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Sunday, June 20, 2004 

No UKIP/Tory Pact but New Pro Britain Party IS Required

The Scotsmanlinked here, reporting on this morning's television appearances by Michael Ancram and Robert Kilroy-Silk, makes clear that no elctoral pact between the parties seems likely at this stage:-

The Tories would “certainly” not enter into a pact with UKIP and would fight every seat at the next general election, Michael Ancram said today.

The shadow foreign secretary said that while the 'No' campaign in the EU constitution would be “broad based” there would be no electoral link.

The Conservatives would not be “looking over their shoulders” at the anti-Europe party in the elections, he told BBC1’s Breakfast with Frost.

Leading UKIP member Robert Kilroy-Silk also snubbed the idea of a pact on the same programme, saying he had “no desire” for one.

The former TV presenter and newly-elected MEP said voters were fed up with “being lied to” and “being deceived” by the old parties.

He asked: “Why would we want to ally ourselves with either one of those?”


Peter Hitchens writing in the Mail on Sunday (no link available but try page 27) sums the problem up nicely. In my view UKIP is too corrupted by the low-calibre and past year's disgusting tactics of its ruling leadership cabal to ever look like a realistic reforming political force, while the Tories are tarred by their decades of deceit now seen through by the electorate.

Hitchens says UKIP is nevertheless doing a good job finishing off the Tories to make room for a new pro-British party, but it won't be the UKIP - the article finishes with:

''The movement will not be the UKIP, for it will need far more depth
and breadth and height. But Robert Kilroy-Silk and the UKIP are
clearing the way for it.''

Somebody should point the large UKIP sponsors Bown and Sykes to this blog before they throw more money at a party that would consider appointing the likes of Piers Merchant as their Chief Executive whilst planning to attack the existing political parties for their standards of behaviour and total lack of political propriety.

posted by Martin |2:08 PM
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