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Thursday, April 22, 2004 

Chairman Lott openly stops NEC elections

In a serious move which flagrantly breaks party rules on internal elections, UKIP's Chairman Lott personally called the distribution company to overrule the Returning Officer's command that the papers for the NEC elections must go out.

Regular readers will recall that Chairman Lott has already been implicated in previous attacks on the party's NEC elections process, and was censured by the Returning Officer for attacks he made on candidates in circulars: Chairman Lott was criticised in the Returning Officer's report for making it difficult to stage a fair election, that report may be reread from this link.

The cabal has been desperate to stop the elections as they fear the election of a group of candidates known as Reform UKIP, led by Damian Hockney. In particular, the cabal fear what the group are going to say, and are trying to avoid holding the NEC elections until after 10th June, the date of the Euro Elections.

In the meantime, ever since their actions first caused the suspension of the NEC elections, the cabal have been frantically spreading stories about the Reform UKIP group to damage their chances of election. Among other things, they are reported to have said that the group, or individual members of it, are "working for MI5 to destabilise the party", that they are "Tory plants" and that they are 'effectively endorsed' by extremist parties. None of this
is true of course, but the smear campaign by Nigel Farage, David Lott, Roger Knapman and Mike Nattrass against the group over a long period is bound to have an effect.

Let us hope that the UKIP members - when they are finally given a chance to vote - will see through the smears.

The intervention of Chairman Lott comes after Acting Party Secretary Nikki Sinclaire also tried, by the use of backdated letters over Easter Weekend, to frustrate the process. She made clear she had "consulted" with the cabal on this ruse, but not with the Returning Officer.

Now this has failed, Chairman Lott has intervened, dispensing with any pretence of constititutional behaviour. The NEC elections are once again on hold.

posted by Martin |2:27 PM
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