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Wednesday, October 27, 2004 

UKIP abandons attempt to unseat Kilroy, following whip resignation.

Having resigned the party whip, it has now been confirmed that Robert Kilroy-Silk MEP will continue to sit in the EU Parliament . A report in the Guardian this evening, linked here, had the following report:-

Mr Kilroy-Silk intends to remain a member of the party but will now sit as an independent MEP - however, Ukip initially insisted that he should now resign his European seat, since he was elected under the "closed list" system under which voters select parties, who decide the running order of their own candidates.

However, a spokeswoman for the European parliament's London office later confirmed that Mr Kilroy-Silk would be able to remain as an independent MEP - or join other parties, if he wished.

Speaking from Strasbourg Mr Kilroy-Silk said: "These people wanted to metaphorically hang me a few days ago. Now they have found they can't and they want me to be their friend. I don't do that and I have resigned the whip."

As the true facts of the Farage/Knapman methods of party rule become more widely known throughout the membership and across the country, informed opinion suspects that a complete change of leadership within the fast growing UK Independence Party is now on the cards. The bandwagon led by real branches with a strong drive to fight the EU is now in train to propel Robert Kilroy-Silk to the forefront, if not the pinnacle of British politics!

An emergency meeting of the party's ruling NEC has been brought forward to next Monday, and Kilroy, this evening on the BBC, quoted the legally trained Party Chairman as now having indicated her support for his position.

Many other normally loyalist Farage supporting NEC members will be almost certain to slink back into the shadows over the next day or so, as the true reality of the Farage/Knapman rule, already available from the archives of this blog, becomes ever more widely known. Neither they nor their already tattered reputations deserve our sympathy if they do not!

posted by Martin |6:47 PM
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