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Hi,
The Utter Incompetence of UKIP Leadership reaches new depths!Endless claims of professionalising and more stringent vetting end up with
Mujeeb ur Rehman Bhutto as their leadership spokesman!
This at a time when Nigel Farage makes his party/cult look like fools by describing the manifesto on which he stood as ‘486 pages of drivel’!
How right Farage is but where is the basic integrity of his party if he presented the manifesto written by his personal placeman David Bannerman, who was clearly untrustworthy, corrupt and a liar and defected back to the Tory Party to try to secure his personal future regardless of principles.
In UKIP’s desperate and dishonest effort to pretend they are not racist regardless of the indisputable evidence they are clearly willing to waive any realistic concept of competent vetting as what on earth else could explain the utter failure of leadership to end up with an international criminal, a kidnapper and such a low life as
Mujeeb ur Rehman Bhutto as their Commonwealth spokesman for Nigel Farage!
Just who will Farage try to pass the buck to this time as he has so frequently in the past in his efforts to remain stuffing his pockets, his ego and it seems not infrequently members of his EU and UKIP salaried staff!
Yes indeed Nigel Farage with your false boasts and febrile claims of excellent results when clearly UKIP is no closer to having any kind of breakthrough in British domestic politics even on a local level having out of over 1,750 possible seats in last years Local Elections and ZERO MPs in the last 21 years all they achieved was a risible 147 elected seats of whom they have lost somewhere approaching 20 due to internal squabbling, racism and the clearly batty!
Yes indeed Nigel Farage as the BNP vote collapsed as a result of their failures of leadership it would seem you Nigel Farage almost all your MEPs and Nick Griffin were on the same master classes for personal gain judging by your results though to be sure as the BNP collapsed UKIP gained members from amongst the ranks of BNP supporters.
Yes indeed Nigel Farage it is not just pride and hubris that come before a fall and nemesis but clearly the higher up the tree the monkey climbs the more you see its assinine behaviour.
So just who do you intend to blame this time for the latest in a long line of leadership failures and stupidities.
IF UKIP is to have a future in British domestic politics other than to be a rather unpleasant irritant that demeans the body politic with its dishonesty, incompetence and lack of leadership then sadly it MUST be without Nigel Farage and both his clique of parasites sharing the leadership and the claque of followers.
May I draw the attention of readers to the advice given by Sir David Bell to Michael Gove ‘Don’t believe your own hype’ and also he said ‘Mr. Gove should not surround himself with yes men’.
Perhaps Sir David might like to change the name Gove to Farage and mail him a copy of this excellent advice!
As a minimum this makes it clear ALL staff and candidates for senior positions should be forced to provide a CRB AND sign a declaration.
The saddest part of this debacle is that many of us have been warning of just such an incident as being inevitable due to the lack of leadership and formal structure and propensity for making decisions and policy on the hoof. Unfortunately Farage has been allowed to run the party as his personal feifdom resulting in it being more a cult than a serious entity and IF Farage had the integrity to carry the can and leave it is unlikely his party would survive, in any form.
By Mike Deri Smith & Jim ReedBBC Newsnight
Mujeeb Bhutto was jailed for seven years in 2005A man who served as UKIP’s Commonwealth spokesman for a year is the former leader of a kidnapping gang in Pakistan, BBC Newsnight can reveal.
Mujeeb ur Rehman Bhutto’s gang were behind a high-profile kidnapping in Karachi in 2004 and he then took a £56,000 ransom payment in Manchester.
In 2005, Bhutto, of Leeds, admitted being the gang’s “boss” and was jailed for seven years by a UK court.
UKIP said Bhutto, 35, had “recently” resigned his party membership.
A party spokesman said: “When we recently became aware of possible issues relating to his past and raised the matter with him, he resigned his membership.”
Bhutto regularly appeared as UKIP’s Commonwealth spokesman, and as a party representative, in local and national media.
He organised a trip to a Leeds mosque for party leader Nigel Farage and canvassed with UKIP candidate Jane Collins during the 2012 Rotherham by-election.
‘Beheading threat’
Bhutto, who said he had left the party in December, told Newsnight he had admitted the charges against him in 2005 rather than risk being sent back to Pakistan and hanged.
“The evidence which was bought against me was from Pakistan. The allegation was simply because of political rivalry,” he said.
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There were two things that were different about this case. One was that there was an involvement with a city which was 5,000 miles away in the UK. The second was that the guys who did it actually got caught”
Journalist Shahed Sadullah
He said he planned to appeal against his conviction for conspiracy to blackmail.
Bhutto said he had been granted political asylum in the UK in 2008 and that the case against him in Pakistan had been thrown out by the country’s Supreme Court.
But senior Pakistani police sources insisted that Bhutto was still wanted in Pakistan.
In June 2004, a gang led by Bhutto kidnapped Ahmed Naeem, the son of a wealthy businessman, at gunpoint from a car on a Karachi residential street.
Five days later Bhutto flew to England.
He then negotiated a ransom payment with Mr Naeem’s father, Mohammed Naeem.
“I have the power to give you such torture that you won’t forget it for the rest of your life,” Bhutto said in calls to Mohammed Naeem that were recorded by Pakistani police and reported during his 2005 court case.
Bhutto once arranged a mosque visit for UKIP leader Nigel FarageBhutto at one point threatened to have Ahmed Naeem’s head cut off and sent to his father, according to court evidence.
Police in Karachi assisted the victim’s family, and a police source delivered a £56,000 ransom to a car park at Manchester’s Arndale shopping centre. Ahmed Naeem then was released by the gang in Pakistan.
Bhutto was swiftly arrested by Greater Manchester Police in co-operation with Pakistan police.
Ransom in bed
The £56,000 ransom was found hidden in Bhutto’s bed in a house in Leeds, and he was forced to repay it when he appeared in court.
He was sentenced under the name Majeebur Bhutto.
“You came to the UK to avoid the risk of detection in Pakistan, where kidnapping is a capital offence,” said the judge, Martin Steiger.
The other gang members were initially sentenced to death in Pakistan for the offence of kidnapping for ransom, but their sentences were commuted to life in prison in 2007 and one was released.
“Kidnappings have really gone through the roof in Pakistan. It’s the main form of getting money for many terrorist organisations,” said Shahed Sadullah, former editor of The News, part of the bilingual paper The Daily Jang.
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UKIP are certainly trying to professionalise, to move away from its more amateurish origins”
Matthew GoodwinChatham House
“There were two things that were different about this case. One was that there was an involvement with a city which was 5,000 miles away in the UK. The second was that the guys who did it actually got caught.”
In a regional UKIP newsletter from May 2013, Bhutto stated that he had been a member of the party since 2011.
“Our policy in UKIP is not to attack foreign nations, but to work with like-minded parties and support them so there is no export of terrorism to our shores,” he said.
During an appearance on BBC debating show The Big Questions in March 2013, when he was frequently referred to as “UKIP’s Commonwealth spokesman”, Bhutto said: “We want controlled immigration where we know who’s coming in, who’s going out.”
Hailed on Twitter
UKIP candidates, associations and official social media channels have previously posted messages indicating that Bhutto had a role as a UKIP representative, beyond being just a party member.
“UKIP have plenty of quality spokesman… Mujeeb Bhutto,” UKIP Bradford and district chairman Jason Smith wrote on Twitter in May 2013.
“Watch UKIP’s Mujeeb Bhutto speak out against mass uncontrolled immigration on the BBC’s Big Question,” read a tweet from UKIP’s official Twitter feed in March 2013.
Jane Collins, said on Twitter in March 2013 that Mr Bhutto was “fantastic on BBC Big Question this am. What an asset for UKIP”.
In the course of the last month, Twitter, LinkedIn and multiple Facebook profiles of Mujeeb Bhutto have been deleted from the internet.
“If you don’t have any discipline and tight screening of candidates, you are perpetually going to be in trouble,” said Matthew Goodwin, of policy institute Chatham House and co-author of Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain.
“UKIP are certainly trying to professionalise, to move away from its more amateurish origins.”
Bhutto said he had now rejoined the Conservative Party, but the Tories said they had no record of that.
You can see the report in full on Newsnight at 22:30 on BBC Two on Monday or later via the Newsnight website or the BBC iPlayer.
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