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Friday, July 23, 2004 

Kilroy considers standing for Hartlepool

If this report in The Scotsmanlinked here has any substance, this will be great news for euro-realists. Mr Kilroy-Silk has far and away the best chance of introducing to Westminster a party not only officially endorsing Britain's EU withdrawal but furthermore , there to be led by one consistingly stating by word and deed that such is his firm aim. Setting the target for achieving this only course for securing the country's democracy within the next five years, as he did in Strasbourg this week, MUST be achieved or it will be too late. A quote from the article:

UKIP MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk said today he was “seriously considering” standing in the forthcoming Hartlepool by-election following the nomination of Peter Mandelson as an EU commissioner.

Worryingly, however, the paper later reports that the MEP was unable to confirm that he would then give up his MEP seat.

The Hartlepool Mail which reported earlier today, in a huge setback for the Tory prospects, that the Conservative Party candidate at the last General Election would now only consider standing as an independent, has more local detail linked here. The devestating quote:-

"I learned in the last election that the people of Hartlepool did not have a stomach for a Conservative candidate.
"If I want to be an MP in Hartlepool, I have to take that into account."



posted by Martin |4:20 PM
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