NEC Proposal: UKIP Councillors Group

Anthony Butcher · 21-05-2006, 08:28 PM

NEC Proposal submitted 12th March by Anthony Butcher

PROBLEM
The party currently doesn’t know who its councillors are, doesn’t use their experience and doesn’t provide any support for existing elected officials. UKIP’s ‘Who’s Who’ on the website doesn’t feature any mention of our elected councillors and with the local elections looming this leaves us looking uncommitted to local politics.

PROPOSAL
A UKIP Councillors group will be formed to encourage, support and share the experience of our councillors.

ISSUES
We have so few councillors that it may be embarrassing to list them. However, if we include all of the parish, town, district and county councillors, we will have enough to fill up a couple of pages.

John Youles · 21-05-2006, 09:14 PM

I agree, there needs to be a section of the website dedicated to local government, and a list of councillors should be included.

John Page · 21-05-2006, 09:18 PM

A main issue arising is that these ideas were submitted over two months ago, in March.

Is the NEC managing its time properly?

mkpdavies · 21-05-2006, 09:20 PM

Yes, it is managing to block almost every suggestion Anthony puts forward I would suspect.

Shame the membership can't see the results of these votes, so they can see the real road blocks to progress in UKIP.

B.A.Ware · 25-05-2006, 12:04 AM

I think one of the problems is once a councilor is elected or crossed the floor they do not inform the party.

I think the proposal should include something like, no councilor elected or crossing the floor can use the Ukip label unless the are registered at head office.
That way we would have an up to date list at hand.

gawain · 03-08-2006, 04:43 PM

"I think the proposal should include something like, no councilor elected or crossing the floor can use the Ukip label unless the are registered at head office".

If they didn't tell us how would we know? That I understand was part of the problem with the woman who lost her seat in the Wirrall, he didn't tell us, thus we didn't know.

21-05-2006, 08:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
Anthony Butcher Administrator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Long Ashton, Bristol Posts: 10,315 Party: None	NEC Proposal: UKIP Councillors Group NEC Proposal submitted 12th March by Anthony Butcher PROBLEM The party currently doesn’t know who its councillors are, doesn’t use their experience and doesn’t provide any support for existing elected officials. UKIP’s ‘Who’s Who’ on the website doesn’t feature any mention of our elected councillors and with the local elections looming this leaves us looking uncommitted to local politics. PROPOSAL A UKIP Councillors group will be formed to encourage, support and share the experience of our councillors. ISSUES We have so few councillors that it may be embarrassing to list them. However, if we include all of the parish, town, district and county councillors, we will have enough to fill up a couple of pages.

21-05-2006, 09:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
John Youles Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Norwich Posts: 154	I agree, there needs to be a section of the website dedicated to local government, and a list of councillors should be included. __________________ John Youles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ind-uk/ - the discussion list exclusive to UKIP members.

21-05-2006, 09:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 32,078 Party: Libertarian Party	Yes, it is managing to block almost every suggestion Anthony puts forward I would suspect. Shame the membership can't see the results of these votes, so they can see the real road blocks to progress in UKIP. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Lib Dems

25-05-2006, 12:04 AM	#5 (permalink)
B.A.Ware Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Birmingham Posts: 4,773 Party: UKIP	I think one of the problems is once a councilor is elected or crossed the floor they do not inform the party. I think the proposal should include something like, no councilor elected or crossing the floor can use the Ukip label unless the are registered at head office. That way we would have an up to date list at hand. __________________ We’re not just about Europe.

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21-05-2006, 09:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
John Page Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Welwyn Hatfield (Herts.) Posts: 1,878	A main issue arising is that these ideas were submitted over two months ago, in March. Is the NEC managing its time properly?

03-08-2006, 04:43 PM	#6 (permalink)
gawain Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 279	"I think the proposal should include something like, no councilor elected or crossing the floor can use the Ukip label unless the are registered at head office". If they didn't tell us how would we know? That I understand was part of the problem with the woman who lost her seat in the Wirrall, he didn't tell us, thus we didn't know.