Robert Kilroy-Silk, BY FAR the best Leader for UKIP!
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posted by Martin @ 12:37 PM
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At this stage I am unsure if Killroy will stay the distance, but what we need in the party is a good leadership contest, which we did not have last time.
We don't need NF to be leader because I would leave the party straight away.
I am a Chairman of UKIP in the East Midlands. Robert Kilroy Silk should lead this party and the sooner the better. He is an honest hard working man whom I have had the pleasure of seeing in action. All races and gender warm to his honest and transparent approach to real politics. RKS has integrity, honesty and to continue our success to date the majority of the membership are well aware Robert MUST lead UKIP.
I have met Roger Knapman several times and think he is a great guy. However he was only a whip in Government and those people are used only to working behind the scenes, getting 'evidence' on people so they can be leaned on to toe the party line. Roger was probably very good at his job but is not up on the sort of skills needed for party leadership.
I have never been even near Kilroy-Silk and an pretty certain that if I were, I wouldn't like him. But because of his media skills and the fact that our 'enemy' the BBC love him, I feel he would probably, at this moment in time, be a good leader.
Although in general I would not fancy him for four whole years, I would certainly force myself to live with that if he were directing us in the run up to the forthcoming General Election.
If he is not on board, then I am pretty sure that will cost us dearly and, to me, getting out of the EU is more important than all these petty quarrels!
I am not a party member, but I have been voted UKIP/Sked for over a decade now.
Although the EU elections have enabled UKIP to raise its profile, there will have to be a seismic shock/breakthrough in Westminster if things are ever to change.
RKS understands that, and is willing to try making it happen now, not sometime never.
By contrast the existing UKIP leadership behave like a group of vain old women - more interested in their trappings of status, and petty internal games, than in getting to grips with what needs to be done: persuading and encouraging the electorate that EU disengagement is not only desirable but feasible and vital.
How can the party not have fought two of the last three by-elections? What a terrible failure of will and leadership.
RKS has undoubtedly provided much of the impetus behind UKIP's success recently, and UKIP will go a lot further faster with him at the helm than it ever will with Knapman or Farage.
The main reason I switched from the Conservatives to UKIP is because they are the only political vehicle who have said they will take this country out of Europe and I have no wish for this country to be governed by unaccountable unelected beureaucrats in their legions from Strasbourg and Brussels.
However I am disappointed to find the infighting between Robert Kilroy -Silk and Roger Knapman for the leadership of the party which so far as I am concerned does no one any credit.My choice would be for Robert Kilroy - Silk the man with parliamentary experience
I myself was elected as Chairman of the Rushcliffe Constituency of UKIP and have had my feet kicked from under me practically ever since.
UKIP needs to take a firm grip and weed out some of these undesirable characters. It needs to concentrate on domestic issues particularly those affecting local councils. It needs to examine the whole structure of local government and to sort out the chaos left by the reorganisation of local government in 1972 by the Heath Government which was and still is an unmittigated disaster.
This is the one and only way in which the council tax can be drastically reduced.Paid local councillors is another area which requires examination and these numbers need to be reduced also, some councillors are making council a full time occupation with salaries they could never expect in the world of commerce.
My message is GET A GRIP and DO IT NOW
I am the Secretary of a thriving UKIP branch. I wholeheartedly support Kilroy as the future leader of UKIP. Sadly the fact is, and we all know it, we were heading nowhere under Knapman. Pre-June 04, we knew we would be lucky to hang on to our 3 MEPs. The Kilroy factor was the catalyst for our astonishing success and he deserves more credit for this.
Kilroy is personable, well respected and well known by the electorate and via his programme has a thorough understanding of people, their concerns and problems. He is media 'savvy'. Under Knapman we can only expect more of the same, only Kilroy has the potential to take the Party forward.
He articulated the views of the vast majority of members at Conference. The only time we should be doing deals with the Tories or anyone else is when we are Westminster. Then they can show their 'eurosceptism' by defying their whips and voting with us.
I concur with Damian Hockney in his FT letter today (15th Oct). We desperately need a leadership election with Kilroy as the main challenger. The current position of the leadership which is pro Tory needs to be challenged or as a Party we will be compromised into oblivion.
It is plain to me that UKIP was originally set up by an elite European Federalist Superstate faction, to collect and contain the anticipated anti EU cannon fodder, so that they could be manipulated and frustrated long enough to enable the yoke of serfdom to be placed firmly back on them, turning the clock back to the middle ages.
To those ends I believe the upper reaches of the party and some in the party apparatus are operating this hidden agenda and have no intention of allowing the membership to express their views in anything approaching that besmirched, much maligned, in danger of being consigned to the history books – DEMOCRACY.
UKIP is going nowhere until we, the membership, past, present and future, divest our party from this parasitic menace and lead our proud troops to their true potential as Robert Kilroy-Silk asks the question, “Do we want UKIP to be a serious political party that can dominate political debate, or do we want to remain a pressure group?”.
Let us not prevaricate, but take the sword, spill the blood and heal our wounds now, quickly and efficiently and put in place the machinery and structure needed to give our party the security and vibrancy required to attract new members in an open and transparent UK Independence Party for the true fight ahead.
An amicable withdrawal of Britain from the European Union.
I agree with Annymous 1:11am and have always suspected, but never actually put into words, that Nigel Farage and his cronies have been put here to make sure that nothing happens to really rock the EU boat.
Even at this (almost too late) stage for a genuine attempt to salvage our country's future, is it possible that the so far successful deceit and last ditch bluff of UKIP's desperate leadership could still succeed?
I was a Labour Party member for many years but resigned after the Bush/Blair lies on going to war with Iraq. I would never vote Tory and the Lib Dems seem inadequate. So it looked as though I would abstain at the next election. Nevertheless these three main parties seem to ignore how most people feel about Europe Immigration Asylum Seekers and the damage caused to many of our traditional industries.
I had heard of UKIP but it wasn't until Kilroy Silk threw his hat into the ring that my interest was aroused enough to find out more. The result being I joined the party. In my opinion he is articulate has the leadership qualities, intelligence and the charisma, most important in politics today. If he is allowed to go then I think many converts to the party like myself will leave and not bother to vote for any party.
I was a Labour Party member for many years but resigned after the Bush/Blair lies on going to war with Iraq. I would never vote Tory and the Lib Dems seem inadequate. So it looked as though I would abstain at the next election. Nevertheless these three main parties seem to ignore how most people feel about Europe Immigration Asylum Seekers and the damage caused to many of our traditional industries.
I had heard of UKIP but it wasn't until Kilroy Silk threw his hat into the ring that my interest was aroused enough to find out more. The result being I joined the party. In my opinion he is articulate has the leadership qualities, intelligence and the charisma, most important in politics today. If he is allowed to go then I think many converts to the party like myself will leave and not bother to vote for any party.
Well don't vote then.
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