Ukip withers away
And Tony G. loses opportunity to lead itSupporters included Nigel Farage and Aaron Banks. Leadsom did not return the favour and expressed the wish for Ukip to wither away.
Ukip’s endorsement harmed Leadsom. But, the party is also withering away.
Leadership tricks
UKIP’s National Electoral Committee moved on Monday to disqualify from the leadership contest members that have joined the party less than five years ago.
If enforced, Clacton MP Douglas Carswell, Welsh Assembly member Mark Reckless, Members of the European Parliament Jonathan Arnott, Roger Helmer and Tim Aker, former spokeswoman Suzanne Evans, and Aaron Banks will be disqualified.
Banks is the multi-millionaire “Out” campaigner that claims he put £5,6 million of his own money into the cause of U.K leaving the EU.
MEP Arnott, 35, announced his intention to run on Monday; he said he intended to appeal to the millions of voters who backed Brexit. He warned that negotiations for leaving were not in the hands of those who did not want leave.
Who is left one might ask.
This would leave the contest down to the likes of Steven Woolfe, Neil Hamilton, and party director Lisa Duffy. One would be forgiven for never having hear of them.
Aaron Banks
Ukip’s less nasty and far-right members that joined recently seem ripe for Aaron Banks to rally behind him. The insurance multi-millionaire and Ukip’s main funder signaled by the end of June that he was considering a new party. “I think Ukip needs to be reformed root and branch, and we will be looking at that,” said Banks.
He may now consider a new party rather than a “new brand,” given that he did note that the party was facing the kinds of problems that could be better tackled with a new party.”
Banks championed the emphasis on immigration that won the Leave campaign. Speaking to the Guardian Banks explained that the party conducted polls that suggested that some issues – education, schools, health – could be seen as proxies for immigration. “It was the number one issue by a country mile,” Banks said.
Banks likens the Leave.EU campaign to a “rightwing Momentum” set to keep the Conservatives clean from backtracking on the referendum result.
Tony G.
That also ruins the chances of Lithuanian MEP Antanas Guoga, who placed his own bid last week.
Last week, the Lithuanian MEP went through Ukip’s constitution and found there is no formal clause that prevents him from running for the leadership. In an e-mail to Ukip, Guoga wrote: “I am writing to you today to confirm my intention to run for the position of leader of UKIP. Myself and my political staff have reviewed the leadership credentials and constitutional and see no reason why a man of my standing cannot apply, so sincerely hope you receive my application in good faith.”
But, with the new decision, Ukip essentially disqualifies him along with some of their more experienced members. Upon hearing the news, Guoga said that “…to make a move that blocks not only myself but several of their most experienced parliamentarians, is almost as disastrous as the impact of Brexit on pound sterling.”
Of course, making fun on Ukip these days is increasingly difficult.
Antanas Guoga is mostly known as “Tony G.” He is one of the tens of thousands of Lithuanians who left the former USSR to seek their fortunes elsewhere. In 1984 he left from Lithuania as an immigrant and lived selling leather jackets in Camden Town, London, before making his way to Australia to become a multi-millionaire professional poker player.’
(Guido Fox, ITV, The Guardian)
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