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Originally Posted by Richard the Lionheart
Cassie, there may be a grain of truth in what has been stated. You know yourself that Christine likes to vet other people's work. Our county press officer also had problems with her over the English Voice magazine. Christine appeared to want to keep it all to herself. In addition, I can also say how difficult it was to work with the central organisation when we tried to open a branch account.
I accept the emails might well have been heavily edited, but knowing the some of the characters as I do, I would not be surprised if there some element of truth in this.
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I agree that much of the flavour is familiar but, if you remember, my major grievance was not being permitted to give my side of the story in the relevant quarters. (Lack of appropriate openness was an accompanying and complicating factor.) To sound really pompous, I'm not prepared to compromise my principles even over someone as dubious as O'Connor!
Moreover, not to seem - with hindsight - to have wonderful vision, I did express early on reservations about O'Connor's adoption to one or two individuals whom I think always give me a sympathetic hearing. However, by the time I knew about it, the die was cast and, whatever my misgivings, there did seem the prospect of a high profile campaign which might benefit the English Democrats. Therefore, publicly expressing doubts about his background and, even more importantly, commitment to an English Parliament would only serve to undermine what might otherwise have been an effective campaign.
I hope I don't need to say that I am first and foremost a democratic English nationalist which, notwithstanding clashes with me personally and despite my disagreement with the FEP's stance, has not prevented me from publicly recording my hope that both the FEP and the EDP do well in the present local authority elections. In addition, my long standing opposition to the EU leads me to hope that UKIP also does well and increases its representation in the GLA.
Frankly, I don't really care what O'Connor says or what is floated on his behalf - even to bash the EDP - and I don't suppose you do! What I am interested to see is what impact, if discernible, he has had on the GLA elections. If, despite his withdrawal, his vote and that of other EDP candidates is higher than he believes it will be, he will be amongst the first to kick himself for acting so unreasonably and so dishonourably.
I remain optimistic about the EDP, the FEP and UKIP's performances!
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