By Robert Edwards
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Dr Alan Sked, founder/leader of the UK Independence Party 1993-1997 was quoted in the Independent on 9 February 2001 as saying "When I founded the party, it had clear principles. It had no truck with racism or xenophobia. All these principles have been abandoned".UKIP is teeming with right-wing extremists. For UKIP's darkest secrets visit this site:
http://www.corbett-euro.demon.co.uk/assets/docs/briefing/ukip.pdf
Despite its stated policies, some critics of the UKIP claim links between it and far-right groups. Aidan Rankin, co-author of the party's manifesto, was once alleged to be a member of the Third Way, a "moderate" breakaway from the National Front (though he has since repudiated these views). Mr Rankin now claims he was not a member of Third Way but only posted on its web site. Alistair McConnachie, a former UKIP candidate and National Executive member, was a Holocaust denier, although he was eventually expelled from the party for these views. Other candidates were formerly members of the anti-immigration New Britain Party. Here in Ramsgate we had UKIP branch chairman, Martyn Heale, former NF branch organiser, NF candidate and then New Britain Party organiser in West London. He is currently being defended by Nigel Farage MEP after failing to declare his political past, usually cause for automatic expulsion from UKIP.
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A little bird told me that former Thanet South Tory MP, Jonathan Aitken, was out helping the UKIP candidate in the recent by-election in the Sir Moses Montefiore ward in Ramsgate on July 12th 2004, effectively splitting the Tory vote and allowing in Labour.
During the May local and European elections he told the THANET TIMES that he intended voting UKIP because he reckoned they were making the right noises. This came after old pal and prison visitor, Michael Howard, had rejected him as a future Conservative parliamentary candidate. Howard considered Aitken to be "beyond the pale" for being tainted with a criminal record, even though local Tory stalwarts had collected a nearly 200 signatured petition. They should have known better - all petitions end up in someone's waste basket.
Despite that, there was a UKIP Celebration and Bi-election Rally at Ramada Jarvis Hotel, Marine Parade, Ramsgate on Monday 12th July at 7.30pm with Nigel Farage MEP and Jonathan Aitken in attendance.
In the background was the low-profile figure of UKIP South Thanet chairman, Martyn Heale, a former National Front branch organiser and NF candidate in the late 1970s.
This West Country bumpkin is very sheepish concerning his past, especially in light of the UKIP's anti-racist policy.
Martyn Heale was branch organiser of the Hammersmith NF not long after faction fighting in 1976 that saw the rapid rise and fall of the breakaway National Party.
Heale, a former Wormwood Scrubs prison officer, emerged from obscurity and quickly rose to prominence within the NF. During this time he worked as a security officer for the Grand Metropole Hotel in Edgeware Road. His reasons for leaving the Prison Service were never explained.
The Hammersmith branch of the NF was the second largest after Hackney, entirely due to Heale's enthusuasm for the nationalist cause. Later, he was to stand as a National Front candidate in a ward in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in the May local elections of 1979.
If anyone doubts the authenticity of my claims, I have an e-mail from PRIVATE EYE journalist, Jane Mackenzie, who writes on June 8th 2004, "Anyway, I thought it might be useful to you to know that Hammersmith Council did confirm for me that Mr Heale stood for the National Front in council elections there".
After coming bottom of the poll, Heale looked around and found another far-Right cause in the form of Dennis Delderfield's New Britain Party, promptly left the NF and became the NBP's West London chairman.
Heale originally had his eye on Martin Webster's job in the NF, that of National Activities Organiser, but that was not to be after an ugly incident involving knives at a public house on the Western Avenue in East Acton, West London. The local NF Youth Organiser, Richard Sullivan, was hospitalised with stab wounds, as reported in the WEST LONDON OBSERVER. Heale had organised the event.
Both NF leader John Tyndall and Martin Webster had been invited to Heale's "social".
Turning up in Ramsgate about 15 years ago, Heale joined the Thanet South Conservative Association, in Aitken's constituency. Twice he stood as a local Tory candidate then later as an Independent, each time failing to win a council seat. Not that it really bothered him because his main interest was "fund-raising" with his inevitable personal expenses. After his failure as an Independent there he was championing the cause of withdrawal from the European Union.
The UKIP says that Britain can regain independence by withdrawing from its commitment to the European Union. The fact is, British sovereignty has always been a myth because Britain has been governed for decades by power groups beyond Europe in the form of powerful financial institutions that can make or break our economy. Our trade policy is determined by the World Trade Organisation and GATT, the United Nations decides our foreign policy and, most dangerously, Washington directs our "defence" (a misnomer, if ever there is one).
Please note that none of these groups was ever elected by the British people and yet the UKIP and other insular nationalistic groups engage in the democratic process for positions in a European Parliament ... a truly democratic institution they seek to destroy. They want us back in the free-for-all of global competition, competing with cheaper labour around the world.
Martyn Heale, described last year as the chairman of South Thanet UKIP, is now its president, according to the THANET TIMES. This new title smacks of republicanism and contradicts a statement his branch issued in January 2004. It said, "We should remain ... with a Queen as head of state ... not some unelected woolly-headed ...", etc. When was the last time anyone voted for a monarch?
One of Heale's previous titles was as branch organiser of the Hammersmith National Front in the late 1970s. I should know, I was the branch chairman for a short time but resigned before Heale stood as a candidate for the NF in the London local elections. His commitment to insular nationalism seems to remain undiminished.
Send your comments to:
MARTYN CHARLES HEALE
Penstone House
Albert Street
Ramsgate CT11 9HD
United Kingdom
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QUOTE:
Then there is Robert Kilroy-Silk ...
"Kilroy is so damned vain. Even before the election he was saying, "I would be surprised if I am not elected, because that means I have read everything wrong, and I am usually very astute politically..." Oh please!
Kilroy is a primped-up, vainglorious arse, and he just can't bear to keep his orange face out of our business. He still thinks, deep down and all these years on, that he's going to be prime minister. He is a chippy little git, as any five minutes of his mercifully-cancelled chat show would reveal. But is he racist?
An angry shake of a perfectly-sculptured head: "I'm the last one you can say that about. I don't want to upset anybody, I go out of my way not to upset any group, whether they would be Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews or Muslims. I am not a racist. The party is not racist. It wouldn't tolerate any semblance or form of it, just as I wouldn't tolerate any anti-Semitism, and wouldn't tolerate anything that is 'anti' any member of an ethnic minority."
Blogger
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The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has suddenly been catapulted into the media spotlight by the former TV talk show host Robert Kilroy-Silk. This is the man who hates Europe so much he has a £2 million, 100-acre estate on Spain's Costa Del Sol.
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An article in the journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs entitled, "The Market Economy and the Teachings of the Christian Gospel", explains why Jesus is a role model for businessmen. The author of this pious tract is Jonathan Aitken, the disgraced former Tory minister turned UKIP groupie. God is roped in to serve market forces and condone money-lending. Will he ever learn?
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Since Goldsmith's death in 1997 and the disintegration of his party, UKIP's fortunes have looked up. It now enjoys the largesse of wealthy backers such as Yorkshire property tycoon, Paul Sykes, who contributed over £1 million to the party's 2004 European election campaign, while the media attention generated by the recruitment of former TV personality Robert Kilroy-Silk and actress Joan Collins has helped raise the party's profile among the general public. In this year's elections the UKIP campaign team included Dick Morris, Bill Clinton's one-time political strategist, and PR specialist Max Clifford who selflessly offered his services in exchange for a £30,000-a-month salary.
Martin Sullivan
BBC
Mr Sykes has since withdrawn his support, along with Joan Collins.
Interviewed on TV after the 2005 elections, she said she was never a member of UKIP.
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Robert Kilroy-Silk was recruited over lunch at the Earl of Bradford’s house in the south of Spain in April 2004. In turn, he secured the endorsement of Joan Collins, the actress, who says that she is worried that the euro is increasing the cost of maintaining her home in St Tropez.
