Top columnist defends UKIP and criticises anti-UKIP Cameron

Britannist · 24-02-2007, 03:04 AM

Simon Heffer, the strongly eurosceptic columnist, writes today in the Telegraph about a large number of subjects - including UKIP and the Electoral Commission and David Cameron's visit to Manchester council housing estate in which a 17 year-old male was photographed pretending to 'shoot' David Cameron behind his back (please scroll down the page on the link to the above-mentioned articles) 8) :

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m...403.xml&page=2

* Simon Heffer, author of a biography about the leading anti-EU campaigner The Late Enoch Powell, supported UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP in last Summer's Bromley-Chislehurst Parliamentary By-Election. Mr. Heffer is a critic of David Cameron, the pro-EU and anti-UKIP leader of the Conservative Party.

Anthony Butcher · 24-02-2007, 03:09 AM

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Are Ukip not criminal enough?

Discretion in applying the law always seems to be exercised to help the most dangerous and criminal elements in our society - rarely to those who have done no harm. Ukip is being ordered to hand over £363,000 because the donor, Alan Bown, had forgotten to go on the electoral register at the time. This sensible rule is designed to prevent foreigners buying influence in our politics. Mr Bown is English, lives in England, pays taxes in England, and, when he remembers to get on the roll, votes here, too.

I am sure the Electoral Commission is not in the pocket of the main political parties and has no agenda where an upstart, populist party like Ukip is concerned. Why, then, doesn't it simply reprimand Ukip for what was clearly an oversight, rather than act as if there has just been another Great Train Robbery? Such a confiscation would look anti-democratic, as it would close Ukip down to punish Mr Bown for being inert, not for an act of crookery. Is that what the commission really wants?

Johnny Hates Jazz · 24-02-2007, 09:54 PM

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David Cameron, the pro-EU and anti-UKIP leader of the Conservative Party.

I think that David Camoron, is a moron.

However, I think it is a bit much to expect him to be "Pro-UKIP" as the leader of the Conservative & Unionist (at all cost) Party.

ED

SponPlague · 24-02-2007, 10:01 PM

He cannot be "Unionist (at all cost)", because unionism is fundamentally incompatible with his desire to remain within the EU... :evil:

24-02-2007, 03:04 AM	#1 (permalink)
Britannist Uber Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: London Posts: 23,176	Top columnist defends UKIP and criticises anti-UKIP Cameron Simon Heffer, the strongly eurosceptic columnist, writes today in the Telegraph about a large number of subjects - including UKIP and the Electoral Commission and David Cameron's visit to Manchester council housing estate in which a 17 year-old male was photographed pretending to 'shoot' David Cameron behind his back (please scroll down the page on the link to the above-mentioned articles) 8) : :arrow: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m...403.xml&page=2 * Simon Heffer, author of a biography about the leading anti-EU campaigner The Late Enoch Powell, supported UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP in last Summer's Bromley-Chislehurst Parliamentary By-Election. Mr. Heffer is a critic of David Cameron, the pro-EU and anti-UKIP leader of the Conservative Party.

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24-02-2007, 10:01 PM	#4 (permalink)
SponPlague Uber Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Zurich Posts: 3,401	He cannot be "Unionist (at all cost)", because unionism is fundamentally incompatible with his desire to remain within the EU... :evil: