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Friday, May 28, 2004

VOTE FOR UKIP AND KILROY IN THE EAST MIDLANDS

The following are extracts of a speech made by the author of this blog to the North East Regional Committee of UKIP, also attended by Party Chairman David Lott, on 28th January 2003 in Neville Hall Newcastle upon Tyne.

I was brought up to believe there was something unique and valuable about our British freedoms, and taught to consider them as rights. I have over the last forty years been forced to watch, as ever so slowly they have almost imperceptibly disappeared…. Given away by self-centred, overly ambitious, sleazy and sometimes downright dishonest politicians, themselves put in place and tolerated by an increasingly indifferent, subsequently disaffected and nowadays almost disenfranchised electorate.

I believe, the flames of freedom that have burned within these islands down the centuries, have not been extinguished but merely smothered. Like the ashes from a bonfire that has burned for an age and then been left to die, the mound of grey and apparently lifeless dust, needs but the surface scraped away, some kindling laid and a draught of air applied, and it will rapidly burst back into life.....

The European elections in June 2004 will be a dress rehearsal for the greater battles to follow. Prescott is likely to target the North East for the first referendum for a Regional Assembly which could be as early as the Autumn of that same year. The General Election cannot be far behind, an election which it is absolutely crucial for UKIP to carry.

We thus have not much more than two and a half years to prepare for the greatest electoral turnaround in the country’s history, but nothing less will do. Never have our freedoms and traditions been so much under threat. The Convention chaired by French ex-President Valery Giscard d’Estaing will report this summer and the lie that the EU is not becoming an undemocratic and potentially totalitarian giant super-State will be finally nailed, thus providing the essential ammunition which UKIP has till now been lacking in our election campaigns.

We must proceed by steps while always keeping the main objective in mind:

First we need a countrywide, truly spectacular showing for UKIP in the June 2004 European elections.

Second with the extra authority and re-cycled Euro-funds provided by our regional MEPs we can mount a strong rejection of any Regional Assembly, should such a referendum be called. With this momentum we can then move to our…..

Third and main objective…. that in the next General Election the majority of elected MPs to Westminster must be committed to EU re-negotiation and restoration of Westminster’s sovereignty.

This has to be an achievable objective as the only alternative is our nation’s absorption into the Union of Europe and the end of Britain’s representative democracy.......

Events are moving in favour of a seismic political shift, not for decades has the world economic situation looked so uncertain. Already we can see the signs of Gordon Brown’s economic strategy going totally awry, with the latest sign eleven straight days of falling stock prices. With the Tories in complete disarray and almost detested in the country at large, the voters will be seeking any means possible to send a strong message to their traditional politicians. What better protest could there be than a vote for UKIP in the European elections, particularly here in the North East, sending the message direct to Downing Street from the Prime Minister’s own constituency region.

The Voters need to know that a vote for Labour is a vote for the European Socialist Party and a vote for the Tories is a vote for the European Peoples Party.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? None that I can see, both actively supporting as they do, further federalisation and the written constitution, either of which totally undermine our democracy and system of common law.....

But, I must repeat, sweeping victory in June 2004 is merely the start, we must keep our eyes towards Westminster and the next General Election.

It is never too soon to start reminding all we meet that staying home at the next General Election or voting for any party other than UKIP will almost certainly result in their never again having a chance to select the people who will rule them.

I believe the stakes ARE that high, which is why I truly believe we can succeed.

Much of my time since then has been spent in urging UKIP to reform and to raise their sights beyond the European Parliamentary elections to the far more crucial General Election ahead. Robert Kilroy-Silk's joining the party will I believe work towards those ends. Britain needs UKIP reformed, honest, efficient, strategically well directed and clearly advocating EU withdrawal. Kilroy has the charisma to get the withdrawalist message across to the broader electorate and I therefore wholeheartedly endorse his MEP candidature and urge everyone in the East Midlands to work for the UKIP party list in that region!

posted by Martin |6:59 AM