March 19, 2004

Who Are UKIP's Planned 10 MEPs

As reported yesterday by EUobserver, the UK Independence Party is aiming to win 10 seats in the upcoming elections of 10th June for the Europan Parliament.

Who are these candidates and are they worthy of your support. The three sitting MEPs Booth, Farage and Titford, must be on UKIP's list, in spite of the illegalities of the video copyright theft involving two of them and all the other very unsavoury goings on reported here. But what of the others. We would guess that half a dozen of these newcomers would normally be presumed to come from the regional list's lead candidates, unless they are hoping for two winning seats in the South West where Party Leader Roger Knapman is number two. But surely Ashley Mote and Tom Wise cannot also be hoping to gain success on the shirtails of the sitting MEPS. Even were that so, it would leave four of the hopefuls to come from the other lead candidates. Here then are three high profile names topping certain regional lists for one to consider.

Look at the names closely for they should be very familiar to regular readers of this blog:-

Peter Troy - Scotland (many entries on this blog most recently below on this page).

Mike Nattrass - West Midlands ( Can he seriously expect to win? Many entries , some immediately below and Sidebar).

Derek Clark - East Midlands. (Kangaroo Court Chief with atrocious record of arbitrary authoritarianism, see multiple entries and Sidebar)

I would not care to speculate as to who UKIP might be pinning their hopes on as other potential victors. Any having the time to waste on such fruitless speculation can study the list and assess the impossibility for themselves from here.

Not that some of the people listed may not indeed be perfectly able and hard-working dedicated euroscepitics, who in a decently led party, might well have some real hopes of success. Rather it is the impossibility caused by the venality and incompetence of those in charge of the party and with whom they are now choosing to run, that seems certain to doom them to failure. Are they all really prepared for the slating UKIP seems certain to receive in the press once the real campaign gets underway? If an extremist tag can be pinned to some senior candidates, even maybe if only on one if he be very close to the top, will it not rightly be seen as applying to all?

I don't think the ruling cabal have even begun to think it all through, in spite of a year of warnings from this blog! The latest attempts to unseat and replace their own NEC Election Returning Officer, coming on top of the fiasco of the replacement of the Appeals Chairman in the Hockney Discipline matter with the attempted appointment of two illegal replacements would normally have reduced UKIP's affairs to a level of total farce. It is no laughing matter, however when it results in depriving Eurorealist voters in most of the country of a proper choice next June! Particularly with the EU Constitution now about to resurface.

posted by Martin |8:54 AM