Crucial and Spot-on letter from Sandra Robinson

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Martin, As you yourself know, quite a few people have been where Robert Kilroy-Silk is now, but not with his high profile or public popularity. Of course, although I do not know him, I am sure he is far from perfect like the rest of us, yet perhaps not as misguided as I regrettably feel the UKIP leadership methods, direction and supporters are.

How did a party formed with the main aim of stopping the dismantling and transfer of our Nation State and Government to a foreign emerging superstate come to have as it's main aims, seats in the EU? It's strategy and commitment of precious financial and human resources have been dedicated to this. Three people for ten years and now twelve people for the next five years.

All resources, time, money, borrowing, advertising, consultants and foot soldiers on street corners have been dedicated to sending three and now twelve people at vast public expense to Brussels and Strasbourg for most of the next five years Either working there, getting there, or coming back from there, as well as the work of other paid, supporting people working in offices over here and over there. If we can step back for just a minute from the persuasive style of UKIP's most well known spokespeople who constantly belittle others who hold genuinely different opinions to this" work in the EU to get us out of it" philosophy -- maybe we can recall that only the MP's at Westminster can get us out of it, and sadly, they are not 'Conservatives', who are committed to staying in it, even the Eurosceptic ones. Is this what our own UKIP leadership have long felt? That they don't believe there is a 'cat's chance in hell' of getting out of it, but that they will fight patriotic style battles within it?. So far, the leadership has carried the majority of the membership with them every strategy/policy step of the way and succeeded every time in defeating/outmanoeuvring reformists and people who question this strategy and direction. But are they right to do so? Are people who question their priorities really wrong? One thing that has always worried me is that the leadership employ the same methods of appointments and briefing against as Tony Blair does to keep his party in line, and no doubt the Tories and Lib-Dems do likewise. One of my former branch members told me that, because this is what the other parties do, it's alright for the UKIP to do it, in which case the leadership can sleep soundly in their beds. But something still nags at me, that neither the strategy nor the methods employed to keep it in place are right, and if we are not doing what is needed for this last chance to get out of this long term disaster, what is left?

Whatever apparently annoying, egotistical Robert Kilroy-Silk might have/be doing wrong, he wholeheartedly knows and believes that the battle has to be fought here, not in Brussels, and that one more penny or minute spent there, as flattering and seductive as it might be, is sadly down the drain. No strategy comes guaranteed with a win, but almost totally working in the opposing camp before, during and after the battle fills me with despair.

Sandra Robinson