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Originally Posted by mkpdavies
Bottom line for UKIP though, was that Damian and Hulme had the seats. They tried to use that power to wrestle control of the party (that's politics) and then ****** up badly with the whole Vertias affair.
UKIP should have been pragmatic and brought them back in quite early on. Instead, noses were cut of to spite the face and everyone has ended up a loser in London for UKIP.
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If Knapman and Farage had called an emergency meeting as requested by Damian and many members of UKIP, the business of Damian and others leaving would probably never arisen. As it was, the UKIP management showed its weakness by going to endless lengths to block a meeting. If I remember rightly there was even argument at the time as to which was the current UKIP Party Constitution. (This affected the number of signatures required to call an emergency meeting).
Gerard Batten tried to sort the matter out later. However, once they had left, it would have been difficult for them to come back with Farage still in control.
I did not support Damian/Kilroy Silk but I did think an emergency meeting was essential, and said so.