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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

UKIP Purposely Betrayings its Members Objectives

The following is an extract of a speech that I gave in Neville Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28th January 2003, to the UKIP North East Regional Committee, other MEP candidates and then Party Chairman David Lott in attendance (who had been provided with a prior copy of the speech).

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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.

Why the North East? The government has deliberately targeted this region to be the guinea pig for English regional assemblies. Before a referendum there is supposed to be public demand for an assembly. I would like to help make sure there is as little as possible.

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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.

Sitting MEPS for the North East, Gordon Adam, Stephen Hughes and Barbara O’Toole, all elected for Labour, sit with the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, which, among other federalist items advocates:

Tax and VAT harmonisation across the EU
Incorporation of the written constitution before 2004
Harmonisation of the Education System

The sole Tory, Martin Callanan, trumpets his belonging to the European Peoples Party, (as do all Tory MEPs), as first item in his details as listed by the European Parliament. It appears he is proud to belong to this group which actively promotes the destruction of our nation, by making Europe a Federal State with a Constitutional Union…and Ian Duncan-Smith has the nerve to pretend that he remains a Euro-sceptic!

With our opponents favouring such policies, and their national parties discredited, how can we not do well in the 2004 MEP elections? The question is not can UKIP win in the North East, but how many MEP’s can UKIP dispatch to Brussels and Strasbourg.

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.

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Refusing to fight the coming by-elections is a treacherous abandonment of the only means available to UKIP to obtain Westminster representation.Wwithout early by-election victories or very near misses all impetus will be lost. Farage knows this and seems intent on sabotaging the parties mission to deprive him of his taxpayer funded meal-ticket. Why else would his known lackey John Harvey, who earlier ensured that this and other speeches made by myself received no further circulation in the party, now be seeking to distract the NEC by talk of Hartlepool where no by-election is yet certain. Why are Farage's similarly federalist funded fellow MEPs not stepping forth to push the party's INDEPENDENCE raison d'etre.

Ordinary party members must now make their voices heard if UKIP is to have any chance of remaining the vehicle for removing the EU's control over our country!

posted by Martin |12:37 PM