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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Thursday, July 08, 2004 

LibDems set to steal UKIP's upset?


Is Nigel Farage's constant undermining of the euro-realist cause now about to turn what could have been UKIP's finest hour - a victory for Robert Kilroy-Silk, in the constituency of his birth - handed instead on a plate to those greatest enemies of national democracy the Liberal Democrats?

Reading the Daily Telegraph this morning, linked here or The Independentfrom here, one could certainly believe so.

Why does the party allow itself to be so unofficially and badly (MIS-)led by such a clearly flawed, self-centred and scandal-prone character as Farage! The latest edition of 'Private Eye' carries this item on the number two MEP on the South East regional list:

Private Eye - 1110 9-22/7/04

Brussels Sprouts

Before he could even cross the Channel to denounce the graft and corruption endemic in Brussels, one of UKIP's new MEPs has run into trouble back home.

The day after his election to the European parliament, Ashley Mote appeared at Chichester crown court charged with nine counts of fraud. The case which concerns alleged housing benefit fraud from a number of years ago, will be heard in full in November .

Mote says the charges are a smear against him and his party - but it's a
pity it seems to have slipped his mind to tell his party leaders that he was facing such accusations. All UKIP candidates were supposed to inform the party before the euro elections about any potential embarrassments however fanciful. This was to ensure that UKIP would not be linked to any member's support for neo-fascist organisations. Mote has no such links


Farage likes to surround himself with the scandal prone and disgraced, it is inconceivable that the number two on his own regional list could be anything other than fully approved by Farage who went to such lengths to manipulate the MEP candidate lists elsewhere in the country. Among other soiled characters in his entourage, of course, are the likes of disgraced MPs Piers Merchant, extraordinarily recently and ludicrously selected as the party's Chief Executive.

None of this can be a surprise to regular readers of this blog. What is ever more surprising is that UKIP party members just continue to let him get away with it. Wouldn't they have liked a first Westminster MP?

posted by Martin |6:49 AM
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