There is a total of 20 members listed of whom 12 are elected. Of the remainder 7 are Farage placemen nominees, Crowther, Wheeler, Duffy, Reeve, Richardson, Arnott & Hamilton. Batten is a Farage approved MEP. Farage's name strangely is absent. This must be an error. Farage was at every NEC meeting I ever attended!
Of the 12 elected members 2 Bours and Wolfe are from the NW, Nuttall.s region, 6 from the South East, 3 from the Eastern region and 1 from London
Of the Farage placemen Duffy/Reeve are Eastern Arnott was put in place by Nuttall, Wheeler lives in a castle in the South East and although nominated onto the NEC by Farage because of his wealth is clearly the one genuinely independent member of the NEC. Hamilton is a disgraced old Tory, former MP for Hatton now Gideon's seat dependent on Farage's favour to try and fan the embers of his political career. I fear he may be disappointed.
Couple this with the total disintegration and inter-necine equabbles of UKIP in Scotland and the East Midlands and you have a South of England old Tory rump cult party. Does anyone seriously believe such a party can deliver us from the EU? All it can deliver is loads of EU dosh for the favoured friends of Farage who inevitably will become MEPs for the 5 years 2014 to 2019.
National Executive Committee
Steve Crowther
Party Chairman
Stuart Wheeler
Party Treasurer
Ex officio
Lisa Duffy
Party Director
Ex officio
Peter Reeve
Party Nominating Officer
Ex officio
Matthew Richardson
Party Secretary
Ex officio
Jonathan Arnott
General Secretary
Ex officio
Piers Wauchope
SE Region
(2012-2015)
Louise Bours
NW Region
(2011-2014)
Alan Bown
SE Region
(2012-2015)
George Curtis
Eastern Region
(2013-2015)
Gerard Batten
London MEP
Steven Woolfe
North West Region
(2011-2014)
Mick McGough
Eastern Region
(2012-2015)
Neil Hamilton
Party Deputy Chairman
Ex officio
Adrianne Smyth
Eastern Region
(2013-2016)
Lucy Bostick
London Region
(2013-2016)
Rob McWhirter
South East Region
(2013-2016)
Andrew Moncreiff
South East Region
(2013-2016)
Tom Bursnall
South East Region
(2013-2014)
Harry Aldridge
South East Region
(2013-2014)
source UKIP web site
2 comments:
Perhaps I should have said Wheeler is the only one who could afford to be independent. The rest are dependent on Farage's favour to a grater or lesser extent.
The great sadness about dictators is that they survive.
Putin and Mugabe are the prominent names but the world is/was full of them, only removed by force such as in North Africa.
Wheeler seems to fit the UKIP mould because he is a pre-1973 Tory and has the money to follow his beliefs. Suits Farage to have him on board.
The problem for the anti-Farage brigade is lack of a coherent opposition with the money and perhaps the energy of younger men and women to raise an army of activists.
They will have to fight and defeat Farage's UKIP first, before taking on the major parties.
The only game in town appears to be THE INDEPENDENCE PARTY.
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