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Sunday, October 31, 2004 

A letter to 'The Times' on a possible NEC Kilroy expulsion

I have received the following copy of a letter to the editor of The Times from a correspondent previously a UKIP branch chairman and discipline panel member.

Sir

I was surprised to read that Mr Robert Kilroy-Silk will be expelled from the United Kingdom Independence Party, but most especially that “on Monday … the UKIP national executive will vote to throw him out of the party.”

[Report, The Times, October 30th, page 22.]

The UKIP constitution does not empower the National Executive Committee to take any such action. According to the party rule book, the independent Discipline Panel “shall be responsible for investigating all matters that may result in the removal from office of an elected official of the Party or the expulsion or suspension of a Party member from membership." No member can be expelled except through the clearly defined multi-stage complaints procedure, including the opportunity for a formal hearing with a minimum of fourteen days notice, and a final appeal stage.

If UKIP members permitted their leaders to carry out arbitrary expulsions, without due process and in flagrant disregard of the constitution and rules of their own party, what credibility could they have when speaking against the European Constitution?

Yours faithfully

posted by Martin |5:45 PM
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