Oldham East and Saddleworth By-Election: Paul Nuttall MEP

When people leave UKIP, usually after a disagreement with the autocratic leadership, UKIP sets out to lie and smear the person who has departed. This usually takes the form of accusing the person of being a BNP infiltrator. It sometimes seems that UKIP have so many infiltrators that they just can't be anything but a shadow of the BNP. But last May we reported here how UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP had been photographed meeting Tony "The Bomber" Lecomber. Why would the UKIP leader have had a meeting with  a notorious man, even by BNP standards like Lecomber?

The Junius on UKIP blog helps to shed some light on this with a recent article about UKIP's colleagues in the European Parliament here. Nikki Sinclaire MEP refused to sit with UKIP's group in the EU parliament, quite reasonably she would rather not be associated with far right racists, holocaust deniers and homophobes. She has been joined by fellow MEP Mike Nattrass. Sadly other UKIP MEPs, including Paul Nuttall, are happy to associate with the nastier far right elements in the EU parliament. Nikki Sinclaire recently won a legal action against UKIP reported here.

UKIP have a history of changing policy in midstream if it suits them, and producing ill researched policies that don't add up.  Gary Cartwright is an ex-employee of Nigel Farage in Brussels, but left disillusioned and disenchanted. Of course, as with anybody who leaves the dangerous cult that UKIP became under Farage he is constantly smeared and attacked by Farage's disciples. Now that Mr Cartwright works for ex-UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire, he is coming under renewed attack and smear by certain UKIP people. Truly, UKIP is the politics of the playground but a very nasty and unpleasant playground.

Unable to garner the needed 5% to save their deposits in most parliamentary elections, UKIP have now come out in favour of Proportional Representation. Well if you can line your pockets becoming an MEP with a small perecentage of votes in EU elections, try the Westminster gravy train next. When UKIP claim to be the straight party remember Ashley Mote and Tom Wise. God knows what UKIP would get up to under PR. Pole dancing and prostitues on MP's expenses maybe?

Here's what Gary Cartwright says about the UKIP way of developing policy:

"The UKIP policy making process was always a bit different. Although I was one of those who called for a widening of the policy base from the moment I joined the party, I eventually came to agree with Roger Knapman who argued for a narrower and more focussed set of policies concentrating on withdrawal. Britain does need a new party, but UKIP clearly ain't it!

I was very surprised, however, to read that UKIP is now coming out in favour of farming subsidies, a la the Common Agricultural Policy. Opposition to the CAP is one thing that traditionally unites all eurosceptics - and quite a lot of europhiles as well. Maybe UKIP has become so obsessively contrarian that it has even turned against conventional euroscepticism now, who knows?

I recall a transport policy paper which called for the electrification of a line that had, in fact, been closed for many years. There was also a local government paper that was quite probably the most politically illiterate thing I have ever seen.

The biggest question that observers will be asking, however, is not whether UKIP has done an about-turn on farming subsidies, but whether the party is, as it appears to be, out of control".

Taken from Gary Cartwright's Brussels Blog.

Nikki Sinclaire MEP

When somebody upsets UKIP's leading spiv, Nigel Farage, he gets his cronies to smear them. Nikki Sinclaire, by standing up to the extremists in UKIP who sit with homophobes, racists and extreme right wing fruitcakes in the European Parliament, has upset them. So, as they have done with just about everybody with a profile who leaves UKIP, they have tried to smear her.

One of their favourite smears against MEPs is to claim that a complaint has been made about their financial probity to OLAF, the EU anti-fraud unit. Anybody can complain to OLAF, it doesn't mean the complaint is being taken seriously. For some weeks now the far-right extremists in UKIP have claimed that Nikki Sinclaire is under investigation. The following email proves those claims to be baseless. More nasty, tasteless and immoral smears by UKIP's far-right leadership.

Dear Ms. Sinclaire,

I apologize for not having contacted you earlier.

I understand from your telephonic message to OLAF Free Phone, that you wanted to be informed whether OLAF has opened an investigation into possible irregularites you may have committed as alleged by a former assistant of yours.

I can confirm to you that OLAF has not opened an internal administrative investigation into this matter.

Yours sincerely.
Danny De Raedt
Investigator
European Commission
Europe Anti-Fraud Office OLAF Unit A 1 - EU Institutions.
Office 05/58 - Phone : + 32.2.***.**.**

Action Against UKIP

Nikki Sinclaire is taking action against UKIP for discrimination. Perhaps the EFD Group is their natural home:

The UK Independence Party (Ukip) is to be taken to the High Court by the West Midlands MEP claiming it discriminated against her because she is gay.

Nikki Sinclaire is taking action over Ukip withdrawing the whip from her in the European Parliament and preventing her standing for the Commons as a candidate for the party.

She claimed that her treatment had been in breach of Ukip's constitution and was motivated by sexual orientation discrimination.

A directions hearing is to be held by the High Court. The MEP is also taking the party to an employment tribunal, with a preliminary hearing on December 28.

Ms Sinclaire was kicked out of the party after she refused to sit with the eurosceptic group Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) which Ukip joined in the European Parliament last year.

She said she quit the EFD because it contained "extreme elements", including people with "openly homophobic opinions".

"I think that is homophobic in itself, the fact that they expected me to sit next to such people and engage with such people in the Parliament, while taking a holier-than-thou attitude to parties like the BNP (British National Party) in the UK," she said.

As well as withdrawing the whip from the MEP, Ukip's national executive committee also ended her position as the party's candidate for Meriden at the general election.

She said she still believed in the aims of Ukip, whose principal goal is to take the UK from the European Union


, and would be prepared to be one of its MEPs again if it was "more tolerant".

"It is unacceptable in the 21st century for people to be marginalised and treated in an offensive and derogatory way on the grounds of their sexuality," the MEP said.



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UKIP Still Asleep-Nikki Sinclaire MEP Campaigns

While UKIP slumbers on, as it has for many years now, one MEP is actively campaigning for withdrawal from the EU. Nikki Sinclaire's campaign for a referendum on continued membership is gathering momentum and has the backing of serious withdrawalist politicians.

But not a single UKIP MEP, apart from Mike Nattrass who recently left UKIP's EFD group in Brussels, is supporting her. Indeed UKIP's fanatical loyalist sheep like supporters insist on smearing Ms Sinclaire, about the only thing UKIP seems to get excited about these days.

However, UKIP politicians who haven't gone native have now come out in support of Ms Sinclaire and they include leadership candidate Tim Congdon and former leader Roger Knapman.

You can read the first issue of Nikki Sinclaire's campaign newsletter here.

UKIP; Doing What It Does Best: Smearing.

Nikki Sinclaire stands up to Farage (pictured trying to look like 'a bit of a character') and leaves the racists and homophobes in UKIP's group in the European Parliament and she is forced out of the party. We are still unclear why Mike Nattrass MEP, who has also left their group, is still bumbling along in the party but that's another issue.

UKIP's smear operation is now into overdrive and reports are surfacing on the internet, and in a Sunday newspaper, that Miss Sinclaire is being investigated by OLAF (the EU's very own financial investigation service) and the West Midlands Police. The claims are being strenuously denied by Sinclaire.

It seems that a 'disgruntled former employee' of Miss Sinclaire's has been making the allegations. If so he should be a little circumspect as we believe there are some very serious questions that he my have to answer. But I'm sure we will all be reading about those soon.

Following is a statement issued by Miss Sinclaire:

I am told that there are claims been made and have read on Internet blogs that it is alleged by a disgruntled ex aide that I have put in a false claim for travel. In January, John Ison was responsible for my travel and related paperwork.

I have no idea whether the error was accidental or malicious as shortly after that I withdrew his access due to discrepancies I personally had identified.

I have contacted OLAF, the EU's fraud office and have arranged for a meeting to instigate a full and independent investigation as to whether I have been fraudulently set up or this is a genuine error.

One of the beauties of being independent and publishing open and transparent accounts as I do as this is obviously not a deliberate exercise in fraud on my part.

In the murky world of politics you don't get much murkier than UKIP. The problem with eccentric cults is that when the brainwashed eventually become sane again, the cult has to protect itself by demonising them.

And there are those in UKIP who still wonder why they are an electoral disaster. They probably think it's the Bilderbergers or some other shadowy group conspiring against them.

For a bit more info about 'disgruntled former employee' Mr John Ison, click here.

Mike Nattrass, UKIP MEP resigns from EFD Group

AS we heard yesterday from a very reliable source it seems that Mike Nattrass, UKIP MEP for the West Midlands has now followed the principled stand taken by his colleague, Nikki Sinclaire, and resigned from the EFD Group in the European Parliament. He is now listed as non-attached, click here.

Although there is yet to be an official statement it seems that this is a further blow to the extreme right wing neo-fascist, racist and homophobic group in the Parliament led by Nigel Farage, UKIP's former leader and still leader in all but name.

As Farage and his cronies hounded Nikki Sinclaire out of UKIP for standing by her principles, so Nattrass's departure from UKIP now looks inevitable.