Politics – UKIP – More Twists to the Soap’s Plot

UKIP Kerry Smith Resigns from the party.

Following on from my last comment about the continuing soap that is UKIP Kerry Smith has resigned from the party. He said that he was “sick of internal backstabbers who hold minor roles in the party”. Now, hang on a second he resigned as the UKIP candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock after racist and homophobic comments he made came to light.
True, the comments came to light after “insiders” apparently released a tape of the comments, but they were HIS comments. He did say that he was on medication at the time. (As if medication turns you into a racist homophobe.) He will now be an independent councillor on both Essex County Council and Basildon District Council. He also stated that he continues to support the general goals of UKIP. Remember they are the party that went into the last general election saying that they wanted to reduce Social Security to 1997 levels, in cash terms, not adjusted by inflation. They were also in favour of lifting gun controls and heaven knows what else. Actually, heaven may know but not many of their party did as most did not read the manifesto.
In another development UKIP hates the EEC so much that it has created a new pan-European party so that it can skim £1.5m from Europe. The new party is called The Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe. It is so pan Europe that 21 of the 27 registered members belong to UKIP.
Jumping on the Euro gravy train (as Farage puts it) is not new for UKIP. It already gets money from Europe by being a member of Europe for Freedom and Direct Democracy, another pan European grouping. UKIP skimmed £2.1m from Europ in 2013 with that wheeze.
By the way, UKIP talks of democracy. In 2011 UKIP held a big internal debate on the issue. The party membership voted two to one against UKIP’s affiliation to a PEPP (one of those nice and lucrative pan European groupings).

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