Nigel Farage Damages the credibility of his Ukip cult, The Leave.EU and Leave EU Campaign With Lies & spin, in his Desperation for publicity!
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Hi,
this is further to the FACTSand my opinions which I have already published CLICK HERE
It is clear that Nigel Farage deliberately set out to dupe people in a desperate effort to gain publicity and elevate his status – it is likely he was trying, like Donald Trump, to force the hand of the tax payers to provide and fund him with an official police body guard – which would, he believes, elevate his status and make him seem relevant.
Nigel Farage lied first to friends and associates back in October when he had a minor accident some 100 mile into his 125 mile journey from Brussels to the Channel. when he had a breakdown and was recovered as a result of wheel nuts on his car coming loose and allegedly losing a rear wheel.
Claims that this was an assasination attempt are pure drivel, just as when he was a passenger in a Polish made plane on a publicity jolly some years ago. That Nigel Farage’s behaviour subsequently contributed to the death of the pilot Justin Adams CLICK HERE is a sad fact of Farage’s self interest and thirst of personal publicity.
To the present – You will be aware Nigel Farage lied to claim the French Police had assured him that he had been tjhe target of a deliberate assasination attempt, which I totally refuted in my report at the time.
Now here are more facts to support my claim:
First from the French press:
Farage’s assassination plot? No witnesses vouch for it
Nigel Farage told the Mail on Sunday, his accident on a French motorway may have been a failed assassination attempt. Even the French police and mechanics told him so, he says. They deny they did.
Farage’s assassination plot? No witnesses vouch for it
Why does Nigel Farage fear his car was sabotaged? According to the story he told the Mail on Sunday, it’s because the French police and mechanics noticed the nuts on all his wheels had been deliberately unscrewed and told him it had to be a malicious act. The nuts were indeed all loose, but all evidence proves that the French never suspected a sabotage.
«Police told Farage all the vehicle’s wheels had been deliberately unscrewed», writes the Mail on Sunday. «The French police looked at it and said that sometimes nuts on one wheel can come a bit loose – but not on all four», Farage told the tabloid. And he kept going with details about what the police and mechanics supposedly told him : «The French police and mechanics looked at it but I have made no formal report in this country. The mechanics were absolutely certain of [foul play] but I have decided to take no further action». According to the anti-EU MP, he was the one who stopped the investigation.
Désintox talked to the mechanic who rescued Farage, and to the prosecutor who should have been in charge of the investigation, if there had been one. Both denied ever suspecting a foul play.
On October 21st, Farage was indeed rescued on the motorway in northern city of Marck after one of his wheel fell off. But it’s only once the car was towed to the garage, that the mechanic noticed all the nuts were loose. Philipe Marquis, owner of the garage, told Désintox he «had never seen anything like it [and that he] found it weird». Why didn’t he call the police then? Because he did not suspect it was a consequence of a sabotage… Instead, the mechanic suspected the nuts «had been wrongly screwed after an other repair».
He tried to know if Farage had had his car fixed in another garage, but couldn’t get to the bottom of it because… he doesn’t speak any English. «We had to talk by sign language», he said. Did he mention a «sabotage» ? «I never said that, he just saw us screwing back the nuts».Marquis certifies no one at his garage could have said anything about a foul play to Farage, who drove back to Britain. The mechanic never heard from him since.
Not only no witness can vouch for Farage’s account about what the mechanics told him, but according to our information the police did not mention any sabotage either. The police did arrive to the scene of the accident, but according to an anonymous source they did not examine the car, because no one was hurt. Hence, they could not suspect anything.
Dunkirk’s prosecutor confirms police agents were present on the scene but their intervention report only mentions a repair service. «If they had noticed a sabotage, they would have had to open an investigation», the prosecutor says. Even if Farage did not want the police to investigate the case, the prosecutor would have been entitled by law to open an investigation nonetheless. Reached by Désintox, Ukip did not care to comment on this story.
Maybe Nigel Farage suspects he has been the victim of a failed assassination attempt, but he’s clearly dishonest when he says this assumption is based on what the mechanics and the police allegedly told him. Not only did they not say anything, but they did not even suspect a thing.
To read the French version of this article, click here.
I have little doubt that Nigel Farage will lie to pretend that he has been miss quoted or that a member of his cult has led to the lie being published or in some other way try to pass the buck – one problem with sociopaths is that they manage to convince themselves that they can do no wrong and are all too willing to blame others for their dishonesty and incompetence!
However the story has been exposed in the British press also:
Screw-up: Mechanic rubbishes Farage’s car crash assassination claims
Ukip leader had claimed mechanics were ‘absolutely certain’ of foul play. The plot thickens…
A MECHANIC who fixed Nigel Farage’s “sabotaged” car rubbished claims it had been tampered with in an assassination plot.
The Ukip leader said he had suffered a near-death experience when his car came to a juddering halt on a busy French road after a wheel fell off his Volvo V70.
Mr Farage claimed mechanics “were absolutely certain” of foul play after finding all the nuts had been loosened on the wheel in an incident in October.
But now garage owner Philip Marquis, who claims to have fixed the Ukip leader’s Volvo, has said the story is nonsense and the pair had only spoken in “sign language.”
Speaking to French newspaper Liberation, he said although he had “never seen anything like it” it was almost certain the nuts had not been secured properly after a recent repair.
When asked who had tampered with them, he added: “I haven’t got a clue. Quite frankly, the way my life’s been over the past two-and¬a-half years, nothing surprises me.”
But Mr Marquis told the French newspaper Liberation he never thought about calling the French police and never mentioned sabotage.
Mr Marquis added: “I never said that, he just saw us screwing back the nuts.”
The two are at loggerheads Nick Obank
Ukip’s only MP Douglas Carswell, who has called for Mr Farage to step aside, was forced to deny outrageous suggestions he had been behind the sinister plot after the story emerged over the weekend.
The plot thickened still further when a recall notice emerged for the car model only for Volvo to insist Mr Farage’s car was not affected by the fault which caused wheels to come loose.
The prosecutor in Dunkirk confirmed police attended at the scene and said if they noticed any “sabotage” they would be forced to open an investigation.
Mr Farage said he had never wanted the story to come out in the public domain.
He added: “I never mentioned any mechanic. As far as I’m concerned, this is a dead story.”
Having had his lies exposed Nigel Farage tries to distance himse3lf from the ‘story’ he invented saying, after it was covered by almost every British paper, “… As far as I’m concerned, this is a dead story.”
failing totally to appologise for having set out to decieve everyone, just to get publicity – what will he claim was the French speaking mechanic’s hand gesture for ‘a deliberate attempt at assasination’!!!
Raheem Kassam clearly stated, in the Brietbart blog/paper where he wrote an article attacking the mainstream media for exposing Nigel Farage’s fantasy story, Nigel Farage had lied to him:
I confess, UKIP leader Nigel Farage told me about this specific concern over his car in November of last year. Off the record, not for reporting. “Fine,” I sighed. After the, “Oh my God, are you okay, mate?” obviously.
I didn’t give it much thought after that, until the papers splashed the news story (incidentally, I’m told, leaked by a disgruntled UKIP Member of the European Parliament looking to cause more trouble for the party leader) – …
Let us not forget Kassam WAS a friend of Nigel Farage’s and worked for him, even going so far in his admirationn of his cult leader as to be prepared to outlay several £100s to buy an ‘Arthur Dailey’ used car salewsman’s outfit ;-):
Let us see who Nigel Fasrage tries to blame this time as he is a past master at passing the buck and blaming others rather than act honourably, or he would have had the integrity to resign years ago.
Regards, Greg_L-W.
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Nigel Farage Has Yet More Trouble With His Nut(s), though he never seems short of sychophants willing to deal with them, a skill which seems a prerequisite in Ukip!
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Hi,
January has notoriously been a slow news month for Farage, as all who have followed him over the years will have noted!
Minded that Nigel Farage, like all other MEPs, has secure parking designated under the EU Parliament building, which rather damages the credibility of this story!
Parking with full security and camera surveillance in central Brussels, one is forced to wonder why the matter was not immediately reported to the relevant authorities, in a responsible manner – so that any alleged criminal miscreant could be apprehended.
It is also interesting that even the press report points out that if wheel nuts are slackened, driving at speed will rapidly loosen them – the last time it happened to me, when my garage failed to tighten the nuts on the front nearside wheel I had driven some 6 miles at 50 or below when the wheel flew off and the vehicle came to a rapid halt.
Fortunately losing a rear wheel does not effect the steering and when it comes off it is just as if you have dropped anchor as the vehicle rapidly halts as the brake drum/Disk gouges into the tarmac. The vehicle does not ‘fishtail’ leaving the only fishy tales those in print!
The last time the nuts on all 4 wheels were left loose, on a vehicle I picked up from the garage, I was aware of it after about 4 miles and I stopped the vehicle rather than risk losing a wheel or injuring anyone – I blocked the main road out of Inverness to Dingwall for about an hour!
I also note the media quote a Police Officer regarding the fact that it was deliberate loosening on all 4 wheels – is this hearsay or did they contact the officer at the scene and if so why did he not act responsibly and acquit his duty by investigating, what he believed to be a crime!!
The journey from Brussels to the tunnel is approximately 125 miles where the first 85 are in Belgium, before crossing into France – almost all the way it is on high speed motorways, where EU MEPs are exempt from speeding fines!
I believe there is much more to this ‘story’ than meets the eye!
That said may I hasten to add that I can vouch for the fact that neither I nor John West, Jasna Badzak, Nikki Sinclaire, Richard Suchorzewski, David Noakes nor Niall Warry were in either Belgium or France during October!
I expect all those listed at CLICK HERE can provide more than edequate alibis for any date Farage wishes to claim!
Nigel Farage’s car wheels ‘were sabotaged in an assassination attempt’:
Ukip leader lost control of Volvo when wheel fell off on motorway… and police confirm foul play
Ukip leader careered off French road after a wheel on his Volvo came loose
Police told Farage all the vehicle’s wheels had been deliberately unscrewed
He was forced to jump over the road barrier to escape the speeding lorries
Farage has received death threats during his tumultuous time as Ukip head
By GLEN OWEN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
22:00, 2 January 2016
UPDATED: 00:13, 3 January 2016
Nigel Farage fears he has been the victim of an assassination attempt after his car was sabotaged, causing a terrifying motorway crash. The Ukip leader careered off a French road after a wheel on his Volvo came loose while he was driving from Brussels back to his home in Kent. When the police arrived at the scene, they told him that the nuts on all of the wheels had been deliberately unscrewed, The Mail on Sunday has established.
‘Target’: Nigel Farage claims he was the victim of an assassination attempt, after he careered off a French road when a wheel on his Volvo came loose while he was driving back to his home in Kent (pictured)
‘Target’: Nigel Farage claims he was the victim of an assassination attempt, after he careered off a French road when a wheel on his Volvo came loose while he was driving back to his home in Kent (pictured) Mr Farage, who has received death threats during his tumultuous time as leader, last night spoke about the ‘frightening’ incident, which took place near Dunkirk. ‘It was the middle of bloody nowhere, and I was caught in a very bad position,’ he said. ‘There was a huge section of roadworks with cars going back and forth on the same side of the carriageway. I suddenly realised I was losing steering but there was no hard shoulder to pull on to. I slowed down, put the hazards on and then one of the wheels came off. I jumped over the wall as quickly as I bloody well could to get away from lorries and everything.’
When the emergency services arrived, they told a shaken Mr Farage that he had been the victim of a malicious act. ‘The French police looked at it and said that sometimes nuts on one wheel can come a bit loose – but not on all four,’ Mr Farage said. When he was asked who he thought might have been responsible, Mr Farage replied: ‘I haven’t got a clue. Quite frankly, the way my life’s been over the past two-and-a-half years, nothing surprises me.’ Quite frankly, the way my life’s been over the past two-and-a-half years, nothing surprises me. Ukip leader Nigel Farage The crash, which took place in daylight at the end of October, has been kept under wraps by Mr Farage until now. He agreed to talk about it this weekend after being contacted by this newspaper. Mr Farage’s Volvo V70 comes with a single locking nut on each wheel, which should be immune from interference. But if the other four nuts are loosened, then the remaining one is likely to sheer off as soon as the car is travelling at speed. The Ukip leader has been embroiled in a series of poisonous feuds within his party over recent years, both in London and in the European Parliament, where he sits as an MEP. The Parliament splits its operations between the Belgian capital Brussels and the French city of Strasbourg. Mr Farage frequently drives himself to his offices in the parliament buildings from Kent because he says it is the easiest way to juggle his ‘mad’ schedule. For security reasons, Mr Farage would not say where he parks his vehicle in Brussels.
Getaway: Mr Farage was forced to leap over the barrier of the motorway near Dunkirk to escape from speeding lorries, as pictured in this reconstruction
Malicious: The Ukip leader has received previous death threats during his time at the head of the party
Malicious: The Ukip leader has received previous death threats during his time at the head of the party UKIP’s Farage slams Hollande & Merkel in EU Parliament speech >>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3382294/Nigel-Farage-s-car-wheels-sabotaged-assassination-attempt-Ukip-leader-lost-control-Volvo-wheel-fell-motorway-police-confirm-foul-play.html#v-2738344123642393072<< Mr Farage said he had not asked police to pursue the investigation because he didn’t want to ‘make anything of it’. When asked if he had received death threats, Mr Farage said: ‘Of course. It’s not a particularly easy game, this.’ He added: ‘The French police and mechanics looked at it but I have made no formal report in this country. The mechanics were absolutely certain of [foul play] but I have decided to take no further action.’ Mr Farage has endured a torrid time recently, with senior Ukip figures expressing concern that the party is losing momentum in the wake of its disappointing Election result, when it won only Douglas Carswell’s Clacton seat. Last month, Mr Carswell said the party needed a ‘fresh face’ as leader – only to be told to ‘put up or shut up’ by Mr Farage. Last night, Eric Fouard, the prosecutor for Dunkirk, said he was not aware of any investigation into the accident involving Mr Farage.
No wonder he’s considering a TV career move…
The Ukip leader is considering a new career as a television presenter if he leaves politics after the EU referendum.
Mr Farage has been involved in discussions with production companies about fronting a three-part series on military strategy, including a history of the First World War. News of Mr Farage’s talks has been spread with glee by his growing number of critics in the party, who argue that Ukip needs a fresh leader to reinvigorate it. Last night, a spokesman for Mr Farage said that the idea of him fronting programmes had been ‘bubbling away’ since early last year – when the TV companies were first contacted – but no deals had yet been struck. Last night, ex-Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom, who once shared a flat with Mr Farage in Brussels, said he could see why the party leader would be interested in presenting a military history series. Mr Bloom said: ‘We have done military tours together. Nigel is a very good raconteur, “Corporal Snoops manning the machine-gun at the bridge… here’s the spot he won his VC”, that sort of thing.’ A spokesman for Mr Farage said: ‘The TV thing is an idea that has been bubbling away for a while. He’d be bloody good at it – and it was discussed last year. But no deal has been done.’
I note with interest that when I wrote about this ‘story’ I had read no other article or opinion yet made it abundantly clear that I found it implausible – I understand the Dunkirk police have now issued a statement that effectively there was no such incident to investigate.
Remember what happened to Vikki Price and her husband when they colluded to invent a ‘story’ regarding a motoring incident!
May I also remind readers that Nigel Farage ‘Claims’ he was in a contra flow system due to roadworks!
This would have meant that firstly he was driving a right hand drive Volvo V70 therefore at no time was there a need to cross the path of other vehicles as he waz\s driving on the rigjht and would have got out of his vehicle right door ajoining the barrier and merely hopped over it to safety.
Secondly his vehicle would have brought traffic to a complete standstill, until a recovery vehicle could remove the vehicle.
Last time this accident happened to me the front wheel ended up over 100 yards away although I was only travelling at about 40mph. and the vehicle came to a halt in a straight line although it was the front nearside wheel that flew off!
I appreciate after the many years I have followed Nigel Farage’s antics and those of his cult followers that his followers are VERY gullible – Just who would wish to see Nigel Farage dead and what motive would they have to risk issuing a death threat. Of course I appreciate that he and other Ukip MEPs would love to have body guards to gain publicity and elivate their status, but it would be a total waste of public money. It held up traffic near my house on the A48 for almost an hour before it was recovered by ny garage about one mile away!
I know Farage has claimed that he has received death threats but from whom? The EU would most clearly not wish to see him or his little group vanish as without them the EU would have to invent and establish a similar organisation of castratti to prolongue the pretence that the EU permits an opposition and is thus, in some way, democratic.
I am fairly sure that even with some of the nuts and back stabbing fantasists in Ukip, with their lies spin and lack of achievement none would be daft enough to actually contract Farage out and as for Batten’s ‘story’, in his desperation to elevate his insignificance, bouncing bricks and drug dealers chassing him was utterly without credibility – as with so much else he does!
Who for heaven’s sake would go to the lengths of removing Farage, terminally, to gain control of Ukip or the space they fill/waste.
That leaves us with just three options which are more plausible:
Kirsten – but that seems very unlikely as if nothing else he is a good meal ticket, is away a fair amount of the time and has for some years ensured she is well paid in a convenient non job – so let us count that out!
An irate or jealous male who is overly excited by his extra marital activities and other drunken antics – or for that matter a thwarted/scorned suitor.
Finally the only likely example of someone, with perhaps some justification, would be an over zealous patriot, who is well enough informed, to realise just how much harm his prominent presence in the Leave-The-EU campaign is likely to be to the chances of these United Kingdoms leaving the EU!
Though I do not believe that it is anyone in the Leave-The-EU movement.
I really do not believe that Farage is remotely important enough or significant to be a target for any kind of realistic ‘Death Threat’, and as for Batten or any of the other even more insignificant Ukip MEPs to be worthy of such threats that really is too laughable for words!
UKIP ‘Furious’ After Details Of ‘Assassination Attempt’ Against Farage Leaked
UKIP leader Nigel Farage was involved in a crash on a French motorway in October after a wheel on his Volvo estate fell off, the nuts holding it in place having been deliberately loosened.
Details of a potentially fatal car crash involving Mr. Farage became public this weekend after they were leaked to the press. A UKIP insider told Breitbart London Mr. Farage is “furious” at the news of his ordeal entering the public domain, while party officials are angry at Kent police for having failed to offer him protection in line with his high profile status and the number of death threats he receives.
Mr. Farage was driving along a French motorway near Dunkirk while he was returning home from Brussels in October when a wheel came off his car, causing the vehicle to crash. Mr Farage was forced to leap over a safety barrier to avoid oncoming traffic, reports the Daily Mail. He said:
“‘It was the middle of bloody nowhere, and I was caught in a very bad position.
“There was a huge section of roadworks with cars going back and forth on the same side of the carriageway. I suddenly realised I was losing steering but there was no hard shoulder to pull on to. I slowed down, put the hazards on and then one of the wheels came off. I jumped over the wall as quickly as I bloody well could to get away from lorries and everything”.
When emergency services arrived to assist Mr. Farage, he was told by a police officer his wheel nuts had been deliberately unscrewed, suggesting the intention was to kill the UKIP leader by causing him to lose control while at high speed. Mr. Farage remarked that while police officers were used to single wheel nuts working themselves free without being noticed, for all four to do so at the same time was unheard of.
Mr. Farage would not be drawn on a likely culprit: “I haven’t got a clue. Quite frankly, the way my life’s been over the past two-and-a-half years, nothing surprises me”.
The UKIP leader had declined to speak about the incident until he was contacted by the Daily Mail newspaper after they received news of the crash from an unnamed source.
A UKIP source told Breitbart London the core UKIP leadership team who knew about the crash had “kept quiet” and the fact the incident had been leaked did nothing more but “rub salt in the wounds”.
Could Nigel Farage’s fantasy spin all boil down to the fact that he never pays attention to detail and largely discounts facts and thus he completely overlooked this detail:
There is a strong possibility this pertained to Farage’s V70 and shows that this type of acccident is not uncommon – as I have shown I have had this problem, giving two instances of the 3 times it has happened to me; once when ALL the nuts were shown to be loose – accidents do happen hence the word accident and there is absolutely no reason to try to spin them to be assassination attempts, beyond of course delusion and self aggrandisement.
For these and other reasons I incline to the belief that Nigel Farage has spun this ‘story’ beyond plausibility, and the most likely official protection he or Batten are likely to receive are warders!
The ice is very thin around them!
That this fantasy piece was published atall reflects very badly not only on Nigel Farage, making him and his cult followers in Ukip and their obvious gullibility on Twitter look foolish – but also it was clearly utterly irresponsible of the various journalists to publish such palpable and easily checked dross!
If I can smell a rat where were the journalistic skills in the media, particularly when I was able to check my belief and show the ‘story’ just didn’t stand up on multiple counts!
Regards,
Greg_L-W.
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Nigel Farage Hammers Yet Another Nail Into The Ukip Coffin, some will once again claim it is the Final Nail!
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Hi,
yet again someone is claiming that Ukip has had the final nail driven into its coffin lid but thoser with a longer memory will appreciate that both Nigel Farage and his cult following in Ukip have had more comebacks than Frank Sinatra!
The saving grace for Nigel farage has been his guile and duplicity in removing anyone of competence who might challenge him at the first opportunity – being a sociopath he has had no qualms about destroying the long term future of Ukip in his delusional belief that beyond his irresponsible and populist mantras and ability to pander to the under belly of society he totally lacks vision, strategy, tactics or any vestige of leadership qualities.
That no one has risen to challenge him is down to his sense of self preservation at all cost and his belief that any lie justifies his blind belief and that his blindness can be defended with any lie – and we all know just howmany lies this strutting little martinette has told, just look at5 the long list of sound, competent and honest people he has stabbed in the back to preserver his income stream CLICK HERE
Nigel Farage Hammers The Final Nail Into The UKIP Coffin
December 29, 2015 By
How big was that fish Nigel?
Just when you thought Nigel Farage couldn’t get any more deluded.
He just can’t help himself, he’s got one MP who he describes as “borderline autistic” who he can’t agree with on the most basic principles, his party has descended into the realms of absolute farce and he’s been nowhere to be seen for weeks. His sole political point is to blame anything and everything on the EU and migrants, so how could things possibly get any worse for Nigel Farage’s comedy cult of a party?
Well, this self styled patriot of the British people could have taken advantage of a whole series of newsworthy events in order to score political points, but he was probably too busy propping the bar up down the pub to really notice what’s been happening in our country.
In the meantime the north has been flooded, we’re on high level terror alert, there’s the crisis with refugees and there’s the ongoing situation in the Med and in Calais…
So what does Nigel talk about?
Angling.
Yes, you read that right. Our upstanding patriotic mustard panted champion of all things British is in an absolute state of fury over angling.
Catching fish with a rod.
It must be true because it’s in the Daily Express.
Even the most blindly devoted UKIP followers must see this for what it actually is, a man totally devoid of ideas leading a useless party that is destined for the dustbin of oblivion.
Never mind eh Nigel? We’ve heard there’s a vacancy at the EDL, who’d be delighted to have you. Pegida’s probably out of your league, but failing that there’s always Britain First. Doesn’t matter really – you just killed UKIP and we can’t say we’re all that sorry about that.
THE ANATOMY OF A UKIP ELECTION CAMPAIGN – Camborne, Redruth & Hayle.
Sad isn’t it that whenever one has the inside information of any trusted task within Ukip it turns out to be corrupt!
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THE ANATOMY OF A UKIP ELECTION CAMPAIGN.
Camborne, Redruth & Hayle. The party’s number three target seat for the 2015 General Election
As I see it the problems with the CRH committee go back to the AGM in 2014 when Rosie Ward, (an on record associate of the BNP) was appointed chairman with Harry Blakeley as vice-chairman. I think Blakeley controlled her as his puppet, she was found to be totally untrustworthy in the position i.e. the cannabis party as reported in the Daily Mail and her ‘unfortunate tweets’; she ‘stood aside’ in the autumn of 2014 just prior to the David Evans debacle – Evan’s was jailed after hundreds of dead sheep were found on his farm. Her standing aside was announced by Blakeley at a committee meeting, and the committee was asked to choose a new chairman, Blakeley did not want to do it so I offered my services until the AGM, my offer was accepted and I feel Blakeley wanted to be ‘the power behind the throne’.
We jump forwards to Jan 2015 when Bob Smith and Michael Muldowney, who Bob brought into the CRH campaign and who was approved by myself and the other committee members to manage the branch press, social media and political interests returned from a meeting of the key seat candidates; Michael had already made me aware of the details of said meeting and brought me up to speed regarding the election strategy as laid down by UKIP HQ. We had an election committee meeting in Blakeley’s house (Michael, Smith, Blakeley, Wyse, Parker and myself) and the plan was put to them by Michael to which everyone agreed was a good plan to be led by Michael and I in conjunction with Smith. They also agreed that the need for secrecy was paramount and that only Michael, Smith and I had the full plan and the rest was on a need to know basis which would be unfolded as the campaign progressed.
We had already noted that Harry had been leaking information to Rosie Ward via text during meetings, and when challenged he said she was a committee member and had a right to know what was going on. However, she never attended any of the meetings and had already been identified as a leak. Blakeley, a 70 year old Cornwall Councillor, had been very close to the 16/17 year old and many of us felt uncomfortable with his relationship to her. Our candidate later refused to speak at the YI election launch as she was also due to speak there, so the party removed her from the list of speakers. Primarly it was for this reason we decided to enforce the need to know basis rules so strictly. In fact, the committee knew most of the election plan and we only withheld key information such as levels of funding and information that would compromise other campaigns.
Unfortunately at the very first meeting after Stafford, Smith told them that UKIP was spending “£19 million nationally and 30 thousand here”. At Smith’s insistence we booked 3 halls for him to speak, two were unmitigated disasters and the other one, only one person attended. At the first meeting Peter Channon (a committee member of CRH since booted out of the party) asked stupid and difficult questions about CAP subsidies and Blakeley asked a racist question then badgered a couple of the audience. At a later election committee meeting after Blakeley yet again complained that I didn’t wear a suit and full UKIP regalia including a giant rosette to chair public meetings purusing his personal bullying campaign against me. The Campaign Manager had actually specified that ‘smart casual’ (apart from the candidate) was the order of business, especially when targeting meetings in deprived areas, we didn’t want to give off the impression of elitism. In return, Harry didn’t like it when I pointed that it was he not I who asked stupid question of our own PPC, despite repeated requests that members allowed the public to ask the questions and our people should keep quiet. The public meetings were then abandoned at the Campaign Manager’s and my insistence.
When I removed committee meetings from Blakeley’s house for security (i.e. to stop him leaking) and to put them on a professional footing I again came under fire being told by Blakeley I’d upset his wife, other members (Wyse/Channon/Mimms) backed him whilst he sat there with a beatific grin which is strange considering that Rosie Ward moved meetings from Blakeley’s house to a room in a local pub. Smith did not back me, only Michael did. The main reason for the resistance we encountered because Blakleley was upset we moved the meetings was because Mrs Blakeley was no longer able to serve tea, and secondly, the movement of the meetings had affected the committees’ ability to socialise. Should be noted that after my resignation the meetings were immediately returned to Harry’s house and his wife was officially designated as ‘refreshment officer’ by Bob Smith.
Michael, Smith and I would have regular confidential meetings regarding the campaign and we were spending about an hour each day on the phone when we did not meet. However, we were undermined because Smith would go and have secret meeting with Blakeley and others behind our backs; however he strongly denied this when asked. What would normally happen was, we would book a meeting for say 7pm, but they would have a pre-meeting where they would develop a consensus. Blakeley and others connived behind my back to belittle and undermine my position as chairman and election organiser (along with Michael).
Blakeley told us he was having a meeting with George Eustice (Tory MP for CRH constituency) when I sent a gentle email reminding him not to discuss anything UKIP with George (knowing how Blakeley is not always discrete) I received a vile email saying he was so intelligent and clever he didn’t need me to tell him how to act. Blakeley then used his position as a trustee of St Michael’s hospital to arrange a press op for MP Eustice and (along with Stuart Guppy St Ives and the Scilies Chairman and Ray Wyse, CRH branch officer) appeared in Tory election leaflets supporting how the Tories had saved the hospital from closing – a web version is still on the MP’s page linked here. However, when we asked him to get our candidate a a walkround to meet the staff he stalled and never arranged it.
Blakeley also undermined the organisation of Nigel Farage’s visit continuously asking if I knew what I was doing or asking did I have any experience despite knowing about the ‘Exeter Rallies’ I was SWC chairman and along with Malcolm Wood we organised 4/5 such rallies; the last one being organised on only 3 conference phone calls. Despite being told that the chain of command for the visit was that Michael would report directly and only to Deborah (The SW RO) and Lizzy Vaid (UKIP Head of Events) regarding arrangements and essentially serve as Gawain’s (UKIP Head of Press) man on the ground for the press and media. Michael would then communicate their wishes and directives to me and I was to organise things ‘on the ground’ in regards to the branch. It was made clear that ONLY Michael and I were points of contact for this event. From the onset Harry and co undermined the effort to organise the event, they could not understand why for security reasons Nigel’s movements could not be public knowledge, they did not like the fact that we were instructed that the meeting should be for members and supporters only and would not be publicised. Nigel was very worried about attacks from ANTIFA and the left, and every location we concidered him visiting had to be pre-screened by professional security. Must add, the boys in the black Range Rovers were very good and all ex-forces chaps. Meanwhile in the campaign, Harry and his ‘team’ worked against us at every opportunity to create chaos surrounding the event and so I considered my position had become untenable when the cabal of dissidence within the committee refused to work with me on Nigel’s visit and the election strategy. Blakeley behind my back had been in touch with the manager of the Carn Brea Leisure Centre and local police liaison about the meeting causing confusion, he also started contacting Gawain and giving him false information that Michael had resigned. The final straw came when Blakeley’s minions threatened to withdraw their labour from the event, causing it to collapse.
Having no other option, I then resigned, handing over the draft plan for the security and organisation of the visit to Blakeley who then ignored it nearly causing its cancellation by Nigel’s security on the morning of he event. Despite being told not to, they towed an advertising caravan around the constituency handing out tickets to which Smith was photographed helping them a week before the visit. The also used Rosie Ward to leak information regarding Nigel’s security and movements a week before the event took place, jeopardising the event and Nigel’s safety.
The cabal along with Stuart Guppy St Ives chairman stated this late in the day advertising got an extra 500 people into the meeting, considering there were only approximately 500 people there (and we gave out 700 tickets to UKIP members/supporters and invited guests I wonder where the other 500 were. I think we were very lucky that the entire meeting didn’t turn into a farce; there were also reports of Harry selectively denying entry to supporters of the Truro/Falmouth branch (including a NHS doctor) despite them having tickets, while letting in random people from the street without tickets.
As a matter of courtesy when I resigned, I emailed St Ives and Truro Falmouth chairmen of my action from TR/Fal I got a polite email back saying it was a pity but she understood why. From St Ives chairman Stuart Guppy I received a vitriolic email full of bile, which he also copied to his full committee.
From then on candidate Smith ignored the UKIP HQ election plan and went with the cabals ideas using a banner towing aircraft (at mates’ rates) and towing a caravan and a trailer – the idea to use banner towing was constantly an issue, Michael took it up with David Souter and co at the key seats conference in Stafford and was told that as long as the service provider gave us a quote and a matching invoice at the true commercial rate then we could do it. When Michael returned and relayed this information Harry promised that he would get a quote from Channon, but it never came. For three months Channon kept offering his service and Michael and I kept telling him we couldn’t authorise it without knowing the rates or having proper paper work to go with it, along with Channon’s offical delcaration as a notional donor. When it came to ahead at the finale meeting in which I was present, Michael suggested a figure based on his previous service for UKIP, Channon flew into a rage and almost jumped the table to attack him causing a major argument, Michael then resigned from the campaign.
Afterwards, they did little or no canvassing preferring to just leaflet despite being told about 60,000 leaflets were to be delivered by an outside agency and that leafleting the same areas ourselves was a waste of time. Ray Wyse only job on the election was to arrange and liaise with the leaflet company, he decided out of the blue that he wasn’t going to do it, strangely when Michael was at a job interview with the Brussels wing of the party, which forced Michael to take control over it directly from over there – which ignited a stream of phone calls to me and the leaflet people, from over there costing him almost £100. He then found out they had given a completely different set of orders to the company and not reported it to us, hence the leafleting operation which cost UKIP £6k was a complete farce. Blakeley upset the owner of the leaflet delivery company by going to his home one Saturday demanding to know why leaflets hadn’t been delivered, the consequence of this action is UKIP can no longer use the company.
I always had the impression that Smith didn’t want to win but come a close and plucky second, in fact he came a poor third; perhaps preferring his cosy life style as a self employed psychologist.
Jeff Mager
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Normally this blog takes little interest in the more sordid aspects of the low lifes of Ukip leadership but Nigel Farage’s Boast About The Number Of Women He Got Pregnant has resurfaced in some quarters!
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as he is a sociopath, in my opinion, with his blind belief if not blinded belief in just how clever and indespensible he is and his absolute lack of understanding of either integrity or ethics I was amused to be reminded of the example from so long ago that typifies his behaviour.
Such hubris and opinion of his own self worth, when he is clearly such an insecure personality that he lashes out at anyone who might be in a position to challenge him or rival him due to their having the leadership skills he so clearly lacks.
Nigel Farage is so very like Oswald Mosely, without the breeding, education or backgtound, that it is quite surprising and interestingly the two men share many traits, including the fact that their political careers peaked at around 50,000 members but neither men were able to command a following in the House of Commons before their fall from grace and eventual departure in ignominy.
Let us not forget the wisdom of Enoch Powell when he said ‘All political careers end in failure’ and we are watching the end of Nigel Farage’s political life if the public have one Iota of sense – that he has destroyed his own future with his untrustworth behaviour, close association with lies, bullying and abuse of people and his public office which has done little to encourage any but the most dependent on him to raise a hand to help him and protect him from his precarious position and inevitable eventual fall, raising only a hand to toast his departure!
Nigel Farage Boasted About The Number Of Women He Got Pregnant
An old interview given by Nigel Farage has resurfaced in which the Ukip leader attacks the “lunacy” of maternity leave and boasted about the number of women he had got pregnant.
Asked if women should play football, Farage replied: “Here’s the bigger question. Do we think, chaps, when we’re there in the front line, when the balloon goes up, with fixed bayonets, when the whistle’s about to blow to go over the top, do we actually want to be there with women beside us? Do we? What an extraordinarily bizarre idea! I certainly don’t think so.
He added: “But maybe it’s because I’ve got so many women pregnant over the years that I have a different view. I find it very difficult to think that we could stand up and run over the top together, into the machine guns or whatever. Men and women are different – thank God!”
The interview, conducted with Belgian magazine Up Front in 2010, was uncovered on Wednesday by Political Scrapbook.
Farage was also reported to have agreed with comments made by then Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom about maternity leave. “Godfrey’s comment that ‘no employer with a brain in the right place would employ a young, single, free woman’ has been proved so right,” Farage said. “With this lunacy, that if you have children you get three months paid leave off work, or six months paid leave off work – he absolutely got it spot on.”
Bloom was kicked out of Ukip by Farage last year when he was recorded telling a room full of women that they were “sluts” and then proceeded to hit a reporter over the head with a book before running away in a taxi.
The Ukip leader has made controversial comments about the role of women in the workplace since that interview took place. In January he claimed there was not “any discrimination against women at all” in the City of London.
Farage has admitted that his party does not do as well among women and men, but said women were “slowly but surely” taking over Ukip. “Nobody has done more in Ukip to promote women than I have,” he said in February.”When you get the results from European elections you’ll be astonished to see as many women as men in the top slots in Ukip, things have changed.”
The Ukip Christmas Pantomime is Once More Directed By Nigel Farage to ‘remove a troublesome MP’!
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its that time of year again & Ukip is all lined up with its near regular annual pantomime – the problem here is that the catch phrase of ‘hes behind you’ is as ever no friendly warning for as with most previous Ukip cult pantomimes the warning is of dire trouble as the squabbling protagonists circle to position themselves for the most effective stab in the back possible – as ever with a well supported outside seeking to make the party more honest, more viable or more transparent whilst Farage manouvers and encourages his cult fan club with overt support along the lines of Henry II and his comment ‘Who will rid me of this turbulent priest’ – which led to Thomas a Becket’s murder.
Much in the manner of Henry II Nigel Farage has all too often achieved his aim by direct instigation in a manner that is all too readily deniable.
Douglas Carswell is right – it’s time for Farage to step down
If the party is to have any hope of progressing after the EU ballot, it needs a new voice
Douglas Carswell claimed Farage’s comments on immigrants with HIV were ‘ill-advised’ Getty Images
Politics often descends into farce, but rarely can there have been such an entertaining seasonal offering as the pantomime currently presented by Ukip. It is hard not to laugh when a fringe party reduced to only one MP by recent election failures has an outbreak of feuding between its leadership and parliamentary wing – otherwise known as Douglas Carswell. Mind you, this show of unfestive feuding is likely to run well into the New Year, such are the divisions between the two camps.
The latest bout of a power struggle that is both personal and political began when the former Tory MP told a BBC Essex documentary the party needed a “fresh face” as leader after its faltering performance in the recent Oldham West and Royton by-election. “No party is defined by any one person,” he said, throwing in a dig at Nigel Farage’s claim that postal voting was rigged for good measure. “I don’t want to wake up the morning after the European referendum and hear people saying ‘it was the postal votes.’”
Nigel Farage threatens to sack Ukip’s only MP Douglas Carswell
Ironically, this latest fight erupted just days after the bill backing a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union became law. Yet this is not the first time Farage has provoked such ire among his supposed allies. When he returned as leader after that ridiculous post-election resignation in May, the party’s then economics spokesman Patrick O’Flynn called him “snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive” – a rather different image to the cheeky chappie persona cultivated so carefully in the media.
This was, however, more polite than some abuse thrown by Ukip’s founder Alan Sked, who dismisses Farage as “a far-right failure.” Given the rise of Donald Trump in the United States and other right-wing populist movements across Europe, it is hard to argue with such analysis. Oldham should have been perfect terrain for Ukip. Farage argued Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader was “a gift”, while on the morning of the by-election he predicted “Labour dominoes in the north of England will begin to fall.”
Instead, Farage’s vice-like grip on his party seems to have become a gift for rivals across the political spectrum, allowing the Tories to move back towards the centre and Labour to overcome some of the difficulties caused by its own internal warfare. Farage’s act now feels tired, while he has become such a toxic force the anti-EU forces have split into two camps. Incredibly, this has left Carswell and his leader – Ukip’s most prominent figures – in different groups as they fight for the cause that compelled them to join their party.
Yet at heart of the fight between Carswell and Farage lies a serious struggle over precisely what sort of party Ukip should become, an issue that will move into sharper focus after the referendum, regardless of the result, since this will remove its central cause. Farage has created a party in his image: reactionary and xenophobic under a jovial exterior. The Clacton MP, however, says he wants a party that is not “unpleasant” or “socially illiberal”. He argues the way to move beyond its 13 per cent ratings plateau is to become an “optimistic, sunshine, smiley, socially liberal, unapologetically free market party.”
Curiously, this sounds exactly the sort of conservatism espoused by David Cameron before he reacted to the rise of Ukip. Given Carswell’s philosophy, and his seeming lack of leadership ambitions, it is hard to avoid the conclusion he joined the wrong party despite the guff he talks about new politics. The bedrock of Ukip support is elderly, low-skilled, socially conservative and disgruntled, those people feeling disadvantaged by globalisation. The party is for misanthropes and miserablists, not those facing the future filled with hope and confidence: this is why it increasingly sees Labour as its real enemy, not the Tories.
Yet while Carswell is stuck in the wrong party, he is right to point out the party he joined last year is stuck with a leader past his sell-by date. Farage will have been at the helm for the best part of a decade by the date of the referendum. He deserves credit for reining in some of the more reprehensible tendencies and becoming a force in British politics. But if the party is to have any hope of progressing after the EU ballot, it needs a new voice.
Such is the volatility of politics that just 19 months ago Ukip seemed to have the Tories on the run after breaking the century-long, two-party deadlock on national elections with its European parliamentary triumph while promoting concerns over gay marriage. Now there is the Oldham setback, falling membership and open warfare at the top, while the drying up of funds – just £49,000 in third quarter major donations – has led to staff layoffs. Some commentators have already said the party is finished, even as it stands on the cusp of achieving its long-cherished vote on Europe.
Personally I would be delighted to see Ukip disappear, given its malign influence on British politics and society. Yet the danger is it will dissolve into a cruder populist party, exploiting fears over immigration and stoking Islamophobia in even more divisive style than it does at the moment. This debate might be played out as pantomime today, but the danger is it could turn into something far darker in the future. So don’t laugh too hard at their travails.
Ukip’s Dirty Tricks Towards Their Only MP, The Tory Turncoat Douglas Carswell, Are Nothing New In Their Chosen Gutter.
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Ukip would seem to be upto their standard behaviour seeking to control and defeat those who dare to oppose them or question their style, policies, corruption, racism and lack of vision, strategies or even tactics.
You will remember when the Nigel Farage cult following fell out with
Alan Sked and when Farage was out manouvered he quit the party and had meetings with the BNP – many believe it was with a view to joining tjhem and taking over theri leadership:
Subsequently Farage rejoined Ukip and then his cult fan club fell out with the party leader and MEP Michael Holmes, stealing computers from the party HQ when Nigel Farage’s goffer, fixer and sewer rat Mark Croucher broke into the party offices and stole their computers taking them away in the boot of his car!
Michael Holmes was rumoured about, vituperatively attacked and undermined – eventually having a heart attack and after that retiring as an MEP and as party leader.
The field was now open for the Farage Fan Cult, with pond life like
David Lott and the like willing and able to lie and spin any situation to ensure Farage was elected, including rigging elections and cheating to ensure their sponsor would gain power for their personal gain.
Then we had the leadership elections when lies and corruption became the order of the day with the usual suspects working with nigel Farage to pervert due process such as Douglas Denny’s active campaigning for Farage whilst supposedly acting as returning officer a position from which he was eventually removed for his corruption and lies, also the lies and efforts of such as Annabelle Fuller who was acting with Nigel Farage to ensure his election by telling lies as when she actively lied about a rival, Richard Suchorzewski telling people he was an active supporter of the BNP and was homosexual – both of which were outright lies of absolutely no merit.
There was the dark era when Nigel Farage acted with members of his fan cult and those he had ensured were appointed to positions to support his dishonesty and prop up his inep-t and corrupt leadership as he and they attacked elected members of Ukip NEC who wished to introduce transparency and accountability to Ukip’s accounts and lies, spin and distortion of process was used to remove Dr. David Abbott, Dr. Eric Edmonds and others.
There was also the selection process for MEP candidates in which
Mick McGough lied to advance his position and also set out to intimidate rivals with the support of Nigel Farage and his selected NEC – individuals like John West were lied about and efforts made to block them.
Mick McGough also acted as a stalker and disseminator of dishonest spin about such as Richard Suchorzewski for Nigel Farage, seemingly in respopnse to support from Farage for his own enhancement.
The selection process was utterly corrupted for Nigel Farage and his personal appointment supervising the selection process Christopher Gill actively colluded in the lies and corruption – for more facts
Piers Merchant, as the returning officer, put in his report of the corruption CLICK HERE
Then there was the active campaigning by Farage’s fan cult against
Jasna Badzak and the lies and corruption utilised with the Courts to obtain a completely unsound verdict against her and the recent withdrawal of a dishonest and corrupt legal claim against her by Nigel Farage’s long term associate Gerard Batten.
Mark Croucher, a long term employee of Nigel Farage’s also acted for the party, aided with dishonest support from Paul Nuttall MEP and the party Press Office to try to silence myself and my publication of facts and the truth about Ukip and its leadership, wherein a palpably dishonest abuse of the due process of law and the Courts was implemented – The case was dismissed by the Courts and costs were awarded in favour of myself – to date Ukip have failed to pay the costs ordered against their employee and still have a debt to me of some £13.1/2 thousand + interest, a debt of honour which unsurprisingly Mark Croucher & Ukip lacks the integrity to pay.
Then there were the false claims and lies of
Gerard Batten MEP and the aid from his cronies in the Metropolitan Police to try to have me arrested and prosecuted on false claims of racist attacks against him and harrassment, similar to his effortts to silence journalists in the mainstream media – there is now every probability that his dishonesty will face the Courts where such activity can expect a substantial custodial sentence, which would no doubt be exacerbated by his obvious abuse of public office!
At the moment it is worth noting that Nigel Farage is colluding in a corrupt and groundless case against Nikki Sinclaire, which started with Nigel Farage’s widely stated annoyance that she had been elected as a Ukip MEP – it is interesting to note that it does seem self evident that Nikki Sinclaire’s work output and commitment to the cause put every one of Ukip’s MEPs tos shame and her results far outstripped any one of them, which did nothing to endear her to the useless bounders who had been elected, and her donations of her own money to supporting the cause rather than the donations made by a few of the MEPs which would seem only to have been in their own personal interest to support their own campaigns for election or re-election. That Farage was actively involved in colluding with others to have Nikki Sinclaire is an open secret.
In keeping with these and many other similar actions it is clear that Ukip are still instigating corrupt and dishonest actions to try to deliberately damage rivals of Nigel Farage – as in this example highlighted in the media today:
BLACKMAILED: Ukip’s only MP was the target of a secret tape plot to smear his private life by ‘dark forces’ within party
Douglas Carswell received call after blazing row with a Farage senior aide
The caller asked personal questions about his private life and his marriage
Now emerged recordings of conversations circulated in his constituency
Carswell called for ‘fresh face’ as leader and slammed ‘dark forces’ in party
PUBLISHED: 01:06, 20 December 2015 | UPDATED: 08:57, 20 December 2015
Douglas Carswell (pictured with wife, Clemantine) has hit out against ‘dark forces’ in Ukip after learning yesterday of an apparent ‘blackmail plot’ against him
Douglas Carswell has hit out against ‘dark forces’ in Ukip after learning yesterday of an apparent ‘blackmail plot’ against him involving secret tapes and false allegations about his private life.
The Ukip MP received a phone call from a party figure asking ‘grossly intrusive questions’ about his marriage – which he now believes was a warning to him to stop rebelling against Nigel Farage.
Happily married Carswell, 44, says the allegations are completely untrue, and he has refused to be silenced on the future of the party.
The call was made a few days after Carswell had a blazing row in the Commons with one of Farage’s key aides, party secretary Matthew Richardson. He told Carswell he would ‘regret’ crossing him.
Now the MP has been horrified to learn that secretly recorded Ukip conversations shortly after the row – in which wild allegations were made about his personal circumstances – have been circulated in his constituency.
On Friday, Carswell infuriated Farage by calling for a ‘fresh face’ as leader in the wake of the party’s poor performance in this month’s Oldham by-election. Farage said Carswell should ‘put up or shut up’.
The bust-up with Richardson took place four days after Ukip’s disappointing General Election result, which saw Carswell returned to Parliament as the party’s only MP.
It came after he emailed Richardson and Farage to say that he would only be taking a proportion of the £650,000 in taxpayer funding which Ukip was allowed to claim in the new Parliament. Carswell insisted that this so-called ‘short money’ should only be spent to help him represent his Clacton constituency.
But Richardson – who is also embroiled in the ‘Tatler Tory’ row as a close friend of Mark Clarke, the campaign manager accused of bullying – stormed down to the Commons to say it should all be appropriated by Ukip’s cash-strapped head office.
Last night Carswell gave an account of the confrontation and the sinister call which followed.
He said: ‘Richardson was both aggressive and insistent during the meeting in a Commons committee room, telling me that he would determine how the short money was spent. He said I would be like a US Senator representing the 4 million people who had voted for Ukip.
‘I told Richardson that it was not for him to make such decisions. I was there to represent my Clacton constituency. The money had to be spent correctly, in accordance with Commons rules. He told me that Ukip could spend the money as it wished. I can only imagine he felt that he was acting with Nigel’s blessing.
The call came after he emailed Richardson and Farage to say that he would only be taking a proportion of the £650,000 in taxpayer funding which Ukip was allowed to claim in the new Parliament
‘I went outside, and while waiting for the lift, Richardson tried to threaten and intimidate me. He said that I would regret my decision not to go along with what he had been proposing. I was subsequently told that Nigel said he had “sent” Richardson down to see me.’
The encounter was followed two days later by a meeting between Carswell and Farage during which, Carswell says, the leader displayed anger at his MP’s refusal to take the short money in full. Days later, Carswell received the call from someone he describes as a ‘senior UKIP official’, and was asked ‘a series of totally inappropriate and leading questions about my private life’.
CARSWELL V FARAGE: NOW THE RELATIONSHIP HAS TURNED TOXIC
The uneasy relationship between Nigel Farage and his solitary MP turned toxic after Ukip’s election disappointment.
Farage was mocked after resigning as leader then changing his mind, and the situation turned into a row with Carswell over the amount of ‘short money’ – payments to help opposition parties pay for Westminster operations – he should claim.
Carswell objected to being told to claim the entire £650,000 and divert funds to the party HQ, rather than just claiming a sufficient amount to fund his Commons office.
Carswell, who has a daughter with wife Clementine, said: ‘The suggestions made were preposterous. Either they were stupid enough to believe them, and wanted to scare me into silence by letting me know that they knew about it, or they were threatening me with the spread of false rumours. Either way, it could be construed as blackmail by dark forces’.
Carswell has clashed repeatedly with Farage since defecting from the Conservatives 18 months ago.
The Clacton MP has spoken out against his leader’s negative approach to immigrants and they have signed up for separate ‘Leave’ campaign groups in the upcoming EU referendum. Farage is allied to the Leave.EU campaign; Carswell has joined the Tory eurosceptic-dominated Vote Leave group – leading Farage to grumble privately that Carswell had ‘gone home’ to his ‘Conservative friends’.
Richardson denied any knowledge of the phone call, and added: ‘I did not use threatening language against Douglas. He was the one who got angry.’
When he was a student, Richardson set up the Oxford Gossip online forum where people could anonymously post about their peers.
The site was shut down in 2008 but friends claim he has boasted about keeping the web logs ‘for use when the people become famous’. Richardson denied keeping the logs.
Ukip’s Douglas Denny’s Glacial Approach To Ethics & Honesty, has nothing new to say, that I wasn’t puiblishing 10 years ago & even the media realise!
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Douglas Carswell faces showdown with Ukip chiefs over Farage leadership row
Ukip chairman Steve Crowther warns that the party’s only MP Douglas Carswell will be told to explain how his call for Nigel Farage to quit helps the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage and UKIP’s only MP Douglas Carswell stand outside the Houses of ParliamentPhoto: EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA
Mr Carswell is Ukip’s only MP, after retaining his seat at the election in May. He believes that Mr Farage has now run his course as leader and called this week for a “fresh face” to take over.
Musing aloud is all very fine and dandy but it’s not very helpful if you are trying to maintain some sort of party direction and discipline
Steve Crowther, Ukip chairman
However, the timing of Mr Carswell’s comments has infuriated Mr Farage’s supporters and dismayed Mr Crowther, who warned that Ukip’s National Executive Committee would demand answers from him at its next meeting in January.
Mr Crowther said the Clacton MP was “absolutely wrong” to suggest that a disappointing result in the Oldham by-election – which Ukip had hoped but failed to win – showed Mr Farage had taken the party as far as he could.
Nigel Farage at Ukip’s offices in Oldham
Mr Crowther told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that the row would be discussed when the party’s 19-strong National Executive Committee – on which both the politicians sit – meets next month.
“This is very unhelpful. As a party chairman it is not something I relish,” he said.
“There is a time and a place to have discussions about the leadership of the party but I don’t think that on the eve of an EU summit or on the BBC is either of them.
“This news was released on the day we were celebrating the utter collapse of the Prime Minister’s negotiating position in Europe.”
Political life was “not without its speed bumps”, said Mr Crowther, but the party was in good shape.
I made the jump ? and now I’m an MP! Photo: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
“Broadly speaking we are continuing to progress: we took control of a council; we had four million votes in the general election; our poll ratings are holding up since the general election against all predictions.
“Political life is not without its speed bumps.”
Asked what he thought were the motivations for Mr Carswell – who insists he does not want the leadership, Mr Crowther said: “Douglas is an independent thinker. It’s his principal characteristic as a politician. “He is just voicing his view.
“But, as I said, musing aloud is all very fine and dandy but it’s not very helpful if you are trying to maintain some sort of party direction and discipline.”
He went on: “All political parties have conversations about how it’s going. But these are things that ought to be held within the party.
“Douglas is a member of the National Executive Committee and the NEC will be wanting to speak to him about this in January.
“They will be wanting to talk about the thing we want to do, which is to run a really coherent and cohesive campaign to leave the European Union. And this has been going very well. The polls are moving in our direction.”
Mr Carswell’s demand for a “fresh face” at the head of the party drew a “put up or shut up” retort from leader Nigel Farage, who hinted that the ex-Tory’s future in Ukip was under threat.
In response to the article above you will note the staggering dishonesty of little Douglas Denny and his astonishingly thick skin, for as the better informed reader will be aware it was this particular little man who not only supported Nigel Farage devoutly for many years but in fact acted as his bag carrier, fixer and resident fool!
Clearly Douglas Denny could for many years have brought down Nigel Farage but being so embroilled in the corruption over which Nigel Farage presided for so many years Douglas Denny dare not speak out for fear of the consequences to himself were he to provide the evidence and details he engineered for Nigel Farage.
Douglas Denny is a liar, a fraud and a fantasist who has taken many years before plucking up his courage and in shame reitterating and confirming what I was publishing well over 10 years ago and which he did much to dishonestly suppress for his personal gain.
That said it is worth following his febrile steps at trying to pretend he is making some sort of revalation when all who know Ukip well and its history have led the way for him! Douglas Denny’s political accumen is as miniscule as his ethics and integrity, however you may be amused with his attempt at catych up as he vaulte faces!
From: ddennyoptom@gmail.com
To: douglas.denny@btopenworld.com
Subject: UKIP. Farage. Carswell and the future.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 13:35:16 +0000
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Dear ex-colleagues, political associates and friends,
What I predicted is coming to pass:-
….the slow decline, the gnawing destruction by evisceration, and eventual oblivion of UKIP as a potent political party in Britain.
How and why is this coming to pass? …as I also foresaw and predicted long ago:- …by the odious narcissism and total egotism of one man – Nigel Farage. Everyone in the country can see it – except for one person – the perpetrator himself.
Nigel Farage lost in the General Election. He himself said before election day it was end-game for him as Leader if he didn’t win. He didn’t win, but Douglas Carswell did. The obvious and logical position was for Douglas Carswell to become Leader.
Nigel’s hilarious hokey-cokey in-out dance, resigning as Leader (as he said he would) then reneging on that commitment immediately afterwards has destroyed his credibility forever and is without doubt the biggest mistake of his whole political career. The GBP (Great British Public) now see clearly through the thin veneer if they didn’t before, the selfish egotism and narcissism behind it. He is no longer seen as an honest leader but ‘just another self-aggrandising politician’.
The message is clear; and the future of UKIP in no doubt if Nigel Farage continues to insist on taking the party down with him as being the only possible Leader of UKIP…. just like Hitler took his whole country and German people down with his egotistical total commitment to himself – oblivion !
The only answer for UKIP to continue into the future with any kind of credibility, with any form of sensible political power available to it, is for Nigel Farage to stand down NOW and for someone to come forward to unite the party. Douglas Carswell is the obvious choice to come forwards in that role to become leader: he is the only UKIP MP in parliament with the political power to change things there.
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It is a tragedy they all seem to forget that it is the cause and the fundamental issues at stake we all should be fighting for and which matters – NOT the egoes and narcissism of the individual personalities involved. Nigel’s time is up – he should make way for someone else. If not – UKIP will eventually sink below the waterline without trace.
It is time for the members of the NEC to say to Nigel Farage:-
It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt …..
……. in the name of God, go!
Douglas Denny.
UKIP member for 15 years; ex-NEC member for 12 years and longest continuous NEC serving member except for … Nigel Farage.
I shall spare you the tedium of fisking this idiotic letter and its self serving efforts to gag the truth!
Ukip still haven’t given any kind of cogent or responsible response to the facts surrounding their fraud and corruption reported with links CLICK HERE
Then there is the abiding issue of Racism in Ukip CLICK HERE with yet further examples and dwetails being added today!
Here are a few other issues many concerning Gawain Towler, which Ukip has failed to sort out CLICK HERE you may also wish to consider CLICK HERE and HERE
It must also be considered of note that in 22 years Ukip, largely under the self serving control of Nigel Farage despite espousing Leave-The-EU has done much to enrich its leadership team and staff but little to move Britain closer to the eXit – note Ukip, under either the direct or indirect control of Farage, failed to speak out with clarity or provide well researched rebuttals of EU policy, nor was Ukip an active and visible leader against ANY EU Treaty and Ukip have never produced a responsible, well researched EU eXit and survival strategy – nor even opposed the EU New Constitution, rebranded as The Lisbon Treaty, nor did Ukip offer cogent researched briefing papers on opposing membership of The EUro.
Then to follow this point Ukip and Farage were conspicuous by their absence in the fight against The EUro project – Further you will note Ukip and Farage in particular did much to try to prevent a petition and were conspiring to undermine one of their own MEPs Nicki Sinclaire. Fortunately Nicki Sinclaire was made of sterner stuff and acted with resolution to ensure she overcame bot Nigel Farage and Ukip obtaining some 1/4 Million signatures and a debate in the House of Commons.
Perhaps the following media interpretation of the plight of Ukip may help convince of the fact that Nigel Farage may well have been the making of Ukip but he is surely now the likely cause of Ukip’s demise and he together with many of the top 50 individuals in the party and almost all the staff must be removed if Ukip is to have a future and a new leader of some stature and probity must be found.
Sadly Douglas Carswell has shown himself to be inadequate to the task, not only does he lack the leadership skills but has made it very clear he lacks the political accumen to know when and how to act, though he may be the only individual in place capable of leading the party into the May elections, as there is no one else currently apparent.
Ukip gently implodes with EU referendum finish line in sight
Political phenomenon that drove David Cameron to call EU vote is in decline but forces to which it gave voice remain strong
Nigel Farage Nigel Farage at the European council meeting in Brussels. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images
Patrick Wintour Political editor
Friday 18 December 2015 20.13 GMT Last modified on Friday 18 December 2015 21.35 GMT
There is a certain delicious irony that in the week the EU referendum bill passed into UK law and David Cameron confirmed he intends to hold that vote next year, Ukip, the political phenomenon that drove him to call the referendum in the first place, is gently imploding.
Its two main leaders – Douglas Carswell and Nigel Farage – are engaged in an open war, the party’s head office cannot afford a Christmas party and morale has fallen after the party failed to make a breakthrough in a byelection in Oldham West seemingly tailor-made for its message. Perhaps familiarity has meant Farage has lost his star quality.
Yet back in January 2013 when Cameron made his momentous speech at Bloomberg announcing the referendum, the domestic and European landscape looked so different.
Ukip had achieved a breakthrough in the 2013 European elections, topping the poll with 27% of the vote, the Conservatives were locked in a civil war about gay marriage and there were real fears that Ukip would deprive Cameron of general election victory.
One poll by ComRes, published in the Independent in December 2013, saw Ukip well over 10 points and, on this showing, the pollsters predicted an overall Labour majority of 110 seats with the Tories down 99 seats and the Liberal Democrats cut to 36. The very foundations of the Conservative party were trembling.
On mainland Europe, the Greek financial crisis was at its height with austerity budgets, riots and EU crisis summits following one after the other in bewildering succession.
Tories argue the current calm shows the wisdom of Cameron’s decision to risk the referendum. If he had failed to ask the self-consciously “difficult questions” in the Bloomberg speech, Britain might have drifted toward the EU exit, and observing the rise of the far right in Europe, Farage-ism could have turned into an unstoppable force. Advertisement
For as Cameron repeatedly argued in this week’s European summit, the forces to which Ukip gave political expression have not declined at the same rate as Ukip itself. Migration, pace of change, identity and security remain significant issues.
The question arises whether Cameron’s package – with all its technocratic language of baskets, treaty change and yellow cards – will lead anyone to think that he has negotiated the fundamental change he promised. Polling, our old unreliable friend, suggests not.
The proposed welfare reforms look timid alongside the massive global forces driving migration. But that does not mean a majority of voters will decide to leave. Faced by the old choice between risk and security, voters choose security.
At minimum, voters may be grateful that their political masters have given them a choice. The deeper question is whether Cameron’s intervention has prompted the EU to answer its questions about economic governance. In his Bloomberg speech, he said: “The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.”
“Now – while the EU is in flux, and when we don’t know what the future holds and what sort of EU will emerge from this crisis – is not the right time to make such a momentous decision about the future of our country.”
Yet many of those issues have been postponed until after the French and German elections in 2017. Some of those most basic questions about the future structure of the EU remain to be answered.
Nigel Farage says Ukip’s MP Douglas Carswell ‘can put up or shut up’
Ukip leader hits back at MP’s calls for him to resign, saying he can get behind party on immigration or leave
Nigel Farage Douglas Carswell Nigel Farage and Douglas Carswell. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
Rowena Mason Political correspondent
Friday 18 December 2015 15.20 GMT Last modified on Saturday 19 December 2015 00.02 GMT
Ukip leader Nigel Farage has warned his only MP Douglas Carswell that he must stop criticising his leadership and get behind its anti-immigration message, or think about leaving the party.
Farage accused his MP of creating disunity and failing to sign up to its core belief that immigration is out of control, after Carswell said it was time for a change of leadership to draw a line under Ukip’s unpleasant and socially illiberal image.
The row reignites longstanding tensions between the two men ever since Carswell defected from the Conservatives 18 months ago. However, this is the first time Carswell has called for him to resign outright.
Farage hit back at him in an appearance on the BBC’s Daily Politics, suggesting that Ukip’s ruling body would not put up with any more public dissent from Carswell.
Making it clear he was not going to fight to keep his single elected MP, Farage said: “He’s one person. So what? Every single time there is a Ukip conference it finishes with a story of disunity and it is all being caused by one person. And frankly, I think it’s going to have to end. He’s going to have to put up or shut up.
“Either he accepts Ukip is unified, not just behind its leadership but behind believing controlling our borders and dealing with immigration is a fundamental issue in British politics, either he’s going to have to accept that or do something different. The stories you need to read, in one handy email Read more
Asked if Carswell would leave the party, Farage said: “I don’t know what he wants to do. It will not be me who makes these decisions it will be Douglas that makes these decisions.
“We know he agrees with us on the question of EU membership. The difficulty is that we think controlling immigration, having an Australian-style point system is the right way forward. He seems to feel it’s a bit too awkward to talk about these things…. He’s been a part of it but he must decide whether he wants to continue to be a part of it.”
Pressed on whether Carswell would have to leave if he will not curb his criticisms, Farage said: “We cannot have and I don’t think the NEC will allow one individual to give an impression to the country that Ukip is divided when actually it is very united.” Advertisement
The Ukip leader also claimed to have the unanimous support of his party’s national executive, his MEPs and 91.4% of Ukip voters based on a recent opinion poll.
Carswell has ruled out running for the leadership himself but believes the party needed a fresh face to get to the “next level” of electoral success.
Although he praised Farage for growing the party, he also said that sometima startup “needs to change gear and to change its management”.
He made the comments an interview with BBC Essex as part of a documentary, in which he also criticised Farage for suggesting Ukip’s failure to challenge Labour in the Oldham byelection was linked to fraudulent postal votes.
“Let me put it another way: I don’t want to wake up the morning after the European referendum and hear people saying ‘it was the postal votes’.”
He added: “If Ukip becomes that – that optimistic, sunshine, smiley, socially liberal, unapologetically free-market party – we will break out from the 13%, we will break out from being the also-rans in Oldham to being the winner.”
There has been tension between the two for a while, and it bubbled over during the summer in a row about party funding, Carswell’s criticism of Farage’s comments about migrants with HIV and again at Ukip’s conference over the party’s decision to back rival anti-EU campaigns.
Farage told the BBC: “It hasn’t hit me cold – he has been saying this privately for some months.” However, the Ukip leader insisted the party was “very united”.
“We have one person who disagrees with my leadership. Douglas Carswell is out on a limb.”
The roots of the argument are Farage and Carswell’s differing approaches to the EU referendum, in which the Ukip leader wants to focus on the dangers of migration to the UK. In contrast, Carswell takes a more liberal view of immigration and is working on a more cross-party basis on the Brexit campaign.
Many Tory Eurosceptics and some within Ukip are worried that Farage is too divisive a figure to be associated with the EU exit campaign.
Farage initially stepped down after failing to win his target seat of South Thanet at the general election. However, he changed his mind, prompting a bout of infighting in the party.
At the time, Carswell suggested Farage needed to “take a break” and Ukip MEP Patrick O’Flynn described the leader’s style as snarling and aggressive.
UKIP IN MELTDOWN AS FARAGE TELLS CARSWELL TO ‘PUT UP OR SHUT UP’
Carswell says the party needs a ‘fresh face’ as leader
December 18, 2015, By Josh Pettitt
At war (PA)
Nigel Farage has told UKIP’s only MP to “put up or shut up” after calling for the party leader to quit.
Douglas Carswell blamed Mr Farage for UKIP’s unpleasant image and the party’s poor performance in the Oldham by-election this month.
The MP for Clacton blasted the UKIP leader for blaming the result – which saw UKIP come a distant second – on “bent” postal votes and called for a “fresh face” at the top of the party.
‘HAVING A GO AT ME DAILY’
But this morning Mr Farage hit back, telling Sky News: “He has been having a go at me every single day since the general election, it’s just that he has been doing it in private, briefing members, officials or the press or anyone that cares to listen and I’m greatly relieved that today he said it in public.”
The UKIP leader, who claimed to have the overwhelming backing of the party, added: “Douglas, frankly, must put up or shut up.”
Mr Carswell defected from the Tories in August last year but there have been signs of a rift between the pair for some time as growing support for the party failed to convert into seats in the House of Commons.
Mr Farage briefly stood down as leader of the party after a disappointing general election, but returned days later. At the time Patrick O’Flynn, an MEP and senior party figure, said the leader was “snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive” and Mr Carswell said he should “take a break”.
In a recent interview with BBC Essex, Mr Carswell said: “The Oldham by-election to me said very clearly that I think we need a fresh face.”
But he ruled himself out of running, claiming he did not have the “patience” for the role. Despite the attack on Mr Farage, the Clacton MP said he remained 100 per cent UKIP.
and to view the original of that article CLICK HERE
I trust you note just how widely the call for Nigel farage to break the habits of a lifetime and act ethically with the interests of our Country in mind not just his own self interest.
You will note that despite Farage’s catchy little barrow boy chant of ‘Put up or shut up’ Carswell has made it abundantly clear that he knows he lacks the leadership qualities required to take over.
In his quest to build his personality cult Farage has made many enemies of those who finally saw through him and were either unwilling to continue kissing his **** or doing his dirty work for him = people like Douglas Denny & 1,000s more!
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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Ukip battles to suppress Nazi bully claims amid fears the outcry could hit £5.6million funding
PUBLISHED: 01:15, 19 December 2015 | UPDATED: 01:29, 19 December 2015
When Ukip MP Douglas Carswell said his party needed an ‘optimistic message’ to stop its imminent implosion, a racist bullying scandal was perhaps not what he had in mind.
In a fresh blow for under-fire leader Nigel Farage, the party David Cameron once dubbed a bunch of ‘fruitcakes’ and ‘loonies’, is battling to suppress allegations of racist remarks towards one of its British Asian members, because the outcry could hit Ukip’s shaky finances.
I’m told that Hermann Kelly, Ukip’s European press spokesman, put pressure on party member Joshua Duroch to withdraw his complaint about being insulted with a Nazi epithet by a member of the far-Right Sweden Democrats party.
Under pressure: I’m told that Ukip party member Joshua Duroch (pictured) was pressured to withdraw his complaint about being insulted with a Nazi epithet by a member of the far-Right Sweden Democrats party
The extremist movement, whose founders included a former member of Adolf Hitler’s Waffen-SS, are Ukip’s fellow members of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group, led by Farage.
According to my man in Brussels, the Sweden Democrats are threatening to pull out of the EFDD if Duroch pursues his claim, which could put the future of the group in jeopardy — and lead to a potential 7.7 million euro (£5.6 million) cut in funding for cash-strapped Ukip, which receives the money because it is part of a wider grouping in the European Parliament.
I can reveal that the alleged altercation took place in a pub in Brussels, when Joel Ankar, an assistant to Sweden Democrats MEP Kristina Winberg, is understood to have called Duroch ‘untermensch’, the Nazi term for those deemed racially inferior.
Duroch, a Roman Catholic who supports Glasgow’s Celtic football team, complained to both Ukip and the European Parliament, and an investigation is ongoing.
‘Altercation’: Joel Ankar (left) is understood to have called Duroch ‘untermensch’, the Nazi term for those deemed racially inferior, in an alleged altercation in Brussels. Right, Ukip’s under-fire leader, Nigel Farage
Duroch is unable to comment for legal reasons and Ankar told me he is ‘not interested’ in having a conversation about Duroch.
The Sweden Democrats have made efforts in recent years to distance themselves from their white supremacist origins, when members dressed in Nazi uniforms.
When the party was admitted to the EFDD group last June — despite Farage’s previous reservations — Winberg and fellow Sweden Democrats MEP Peter Lundgren were forced to put out a statement refuting the party’s past.
Unfortunately, it seems to have caught up with them.
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Subject: Re: Nigel Farage’s latest speech in the European Parliament
I feel that suitable donations should be made to the fighting fund from the EU ( UK tax payers funded ) salaries of both Kirsten Farage and Annabelle Fuller.
In the past UKIP appear to have been eager to grab donations from people who could barely afford to pay any monies, so let’s have some transparency and donations from certain UKIP officials with the following information:
1) A complete break down of all donations/ office costs/ commissions paid and any cash transfers from the Ashford Call Centre which was controlled by Nigel Farage and John Moran out side of the UKIP NEC and the local area committee. This should include a full list of all proceeds and bank transfers ! After all this money was donated for the UKIP campaign over the whole country.
2) A full break down of all MEP’s monies / services donated to the party, including that of Nigel Farage over the years.
3) The financial accounts and breakdown of all EU monies that are given to UKIP because it belonged to an EU group in the parliament.
4) Financial records of EU monies by UKIP MEP’s belonging to a Pan European Party.
5) Donations made to UKIP by its high ranking officials. I have enclosed a sample below, but please supply a full list.
A) Steve Crowther salary was estimated at £100,000 per year
B) Will Gilpin salary was estimated at £85,000 per year
C) Lisa Duffy salary was estimated at £65,000 per year plus partner Pete Reeve salary combined with their council salaries.
UKIP is supposed to be a honest, transparent and Democratic Party which detests the corrupt hidden transactions of the EU and so should be open with the above information.
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Chris
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To provide some background to Ukip’s style of corruption and dishonesty with its rigged internal elections, lack of ethics and integrity, dishonesty and obfusscation in handling other people’s money and donations and more:
Do you know why I was expelled from UKIP? – Statement from Cllr Chris Pain
April 23, 2014
I was a long standing party member for 8 years and a hard working loyal activist, achieving some of the best results for UKIP in any General Election. These efforts were instrumental in getting 16 County Councillors elected, thus becoming the official opposition on the Council, after beating the Tories in 9 out of 11 seats in the Boston/Skegness constituency. The prospect of this being UKIP’s first parliamentary seat was very high. Why would the leadership throw this away?
Everything enclosed in this email is backed up by evidence. I have been silent until now, but I believe it is time that all UKIP members were made aware of the real reason that I was expelled, rather than the ‘spin’ and lies that have come from certain persons within the party. When you consider the entire evidence, take into consideration that Nigel Farage has now stated different versions why I was thrown out of the party: for racialism which he did on prime TV, because of the Derek Clark incident. At no time did any of the panel read the evidence that Nigel Farage, Steve Crowther were involved in removing me from the party as early as May 2013, because it incriminated the top people in the party.
Matthew Richardson has also played a part in driving me out of the party. He is the UKIP Party Secretary and Director whilst also being the YBF Executive Director. If you look at their website you will find the following information, quote “YBF is a British conservative not-for-profit training, YBF enjoys close links with the British Conservative Party.”
HOW THINGS HAPPENED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
1. THE FIRST THING
Nigel Farage refused to attend the East Midland Training Conference at Skegness in 2013
2. BOSTON/SKEGNESS PARTY POLITICAL CANDIDATE (PPC)
Lisa Duffy, Party Director, tried to take away my PPC for Boston/Skegness at the NEC meeting on the 6th May, 2013. She stated that she and Steve Crowther hadn’t been notified of the hustings. I proved that I had been adopted by producing copy emails which had been sent to them both, by Don Ransome Regional Organiser, giving them the required notice. It was discovered that Don Ransome, UKIP’s paid Regional Organiser, had wiped the emails from his computer. (The Regional Organiser and his wife have had a legal letter to stop them spreading lies and defaming my character.) The NEC voted unanimously in favour of my adoption.
3. RACIST COMMENTS
At the end of May last year my Facebook was cloned and was posted to ‘Hope Not Hate,’ who immediately forwarded it to the Sunday Mirror.
Monday 3rd June, 2013 at the NEC monthly meeting, I was questioned about the posting. I produced several hundred Facebook members’ statements, confirming that they had never seen anything racist or untoward on my site, or elsewhere attributed towards me. These people were linked to me personally so that any post I made was automatically posted to their computers. I had letters from friends of all nationalities stating that they had known me for years and that I was not racist.
Steve Crowther presented a case that these posts had been on my Facebook page and been deleted. I stated quite categorically that the posts had never been on my site at anytime.
The following week, I explained to Steve Crowther that I had evidence, produced by an IT expert, which confirmed that the racialist comments were never on my Facebook.
Steve Crowther maintained that it would not make a difference. I told him of course it did, as obviously, if they were never there in the first place, then how could I have deleted them.
In addition Steve Crowther advised that I had never reported the incident to the police. This was reported to the Skegness Police Force and ultimately passed on to Action Fraud – Crime Reference Number NFRC130500251709 that refers. There was also a full CID investigation into the incident. Mr Crowther, with his ulterior motivies, persuaded the NEC that I was a liar, with his own spin on the situation, without any actual evidence. I was suspended from the NEC for three months pending the outcome of the police investigation of which I was cleared.
4. BEHIND THE SCENES
Steve Crowther sent an email instructing Pete Reeves to remove me as leader of the UKIP Lincolnshire County Councillors, despite which four attempts were made and failed before Steve Crowther finally suspended me from the party. Two ex Conservatives, Victoria Ayling and Robin Hunter-Clarke, were allowed into the party and became elected councillors for UKIP in Lincolnshire, being pushed to the forefront by the leadership. These persons subsequently received an email from Steve Crowther advising them of my suspension. No other UKIP Councillor has received such an email. Victoria Ayling and Robin Hunter Clark then approached the Chief Executive of Lincolnshire County Council to persuade him to remove me from my UKIP Group, at the same time disrupting the Group, making constant attempts to remove me as Leader. They had already been removed as Deputy Leaders, by unanimous vote, because of their continuous disruption and none attendance. They went on to break our groups constitution by organising a separate meeting in respect of which only Councillors of their choosing were notified. All this time false information was being leaked to the press.
In June 2013, all elected Councillors were invited to Brussels. John Beaver was directly involved in a conversation with Nigel Farage during which Nigel stated that Chris Pain was no longer in favour with the party and would soon be excluded.
5. FLAWED MEP SELECTION PROCESS
On the 18th August 2013, I forwarded an email which had been sent to UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass.
In this email Steve Crowther states:-
“This NEC notes the technical procedural failure in relation to the appointment of the selection panels for the selection of MEPs. Further notes that the process was carried out by the following people acting as a de facto selection panel.”
(De Facto means as a fact authority being exercised or an entity acting as if it had authority, even though the legal requirements have not been met.)
Doug Denny stated:
“The appointment of independent persons was to be by the delegated, by an independent sub-committee of the NEC, not by the full NEC, nor by any individual.
At no time was Steve Crowther given delegated powers by the NEC to appoint these people. There is nowhere in the minutes to show he had these delegated powers conferred. The selection procedure using delegated people for the personal assessments is, I believe, seriously flawed, probably fatally so.
The people for the selection / assessment panel were appointed by Steve Crowther without approval of the NEC members in a vote. The whole procedure is therefore flawed if this is correct. The MEP selection process was changed by Steve Crowther against the wishes of the Regional Chairmen and party Activists.”
6. CONSPIRACY – WILL GILPIN, EX CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF UKIP
The intention to take me out of the party was confirmed in a (recorded) conversation with Will Gillpin, UKIP Chief Executive Officer and also several other senior UKIP members. See verbatim conversation below:-
Chris Pain: “Well did Steve have any conversations with you or anything separately or?”
Will Gilpin: “I’ll give you an honest answer which is I can’t remember the details, but I was well aware that Steve Crowther had a lot of activity towards you and had made it very clear that he would like to get you out of the party, and would do whatever he could to achieve that.”
Will Gilpin: “Do you remember when you arranged your conference; you invited me and Katie to speak at it, or me to speak at it. I turned you down because Steve Crowther gave me a direct order that I wasn’t to attend, and that I wasn’t to have anything to do with you, and given that he was paying my pay cheque went along. Just because, Steve Crowther’s argument to me was basically that the conference was a project designed to get you elected, and as we didn’t want to get you elected, we had to do our best to not support it”
Chris Pain: “ I mean was it ever said why he wanted me out the party, has he ever dropped that reason out, or…? Is it down to Nigel or…?
Will Gillpin: “Yeah, it’s all been partly down to Nigel. I think it’s because you’re pushy and Nigel doesn’t like anyone pushy because they might go for the leadership at some point.”
*The lack of attendance of UKIP speakers caused the Gala Night, Sunday training and PPC assessment day to be cancelled. We were also fined for late cancellation. Although Steve Crowther’s actions hampered the weekend, the Conference day was a success.
7. MY RESIGNATION FROM THE NEC
2nd September 2013
I resigned from the NEC. I decided I could no longer rubber stamp what I deemed to be a flawed MEP selection process. I could not condone the way the NEC business is conducted i.e. in total secrecy, not informing the members of its actions, or how people vote. I believe this to be totally undemocratic and with this in mind I typed out my resignation from the NEC.
I also on this date registered my disapproval re Steve Crowther’s lack of integrity and the flawed MEP selection process. I presented the transcript of Will Gilpin’s recording to the NEC. Despite this Matthew Richardson and Jonathan Arnott refused to allow the recording be played, stating that I could forward the recording to NEC members, advising that my complaint against Steve Crowther, re the flawed MEP selection process and the email that I sent to Mike Nattrass, would be looked at during the NEC meeting in October as it was classed as not urgent.
8. SUSPENSION
Friday the 6th September
After producing this information I was suspended from the party on the following by Steve Crowther using his emergency disciplinary powers, and referring to the Will Gilpin recorded conversation. At this stage I must point out that as an NEC Member, (which means I was a Director of UKIP Ltd), I was entitled to record any evidence of wrong-doing within the party/company. In addition it is not illegal to record a conversation in one’s own home.
9. EXPULSION
11th September I was expelled from the group of Councillors. 5 UKIP long standing members supported me as they were aware of previous events, which had lead to the expulsion.
12th September
Notice of a disciplinary hearing to be held on the 18th September. My solicitor chased for case documents from UKIP and this appeared over the weekend. This left only 48 hours which to avail myself of all the allegations. My legal representation and I questioned the makeup of the panel, which could hardly have been classed as impartial.
10. THE HEARING
I was able to prove at the hearing that all the statements and accusations made against me were false. The only query involved an apparent difference in the structure of emails, surrounding the attachments, which appeared to the amateur, to have been presented in different ways. Being untrained in IT myself, I was unable at the time to produce an answer. (After, consulting with an experienced technician later, it appears that these differences relate solely to the type of systems in operation in each case.)
Apart from the computer issue I answered all accusations truthfully and with a clear conscience, despite which I was still expelled from the party. The primary issue at the hearing was the forwarding of the email and recording. I produced evidence that Mrs Pain Senior sent the recording and email’s, whilst I was not in the office and was on site at a Planning meeting.
Matthew Richardson stated at the end of the hearing:
“well we’ve explained in the sense that we agree with the Chairman’s reasoning, that the dissemination of this material is damaging to the party and erm, as a result we have no choice but to expel you”.
At the hearing it was stated by Matthew Richardson that he would be recording the hearing and provide a copy of the recording and the transcript. No recording was provided and the transcript was eventually sent. I can prove the transcript is both inaccurate and has been altered.
11. UKIP CONFERENCE
At the UKIP conference, three UKIP Lincolnshire Councillors were discussing the situation regarding me when Nigel Farage walked into the room. He said nothing for a while then said see verbatim conversation below:-
Nigel Farage: “Pain had caused trouble for the party for a long time” Alan Jesson: “What do you mean by that” Nigel Farage: “He had made allegations against Derek Clark MEP, and that he, Pain, was a troublemaker and not to be trusted.”
Alan Jesson: “What about all the good work Chris has done and Lincolnshire needed Chris.”
Nigel Farage: “UKIP is bigger than Pain, and Pain was not coming back into the party.”
Alan Jesson: “Chris will be appealing”Nigel Farage got mad and started banging his fists on the table
Nigel Farage: “I have no influence over the appeal, but I tell you now that Pain is not coming back into the party”
I need to clarify, at this stage, that the East Midlands Committee asked Derek Clark to stand down as chairman. I have EMCC minutes to prove that Charles Swaby had raised the issue of Derek Clark, as per NEC rules that he wasn’t entitled to be Chairman. There were several discrepancies over Derek Clark’s OLAF investigation where he was found guilty. He had to repay over £30,000.00 back to the EU because of misuse of his allowances. He lied to the committee regarding this fact. There was also his involvement in the Leicester by election and flawed Mayoral candidate. The vote was unanimous by the East Midlands Committee to remove Derek. Derek’s response was to disband the EMCC committee at the start of the meeting, without the committee’s prior knowledge.
12. SUPPORTING COUNCILLORS EXPELLED
The 5 Councillors that supported me had an email confirming that they had done nothing wrong and were ‘in good standing with the party’. Matthew Richardson stated he would come to Lincolnshire to resolve the issue, he never came. These Councillors were subsequently expelled from UKIP for supposedly forming a political party, which was proved at their hearing, not to be the case and confirmed by Lincolnshire County Council and Lincolnshire Echo. They were promised notification by December after my appeal had been heard, about their situation. To date they have heard nothing from the party.
13. APPEAL HEARING
The panel at my Appeal hearing should have been unbiased but two out of the three who sat on the panel were EFD employees, paid and controlled by Nigel Farage.
Unable to attend the hearing due to Council commitments, I had asked for 3 alternative dates to be set, once the Data information that I had requested had been received. Jonathan Arnott stated if I couldn’t attend on the date they had set, the hearing would go ahead without me. This breaks UKIP’s constitution that states that the ‘appellant’ should be present, and also breaks the case of natural justice in the court of law. Data Request information has still not been forth coming to date.
After reading the Appeals panel conclusion I once more discovered that Steve Crowther had lied to the panel. The panel stated that I was expelled because of the email that was sent to Mike Nattrass, which means I was thrown out of UKIP for whistle blowing on the flawed MEP selection process.
I have evidence which shows that Matthew Richardson has instructed the NEC to alter previous NEC minutes to suit Steve Crowthers actions.
One thing for consideration is that I was anti any pre election packs between UKIP and the Conservative party. This is where UKIP members would stand down in safe Tory seats. Nine regional chairmen had supported me in favour of regional MEP selections. I would not betray members or the British public.
If you need any proof of all of the above please ask.
To view the original of the statement above CLICK HERE
There are clearly many many more examples of self serving dishonesty and corruption within Ukip particularly in the upper management and leaderrship group – such as:
Ukip still haven’t given any kind of cogent or responsible response to the facts surrounding their fraud and corruption reported with links CLICK HERE
Then there is the abiding issue of Racism in Ukip CLICK HERE
Here are a few other issues mostly concerning Gawain Towler, which Ukip has failed to sort out CLICK HERE
Regards, Greg_L-W.
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