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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 

Party Secretary Shambles illustrates Urgent Need for Change at the TOP

Why is it that no member of the NEC can be found to permanently fill the post of Party Secretary?

The answer has to be simple when viewed against the background of the following facts:-

Firstly - as succinctly stated on an internet forum over the weekend -"The party secretary is responsible for ensuring the party complies with all legal requirements, for administering leadership and NEC elections,organising the party conference, and chairing the discipline committee and committee on standing orders. Every one is a minefield in a party where the leadership is determined on getting its way, regardless, and the potential for legal challenges over, for example, the administration of a leadership election, must be enormous."

Secondly - All existing NEC members have clearly witnessed the incompetent and dangerous manner in which those in charge of the party are prone to flirt with the boundaries of the proper if not even the legal. The potential for possible criminal liability is not one that can be ignored - as history proves when recalling the resignation after six months of the first Party Secretary appointed after Jeffrey Titford's election, following his condoning of the Farage and Nattrass video copyright infringement, questions over the purloined and misused membership data base, non-paid invoices etc. etc.

If a responsible, competent, trustworthy, democratic and honest leadership were to be in charge of UKIP's affairs - surely it is not unreasonable to expect one NEC member to feel honoured to accept such a post.

Greg Lance-Watkins has suggested on the internet that the idea of having the party secretary be recruited from outside the NEC was first put about by Andy Edwards on his internet group new-ind-uk. That was not the case. The suggestion was made earlier than the date of Andy's posting when Tony Stone retracted his resignation to the leadership's great relief.

I understand that the NEC were informed that such a change to the Constitution's Paragraph 10 could well be necessary and that the Standing Orders Committee would be considering the matter very urgently. The matter was not considered as important enough to be included in the next edition of the Independent News, however - yet more evidence of the scant regard for democracy or proper procedures now being followed by the present ruling cabal!

posted by Martin |10:29 AM
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