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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 

United Kilroy Party?

The following is from the FT Observer Column. Once again the blogspot was the first, news of Kilroy replacing Farage on question time first appeared on this blog LAST WEEK.

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Max Clifford may be doing the PR, President Bill Clinton's pollster Dick Morris the focus groups, boxing promoter Frank Maloney taking a tilt at London and Sir Ranulph Fiennes nailing his colours to the mast, but Robert Kilroy-Silk is the man who has transformed the UK Independence party's fortunes. Now insiders wonder if being merely a humble candidate is enough for him.

Kilroy's even going back on the Beeb on Thursday as part of the Question
Time panel - just months after Auntie axed his chat show because of his
categorisation in the press of Arabs as "suicide bombers, limb amputators and women repressors".

Interestingly, the former Labour MP elbowed out Nigel Farage, UKIP's senior MEP, who was billed to appear.

"I stood aside because I believed there would be a lot more people who
would watch Kilroy on Question Time than myself. He appeals to lots of
people who would not necessarily vote UKIP," says Farage piously.

The party is abuzz with rumours that the perma-tanned one fancies toppling leader Roger Knapman when he comes up for re-election in 18 months.

Especially as a poll yesterday said UKIP would treble its 5 per cent vote if he was a candidate everywhere. "Let's see what happens on June 10," says Farage.

Former metals trader Farage needs no lessons in conspiracy theories. When leaflets circulated in Derby recently denouncing the European Union as a "devilish conspiracy" and claiming that "no one and nothing is safe from the barbarians in our midst" he told activists they were forgeries.

"All part of the smear UKIP project. I told the membership well in advance that this would happen and things will get worse the closer we get to the elections," he disclosed in a leaked internal e-mail.

In fact, as he now acknowledges, they were the work of an overzealous
activist who has since been disciplined.
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