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an astonishing claim when one realises that this has clearly applied to the election of liars and cheats within UKIP & its leaderrship team & staff!
Or as The Spectator put it:
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thanks to one of our journalist readers who rang me to point out my memory lapse ;-( That should have read New Statesman NOT Spectator –
sorry for the error but as with our policy, as soon as an error of any consequence in any of our 1,000s of blog postings is pointed out it WILL be corrected.)
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he “didn’t have the party apparatus to fully vet 1,700 people.” Photograph: Getty Images.
Farage admitted on The World At One that it lacked the resources to properly vet all of the 1,734 candidates it is standing in next Thursday’s elections.
He told the programme:
When it comes to the general election and the European elections we have put in place a very rigorous testing procedure … I’ll be honest with you, we don’t have the party apparatus to fully vet 1,700 people.
Farage said that UKIP made all of its candidates sign a declaration form stating that they had never been a member of the BNP, but then added:
I have no doubt that among these 1,700 one or two will have slipped through the net that we’d rather not have had.
It is hard to think of a greater gift to UKIP’s political opponents. By voting for the party are you inadvertently supporting a racist or a fascist? Don’t ask Nigel Farage, he can’t tell you.
an astonishing claim when one realises this has clearly pertained to hand selected candidates such as Marta Andreasen, Buster Mottram, Godfrey Bloom, Niel Hamilton, David Bannerman and their like, personally serlected by Nigel Farage, who claims due to some very misleading polls that his little party with around 30 elected Distric Councillors and little else in British domestic politics, after 20 years and many, many £Millions of public money spent funding their personal ambitions and a string of frauds to their credit at MEP level alone!
That UKIP, under its present leadership and lack of competent professionalism, with its rigged internal ballots and liars, cheats and low lifes thus gaining authority on its NEC and amongst its staff structure is unfit for purpose is hard, nay impossible, to claim!
Again and again we see the bullying and abusive cowards too ashamed of their own behaviour to put their names to their internet and cyber abuse and bullying – yet these sordid people pretend to be representing British values! – Not values any ethical Brit would either recognise or be other than be ashamed of!
UKIP is further demeaned in that UKIP leadership has chosen to enrich itself by association with the extremists, racists, Holocaust deniers, anti homosexuals and anti Jewish gutter sweepings of EU politics in the Pan EU Political EFD Group Nigel Farage founded and leads!
UKIP rocked by Holocaust row and BNP members, as leader Nigel Farage admits the party cannot vet all of its candidates
- Anna-Marie Crampton, a UKIP candidate in East Sussex, suspended over reports she posted extreme views on a conspiracy theorist website
- Crampton, 57, is allegedly quoted as saying: ‘The Second World War was engineered by the Zionist jews and financed by the bankers…’
- UKIP leader Nigel Farage admits the party had not properly checked all 1,700 candidates it is fielding in next week’s council elections
PUBLISHED: 19:27, 25 April 2013 | UPDATED: 19:40, 25 April 2013
UKIP candidate Anna-Marie Crampton is alleged to have said World War Two was engineered by Zionists and bankers to create the state of Israel
The UK Independence Party today suffered a string of damaging revelations about its election candidates, including one who reportedly claimed Jews murdered each other in the Holocaust.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage was forced to admit the party had not properly checked all 1,700 candidates it is fielding in next week’s council elections, raising the prospect of more embarrassments to come.
The row threatens to undermine the party’s hopes of making a major breakthrough in May 2’s elections.
Anna-Marie Crampton, a UKIP candidate in East Sussex, was suspended by the party over reports she posted extreme views on a conspiracy theorist website called ‘Secrets of The Fed’.
Crampton, 57, is allegedly quoted as saying: ’Holocaust means a sacrifice by fire. Only the Zionists could sacrifice their own in the gas chambers.
’The Second World Wide War was engineered by the Zionist jews and financed by the bankers to make the general public all over the world to feel so guilty and outraged by the Holocaust that a treaty would be signed to create the State of Israel as we know it today.’
Just two weeks ago Mrs Crampton posed with Mr Farage at a rally in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
A spokesman said: ’These comments are really way out there and really hard-core anti-Zionism.’
A spokesman for British Influence, which is campaigning against UKIP policies on Europe said: ’This sort of holocaust denial from a UKIP candidate is further evidence of the toxic mix of anti-semitism and cuckoo conspiracy theories that run rife in UKIP and she should be expelled from the party and not simply suspended.
’The fact is that UKIP has more than 1,700 candidates being fielded in next Thursday’s local elections – more than the Lib Dems – and one has to ask oneself how many more of them have skeletons in the cupboard.’
Anti-Zionist comments made from the Facebook account of Anna-Marie Crampton. She was later suspended
Anna-Marie Crampton pictured left with UKIP leader Nigel Farage at a rally in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Mr Farage admitted that not all candidates have been properly vetted to ensure they do not hold extreme views
Yesterday, Susan Bowen, from Boscastle in Cornwall, was dropped as a candidate in elections to the county’s unitary council after it emerged she was once a member of the BNP.
In county council elections UKIP is fielding more candidates than the Lib Dems.
But the dramatic election push could come at a cost, after Mr Farage admitted that not all of them have been properly vetted to ensure they do not hold extreme views.
He said that a ’rigorous testing procedure’ was in place to choose candidates for next years’s elections to the European Parliament, and the 2015 general election.
This tested ’people’s knowledge, their ability with media – you know, full credit checks, police checks and all the rest of it’.
But he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One: ’I’ll be honest with you, we don’t have the party apparatus in a very short space of time to fully vet 1,700 people.
’We have made people sign declaration forms, expressing the fact that they’ve never been part of political parties that we consider to be wholly undesirable. By that I mean the BNP.
’And, you know, we ask people if there is a problem with a criminal record or whatever else it may be, please tell us.
’I have no doubt that amongst those 1,700 one or two people will have slipped through the net that we’d rather not have had.’
Mr Farage has previously criticised Tory leader David Cameron for his 2006 claim that ’Ukip is sort of a bunch of … fruit cakes and loonies and closet racists mostly’.
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zquiet said
With havin so much content do you ever run into any problems of plagorism or copyright infringement?
My blog has a lot of completely unique content I’ve either written myself or outsourced but it seems a lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without my permission. Do you know any methods to help prevent content from being ripped off? I’d really appreciate it.
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Hi,
I incline to the opinion that the blog system is rather a cross between a pub and dinner party – where conversations take place and your views are expressed and commented on as a method of distributing facts.
In reality once a comment has been made any chance of controlling the ‘splash’ is a matter of luck!
Naturally since blogging is not for cash it is in the main legitimate to copy data or have it copied and at best one can expect the copier to act with some respect in ethical terms of a link to the original source.
IF you don’t want your material copied then I regret the only serious adbice is don’t write or publish it!
IF you seek to use the internet to market material then ensure your USP (Unique Sales Point) is sufficient to be beyond challenge or plagiarism – its a hard life but without that USP you can expect the challenge and loss of your idea.
Good luck!
Regards,
Greg_L-W.
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