UKIP: Nigel Farage to fix MEP lists to favour sycophants and the highest bidders ... again!

Harry 'puppet on a string' Aldridge demonstrates the best way to win an MEP seat in Nigel Farage's UKIP

We note that Farage has told the NEC that HE will announce the MEP candidates lists and order of standing on 1st April 2014.

Thanks to the recent constitutional changes, Farage now has the final say on who stands for UKIP and their position on the list: LINK.

How apt that he has chosen April Fools Day for the announcement. No wonder Farage looks on the ordinary members with contempt and smirks at their foolishness in allowing him to get away with turning UKIP into a dictatorship.

Farage has already been busy offering places to his sycophants. These include:

Neil Hamilton - South West.

Harry Aldridge - South East

Steven Wolfe - London

Alexandra Swann - East Midlands

And holding back the announcement till April gives plenty of time for potential bidders to buy their place on the list. Now how much did Stuart Agnew and Godfrey Bloom promise the UKIP leader last time?

And Godfrey, did you pay £30,000 or was it the full £50,000 in 2004?

Nigel Farage - The Messiah?

Nigel's Messianic complex seems to get worse with every passing year.

The latest UKIP leaflets now describe him as:

"the most charismatic and plain speaking politician in British and European politics”. LINK

And Farage actually believes this crap! It can't be long before the sycophants start claiming that UKIP's Fuhrer can turn water into wine, raise the dead and walk on water.

Can we offer some advice to the person behind UKIP's latest leaflet? How about changing the words charismatic and plain speaking for corrupt and egotistical? That would provide a far more accurate description of the UKIP leader.

The phenomena that is Young Independence ..... or maybe not

The latest YI recruits shudder with anticipation after hearing that Nigel is on the lookout for another mistress

Young Independence continues to stagger into insignificance. Doubt our word? Then check out the YI website: LINK

The What's Happening section has not been updated since December 2011.

The News section has not been updated for 85 days.

And what of the YI Forum?

Elections. No posts

Q &A. No posts.

Resources. No posts.

Policy. No posts.

General. Two topics. Three posts. Last post was made on 21st February 2012.

Admin & Organisation. One topic. One post. Posted November 2011.

Professionalise UKIP? UKIP on the up? Don't make us laugh!

And finally...........

Police have released a photo (above) of a man wanted in connection with Nigel Farage's plane crash. Our readers may recall that Farage tragically (Junius Editor: Shouldn't that be magically?) survived a plane crash just before the last General Election.

However, a senior UKIP source has rejected the claim that the crash was due to sabotage.

"All this talk about guided missiles is pure hogwash. Nigel spotted two busty 20 year olds sunbathing nude in a field and grabbed the controls for a closer look. End of story".

UKIP: Nigel Cabbage over Europe!

Nigel's EFD campaign plane finds a novel way to persuade Irish voters to say No to the EU

Some light relief!

In the first of a weekly series, the United Kingdom Independence Party’s Nigel Cabbage flies over the skies of an enslaved Europe to point out what’s going on …



“HARRUMPH! I’m Nigel Cabbage and I’m here in my plucky little British plane flying over an enslaved Europe so I can give you, the Great British Public, some idea of what’s going on over here. NUUUUURRRR! RAT-A-TAT-A-TAT-A-TAT-A!”



“TSK! Look at these bloody Belgians. It’s thanks to this lot that you, the Great British Public, can’t sit down to a Sunday roast without first filling in a form. The bloody country didn’t even exist a hundred years ago probably, and it’s a damned disgrace that they can lord it over our country which is hundreds and hundreds of years old. A disgrace! NUUUUUURRRRR! AK-AK-AK-AK-AK!”



“BAH! The bloody Frogs! While this lot do as they damn well please, they make sure that you, the Great British Public, tow the Euro-line by swamping you with endless rolls of red tape and bonkers Brussels bureaucracy! It’s alright for a Frog to eat a banana that’s bendier than a boomerang, apparently, but just you give it a try and they’ll have you up before the European Bloody Court of Human Bloody Rights! It’s a disgrace! NUUUUUURRRRRR! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH!”



“ACHTUNG! YOU NAZI BASTARDS! SQUADRON OF SAUSAGE-MUNCHERS AT TWELVE O’CLOCK! NURRRRRRRRRRRRR! ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK! TAKE THAT, FRITZ! NURRRRRRRRRRRRR!”

Next week, Nigel flies his wee little plane over the skies of Ireland, Portugal and Greece.

To read the original version in glorious Nigel Cabbage 3D Vision: LINK

UKIP: More from liar Monckton

Only UKIP's inept and corrupt leadership would allow this serial liar and fool to hold a senior position in the party!

From grist:

Lord Monckton delights Heartland conference with birther antics

Lord Christopher Monckton, climate denier extraordinaire.

A version of this article originally appeared on Climate Progress.

With the Heartland Institute suffering from a public relations disaster that caused 11 donors to abandon financial support, one might think the organization would attempt to moderate messaging tactics at its climate denial conference this week.

Or maybe even find an expert who doesn’t freely admit that he “has no scientific qualification” to challenge the science of climate change.

Not quite.

After comparing people who understand global warming with serial killers in a billboard campaign, the organization featured a presentation yesterday that called into question the legitimacy of President Obama’s citizenship.

Enter Lord Christopher Monckton, Heartland’s “mystery guest” who popped in to the conference Tuesday to perform a quirky stand-up comedy routine for a couple hundred eager attendees.

His presentation peeled back yet another layer on the conspiratorial beliefs of many within the climate disinformation community.

Monckton, a man frequently held up as an expert among deniers, started his speech off by boldly admitting his lack of scientific qualifications. He thanked the attendees for having the “courage” to challenge climate scientists, explaining: “It is particularly hard, if like me, you have no scientific qualification to do so.”

Monckton then joked about what he needed to do in order to build his credibility in America.

“I have concluded what one needs to have is a freshly minted Hawaiian birth certificate,” he said, referencing the belief among “birthers” that President Obama’s birth certificate is forged. He displayed a picture of a Hawaiian birth certificate with his personal information filled in. The crowded erupted in laughter.

“I was born at a military hospital. What is marvelous is that this [birth certificate] is just as genuine [as] that of the president of the United States,” said Monckton.

Even with the release of official documents and repeated confirmation from Hawaiian officials, Monckton is an outspoken believer that President Obama’s birth certificate is forged. The conspiracy has gotten so ludicrous in the face of documentary evidence, the Washington Post labeled remaining birthers “crackpots” who “live for their pet conspiracy theory.”

Explaining that his forged birth certificate prepared him to run for president of the United States, Monckton presented Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast with a freshly minted campaign button. Bast shook Monckton’s hand, jokingly saying he would endorse the candidacy.

The opening skit raised resounding laughter and applause throughout the room.

Monckton, a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher, has become a form of comic relief for the climate disinformation community. Australian satirists did a hilarious interview with him in which they “mistook” him for an act by Sacha Baron Cohen. But Monckton has also said those who embrace climate science are “Hitler youth” and fascists. He travels around the world making grossly inaccurate presentations filled with peculiar jokes poking fun at climate scientists, whom he labels “bullies” and “liars.”

However, the scientists he attacks have done nothing more than factually debunk, point by point, every single argument that Monckton has laid out throughout his career as a climate disinformer. (In fact, Monckton is one of the most widely discredited figures among the community of widely discredited deniers).

Then again, Monckton himself admitted up front in yesterday’s speech that he has no “scientific qualification.”

In the wake of Heartland’s Unabomber billboard campaign, 11 donors representing roughly 35 percent of the organization’s funds for 2012 pulled support, according to the advocacy organization Forecast the Facts. The pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly said such tactics “were not consistent” with how the company “engages in public debate.”

Helping spread the fringe conspiracies of birthers probably isn’t the best messaging strategy for the Heartland Institute right now.

Ironically, Monckton’s birther routine came directly after a speech from Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), who alluded to the billboard campaign by saying “we can continue to win these debates out of the strength of our arguments, without recourse to unsavory tactics that only serve to detract from our message.”

Sensenbrenner’s message at the conference: Carbon dioxide is a “natural gas” that couldn’t possibly harm the planet. “Does this mean that all of us need to put catalytic converters on all our noses?” he asked the crowd, which chuckled at his suggestion.

To read the original: LINK

For more on this serial liar: LINK

UKIP: A Faragian Pact

An interesting view on Farage's proposed election pact with the Tories. Taken from Witterings from Witney:

A Faragian Pact

According to Dan Hodges, writing in the Daily Telegraph, Ukip are preparing to offer Tory MPs a Faragian pact at the next election, with the smaller party reportedly ready to stand down candidates against those embracing its slightly eccentric brand of Eurosceptic nationalism. At the last general election Ukip did indeed not stand candidates in certain constituencies, a decision which caused a sizeable number in the party to become extremely unhappy bunnies.

It may be that I exhibit the traits required in a politician by appearing a tad thick but, presuming that this “offer” is true, I fail to understand just what Farage hopes to gain. Just what is to stop any Conservative candidate making the sort of noise that pleases Farage, who then ‘stands-down’ his candidate, only for said Conservative candidate to turn round when elected and, in effect, stick his tongue out?

A number of decisions that Farage has made in the past have been questionable and this latest is no different – mind you, for a party that totally ‘cocked-up’ its campaign during the London Mayoral election this year, this latest does but join what is quite a long list of what may, in polite circles, be called a Gaffarage. Ukip are only polling an average of 9% at the moment, meaning the party is approximately 20% short of attaining one or more MPs and if the Buckingham campaign is any yardstick Ukip could poll 30% and still not get a single MP.


It may well be that I am totally wrong – but I would ask any of my readers: who among you is blessed with the ability to understand the logic of any decision made by a politician – because I am buggered if I can.

Original Article at Witterings from Witney: LINK

Tory HQ has already confirmed that any Tory MP candidate accepting Farage's offer would be deselected and any association that endorsed it would be disbanded. And let us not forget that a large number of UKIPPERS also reject ANY proposed deal with the Tories.

Witney also mentions the farce that was UKIP's London election campaign. LINK. You will recall that UKIP stood as Fresh Choice for London. The leadership assumed that that both the UKIP name and the Fresh Choice description would appear on the ballot papers. This was despite being warned by UKIPPERS in London that this assumption was incorrect. It was only when the first set of nominations were published that Farage and his not so useful idiots finally accepted that they were in the wrong.

We should point out that a number of UKIPPERS still believe that Farage deliberately set out to damage the London campaign by re-branding UKIP as Fresh Choice. We don't share this view. Farage lacks the brains to be that Machiavellian!

It is interesting to note that registration of Fresh Choice required the signatures of Nigel Farage, Peter Reeve and Stuart Wheeler. So the ultimate responsibility must lie with them.  But let us not forget that the NEC endorsed Farage's decision to use the Fresh Choice tag.

So have heads rolled over this farce? Not on your life. This is UKIP we're talking about!

Incompetence, corruption and  unprofessionalism are the norm when Nigel Farage leads you.

Nigel, you have been claiming for years that you are going to 'professionalise' UKIP. So how about starting the process by sacking yourself and those other chumps named above?

UKIP professionism and going in with your eyes wide shut

How to win friends in the media

From Independent.ie:

During our interview, one of UKIP's fixers entered the room and sat down opposite us. He got aggressive when I pressed Mr Farage on the amount of money they were spending on their No campaign in Ireland.

The money topic came up after Mr Farage had boasted about how they were distributing their anti-treaty leaflets to every household in Ireland. When I asked him how much it was costing to print and distribute them, he inadvertently blurted out that it was around €200,000. I was shocked at the high figure and I pressed him further on it. At that stage, his fixer got aggressive and he threatened to pull the interview.

"Karen, if you continue on this f****** line we'll just f****** wrap up and go, all right?" he warned me.

The quote above is taken from an Irish article concerning the referendum on the EU's fiscal treaty. The journalist concerned may display alarming signs of ignorance when it comes to the EU but she had every right to question Farage on how much UKIP had spent on the 'No' campaign.

Farage and his cronies clearly think that is acceptable to respond to such questions with a torrent of abuse.

So much for Farage's pledge to professionalise UKIP. But what can you expect from a man who surrounds himself with sycophants, idiots, drunks and terminal failures from the Tory party?

For more on this see: LINK

UKIP man seeks election with eyes wide shut

Asleep on the job? Mr Stedman starts his campaign with his eyes wide shut 

We were amused to learn that UKIP's Leon Stedman recently sought election as a governor of a mental health trust in East Anglia - a seat that had been held by John West. We understand that Mr West chose not to seek re-election due to media commitments.

Many of our readers may recall that Mr West walked away from UKIP after witnessing widespread corruption in the party. He later turned down an offer by Lord Pearson to rejoin the sinking ship.

One of our contacts in the East has told us that UKIP assumed Mr West would be standing again and were very keen to see Cllr Stedman defeat him.

So did Mr Stedman win the seat? The answer is no.

So much for UKIP's continued claim that the party is on the up!

For more on this: LINK

And finally........

Jonathan 'frightened rabbit' Arnott must be the only person in Britain who thinks that wearing a shell suit to a political meeting is the right thing to do. But at least he gave his fellow UKIPPERS a damn good laugh as he strutted around Westminster trying to look cool and impress the ladies.

Farage's offer of a UKIP/Tory election pact

You may be aware that Farage has said that he is prepared to consider approaches from eurosceptic Conservatives to run joint candidates in some constituencies. LINK. It reminds us of the farce that was Lord Pearson and his idiotic support for so-called euro-sceptic Tory candidates during the last General Election. LINK.

We can confirm that several members of UKIP branches have contacted Junius to confirm that they will oppose ANY co-operation with the Conservative party. And they would certainly reject any attempt by Farage to force them to accept his proposal.

Several anti-Tory UKIPPERS expressed surprise when we told them that UKIP already has a close working relationship with members of the Tory ECR Group.

As one said:

"What is the point of our party claiming to be an alternative to the Tories when we are prepared to jump into bed with them at every opportunity?"

UKIP/Tory bedfellows

Examples of UKIP/Tory co-operation:

“The Church and the Market”

Sponsored by the office of Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP, with co-operation from the office of Nirj Deva, MEP.

Speaker: Vincent de Roeck.

Book presentation: “The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (Studies in Ethics and Economics)“, by Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Time/date: Tuesday 29 May 2012, 6-7pm

Venue: European Parliament, ASP A1H1

Organised by: Michael Jose and Niels Meyer
(EFD)

Vincent de Roeck, a founder member of the Mises Circle in the Brussels Parliament, will present “The Church and the Market”, by Tom Woods.

Myth and reality of the Pinochet regime of Chile

[He wasn't so bad as they say]

Sponsored by the office of Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP, with co-operation from the office of Nirj Deva, MEP.

Speaker: Sasha Renate Bermann

Presentation: “Myth and reality of the Pinochet regime of Chile“, by Hernán Büchi,

Time/date: Tuesday 24 April 2012, 6-7pm

Venue: European Parliament, ASP A1H1

Organised by: Michael Jose and Niels Meyer
(EFD)

The Tragedy of the Euro”, by Philip Bagus

Sponsored by the office of Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP, with co-operation from the office of Nirj Deva, MEP.

Speaker: Andreas Kansouzidis, European Conservative Rand Reformists Group (ECR)

Book presentation: “The Tragedy of the Euro“, by Phillip Bagus,

Time/date: Tuesday 27 March 2012, 6-7pm

Venue: European Parliament, ASP A1H1       

Organised by: Michael Jose and Niels Meyer
(EFD)

“Currency Wars”, by Jim Rickards

Sponsored by the office of Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP, with co-operation from the office of Nirj Deva, MEP.

Speaker: Richard Byfält, previously of Open Europe, currently a European Commission employee.

Book presentation: “Currency Wars“, by Jim Rickards.

Time/date: Tuesday 28 February 2012, 6-7pm

Venue: European Parliament, ASP A1H1 (see directions here)

Organised by: Michael Jose and Niels Meyer
(EFD)

The four events above can be seen listed via this link http://misescircle.org/events/

Farage's offer of a deal with the Conservatives again confirms a simple sad fact - UKIP is nothing more than a Tory pressure group.

UKIP: Godfrey Bloom and Marta Andreasen fail to Battle for Britain

The European Parliament has voted in favour of a Financial Transaction Tax.

HMG and the City of London are both vehemently opposed to this. It emerged today that when it was passed in a parliamentary committee in Brussels, one vote could have stopped it. Godfrey Bloom sits on that committee, but guess what? He didn't turn up to cast his vote.

Perhaps he was nursing a hangover or chatting up some Belgian totty, but his vote could have stopped the tax. Tory MEP Vicky Ford gave Bloomers both barrels - no wonder he turned bright red with embarrassment!

Yet another example of how UKIP MEPs have betrayed the British people!

UKIP: Gerard Batten racism accusations

Hello Campers!

You will recall that allegations of racism were made against Batten by a former member of his staff. He was also accused of electoral and financial irregularities. We note that the case against him continues. We also note that REPORTING RESTRICTIONS have been removed by the Judge. This was despite Batten's desperate attempts to gag the press and use the police to intimidate those who dared to mention the hearing on their websites or blogs. LINK

The Judge has quite rightly rejected Batten's pathetic attempts to silence the truth.

An insider has this to say:

It is untrue he was found not guilty because the case was not fully heard. All that happened was that he lost his precious reporting restriction and now everything can be openly written about. Judge rightly said he is politician, is open to public scrutiny, is nothing special and reporting restriction discharged.

Batten's actions make a mockery of Farage's so-called support for the reform of Section 5 of The Public Order Act:

“Not that I have ever been known to insult anybody in the course of my work, nor indeed that anybody has ever felt the need to insult me or UKIP for that matter.

But the principle that freedom of speech, a basic Liberty, must be defended and protected from well meaning legislation is one that UKIP has supported for years. We have had a commitment to reform Section 5 almost since we had any commitments.

In a robust democracy people must be free to insult and be insulted. We have laws that protect against incitement to violence and hatred, that should be enough. To protect my feelings from those who wish to laugh at me or hold me in contempt is a freedom I never wanted, nor hoped for.

So three cheers for this campaign, three cheers for those like Peter Tatchell, The Christian Institute, David Davis, The National Secular Society, the Freedom Association, Big Brother Watch and all the others standing up for the liberty of people to throw verbal brickbats around."

What a pity that he doesn't apply this to his own party where censorship and intimidation of members are the norm! The UKIP members only forum is just one example of this. Posts are regularly removed if they dare to criticise Farage and his cronies. See: LINK

And remember how Dr Eric Edmond and Dr David Abbott were thrown off the NEC for daring to raise concerns about corruption in UKIP? The so-called leadership then tried to smear them by claiming they were BNP supporters. LINK

And remember when Del Young was subjected to similar treatment? LINK


The reform of Section 5 is just another bandwagon for Farage to jump on in a desperate bid for more publicity. Yet another example of UKIP hypocrisy from UKIP's Hypocrite-in-Chief!

Also see: LINK



UKIP councillor is a tweet

Farage will probably ask him to become an MEP after reading this. He'll feel right at home exploring the fleshpots of Brussels with Nigel, Godfrey and chums!

From the Shields Gazette:

CONTROVERSIAL councillor David Potts today has come under fire from a former political ally for publicly tweeting American porn stars.

The 29-year-old – who is facing fresh calls for his resignation after being labelled as vindictive and a bully by Town Hall chiefs for saying the borough had a “poxy backwater council” – is facing more flak for his actions on social networking site Twitter.

Councillor asked to quit over new Twitter slurs

Coun Potts, who represents UKIP in the borough’s Cleadon and East Boldon ward, asked former American porn star Mercedes Ashley – described on her profile as LA-based who has starred in more than 183 adult movies – to send a congratulatory message to his fellow ward councillor Jeff Milburn for being re-elected earlier this month.

However, the borough’s only Conservative councillor was horrified to discover he had been associated with such tweets.

He said: “I must admit I don’t go on Twitter daily, so I wasn’t aware of this, and as far as I am aware, I have not been contacted by any American porn stars.

“But I do not think this behaviour is acceptable or appropriate for a councillor. He should not be sending tweets like this in the public domain.”

But a defiant Coun Potts is standing by his actions, and says if people are offended they shouldn’t read his Tweets.

He said: “I have not encouraged former porn stars to contact my ward colleagues.

“I asked a personal friend, who is a former adult entertainment professional, to e-mail Coun Jeff Milburn congratulating him on his victory.

“I do not in any way judge people by what they do for a living.”

Yesterday’s Gazette, pictured, revealed how a constituent was angered at being invited to a possible wives and swingers ‘W&S’ party by Coun Potts, who also likened the event to a ‘bunga bunga’ gathering – an Italian word to describe an orgy.

Coun Potts protested his innocence and said ‘W&S’ simply stood for wine and sandwiches.

However, earlier this month he also entered a Twitter conversation with online sex website @AdultPlayParlour, during which the adult website congratulates him for being so ‘hardcore’.

When the Gazette contacted the former Tory councillor over whether the nature of some of his tweets were appropriate, he said: “My personal sexual preferences are an issue entirely for me. I do not do anything illegal or immoral.

“I confess that I have a libertine attitude towards sexual relations between consenting adults.

“My attitude is that if we all made love and not war, the world would be a much better place.

“Finally, I would add that I do not write my tweets as a councillor, but rather as a trader. If you don’t like them, then I suggest you don’t read them.”

Coun Potts will face the standards committee – an independent council watchdog – after he received a criminal caution for unauthorised disclosure of personal data earlier this year.

He took documents from a behind-closed- doors Town Hall meeting and handed them to the Gazette earlier this year.

To read the original: LINK

UKIP: Why you shouldn't listen to polls

Another glass of wine, Mr Farage?

Nigel's useful idiots in the weeks prior to the elections were positively salivating after reading opinion polls which appeared to show that UKIP was ahead of the Lib Dems. More level headed UKIPPERS - and the GLW and Junius blogs - tried to point out that such polls were unreliable and should not be taken at face value. In December, we published recent election results which illustrated the folly of heeding such polls. All showed that UKIP's actual share of the vote bore no relation to the polls. For example:

The Feltham & Heston by-election

Seema Malhotra, Labour - 12,639
Mark Bowen, Conservative - 6,436
Roger Crouch, Liberal Democrats - 1,364
Andrew Charalambous, UKIP - 1,276
David Furness, BNP - 540
Daniel Goldsmith, Green - 426
Roger Cooper, English Democrats - 322
George Hallam, London People Before Profit - 128
David Bishop, Bus-Pass Elvis Party - 93

LINK

UKIP scored a pathetic 5.49% on the day. And Labour's vote went up! And yet Farage's useful idiots still tried to spin a terrible result.

"It is becoming increasingly clear that UKIP is a refreshing alternative to the tired old status quo. The Lib Dems are almost a busted flush. People are turning to UKIP as they realise we are serious when it comes to putting Britain first." From the official UKIP website.

More election results from last year.......


Westbourne, Brighton and Hove

Conservative	1,027
Labour	826
Green	645
Lib Dem	45
UKIP	36
Trade Unionists & Socialists Against Cuts	20
European Citizens Party	13

Worlingham, Suffolk Con	706
Lab	586
Green	137
UKIP	64
LD	46

Hardly suggestive of a major breakthrough in British politics! But these facts were ignored. In Farage's 'New Year Message' to his followers.

"For UKIP 2011 saw us clearly establish ourselves as the 4th party in domestic politics".

Stuart Parr - never one to let the truth get in the way of a good lie - even went on record as saying on Farage Sycophants 4 UKIP that "UKIP is quite firmly cemented as the third party in English local politics". 

Polls continued to be quoted. UKIPPERS - including Parr - predicted that the party would win seats in the London Assembly and that Lawrence Webb would come third in the mayoral elections. They also boasted that UKIP would win seats up and down the country.

The press was no different:

The Telegraph on the London Assembly elections:

"The BNP are forecast to lose their one seat and UKIP to gain their first two seats". LINK

Or......

The Liberal Democrats have fallen into fourth place behind Ukip in a shock poll result which will cement a sense of crisis in the party.

Just a day after a poll found the Liberal Democrats would be all but wiped out if a general election were held now, a YouGov survey for the Sun put the party on eight per cent – one point behind Ukip.

The result comes as it emerged Liberal Democrat councillors in North Tyneside have wiped all mention of their party from election leaflets in a bid to cling onto their seats.

It will also boost expectations for Ukip's success in the upcoming local elections.

To read the original: LINK

And what happened on May 3rd?

UKIP's national share of the vote was just 5%. They won just nine council seats. They made no net gains. No seats were won in London and Lawrence Webb got under 2% of the vote! They only managed to contest 30% of the seats up for grabs. And the Lib Dems still managed to get 16% of the national vote!

So have Nigel's useful idiots now seen reason? Not on your life!

The latest post from Stuart Parr's Farage Sycophants 4 UKIP blog:

UKIP pull 2% clear of Lib Dems in YouGov poll

UKIP has pulled 2% clear of the Lib Dems in the latest YouGov daily poll which puts Labour on 44%, the Tories on 31%, UKIP on 9% and the Lib Dems on 7%.

It was left to Richard Allen - leading UKIP activist - to deal in some reality control:

London exclusive polling had us round about 5% for the assembly so it always looked touch and go. Anyone making a confident prediction of an assembly seat on those numbers was an idiot. Parr was even worse, he consistently used London sub samples of national polls which related to GE voting intentions. LINK

And.....

Stuart Parr is a complete and utter fool and much of what he writes on his blog is complete nonsense. Like many people in UKIP he selectively quotes opinion polls, while have almost zero understanding of opinion polling, and as such confidently predicted that UKIP would win assembly seats. He now needs an excuse to explain why it didn't happen. LINK

Nuff said!

Stuart Parr successfully wins UKIP's Muppet of the Year award

UKIP: Paul Nuttall fails to deliver on his promises

When first elected, the odious Paul Nuttall made a pledge of 'openness and transparancy' when it came to his expenses. He lied! A quick check on his website reveals that he has failed to publish ANY information regarding his accounts/expenses since 2010! LINK

And he has been less than transparent when it comes to the information he has made available. For instance, he fails to name who works for him, how much he pays them or even how much he earns as an MEP in a single tax year. LINK

Nuttall has done extremely well at the UK/EU taxpayers expense. Indeed, he has openly boasted to his colleagues in Brussels about how much he earned since becoming an MEP. What a pity that he is less open when it comes to his constituents in the North West.

Nuttall is just another disgusting hypocrite whose claims to hate the EU but is always the first in line when it comes to getting his snout in the trough. Only Nigel Farage surpasses him in greed and hypocrisy!

UKIP and their fascist allies: Getting drunk for Britain

Fascists might not be able to organise a p*ss up in a brewery, but they can certainly have a good time in Brussels at taxpayer's expense!

Last week, Farage's UKIP organised an event over in Brussels to highlight the absurdities of EU legislation on wine labelling. An English producer had fallen foul of legislation that has been in place for many a year, and so Farage saw a chance to score a cheap political point and get bladdered at the same time.

How nice to note that UKIP were joined at the event by one of their colleagues from Bloom's pan-European political party, the EAF. UKIP MEPs and staff seemed so comfortable in the company of Marine Le Pen, with Farage's gopher positively fawning over her to the point of embarrassment.

As one wag from another political group commented "The UKIP nutters made her look positively normal by comparison".

Lesson 1. If you are going to court extreme right contacts in the EU and try to hide the fact at home, don't be seen in public by politicians from rival political parties in the company of Front Nationale and Vlaams Belang!

May 4th 2012: Fuhrer Farage receives some bad news

Another UKIP round-up

Senator Farage?

Readers of this blog may recall that Farage has long expressed a desire to place his backside on the read leather in the House of Lords.

The news that the Lords may be replaced by an elected Upper House - Senate - has Nigel positively slavering at the mouth like one of Pavlov's dogs!

Extract from The Telegraph:

Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, both indicated they would consider standing for an elected Upper House.

Mr Farage said he expected the use of proportional representation suggested his party would do well in elections to the Senate.

“This could be very good for us as party,” he said. “But is Lords reform in the interests of the country at a time like this? Absolutely not.”

To read the full article: LINK

It may not be in the interests of the country but that won't stop Farage seeking to get a place on the UK's latest proposed gravy train.

Nigel Farage’s patriotism is only skin deep.

As an MEP he has claimed over £2 million in expenses. He also employs his wife using EU money and is set to get a massive EU pension when he finally stands down as an MEP.

Remember when he said he would publish a list of all his expenses?

"We are the only people who are intending, annually, to publish so that the public can inspect them, our expense accounts, our allowance accounts, and the excess that we get – the excess that we are forced to take – particularly on travelling allowances."

And remember the promise to start a fund for all those who had suffered at the hands of the EU?

He soon forgot those promises, didn’t he?

Farage has done very, very well out of the EU. Why would he want to derail it?

It is about time UKIPPERS realised this. UKIP is simply a vehicle to satisfy his greed and desire for personal advancement.

Kevin Mahoney

Kevin Mahoney was one of two UKIPPERS elected in the recent council elections in Wales. Some Welsh UKIPPERS have now suggested that he should replace John Bufton as lead MEP candidate in 2014. Bufton is now out of favour with Farage, plus he has health problems.

Mr Mahoney may have ambitions to represent UKIP in Brussels - ambitions that are sadly not matched by any signs of intellect on his part. For instance, here is an example of how he responds to criticism from a political opponent:

"Fuck off and get a life you sad boring little wanker". LINK

It should be remembered Mahoney will need the support of Farage if he wants a place on the EU Gravy Train. And Farage was reported to be less than pleased when he read Mahoney's comments on the UKIP Members Forum:

Given that apparently a report examining and damning just 167 expense claims from 2004 is now about to be released.

Isn't it about time that the scandal of our own UKIP MEPs hiding their expense claims with that 'Insult to the intelligence' expense template that they concocted and publish on the MEP's website is scrapped and replaced with a full and frank display of every penny that they claim?

Apart from the very obvious fact that they should have openly declared every penny claimed since first being elected the only rational conclusion to be reached from the insult that is their current partially obscured expense claim pages is that our MEPs en-bloc are trying to hide the scale of their claims.

Lets at last try and display a touch of honesty and transparency from those who appear to have taken the cash but are not so keen to openly display how much!

To be honest I feel that each and every UKIP MEP who agreed to adopt the travesty of the current expense declaration template in use at present should hang their heads in shame and not be allowed to stand again on a UKIP ticket in my opinion!

See: LINK

Ouch!

Further hypocrisy from the odious Paul Nuttall

The odious Paul Nuttall got rather worked up after hearing the news that Eurocrats were having a good time using our money. Europe Day was the cause for celebration.

"How dare the Eurocrats party on down to nightclub sounds, free concerts and cookery displays when so many are suffering.

"The European Parliament is boasting of Laughter Yoga sessions which describes itself as not needing, 'a sense of humour, no funny jokes or comedy programmes - just a willingness to laugh'. How appropriate. The Eurocrats are laughing at us, quite literally, at our expense. These people are like the ancien regime, they have learnt nothing from the past few years.

"They carry on in their insulated bubble, divorced from reality, pretending that all is well behind their subsidised walls. It is a disgrace, but reveals the contempt with which they hold the populations of the European Union."

The words 'pot calling the kettle black' do rather spring to mind when hearing this. This is the same man who has been heard to boast in Brussels about how much money he has earned since becoming an MEP. Hypocrite!

See: LINK

UKIP: Christopher Monckton gets into hot water!

Christopher Monckton - UKIP's serial liar - has 'upset' Farage after calling on members of the British Freedom Party to rejoin UKIP.

From Liberal Conspiracy:

UKIP ‘front-line‘ spokeman Christopher Monckton has called on the far-right British Freedom Party to “come back and join” UKIP, in a video interview.

Monckton is also listed by UKIP as its Scotland Leader & Head of Policy Unit. He is an infamous climate change denier and previously called President Obama’s birth certificate “plainly a forgery”.

Christopher Monckton’s call to B-F-P members (video below) was made on 15th March, before the B-F-P made a pact with the English Defence League and named its leader Tommy Robinson as the B-F-P deputy leader.

The British Freedom Party was formed in 2010 and mostly populated by disaffected members of the BNP. A significant proportion were supporters of Eddy Butler – who failed to oust Nick Griffin as BNP leader in 2010. The B-F-P leader is Paul Weston – a former UKIP election candidate.

There were several instances of disaffected BNP members calling on other far-right nationalists to join the B-F-P, promising that it would not be another version of UKIP.
In the video interview, hosted in the United States, Monckton was asked his opinion of the British Freedom Party (at 28m.11secs in).

He says:

"I wish that the independent minded people who are willing to stand away from the major parties could remember that because we are so few, we should stand together."

"And UKIP is, for all its faults, the biggest of the freedom loving, democracy loving, independent minded parties. And I don’t like this splitting off, which is very prone to happen in those smaller parties precisely because you have to be independent minded to start with. And this makes everyone willing to fight and go their own way."

"But the British Freedom Party won’t really come to very much, I don’t think, and I would very much like them to come back and join us and we stand together…"




UPDATE UKIP have sent us a statement:

"The National Executive Committee of UKIP decided in January to include the BFPO amongst a list of proscribed organisations whose members, and former members are not welcome in UKIP."

"Membership is not available to anyone who is or has previously been a member of the British National Party, National Front, British Freedom Party, British People’s Party, English Defence League, Britain First or the UK First Party. Any applications made from people who are or have been members of these organisations will be refused, and any subscriptions collected will be refunded. By applying for membership you certify that you are not and have never been a member of either of these parties.”

Christopher Monckton has been out of the country for almost the whole of this year, and it is unlikely that he has been following the details of our NEC meetings. To that end he was entirely mistaken in his view. Members and former members of the B-F-P are not welcome in UKIP."

An odd excuse.

One of their key spokesman doesn’t know about a change in policy, and thinks far-right parties (the B-F-P always had far-right origins) was fine to reach out to?    

To read the original: LINK

Farage later posted a comment on the website:

"As the leader of UKIP I can say that we do not want these people under any circumstances.

We are the only party who ban far right extremists from joining which gives an indication of how strongly we feel about this.

UKIP are a libertarian party which believes in freedom and democracy".    

Fine words from UKIP's Hypocrite-in-Chief! So why is Nigel happy to sit in the EFD group with people who make the BNP and British Freedom look like a bunch of limp-wristed liberals? LINK & LINK & LINK

And why does he gag debate on the UKIP members only forum? A libertarian party which believes in freedom and democracy? Don't make us laugh! See: LINK

UKIP's arch hypocrite: The odious Paul Nuttall MEP

Andrew Edwards - ex-UKIPPER - has made the following interesting observations in one of his emails devoted to EUKIP corruption:

If you had been in the main foyer on the ground floor of the Europarl in, Brussels, yesterday evening, you would have seen something really quite interesting:

You would have seen, Nigel the Spiv's chief lickspittle, sycophant and understudy, Paul Nuttall,
bounding up to Conservative MEP, Charles Tannock, and placing his arm around Tannock (around the back of Tannock's shoulders that is) in greeting. The pair then proceeded, presumably en route to the canteen, smiling and laughing - the perfect happy Europhile couple.

Who still believes that Nuttall hasn't gone Native?

Charles Tannock with Herr Rompuy & friends

One really has to wonder about what is going on when one sees a man, supposedly, a staunch opponent of the EU cavorting in this way with an arch EUrophile such as Tannock???

Care to comment Mr Nuttall? How about you Nigel?

More scandal from UKIP's partners in the far-right EFD group, Lega Nord!

Not only is former leader Umberto Bossi being investigated over misuse of taxpayer's money, it appears that the Albanian authorities are investigating him over some dodgy documents used during the purchase of a diploma for his son Renzo.

Of course, if he had a shred of decency, Bossi could have also bought a diploma for his old chum Nigel Farage, who is conspicuously missing any higher educational qualifications himself! After all, Farage bought himself the 'freedom of the City of London' and then claimed that he had been awarded it! Perhaps Bossi could have even got a discount on 2?

The more we look at the sordid and corrupt individuals and parties that collectively make up the EFD group, the more we learn about this 'underclass' of political life.

http://www.albeu.com/news/tirana-prosecution-starts-the-investigation-process-for-bossi/74161/

UKIP and the betrayal of Lawrence Webb: The farce that was Fresh Choice for London

We have already mentioned in a previous post how UKIPPERS in London were forced to stand as Fresh Choice for London candidates. LINK

Many UKIPPERS are now demanding answers as to why Farage and the NEC allowed this to happen. They blame the poor election results in London - LINK - on the confusion caused by dropping the UKIP name from ballot papers. Some have even suggested that it was deliberate attempt by Farage to weaken Lawrence Webb's position in the party.

For instance:

1) Far from being a Rioja soaked nutter. Nigel Farage is a very shrewd operator, although one who has personality issues.

2) The real problem for him, remaining in his cosy position of leader that is, is membership. If UKIP kept hemorrhaging members at the rate it had done he would have been out on his ear. But if UKIP was too successful, very talented people would switch from the Tories, and the inadequacies of the existing team would be exposed. So what he needs to do is gently bleed the Tory party, but not so much where he and UKIP are considered a viable alternative.

It seems clear to me, that it would not have helped Nigel strategically if UKIP had done too well in London. The result came down to the wire, and there was barely a few percent that could easily have lost Boris the mayoralty and installed Ken back in.

If UKIP had been seen as the people who denied Boris the position of mayor, and if UKIP had polled even HALF of what they were predicted to have done in London this is EXACTLY what would have happened, Nigel would have been as popular within the conservative movement as Nick Clegg. 

Boris is considered to be one of the few "big beast" real conservatives left. I don't buy this personally, but it is undoubtedly how he is seen.

The end result was UKIP staying nationally at less than ten councilors. Pitiful really.

If you pause and reflect on the fact that the election for London mayor also allowed Nigel et al to permanently sideline Webb, who as Batten's former right-hand man, was a bit of a thorn in his side; you see that how things worked out for UKIP in London actually worked out rather well for Nigel Farage.

It didn't work out well for all the activists who put days and days of work in, neither could it have worked out well for the finances of the party. But sure, what does he care, they don't pay his salary anyway.

If I put this result together with certain other facts. Such as that people like Steven Woolfe were being dragged all the way to places like Hull by Farage for local election related events, on the weekend before the London Assembly elections (!), and this seemingly irrational and positively mad behaviour (he was the lead GLA candidate and should have been able to canvas his own area every hour right up until the polls - naturally), and what I end up at is a scenario where I find myself simply unable to think that Nigel didn't deliberately spike London. Ends.

From the British Democracy Forum. LINK

Farage is certainly no friend of Lawrence and wouldn't lose any sleep if the former mayoral candidate fell under a London bus. And Lawrence is under no illusion what the leadership think about him:

For some time now I have been aware of a campaign of denigration levelled at London Region and in particular my role as RO. Although much of the rhetoric is extremely vague in nature “London is rubbish” etc. and despite the fact much of the data (such as we collect it) shows that London Region is performing slightly above the average, it has continued unabated.

This denigration was self-evident last Thursday, when the top six candidates were interviewed to justify their position on the list. One of the interviewers tried to make the point that I had not contributed or helped in the recent F&H by-election, this continued even after I had given a full account (backed-up by Lisa Duffy) of all that I had done to help.

I believe that my role as Party RO is now untenable as it is clear that I do not have the support of the Party Leadership and so I give you notice of my intention to stand down, from that role, effective immediately. I would stress that my decision was in no way influenced by the NEC’s decision to adjust the results of the members’ ballot.

From an email dated 23rd Jan 2012. LINK

Mr Lawrence Webb: Betrayed by Nigel Farage and the NEC

Lawrence Webb's campaign certainly did suffer from Farage's failure to support him. He also made it known that he totally opposed the idea of UKIP candidates standing as 'Fresh Choice'. However, Farage and the NEC refused to listen. We wish to stress this point as some UKIPPERS have been led to believe that Lawrence backed the idea of the 'Fresh Choice' tag.  

As Richard Allen - UKIP candidate and activists - has confirmed:

"it was not Lawrence that made the decision, his agent was ordered to use the "Fresh choice for London" description by very senior figures within the party".

To read the original: LINK

To clarify:

It was the decision of Nigel Farage and the NEC to list candidates on the ballot paper as 'Fresh Choice for London'.

Lawrence Webb spoke out against this decision - as did others - but was overruled by Farage and the NEC. They refused to listen.

The blame for this fiasco must be laid squarely at the door of Farage and his sycophants on the NEC. It was their decision. It's just another example of why they unfit for purpose.

Farage may - sometimes - be a good performing monkey on Question Time. But as a leader he has ZERO LEADERSHIP QUALITIES. And the NEC does whatever Farage tells them to do.

It comes as no surprise that Farage is now trying to lay the blame for the Fresh Choice fiasco on others in the party. It won't work Nigel! It was your decision - a decision backed by your worshippers on the NEC!