Ukip Scotland Chairman Arthur Thakaray Embroils Ukip In A Sex Pest Scandal and has to quit!
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I guess it is fair to comment that Ukip are not alone in having sex pests and sex offenders in their ranks – we are all too well aware that politics is, like show business, riddled with such offenders.
However I can think of no instance where someone so seniour in any other party has been arrested since Jeremy Thorpe in the old Liberal Party – which has subsequently all but dropped out of sight with no MPs, no MEPs and just a few councillors of little note left.
For Ukip to have its Scottish Chairman arrested is significant – even if Ukip is all but insignificant and little more than an embarrassment north of the border!
Ukip has been pretty much a disaster in Scotland since Heather Conyngham was dispatched to Scotland with virtually no resources and dependent on her personal skills to drag Scotland into existence for Ukip. Then Ukip Scotland had the embarrassment of internal feuding, the incautious move of permitting Tom Wise to part fund the operation from his expenses/allowances as an MEP in the East Midlands, not to mention a period under the charmanship and lead of the implausible and scattly Christopher Monkton culminating one would have hoped with the embarrassment of Ukip’s list man David Coburn being elected as an MEP.
Ukip even had a period as a party supporting that scoundrel Robert Green long after he had been exposed as a fraud promoting the fantasies surrounding Hollie Greig CLICK HERE
As if to add insult to injury now their chaiman has been forced to stand down under investigation as a sex pest!
Even Nigel Farage’s forays over the border have proved fairly catastrophic, having annoyed the locals to such an exptent he had to be rescued (unsurprisingly from a pub) by the police!
Ukip’s Scottish chairman steps down after facing six sex call charges
Thackeray, 55, faces six charges under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act.
He is charged under a section which says it is an offence “to send a sexual verbal communication to another person without their consent”.
Police detained Thackeray on the morning of Friday, January 22. It’s understood he spent the weekend in the cells.
Thackeray then appeared in private at Glasgow Sheriff Court on the Monday. He made no plea or declaration and was granted bail.
He is expected to return to court at a later date. Prosecutors have a year to bring him to trial.
Thackeray has been a prominent figure for UKIP in Scotland in recent years.
He stood as his party’s candidate for Glasgow East in last May’s general election, coming fourth with 1105 votes.
And he appeared in a BBC Scotland “leaders’ debate” 10 days before the poll, taking on Labour’s Kezia Dugdale, Stuart Hosie of the SNP, Tory Annabel Goldie, Jo Swinson of the Lib Dems and Green MSP Patrick Harvie.
He has now stepped down as UKIP Scotland chairman while the criminal case is resolved.
Asked about Thackeray yesterday, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: “I’ve heard about it. I’m not going to comment.” He then put the phone down.
A UKIP spokesman said it would be inappropriate to comment on an ongoing case.
Thackeray wasn’t at his modern home in Springboig in Glasgow’s east end yesterday. A neighbour said he was often away and added: “When he’s here he doesn’t answer the door anyway.
“He doesn’t say much. He sometimes turns up in a car with a woman.”
Thackeray used to run a group of security and investigation companies. And in 2014, he admitted UKIP had spied on their opponents in Scotland.
He said the party hired private detectives during the referendum campaign and used Polish immigrants to infiltrate anti-UKIP groups.
Groups thought to have been targeted include Radical Independence and Unite Against Fascism.
Opponents called the tactics sinister but Thackeray said they would “definitely” be used again in the general election campaign.
He also claimed to have gone under cover for the party himself. He said: “As someone who’s done a lot of covert work, it was nothing.”
Police said: “A 55-year-old man has been arrested and detained in connection with alleged offences under section seven of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009. A report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal.”
Ukip’s MEP David Coburn their leader in Scotland Drags Ukip’s Reputation In The Gutter with his bullying and boorish behaviour.
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anyone who believes that Ukip’s leader in Scotland David Coburn is anything other than an ill mannered, odious, ignorant boer can readily disabuse themselves by accessing his interview on TV on the night of the Scottish devolution vote.
On that night David Coburn made a fool of himself and Ukip with his ill informed bullying and abusive comments, judging by his florid and sweating appearance alcohol fueled in a manner that brought Ukip into disrepute.
At the time, although David Coburn had been elected as Ukip’s MEP in Scotland, based on the votes obtained by Ukip in Scotland rather than any personal support, David Coburn boasted of being domicile in London and had no home or residency in Scotland.
Ukip MEP David Coburn banned from Wikipedia indefinitely
Online administrator blocks user account of ‘David Coburn MEP’ over attempts to alter article about the Ukip politician 69 times in six days When contacted by the Guardian, Coburn said he had started editing the Wikipedia page after spotting mistakes on it.
When contacted by the Guardian, Coburn said he had started editing the Wikipedia page after spotting mistakes on it. Photograph: Ken Jack/Demotix/Corbis
David Pegg and Helena Bengtsson
Wednesday 29 April 2015 14.15 BST Last modified on Wednesday 29 April 2015 15.22 BST
Ukip politician David Coburn has been indefinitely banned from Wikipedia after attempting to alter an article about himself 69 times in six days.
The ‘David Coburn MEP’ user account was blocked by an administrator at the online encyclopedia last month after repeatedly trying to make edits to the website’s article on Coburn, who has a reputation for making controversial comments.
Coburn, the Ukip MEP for Scotland, told the Guardian he had directed one of his staff to make the changes in order to clear the page of “garbage” and “nonsense”.
“David Coburn MEP” began altering the page on 1 April this year, removing a passage stating that Coburn had allegedly muddled the name of SNP candidate Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh repeatedly during the 2014 European parliament campaign.
Sheikh had accused Coburn of calling her “Pashmina, Jasmine and Tamzin before eventually settling on a combination of ‘love’, ‘dear’ and ‘honey’,” and that she had found the remarks to be sexist and possibly racist. At the time, Ukip’s Scottish chairman denied Coburn had repeatedly mispronounced Sheikh’s name, saying he had only mispronounced it once. Coburn told the Guardian that Sheikh’s allegation was “nonsense”.
Three minutes after Coburn removed the passage it was reinserted by another user. One minute later, Coburn removed it again. European parliament urged to act over Ukip MEP’s ‘Islamophobic insult’ Read more
These were the first of dozens of changes over the following six days encompassing a number of factual disputes, including whether Coburn lived in Edinburgh or London, whether he attended the High School of Glasgow or a high school in Glasgow, and whether he had said ever stated he would “work closely with the so-called London elite” (Coburn says he did not). He also repeatedly tried to add a statement that there was “no material difference” between civil partnerships and gay marriage to his article.
The MEP’s edits were interpreted by other users as breaching one of the site’s rules on conflicts of interest, defined as when users alter articles to make them more favourable to themselves.
Wikipedia also prohibits users from engaging in “edit wars”, in which different users repeatedly delete each other’s contributions. During one particularly intense dispute, Coburn was accused by another user of getting into an edit war with himself and repeatedly deleting his own changes.
Coburn left a number of notes on the website complaining that other users were disregarding his own account of his life.
“I am David Coburn MEP – I am aware of where I live – I live in Edinburgh – I am also aware of where I went to school & which University I attended – there are several people changing the facts and they need to stop,” he wrote. Nigel Farage: the English are biggest victims of racism because of Scots Read more
He later added: “Apparently I dont know where I live nor which school I attended or the University I attended – is there anything else you would like to update me on?” and suggested he would complain to Wikipedia about people editing his article maliciously.
The account was first blocked for a limit of 31 hours (“after many, many warnings” according to one administrator) but later blocked indefinitely. Advertisement
When contacted by the Guardian, Coburn said he had started editing the page after spotting mistakes on it, but that he had stopped after getting bored.
“I hear it gets changed all the time. Personally I don’t give a damn what people write about me. People write the most colourful things about me and I’ve got the hide of a rhino and I don’t really give a damn,” he said.
“I’m sure its all wee cybernats who’ve got nothing better to do with their time and they should actually be out getting a job.”
Asked if he had followed through on his threat to complain, Coburn replied: “Did we complain in the end? Did I bother? I can’t remember. I don’t think we could be bothered. I think I’ve got too much on my plate. It’s one of those things I meant to do and never bothered.”
Asked about specific changes, he said that it was a month ago and he did not remember the details of what was changed.
“It was done by one of my people. I don’t know how to press the buttons to make it work. I was telling them what to do. If there was garbage on there I told them to take it off,” he said.
IF you are in any doubt of the unpleasant nature of David Coburn and Ukip’s contempt for Scotland in appointing him as their leader in Scotland consider this series of informed Tweets:
#David_Coburn didn’t ‘act like a noxious bully’ #Ukip‘s ‘Scotland leader IS a both ‘Noxious & a ‘Bully’ A VILE CREEP
Greg_Lance-Watkins added,
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The top brass of UKIP’s Scottish branch showed up to a church-organised, constituency #GEC2015 hustings and behaved like noxious bullies.
David Coburn’s performance as an MEP in the EU is relatively mediocre rating 45th out of the British MEPs and 124th out of the 751 MEP total!
For more detail from the EU CLICK HERE
It is my opinion that the crass and boorish behaviour of David Coburn since his election as an MEP and leader of Ukip in Scotland has done more harm to Ukip, particularly in Scotland than even his predecessors such as Christopher Monkton ever did or even that done by the outspoken Zionist based racism of Malcolm Lord Pearson or the superstition based racism of Gerard Batten!
& For Election Year – Ukip & The Box Of Frogs that forms their legal representatives, associates, prospective candidates and even deputy leaders – not to mention the sociopathic standards of their so called leader! who many have of course seen through! But then again I have consistently cautioned ‘The higher up the tree the monkey climbs the more you see its @rse’
as is becoming ever more apparent in the media as Nigel Farage’s irresponsibility and sociopathy comes under ever greater scrutiny.
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firstly a Happy New Year to you all and may 2015 bring us all an irrevocable step nearer to our aim to Leave_The_EU. I hope you all had a great holiday period and return to the fray to work towards ensuring an IN/OUT Referendum and the task of ensuring we win the right to Leave_The_EU conclusively by ensuring thwe public are reassured as to the benefits of being a self determining democracy trading as an independent Nation world wide.
To move forward into the fray and arm for the battle ahead to obtain our independence and repatriate our democracy reinstating our borders and justice system with a restrengthened Westminster with the integrity to represent our peoples rather than themselves!
I have almost without exception enjoyed the perspicacity of Suzanne Cameron-Blackie aka Anna Raccoon whose sharp wit and ascorbic pen I have followed for many years.Again and again she deals in areas where I have experience of the scoundrels concerned be they Robert Green, Anne Greig (aka McKay), David the liar and fruit loop Icke, creepy little Brian Gerrish, the odity Tony Bennett and many more – not least of whom is Michael Shrimpton who somewhat embarrassingly had rather overstayed his couple of nights stay in my home when he once again ‘heard voices’ and saw fit to use my phone to relay his maunderings about nuclear bomb threats, using my phone!Read on, as I am sure you will enjoy the cutting wit of Anna Raccoon and her wicked expose of Rannock’s village idiot the Ukip buffoon and sometime deputy leader then leader for Scotland Christopher Monkton (could that be aka Sacha Cohen?), as much as you may derive amusement from Hayley O’Keeffe’s somewhat kinder reportage of the pure humour of Michael Shrimpton’s parody of himself which she so ably covers ‘with a wink and a nod’!
On Ascending to Insanity and Shrimpton Fishing.
by Anna Raccoon on November 26, 2014
I have often pondered why the cliché is ‘descending into madness’ – given the number of people who end up firmly believing that they are the son of the Man upstairs, and spend the rest of their life with arms outstretched and tending their goatee beard, having moved from ‘talking to themselves’ to believing that they are in fact God, or at least JC – without passing ‘Go’. Surely the cliché should be ‘Ascending to Insanity’?
What is the alchemy by which so many people end up convinced by the same fantasy? I have just caught up with a documentary on James Randi – available for another six days on iPlayer, and I cannot recommend it highly enough – utterly enthralling to anyone interested in how and why people not only become consumed by irrational beliefs, but that so many people become consumed by the same beliefs – without ever meeting each other. Randi’s thesis (very roughly!) boils down to a view that people ‘believe what they need to believe, though they think they ‘chose’ what to believe’. Randi describes replicating Uri Geller’s spoon bending trick and revealing it to be part of the Magician’s arsenal of trickery – ‘Geller Believers’ accused him of having psychic powers himself and ‘being in denial’…I was promptly reminded of the time I was accused of having ‘buried’ the ‘traumatic’ occasion on which Savile abused me in a Duncroft dormitory in 1965….it being ‘unbelievable’ to a ‘true believer’ that when I said he simply wasn’t there – that he simply wasn’t there!
Suddenly, our world is full of people who have just realised they were abused in childhood by a celebrity – and there’s not a spoon bender in sight. Vanished, the lot of them. Mind you, there aren’t too many people abducted by aliens around at the moment, either. Each of these ‘beliefs’ have their own lingo – and it is extraordinary how quickly people catch onto the new lexicon. I watched a documentary on Broadmoor too (part two tonight!) and marvelled at how, even incarcerated in there for 25 years, the Thesaurus of abuse had penetrated. Elderly patients now claim to have been ‘groomed’ in childhood, ‘plied’ with alcohol – nobody ever admits to having shoplifted alcohol any longer, or lied to get into a pub underage, as we used to – nope, they now remember they were ‘plied with alcohol’ by sinister older figures – and I wonder how much of this can be accounted for by an instinctive understanding of the lexicon that well meaning counsellors ‘need to believe’.
Before I had time (or rather inclination, let’s be honest here) to put pen to paper – along came Michael Shrimpton QC. What can I say? Wow! Put’s Andrea Davison in the shade.
“In my report to the joint of intelligence committee, in the case of Madeleine McCann, She was going to be abused by a senior member of the European commission in Brussels whose name is known to British Intelligence, I can’t identify him in Spyhunter but I know who it is, there is no way that Madeleine could ever be returned alive to her family because the danger would be even at her tender age of 4 she would recognise him and know who was abusing her. So the Germans had to murder her and indeed they eventually did sadly in December 2008″
Strange how the same people pop up time and time again in different conspiracy theories. I ran into quite a few old ‘acquaintances’ from the height of Madeleine hysteria, the Hollie Grieg hoax, Common Purpose, et al as I researched Michael’s ‘ascendancy’ to hallowed high priest of the child abuse clique and honoured guest and Guru for David Icke. These people must watch ‘Google trends’ like a hawk, and at the first sign of a word trending, formulate a theory full of buzz words like ‘cell’, ‘disinformation’, ‘intelligence operative’, and of course, the ever popular ‘plied’ and ‘grooming’. I’m amazed that none of them latched onto the Oscar Pistorius story, he could have been groomed by South African Intelligence, jailed so that he could be ‘terminated with prejudice’ and never reveal the presence of nuclear weapons removed from the Kursk when it sank, and, and, and….
Too late, Mark Williams-Thomas had already latched onto the Pistorius family…you have to be quick in this game.
Michael had been at full pelt while the media were interested in the London Olympics: he phoned a secretary at the Aylesbury Conservative Association – as you do when you are a self proclaimed ‘intelligence expert on national security’ – and patiently explained to her that German intelligence, which is ‘now in control of Al Qaeda’ was quietly steaming up the Thames in a submarine loaded with nuclear weapons removed from the Kursk, etc, etc,
‘The information was extraordinary and dramatic, in essence Mr Shrimpton announced that a nuclear weapon stolen from the sunken Russian submarine the Kursk a number of years ago, that such a nuclear weapon had been smuggled into the UK and was being stored in a London hospital in preparation to be used during the Olympic games.
He followed this up with calls to the Defence Secretary Philip Hammond to say that this ‘ere nuclear warhead had been stashed in an east London hospital…
His defence case statement filing is a joy to read…if you are behind in your study of current buzz words, do catch up – he has managed to work every single current conspiracy theory in there…but yesterday, our ‘corrupt judiciary’ (every conspiracy theorist knows that our judiciary is corrupt -and, er, Michael should know, ‘cos he used to be a judge…) sent him off for psychiatric evaluation before passing sentence on a charge of ‘communicating false information’. Will he end up in Broadmoor? He will certainly liven up that august establishment, and join forces with the ‘groomed’ and plied’ inhabitants of child abuse fantasy land – oh, did I mention that Michael is already on the sex offenders register? [see the article below this article re Michael Shrimpton’s conviction for child porn – appeal!] Framed by the Secret Service, see.
No surprise to find that he was at university with Meirion Jones, Child Abuse Exposer Extraordinaire….
See, I was planning to write a piece yesterday about the latest Labour initiative about ‘Tory toffs’ and top public schools, and how Labour were going to remove their charitable tax relief if they didn’t start lending their best teachers to state school, and Harrods didn’t send their highly paid staff to stand behind the counter in Poundland, ‘cos it was all so unfair – if you went to a top school like Colet Court or St Paul’s School you ended up as Chancellor of the Exchequer or leader of the Liberal Party automatically and this was just an unfair advantage in life – only I couldn’t, because it just isn’t true.
You can go to Colet Court or St Paul’s School – and end up as Editor of the University Paper, or in the left luggage cupboard at Panorama, a left wing firebrand, part of the Labour fringe determined to expose those Tory toffs with all the advantages in life – just like Meirion Jones – who went to Colet Court and St. Paul’s and didn’t become Chancellor of the Exchequer.
But then he did get to meet Mark Williams-Thomas, who is busy ‘passing information to Operation Whateverthelatestnameis’ on the child abuse that took place at Colet Court and St Pauls’….
Stop! Stop! For pity’s sake Stop!
My head is reeling – how many of these people know each other?
Coming soon – Williams-Thomas reports on D-notice issued in respect of Meirion’s latest oeuvre on German submarine seen heading up the Thames in the direction of Duncroft piloted by Andrea Davison, carrying Shrimpton to safety with ISIS. Emily Thornberry resigns after accidentally tweeting picture of Pistorius carrying luggage holding Clegg bound and gagged and padlocked….
It’s got to the point where you can’t write anything without one of these nutters popping up in the story.
Edited by Anna to add: It seems that Michael is not a QC – though was a judge….I have now established that by following several more links including one where he was hired by the venerable Lord Christopher Monckton – who is the only Lord that the House of Lord’s have ever had to post on their web site a public note asking him to desist from describing himself as ‘sitting in the House of Lords’ after he appeared on an Australian TV show denying he was Sacha Cohen…
Are you sure you’ve got all that? Yes? I can climb out of this rabbit hole now? Personally, I’d sentence the whole lot of them to run the ‘Not Child Abuse Tribunal’.
Good. Now enjoy Lord Monckton attempting to prove that he’s not Sacha Cohen either…..
To view the original article + comments at source CLICK HERE
Ex-judge: ‘Secret service framed me over child porn’
A former judge claims secret service agents planted child porn on his computer memory stick in a plot to discredit him.
Michael Shrimpton, an outspoken critic of foreign affairs who advised Chilean dictator General Pinochet, said officers switched the memory stick, which also contained a book he was writing on German intelligence practices,
An appeal against his conviction heard his home in Jusons Glebe, Wendover was searched in April 2012 after he contacted the Ministry of Defence to warn them about an attempt he had uncovered to detonate a dirty nuclear bomb at the Olympics.
However, police instead arrested Mr Shrimpton and found a number of memory sticks which were bagged and labelled by officers.
Only one, which was found in a green glasses case next to Mr Shrimpton’s bed, was found to have contained deleted files, 40 of which were found by police specialists to be indecent images of young boys.
Mr Shrimpton, a barrister and former immigration judge who once advised Pinochet during his fight against extradition from Britain in the nineties, was sentenced to a three year supervision order, a five year Sexual Offences Prevention Order and was told to sign the Sex Offenders Register for possessing indecent images.
Representing himself, the 57 year old told the hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court sitting at Amersham that he believes intelligence services engaged a tactical interception system called G12, to monitor the search on his home and tamper with the items recovered.
He also claimed that he can prove his credentials as an intelligence specialist using a certificate gained when he was flown out to the USS Enterprise Navy aircraft carrier in 2006, and said that address books at his home contained direct numbers for world intelligence agencies.
Prosecuting, Richard Barton told Judge Karen Holt that he did not dispute that Mr Shrimpton had been aboard the USS Enterprise, but did not accept that it was as an intelligence specialist.
He also accepted that Mr Shrimpton’s own laptop computer was not the one used to download the indecent images onto the memory stick.
In court Mr Shrimpton said that he believed police did not have authority to take the laptop or memory stick, because his home is also used as his chambers for law work and could have contained legally sensitive information.
Speaking to the Bucks Herald outside court Mr Shrimpton said that he was ‘not worried’ about the case, and dismissed it as an effort to discredit him for being outspoken about key political issues as an intelligence specialist.
He said: “With every respect to the CPS and TVP this prosecution, based on an allegation of possession of a memory stick which has neither my fingerprints nor DNA on it, is a farce.
“TVP also admit my fingerprints are not on the laptop they have, which, absurdly, they claim is the one they unlawfully seized from my new home in April 2012.
“I wrote my new book Spyhunter on the original laptop. Spyhunter is a 330,000 word intelligence text, the writing of which involved at least a million keystrokes, i.e. the prosecution are alleging that a laptop which I touched at least a million times is mine even though there is not single fingerprint of mine on it, nor any of my DNA.”
The former chairman of Watermead Parish Council has been outspoken on issues including the search for Madeleine McCann, the 911 attacks, the war in Iraq, and international government involvement in the sinking of the Titanic.
Most recently he spoke out claiming that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was shot down by a Chinese missile.
A barrister called a government minister to claim that a nuclear bomb was poised to blow up the Queen in a terrorist attack at the Olympics a court heard this week. …
The jury was read statements from seven interviews with Shrimpton in which he claimed his intelligence credentials included helping to capture Osama Bin Laden. …
A barrister told a former Defence Minister a bomb stolen from a sunken Russian submarine had been smuggled into the country and could be used to blow up the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and assassinate the Queen, a court heard today (Monday). …
Clearly Christopher Monkton Hasn’t Been Sleeping With The Right People!
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it would seem that Christopher Monkton hasn’t been sleeping with the right people in Ukip! It does seem that with whom U kip will determine your future in Ukip as shown by CLICK HERE Let us not forget that it is widely believed, though implausibly denied, that Annabelle Fuller has held various jobs through thick and thin as a result of her sexual relationship with Nigel Farage, the cult leader.
Nigel Farage’s patronage saved her when she lied having broken the law under the Data protection Act and posted Ukip confidential material on the internet and fled, as ever, to Morocco, and may well extend to her current protection, so far, from arrest for theft under the National Security laws having entered an MP’s flat and stolen his Blackberry phone device, confidential correspondence and a House of Commons pass – a crime she has admitted to, and seemingly lied to try to mittigate her theft when caught claiming sexual assault by Andrew Bridgen (whilst in the presence of others!!) and to boot she was, we are given to understand, the subject of a statement by Patrick O’Flynn a statement given to the police that she knew exactly who Andrew Bridgen was and his status as an MP when she targeted him in a Westminster pub, earlier in the day!
It was also made perfectly clear that Nigel Farage employed his wife Kirsten for much the same reason and stated she often did things for him late at night in her night dress, due to the fact that he was both computer illiterate and often came home at unsociable hours – Are we to assume she is still employed on the same grounds but is performing for Farage’s ex gofer and fixer Ray Finch, who was one of his placemen as an MEP!
Then of course there has been the publicity surrounding an apparent selection and CV rewriting service in return for sexual favours by Roger Bird CLICK HERE and who else on wonders!
Ukip’s woes deepen as five members suspended from standing as candidates
UKIP’s turmoil in Scotland deepened last night after the right-wing anti-immigrant party suspended five senior members from its approved list of candidates.
The individuals – including the former Scottish leader and chair – are critics of party MEP David Coburn, prompting accusations of “control freakery”.
UKIP was last week rocked by allegations of sexual harassment against party general secretary Roger Bird, who was accused of making inappropriate suggestions to a potential female candidate.
However, a lingering row is also continuing to hamper the party north of the border.
Last year, six of UKIP Scotland’s shortlisted candidates for the European election withdrew after believing a small clique of activists was planning a takeover.
The botched selection contest was eventually won by Coburn, who was later elected to the Brussels Parliament and became the party’s first elected representative in Scotland.
Two of the six members have since quit the party, and the other four – Christopher Monckton, Mike Scott-Hayward, Paul Henke and Ross Durance – have now had action taken against them.
Matthew Richardson, the UKIP party secretary, recently informed the quartet that they could not be party candidates in future elections.
He wrote: “Having investigated your case in greater depth with the Party Chairman, he has taken the decision to suspend you as an approved candidate under 12.2.1 of the constitution as he considered that your withdrawal from the candidate list during the selection process for the European elections was disruptive to the Party and brought it into public disrepute.”
Each member was told that “you are not therefore a suitable person to be a candidate for the Party in the future”.
The fifth candidate curb was imposed on Donald Gatt for alleged “published comments” following the European selection contest.
Monckton, who used to front UKIP Scotland until he was sacked by party leader Nigel Farage, is believed to have arranged a meeting for the suspended candidates in Edinburgh today.
Scott-Hayward, a former party chair, told the Sunday Herald: “It is totally undemocratic and is totally out of line with the party’s principles.”
He added: “I consider that I failed in my tenure as their Chairman in that I did not achieve one of my objectives which was to alter the balance of membership away from the wilder and more extremist thinkers towards a greater number of sensible, right thinking folk who do indeed support UKIP’s main policies.”
His party membership lapsed in the last few days.
Henke, who has stood for UKIP eight times in elections, was previously suspended for 100 years by the party for speaking to the media.
This ban was lifted following a court challenge.
UKIP Scotland’s current chair is Misty Thackeray, who was revealed by this newspaper to have accused Glasgow City Council as being for “Gays, Catholics [and] Communists”.
He is now Coburn’s chief of staff. One party source said of the suspensions: “It’s about helping David and Misty. It’s control-freakery.”
A UKIP spokesman said: “It is a pity, but they wanted to be the message, rather than represent the party. They were divisive and had no concept of teamwork.”
A spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said: “UKIP is clearly not competent nor credible in Scotland. The party has consistently failed at by-elections, and binning five of its prospective candidates won’t help that.
SNP MEP Alyn Smith said: “The ongoing shambles of UKIP in Scotland continues – at this rate they’ll have no candidates left to stand in north of the border.”
Having watched the abusive, ill mannered, dishonest, strident, shouty and thoroughly unpleasnt David Coburn’s performance on TV on the night of the failed pro Scottish Devolution.one starts to realise just what low grade and inappropriate are Ukip’s MEPs and sadly the closer one looks at them the more unfit for office on realises every single one of them is WITHOUT EXCEPTION!
Ukip has consistently not just recruited from the gutter of politics for its support but has empowered some particularly odious self serving ne’r do wells as MEPs and staff – It is hard to think of a single Ukip MEP, who has stayed with the party, now or in the past who one would be proud to call a friend or even a representative.
Ukip has so befouled the body politic, and that takes some doing with the likes of Ed Balls, Ed Milliband, Peter Haine, Harriet Harman, Dawn Primarollo, Diane Abbott, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Edward Heath,Chris Huhne, Alex Salmond, Michael Martin, Cyril SmiJerry Adams, David Blunkett, John Prescott, Jack Straw, The Kinnocks, Neil Hamilton, John Major and the like as competition Ukip has even out performed them!
Is it any wonder that when Ukip first stood for election the present cult leader stood to replace Stephen Milligan who had been found dead on his kitchen table wearing only stckings and a suspender belt, with a segment of orange in his mouth and a black garbage sack over his head asphyxiated in an act of auto-erotic self gratification, he was found in the early hours of the morning as a result it is claimed, of a call from a senior member of the government who had been upstairs in his bed – even so Ukip only obtained 1.7% of the vote on a turnout of only 58%
20 years later Ukip still has no genuinely electerd MPs having only recently had 2 Tory turncoats stand and win back their Tory seats as Ukippers all be it at loggerheads with Nigel Farage’s leadership and Nigel Farage’s policy and Nigel Farage’s Praise Singers in HIS press officer.
Ukip’s woes and bad publicity, ineptitude and infighting gets ever more catastrophic for the party ever strengthening their glass ceiling and ensuring they are unlikely ever to be of ANY significance in UK governance. Which mionded of their behaviour seems ever more of a relief!
THE future of the UK Independence Party in Scotland has been thrown into turmoil with a civil war looming and a coup planned against its leader north of the Border.
Otto Inglis with Ukip leader Nigel Farage
Just months after claiming it was mobilising in Scotland with new branches being set up across the country and ahead of May’s European elections, the party has split into factions with an extraordinary general meeting called where three key office bearers face being ousted.
Several key members have submitted motions of no confidence against Otto Inglis, secretary of Ukip Scotland, and party treasurer Dr Jonathan Stanley.
They in turn have moved against the Eurosceptic party’s Scottish chairman Mike Scott-Hayward, amid claims internal structures are in disarray.
Ukip sources have accused Dr Stanley, 31, a part-time locum at English hospitals who came sixth in a recent Edinburgh Council by-election with 235 votes, and Mr Inglis, a qualified barrister, as being the prime movers in Ukip Scotland’s internal discord.
Mr Inglis was fifth in the recent Aberdeen Donside by-election, with 1128 votes, 4.83% of the poll.
One senior source said: “It’s an utter shambles. We’ve no organisation, Mike Scott-Hayward is nowhere to be seen, no-one’s heard from Christopher (Lord) Monckton (Ukip Scottish president) and it’s really not like any political party I’ve ever heard of.
“Communications disappear into a black hole, there’s brewing friction and internal politics has taken over. Every party has divisions but there’s no structures here to deal with it. It’s all very demoralising.”
The extraordinary meeting, planned for Stirling this month, will see candidates and leading members present views on the future of Ukip in Scotland.
In May, Mr Scott-Hayward, a former Tory councillor, said the party was experiencing a significant growth in membership in Scotland, leading to it reorganising and setting up new branches in Orkney, Moray, Lanarkshire, the Black Isle and the Borders.
Mr Scott-Hayward, an ex-army major and coastguard officer, said members of various other parties had joined Ukip. Some polls claimed their pre-summer support was as high as 9%.
Steve McKeane, a recent Ukip Parliamentary candidate is one of those behind the motions to oust Dr Stanley and Mr Inglis. He said: “These are internal party matters and will be discussed internally and those within the party will be made aware of results of those discussions in due course. I don’t see why people are trying to second guess what will happen.”
Another party source said: “There are a couple of people within the organisation who don’t like the way the system is run and organised. They’ve tried to move against the leadership earlier this year and failed.”
A Ukip Scotland spokesman said: “There’s an internal dispute and this is the opportunity to sort that so we can go forward as a united body going forward towards the European elections.”
One has to wonder if this is just disgruntled Scots wanting an easy ride, as is sadly too often the case as they blame those south of the border for all their woes!The article totally overlooks the undeniable fact that the very same article could easily have been written about almost every area of UKIP politics in the whole of Britain.It all boils down to utter incompetence as a small clique seeks to feather its own nest with a claque of hopefulls and the easily beguiled braying support founded on little or no knowledge but a great deal of vicious cult propaganda.
Consider just how utterly centralised, authoritarian and corrupt UKIP is as it panders to any spec of support it can gain by opposing policies of anyone and any party but being unable to present even the most simple of costed policies, which are largely invented on the hoof by Nigel Farage without a wit of leadership ability but a very glib tongue.
Noting also how he has made a habit of rigging elections and placing his personally selected individuals in position within his cult as when:
Few seem to realise that Nigel Farage is without leadership ability and thus rules the party rather than leads it, perpetually in fear of competence or professionalism as he peddles the myth of ‘man of the people’ and if his drink soddened ineptitude is rtedollent of the people little wonder there is such violence and division in society.
Yet, again and again, UKIP’s teflon hero gets away with his self serving posturing.
Don’t get me wrong, for one has to admire his ruthless self interest and the consumate veneer of cheeky chappie, behind which he has sqandered £Millions of public money on stunts to keep him in the limelight but it seems no one is able to identify a singyle notable achievement of UKIP that can not be shown to be self interest on behalf of a tiny clique, fed by the ambitions of a cowardly claque seeking rewards from the largesse of the gravy train they seek to ride.
Doubt me? Well start out by real;ising that in a term of office an MEP usually manages to walk away with approaching £1Million and as many wuill recall, in his second term Nigel Farage boasted, at a press lunch, of having made about £2Million. Now perhaps one understands whence came the £250K he deposited into his tax haven in the Isle of Man and his ability to dodge UK taxes via his Belgian bank account!
Please do not get me wrong, I am not saying his hypocricy is unique. Many, if not most MEPs and UK EU staff act likewise! The prevalence of high cost restaurants, bars and bordellos surrounding the EU parlaiment and the idiotic Strasburg venue give testimony to just how much of our hard earned tax money is paid out in bribes by the EU for you cou8ld not for a moment pretend the income of those riding on the gravy train are earned in any true sense of the word.
As to the apparent ‘peculiar’ position of Scotland as enumerated in the article above, do not be misled into thinking this is not pertinent to UKIP right across these United Kingdoms.You need only to delve back into the archive to seesuch behaviour, again and again.
Consider the dishonesty of Nigel farage’s ‘Reichstag moment’ when he invented BNP connections as a desperate measure to remove Dr. David Abbott & Dr. Eric Edmond, as they tried to represent those who elected them to the NEC and introduce some semblance of democrtic principles and accountability for the 100s of £1,000s that UKIP seemed unwilling to account for.Perhaps you remember Richard Suchorzevski’s, chairman of UKIP Wales, letter seeking clarity as to where large sums of money had vanished (many believed trousered by the clique) when he was elected to the NEC to introduce probity.
And his subsequent letter of resignation enumerating his opprobrium CLICK HERE
Or even the letter of resignation of the past UKIP Wales Chairman, Cheltenham Branch Chairman and UKIP Office Manager CLICK HERE
Or the letter exposing Farage’s behaviour by the past chairman of the party, MEP & deputy leader CLICK HEREOr the very detailed letter of a long term conctituency branch activist, particularly when you study the links provided, CLICK HERE
May I suggest a reading, in some detail, of the many facts and views on the subject proffered on the eminent and excellently researched blog of Dr. Richard North who all to clearly saw through the sham and tyhe shambolic ineptitude of Farage and his cult CLICK HERE
Or perhaps you would care for details from yet another insider and associate of Nigel Farage’s who I understand currently works for Prof. Tim Congdon (who tends to damn Farage with feint praise!) CLICK HERE
Clearly there is a great deal more verified and corroborated evidence on which I found my various revelations, made in the somewhat vain hope that UKIP can even at this late stage be cleaned up and made fit for purpose as the flag ship of the EUroSceptic movement rather than endlessly grovelling in the gutter!
It may be seen by the uninformed as the flagship but sadly long ago it fell into the hands of bounty hunters, brigands and nerre do wells who have all but destroyed it removing the reliable and honest activists amongst the crew and placing self seeking and ignorant lakeys in position to guard the personal interests of the utterly corrupt inner claque now on the bridge.
Debacle Over The Tartan Curtain & UKIP Racism! One IS Judged by One’s Friends & as such UKIP is inescapably Racist, anti Jewish, anti homosexual and violent, having prostituted its ethics, ostensibly for cash rewards for its leader!
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Hi,
although I am aware that there have been and will be claims of internet hacking by the members of UKIP, a Party undeniably linked with racism, when they are caught out in racist rants or other imature & crass behaviour.
Such claims fall into the catagory of ‘they would say that wouldn’t they‘ and thus render the claims of hacking or being misquoted all too implausible.
That UKIP’s candidates who were elected are in the main both insignificant and unheard of makes the claims yet more implausible as ‘hacking’ is a complex and skilled task and there seems every likelihood that no one of significance has been able to prove, in any way, that they have been hacked. Who exactly could be bothered hacking such irelevant individuals – frankly I incline not to believe this widespread claim of hacking!
You must draw your own conclusions but note that major national media outlets have a small army of lawyers who vet material to ensure its veracity and if there is genuine doubt they would rather spike a true story than risk facing the courts in a libel case where the courts tend to award disproportionate compensation to the ranks of nebishes bringing claims, despite the fact that their case would have required around £100,000 to be paid up front to fund front end costs in the High Courts!
Let us look first at this story below and then consider the other claims:
A Sunday Mirror investigation has discovered sickening rants on the Facebook pages of party officials
Crackdown: Nigel Farage said the party is researching candidates’ backgrounds
PA
Nigel Farage’s UKIP party is still riddled with racism… despite his claim of a crackdown.
A Sunday Mirror investigation has discovered sickening rants on the Facebook pages of party officials.
Details of their vitriol emerged only days after Eric Kitson quit as a councillor in Stourbridge, Worcs, after we exposed his internet slurs against Muslims and Jews.
Last month Farage claimed “a huge amount of time and money” had been spent researching the backgrounds of council candidates.
He said: “Our membership is up nearly 50 per cent, and inevitably we are going to have one or two teething problems.”
But today we can reveal his members’ latest hate-fuelled postings.
Immigrants rant: Councillor Chris Pain
Ukip’s Chris Pain, leader of the opposition at Lincs Council and the party’s East Midlands regional chairman, wrote: “Have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in ‘illegal immigrants’, and add just a few more letters, it spells, ‘Go home you free-loading, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, baby-making, non-English-speaking ********* and take those other hairy-faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-********, raghead ******** with you.’”
Mr Pain has also objected to foreign doctors working in the NHS.
Last May he posted a story about a Hungarian medic who bungled an operation on a four-year-old boy in Manchester, and wrote: “We don’t want them taking all the jobs in the local community and we certainly don’t want them working in our hospitals!”
Peter Entwistle, party chairman in Bury, Greater Manchester, labelled President Barack Obama a Muslim, writing: “I bet he’s a closet ‘Imam’ as well!
“If I ever see him on a Greyhound bus wearing a rucksack, I’m getting off!!”
Barack barracking: Peter Entwistle said Obama is a Muslim
The party’s deputy chairman in Scotland, Misty Thackeray, “liked” a Facebook group claiming “paedophilia is part of Islamic tradition”.
He also praised far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, a self-confessed “hater of Islam”.
Recommending Mr Wilders’ new book, he said: “Geert is great …(peace be upon him.. lol) ..!”
Meanwhile Tiggs Keywood-Wainwright, a Ukip councillor in Boston, Lincs, complained about mosques being built in “quintessentially English” Cambridge. “Is nowhere sacred for the Brits in Britain any more?” she wrote.
“Bottom line is we have too many muslims in this country!”
Mr Pain said the comments on his Facebook pages were “not my original posts or writings”, claiming his account had been hacked.
Mr Entwistle laughed when confronted about his President Obama bus comments, saying: “I don’t think I’d be the only one getting off.”
“Too many Muslims”: Tiggs Keywood-Wainwright
Sunday Mirror
Mr Thackeray refused to comment on “this ridiculous nonsense”. He said Mr Wilders was a “legally, democratically-elected politician”.
Ms Keywood-Wainwright admitted she “probably” regretted some of her remarks.
She claimed she meant there were too many Muslims “in certain areas”, adding: “My GPs are all Muslims and I have no problem with them at all.
“One of them is extremely nice and very, very good at her job.”
Farage described demonstrators who besieged him in Edinburgh on Thursday as “fascist scum”.
He also slammed the phone down on a BBC interviewer questioning him about Scots issues.
That Nigel Farage found himself the4 victim of some of the abusive low life inadequates that seem all too prevalent in Scotland comes as no surprise to me having personally been dishonestly and corruptly abused in efforts to defame the facts I have published by some of the all too similar scum such as Matt Quinn, George McKendrick and a host of other vile Scottish ne’er do wells and failed personalities with their inadequacies writ large in bile in the manner they bear chips on both shoulders! Just look on the internet and you will find their cyber bullying and dishonest abuse all to readily!
That Nigel Farage played right into the hand of these cowardly parasites is indisputable with the overt racism, anti homosexuality, xenophobia and misogyny of the partners he chose for UKIP as its allies in The EU and increasingly it seems he chose as candidates within his own party as shown by the recent resignations amongst his all too small group of recently elected Councillors (a mere 147 out of the 1,700+ which he fielded!). None in Scotland you may note!
Consider the claims of being misquoted by Anne-Marie Crampton on this blog, when recently she claimed the media deliberately lied about her CLICK HERE
OR consider the following entry from another blogger:
RACIST TWEETS FROM UKIP CANDIDATE RON NORTHCOTT
Scots have been accused of being racist and fascist by Nigel Farage.
Does he know the meaning of the words? Does his colleague Mr Northcott?
What does Farage think of the tweets shown above (click to enlarge) from Mr Northcott?
Farage accused Thursday’s small crowd, some estimates said 20 people (Nigel had it at 50), of being anti-English because they told him they didn’t want to see the union jack in Scotland again.
Does he know what the flag of England is?
Did he know that one of the organisers of the protest is English?
Nigel was launching his party’s bid to take the by election seat in Donside.
Does he have any idea how far away from Edinburgh Donside is? (AsBella Caledoniasaid, can you imagine him launching an election bid for Leeds from Birmingham?)
Farage and Thatcher. She’s the one ON the mug
Farage was outraged that in a democracy he wasn’t even allowed to make his point before being shouted down. I’d concede him a point there. We should have let him tell us what his policies were: policies like repatriating powers to Westminster, getting rid of women’s and gay rights, abolishing our fairer system of elections, adopting English policies on education (£9,000 a year) and health (selling off the health service) and public services, before we told him we didn’t want any of it.
But Farage wasn’t so keen to make his point when he was asked, politely, about his party’s dismal showings in Scotland.BBC Scotland’s telephone interviewwas relatively easy going compared with what SNP ministers have to handle. There were no hard hitting questions on some of the dodgier UKIP members, who earned the party the reputation for being clowns; no questions about Farage and his mates in Brussels and Strasbourgallegedlymissing vital committee meetings where British fishing interests were in question, because they were allegedly drunk. (Interesting that Northcott above seemed to find it strange that a “jock” would be sober enough to string a sentence together.
This is Mr Northcott. The one with the red nose
In his answers he conflated anti UK sentiments with anti English sentiments. And complained that he had been surrounded by people who wanted to take Scotland out of the UK. How on earth can he criticise an independence movement when his own party’s name is the UKINDEPENDENCEParty.
But for all that, given his chance to put his point, he put down the phone in the huff because he sensedhatred. Jeez, the man needs to get out more.
Can you imagine how Alex Salmond would have dealt with that?
To view the original article CLICK HERE albeit an openly stated and obviously partisan commentator!
Clearly FaceBook particularly is an irresponsible host of ‘social media’ and its lack of discernment is self evident from the clear fact that any Tom, Dick, Harry or McTavish who is listed as a follower is glibly described as a friend and all too often Scots seem grossly ill informed of their own history but all too well versed in its mythology believing there is more than a shred of truth in ‘Brave Heart’ a work of pure fiction based on fantasy which puts butts on seats in cinemas!
I well remeber some years ago when Nigel Farage stations one of hs very scarce intelligent staff in Scotland for an election where sshe (Heather Conyngham) was tasked with finding out how politics in Scotland functioned and recruiting candidates to exploit it with her guidance and a very meagre purse! UKIP knew little of politics then and seemingly have forgotten most of what they may have know since!
There is no one of notable abil;ity in UKIP’s team in Scotland bar some fool of a pretend member of The House of Lords and perhaps one could count Malcolm Lord Pearson of Rannoch who not only proved utterly inept as Nigel Farage’s pupopet leaderr during the ‘Berkow’ debacle where Farage did so badlt but also Pearson was exposed as both disloyal and a liar!
Then of course there is the ex army Corporal who takes center stage to make UKIP Scotland a figure of farce with his idiotic misrepresentation of law as a so called ‘freeman of the Land’ of which there is no such legal entity and as a gullible gutter scraper with his utterly corrupt claims of veracity in the fantasies of Anne Greig & Robert Green regarding the febrile tissue of lies they have built around the sad figure of Hollie Greig (for facts and details CLICK HERE) – actions by which he clearly brings UKIP into disrepute on both sides of the Tartan Curtain!
With so little understanding of Scotland and its politics, much of which is based on Scotland’s own fantasy history and a warped understanding of both politics and international commerce; which has driven a bitter wedge of folly and hatred based on envy between Scotland and her allies Farage stood little chance of coming out of his recent misguided foray North unscathed.
I write as one who has both lived and worked in Scotland, where my parental home for over 20 years was Wester Ross!
In future Nigel Farage may care to consider the backdrop to his activities before parading his enactment of a Tory Boy and City slicker on behalf of UKIP north of The Tartan Curtain!
UKIP’s discredited Gawain Towler adds credibility to Monkton’s antics!
However it will be noted that despite UKIP denials he is still listed as head of UKIP Scotland and one of their policy leaders on their web site – although we all know Farage invents and dictates policy!
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Hi,
you may find this consideration of Christopher Monkton and his relationship with UKIP of interest!
British climate change sceptic Christopher Monckton. Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty ImagesAs has become the norm at such international gatherings in recent years, the eccentric climate sceptic Lord Monckton has flown in to Rio to perform his party piece about how environmentalists are trying to establish a “world socialist government”, and such like. What is less clear these days is whether his colleagues at the UK Independence Party (Ukip) approve of such interventions.
Under Lord Pearson, the previous Ukip leader, Monckton was the party’s deputy leader and was also variously the head of the party’s policy unit, as well as its spokesman on energy and the environment. But ever since fellow eccentric climate sceptic Roger Helmer defected from the Conservatives to Ukip earlier this year, he has assumed the latter role. So what, if any, role does Monckton now have at Ukip?
Gawain Towler, Ukip’s press spokesman, has confirmed to me this morning that Monckton “no longer has any formal role” with Ukip. Towler described Monckton as an “outlier” who is now “semi-detached” from the party, partly because he’s “barely in the country these days”. (Before arriving in Rio, Monckton had been touring the US Tea Party circuit casting doubt on the origins of Barack Obama’s birth certificate.)
I asked if there had been a falling out between Monckton and the current Ukip leader, Nigel Farage. Towler said not, but said that Monckton – whom he described as a “17th century pamphleteer” – was sometimes the source of “frustration” and was “very much Lord Pearson’s man – they own contiguous shooting estates in Scotland”. Towler added that Monckton had been active in the party at a time when it was “not drowning in talent”, but the recent surge in popularity for the party had seen a fresh influx of personnel. Monckton was a “loose cannon”, said Towler, but Helmer is a “tied-down cannon, pointed in the same direction”.
Interestingly, Towler said Ukip was now considering which seats to target at the next election (or by-election). In an attempt to replicate Caroline Lucas’s successful tactic in 2010 when she targeted Brighton Pavillion in her quest to become the first Green MP, Ukip will focus its resources and attention on constituencies where there is sizeable opposition to wind farms and where there are “Greg Barker-type MPs”. Towler said that Ukip was now communicating with all anti-wind farm groups and offering them “help and assistance”.
To view the transcript article in context CLICK HERE
To be criticised but the totally discredited pervert Gawain Towler and UKIP’s corrupt leadership may well be considered a compliment by some, including the self publicist Christopher Monckton who is seen by many as a liability to pragmatists who do not glibly buy into the ‘Warmist Theories’ and the tax raising concepts of Anthropogenic global warming, which since it has occured cyclically on our planet long before mankinds emergence would seem to have little to do with mankind in the long term!
Gawain Towler who has from time to time boasted of his sexual hedonism and was dropped as a UKIP candidate by his regional selection committee after alegations by his wife were made that she had caught him in a very sexually aroused state whilst bathing with his young daughter after which the couple separated I understand.
Nigel Farage arbitrarily reinstated Towler as UKIP is after all his personal feifdom! In the light of these facts it is clear that Towler is now little or nothing more than Farage’s lap dog having been deselected by the party (in as far as ‘The Party’ has any say or relevance!)
A poster based on artwork by his wife using him as ‘the print block’ in an art class held on an EU grant I understand!
A slightly more acceptable picture
featuring Gawain Towler as a poseur for bedroom wear
imported afrom Turkey nd sold by Alan Bown
Iam given to understand!
let us not forget that Christopher Monkton is not sure if he is currently Deputy Leader of U*KIP still, but UKIP lists him TODAY as:
Lord Monckton
UKIP Scotland Leader
& Head of Policy Unit
SOURCE: CLICK HERE
one of a mere 6 individuals, listed by UKIP
as holding a Key Role in the Farage entourage!
This is a sad reflection, yet again, of the utterly unprofessional and shambolic leadership of UKP and as QALL appointments in his Party are made by Nigel Farage clearly it yet again shows what a staggering inability he has to make sensible judgements on people!
You will also note the clear lack of ethics in the Farage Party with Mick McGough as a member of the NEC and a spokesman for the Farage Party and also not Lisa Duffy’s partner and cohabitee Peter Reeve is in the direct employ of the claimed Tory MEP and serial liar David Bannerman MEP – who was a direct choice of Nigel Farage’s, yet is still under investigation by OLAF of de4frauding the tax payers who fund The EU!
Lord Monckton delights Heartland conference with birther antics
Lord Christopher Monckton, climate denier extraordinaire. (Photo by Don Irvine Photos.)
A version of this article originally appeared on Climate Progress.
With the Heartland Institute suffering from a public relations disaster that caused 11 donors to abandon financial support, one might think the organization would attempt to moderate messaging tactics at its climate denial conference this week.
Or maybe even find an expert who doesn’t freely admit that he “has no scientific qualification” to challenge the science of climate change.
Not quite.
After comparing people who understand global warming with serial killers in a billboard campaign, the organization featured a presentation yesterday that called into question the legitimacy of President Obama’s citizenship.
Enter Lord Christopher Monckton, Heartland’s “mystery guest” who popped in to the conference Tuesday to perform a quirky stand-up comedy routine for a couple hundred eager attendees.
His presentation peeled back yet another layer on the conspiratorial beliefs of many within the climate disinformation community.
Monckton, a man frequently held up as an expert among deniers, started his speech off by boldly admitting his lack of scientific qualifications. He thanked the attendees for having the “courage” to challenge climate scientists, explaining: “It is particularly hard, if like me, you have no scientific qualification to do so.”
Monckton then joked about what he needed to do in order to build his credibility in America.
“I have concluded what one needs to have is a freshly minted Hawaiian birth certificate,” he said, referencing the belief among “birthers” that President Obama’s birth certificate is forged. He displayed a picture of a Hawaiian birth certificate with his personal information filled in. The crowded erupted in laughter.
“I was born at a military hospital. What is marvelous is that this [birth certificate] is just as genuine [as] that of the president of the United States,” said Monckton.
Even with the release of official documents and repeated confirmation from Hawaiian officials, Monckton is an outspoken believer that President Obama’s birth certificate is forged. The conspiracy has gotten so ludicrous in the face of documentary evidence, the Washington Postlabeled remaining birthers “crackpots” who “live for their pet conspiracy theory.”
Explaining that his forged birth certificate prepared him to run for president of the United States, Monckton presented Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast with a freshly minted campaign button. Bast shook Monckton’s hand, jokingly saying he would endorse the candidacy.
The opening skit raised resounding laughter and applause throughout the room.
Monckton, a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher, has become a form of comic relief for the climate disinformation community. Australian satirists did a hilarious interview with him in which they “mistook” him for an act by Sacha Baron Cohen. But Monckton has also said those who embrace climate science are “Hitler youth” and fascists. He travels around the world making grossly inaccurate presentations filled with peculiar jokes poking fun at climate scientists, whom he labels “bullies” and “liars.”
However, the scientists he attacks have done nothing more than factually debunk, point by point, every single argument that Monckton has laid out throughout his career as a climate disinformer. (In fact, Monckton is one of the most widely discredited figures among the community of widely discredited deniers).
Then again, Monckton himself admitted up front in yesterday’s speech that he has no “scientific qualification.”
In the wake of Heartland’s Unabomber billboard campaign, 11 donors representing roughly 35 percent of the organization’s funds for 2012 pulled support, according to the advocacy organization Forecast the Facts. The pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly said such tactics “were not consistent” with how the company “engages in public debate.”
Helping spread the fringe conspiracies of birthers probably isn’t the best messaging strategy for the Heartland Institute right now.
Ironically, Monckton’s birther routine came directly after a speech from Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), who alluded to the billboard campaign by saying “we can continue to win these debates out of the strength of our arguments, without recourse to unsavory tactics that only serve to detract from our message.”
Sensenbrenner’s message at the conference: Carbon dioxide is a “natural gas” that couldn’t possibly harm the planet. “Does this mean that all of us need to put catalytic converters on all our noses?” he asked the crowd, which chuckled at his suggestion.
To view the original article CLICK HEREMinded that Monkton does not, to any degree of accuracy, know who he is, passing himself off with many false claims about himself – he seriously undermines his personal credibility but more worryingly that of UKIP for whom he is the policy director and a member of their leadership team and executive.
I personally have little time for the ‘warmist’ scams but it is hard not to have less for Monkton who has so damaged the Climate Realist cause and the standing of EUroScepticism!
I had not bothered mentioning the details of the close link with UKIP & The British Freedom Party as it seemed to be just one prominent member Paul Weston who was a UKIP candidate for Parliamentary election and an outspoken member of UKIP’s London ‘shower’!
However the game has moved on it seems! As made abundantly clear by one of my contacts in The EU who is a supporter of UKIP and thus vehemently opposed to the behaviour of the party leadership and its parasites whose over racism and association with such vile characters as the EFD Group and apparent incitement to race hatred based upon choices of superstition that have been so clearly manifest by Gerard Batten who has been associated with the extremist organisations and individuals already shown on this blog and on the blog regarding him at CLICK HERE
Gerard Batten also features here CLICK HERE amongst a number of his known associates including Gregory Lauder-Frost (known by some as Frauder-Lost as a result of his conviction to prison for theft from his employers) and also others perceived by many as extremists, racists and preachers of thinly veiled incitement to race hatred, frequently like Gerard Batten based upon their religious superstitions.
Interestingly although it was a matter of Court record freely provided in the public domain that Gerard Batten was facing allegations in court of racism and abuse etc. he still has not provided the details and has in fact engineered a clearly immoral gagging order, since he is a public servant, in order to suppress the facts regarding his odious extremism, one assumes!You may find the following article informative as it shows just how incompetently led UKIP is with the comments of the UKIP leader in Scotland and Party Policy Director advocating ex BNP members join the party via the extremist BFP CLICK HEREI wonder if UKIP will ever expel its dishonest leadership team member who so glibly pretends to be a member of the House of Lords an action he has been cautioned for as ‘passing off’. Christopher Monkton, the one time journalist has also been vociferously claiming Obama birth certificate is a forgery.
I for one doubt it as that would require an ethical act of integrity!
Having seen that article remember BFP leader Paul Weston stood as a high-profile PPC for UKIP in 2010 for the City of London constituency who in an interview told politics.co.uk that ‘the UK was being colonised and ethnically cleansed by mass immigration and that within the next 20 years a race war would break out in the UK where white working class kids will go fight against immigrants’ CLICK HERE
This did not to my knowlege have any disciplinary UKIP consequences for Paul Weston as he continued to be quoted as UKIP though he subsequently left UKIP founding the British Freedom Party (BFP).
The BFP has attracted significant membership transfers with Weston, from UKIP or at very least tacit agreement and support as Christopher Monkton has confirmed, and of course draws largely on the disillusioned member of the collapsing BNP.
The BFP is I gather now officially the Political Wing of the English Defence League, with Tommy Robinson / Steven Lennon having been appointed Depty Leader CLICK HERE
This follows many months of widely known and publicised mutual support and close cooperation!
The party has also cooperated CLICK HERE with the Kahanist Fascist Jewish Defence League, which is responsible for a large number of murders and whose US leaders were arrested in 2001 for plotting to blow up the offices of the Muslim Congressman Darrel Issa CLICK HERE
Of course officially the BFP are a proscribed organisation!!
The pretence put forward that it does not permit association with racists, the anti Jewish, anti homosexual and Holocaust deniers is clearly a pack of lies as Christopher Monkton, a member of the leadership team has shown and as shown by the irrefutable fact Farage is leader of the EFD Group in The EU which ticks all the boxes as an extremist and racist organisation!
Interestingly despite having arbitrarily proscribed people from membership such as The UKFirstParty members UKIP leadership still tries to pass itself off as a Libertarian Party yet is itself neo fascist in many aspects!
In the light of UKIP’s catastrophic results in te recent Local Elections with a mere 9 seats with no gains out of the 4,987 available and in the London Mayoral election particularly with the risible 1.96% of the vote in a fiasco many believe was engineered deliberately by Farage to suit his masters!
It is clearly not the time to continue to spin the truth as clearly the peoples of these United Kingdoms have seen straight through their sham and hypocrisy and even Farage announced to the media that UKIP under his leadership was reliant on protest votes – the sub text of the statement being that UKIP under his leadership team had failed totally to impress with their policies or abilities!
UKIP’s Deputy Leader, Leader in Scotland & NEC member Christopher Monkton Officially Called to Account for Dishonesty & trying to pass himself off as a member of The House of Lords!!
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Dear Lord Monckton
My predecessor, Sir Michael Pownall, wrote to you on 21 July 2010, and again on 30 July 2010, asking that you cease claiming to be a Member of the House of Lords, either directly or by implication. It has been drawn to my attention that you continue to make such claims.
In particular, I have listened to your recent interview with Mr Adam Spencer on Australian radio. In response to the direct question, whether or not you were a Member of the House of Lords, you said “Yes, but without the right to sit or vote”. You later repeated, “I am a Member of the House”.
I must repeat my predecessor’s statement that you are not and have never been a Member of the House of Lords. Your assertion that you are a Member, but without the right to sit or vote, is a contradiction in terms. No-one denies that you are, by virtue of your letters Patent, a Peer. That is an entirely separate issue to membership of the House. This is borne out by the recent judgment in Baron Mereworth v Ministry of Justice (Crown Office) where Mr Justice Lewison stated:
“In my judgment, the reference [in the House of Lords Act 1999] to ‘a member of the House of Lords’ is simply a reference to the right to sit and vote in that House … In a nutshell, membership of the House of Lords means the right to sit and vote in that House. It does not mean entitlement to the dignity of a peerage.”
I must therefore again ask that you desist from claiming to be a Member of the House of Lords, either directly or by implication, and also that you desist from claiming to be a Member “without the right to sit or vote”.
I am publishing this letter on the parliamentary website so that anybody who wishes to check whether you are a Member of the House of Lords can view this official confirmation that you are not.
Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W)
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