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Originally Posted by Keith Hand
This (below, from the BBC) was a good 'UKIP Local Councillor' story in 2004. But then came the 2005 election (see second article).
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That's right. That is why Gary Phipps isn't on the UNOFFICIAL list of UKIP councillors in the other thread. Sad to relate, councillors who defect to UKIP from other parties do sometimes fail to be re-elected for UKIP when their turn comes. (eg the two Tories on Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council who defected to UKIP in, was it also, 2004?).This is a problem that UKIP shares with all other parties. Or have I missed the point of your post? :?
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Originally Posted by prober
There seems to be confusion between Councillors that stood as UKIP ( which are then easily located on Council websites) and UKIP sympathetic councillors that stood as Independents ( which of course are not)
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The UNOFFICIAL list of UKIP councillors in the other thread excludes the latter category. It includes only councillors who were either elected on a UKIP ticket or who later explicitly defected to UKIP from some other party.
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Originally Posted by prober
There is no technical difficulty in knowing what UKIP councillors there are, just effort in phoning branches or looking at websites.
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Best o' luck with that, and remember to post your findings here!
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Originally Posted by prober
All info is out of date re defections as though most councils post by election results they might not post party switches ( which in any case may be declarations of intent not re registration of which party the Councillor acts for ).
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Correctamento!