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


Monday, August 23, 2004 

UKIP ignores the EU and returns to internal ructions!

The latest dispute exercising the party leadership and activists is: should Ashley Mote the number two South East region MEP for the party be forced to resign.

One communication fired across the present party divide on the subject gives a fascinating insight into how UKIP's MEPs view their presence in Strasbourg and demonstrates their reasons for being reluctant to do anything to really advance the anti-EU cause, such as, for instance, by standing in an almost certainly winnable by-election at Hartlepool:

"If Ashley were to resign his seat now as you suggest, he would be quite within his rights to demand payment for loss of earnings and status, should he be proved innocent of all charges - a sum I guess will be in the vicinity of £500,000 over the period of the parliament. If you are so convinced he is guilty I am sure you will have no problem making that guarantee."

Half a million pounds or a few months in Westminster? Party and principle or all that money? No contest is there?????? (Remember too, the three sitting MEPs estimated last Christmas that their seats were truly worth some quarter of a million a year putting Mote's potential losses at one and a quarter million pounds!)

posted by Martin |8:41 AM
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