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Thursday, April 29, 2004 

Farewell Family Values!

As repeatedly warned on this blog, the recruitment of Bill Clinton's disgraced pollster Dick Morris, was always likely to backfire on the party in the election campign. Such warnings and background information may be read here from 29th May, here for 9th July and earlier days and at various other times as obtainable from the Google Search facility above.

Sure enough, the latest Private Eye is now on the case:-

The UK Independence Party is broadly conservative, so it's no surprise it should endorse family values.

As its current manifesto declares: "A further unfortunate result of expanding state provision and other government policies has been to undermine the family as the basic stable unit of society."

It is, however, something of a surprise that the party should have enlisted the services of Dick Morris to mastermind its electoral strategy. A former presidential adviser in Washington, Morris was forced to resign from the Clinton White House when he was caught cheating on his wife with a $200-an-hour prostitute. Morris, it was reported, took particular pleasure in phoning up the president while in the company of the lady in question. He had also fathered a child by a woman to whom he was not married.

Morris subsequently blamed his failings on sex addiction, for which he decided to undergo a course of counselling. "Like all 12-step programmes to cope with the problems facing one", he said, "it is both agonising and successful". UKIP must certainly be hoping so.


Family values!? What? With Dick Morris as party pollster and strategist and Piers Merchant now confirmed as lead MEP candidate in the North East? (As reported in our earlier post of today.) Such values appear way down the party's priority list.

Another sign of possible abandonment of supposed prior higher standards within the party, may be found from looking at the photograph of party leader Knapman which accompanies their web report of his letter to The Times of 27th April 2004. (Although we doubt the photo belongs to this millenium!)

It seems the party has travelled a good way from the time when an attempt was made to disqualify an elected NEC member for having used an out of date photograph in their candidate details - or was there some other motive for such a move?

posted by Martin |1:43 PM
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