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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Friday, October 15, 2004 

The man for whom Knapman keeps the Leader's seat warm!

The photograph referenced here appears on the posting above.

Nigel Farage on 17th June 1997, with the BNP's Mark Deavin and Tony Lecomber, read here.

Roger Knapman has resisted handing over the UKIP leadership as he has stated that he believes in two years time, someone from the next generation will be ready. The whole UK Independence Party and the entire British political establishment knows who that means - yet no proper explanation has ever been provided by Nigel Farage for the meeting pictured above. Why not?

Notes from the Borderland Issue 4 Winter 2001-2002, which undertook detailed research into the background to the meeting pictured above and Farage's conflicting statements of supposed explanation, concluded as follows:-

"If Deavin is the clever operative we take him to be, and set up the photo opportunity, would he really meet Farage without a concealed tape recorder? We think not. Another vital question. Given Searchlight's MI5 links, evident pro-EU stance, and proven capacity/intent to disrupt UKIP, why have they never gone for Farage personally in print or via one of their TV propaganda shows?"

This extract from a reviewof Dr Deavin's book on Harold Macmillan, linked here , is worth considering in light of this incident:

In Lusanne, Switzerland, Deavin was given unprecedented access to the private archive of that extremely influential, but also underestimated, international éminence grise Jean Monnet. The Monnet papers proved to be a goldmine of important new information.

Would the keepers of Monnet's papers really have granted such 'unprecedented' access to a known enemy of Monnets conspiratorial project - I for one doubt it!

This therefore seems to raise yet further questions as to whether the true intent of those taking over UKIP at that time was not to divert the British euro-sceptic movement a long way up a fruitless cul de sac.

Looking at intervening events and today's extraordinary situation over the unnecessarily contested leadership, who can deny that if such was the case - it certainly seems to have succeeded. UKIP is as far from obtaining Westminster representation today as it was back then!

posted by Martin |10:08 AM
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