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The following is a guide to the four candidates standing in this year’s UKIP leadership contest. I’ve taken the information from the four websites of the candidates, edited the texts and put them into order. The texts below will be useful for those people who do not wish/do not have the time to go through every page of the websites of the four candidates.

KEY POINTS OF THE FOUR CANDIDATES

Key points from David Campbell-Bannerman:

“We should sweep away the entire race, equality and diversity industry: which has acted in practice to create divisions and tensions in society. We should close down the Commissions based on equal opportunities, race, disability and educational disadvantage, and require all public bodies, broadcasters and councils to drop diversity and equality personnel and practices, and set instead some clear guidelines based on fairness, merit and balance for all.”

“The British Army’s system of regiments has worked brilliantly for hundreds of years, and is the envy of others like the US. But it is now under threat from this Government’s EU-driven policy of breaking down centuries old loyalties, to create the right conditions for a merged ‘Euro army’. Defence cuts under both Tory and Labour administrations have gone dangerously far – our armed forces are close to breakdown. We are now close to losing a war. The UK should boost defence due the widespread and serious threats we now face worldwide. Defence spending should be increased by 50% - an extra £10 billion, paid for out of the proceeds from leaving the EU and from increased UK defence industry procurement.”

“The UK should have a list of around 300 essential British companies and brands – such as Rolls Royce – where we should insist on 51% British ownership by a recognised UK-based company.”

“The best way of rescuing and restoring our agricultural and fishing industries is to withdraw from the disastrous EU Common Agricultural Policy and EU Common Fisheries Policy.”

Key points from Nigel Farage MEP:

“From 1999 to 2004 we doubled it again to over 16%. We only have to double it (our share of the vote) once more in 2009, and the chances are we will become the largest UK party in the parliament. If that happens then Britain’s continued membership of the EU will be put in great doubt.”

“Our country is the home of modern democracy and a major exporter of liberty to the rest of the world. It is intolerable that after all our forebears have done for us, today’s political leaders should be replacing national independence with subservience to the EU, and individual liberty with an authoritarian collective state. I will fight both of these tooth and nail. If the UK is to have any proper future as an independent nation then we must leave the European Union as soon as possible.”

Key points from David Noakes:

“The British government may not sign treaties or carry out any other action that might result in giving away its power or sovereignty to any other country without the consent of 66% of the entire British electorate in two separate ballots held five years apart. The Monarch should be allowed to immediately dismiss any government that breaches this rule. Switzerland (which is not in the EU and which uses referendums frequently to decide on some internal matters) has a real democracy where the electorate votes on issues. Politicians are controlled, and its the most stable country on earth.”

“UKIP is about national survival, not mere party politics. This should affect our approach in everything we do.”

“Ban all government support for immigrants for their first five years in the country (this includes no housing or other benefit of any kind).”

“A prisoner starting a life sentence shall be offered the chance to save the nation the millions it will cost to keep him by electing for a lethal injection. In return £100,000 will be shared equally by his family and his victim (or family).”

Key points from Richard Suchorzewski: “I pledge to secure the UKIP data base and will never, without the express permission of the member concerned, supply their details to ANY outside party or agency. I will set this out in a new code of conduct to be placed before party conference.”

“The Members of UKIP are the UK’s freedom fighters. We are fighting for the repatriation of our democracy, we are fighting for independence, we are fighting for our sovereignty, we are fighting for our rights - not least of these is the right to govern ourselves once more. This bond ties each and every one of us together. UKIP needs a firm leader who won't make excuses for failures, but will instead learn from any mistakes and make sure that they don't happen again. Party members need to be sure that their efforts and money are being used to the best possible degree.”

THE FOUR CANDIDATES – VIEWS AND POLICY STATEMENTS (CANDIDATES PRESENTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
(The lists of declared supporters for candidates was correct as on 16.7.2006 – please see the individual websites of the candidates for lists updated since 16.7.2006):

DAVID CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN 2006 UKIP LEADERSHIP BID

Profile: David Campbell-Bannerman: Served in Government as a Special Adviser to Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP. Chairman, the Bow Group. Sat as an elected councillor for four years. Worked in public relations for 20 years. Conservative candidate at the 2001 General Election. UK Independence Party candidate at Cornwall North (5.5% of vote). David himself served with the Territorial Army ( OTC ) for 3 years, has a Certificate of Military Training, and has also driven a Royal Navy submarine. Mr. Campbell-Bannerman is of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish origin.

David Campbell-Bannerman says “Since becoming UKIP Chairman in January 2006 I launched the five right things to do initiative; have acted as a UKIP media spokesman; chaired UKIP NEC meetings where I have ensured everyone had a say; improved the party’s administration service moving the Ashford call centre and party headquarters from Birmingham to Devon; addressed the notable weaknesses in party management in defining responsibilities, funding, structure and procedures and I engaged a former leading journalist in introducing senior UKIP members to newspaper editors to bring changes in media coverage of the party.”

David Campbell-Bannerman’s campaign team said “David has the right Government, strategic, party and business experience to change UKIP into a serious force in politics. David has the right personal skills to unite the party. David is a media professional and an excellent media performer and public speaker. David is UK based, with the time to lead UKIP in the UK, while Nigel Farage continues to lead in Brussels – 2 leaders for the price of 1. David believes that UKIP needs to improve its messages, policies, presentation and brand. He has high-level political skills, judgement and experience. David Campbell-Bannerman believes in moving UKIP from the enthusiastic, hard working but mostly single issue focused party it currently is, to become a fully fledged, professional, serious party of opposition, with a full manifesto and genuine commitment to winning elections of all sorts: local, assembly, mayoral, Greater London Authority, Westminster - not just the Euro elections. David believes that UKIP must become a serious, larger, UK-wide political party, which is professional, credible, broadly based and effective at every level of politics; one which offers a full and radical manifesto of policies.”

David Campbell-Bannerman’s suggestions for improving UKIP: Improve literature (the message is right, but some literature looks crude, extreme or arrogant). Train branch members on being candidates, recruitment, fundraising and on dealing with the media. ‘Independence’ News must be produced on time. A new forum exclusively for members (who could access only with party membership numbers) should be opened up on UKIP website. There should be webcasts on the UKIP website. ‘Independence’ should be party brand – covering independence from EU, independence for schools and hospitals and independence for councils over control over local taxation. Membership of the party could be increased through targeted recruitment (among the 18 million people who don’t vote). A party plan for with political goals, party objectives, planned budgets, staffing and funding targets is needed for the period 2006-10. Appoint four party directors for policy, campaigning, communications and administration (finance and membership. Produce a ‘Purple Book’ on contact details, roles and responsibilities within UKIP, in printed form and on the website, so you knew who to go to for specific queries and with specific proposals. UKIP should publish two well-researched papers under the UKIP banner on a ‘Free Britain: A Positive Vision of an independent UK’ and on ‘The True Cost of EU Membership – a guide.”

David Campbell-Bannerman said of the leader of the UKIP group in Brussels “My respect for Nigel Farage MEP is also immense. He is courageous, energetic, a brilliant orator and 100% committed to UKIP. Should I become Leader, I would lead the Party overall, but concentrate almost entirely on the UK, which needs so much work, whilst asking Nigel to continue to lead in europe - which he is doing so well.”

David Campbell-Bannerman believes in the following policies for UKIP: ‘Red tape’ (business regulations) must be reduced and corporation tax reformed.

Education: Grammar schools should be restored and standards must not be dumbed-down any more. Inflating of grades must end. Workfare should replace benefits.

Unemployment: Single mothers might be required to provide homecare for other children, those incapacitated could be found PC-based work or light duties, others would be paid as ‘carers’ ( in similar way to existing carer allowances ), unemployed in working on painting and maintaining local amenities through the local councils.

NHS: We need to defend resolutely the principle of free medical care at the point of delivery, and keep the ethos and efficiencies of the NHS. If the NHS had its own insurance plan scheme, with a guaranteed better service for the less well off, whilst injecting essential investment income into the service through payments for non-medical care, the service would move into a virtuous circle. The proceeds would boost the NHS, guarantee its future, whilst giving greater choice, investment and diversity within its unified system. As with education, hospitals might be ‘franchised out’ to the private sector – so that the hospital and its assets remain owned by the public sector, and remain part of the NHS, but are run better by suitable private hospital trusts, including not for profit companies, who would bid to run ‘state’ hospitals, and to inject new thinking and more investment into them.

Law/Crime: There has been a catastrophic failure in our legal system, with the collapse of the Home Office in its duties over deporting criminals and illegal immigrants. The UK should scrap the Human Rights Act in its entirety as a starting point, and leave the European Convention of Human Rights. ( both merely codify the rights Britons have enjoyed for hundreds of years in any case, but actually undermine those very rights. If the State seeks to give us rights we already have, by default it removes the rights it doesn’t give us. The Convention was based on UK rights. )We need to recruit more ‘real’ policemen and policewomen. The widely discredited Criminal Prosecution Service ( CPS ) should be scrapped, with a return of responsibility for prosecutions to local solicitors. We should scrap all Politically Correct appointments and Home Office interference and placemen on Police Boards, insisting on direct elections. The UK desperately needs more prisons.

Immigration/Asylum: The scale of immigration is of serious concern to the British people, and it is not racist to discuss it. Indeed, not to discuss it will ferment racism, as the BNP’s recent success in some limited areas cautions. If controlled, immigration is positive and welcome, but if allowed to get out of control it can become bad and divisive, as has now happened under Labour with an estimated 250,000 immigrants entering Britain every year and proposals for an amnesty 3 times the level of all previous amnesties combined. We should restrict UK citizenship with greater tests such 5 or more years of co-habiting marriage before citizenship to a spouse can be granted, a ‘Britishness test’ to ensure future citizens make an effort to integrate, understand the British way of life and speak English. There should be far tougher tests for asylum seekers, with refusal for those who did not take asylum in the first ‘safe’ country they came to – it should be a question of relief at safe deliverance, not at shopping for the most generous benefit system. We need must a much faster and more effective removal system, with limits placed on the abused appeals system. High quality reception centres should be established outside of the UK, to prevent the widespread misuse of our system through disappearances. All immigration amnesties should be reversed, as the collapse of an incompetent system is not sufficient grounds for citizenship. All illegal entrants granted citizenship would be reassessed, albeit with generous provision being made for evidence of good conduct and contribution to the UK. It is simply disgusting that our superb armed forces are being utterly betrayed through destructive re-organisation, penny pinching and overstretching. We believe in fairness, merit and balance. The British always have. But these qualities have been undermined by gross interference by the State and ‘positive’ discrimination ( David saw the disastrous effects of ‘affirmative action’ in the USA while a student there, and believes there is nothing positive about any discrimination ). It’s clear this doesn’t work, and PC quotas, social engineering and other related Marxist dogma all have to go. We should sweep away the entire race, equality and diversity industry: which has acted in practice to create divisions and tensions in society. We should close down the Commissions based on equal opportunities, race, disability and educational disadvantage, and require all public bodies, broadcasters and councils to drop diversity and equality personnel and practices, and set instead some clear guidelines based on fairness, merit and balance for all.

Defence: The British Army’s system of regiments has worked brilliantly for hundreds of years, and is the envy of others like the US. But it is now under threat from this Government’s EU-driven policy of breaking down centuries old loyalties, to create the right conditions for a merged ‘Euro army’. Once again, we see how regiments are being merged along ‘regional’ lines – the fine Highland regiments thrown into a Scottish regional army, for example. Recently, brave lives have been sacrificed due to penny pinching over equipment: 10 men lost needlessly in an unprotected Hercules, in unsuitable Snatch Landrovers vulnerable to Improvised Explosive Devices (IED’s), and with the lack of close air support and air transport in Afghanistan, with 6 soldiers lost in a month on a mission with far too many goals. Defence cuts under both Tory and Labour administrations have gone dangerously far – our armed forces are close to breakdown. There is far too much politically correct and human rights interference in our armed forces, that is destroying their effectiveness. We are now close to losing a war. The UK should boost defence due the widespread and serious threats we now face worldwide. Defence spending should be increased by 50% - an extra £10 billion, paid for out of the proceeds from leaving the EU and from increased UK defence industry procurement. We should first equip our existing armed forces properly, then expand with new ships, more aircraft, 25,000 extra regular troops and 60,000 more territorials. We must restore our traditional regiments.

Trade/Manufacturing/Foreign purchases of UK companies: Though UKIP believes in free trade, and resists protectionism, we should seek balanced free and fair trade. We deal with many countries that do not work to the same standards of fair play or equal competition as we do. The selling off of important British companies, notably the proposed London Stock Exchange sale to competitor financial centres, and the sale of our airports – BAA – to a Spanish company when UK companies cannot buy Spanish airports has gone too far. Other countries, including the home of free trade - the USA - would never allow such key concerns to be sold off so wantonly. The UK should have a list of around 300 essential British companies and brands – such as Rolls Royce – where we should insist on 51% British ownership by a recognised UK-based company. Furthermore, a system whereby such takeovers must be approved by a special Parliamentary committee reporting rapidly and based on criteria such as national strategic or defence importance, the willingness of the country making the purchase to reciprocate to UK companies in their home markets, and the best long term interests of the British economy. It simply isn’t credible to believe that the UK can live without a manufacturing base. We need to bring in major tax and other incentives to restore British manufacturing to health which has lost tens of thousands of jobs in recent years, and reduce the suffocating burden of EU-driven red tape and intervention on it. While Peugeot’s Ryton car plant was prevented financial aid by us, the EU was shelling out major grants for plants in Slovakia to replace Ryton.

Transport: We should scrap the road fund licence in favour of ‘pay as you go’ driving and use our road space better. The UK should build a North-South ( London-Scotland ) and East-West ( London-Exeter via Bristol ) high speed train network, and invest in high speed sections of some commuter lines, to bring dramatic time savings, spread economic benefits and reduce environmentally inefficient short haul flights and unsustainable housing pressures. 90% of business journeys from London to Paris are now by high speed Eurostar, and 60% of those London to Manchester, and rising fast. The UK should encourage heavy freight back onto rail, by exposing the real costs of heavy lorries by calculating the damage to motorways, major roads, town centres and congestion they cause. In the last decade, rail freight’s share has doubled from 6% to 12% of goods transported, and it can carry much more. We should review the disastrous Beeching rail closures, which shut many economic routes, and seek to reopen certain lines using cost effective operations where there is a modern day need and benefit.

Energy: The EU is attempting to grab control of EU-wide energy decisions with a Common Energy Policy, meaning the UK would no longer be able to decide its own preferred mix of energy forms. We should seek a balance of energy supplies – gas, nuclear, coal and oil, plus wind and wave power, where a sudden shortfall in one could be made up with an achievable increase in the others. We must start building a new generation of safer, more efficient nuclear power stations immediately – as, though there are acknowledged dangers, these must be set against the devastation caused should our power supplies failing, such as people dying from the cold in a winter failure. Britain has come very close recently to running out of power.

Farms/Fishing/Food: The best way of rescuing and restoring our agricultural and fishing industries is to withdraw from the disastrous EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) – the CFP the Tories recently admitted they could not renegotiate, despite stating this in their 2005 Manifesto. Withdrawal from the EU CAP and the EU CFP would free the UK from the onerous system of subsidies and enforced quotas and imports – it is scandal a country such as ours is forced to import French milk when the UK should be self sufficient in milk. Fishing licences from repatriated fishing rights would be worth billions alone to the UK. There must be a return to fair prices for farmers, and the payment of environmental grants reflecting the vital role farmers play in looking after the countryside. UKIP must address the growing evidence that the supermarkets are far too powerful in the UK - with their ability to override local planning controls, their dominance in many given geographical areas, their alleged loss leading market distorting activities ( cheap petrol, loss making ranges, cross subsidies and monopolistic pressures on suppliers and costs ), and the destructive impact they have had on traditional high streets, shops and services. Supermarkets and out of town stored should pay realistic business rates based on the environmental impact they have in generating huge car traffic flows, while high street rates should reflect their convenience and the more environmental alternatives they make possible – people being able to walk or use public transport to get to shops. In farming, we should see the return of proper farmer’s markets, as in France, which supermarkets must buy from alongside individuals, rather than through direct supply contracts. We should also look at limited but effective tax breaks to help establish or strengthen traditional foods and drinks, such as local real ales, local produce and goods – primarily through help for promotions.

Constitution/Devolution/Referendums: We would keep national bodies (the Scottish Parliament, and Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies), as long as it remains the will of the people, but replace national representatives with Westminster MPs. We would then remove all undemocratic Regional Chambers, and replace Regional Development Agencies with area wide bodies, controlled by county councils, and bolster traditional councils. One week in every month, English Westminster MPs will meet in an ‘English Parliament’, Scots Westminster MPs in the Scottish Parliament ( to be relocated to a smaller and less ugly building than the present one ), and Welsh Westminster MPs in the replacement for a Welsh Assembly – a Welsh National Council. In time, The Northern Ireland Assembly will be treated in the same way. This will act to rebind the UK together and save tens of millions in national level politicians and their advisers. We should explore forming a new ‘House of Lords and Senators’ comprised possibly of 650 peers, roughly the same number as MPs, with 300 elected Senators and 300 appointed Lords - appointed through an independent Appointments Committee on merit not quotas. The House would also have new and radical referendum powers to keep the executive in check, and guard against a repeat of the betrayal of sovereignty by the ‘EU project’ or similar adventures.

Civil Service: Whitehall should be opened up to non-career civil servants, and talented individuals from academia, think tanks, political parties, commerce and industry welcomed in much larger numbers.
Local Government: On local government, UKIP should give local councils more independence and allow them to raise their own monies. Local councils should be given control of business rates, they should be able to levy a local sales tax – replacing the EU’s mandatory VAT, where they keep a proportion of that tax, with the rest going to central government. Local councils should also have control of planning, being able to resist unpopular supermarkets or unappealing developments, with no right of overturning this by unelected central planners or Ministers, except by Parliamentary Bills for the purpose. They should have power to protect buildings of strong local interest with a local ‘listing’ process to supplement national listings.

Compensation: The compensation culture and its related litigious culture should be directly addressed by setting harder and higher criteria for just claims, and limiting those compensation payouts mostly driven by greed not justice.

Commenting in support of David Campbell-Bannerman:

James Barr, author of ‘The Bow Group – a history’ (Politico’s) wrote in 2001 “‘The Guardian described the Bow Group as ‘fading in influence’. None the less, David Campbell Bannerman tried to make the most of this uncompromising situation. By early 1994, in the second half of Campbell Bannerman’s chairmanship, the Group was receiving a healthy income, with functions and profits from its Conferences the two major sources of income after subscriptions.”

Bill Budge – Chairman, UKIP North Cornwall Branch said in July 2006: (where David was Parliamentary Candidate in 2005 ) “Bill Budge, Chairman of the UKIP Cornwall North branch (where David Campbell-Bannerman was party candidate at the May 2005 General Election) commented ““I have worked with visiting Ministers, 3 MPs, 8 candidates and 68 Conservative branches - when they existed in North Cornwall. I can safely say that David was the best candidate I have ever come across. He’s easy to get along with, listens to others’ opinions, and is a real Gent.”

Gerard Batten, the UKIP member of the EU ‘Parliament’ for London, commented in July 2006 “David has been one of the most effective Party Chairman that UKIP has ever had. He has taken on an extremely difficult job during an extremely challenging time for the party. David has managed to guide the NEC with skill, patience, firmness, good humour, and a constructive outlook, which at times can be a challenge in itself. UKIP is now working more as a team than ever before; and this is in no small part to the management skill and personal qualities that David has bought to the role of Party Chairman."

Lisa Duffy, Chairman of the north-west County Committee of UKIP stated in July 2006 “David has the look, feel and composure for being our leader along with many years experience within the political world… David's speech at the North West conference was motivational and inspirational and he achieved an immediate and enthusiastic standing ovation.”

Financial contributions to Mr. Campbell-Bannerman’s campaign for the leadership of the UK Independence Party may be sent to: Send to 'dcb2win', 19 Allison Road, London, W3 6JF. Please make cheques payable to: 'David Campbell Bannerman'. www.dcb2win.org

NIGEL FARAGE MEP 2006 UKIP LEADERSHIP BID

Profile: Nigel Farage MEP. Educated Dulwich College. Joined a firm of commodity brokers on the London Mental Exchange before starting a brokerage business which closed solvent in 2002. Now a partner with his brother in a business. Founding member UK Independence Party (UKIP) 1993 and a member of the Anti-Federalist League before the formation of UKIP. Member UK Independence Party NEC. Chairman, UK Independence Party 1997 – 2000. Chairman UKIP south-east of England Committee, Chairman UKIP European Elections Committee since 2002. Contested the Eastleigh Parliamentary By-Election 1994. Contested Salisbury at the 1997 General Election, Bexhill and Battle at the General Election of 2001, Thanet South at the May 2005 General Election and the Bromley and Chislehurst Parliamentary By-Election of 29.6.2006 (saving his deposit each time). Stood as a UKIP candidate in the EU Election 1994. Elected as a UKIP member of the EU ‘Parliament’ 1999 on the south-east of England ‘regional’ list (re-elected 2004). Member: Fisheries Committee, EU ‘Parliament’. Member: Conference of the Presidents of the EU ‘Parliament’. Leader of the UK Independence Party in the EU ‘Parliament’. Deputy Leader of the Independence and Democracy Group of the EU ‘Parliament’ (UKIP is the largest single part of the group).
Married with four children. Enjoys spending what free weekends he has watching his sons’ sporting activities. Hobbies and interests: Sea angling, supporter Real Ale, visiting World War 1 battlefields, conscious of those who fell defending the UK. Member: Countryside Alliance, East India Club, Countryside Restoration Trust, Royal National Lifeboats Institute, Institute of Fisheries Management, Western Front Organisation.

Nigel Farage on his future plans for UKIP: “In 2009 there will be another set of elections to the European ‘parliament’, and if you elect me this year I will still be leader then. From 1994 to 1999 we in UKIP doubled our percentage of the vote in the European elections. From 1999 to 2004 we doubled it again to over 16%. We only have to double it once more in 2009, and the chances are we will become the largest UK party in the parliament. If that happens then the UK’s continued membership of the EU will be put in great doubt. My aim is to make that happen and I hope you can support me in this endeavour by voting for me in the Leadership election. The job of the leader is to give a political lead and to be as available as possible to the media. Our leader must be capable of putting over strong messages and be able to attract high level support. He or she must work closely with the Party Chairman, but not do the job of the Chairman. We have been through an unsettled time recently with the move from Birmingham to Devon. It must be our ambition to have London headquarters for UKIP. Our political centre must be where the national media are located.”

Nigel’s UKIP leadership campaign team said “Nigel introduced Alan Bown to the party. Alan is now UKIP’s biggest individual donor, contributing many hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Party. As Alan joked recently (Quote) Nigel was the main reason I joined the party but I would be a much richer man today if I had never met him!” (End of quote) No other candidate can claim fund-raising successes anything Nigel’s, and if UKIP members make him our Leader he will attract even more funding to UKIP.” * Nigel Farage also secured the backing of Paul Sykes at the EU Election of 2004 in which Mr. Sykes gave £1 million of help to UKIP (half of the total budget for the 2004 EU Election campaign)

The views of Nigel Farage MEP “If the UK is to have any proper future as an independent nation then we must leave the European Union as soon as possible. Successive British governments have, without the permission of the British electorate, continued to ignore public opinion in driving forward to sign up to a European Superstate. I am a libertarian, opposed to EU fraud and waste and committed to honest politics. EU rules and regulations should be rolled back. My vision is a free people in a free country. For all of our history we resisted invasion and our people resisted tyranny. Our country is the home of modern democracy and a major exporter of liberty to the rest of the world. It is intolerable that after all our forebears have done for us, today’s political leaders should be replacing national independence with subservience to the EU, and individual liberty with an authoritarian collective state. I will fight both of these tooth and nail. If the UK is to have any proper future as an independent nation then we must leave the European Union as soon as possible.”

Among those supporting Mr. Nigel Farage’s bid for the leadership of the anti-EU UK Independence Party: Proposer, Alan Bown (Ramsgate), Seconder Sir Patrick Moore CBE FRS (Chichester), The Earl of Bradford (Stafford), Sir George Earle (Crediton), Graham Booth MEP (Torbay), Pamela Booth (Torbay), Jeffrey Titford (Harwich), Robin Page (Cambridgeshire), Gerald Kelly (Cheshire), Katy Bloom (Yorkshire), Godfrey Bloom (Yorkshire), Bill Jenner (Bexley), Idris Francis (Winchester), Tony Stone (Surrey), John Kelly (Devon East), Julia Longhurst (West Sussex), John Longhurst (West Sussex), Elizabeth Burton (Devon North), John Whittaker (Lancashire), Keith Riddle (Sussex East), Peter Gardner (Oxford), John Agnew (Norfolk), Richard Binstead (Cornwall), Heather Bennett (London), Brian Seymour (Shropshire), Jill Seymour (Shropshire), James Carver (Suffolk), Michael Bedford (Esher and Walton), Maurice Blackburn (Surrey), John Youles (Norfolk), Daniel Oxley (Saint Helens), John Embrey (Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire), Margaret King (Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire), Charles Cain (Southampton), Robin Collet (Hampshire), Dr. D. Horsnell (overseas), Simon Fletcher (Norfolk), Martin Haslam (Sussex mid), Michael McGough (London), David Robertson (London), John Dunford (Bexley), Hedley Lester (Havant), Mick Greenhough (Bromley), Stephen Harris (Havant), Frank Hughes (Cardiff), David Hooper (Bromley), John Moran (Kingston, Surrey), Martin Neale (Thanet), Michael Taylor (Thanet), Bernard Rainsbury (Bexley), Jean Wisker (Thanet), Robert Neckels (Surrey south-west), Keith Morris (Wantage), Roger Wilson (Hampshire), Roger Wilson (Hampshire), Toby Micklethwait (Runnymede), Irenie Thorn (Horsham), Derek Norman (Huntingdon), Kay Norman (Huntingdon), Robert Brown north-west (Cambridgeshire), Julian Fairweather (Peterborough), Albert Watts (Cambridge), Carole Watts (Cambridge), Bob Gotts (Devon North), Yvonne Larg (Epsom), Stephen Smith (Reigate), John Harvey (Lewes), Joyce Hankin (Cambridge), Peter Lucas (Bournemouth), John Harvey (Lewes), Joyce Hankin (Cambridge), Peter Lucas (Bournemouth), James Riley (Kingston, Surrey), Edith Bigg (Canterbury), Val Pagram (Devon North), Michael Pagram (Devon North), Gordon Parkin (Stockton), Janice Cronin (Bexley), George Wright (Bexley), Peter Lindsay (Reigate), Peter Condie (Thanet), Ann Condie (Thanet), Peter Wyatt (Totnes), Ian Walsh , (Totnes), Tim Cross (West Sussex), Chad Noble (Suffolk), James Carver (Leominster), Julie Beaman (Lancashire), Mark Dent (Torbay), Mike Simpson (Torbay), Graham Bailey (Surrey East), Jacqueline Moss (Christchurch), Alastair Terry (Taunton), Mrs M. Ford (south Manchester), Andrew Smith (Epping Forest), Frances A. Fox (Peterborough).

To help elect Nigel Farage as leader of UKIP please visit http://www.votenigel.org/ for contact details.

DAVID NOAKES 2006 UKIP LEADERSHIP BID

Profile of David Noakes: Born London, W1. Now aged 53. Worked for eight years in New York (including for JP Morgan Chase Bank at 95 Wall Street) and in Brussels (“I experienced the EU waste close-up”). Worked in Jersey for Coopers and Lybrand and have delivered yachts on the east coast of the USA. Computer consultant since 1996 (including for the BBC in London). UKIP candidate at the May 2005 General Election at Truro/St. Austell. Interests: Celtic and Cornish history, sailing and racing a Falmouth working boat - (ancient oyster fishing fleet with long bowsprits and gaff topsails). David points out “I have UK and US pilot's licenses with 600 hours, IMC, night and twin ratings. USA instrument rating.” Married with two children (one male/one female). David says “My family traces its descent from the Normans in 1066, apparently before that we were Vikings.” He also mentions that “I have a good understanding of US economic and political systems, their advantages (and disadvantages). Thorough understanding of accountancy, good grasp of economics. Good understanding of contract law; ability to summarise.”

David Noakes says “If elected leader of UKIP, I will”:
Broadcast the terrible truth about the EU police state (the truth is conclusively proved by the six EU Treaties and EU Constitution, its laws and 111,000 regulations). Bring democracy and a full team into the UKIP leadership. Lead from the front, with the full participation of our valuable Branch Chairmen and activists, acting in the UK - not wasting time in Brussels.

UKIP needs a permanent national campaign team and shadow cabinet, not just one leader. Any member who wishes to be an activist at national level will be able to submit his CV for any national post. The most able and experienced will be selected, either by votes at conference or by a committee, which any applicant can choose to address in person. They will form a proper party structure which will include policy spokesmen, will help protect the party from subversion, and each of the campaigns below will have its own national director. As there's not much time left, our new leader must be effective.

There will be an annual confidence vote at each Party Conference, on the Leader’s level of action and success, as well as that of other key members of the leadership. Losing a vote of confidence will cause a leadership election, and / or replacement of the individuals found wanting. Postal votes will be available. I will make the leadership accountable, promote and encourage our activists, their ideas, and grass roots democracy. Finances will be transparent and properly audited. Probity will be rigorously enforced at all levels.

Make UKIP effective with continuous planned campaigns. I would initially organise four campaigns: members would attend every MP’s surgery whenever they are held; they would meet the 19, 579 elected local authority Councillors in the UK; they would meet journalists to warn of them the EU plan to strip them of their freedom (EU CJ case 274/99) and UKIP members would campaign to expose the corruption associated with the EU’s handover of power at the local council and quango level (orchestrated by Common Purpose and the ODPM).

The UKIP leadership would lobby MP’s, newspaper editors, football clubs and their patriotic supporters, the Countryside Alliance, Business (and the CBI), unions, armed forces, churches, pop music bands, run a scurrilous fortnightly newspaper exposing EU corruption at a national level, print the "EU Police State" warnings on the sides of lorries, one continually driving around Westminster, print a million stickers of the EU flag with a hammer and sickle inside; slogan “Stop the EU police state;” distribute to members and other anti-EU groups.

David Noakes said “UKIP is about national survival, not mere party politics. This should affect our approach in everything we do. The media is fairly determined to block clear debate, so you see BBC interviewers interviewing BBC reporters instead of the actual candidates, and they reduce everything to the level of a soundbite. It is therefore vital that UKIP gets our message across in those soundbites, and uses them with precision.” He added “Members of the Commonwealth watch their failures and want to break their ties with us. The separatist movements in Scotland, Wales and Cornwall are fuelled by a wish to get away from the failures of Westminster. Our government has withdrawn freedoms and gone to war, the last time killing 200,000 people (in Iraq) without consulting us.

David Noakes believes that the following should be UKIP policies:

Charter for Monarch: The Monarch should call a policy ballot on any subject or subjects where she has reason to believe the major wishes of her subjects are being ignored by elected politicians. The policy ballot shall be binding on elected representatives. The Monarch should be allowed to immediately dismiss any government that breaches the first five clauses of the following Charter:

1. The British government may not sign treaties or carry out any other action that might result in giving away its power or sovereignty to any other country without the consent of 66% of the entire British electorate in two separate ballots held five years apart.

2. No land or territory may be given independence, or given to a foreign power, without the consent from a specific ballot both the whole British Electorate, and the entire electorate of that land or territory.

3. Additional government, or tiers of government may not be created without both the specific consent of the whole British Electorate, and that part of the electorate affected.

4. Any attempt by the government to abandon, surrender or substitute the Pound Sterling for another currency shall be construed as an attempt to give away sovereignty. It also requires the specific consent of 66% of the entire electorate in two separate ballots.

5. The government shall not invade, attack or bomb another country and kill more than 1,000 people without the specific consent of the electorate in a simple majority.

Tax: Any Government which raises tax above 25% of GDP should be sacked. No more than five tax systems should be allowed. The poorest 10% should be exempt from tax.

EU: In addition to EU withdrawal, all European regulations and directives, which have done so much damage to our economy, will be repealed or withdrawn. If there is doubt whether a regulation is Euro inspired, it will be withdrawn if it came into effect during or after 1971.

Constitution: There shall be no more than 144 Members of Parliament. Constituency boundaries will be redefined at least every 5 years to ensure an approximately equal share of the electorate. Members of secret societies, subjects with unpublished or hidden political agendas, and those who wish to undermine the democratic process may not enter any form of government or government employment.

Referendums: Clauses in this Charter can be amended by ballot where at least 66% of the electorate vote on the clause, and a simple majority of those voting is in favour of each change. The consent of 66% of the entire electorate is required for changes on sovereignty issues. The government and local government are responsible for holding national and local policy ballots annually in November. A list of items to be balloted will be provided to the electorate. A simple majority of those voting on an issue is sufficient for that issue to be carried. The results are binding on the government.

Deception/Secrecy/Audits: A new crime of "Deception in Government" is herby introduced. Secrecy Acts that can be used to hide government incompetence are illegal. The Official Secrets Act shall be abolished when this Charter becomes effective. The National Audit office will undertake an annual review of every government department.

Fishing/Farming/Buying British: The government is prohibited from running a fisheries department because of the destruction that department has wrought on the fishing industry. The government is restricted to enforcing minimum mesh sizes as recommended by the body of active British fishermen, and to enforcing the 200 mile British territorial fishing and mineral limits. If more than ten farmers commit suicide for professional reasons in any one year the Minister for Agriculture shall be dismissed. All government departments will buy British if a British option exists.

Bank Holidays: An additional National and Bank holiday will be attached to a weekend around the 1st November to fill the huge gap from August to Christmas. This holiday shall be named after a British hero, Guy Fawkes.

Police/Law: Police may not detain suspects they have arrested beyond one hour unless they have good and justifiable reason to believe the suspect might flee the area. If detained beyond an hour the suspect is allowed to make phone calls until he has contacted both his family and his solicitor. If the police's arrest proves to be incompetent or oppressive the arresting officer will serve one week without pay, and the police provide a written apology. Police in general will show a friendly and helpful attitude towards the public. Police officers who do not like this approach should leave the force forthwith. Judges shall automatically cease to serve after a period of 2 years unless their case history is examined and they are reappointed by the House of Lords. All court cases, both civil and criminal, are subject to time limits according to the severity of the case. Misdemeanours shall have a maximum of five minutes each for both prosecution and defence. No case may occupy a courts time for more than one week. A prisoner starting a life sentence shall be offered the chance to save the nation the millions it will cost to keep him by electing for a lethal injection. In return £100,000 will be shared equally by his family and his victim (or family).

Freedom/Human Rights: To establish a uniform basis for Britain to champion human rights, the government will publish, without fear or favour, an annual list of all 240 nations of the world ordered according to the democracy, freedom and civil rights enjoyed by their peoples. The UK’s aim shall be the installation of a democratic system in that country which has durability, is benevolent to its people, and has this Charter as its Constitution. If Britain gets involved in a war or invasion in a foreign country, all government ministers shall be dismissed if they cannot achieve this aim. This penalty may be waived in each case by a majority ballot of HM Subjects.

Immigration: Ban all government support for immigrants for their first five years in the country (this includes no housing or other benefit of any kind). The government will seek to purchase a coastal territory of at least 400 square miles (around 20 miles by 20 miles) from a foreign power where it will set up a permanent British Country to house refugees and the oppressed.

Defence: The armed forces shall no longer on occasion be used as Politicians private terrorist forces without the consent of the electorate. The armed forces are to be subject to the annual review by the National Audit office and the same relevant disciplines of Government departments including the dismissal clauses. Servicemen are required to notify the National Audit office of waste and will remain anonymous

Transport/Monolithic companies/Corporations: Rail privatisation has been a disaster. By international standards, British Rail was efficient. Once a year the government, or by petition, 1,000 users of a national utility, transport company or monopoly may force a ballot of users which may require all the members of the board of directors to resign for a period of 2 years if, in their opinion, they have received repeated bad service or high prices. It should be illegal to build on or destroy airports or railway lines, whether disused or not. Massive corporations can make our lives a misery. To encourage competition, corporate mergers and takeovers should be prohibited between companies with a turnover of over £500 million. Any corporation with more a 100 employees shall pay double the taxes of other corporations if: 1.) It has an automated telephone answering service without the obvious option to dial zero to speak to a real person. 2.) The switchboard is incapable for putting the call through to the right department or right person efficiently.

Computers: Many know computers can be the biggest threat to liberty since governments began. We have seen Parliament's attempts to read and control our email, which means in time they will be controlling all our mail This gives an indication of how little Parliament cares for our liberty, and much they care for their own convenience. They certainly see themselves as our rulers, not our servants, and intend to use computers to control us. Therefore computers are not to be permitted to control the lives of British Subjects. No data may be stored on computer concerning a British subject without his written permission, which may be withdrawn at any time. The top three officers in any government department snooping on Internet email will be dismissed and banned from government office or employment for five years, and those involved in the management or implementation of snooping suffer the same penalty.

NHS: The NHS with its 800,000 staff is like an old style massive failed Soviet Union collective. The NHS budget has increased by 30% in the 4 years since 1997. The NHS black hole needs to be abolished in favour of each hospital running as an independent enterprise. Each should receive funds from the government on the number of cases it treats and their severity. Doctors and nurses will share equally in a bonus equal to half of any surplus at the year end, and will vote equally for the management committee that runs the hospital.

The BBC: The BBC's budget, which shall be financed by the government, shall not exceed 1/7000 of GNP (i.e. currently about £150 million). It may not employ more than 1,000 staff. Its main aim shall be the broadcasting of truth and hope to the oppressed all over the world. Domestically it shall not expand its services without the approval of parliament, and will concentrate on one television channel and three radio channels only. It will not produce common programmes that are easily available on commercial television, but concentrate on quality. It will not be allowed to collect a license fee, which is effectively a theft of income from services commercial channels provide. Its board and senior officers are appointed for one year only. Parliament may, by a majority vote once a year, retain the current management only if it believes the BBC has served the oppressed and stuck to the truth with honesty and conviction.

Buildings: To halt the proliferation of ugly commercial buildings county ballots will be held annually. Two hundred signatures are required form the local electorate to add an existing building to the ballot list of commercial buildings that may be demolished, and voters may indicate on the ballot any number between five and twenty years for the owner to demolish. Fifty percent of the local voters must vote on a building for a quorum, and a simple majority is then required for the building to be designated "ugly" and for its demolition. The Architects who designed a building designated as ugly shall have their professional qualifications withdrawn for one year for each building project balloted as ugly. The existing Architectural bodies such as the RIBA shall be abolished forthwith and their assets confiscated for the damage their members have already done to the appearance of Britain.

David Noakes says “Switzerland (which is not in the EU and which uses referendums frequently to decide on some internal matters) has a real democracy where the electorate votes on issues. Politicians are controlled, and its the most stable country on earth. The British people are now strangers to democracy.”

David Noakes says of the EU “The twenty five year long attempt by the politicians to abolish our sovereignty, abolish the Pound, and take us into a possibly economically disastrous europe without a vote of the electorate is a typical example of their determination to ignore our wishes. European regulations alone, which arrive at the rate of 80,000 pages a month, will ensure europe will be an economic disaster for the UK, and the additional taxes another nail in the coffin. The dishonesty of Westminster politicians over this issue is breathtaking. In the full knowledge that we the people don't want to be in europe, they have deceitfully forced British Business to spend several hundred billion pounds on enforced metrication, product harmonization and other conversions to comply with european (EU) regulations (that's half one year's Gross Domestic Product for the entire nation). Feeling poor? It's about £25,000 for every family in the UK, which has come out of YOUR salary, in taxes and increases you haven't had. Politicians won't, 33 years after signing the first euro- treaty, give us a vote on whether we want to be part of this ugly EU Superstate. Because they know we will vote a massive NO with a 70% majority The total - Half a Trillion Pounds already spent on europe without our consent proves they have no intention of allowing any other outcome than forcing us into the EU. The EU is the most corrupt and undemocratic Government in the Western world. No wonder we don't want to be part of it. Nor do the people in other european countries – even the German people weren't given a vote – the people were 60% against the abolition of the Deutschmark, the Politicians 525-35 in favour. No democracy there either. Other nations are fighting for their independence while our politicians are throwing ours away. There is no habeas corpus, and no appeal to the British courts, which are now powerless before the EU Government. Now the EU is demanding that we hand over our Army, Navy, Air Force, Nuclear Weapons and police to European Superstate control. Conservative Ted Heath signed the original treaties, Conservative Margaret Thatcher signed the Single European Act which began the undermining of our sovereignty, Conservative John Major signed Maastricht, and Labour Blair signed away our veto. Stunningly the Queen signed all these treaties, which abolish her as well as our nation, without a murmur. I will start a private criminal prosecution of the above people. We will be in same position as Chechnya is with its attempts to leave Russia - at the mercy of a totalitarian government.”

If you would like to help get David Noakes elected as leader of UKIP, please telephone 07974 437 097. E-mail: davidjnoakes@yahoo.co.uk.

This document is copyright David Noakes. Permission to reproduce is hereby granted, providing this notice is also reproduced.

www.vote-david.com

RICHARD SUCHORZEWSKI 2006 UKIP LEADERSHIP BID

Profile Richard Suchorzewski: Born 1963. Lives at Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan. Professionally qualified with a post-graduate diploma in Banking. Previously a banker in London (lived in Kent) and worked on political lobbying and retailing before divorcing (no children) and returning to Wales. Joined the Conservative Party but (quote) “like many others, I finally came to the conclusion that not only would the Tories never take us out of the EU, but that they had become arrogant. They no longer listened to their members. Hence I joined UKIP which has a reputation as a grass-roots party.” (End of quote) Chairman of UKIP Wales and an elected member of the UKIP National Executive Committee since Spring 2006.

Richard Suchorzewski says of the EU “Our membership of the European Union has been, and will continue to be, catastrophic, as we have to bail out our own, and other countries' pension deficits (not to mention the multitude of other reasons why we should withdraw from this corrupt entity). As a British patriot I believe wholeheartedly in traditional British values, the independent sovereignty of the British Parliament and strong local government as the best system of governance. I demand the liberty for my country, to trade self confidently in a global market in its own right, I similarly respect the national dignity and self respect of other peoples. I see no case for fettering British business with laws advantageous to our competitors, and I see no case for undermining British justice by imposing foreign and alien concepts of law. I believe that money from British tax payers should primarily be spent on British citizens, humanitarian aid notwithstanding. I believe in less government, with less smoke and mirrors, with less centralisation. Local decisions should be made locally, by local people.”

Employment history: 1982 – 1986 Management Trainer Lloyds Bank PLC, 1986 – 1990 Manager TSB Bank PLC Wales and London (various management posts in branch structure and at head office), 1990 – 1993 Senior Manager, Government Affairs TSB Group PLC, 1993 – 2006 Self-employed Management and Marketing Consultant (advised small businesses and purchased retail and franchise businesses, a debt negotiation company and security organisations).

Professional Membership: 1987: Institute of Financial Services, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Institute of Directors, Elected member British Business Consultants and Trainers Academy, Member Federation of Small Businesses, Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.

Richard Suchorzewski’s plans for UKIP if he secures the party leadership: “I am a strong leader whilst being a ‘listening leader. I demand transparency, integrity and equality in the party. We will always tell the truth, say what we believe, and create equal opportunity for all. The Members of UKIP are the UK’s freedom fighters. We are fighting for the repatriation of our democracy, we are fighting for independence, we are fighting for our sovereignty, we are fighting for our rights - not least of these is the right to govern ourselves once more. This bond ties each and every one of us together. I am currently putting in place structures and opportunities in UKIP Wales that can be rolled out across the UK. I will bring greater democracy to our party. I will improve participation in decision-making and enhance communication – including over the internet. UKIP needs a firm leader who won't make excuses for failures, but will instead learn from any mistakes and make sure that they don't happen again. Party members need to be sure that their efforts and money are being used to the best possible degree. I will completely overhaul the management structure. We also need a new supervisory steering group. I propose a new style NEC made up of Regional representatives or chairmen, the Party Chairman and the Party Leader. This will deliver regional representation, true democracy and transparent accountability. This committee will be your eyes and ears in the party and act as an oversight body to make sure that the leadership is doing its job properly. A shadow cabinet will be created with each member responsible for mastering and communicating their brief. Each spokesman will be tasked with building a team of party volunteers to assist them with policy development, news commentary and media relations. I will appoint a General Manager, who will have executive and functionary responsibility for all party staff, regional organisers and Head Office Functions. I will appoint a UKIP Communications Director (and eventually team) responsible and accountable to the Leadership for: media relations, internal communications, member communications and websites. The deputy leader will focus on large scale fund raising activities, as well as standing in for the Leader at functions and events. This will include liaison with major donors and benefactors and ‘City’ institutions. We must institute a strong UKIP Training Programme, to train potential candidates and spokespeople in political strategy and presentation. We must train branch and regional officers, and develop political thinking amongst members. As leader I will be working to deliver Liberation from the European Union. It will be my duty to oversee the development of an exit strategy and a strategy for secure and stable survival once we regain our freedom. Anyone serving in office under my leadership must accept that security clearance may be required. This may be as simple as providing of a birth certificate, driving licence and a proven CV. I pledge to secure the data base and will never, without the express permission of the member concerned, supply their details to ANY outside party or agency. I will set this out in a new code of conduct to be placed before party conference. I will endeavour to revitalise the party image and target our core message towards schools, universities and the under-40’s. It is imperative that we bring in younger activists and new talent. I will make it a priority to set up a youth movement for UKIP.

Richard says the following should be UKIP policies:

Foreign Policy: The UK should be a confident played in the world giving real aid to those less fortunate who need help in being fed, being made secure and being educated. The American policy of constant military interference should be rejected. The UK must ensure that our armed forces become the best trained and best equipped fighting force in the world to protect and defend liberty, freedom and our own borders.”

Economy: Reduce tax (which is presently too high). Free business from over-regulation. Productivity would be boosted as a result.

Immigration: High immigration puts strains on public services. Introduce a points system and work permit schemes as used in Australia and the USA.

Crime: Firmer guidelines for magistrates and greater authority. Build more prisons. The Human Rights Act, which is being abused by criminals and the dishonest, should be replaced with a new Bill of Rights for Britain.

Education: Standards must be raised – not qualifications ‘dumbed-down’.

NHS: Cut the waste – too much spent on over-management. We must train our own nurses and doctors, not ‘steal’ them from the third world who can least afford to lose them.

Richard Suchorzewski is opposed to: the EU, political correctness, false values, constant monitoring, frivolous litigation, the culture of dependency, police state powers, ID cards and surveillance and increased state powers. He favours: liberty, sovereignty, individual freedom and British values.

Richard Suchorzewski said at his campaign launch on 11.7.2006 “I represent the modernising wing of the party. I will be challenging the front-runner, Nigel Farage MP. My aim is to grow UKIP from an anti-EU party into a full pro-British party. No other party stands for British freedom from the EU, British democracy and British values. UKIP must protect and promote the British way of life. I have been inundated with emails, letters and telephone calls from UKIP members asking me to stand; they don’t want to vote for more of the same from the present party leadership. They want a professional party with a full-time leader based in Britain, not Brussels.”

Supporters of Richard commented “With Richard entering the contest for the leadership of UKIP this is now a two-horse race. As Chairman of UKIP Wales, he has already proved that he is diplomatic, decisive, professional, a genuine listener and a good public speaker, with strong political and organisational experience. UKIP will become the pro-Britain party under his leadership".

Mr. Anthony Butcher (a member of UKIP in Somerset), who was elected to the UKIP National Executive Committee in Spring 2006 observed “There are two possible winners of the 2006 UKIP leadership contest – Nigel Farage MEP and Richard Suchorzewski. Nigel Farage – who is an accomplished public performer – is part of the old-guard, the de facto UKIP leader for the past decade and someone who gets things done but who is dictatorial in management style thus making him a divisive figure. Nigel is the ‘more of the same’ candidate. He brought Kilroy (Robert Kilroy-Silk MEP who quit UKIP after getting elected to Brussels) into the party and was instigator of the doomed Independence-Democracy group EU referendum petition campaign which attracted only 2 – 3% of the target 2 million signatures and cost £180, 000 of taxpayers’ money (on the campaign). Nigel staked his reputation on the By-election in Bromley-Chislehurst in June 2006, and threw everything at it. The party spent more than £70,000 there, and the campaign had more leaflet deliverers and billboards than any other UKIP by-election battle ever. It was hyped as UKIP’s best ever chance and claims were made of 22% support locally to the media. Yet, despite the huge efforts of Nigel and so many others, the result was a big disappointment. UKIP received just 8% of the vote - worse than other UKIP by-election results (such as Hartlepool and South Staffordshire) that didn’t have comparable funds, activists or internal resources. This poor result is now going to hang over Nigel’s leadership bid. Nigel wants UKIP to remain an anti-EU party – if you want an anti-EU party – vote for Nigel. Richard (whose primary goal is also to rescue the UK from the EU) wants UKIP to grow into a full pro-British party engaging on every domestic issue (as well as on the EU). If you want a pro-UK party – vote for Richard Suchorzewski.”

List of declared supporters of the candidacy of Richard Suchorzewski for the leadership of the UK Independence Party (as on 16.7.2006): Petrina Holdsworth (former Chairman of UKIP and a member of UKIP in Sussex), Linda Guest (UKIP NEC member and a member of UKIP south-west), Anthony Butcher (UKIP NEC member and a member of UKIP in Somerset), Bryan MCCormack (UKIP NEC member and a member of UKIP in Scotland), David Abbott (UKIP NEC member and a member of UKIP in the south-east), Trevor Colman (author of ‘It’s time we governed ourselves’ and a member of UKIP south-west), Hugh Moewyn Hughes (Secretary, UKIP Wales), Brendan Padmore (UKIP Sutton Coldfield), John Page (Welwyn-Hatfield), Clare Davis (UKIP Woking), Roger Thomas (UKIP Wales Membership Secretary), Peter Baker (Chairman UKIP Eastern Counties Committee, UKIP Conference Organiser and resident within the UKIP ‘east’ Midlands area), Ian Gillman (UKIP NEC member, and a member of UKIP ‘east’ Midlands’), Michael Maclaire-Hillier (Vice-Chairman, Bournemouth West UKIP), Avril King (Secretary, Poole UKIP), Tom Collier (UKIP Bournemouth East), Councillor Alan Wood (UKIP Councillor Devizes and a member of UKIP in the south-west), Rob McWhirter (UKIP Frankfurt and south-east), Councillor Graham Livings (Acting Chairman, UKIP Wells in Somerset), David Brown (UKIP Treasurer, Wales), John Wartski (UKIP Dorset West), Colin McNamee (Acting Chairman UKIP Somerton and Frome), Ruth Shoebridge (UKIP Bournemouth East), Marilyn Swain (UKIP Grantham & Stamf

Christina

Hi Britannist,

Nice idea, as per usual for you.

Today, DCB updated his site with a large list of supporters, Matt has already started a thread in which he has copied them. This is missing from DCBs bit here. Good work and not your fault he waited until this affy!

Britannist

The forum software would not let me post the final part of Richard Suchorzewski's list of declared supporters - so I am sending it again here, so it can be read in full:

List of declared supporters of the candidacy of Richard Suchorzewski for the leadership of the UK Independence Party (as on 16.7.2006): Petrina Holdsworth (former Chairman of UKIP and a member of UKIP in Sussex), Linda Guest (UKIP NEC member and a member of UKIP south-west), Anthony Butcher (UKIP NEC member and a member of UKIP in Somerset), Bryan MCCormack (UKIP NEC member and a member of UKIP in Scotland), David Abbott (UKIP NEC member and a member of UKIP in the south-east), Trevor Colman (author of ‘It’s time we governed ourselves’ and a member of UKIP south-west), Hugh Moewyn Hughes (Secretary, UKIP Wales), Brendan Padmore (UKIP Sutton Coldfield), John Page (Welwyn-Hatfield), Clare Davis (UKIP Woking), Roger Thomas (UKIP Wales Membership Secretary), Peter Baker (Chairman UKIP Eastern Counties Committee, UKIP Conference Organiser and resident within the UKIP ‘east’ Midlands area), Ian Gillman (UKIP NEC member, and a member of UKIP ‘east’ Midlands’), Michael Maclaire-Hillier (Vice-Chairman, Bournemouth West UKIP), Avril King (Secretary, Poole UKIP), Tom Collier (UKIP Bournemouth East), Councillor Alan Wood (UKIP Councillor Devizes and a member of UKIP in the south-west), Rob McWhirter (UKIP Frankfurt and south-east), Councillor Graham Livings (Acting Chairman, UKIP Wells in Somerset), David Brown (UKIP Treasurer, Wales), John Wartski (UKIP Dorset West), Colin McNamee (Acting Chairman UKIP Somerton and Frome), Ruth Shoebridge (UKIP Bournemouth East), Marilyn Swain (UKIP Grantham & Stamford), Geoffrey Collier (UKIP Bournemouth East), Margaret Stringfellow (UKIP West Dorset), Colin Everard-Sparkes (UKIP West Dorset), Jan Guest (UKIP Tiverton & Honiton), Chris Caffin (UKIP Tiverton & Honiton), Ken Gilderthorp (UKIP Tiverton & Honiton), David Grilles (UKIP Teignbridge), Ralph Gay (UKIP Exeter), Jackie Hooper (UKIP Teignbridge), Neil Kernick (UKIP Teignbridge), Richard Stanton (UKIP Teignbridge), Alec Grove (UKIP Teignbridge), Sue Palfrey (UKIP Teignbridge), Kiunnathur Rajan (UKIP Cardiff), Nicky McCormack (UKIP Ayrshire), Judith Napier-Clarke (UKIP Winchester), Peter Grant (UKIP Winchester), Audrey Hulston (UKIP Cardiff), Gwyn Parry (UKIP Cardiff secretary), Justin Callan (UKIP Cardiff), David Bevan (UKIP Cardiff Chairman), Keith Barnes (UKIP Bournemouth East), F Dickinson (UKIP Chairman of Salisbury), Alan Gerring (UKIP Chairman Poole), Rod Trelease (Chairman UKIP West Bournemouth), Jill Doré (UKIP West Bournemouth), Tom Linnington (UKIP Christchurch), John Lees Baxter (UKIP Chairman Dorset North), Leonard Hansford (UKIP West Dorset), Lewis Harris, Alan Day, John Frederick Pratt, David Llewellyn Gatehouse, Joy Harker (UKIP North Wales), Ronald John Rankin, Eric George Robb (UKIP Edinburgh), Marcus Stead (UKIP Wales), David Rowlands (UKIP Wales), José Macdonald, Clifford Galdes, Brian Ingles, Yvette Ingles, N.C.H. Williamson, E.G. German, R.B. Thomas, P.S. Terry, B.A. Fennessy, N.L. Gill, Tareq Ashry (UKIP Brent East, London), Ryan Newell (Vice Chairman UKIP Southampton, PPC Southampton Itchen Constituency), Roger Gough (Treasurer UKIP Twickenham), Peter Lloyd (UKIP West Worcestershire), John Stringfellow (UKIP West Dorset), Kevin Costigane (UKIP Southampton), Stan. Martin Everard (UKIP East Devon -Sidmouth), Ian Proctor (UKIP Truro & St. Austell)

If you want to help elect Richard Suchorzewski as leader of UKIP please telephone: 01446 739850. E-mail: Richard@richard4leader.co.uk

www.richard4leader.co.uk

dave grylls

Well! Phew! Is there anything he has left out! :wink: :roll:

Britannist

Thanks Christina for your kind comments. I put a little note in my first posting to this thread (just before the four big sections (one for each candidate) saying that the list of supporters are correct up to 16.7.2006.

Thank you for telling me about MKP's update of the list of supporters of DCB - I'll copy the updated list for my own records.

Reading through the policy statements of the four - there are some interesting policy statements from each of them, don't you think. It's good that so much attention is being given to how to organise UKIP and how to expand its policy range.

Britannist

Hello Dave - I reckon I've cut down the texts of each of the four by about 50% without missing out anything important. It's all more in order now which will, I believe, actually increase the chances of people actually reading what they've all got to say :shock:

dave grylls

Wonderful! Britainist! You are al really lovely people and so keen.

Although I am Cornish/Devon Boy I am not nocturnal as is "Kernow" and it takes time for me to read these large postings during the evening.
I understand "Kernow often catches up at 2.0 am' ish.
Perhaps, his missus snores? as does mine.
I just tactifully say would you mind not snoring,Darling. It does not work but it makes me feel better. 8)

Christina

One thing I've just checked which is a big diff between my preferred candidate, DCB and Richard, is the spread of support. Apart from a few exceptions, Richard's support doesn't go further North than Stoke-on-trent. DCBs are all over.

Richard has added names, so has DCB, I think Richard needs to fill the gaps.

With all the anger at DCB here I did wonder why he was saying he is the unity candidate, but now I know, his support is throughout the UK, on paper, Richard's is limited. That is, at the time of writing. Maybe there will be some additions to the list later.