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Wednesday, November 24, 2004 

Extraordinary developments at the UKIP Derby City Branch.

An informant from Derby tells us that at their monthly Branch Meeting in October, UKIP members overwhelmingly voted for a leadership election ASAP and also indicated their overwhelming support for Robert Kilroy-Silk in the event of a leadership election.

The Branch Secretary was accordingly instructed to send an urgent letter to Party Secretary Tony Stone. There was therefore consternation when, at this month's Branch meeting, Chairman David Black and the Branch Secretary admitted that despite this clear instruction of the Branch at their October meeting, no letter had yet been sent.

The result in the ensuing tumult was the formal resignation of the Branch Secretary, while Mr Black walked out of the meeting saying: "I resign from this Party. I've had enough" and then walked out of the building.

Councillor Frank Leeming, one of UKIP's few Councillors - he was elected on to Derby City Council - was swiflty voted in as Acting Chairman. But now we hear that Regional Organiser Geoffrey Kingscott and Derek Clark MEP have insisted that Mr Black remains the legal Chairman of the Branch, despite his walking out on them and his refusal to carry our Branch decisions. It is doubtful whether either man has authority to tell the Derby Branch what to do, but it seems that the Party leadership does not, for some reason, wish one of the Party's leading lights in the area to become Branch Chairman.

Cllr. Leeming is, needless to say, pro-Kilroy. Clark and Kingscott's open support for Black may be very unwise. Black provoked ridicule in the European Elections for circulating a leaflet describing those on the continent of Europe as 'barbarians', a matter which came to the attention of the natioanl media, who understandably gobbled up this piece of news to poke fun at UKIP.

We understand that Kilroy, on hearing of this, gave instructions that on no account was he to be photographed anywhere near Black during the campaign.

posted by Martin |3:14 PM
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