UKIP Uncovered
What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Sunday, June 27, 2004 

Letter to The Spectator

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You keep Europe

Peter Oborne (Politics, 12 June) describes Ukip as a ‘rackety collection of conmen, perjurers, convicted criminals and semi-racists’. This must be a different party from the one to which I belong. I am not a conman and have never been convicted of perjury or criminal activity. As to ‘semi-racist’, I do not know what he means by that. History teaches anyone who cares to study it that societies are strained and damaged by the presence of large groups whose culture, religion, language and values are fundamentally different from those of the host society. To observe that is mere common sense — apparently in short supply among those who govern us.

The Ukip I know is filled with ordinary people who want the chance to elect those who make the laws by which they live. So long as we stay in the EU, that will be impossible. Therefore we want to leave. Of course the Establishment is aghast at the size of the Ukip vote and is reacting as expected — if you cannot fault the message, attack the messenger. Insult us as much as you like, Mr Oborne. It will make no difference to our determination to live again in a free, independent, sovereign state.
Mark Tinney
Laxfield, Suffolk
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Indeed the UKIP membership is made up of people such as Mr Tinney. Unhappily the party's leadership sometimes seems to more closely fit Mr Oborne's description - especially when it toys with appointing a Chief Executive such as the disgraced and scandal prone Piers Merchant and EVEN WORSE ducks eminently winnable but rare by-election opportunities, letting down both its broader membership and the electorate at large who quite clearly deserve an anti-EU message to be deliverable within the Westminster Parliament.

IT IS AN OUTRAGEOUS SCANDAL THAT UKIP SHOULD EVEN CONSIDER DUCKING THE COMING BY-ELECTIONS FOLLOWING THE HUGE SUPPORT THEIR MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM THE ELECTORATE ON 10TH JUNE. IF YOU ARE A MEMBER LET THE NEC KNOW YOUR FEELINGS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

posted by Martin |4:54 PM
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