Sentences with phrase «ukip members»

Of course, I assume that Nigel Farage would have to be selected by local UKIP members if he wanted to stand here.

He was already a fierce critic of Conservative leader David Cameron, who earlier that year had described UKIP members as «fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists».

In a recording obtained by the Mail On Sunday, Mr Smith is heard making offensive remarks about gay people, other UKIP members and Chigwell in Essex.

• He said that Cameron's decision to describe some Ukip members as «pretty odd» in his Andrew Marr interview yesterday was a mistake.

Jack, some of us may disagree with UKIP but your throwaway attack on all UKIP members is unacceptable.

Further evidence of homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic comments from Ukip members also emerged over the last week.

Then followed dramatic breakthroughs as the first UKIP Members of Parliament were elected in Clacton as well as in Rochester and Strood.

While finding much that is odd in the party's political outlook, I have known a few UKIP members and found them to be decent, sincere people - hardly the foaming - at - the - mouth xenophobes (or even worse, racists) of frequent perception.

He was obviously disappointed with his result in the leadership election last year, where he achieved 14 % of the vote, and concerned about whether he could get re-selected by UKIP members in the Eastern Region.

«I'm determined that Ukip members must also have the opportunity to vote for a common sense future for our party and that is what Lisa represents.»

UKIP members preparing for the European election in May, where some predict the party way come first or second.

What's worth noting straight away is that, with a couple of exceptions (namely, that on the «objective measure» Labour supporters are more left wing than Greens and UKIP members slightly more left - wing than Lib Dems), the relative ordering on all three measures is the same: from left to right, it runs Greens, Labour, SNP, Lib Dem, UKIP, and Conservative.

In a recent edition of a Ukip members» magazine, party chairman Steve Crowther wrote of social media: «The NEC has adopted a new set of rules for online communication to fill a notable hole in our code of discipline... My advice: just don't.

John Rees - Evans has joined the ranks of Ukip members whose comments are attracting more attention than the party would like

«There have been lovely, caring, wonderful people in UKIP over the years - people who are as far from the media stereotype of UKIP members as the North Pole is from the South,» Arnott said.

Moments afterwards, Ukip member Diane James, who nearly won the Eastleigh by - election fight for the party, said Bloom should consider his position.

Prominent Asian Ukip member dubbed a «rising star» by Nigel Farage quits the party in protest at its fierce anti-immigrant rhetoric

I've just returned from a remarkable fringe meeting at the party's annual autumn conference, in which Ian Dexter, a Ukip member, former candidate in county and district elections and potential parliamentary candidate for 2015, outlined his strategy for winning over Labour voters.

As a UKIP member and also on the UKIP SE MEP election list I would like to say that Mr. Hannan is by far the outstanding Tory politician I have heard and seen in 20 odd years.

For every one Ukip member, the Conservatives have three.

Not exact matches

The Ukip leader caused a furious backlash from his party members over the weekend after saying that David Cameron had a duty to take in Syrian refugees fleeing for their lives.

A rare poll of Conservative party members has revealed a rank - and - file increasingly at odds with the leadership and considering transferring its allegiance to Ukip.

Ferguson's comments follow a call last week by another Ukip candidate for members of the public to be stripped of the right to vote.

But the focus this afternoon was on Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom, who was attending an event on the advancement of women in politics when two female party members joked that they did not clean behind the fridge — a reference to his comments about where women belong.

This would give the voter the choice: perhaps s / he would seek support from a Conservative on a matter relating to local business, a Labour member on the NHS and a UKIP representative on immigration.

The political class responsible for ushering in these changes, a class composed of members of all three major parties, are now reaping the consequences in the form of widespread public distrust and the rise of UKIP.

Members of the Five Star party led by comedian turned politician Beppe Grillo today voted to quit the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group which is made up mainly of Ukip MEPs and co-chaired by Farage.

The Euro parliament grouping headed by the former Ukip leader loses members and cash as Italians walk out

The leader of Ukip has celebrated how «eccentric» its members are, after David Cameron again accused them of being «odd».

With the count still ongoing on Friday morning, there were seven new UKIP assembly members — the first Welsh seats ever claimed by the eurosceptic party.

Woolfe argues Labour MPs have «basically disowned» the party's members, with Ukip set to profit at any future election.

Considered a highly capable member of the Ukip team, he has served as the party's migration spokesman since 2014, and shared the economics brief with Patrick O'Flynn in the run up to last year's election.

Ahead of the removal of restrictions on immigration from the two newest EU member states on 1 January 2014, UKIP puts the Tories under pressure.

The latest sign of the rise of Ukip — which campaigns for the UK to leave the EU — follows an unexpected attempt by the European commission to get the UK to pay # 1.7 bn more into European coffers following a budgetary readjustment, based on the gross national incomes of member countries.

However, Ukip's national executive council has now passed strict new rules policing members» social media activity and threatening immediate suspension for those who «embarrass» the party.

It was quite a display: one more associated with members of the Socialist Workers Party than Ukip.

In my view, UKIP's Party members and voters have done England a tremendous service in forcing Cameron to give us the EU Referendum and helping to ensure that it was won for Brexit.

A copy of the new constitution, seen by the Observer, lays out «rules for online communication», which include the diktat that «party members shall refrain from using the Ukip logo in terms of their online postings, including avatars, unless they have express written consent to do so from the party leader, the party chairman, the party secretary, the general secretary, the party director, the regional chairman or regional organiser for their region.»

The party's most significant electoral success came when Peter Davies (a former UKIP and Reform UK member), its candidate for Mayor of Doncaster, was elected.

The party has changed its constitution to prevent unauthorised use of the Ukip logo by supporters, members and officials, while Ukip's chairman has warned those tempted to join Twitter: «My advice: just don't.»

Ukip are hoping to steal the seat from the Conservatives in this Thursday's by - election, having chosen the controversial former Tory party member Victoria Ayling as their candidate.

Case in point: The Ukip leader was subject to a grilling from an audience member on the net economic contribution to the UK from EU migrants.

Senior figures in the party are understood to be deeply concerned about losing more members to UKIP.

The Brexit campaign's biggest financial donor has said he is considering backing a new political party taking in members of Ukip, Labour and the Conservatives.

Profile of Conservative members compared to general picture across the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, SNP and Greens

Nigel Farage's suggestion of a Tory - Ukip pact is gaining traction among Conservative members, despite his demand the tie - up comes at the cost of their leader David Cameron.

And similarly we can't point to just one piece of anti-immigrant propaganda - whether from Ukip or the right - wing tabloids - which turned someone from a worried member of the public into a racist thug.

The revelation comes despite the admission from the council that foster parents should not be barred from looking after adopted children because they are members of Ukip.

«60 % of Tory members think pact with UKIP will help Tories win next election Main «Yesterday, the Conservative Party suffered its worst single electoral setback since Black Wednesday».

Under New Labour, Ukip was subject to infiltration by members of the BNP (until, that is, the BNP started beating them regularly in local elections) and split between those who saw it as a group to exert pressure on the Conservatives, and those who wanted it to be an electoral force in its own right.