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UKIP Councillor from Oxfordshire, David Silvester sent a commentary to the Henley Standard, in which he blamed the recent heavy floods across Britain on the government and particularly the Prime Minister who has acted «arrogantly against the Gospel.»
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Contrary to reports, Cllr Malcolm Pritchard has not resigned as
a UKIP councillor and become and independent on Hyndburn Council.
He spoke to
UKIP councillor Chris Baker and Labour's parliamentary candidate Polly Billington.
UKIP party agent Phil Heath and
UKIP councillor Stephen West disagree over whether elected councillor Matt Ellery still represents their party.
Asked for his highlights, Towler suggested it was a toss - up between the Margate beach incident,
the Ukip councillor who blamed flooding on gay marriage and the revelation that a Ukip local government candidate had worked as a porn star for 40 years.
In Norfolk Labour gained a byelection from UKIP in Norfolk when
a UKIP councillor resigned after admitting to shop lifting.
Cllr Dave Whittingham of Fareham Borough Council has returned to the fold as a Conservative - after a spell as an independent and then
a UKIP councillor.
The comments come after
Ukip councillor David Silvester blamed recent storms on same - sex marriage laws, saying he had warned the prime minister that the legislation would spark «disasters» such as «storms, disease, pestilence and war».
A Facebook campaign to get gay anthem It's Raining Men to number one in the charts in response to
a Ukip councillor's homophobic comments is gathering momentum.
Eric Kitson resigned as
UKIP councillor in Worcestershire after making anti semitic posts on his Facebook page.
Just last month, the BBC revealed footage of
a Ukip councillor in Nigel Farage's constituency, speaking about her dislike of people with «negroid features».
Suzanne Evans, a former
UKIP councillor who lost her London seat, explained that the «educated, cultured and young» of the capital was less likely to support UKIP.
He is up against
Ukip councillor Lisa Duffy (backed by Suzanne Evans), with MEPs Bill Etheridge and Jonathan Arnott also in the mix.
«God has had no other way to get Cameron's attention'than sending severe floods across the nation, according to one former
UKIP councillor.
A Christian
UKIP councillor from Henley - on - Thames caused outrage, quickly followed by hilarity in January, when he declared that the recent spate of floods... More
Christian and former
UKIP councillor David Silvester thinks not.
A Christian
UKIP councillor from Henley - on - Thames caused outrage, quickly followed by hilarity in January, when he declared that the recent spate of floods and bad weather across Britain were the fault of gay marriage.
I could question whether
the Ukip councillors have that kind of hinterland.
He also suggested that some of the racist comments reportedly made by
Ukip councillors and activists had been «orchestrated» from outside the party.
Their numbers were previously boosted by the defection of two sitting
UKIP councillors whose four - year terms were coming to an end; they held onto their seats in these areas whilst also gaining a seat from UKIP and another from an independent in Rugeley, leaving them with four net gains.
Not exact matches
In Witney, David Cameron's local area,
Ukip split the right - wing vote, allowing Labour
councillor Laura Price in with just ten more votes than the
Ukip candidate.
Major losses for the Liberal Democrats could see
Ukip emerge with more
councillors than the coalition partner.
Meanwhile,
UKIP have gone into tailspin — losing almost all of their
councillors overnight — though they have taken the Burnley and Padiham West seat on Lancashire County Council.
Theresa May's party appeared to have benefited from an almost total collapse in the
Ukip vote, which saw the Eurosceptic party shed
councillors across the country.
Ukip gained their second seat on the Humberston and New Waltham council when candidate William Harness triumphed in the by - election held to replace Conservative
councillor John Colebrook following his death in December.
Labour held onto their
councillors here and their vote share improved, but their lead over the Tories has been slashed from more than 13 % to less than five percent as
Ukip implodes.
The Tories didn't increase their count of
councillors here last week, but they've made up huge ground on vote share, turning a 12.5 % gap into a 1.5 % gap by hoovering up
Ukip votes, despite Labour's vote share also rising.
Although 3 of the 7
Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour
councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory
councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes
A Tory
councillor who defected to
UKIP said it was «appalling» the UK gave the EU # 55m a day more than it received back, while British people used food banks and the country was in debt.
A Tory
councillor who defected to
UKIP said it was «appalling» the UK gave the EU # 55m a day more than it got ack, while British people used food banks and the country was in debt.
[2] She resigned the Conservative whip on 15 May 2013, [3] and then became a
councillor with
UKIP from 29 May 2013 [4] to 22 May 2014.
UKIP lost all its seats on the council, whilst the Greens gained a second
councillor.
Eurosceptic voters clearly now have few alternatives with the collapse of
UKIP — which has only a handful of
councillors left.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that his party was «right to get rid of»
councillor Rozanne Duncan, following comments she made in a TV documentary.
Brian Hawes, who was a
UKIP town
councillor in Haverhill in Suffolk has resigned after saying: «We don't give leaflets to black people.»
A remarkable investigation by The Times reveals that
Ukip knowingly allowed dozens of racists, homophobes and violent criminals to stand as prospective MPs and
councillors at the last election.
Nigel Farage has vowed to expel anyone with extremist views from
Ukip, after one of his
councillors blamed recent floods on legislation about gay marriage.
Ukip today announced
councillor Diane James, currently a member of Waverley Borough Council in Surrey, as their candidate.
This week's opinion polls have the two parties neck - and - neck, with
UKIP third, clearly ahead of the Liberal Democrats, though with some 2,300 fewer
councillors.
he has agreed to attend a blue labour meeting in thr non London part of Essex in the spring, among others invited Is Clacton
councillor, jack parsons who defected from
Ukip to labour
However, before joining
UKIP Campbell - Bannerman was previously a member of the Conservative Party and a Conservative Party
councillor, so his re-defection is a homecoming of sorts.
All the other parties lost seats in the region and
UKIP were wiped out - losing every single one of the 48
councillors who were elected in 2013
UKIP came second in 2004 EP elections behind us, and we unfortunately have a BNP
councillor (ridiculous nutter somewhere to the right of the Kaiser!)
Evans was elected as a Conservative
Councillor in 2010, but defected to
UKIP in March 2013.
Before joining
UKIP he had been at various times a member of the Conservative Party (for whom he was a local
councillor), the New Britain Party and the Referendum Party.
Conservative
councillors are surveyed on a potential
UKIP pact, the EU, immigration, gay marriage and the economy.
Liberal Democrats have lost lost hundreds of local
councillors, dropped behind
UKIP in some polls and lost their deposit at three Westminster by - elections.
The leader claimed «quite a few»
councillors elected for
UKIP had since left the party when asked why that party appeared to be gaining protest votes.
They also regained two seats from
councillors who had defected since 2011, one who went to
UKIP and one who became an independent.