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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Are By-election's 'Pass' Farage's pay-off to BNP?

It is now crystal clear that UKIP will stop at nothing to prevent a candidate running under the party's name in the Hodge Hill by-election. I have examined this from every angle that I am able and am now personally convinced, from daily tracking over eighteen months the machinations of those in charge of the party - which essentially means the thoroughly unscrupulous Nigel Farage MEP - that one explanation and one only adequately fits the present situation at Birmingham Hodge Hill.

This has to be Farage's repayment for the BNP running no campaign in the South East Region during the European Election campaign. Possibly Leicester South (another no show by UKIP) is also involved.

Jim Carver, paid Regional Organiser for the party and known fixer and close henchman to Nigel Farage gave the orders to the Hodge Hill Returning Officer not to issue Nomination Papers to UKIP's local Branch Chairman and earlier candidate Peter Johnson. It is rumoured other higher profile UKIP members have indicated a willingness to stand but every effort is being made to prevent them.

Many in the party have had doubts about Carver's connections and past associations - what is absolutely clear is that he is extremely close to the Leadership as can be seen from this link to a BBC news item on the Welsh Assembly campaign last year.

The party has shown no readiness to change its decision in spite of there still being time to nominate a candidate and the confusion in the Labour and LibDem campaigns clearly changes any considerations that the so-called 'political strategy committe' (mentioned for the first time on their website yesterday) might have taken into account whenever they were supposed to have met to first consider Hodge Hill.

The fact that a presentation was prepared and made to the NEC only about the Hartlepool by-election indicates that this may be the first by-election that UKIP is now able to stand due to secret undertakings presumably made by Farage to the BNP.

Rumours have it that the inner cities are BNP territory while UKIP sticks to the sticks; perhaps Hartlepool was a grey area on which Farage won a concession in view of UKIP's historical strong showing in that town?

Roger Knapman, no master mind by anyone's reckoning, when writing to The Guardian in January 2003 stated:-

The BNP succeeds by targeting large, run-down council estates with a generally low income, poorly educated electorate. These estates have ended up in this situation precisely because the three main parties have failed in their duty and reneged on their promises to improve the quality of life there.

A remarkable insight into the strategy of an opponent I always felt. The letter is linked from here

The only way the party will convince the public and soon, I hope the press, that this is not the case will be by running and fully supporting a good UKIP candidate at Hodge Hill.

posted by Martin |6:49 AM