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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?

Sunday, May 23, 2004

CABAL ABOUT TO SHOOT DOWN ITS OWN CAMPAIGN -
NEC ELECTIONS WILL REVEAL ALL TO THE WHOLE PARTY

The following report has been received from the 'Reform UKIP' Group now back and running in the apparently resumed NEC elections:_

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Just when the going gets good, through Kilroy Silk and good media, the UK Independence Party leadership has started a process of shooting itself in the foot, by allowing Nikki Sinclaire (Acting Party Secretary) to send out the ballot papers for the NEC Elections during the campaign for June 10th.

Extraordinarily, she has added attacks upon Michael Harvey and Damian
Hockney into her covering letter, even though Damian Hockney is not a
candidate and the Harvey attack is malicious and based upon her grievance against him. It is inevitable that they will seek the right of reply. Already Nikki Sinclaire has made a posting onto 'ind-uk' (an internet discussion group much used by UKIP activists - ed.) threatening them and saying she will take criminal prosecution against them if they try to defend themselves. We understand that one of the Reform Group has already alerted the lawyers and has prepared a statement to be sent to the whole membership if Nikki Sinclaire does indeed make the intended attacks.

The additional problem with her sending these out now is that she is opening up all the old wounds right in the middle of the party's election campaign.
And the NEC - which features a number of people who never say a word during meetings, they just sit there dumb and coerced into follow-the-leader - have been suckered into allowing her to send out attacks to the whole membership, opening up the past problems which all had tried to keep away from all and sundry during the June 10th.

Unless she has tampered with the election addresses of the candidates, the entries feature website details of the Reform Group, and possibly others,detailing further infringements by the leadership of the law and the party rules. The Reform Group made clear to the leadership several weeks ago that they would stand united with the leadership for the campaign to ensure that the maximum number of seats could be won...but now the leadership has broken this accord. By sending out the papers, they expose to the whole membership and others the problems.

Members of the Reform Group have expressed their alarm at what the
leadership has allowed (or possibly encouraged) Nikki Sinclaire to do, but everyone seems trapped like rabbits in headlights.

Even after his discipline complaint, Damian Hockney made clear that although he could have it overturned immediately in court, he would do nothing for the duration of the campaign. Had he gone to court, the matter would have spilled over into the campaign. He made a magnanimous gesture to park the matter.

The same applies with Michael Harvey's situation. Nikki Sinclaire has brought discipline proceedings against him. And all agreed that there would be a moratorium on hearing these for the duration of the campaign. Now she is sending out the papers with an attack upon him specifically based upon the discipline complaints. Thus dishonouring the agreement to the benefit of the cabal.These complaints of hers are years old and are based upon her paast grievances against him. The fact that she includes these complaints and not other ones against other candidates shows just how vindictive the action is.

And she has nothing to complain of - she has recently been given party money in 'compensation' for her costs in the court case when others following party policy have donated money after she sued the party. She has basically been paid out by the party, which has no money, following her action of suing it.

The NEC has therefore authorised Nikki Sinclaire to dishonour the agreements and understandings and go for a quick NEC election right in the middle of the campaign - to gain maximum advantage for the leadership candidates and to arrange the attacks.

But you have to ask, don't you, why she should do this. You may be
astonished to believe this but right in the middle of the campaign, the ONLY thing she has done is to arrange these divisive internal elections. And now she is off back to San Diego in the USA where she lives most of the time.

Light the blue touch paper and retire, is how one of the participants of
this shambles has described it. And all because people on the NEC like Tony Stone, Ian Gillman and Gregg Beaman are too afraid to do what they know to be right - say NO to a divisive internal election
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As can be seen this all seems rather complex and any UKIP members who receive their NEC ballot papers and feel they can provide their own comments to this latest fiasco, are requested to e-mail their reports to this blog for further clarification.

posted by Martin |12:46 PM