2 members of House of Lords join UKIP

eublues · 09-01-2007, 08:57 AM

On the Today Programme today - Lords Pearson and Willoughby de Broke have now joined UKJP.

ryansoton · 09-01-2007, 09:21 AM

So we now have 2 members of the House of Lords?

ryansoton · 09-01-2007, 09:46 AM

Now on main site!!

harryaldridge · 09-01-2007, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by ryansoton

So we now have 2 members of the House of Lords?

A good start.

The key will be if they are able to recruit more lords and financial backers. Then maybe it might encourage some MPs to defect if they see a group is forming.

mkpdavies · 09-01-2007, 10:08 AM

From the main site

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UK Independence Party Press Conference
Following the defections of Lord Pearson of Rannoch and Lord Willoughby de Broke, the UK Independence Party will be holding a press conference at 11.30 today (tuesday) at Abbey Gardens, Westminster, SW1 For further information, please contact Annabelle Fuller on 0207 222 9365...

rjt · 09-01-2007, 10:11 AM

Having members of smaller partys in the HOL can only benefit the quality of political debate in this country so I warmly congratulate UKIP on their success here.

ChrisB · 09-01-2007, 10:14 AM

As nobody else seems to have posted it yet, it's on the BBC news website:

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Conservative peers defect to UKIP

Two Tory peers have joined the UK Independence Party in protest at the Conservatives' lack of a "sufficiently Eurosceptic policy".
Lord Pearson of Rannoch, who switched with Lord Willoughby de Broke, said UKIP was the "only party telling the truth" about Europe.

He also said they had given up hope that the Tories would "toughen up on immigration, tax, education and so on".

The defections give UKIP its first Westminster representation.

Lord Pearson described the Conservative leadership of David Cameron as "going in the wrong direction".

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"UKIP is the only party that is telling the British public the truth about the worrying relationship with the European Union, which is getting worse by the day," he told BBC Radio 4's Today.

"We want to put our country, our self-governance, our democracy, our sovereignty, before the interests of the present Conservative leadership."

Lord Pearson, who has raised funds for the Conservatives in the past, said he hoped to continue that role for UKIP, especially as "it needs money".

"I hope there are a number of party donors who will see that the only way they can help to persuade the present Conservative leadership to make sense is in fact to give money to UKIP," he said.

He also said there were "several" other peers who were considering joining UKIP, and nine MPs had signed up to the Better Off Out campaign to get the UK out of the EU.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: "I welcome these defections which come on top of many senior Conservatives who have joined us in recent months and I predict many more to come."

While there are no UKIP MPs, it won 12 seats in the European Parliament in 2004.

Weh. Hey.

mkpdavies · 09-01-2007, 10:16 AM

MEUP's, Lords, Councilors.

One more too go.

kernow · 09-01-2007, 12:20 PM

Still no a mention of it on the main BBC news :x . The next couple of months I think is going to be an exciting time for UKIP, now our enemies will really start throwing the **** at us, so beware!

Tom Wilde · 09-01-2007, 12:32 PM

This is brilliant!

Here are other news links about this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...9/uukip106.xml
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conse...986149,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/pol...cle2137749.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...537440,00.html

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09-01-2007, 09:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
ryansoton Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southampton Posts: 781 Party: Other	So we now have 2 members of the House of Lords?

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ryansoton Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southampton Posts: 781 Party: Other	Now on main site!!

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rjt Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Aldershot Posts: 5,380	Having members of smaller partys in the HOL can only benefit the quality of political debate in this country so I warmly congratulate UKIP on their success here.

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kernow Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,182	Still no a mention of it on the main BBC news :x . The next couple of months I think is going to be an exciting time for UKIP, now our enemies will really start throwing the **** at us, so beware!

09-01-2007, 12:32 PM	#10 (permalink)
Tom Wilde Moderator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: London. Posts: 2,886	This is brilliant! Here are other news links about this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...9/uukip106.xml http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conse...986149,00.html http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/pol...cle2137749.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...537440,00.html