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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Wednesday, October 27, 2004 

Kilroy & Farage MEPs on the PM programme this evening.

The broadcast may be heard from the BBC Radio 'Listen Again' facility, linked here. It got under way at five thirty, therefore it will be necessary to use the fast forward facility to go directly to the interview. The five thirty news headline reported Kilroy as stating the behaviour of his fellow UKIP MEPs had been farcical and silly.

Kilroy was interviewed immediately after this quote. He stated that the attempt to remove him had been made with no due process, it was legally impossible, outside the party constitution and that Nigel Farage had insufficient votes, so his resignation was intended to help them out. Asked what the electors might think of this he explained that the agreement of two weeks ago (that he had written) had been breached and he was told by the media that he was to be subject to a disciplinary procedure.

At this point Nigel Farage was brought into the conversation. Farage said there was no appetite in the party for a leadership election.

Mr Kilroy-Silk was asked if he had said at the weekend whether he would set up another party, and he denied having said so. (The link from this blog to reports of the interview bears this out).

He re-emphasised the problem was the UKIP MEP leader in the EU Parliament (Nigel Farage), who was a one man cabal, seemingly busy and hyperactive but achieving little (paraphrase - ed) and the lack of any activity since last June. Mr Kilroy-Silk had no problem with the party nor with all the MEPs - he had earlier suggested there were now four such supporting his side of the dispute.




posted by Martin |5:26 PM
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