Goodbye UKIP, Hello EFD!

The move to turn UKIP into a pan-European party continues.

And any doubters should simply read today's email from the Chelmsford office:

To: ukipeastadmin@intamail.com
Cc: dcbdcbuk@yahoo.co.uk ; stuart.agnew@btconnect.com
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Eastern Counties Newsletter

In a message dated 14/03/2011 10:18:45 GMT Standard Time, ukipeastadmin@intamail.com writes:

Dear All

Due to European Parliamentary rules the Eastern Counties Newsletter will now have a new format. The colour newsletter will include articles about the work of the MEPs and about the EU itself. We can no longer include party material in the actual newsletter.

However, a separate black and white risographed page will be included for branch events. If you would like any notices of meetings or branch events included in the next edition, can you please ensure that they are sent to my email address, lisabuckle@ukip.org, or by post to the Chelmsford office, by Friday 1st April 2011.

Many thanks,

Lisa Buckle

UK Independence Party
145 New London Road
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 0QT

And this is what Martin Harvey - a leading UKIPPER in the East - had to say in his email response to Buckle:

I am amazed to find the East in such a state that it cannot fund a newsletter to its members who have put so much effort into campaigning to get two MEP'S elected, and also to have had such great success at last years General Election, and are already campaigning for local elections. If you go ahead and publish a newsletter confined ONLY to EU matters, all it will do would be to brainwash some members into thinking 'Ever closer to the EU IDEAL'.

please scrap the idea and come up with something that is to do with UKIP as a National UK Party, but even more important something to do with the forthcoming Local Elections,

regards Martin Harvey.

P.S. Since when did UKIP have a MANIFESTO that committed us to follow EU Parliamentary Rules ?

End of emails.


Now you know why Agnew has been placing EFD adverts in the East Anglian press. See: LINK

UKIP could have easily continued to publish an Eastern Counties newsletter. The funds are available. Agnew and Bannerman have more than enough money to finance one! Their combined salaries are more than enough!

To blame EU rules is a pathetic excuse. Do they really expect UKIPPERS to fall for that? Mr Harvey has every right to be angry in his email. UKIP is slowly morphing into a new pan-European party as per Farage's instructions. So why bother with boring local branch matters?

And let us not forget that Nikki Sinclaire is to shortly publish a lengthy newsletter out of her own salary. We don't hear that EU rules prevented that!

And thanks to Ms Buckle for confirming that UKIP is committed to obeying EU rules! We must have missed that bit in the UKIP manifesto!

Also see: LINK