Ukip’s Self Important Ferrets Back To Fighting Over The Garbage! As they knife eachother in the back to be the strutting cock on the Ukip dung heap! Crowing rights will be awarded to the last one left standing in the ruins bequeathed by Nigel Farage & befouled by themselves!
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Hi,
Ukip’s been having a massive Sunday morning fight before most people even woke up
Suzanne Evans and Paul Nuttall launched leadership bids but loads of people are having a go at each other. Here’s what happened before brunch
Confused, Nigel? So are we. Here’s what’s been going on in your party
Good morning and happy Sunday.
Lots of you have barely woken up, but Ukip’s been very busy having an enormous fight.
Big beasts Suzanne Evans and Paul Nuttall both launched leadership bids – but there’s now a catty row involving top party figures including Nigel Farage.
All before brunch is officially over.
So what the heck’s been going on today in the Eurosceptic party?
Here’s a quick guide to the latest Ukip row… so far.
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Steven Woolfe quits Ukip saying poisonous atmosphere left party in a ‘death spiral’
9.18am: Suzanne Evans revealed she’ll run for leader
Former acting leader Suzanne Evans, who’s back after being suspended for “disloyalty”, was on TV this morning to launch her leadership bid.
She vowed to make the party less “toxic” and move it to the centre ground as she takes over from Nigel Farage and 18-day leader Diane James.
She told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show she came from a “working-class Labour” background.
When he replied “you were a Tory councillor!” she bizarrely replied: “I was a Tory councillor, exactly!”
9.20am: She immediately attacked her “far-right” rival
BBC BBC Suzanne Evans on The Andrew Marr Suzanne Evans was pulling no punches
Suzanne Evans laid into rival candidate Raheem Kassam, a controversial ex-Farage aide who runs the “alt right” Breitbart website and whose slogan is “Make Ukip Great Again”.
Asked if he was “far-right”, she said: “Yes. Absolutely.
“I don’t think there’s any doubt about that and I don’t think our members want that.”
She added: “Our future as a political party in Britain does not lie in that far-right wing.
“I don’t see a groundswell of opinion in this country for more far-right wing policies. I don’t see a groundswell of opinion for the right to bear arms in America.”
9.24am: And slagged off Ukip’s biggest donor
She said it Arron Banks “walked tomorrow Ukip could survive perfectly well” She disowned millionaire Ukip donor Arron Banks despite Ukip losing its London office in a financial pickle.
“I have been 100% assured that actually we are not doing nearly as badly as the headlines suggest,” she boasted.
“Arron Banks is by no means our major donor.
“If he walked tomorrow Ukip could survive perfectly well without him.”
Ukip’s three-time leader told ITV’s Peston on Sunday: “For her to talk about the party being toxic, for her to already declare one of the candidates who is running, Raheem Kassam, as being far-right, I don’t view this as being a very good start.
“I have to say they are the sort of things she said to me – after the general election she said to me I shouldn’t take any part at all in the referendum campaign, I was toxic, immigration shouldn’t be discussed with the British public.
“I think she has been in the wrong place ever since that.”
He added: “I won’t be voting for her, not after that, no.”
10.11am: And neither did Mr ‘Far Right’
Raheem Kassam sent out a fuming press release saying: “This is a project fear tactic and UKIPers are sick of these smears.”
He compared Ms Evans’ comments to Hillary Clinton describing Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables”.
And he even quoted Michelle Obama: “We’re going to rise above it. When she goes low, we go high.”
10.12am: Oh, also Farage had a go at this bloke
Farage won’t be giving Steven Woolfe a hand with any of his political issues in future
Farage also lashed out at his former protege Steven Woolfe , who quit the party last week following his bust up with fellow UKIP MEP Mike Hookem.
Before the bust-up, Woolfe had been a prime leadership candidate.
He said Woolfe was “a guy of talent but sometimes too much ambition gets the better of you.”
He added cattily: ” Steven Woolfe spoke of the downward spiral of UKIP – it was the downward spiral of Steven Woolfe”.
11.04am: And this guy warned Ukip may ‘fall off a cliff’
BBC Paul Nuttall launched his bid to lead the party he says could be annihilated
Former Ukip deputy Paul Nuttall announced his leadership bid – the second of the morning – on the BBC’s Sunday Politics.
He said: “I want to stand on a platform of being the unity candidate. Ukip needs to come together.
“I’m not going to be on here and gild the lily. Ukip at the moment is looking over the edge of a political cliff. It will either step off or it will step back and I want to be the candidate that will tell us to come backwards.
“Students of political history know political movements and political parties take a long time to get going and build, it’s taken us over 20 years, but they can disappear pretty quickly.
“Ukip is facing an existential crisis. What’s happened over the summer, we could be getting onto a spiral which we couldn’t get off.
“But I believe I am the man to bring the factions together, to create unity within the party, and to build and restructure and get us ready for the coming challenges.”
11.13am: Meanwhile, Ukip’s press chief asked the big questions
11.24am: And Mr ‘Far Right’ fought back
Sky News Raheem Kassam said not many right-wingers will vote for a bloke called Kassam
Raheem Kassam then went on Sky News and fought back at Suzanne Evans’ claims he’s from the “far right”.
He fumed: “When she does things like this it undermines her, it undermines her campaign and it’s an attack on lots of her party members.”
He admitted being friends with former EDL chief Tommy Robinson and backed dental checks on child refugees.
But he said: “How many members of the far right are going to join a party led by a chap called Raheem Kassam?”
UPDATE: 12.28pm: And accused his rival of a ‘personal tirade’
Mr Kassam sent all Westminster journalists a copy of a personal e-mail to Ms Evans.
“You embarked upon a personal tirade against me, calling me and my supporters – numbering in the high thousands – far right”, he moaned.
“I would hereby request that you cease referring to vast swathes of Ukip as far right and embark upon a positive campaign.”
I wonder when Arron Banks will finally wake up and smell the coffee and realise it is over, only to wander off with Nigel’s hand in his pocket to form The Grass Roots Party they keep dithering on the edge of as they wait for Nigel to either get his German Passport or be charged for fraud!
Regards, Greg_L-W.
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V.C. : Vi Coactus By A Deeply Untrustworthy Candidate!
When you consider the track record of Diane James, her last minute standown as PPC in the General Election and her deeply suspect CV – Hardly leadership material!
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Hi,
Susanne Evans was silenced during the last leadership election
Risibly Lisa Duffy thought she was a suitable candidate
but was hugely outclassed by the inexperienced
& unenthusiastic Diane James!
Steven Wolfe thought he was capable to lead
But failed to declare his criminal conviction
& was too incompetent to fill in his own application
on time! Clearly not a man for the simplest of detail!
Thus Diane James won in a mud slide victory
in which there was a very low turnout
But as I warned she was untrustworthy
& let the party down within 18 days!
Surely she must have realised the party had no money,
less ability & it was like a bunch of ferrets fighting in a sack.
You will note it was not until 22-09-2016 Ukip Treasurer signed
Diane James’ notification as leader to the Electoral Commission
&
Diane James signed (Vi Coactus : Under Duress!) on 30-09-2016
so at best Diane James was leader for 3 maybe 4 days
BUT REMAINS LEADER until a new leader is appointed
Nigel Farage IS NOT interim leader he left office when
Diane James advised the Electoral Commission,
which you will note was 30-09-2016!
Nigel Farage can’t just disrupt Ukip by stepping in & out of office
to suit his o0wn agenda.
Nigel Farage had spent years ensuring no one of competence survived in Ukip
hence the joke list of MEPs, NEC members & officers.
Farage totally lacked leadership qualities
He was just a glib speaker & affable rogue
with a ruthless determination for his personal aggrandisement
and power, as a key to enrichment.
One wonders if this is all a charade
Put on to show just how much damage Nigel Farage
has done with his one man band approach to leadership!
#Diane_James, unsurprisingly, quits as #Ukip leader after 18 days, must have seen the books and knows you can do nothing almost £1M in debt!
Diane James has quit as Ukip leader just 18 days into her leadership after being spat at on train platform – paving the way for Steven Woolfe to take over (but Farage says he wouldn’t come back for 10m dollars)
Diane James has sensationally quit as Ukip leader after just 18 days in role
Published: 21:30, 4 October 2016 | Updated: 23:52, 4 October 2016
Diane James has sensationally quit as Ukip leader tonight just 18 days after winning the race to succeed Nigel Farage.
Party sources said the 51-year-old had been ‘deeply unhappy’ in her new role and had given up because of personal reasons.
Reports suggest she ‘shaken’ after being spat at on a train on her way to Cardiff last week, and did not feel she had assurances from some members of her party.
Bookies immediately installed Mr Farage at 10-1 to make an extraordinary return to the helm of the Eurosceptic party that has been riven by infighting since the referendum.
But he said tonight that he would not return for ‘ten million dollars’. Asked if he would take $20 million, he insisted: ‘No I’m not coming back, I’m really retired.’
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Diane James has sensationally quit as Ukip leader tonight just 18 days after winning the race to succeed Nigel Farage. Party sources said the 51-year-old had been ‘deeply unhappy’ in the role
Bookies immediately installed Mr Farage at 10-1 to make an extraordinary return to the helm of the Eurosceptic party but he said tonight that he would not return for ‘ten million dollars’
Ms James took over Ukip less than three weeks ago with a promise to ‘wipe the slate clean’ after a summer of bitter rows.
She was seen as Mr Farage’s pick for the post after he resigned on the back of Brexit success – insisting he wanted to get his ‘life back’ after decades hammering at the political establishment.
But insiders claim Ms James never really wanted the role and when signed her official declaration with V.C., signifying Vi coactus the Latin term for under duress.
Ukip appeared in chaos at Ms James’ apparent resignation tonight and senior sources in the party were unavailable.
Earlier today party figures held crisis talks with her in attempt to persuade her not to stand down.
But she is said to have insisted because of her unhappiness in the role and personal issues including the illness of her partner.
Ms James, who had dinner with Mr Farage in Strasbourg before announcing her resignation, reportedly felt ‘shaken’ after being spat at on a train on her way to Cardiff last week, The Times reported.
She is said to have been reluctant to continue leading the party without assurances about funding and had complained about Ukip’s finances, the newspaper reported.
It has become clear that I do not have sufficient authority nor the full support of all my MEP colleagues and party officers to implement changes I believe necessary and upon which I based my campaign
Statement from Diane James
In a statement announcing her decision to step down tonight, she said: ‘It is with great regret that I announce that I will not be formalising my recent nomination to become the new leader of the party with the Electoral Commission.
‘Having won the enthusiastic support of party members, I was nominated by them as the new leader. Since that time I have been in discussion with party officers about the role.
‘It has become clear that I do not have sufficient authority nor the full support of all my MEP colleagues and party officers to implement changes I believe necessary and upon which I based my campaign.
‘For personal and professional reasons, therefore, I will not take the election process further.
‘I will continue to concentrate fully on my activities and responsibilities as an elected UKIP Member of the European Parliament for SE UK Region.
‘This is my final media statement on this issue.’
Diane James has sensationally quit as Ukip leader tonight just 18 days after winning the race
Steven Woolfe (right) – who was left out of the summer contest after failing to submit his membership papers on time – is the bookmakers’ early favourite. Other candidates could be Suzanne Evans (left), barred from the summer contest, or Bill Etheridge who finished third
Ms James was seen having a heated debate with fellow MEPs in a café at the European Parliament in Strasbourg this afternoon.
She is understood to have fled to her hotel room before later cancelling a planned speech in the chamber at the last minute.
A Ukip spokesman refused to confirm or deny whether Ms James had stood down, but a senior source told MailOnline rumours of the resignation were ‘true’.
The party’s only MP Douglas Carswell insisted he knew nothing on Twitter and would not interrupt his dinner to find out.
After being contacted about the resignation, he said: ‘In the middle of supper. Not taking calls about UKIP stuff. It’s shepherds pie, by the way.’
He added to MailOnline: ‘I’m both sad and surprised, I hope she’s OK.’
Married 56-year-old Diane James waves as she is introduced at the UKIP Autumn Conference less than three weeks ago
In a further bizarre twist, it appeared Ms James may never have been officially installed as party leader by the election’s watchdog.
Yesterday, the Electoral Commission confirmed to HuffPost UK it had not received the paperwork from Ukip confirming James was the party’s new leader.
A spokesman said: ‘We have been in contact with UKIP and are expecting the party’s leadership change to be confirmed shortly.’
The failure to send the proper paperwork to the Electoral Commission could mean Mr Farage is technically still Ukip leader tonight despite the fact he has resigned twice in 18 months.
Ms James’ early departure has raised speculation that her predecessor Mr Farage could make a return.
However, bookmakers have placed him at 10/1 odds to make a comeback, with Steven Woolfe – who was left out of the summer contest after failing to submit his membership papers on time – the early favourite. Other candidates could be Suzanne Evans, barred from the summer contest, or Bill Etheridge, who finished a distant third last time out.
Ms Evans confirmed that her suspension from Ukip had been lifted, clearing the way for her to enter any leadership race.
But she declined to say whether she was considering throwing her hat into the ring, telling PA: ‘I think we all need to see what happens over the next few hours.’
She added: ‘There is not a contest yet. I’m unable therefore to rule anything in or out.’
Earlier today party figures held crisis talks with Ms James in attempt to persuade her not to stand down. She is pictured alongside Nigel Farage after being appointed just 18 days ago
Nigel Farage made a triumphant final appearance as Ukip leader at Party conference on September 16 but tonight ruled out returning as party leader saying you ‘couldn’t pay him’
Ms James, an MEP, became the first woman to lead the Eurosceptic party when she won the contest to replace Mr Farage on September 16.
The front-runner throughout the leadership campaign, she was backed by supporters of Mr Farage and Ukip’s millionaire funder Arron Banks.
Her landslide victory, which saw her gain 47 per cent of the vote, was made at the party’s annual conference in Bournemouth just a fortnight ago.
It came after months of infighting between different factions divided by the tactics used in the referendum on the European Union.
Ms James had been criticised within the party for being too close to Mr Farage. But during her first speech as leader, she declared: ‘I’m not Nigel-like, I’m not even Nigel-lite – and I will never, ever pretend to be so.’
She raised eyebrows last year in an interview where she had declared her admiration for the Russian president, saying that Vladimir Putin was ‘a strong leader’ who stands up for his country.
She began her leadership campaign by declaring there were no skeletons in her closet, but the Mail revealed she had been involved in the break-up of two marriages.
In 1998 a tabloid newspaper exposed her affair with senior MoD official Ron Smith, a married man and aide to then-Labour defence secretary George Robertson.
By 2005, Ms James, who attended Rochester Girls Grammar School, had taken up with another married man – John Forrest, who is 17 years her senior and had been married for 32 years at the time. The couple now live in a secluded £1million house in Surrey.
A KEEN DANCER AND ANTIQUES COLLECTOR WHO PROMISED TO HAVE ‘LASER FOCUS’ IN UKIP ROLE… BUT LASTED 18 DAYS
Diane James became the first woman to lead the Eurosceptic party when she won the contest to replace Nigel Farage last month
Diane James, who has stepped down as Ukip leader after just 18 days in the role, became the first woman to lead the Eurosceptic party when she won the contest to replace Nigel Farage on September 16.
Ms James, the front-runner throughout the leadership campaign, was backed by supporters of Mr Farage and Ukip’s millionaire funder Arron Banks.
During the contest she promised to have a ‘laser focus’ on the Brexit negotiations, but refused to set out any policies, insisting she did not want to make ‘policy on the hoof’.
After a career in the healthcare sector, Ms James first won election to Waverley Borough Council in Surrey as an independent in 2007 after becoming ‘disillusioned’ with the Conservatives.
She switched to Ukip in 2011 and shot to national prominence in 2013 when she fought the parliamentary by-election in Eastleigh, Hampshire, resulting from the downfall of Cabinet minister Chris Huhne, who was jailed for lying about a speeding offence.
She came close to taking the seat from the Liberal Democrats, coming second with 27.8% – fewer than 2,000 votes behind the winning candidate.
Ms James, 56, was elected to the European Parliament as an MEP for South East England in 2014, as part of the political ‘earthquake’ achieved as Ukip became the first non-mainstream party in modern times to win a national election in the UK.
She was appointed Ukip’s deputy chairwoman and home affairs spokeswoman, but stood aside from a planned bid to become an MP in the general election in 2015 for ‘personal reasons’, after being selected as candidate for North West Hampshire.
Ms James raised some eyebrows in a 2015 interview by declaring her admiration for Russian president Vladimir Putin, describing him as ‘a strong leader’ who stands up for his country.
Educated at Rochester Girls Grammar School and Thames Valley University, she is a keen dancer who also lists antiques among her interests and speaks French and German.
Her elevation to the leadership meant that Ukip joined the Conservatives, Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru in having a female politician at the helm, while the Greens have a woman as job-sharing co-leader.
We note that Nigel Farage was recently noted in a queue at the German Embassy, along with many others seeking German passports, visas and the like! He robustly, but unconvincingly, claimed that he was not seeking a German passport!
Yet we note that The Hamburg Police went to an address in Hamburg to check on an application for a German passport and when they arrived at the address:
Paul-Sorge-Straße 133/135,
22455
Hamburg
The police we gather could not only not find the applicant but it seems that he had never lived at what is believed to be Kirsten Farage’s cousin’s flat!
I understand that a Police crime number /013753/2016 hs been raised by:
Politzei Commissariat 24,
Garstedter Weg 24,
22453
Hamburg
tel.: 040 428 652 210
I understand that Germany does not issue dual nationality passports to non Germans and that to make an application from a false address is a criminal offence!
I gather to apply for a German passport one must be domicile in Germany for 3 years at the same stable address!
Time will no doubt tell, but could this be a case for Mrs. Merkel’s Government to excersise a ‘EUropean Arrest Warrant’, a move which could make her most popular amongst the flunkies and overblown beaurocrats of the EU!
Regards, Greg_L-W.
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Nigel Farage’s Resignation Still Leaves Him Controlling UKip – As Ever! The defacto leader for 20 years is blocking those he doesn’t want and setting up the front runners!
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Farage may have stepped down, but his supporters still dominate the UKIP machine
The old joke in UKIP circles is that there is one rule of the party’s perennial bouts of in-fighting: Nigel always wins.
It was ever thus. Ask Alan Sked (if you want to hear the same denunciation he issues biannually), or Kilroy-Silk, or any of the dozens of former “senior UKIPers” who have fallen, tattered and bruised, in the wake of the People’s Army’s undisputed Generalissimo over the years. In 20-odd years of UKIP, there’s been so much internal knifing that their HQ may as well install blood-coloured carpets just to keep down cleaning costs.
Farage’s dominance rested on a number of factors: his status as his party’s pre-eminent star, his charm, his coterie of utterly dedicated supporters, his ruthlessness and, time and again, his ability to deploy the UKIP rulebook to devastating (if often controversial) effect.
The man himself has stepped down, but the Faragistes show no sign of abandoning his approach. The suspension of Suzanne Evans was just in time to prevent her running for the London Assembly, but has also proved useful to ban her from standing in the leadership contest.
Quite why this should be desirable if, as her opponents claim, she is loathed by the membership is unclear – even Arron Banks now wants to let her stand, on the basis that “she would be crushed”. That would probably be a more sustainable solution to her ongoing status as a thorn in the side of the party’s dominant faction, but it simply isn’t the way things have been done in UKIP historically. If the rulebook can be used to close someone out entirely, without all the hassle of an open contest, that’s what they’ll choose.
Farage was also routinely helped by the blunders of his opponents. Sked was unworldly, and allowed his academic mindset to obscure questions of practical politics. Kilroy-Silk weakened his position by declaring that UKIP wanted to “kill” the Conservative Party – something Farage would happily say in modern times, but which back then caused a lot of disquiet in the grassroots.
While his party’s success has made it harder to dislodge his enemies entirely – Neil Hamilton has secured himself in the Welsh Assembly, and Carswell provided a Westminster refuge for Evans – it seems the familiar story still holds true. This morning’s press conference, called by Evans, was billed as a “significant statement”. Speculation ran rife. Would she be declaring her candidacy, having found some way round the suspension? Might she defect back to the Conservatives?
In fact, it was rather less exciting. Evans said she had “given up hope” of being allowed to stand for the leadership, said she would be sticking with the party and threw her support behind Lisa Duffy.
Lisa who? Well, quite. Duffy is a councillor, chief of staff to Patrick O’Flynn and the former head of UKIP’s by-election campaigns. I haven’t met her, and from what I hear she is capable and nice, but she isn’t a heavyweight contender in the race to find a successor to the defining personality of the party.
In short, while Farage has stepped down, his team continue his dominance. Not only has Evans been excluded from the leadership race, through a classic rulebook manoeuvre, but she has made an error by backing a candidate who is unlikely to trouble Steven Woolfe, the odds-on favourite.
It may not always be that way, of course. Farage’s ruthlessness and occasional brutality were softened by his charm and skill – and various of his followers lack the latter redeeming qualities. Nor are some of those who now find themselves in charge of UKIP as capable in a faction fight as he was. Plus, if he does win, Woolfe is neither Farage reborn nor a simple puppet – he has a somewhat different set of principles, and a very different manner. If gets the room to be his own man, he could yet build a powerbase that allows him to define his party for himself. Though those who would lose out in such a circumstance will presumably be keen to prevent that happening.
Ukip, Nigel Farage & Power Struggles WILL LOSE The Referendum For BreXit – Just as the 1975 Referendum was lost by the British peoples’ best interests due to a lack of coherent plan, FUD, the lies of the EU & Government & squabbling!
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Hi,
Ukip are squabbling like ferrets in a sack – just for a change!
This time it is a power struggle where Nigel Farage would seem willing to do absolutely anything to get his hands on the cash available if ‘Grassroots-Out’ aka ‘Leave-EU’ can get the designation in the EU Referendum.
Susanne Evans together with a few cronies, just doesn’t seem to believe Nigel Farage can be trusted and have joined his opposition contesting for designation and the pot of gold.
All this greed, self importance, show boating and squabbling is clearly at the cost of these United Kingdoms and the best interests of Britain and our peoples – in fact EUrope at large and global peace, as it stands this is just a repeat of the 1975 Referendum – almost as if these squabbling ferretts are using the book on the 1975 Referendum as an instruction manual!
All the same mistakes are being made that lost Britain the Referendum in 1975 with most of the same lies and desperate claims designed to spread FUD that won the day for the EU in 1975 – Read the book for yourself it is available in electronic version free CLICK HERE
Suzanne Evans’ application in the High Court to have her suspension from UKIP lifted has failed. She’ll have to pay £5,000 costs. Patrick O’Flynn has started a petition to get her reinstated. Read all the gory details of the court case only on Guido here…
UPDATE: Suzanne speaks:
“I am stunned and distressed by this latest turn of events. I will look to take up whatever right of appeal is open to me. I remain determined to keep my personal focus on working to the full extent of my ability to help secure a ‘Leave’ vote in the EU Referendum on 23rd June, and contribute to electoral successes for UKIP on 5th May.”
UPDATE II: UKIP hit back:
“A disciplinary panel constituted by the UKIP National Executive Committee today (23 March 2016) heard a complaint against Suzanne Evans that she had publicly criticised a fellow candidate in breach of the party rules and in terms which contravene the Party Constitution. The panel resolved to suspend her membership of the party for six months. The decision may be subject to appeal. Ms Evans sought an injunction in the High Court today to prevent the hearing, but this was unsuccessful. As a consequence of this, she will not now be nominated as a UKIP candidate in the London Assembly elections to be held on May 5th.”
Guido understands there a plans afoot in UKIP to suspend Suzanne Evans from the party. The party scheduled a disciplinary meeting this morning to discuss whether to take action against Evans over a series of claims involving alleged breaches of party rules. Court documents show that Evans is filing an application to the High Court at midday today to attempt to postpone any disciplinary action until after the GLA nominations are closed on March 31. In the explosive court documents, Suzanne writes that Nigel Farage is trying to force her out:
Evans makes a series of allegations against Arron Banks and Farage’s former aide Raheem Kassam:
She concludes:
The most explosive developments in the UKIP civil war yet…
UPDATE: UKIP confirm Suzanne Evans has been suspended for six months.
Farage’s revenge on Vote Leave-backing Suzanne Evans continues – last week hesacked her as deputy chair, today he’s sacked her as welfare spokesman. Last night Nigel told a Ladbrokes panel that Douglas Carswell is “irrelevant“, the second time in a week he has slagged off his only MP. How about focusing on the real enemy?
UPDATE: Suzanne tells Guido:
“I must be the most purged woman in British Politics! You have to laugh it’s so ridiculous.”
UPDATE II: Peter Reeve, UKIP’s local government spokesman and also a Vote Leave supporter, has also been sacked by Farage. He’s been replaced by porn scandal David Sprason, who signed up UKIP councillors to Grassroots Out.
Suzanne Evans is no longer UKIP’s deputy chairman. Farage says in a statement:
“I have made some changes to our structure today. Both of our Deputy Chairs are candidates in the upcoming elections and this will limit any role they can play in the national referendum campaign. So I thank Suzanne Evans and Neil Hamilton for their time as Deputy Chairs and announce they will be replaced by Diane James and William Dartmouth.”
Expect to hear from those involved that this is nothing to do with UKIP’s internal politics. Though allies of Farage say this is a putsch against Suzanne, long seen as a threat by the leader’s camp and a supporter of Vote Leave, not Nigel’s preferred Grassroots Out…
UPDATE: A Breitbartstory written by Farage’s former aide Raheem Kassam reveals the thinking at Grassroots Out – stripping Evans of the deputy chair role hurts Vote Leave’s bid for the designation:
“Ms. Evans no longer holding a position with the party is also problematic for the ‘Vote Leave’ campaign who have been trumpeting her support as their UKIP “cross party” backing. Now they are limited to one Member of Parliament, one Member of the European Parliament, and one member of the National Executive Committee.”
UPDATE II: Evans speaks:
“I’m naturally disappointed. I felt I was doing a good job and helping to broaden the party’s appeal both in relation to the EU referendum and the upcoming electoral challenges of May 5th and beyond.
I’d like to say a huge ‘thank you’ for all the many messages of support I’ve had from UKIP members already today, but I certainly have no intention of being drawn into any disharmony. I of course accept that it is entirely within any party leader’s authority to choose and to change their own top team.”
“I have thrown my hat into the ring to apply to be UKIP candidate for Mayor of London and or an London assembly member. Let’s be realistic, I don’t think London is going to have a UKIP mayor any time soon. But I think it’s time for London to have a different view, a different approach. I think there are a growing amount of people in London who want to see things from a UKIP perspective.”
Also in the running for the UKIP nomination is Culture spokesman Peter Whittle, asrevealed by Guido last week.
Guido also hears that Richard Hendron, organiser of UKIP’s Gay Pride contingent, is also throwing his hat into the ring. Suzanne says she reckons she is Nige’s candidate…Suzanne Evans tells Iain Dale:
“There has been no purge,” sacked Suzanne Evans told Victoria Derbyshire this morning, insisting it is “a coincidence” that she, Patrick O’Flynn and Gobby have all since lost their jobs. Apparently we shouldn’t believe the “hostile media agenda” and “the […]
Revisiting Neil Hamilton’s Clear Unsuitability For any Office & Nigel Farage’s self serving and insecure Duplicity!
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after 20 years watching and paying attention to Ukip and having written something well over 3,000 blogs bringing people the facts and the truth, about Ukip behind the scenes, sometimes it is just too tedious to pull together yet another article about such a predictable bunch of self serving scoundrels and ne’r do wells as they squabble like ferretts in a sack.
We noted that Susanne Evans was unceremoniously dumped as deputy leader, it would seem this time that although it was undemocratic it did have two gains for Nigel Farage rather than his normal single fear of his ego being damaged by someone competent enough to challenge him!
This time it seems she was also dumped as it would reduce the possible claim that Vote Leave had cross party support – so now all Farage has to do is manage to find a way for one of his cronies to stab Douglas Carswell in the back and Farage would seem to think it will improve the chances of his two pronged efforts with Leave.EU and ‘Grassroots Out’ will have a better chance of getting theri hands on the Government money for the Referendum!
Meanwhile it would seem his efforts to unseat Neil Hamilton are proving something of a failure – I cautioned against Ukip having anything to do with the oleagenous and duplicitous self serving Hamilton’s before Farage brought him on board.
There is nothing new I can be bothered to write about the sordid publicity seeking pair so I shall cheat and use an article from elsewhere, to reitterate the many points I have flagged up in the past:
UKIP’s Welsh Meltdown
While much of the party’s energy is focused on the upcoming referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, Nigel “Thirsty” Farage and his fellow saloon bar propper-uppers at UKIP also have local Government elections to fight, and the latter includes elections to the Welsh Assembly Government. Here, the Kippers face controversy over one potential candidate, former Tory MP Mostyn Neil Hamilton.
Hamilton claims to be “a proud Welshman”, and he did indeed grow up in the area around Carmarthen, before taking his first degree at Aberystwyth. But his Parliamentary career was as MP for Tatton, the constituency centred on the Cheshire town of Knutsford. He and wife Christine lived for many years at Nether Alderley, also in Cheshire, before moving to Wiltshire. His recent connection to Wales is therefore tenuous.
So the appearance of an anonymous leaflet passing severely adverse comment on Hamilton should not surprise anyone. Nor should any reference to his downfall at the 1997 General Election at the hands of independent candidate Martin Bell, in the wake of Hamilton’s collapsed libel action against theGuardian, over the claim of former Harrods boss Mohamed “you can call me Al” Fayed that Hamilton took “cash for questions”.
No-one should be surprised if UKIP members in Wales are reminded of the Guardian’s main headline the day after Hamilton’s legal capitulation: “A liar and a cheat”. Nor would it be any surprise to see his failed libel action against Fayed revisited, with the late George Carman QC describing Hamilton as “On the make, and on the take”. The cash for those questions was, according to Fayed, paid in used notes and in brown envelopes.
Hamilton has told of “This libellous leaflet recycled a Guardian newspaper cutting from 1996, falsely claiming I took large sums of money as an MP to ask parliamentary questions … The Inland Revenue dismissed these allegations as lies after their top forensic accountants (the Special Compliance Office) completed an exhaustive two-year investigation of all Christine’s and my financial affairs during ten tax years, 1987-97”.
But then, if money was paid in used notes and in brown envelopes, there would be nothing for the tax authorities to find. Indeed, Gordon Downey’s inquiry into the “cash for questions” affair found that the evidence Hamilton took cash from Fayed for asking questions “compelling”. One should also note that the Guardian article published after Hamilton’s libel action collapsed is still available online – and unaltered.
Neil Hamilton also misled Michael Heseltine over payments from lobbyist Ian Greer. He lobbied for the US tobacco industry. He joined the cause of the Apartheid régime in South Africa. He routinely failed to register payments and hospitality, including stays at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. He stood accused of taking a £10,000 payment from Mobil Oil to table an amendment to the 1989 Finance Bill, while a member of a Commons select committee.
Neil Hamilton can protest all he likes at the actions of those in UKIP who are unhappy about his potential candidacy. But his record and reputation is there for all to see, as is his over-zealous recourse to libel actions, which left him with a £3 million bill and facing bankruptcy. He is a thoroughly unsavoury character and anyone in UKIP who seeks to bring this to a wider audience is to be commended.
He also had to drop out of the running for prospective candidate for the South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency in December 2014 according to The Guardian due to a letter from the party’s finance and resources committee challenging some of his expenses claims.
From the same article “Senior figures in Ukip had previously worked hard to successfully prevent the former Conservative MP becoming a candidate in Boston and Skegness, and managed to prevent him from becoming an MEP.”
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One wonders who is driving force here, NH or his wife Christine?
Three short sentences in the Guardian article sum up the arrogance and hubris of Mostyn Neil Hamilton perfectly:
“Another MP, Tim Smith, resigned his post as a Northern Ireland minister after he was accused in the same article of taking undeclared cash. He immediately admitted the Guardian story was true. Mr Hamilton, MP for Tatton, had instead tried to tough it out before resigning under pressure from Mr Major.”
To view the original of this article and the comments CLICK HERE
Here is the full front page Guardian article from 01-Oct-1996
A liar and a cheat
David Hencke, David Leigh and David Pallister
Tuesday 1 October 1996 11.43 BST Last modified on Tuesday 5 January 2016 23.08 GMT
Neil Hamilton, the disgraced former minister, yesterday walked away in humiliation from a £10 million libel suit against the Guardian over the “cash for questions” scandal hours before the case was due to start today.
The former trade minister abandoned the case and agreed to pay some of the Guardian’s costs after a bitter two-year battle. He had recruited 421 Conservative MPs and peers, including Lady Thatcher, Lord Archer and cabinet members to change a 300-year-old law, which had prevented him, as an MP, bringing his action.
Ian Greer, the parliamentary lobbyist, also dropped his claim, part of the same libel suit, just minutes before a legal deadline to do so. He, too, agreed to pay some of the paper’s costs.
The Guardian stated on October 20, 1994, that Mr Hamilton had received thousands of pounds for asking parliamentary questions for Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods group. Mr Greer, who had been retained by Mr Al Fayed, was identified as the middleman.
Another MP, Tim Smith, resigned his post as a Northern Ireland minister after he was accused in the same article of taking undeclared cash. He immediately admitted the Guardian story was true. Mr Hamilton, MP for Tatton, had instead tried to tough it out before resigning under pressure from Mr Major.
The settlement, on the eve of what was labelled the libel trial of the century, came after a dramatic weekend of legal developments. Those began when the government disclosed crucial documents to the Guardian. The papers led to Mr Greer and Mr Hamilton falling out, and a conflict of interest developing. Mr Greer’s accounts were also in the newspaper’s possession. The stories you need to read, in one handy email Read more
The Guardian also served on the men’s lawyers three statements from employees of Mr Al Fayed. They said Mr Hamilton and Mr Greer regularly called for envelopes stuffed with £50 notes in return for parliamentary lobbying.
Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, said: “The decision by Neil Hamilton and Ian Greer must be one of the most astonishing legal cave-ins in the history of the law of libel.”
He called for the trial papers to be examined by John Major, Sir Gordon Downey, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, and the Inland Revenue.
Although hampered by the law on what evidence it can publish, the Guardian today reveals the extent of Mr Hamilton’s covert links with Mr Greer. It also details the network of MPs linked to Mr Greer, including Mr Smith, Sir Michael Grylls, chairman of the backbench trade and industry committee, Sir Peter Hordern, MP for Horsham, and Sir Andrew Bowden, MP for Brighton Kemptown. Advertisement
It was because the Guardian had subpoenaed Mr Major and Michael Heseltine to give evidence in the case that the government handed over key documents to the newspaper’s lawyers, Geoffrey Robertson, QC, and Geraldine Proudler. It would have been the first time this century a serving prime minister had appeared in the libel courts.
The trial would have re-opened the vexed question of parliamentary sleaze during the Tory party conference, and only a year after the government had made strenuous efforts to bury the issue. It implemented the Nolan Committee report and appointed a new Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to handle complaints about MPs.
Of the embarrassing climb-down by both men, Mr Rusbridger said: “Both Hamilton and Greer knew that the evidence the Guardian had obtained would have blown their action out of the water and revealed a pattern of parliamentary sleaze more far reaching than anyone had ever imagined.
“The Guardian has never doubted the truth of its original story. We would have produced damning evidence of Mr Hamilton and Mr Greer’s lack of integrity if the case had proceeded. No doubt that is why they dropped the action.
“The Greer accounts and the government documents tell an outrageous story of corruption which the public should know but which we are prevented, for legal reasons, from publishing.”
Mr Hamilton said he was ‘devastated’ at having to withdraw. He claimed he was innocent, but because of the conflict of interest with Mr Greer, each had to instruct new solicitors and counsel. Advertisement
“The consequence of this is that the trial would have had to have been postponed to enable new sets of lawyers to go through the huge volume of papers and prepare the case afresh at enormously increased cost.”
His costs were already £150,000, and he did not have the cash to continue.
Mr Greer said: “I would want to continue on a matter of principle, but I have had to take a sensible commercial decision and I am happy a compromise has been reached.”
A spokesman for Mr Al Fayed said: “He was looking forward to telling the court of his experience of dealing with a number of Conservative MPs who describe themselves as “honourable members”. He will be sending his papers on the matter to Sir Gordon Downey.”
Downing Street last night insisted that the end of the libel action was purely a “matter between Mr Hamilton and the Guardian”.
Damning evidence
Sometimes he (Mr Greer) would ask me bluntly whether Mr Al Fayed had his money ready. Mr Hamilton was as persistent as Mr Greer, if not more so, in asking for his envelope.
Mohamed Al Fayed’s ex-personal assistant
I remember on several occasions that prior to a meeting with Mr Hamilton, Mr Al Fayed would make a remark… that he was coming to collect his money and would prepare an envelope for him with a bundle of £2,500 (in) notes in my presence.
Mr Al Fayed’s secretary
On at least two occasions when I was sitting at the front desk, an envelope was brought down to me from Mr Al Fayed’s office and I was informed that Mr Hamilton would be stopping by to collect the envelope.
Mr Al Fayed’s security man
Also there is the Guardian article of 22-Dec-1999:
A greedy, corrupt liar
Hamilton faces ruin after jury unanimously finds he took cash for questions
Hamilton, Al Fayed libel trial
Matt Wells, Jamie Wilson and David Pallister
Wednesday 22 December 1999 12.07 GMT Last modified on Monday 18 January 2016 14.27 GMT
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Shares 13 Save for later Neil Hamilton’s five-year fight to clear his name ended in ignominious defeat and financial ruin last night when a high court jury unanimously declared the former Conservative MP corrupt.
The result ended any hopes he may have harboured of resuming his political career, condemning him as a greedy man who had been “on the make and on the take” during his time in parliament.
The verdict, delivered in the highly-charged atmosphere of a crowded court 13 at the high court in London, was a dramatic finale to the bruising five-week libel trial brought by the former minister against the owner of Harrods, Mohamed Al Fayed. It brought to an end his protracted battle to clear his name of the cash-for-questions controversy first reported by the Guardian in 1994.
After almost nine hours of deliberation, the jury returned to court yesterday to deliver its verdict. Asked whether members had found “on the balance of probabilities” that Mr Fayed had established corruption by Mr Hamilton “on highly convincing evidence”, their forewoman replied: “Yes.”
Sitting in the front of the court, Mr Hamilton and his distraught wife, Christine, looked on with disbelief. She held her face in her hands and he repeatedly shook his head. As the jury filed out, the couple stared intensely at them and then retreated through the corridors of the court to consult with their lawyers.
As the Hamiltons continued to protest their innocence of corruption, outside the court Mr Fayed – who had been accused of being “the biggest crook in town” and a Jekyll and Hyde character – arrived jubilant. Bowing on the steps of the court, he wished everyone a merry Christmas. Of Mr Hamilton, he said: “He knows he is corrupt. People like that should never be in power.” The stories you need to read, in one handy email Read more
Mr Hamilton sued Mr Fayed over claims he made in a Dispatches documentary broadcast on Channel 4 in 1997 that the former MP had demanded and received thousands of pounds in cash, Harrods gift vouchers and hospitality at the Ritz hotel in Paris, in return for parliamentary services. Mr Fayed pleaded justification – that the allegations were true.
The clinching piece of evidence in the case – introduced on subpoena only days before the trial began – concerned Mr Hamilton’s claim that he had a legitimate consultancy with Mobil Oil in 1989.
It later emerged that he had done little more for the company than to table an amendment to that year’s finance bill, for which he later demanded payment. Under ancient parliamentary rules taking cash solely for parliamentary action is corrupt. Advertisement
Minutes before the jury said it was ready to deliver the verdict, its members were still divided: in a note to the judge, they asked whether they could disregard the adjective “highly” in the question put to them about convincing evidence. The judge refused their request.
Emerging from the court Mr Hamilton faced journalists with a grim smile.
With his wife beside him, he said: “I would never have embarked on this action had I been guilty of the charges against me. I do not regret bringing the case, of course, because I could not have gone through life without straining every sinew to do everything that was possible to bring the truth out. Sadly the jury were not convinced,” he said.
“The waters were muddied at the very beginning of the trial when, onto Mr Fayed’s allegations were clamped entirely unrelated ones connected to a consultancy I had with Mobil Oil. It may well be from the questions the jury asked the judge during the trial, that that is what has secured this verdict.”
Asked about the future, he simply said: “It is the beginning of a new road, I’m not sure where it leads but I will find out.”
For the first time his formidable wife, who has fiercely protected him since the allegations first broke, had no ready riposte. Asked how she had felt throughout the epic trial, she said: “I can’t tell you that now, but I will.”
Any hopes that Mr Hamilton may have harboured about a return to the political scene have now been utterly dashed. Conservative party chairman Michael Ancram was among the first to comment. “I have noted the verdict of the jury and I hope that this is the end of a sad and unpleasant episode which has been damaging to our party,” he said. Advertisement
“I trust that the personalities involved will now retire from the scene. They certainly can expect little understanding from this party if they do not.”
Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, called for Mr Hamilton to make an apology to the newspaper over accusations he made against Guardian journalists.
“Neil Hamilton has now been found guilty by both Parliament and the courts,” he said. “Today’s verdict vindicates the Guardian’s reporting of this case. The jury has found that Neil Hamilton is corrupt.
“The Guardian’s reporting exposed the mire of MPs on the take in the mid to late eighties and led to the setting up of the Nolan Commission into standards in public life. Our original reporting has never been shaken despite the slurs of Mr Hamilton, his friends and his legal team. The Guardian never doubted the integrity of its journalists, who deserve an apology from Neil Hamilton.”
You will also note the degree of indebtedness of the Hamiltons who went spectacularly bankrupt dishonouring their debts to many to the tune of over £3M. CLICK HERE
Yet little or nothing is said of this despite the fact that a full on assault was made on Nikki Sinclaire over her discharged bankruptcy amounting to a few £1,000s over a propertyy deal which was eventually resolved and with the full knowledge of the party at the time!
I guess it all depend if Nigel Farage sees you as a threat to his snout in the troughs on the EU gravy train! Most clearly he saw Nikki Sinclaire as a threat as she clamoured for Ukip transparency and published her detailed accounts as an MEP whilst actively persuing efforts to expose EU corruption and obtain the signatures for her petition that eventually forced David Cameron to hold a debate in Parliament and then grant the promise of an IN OUT EU promise – activities Ukip has consistently failed to do in 23 years!
Desperate efforts and apparent conspiracies seem to have taken place to set up and damage Nikki Sinclaire and her anti EU activities, yet Nigel Farage welcomed Neil Hamilton with open arms – I guess the affinity may have something to do with ‘Birds of a feather …..’ whilst the attacks on Sinclaire may well be based on a genuine fear of exposure and the truth!
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Its Amateur Hour At Ukip, As Ever, As They Take Turns At pulling A Nigel Farage. much as did Sepp Blatter, with the same show of integrity after over 20 years ‘at it’!
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When will Ukip learn? Party embroiled in new ‘unresigning’ fiasco
The former party secretary is returning after ‘pulling a Farage’
June 16, 2015, By Alain Tolhurst
More bad news for Nigel (PA)
It looks like the hokey cokey over at Ukip is set to continue after Matthew Richardson, the party’s former secretary, is coming back to his role.
Richardson was one of the causalities of the post-election fallout, which saw advisers leave and front-benchers sidelined during bitter in-fighting.
But just like his boss Nigel Farage, who stayed in his post after Ukip’s national executive committee failed to accept his resignation, he is returning to his role.
Moving Ukip right
Richardson is ‘pulling a Farage’ (PA)
In a statement to the BBC they said: “Matt has resumed the role… by law any constituted political party must have a party secretary who is a qualified lawyer.”
This is surely bot going to go down well with many in the party, after Richardson – along with another adviser Raheem Kassam – was blamed for pushing Farage further to the right.
The pair were blamed for his comments about HIV treatment for immigrants, which bombed during the TV election debate, and for making Ukip like the ‘Tea-Party’ wing of the US Republican party.
‘Pulling a Farage’
The move could re-ignite the tensions between Farage and Carswell (PA)
Richardson left his role, as did Kassam, at the start of the month – but while Kassam has resumed his role at website Breitbart – Richardson has reportedly still been advising Mr Farage, who was keen on having him back on board.
It is unclear how his un-resignation – known as ‘pulling a Farage’ – will go down with Ukip’s only MP Douglas Carswell, who rowed with the party secretary over whether they should accept the £650,000 a year subsidy from Parliament, referred to as ‘short money’.
Nor how the move will be received by Patrick O’Flynn and Suzanne Evans, both of whom were demoted for criticising Farage and his inner circle in the days after the election.
Behind The Facade Nigel Farage’s Ukip Cult Are Fighting Like Ferrets In A Sack like bald old men fighting over a comb, unaware their days of consequence are over & they are just a nuisance.
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UKIP Policy Chief Suzanne Evans ‘Cried’ After Backstabbing Farage
UKIP’s Deputy Chairman and head of policy Suzanne Evans is reported to have cried and “begged for a job at Breitbart” after a failed coup against UKIP leader Nigel Farage, according to party sources.
Evans, who was credited with UKIP’s flawless manifesto launch, is said to have “bought into” the Carswell narrative in believing that a leadership coup against Nigel Farage was credible and a “done deal”. After Mr Farage’s advisors got wind of the manipulation, they are said to have confronted the problem, and blocked a “left wing takeover” of the party by Ms Evans and the out of favour Patrick O’Flynn.
Breitbart London has learned that as Suzanne Evans discovered that she was Mr Farage’s favourite to be interim leader of the party, she began plotting to make the left-leaning Patrick O’Flynn the chairman of the party. Mr Farage’s advisors discovered the plot and blocked the group, led by Douglas Carswell MP, by keeping Mr Farage as leader.
Ms. Evans is said to have returned to her office in UKIP’s Brooks Mews HQ, “screaming and crying” over what she perceived was the end of her career.
She was later heard to beg former Farage advisors for “a job with Breitbart London” in an attempt to shore up her own financial situation.
Friends of Mr Farage told Breitbart London: “Carswell, O’Flynn, and Evans had clearly thought that Nigel was going. They thought it was a done deal. They positioned themselves to take over the party and move it more towards the left wing of British politics. They failed and now they’re all desperately trying to suck up to Nigel.”
Breitbart London understands that Douglas Carswell MP has desperately sought to contact Mr Farage over the past 12 hours, only to be met with a stony silence.
Ms Evans attempted to reverse ferret a few days ago, according to party sources, but was hung up on by Mr Farage, who said he didn’t want or need her support to continue as party leader.
Talking of ferrets it is clear that as ever Ukip are fighting like ferrest in a sack with Nigel Farage, who over many years has shown he has difficulty in controlling his zip, his drinking, his violent temper tantrumms and his unforgiving intollerance has now admitted his Ukip cult is little more than a one man band in today’s Sunday Express with the arrogant and hubristic boast, backed by Richard Desmond that “I’m in total control”.
Could it be that having been in ‘total control’ since Alan Aked effectively asuming the Party he had started was doomed with his parting memo to Craig McKinley (now Tory MP for Thanet) that he had left and Craig was now in charge; soon of course to see the defacto leadership of Ukip seized by Nigel Farage and his odious cronies.
Now the true scale of the catastrophe is becoming far more apparent as clearly brand Ukip has been subourned and subverted by ‘total control’ and as was shown in Thanet, where Nigel Farage stood unsuccessfully in his 7th. Parliamentary election, brand Ukip met with a majority vote taking overall control of Thanet Council whilst brand Farage was considered too toxic to elect.
Many of us had fortold the results for the General Election accurately, unlike those cranno rectally retentive pundits of The Westminster Bubble and we have been and yet again warn that it will be the emmulation of the Referendum of 1975 that will guarantee to lose the OUT argument yet again.
I admit I was deeply unimpressed with the partisan comments and crass conclusions of ‘Purple Revolution’ by two self proclaimed experts on Ukip, who managed to get much of it wrong! However they did pick up on one quote of common sense from Nigel Farage when he said:
“It is frankly just not credible for me to continue to lead the party without a Westminster seat. Was I supposed to brief Ukip policy from the Westminster Arms? No – if I fail to win South Thanet, it is curtains for me. I will have to step down.”
What eventually made him clearly without credibility was when he acted with integrity and stood by his word only to renege on his own common sense and rather than take the summer off to let Ukip lick its wounds and indulge in such recrimination, in fighting and blood letting as was needed to then put himself forward for a leadership election in September – IF he so wished.
It is hard not to speculate as to what it is he is frightened will come to light if he risks having others in control, might it be the accounts that terrify him or perhaps secret deals and payolla or even details of his drinking and private life – is this why he now claims to wish to run his cult until 2035 – rather overlooking the plight of his protege whom he chose and annointed as an MEP and the dire straits Ashley Mote now finds himself facing at 79 – perhaps Nigel Farage will be forced to run his cult until he drops!
Let us accept one proven fact there is a certain type, including many ex BNP supporters and loyal Labour deserters who love him but equally there is a better informed and better balanced army of patriots who loath his style and behaviour and there is no doubt Ukip has an army of implaccable enemies it has rightly earned.
To see Nigel Farage within a country mile of the referendum on the EU involved in the out campaign may puff up his ego and please his claque but for the electorate at large it would be the kiss of death to any possibility of a vote to Leave-The-EU, a fact which may explain why we saw the BBC and their selected panelists fawning over him on Question Time last week for surely they must realise that the best hope of a vote to stay IN the EU lies in the hands of Nigel Farage and failue is all but assured should he put himself forward for the NO campaign.
Already we have the weak minded mouthing the same mantras of personal egotism with their demands for a ‘Big Tent’ approach and dominance by the very same grouping of self important pratts as last time, looking to feeding their egos and their bank accounts regardless of the fact they WILL lose, same personalities same background same style just different names!
Let us leave the last word on the catastrophic outcome, should the same old same old clique gain a Westminster based control of the OUT Campaign, to the fiercly independent and well informed Richard North who has for many years had his light hidden under a bushel supplied by Christopher Booker who fronted much of North’s research and deductive ability, which became the beacon of EUroScepticism both in Christopher Booker’s weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph and various articles in other papers and journals, not to mention his lectures at Staff College & a number of very well informed and eminently readable books.
All the pundits of the Westminster Bubble prattle on about ‘Big Tents’ and not firming up on the facts to ensure a consensus, meanwhile forgetting the aim is to achieve an out vote not a jolly clique and a continued salary/income and have their egos massaged – whilst they have been wining and dining and beating their gums whilst they schmooze eachother and a few known money sources that seek their egos being stroked, Richard has been ploughing on to ensure he is the master of his brief with his book on HOW to Leave-The-EU FleXcit ready for publication in September with every detail meticulously cross checked and referenced in detail, now running to some 400 pages which you can see an introductory review of at:
http://www.eureferendum.com/documents/flexcit.pdf
The book that the Westminster Bubble lightweights will be too stupid to read and the media will glibly dismiss – all in the hope that they can do a cozy deal and LOSE like last time!:
From the mouth of our enemy, Jonathan Freedland, comes a devastating analysis which is all too accurate – far too accurate for comfort. He writes:
At present, plenty of people in the out camp reckon that if Farage is their leading voice, they will lose. They point to the Farage paradox: that as Ukip’s poll rating has risen in recent years, support for a British exit from the EU has diminished. Back in 2012, when Ukip commanded just 3 percent of public support, more people wanted to leave the EU than to stay in. Today, in a year when Ukip has won 13 percent of the votes in a general election, “in” can lead “out” by as much as 20 points. It seems Farage does well galvanising the convinced, but repels everyone else.
This is what worries outers, especially those in the Conservative party. With David Cameron now lionised by his party as an election-winning hero, he probably won’t have to extract too much from EU negotiations to win support for an “in” vote from all but the most diehard Tory Eurosceptics. So long as Cameron can point to a couple of token victories over Brussels, the likes of Michael Gove and Philip Hammond – who once threatened to vote for out – are likely to campaign to stay in. That would leave a dearth of big beasts on the “out” side – with Farage as the most visible face. And that could sink the anti-EU cause.
The point is well-made about Farage: “It seems Farage does well galvanising the convinced, but repels everyone else”. And that’s the point. People either love him or hate him – the trouble is most hate him, and to win the referendum we need 51 percent of the voters.
The next point is well-made as well: David Cameron probably won’t have to extract too much from EU negotiations to win support for an “in” vote.
Too many people are being far too complacent about the deal Mr Cameron can bring back from Brussels. This is the man who “vetoed” a treaty and was applauded by the media and his party. Even to this day, the legend survives.
All the signs are that the newly-anointed Prime Minister, in cahoots with the “colleagues” is capable of pulling off a theatrical “spectacular” – more than enough to unite the majority of his party, and to bring the media on-side.
This indeed will leave Farage as the lead political figure in the campaign. The few Tory “big beasts” who are still prepared to back the outers will then be linked with Farage and their continued campaigning will be political suicide – they will be isolated and marginalised – the rump of the Tory “right wing”. Very few others will want to take the risk.
Freedland’s analysis, therefore, points to failure – he paints a scenario that really is all too real. Farage taking a prominent part in the campaign will guarantee we lose. As Complete Bastardpoints out, he is a disaster – the one man who, single-handedly can lose us the referendum.
But winning the referendum must come first. Farage should stand down and we should make this a people’s campaign, capitalising on the anti-politics mood. A vote for “out” then becomes a vote against all politicians – Farage included. Tragically, it was never meant to be like this. But Farage has toxified the eurosceptic brand and this is the result. Even the Guardian can see it – our enemies understand us better than we do ourselves.
On the bright side, though, we have a late intervention from Douglas Carswell, who is telling Farage to take a break from Ukip. Politics is about persuasion, he says:
And getting noticed isn’t enough to win over people. You need the right tone. At times, Ukip has failed to strike the right tone. By all means we should highlight the problem of health tourism. But we need to admit that using the example of HIV patients to make the point was ill-advised.
Ukip, Carswell observes, has been at its most persuasive when we have been most optimistic. Anger is never a great way to motivate people — at least not for very long.
“The party”, he notes, “was founded to oppose Britain’s membership of the European Union. Getting us out is one of the reasons for our existence. For the first time in a generation, we now have a majority of MPs in the House of Commons in favour of a referendum on our membership. Instead of sniping at the government as they prepare the legislation for the referendum, we should take heart”.
Sternly, he tells his readers that, rather than automatically dismissing every idea for EU reform as necessarily bad, we should explain why we think we could do even better outside the EU.
Instead of feeding the idea that EU membership is synonymous with immigration, Ukip should help draw attention to the myriad of ways in which being run by Brussels makes us worse off. As a vital part of the coalition campaigning for “out”, Ukip needs to strike the right tone. We must be part of a movement, but not seek to dominate it, he says.
Rather than focusing on the 13 percent of people who voted Ukip at the last election, the “out” campaign needs to find ways of winning the argument among the 87 percent of people who did not. Strident euroscepticism won’t do it, he says. The clue is in the name. Ukip was founded to make the UK independent of the EU. That’s what brought us into politics. We mustn’t get distracted. We mustn’t confuse ends and means. We should be prepared to work with people across the spectrum who want ultimate power to reside with people answerable to the rest of us rather than Eurocrats.
“There are many decent Green, SNP, Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative voters who share this aim. Are we going to work with them or talk over them?” Asks Carswell, “Are we going to play our part in a positive coalition, making the case for a better future or are we going to drown out messages other than our own?”
The case is there to be made: a global Britain, trading with friends and allies on every continent including Europe. A democratic Britain, able to hire and fire its lawmakers. A free Britain, living under its own institutions. Every action we take over the next 12 months should be to promote that goal.
Concludes the one and only Ukip MP: “All of us Ukip supporters should ask one question. Is what I’m doing at this moment making an ‘out’ vote more likely? If it isn’t, stop it and do something else”.
If Ukip can take on board that message, then there is some hope and some room for accommodation. But it has to be a Ukip without Farage.
Surprise Surprise More Splits On Ukip Policies, they don’t even seem to be agreed on whether Tim Aker, their MEP policy maestro, has split, walked, been dumped or is just missing!
Nigel Farage suggests private insurance should fund the NHS but his health spokeswoman says UKIP supports state funding.
13:27, UK, Tuesday 20January 2015
Divisions at the top of UKIP have started to emerge after Nigel Farage and his health spokeswoman disagreed over the need for private health insurance to fund the NHS.
The UKIP leader said in an interview that the state-funded health service would in future need to be replaced with a private insurance model.
However, hours later he was slapped down by his own health spokeswoman Louise Bours who said Mr Farage was “entitled to his opinion” but the party had discussed and “rejected” the idea.
Nigel Farage says an insurance-funded NHS model must be debated
Mr Farage had said private health insurance would be a “debate” to be returned to as the health service struggles to cope with an ageing population.
In a video from 2012, which emerged last year, Mr Farage set out his ideas for health funding, saying: “I think we are going to have to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare.
Video:04/01/15 Farage On NHS Jobs
“Frankly, I would feel more comfortable that my money would return value if I was able to do that through the market place of an insurance company than just us trustingly giving £100 billion a year to central government and expecting them to organise the healthcare service from cradle to grave for us.”
In the interview for Radio 4’s Can Democracy Work? today, Mr Farage added: “There is no question that healthcare provision is going to have to be very much greater in 10 years than it is today, with an ageing population, and we’re going to have to find ways to do it.”
He has also said no foreigners should be allowed into the UK unless they can prove they have private health insurance to pay for medical expenses.
NHS funding has become a key battleground ahead of the General Election with the Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems all pledging increases in state funding.
In parts of the country Labour has seen UKIP make inroads into its support and a move to privatising the NHS would likely prove a vote loser.
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said a vote for UKIP was a “vote for the privatisation of the NHS”.
He added: “UKIP claim to stand up for working people, but in reality they are more Tory than the Tories. Farage will never be able to distance himself from his real views. He should be honest with the public.”
Ms Bours told the Huffington Post: “What people have to realise about UKIP is that we are much more democratic than other parties.
“Nigel is entitled to his opinion and others are entitled to theirs, we don’t whip people into all thinking the same thing, like the establishment parties. As he has said before, he raised the idea for discussion a while ago, the party discussed at and rejected it.
“I am certain that if the party discuss it again, we will reject it again. The vast majority of UKIP members, the British public and I will always favour a state-funded NHS.”
It is hard to work out what Ukip policy is as they seem to have become obsessed with immigration and anti Islamic rhetoric wich to most of us is just a thinly disguised form of racism.The xenophobic aspect is largely pandering to the failed in society who find themselves squeezed out of jobs by harder working and more determined EU immigrants from some of the old Communist block, who actually know what poverty really is and are determined to be gainfully employed at any cost.
Even when Ukip’s Manifesto is presented by The Glorious Leader of the cult one can not be sure it will turn out to be other than drivel, even with a glowing forward written for him and signed off by him!
Diane James one of Ukip’s more presentable MEPs has of couirse been in some form a consultant to and lobbyist in the field of the NHS and would surely have made a far more plausible health spokesman for the party than Paul Nuttall’s protege the ill mannered and mouthy Louise Bours (Dutch I presume!), who would seem to be on a mission to damage Nigel Farage so that her ‘chum’ would be better placed in any leadership bid!
That the tax payer’s pockets are not bottomless would seem to have dawned on some in Ukip and that they have failed to credibly cost any of their various woolly policies means that inevitably such high cost projects as the NHS are going to require an entirely different management structure and control on spending – obviously a nationally controlled insurance type scheme is well worthy of debate and only a moron would believe that thwe NHS can continue forward into the future without much greater control.
That Ms. Bours makes the grossly inaccurate statement that:
“I am certain that if the party discuss it again, we will reject it again. The vast majority of UKIP members, the British public and I will always favour a state-funded NHS.”
The NHS is not nor should it ever be considered to be ‘State Funded’ a notion introduced by the idiotic champagne Socialist after the appointment by Clem Atlee in 1945 of Aneurin Bevan and his extreme Communist wife Jenny Lee. A concept that Labour were determined to stamp as their imprimatur when they set out to destroy The Beveridge Plan they had undertaken to implement and support whichever party won the election.That Aneurin Bevan is described by socialists as the architect of the NHS is pure twaddle, it was he who was charged to build it in accord with Lord Beveridge’s Report, yet he could not help himself and tampered with the basic tennets leading to the polityicising of the service in just the way Ms. Bours has misunderstood it.
This is so typical of Ukip with their low grade appointees and Nigel Farage’s selection for preferment – they lack the gravitas and intellect for the task as is so manifest in the lack of achievement of Ukip, beyond duping the ignorant as a protest vote in EU elections!
How long is it since yuou last heard anyone in Ukip put forward a coherent, consistent and plausible case to Leave_The_EU now that they have jumped on the immigrant band wagon – so 22 years and still no responsible, viable EU eXit & survival strategy just endless bad publicity for their lack of coherent policy, overt and clandestine racism and their odious associates as they pander to the lowest common denominator in a race for the gutter and populism.
Perhaps we will find out just how scraped the barrel is and how the outfall of the ferrets fighting in the Ukip sack has mapped out as we note the various rumours regarding Tim Aker’s having quit as policy supremo within a month of the launch of Ukip’s Manifesto which in what can only be an emergency it has been announced that Suzanne Evans has been tasked with producing the document for Farage – which may well lead to increasing his insecurity and internal rivalry, as he will be tasked with the forward and signing of the document whatever drivel it contains, as he did in 2010 only to denounce his own document and seek to blame David Bannerman for the drivel!
I understand, from a normally unimpeachable source well connected in the upper levels of Ukip’s waring hierarchy – it would seem that Tim Aker’s associate and supporter Robert Ray is to apear in court shortly on drink driving charges subsequent to an event organised by or at least for Nigel Farage.
This may well be the cause of Tim Aker’s fall from grace:
Nigel Farage with Robert Ray.One of UKIP’s more notorious ‘fruitcake’ councillors has been charged with drink driving after a boozy fundraiser attended by Nigel Farage. Cllr Robert Ray — who leads the party’s growing group on Thurrock council — hit the headlines last September after it emerged he was a former official and candidate with the far-right National Front.
While his involvement with the party was in the 1970s, Cllr Ray has freely admitted that he stands by his election literature from the period.
EXCLUSIVE: Thurrock UKIP leader on drink drive chargeRobert Ray with Nigel Farage Robert Ray with Nigel Farage
THE leader of the UKIP group on Thurrock Council has been charged with drink driving after a late night incident at a fundraising function attended by national party leader Nigel Farage and MEP Tim Aker.
Cllr Robert Ray was arrested in the early hours of last Friday morning after a dinner at the Orsett Hall Hotel.
A statement by Essex police said: “A man has been charged with drink driving after being arrested at Orsett. Robert Ray, 65, of Purfleet Road, Aveley, was stopped by officers at Orsett Hall at 2.15am on Friday, 13 June. He has been bailed and will appear at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on 1 July.
The event at Orsett Hall was a £55 a head fundraiser for UKIP organised by the Thurrock branch of UKIP, which is supporting Mr Aker in his quest to ‘double up’ as a Westminster MP after his success in the recent East of England European elections. He has been nominated as the party’s candidate for the Borough seat.
It is understood that Mr Farage and Mr Aker had left the function well before its close and that Mr Ray was leaving the scene himself in the early hours with his wife, and fellow councillor, Maggie O’Keefe-Ray.
Cllr O’Keefe-Ray, 62, was a recent winner in the local government elections for Thurrock Council, winning a seat to serve Aveley and Uplands, which her husband also represents.
Cllr O’Keefe-Ray, who suffers from a thyroid condition, blacked out, falling and cutting her head. Fellow party-goers alerted emergency services and when police arrived Mr Ray was arrested in charge of his car. Mrs O’Keefe-Ray was taken to Basildon Hospital by ambulance where she was treated and later released.
“It was all very unfortunate and we are feeling very embarrassed,” Cllr Mrs O’Keefe told the Enquirer.
Date Published: June 19, 2014 Story by Newsdesk
My condollences to her husband and family, who I have never met, as it seems the final oputcome of the evening in question may well have been the tragic news in the following article:
UKIP councillor for Aveley and Uplands, Maggie O’Keefe-Ray has died.
The news was announced by UKIP on Thursday morning.
A spokesperson for UKIP said:
“UKIP Thurrock is sad to inform you that yesterday, 24th September 2014, Cllr Maggie O’Keeffe-Ray passed away.
She had been in Queen’s Hospital fighting a brain haemorrhage. Unfortunately the damage was too severe, that despite the best efforts of medical teams at Queen’s, nothing could be done. We would like to thank the teams at Queen’s for all the care and love they showed Maggie in her time there.
Our thoughts and prayers are with her husband Cllr Robert Ray and their family at this time.
Tributes have been paid to Maggie.
Tim Aker MEP, a close friend to Maggie and Robert said “Maggie lit up any room she was in. She had a smile and the time of day for anyone. We are all devastated and upset, but she will want us to soldier on. She will always be with us.”
Cllr Graham Snell, leader of the UKIP group on Thurrock council said “Maggie was the heart and soul of our branch. She was always ready with a big hug and a bigger smile.”
At this time, we request that the family are given privacy.
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