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Friday, May 28, 2004 

UKIP Branch Chairman Defection Reported by the English Democrats Party

The Branch Chairman of the UKIP Battle branch, Steven Overy has been announced as defecting to the English Democrats by the latter party.

It is noteworthy that the Bexhill and Battle Constituency was once the seat of Charles Wardle a reported associate of Nigel Farage MEP.

Wardle announced he would not contest the 2001 election in early 2000 after it was disclosed that he was doing consultancy for Mohammed Al-Fayed and he later lost the conservative party whip for allegedly supporting an independent candidate against the official conservative. The BBC report on that matter is linked from here.

Mr Wardle, it is reported to this blog from usually reliable sources, is recently believed to have been in receipt of consultancy fees from UKIP. Other one time Tory MPs with question marks over their departure from that party and similarly closely associated with Nigel Farage MEP are known to be Neil Hamilton (cash for questions scandal), John Browne (undeclared members interests scandal) and candidate in the North West Region (causing this blog to be reluctant to endorse UKIP's cause in that region even though it is a critical battleground against the BNP party leader), Piers Merchant (tabloid young mistress scandal), lead candidate in the North East where this blog strongly supports Neil Herron the Independent Candidate and well-known Metric Martyr campaigner.

We wonder whether Mr Kilroy-Silk, whom we whole-heartedly endorsed this very morning, is at all aware of Farage's seemingly undiminished strong desire to associate UKIP with those most known for staining the reputation of the Conservative Party with the label of sleaze.

Given the above and the fact that Battle forms the same constituency with Bexhill, we are frankly unsurprised by this UKIP defection. How many more members and votes will Farage cost the party in the final two weeks of the campaign. He should stand aside now and damage the eurorealist cause no further! As should other lead candidates whose past party membership and associations are in danger of damaging what otherwise could be a triumph in the battle against the EU.

posted by Martin |1:24 PM
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