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Thursday, December 09, 2004
UKIP Home Page News
STOP PRESS - IMMEDIATELY AFTER THIS ARTICLE WAS POSTED THE LINK TO THE DREADFUL MANIFESTO ON UKIP'S HOME PAGE WAS REMOVED. WE WILL LEAVE THIS POSTING FOR THE TIME BEING AND FIND AN ALTERNATIVE SITE FOR UKIP MEMBERS TO READ THE DOCUMENT AS PRESENTED TO THE NEC
*****Read the Manifesto on the old 'Lead on Kilroy' Blogspot CLICK HERE*******
The original posting some half an hour ago was as follows:-
The widely leaked manifesto is now available from UKIP's own website linked here. Any reading it for the first time can only be horrified at the sorry nature of this much vaunted document. It can be no surprise that it was immediately leaked - who with any degree of political common sense being presented with such a botched job could possibly permit it to go further.
A new manifesto is urgently needed, started from scratch under completely new party leaders!
Why that will not immediately happen is the next link from the UKIP home page, read it here.
The Party Secretary has attempted to justify the refusal by the party leadership to have a democratic vote on the best leader to take the party into the General Election. This is as follows:-
As Members may already be aware, on 29 November 2004 the Party Secretary received an email from Michael Harvey containing a schedule of some 50 constitutency association and branch chairmen petitioning for an Extraordinary Conference under 6.10 of the Party Constitution. The business to be put to that EC would be that
"This Extraordinary Conference (EGM) has no confidence in the Party Leader."
Mr Harvey made it clear that the petition was being submitted under the wording of 6.10 that applied before the text was amended by a 4 to 1 majority vote in favour by the Party membership in March of this year. He said that lawyers consulted by Damien Hockney had taken the view that the wording of the amendment submitted to the membership was invalid because it was not identical to that originally drafted at a meeting of the National Executive Committee.
After taking legal advice, the Party Secretary took the view that the aforesaid amendment to 6.10 of the Constitution was valid. He accordingly rejected the petition as not being in conformity with it.
It is also clear that the petition as submitted complies with neither the previous nor the present wording of 6.10 because there is no evidence that the constituency association and branch chairmen have properly consulted the membership of their repective branches through branch Extraordinary General Meetings. There may also be some discrepancies in the schedule of branch chairmen, the actual signatures of which have not been seen by the Party Secretary.
Finally, legal opinion has also been received to the effect that, on the basis of the present wording of Party Constitution 8.3, there is no certainty that an Extraordinary Conference would trigger a leadership election. Until the petitioning Party can obtain a declaration to that effect from the appropriate court, it would be unreasonable to contemplate subjecting the Party to the expense and circumstance of calling an Extraordinary Conference.
Tony Stone
Party Secretary
This from a party that purports to oppose Britain's continuing membership of the European Union because, among other reasons, it is not democratic.
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5:23 PM
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