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Friday, April 30, 2004 

New Attempt to Drop Damian Hockney as Candidate

Although we heard this week that following the Disciplinary Appeal having upheld Damian Hockney's UKIP membership and that the London Forum had sent instructions for their area leaflet to go to the printers complete with Damian as GLA candidate, we have now received this report quoted in full below, indicating that problems continue:-

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Leadership's last throw at banning Damian Hockney as a candidate

Like a dog with a bone, the cabal cannot leave the London campaign alone. Having dismembered the North East and Yorkshire campaigns through discipline actions, committee suspensions, and smear attacks on their own people, regulars to blogspot will know they have been putting as much effort into upending the London campaign team as they have put into running the national campaign.

Having failed to have Damian Hockney expelled from the party, they are now on another very canny little ruse. Against the party's internal rules and all custom and practice, they have sacked the London Region's choice of
Nominating Officer...and have installed someone who is firmly in the leadership camp, a Heather Bennett, who stomped out of the London activists meeting in January because the members passed several motions critical of the leadership.

She and she alone will have control of the listing of candidates as it is given to the government's Returning Officer for London for the elections in June...and you can guess what London fears, can't you?

What are the odds on Damian Hockney's name "accidentally" slipping off the list on 13th May (the deadline for nominations)? Or that the leadership invent a last minute crisis involving Damian Hockney, claiming he has
committed some "heinous crime" and using it as the excuse for bumping his name off the list through their tame Nominating Officer? They've openly admitted to "somehow getting access" to people's e-mail accounts, so do you think they would not be capable of this?

One of their fears is that Hockney will be elected to the GLA, and a recent newpaper website report in London gave some credence to the fact that he could do it - a group of London local papers' website gave coverage to the low percentage of the vote that is needed for UKIP to get him onto the assembly, and how the "Maloney effect" could hand him the seat. This is the last thing the leadership want, as it would hand strength to those who are proposing the party be reformed.

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posted by Martin |11:08 AM
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