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Originally Posted by Richardski
Dear Colleague,
It is with great sadness and after much consideration that I have today sent by eMail and Royal Mail to The Chairman of UKIP the following letter:
5th October 2006
Dear Chairman,
Please be so good as to accept, and post on UKIP.org, this my letter of resignation from The UK Independence Party.......
On policy issues, Nigel has made statements already, that make it clear to me, we are to become a shadow alternative Tory Party. A pressure group created to persuade the Tories to dump Cameron and change its policy on the EU. I am sorry; I did not leave the real Tory party to join a poor imitation......
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I am not in a position to judge whether these complaints are valid or not, however, his reference to UKIP remaining a Tory pressure group is of vital importance. I agree that the signs are, so far, that this will be the case. NF needs to outline a convincing strategy, at the conference, which has the possibility of just a single UKIP MP being elected at the next GE.
If this is not the goal then UKIP will never have influence other than as a Tory pressure group.