I was ashamed at the behaviour of the UKIP leader in the EU parliament, I rather echo Jean-Claude Junker "Why are you even here?"
So I wrote to UKIP HQ demanding the resignation of the UKIP members from the European Parliament - after all they are members of a body they don't feel any allegiance to and campaign to abolish.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have just read about your party leader's exchanges in the EU parliament with considerable disgust and distain.
I wonder if your party, leader, and elected officials can plumb further depths in hypocrisy?
I almost dare not ask - just in case you think you can!
Your party has one agenda to take the UK out of the EU - well done, with the help of 37% of the voters in the country.
But while we wait in vain for ANY of the promises made by the leave campaigns to be fulfilled, I demand the immediate resignation from the European parliament of Nigel Farage and ALL UKIP MEP's - at least they have the opportunity to save us SOME money!
At the very least you should have refused to take your seats at an institution that you don't believe in following the election.
Taking your seats (and funding, salaries and expenses) from Europe is deeply hypocritical and just what we should not tolerate from our elected representatives.
I mean even Sinn Fein don't take the seats of their MP's at Westminster because they don't pledge allegiance to the queen.
While I hate to put Nigel Farage and Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness on the same moral plain - it appears that Adams and McGuiness have the moral high ground!
I have also copied my local MP on this in the hope that he can raise the issue in the house of commons and get UKIP out of Europe allowing less hypocritical, more representative people to negotiate honestly and fairly the terms of our regrettable departure.
I won't end by any kind of warm feelings as I have none towards you
Sincerely,
I got this - dare I call it "Twaddle" in reply? Yes I think I do on reflection - I've left it in his nice, easy to read, child friendly font!
Dear Mark Newnham
Thank you very much for getting in touch. Please excuse the brevity of this reply but as you can imagine we are snowed under with messages of support.
I think the problem with some commentators is that they haven't been following this over the years. For at least the last decade the EU has insulted, derided and treated with contempt all warnings from UKIP about what would happen. Now it has happened, and it is quite fine for Nigel to tell them that. The trouble is that they don't like hearing the truth.
It's been a long hard slog to get to this Referendum, and finally the cell door has opened and freedom now beckons. Some commentators have said that a Leave vote means UKIP can disband, job done, but that is not the case.
There will not be a "second Referendum" despite whatever Michael Heseltine might wish. The petition calling for one has already been discredited and UKIP has no intention of getting involved with this matter. It is simply a case of bad losers not accepting a democratic result... exactly the sort of behaviour exhibited by the EU.
As for "economic turmoil" mentioned by some, the (over valued) pound is now up against the euro and the stock market is rising, though of course it might fall again. That's what stock markets do. It is reasonable to assume that part of the financial volatility might possibly be caused by the fact that the Prime Minister has just resigned, the Chancellor has been in a foxhole for three days, the Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition is engulfed in civil war with his own MPs, and thirty two (?) Shadow Ministers and Cabinet Ministers have just walked out?
We should now look to the future. Britain might have voted to Leave the EU but it's not over yet. The Government must now set in motion the deal for leaving the EU in an amicable friendly way, and UKIP is certainly needed to hold their feet to the fire and ensure that there is no back-sliding. We will continue to attend the Chamber and keep at them. And if that means reclaiming just a tiny, tiny fraction of the untold £-billions we have shovelled into their coffers over the years, then we make absolutely no apology for that. The EU is slipperier than a buttered piglet, and we do not trust them one little bit. They will do their best to put a spanner in the works of Brexit and whoever is handling the UK negotiations needs to be aware of that.
Regards
David Challice
UKIP Head Office
To which I replied
Nice try, but it does not answer my demand that you IMMEDIATELY WITHDRAW ALL UKIP MEP from the EU parliament - that you NEVER agreed with, nor did you EVER treat amicably or politely.
I'm glad that you THINK these are messages of support - please feel free to treat mine as a message of DEFIANCE
Your party is a worse bunch of hypocrites than any other party and frankly make me ashamed to be British.
Who better to "negotiate amicably" with " A buttered piglet" than an orange coloured Troll by the name of Farage?
I'm hoping that when we choose our negotiators they are more friendly and amicable than the leader of your party!
It is sentiments like yours that are going to make things far, far worse for ordinary working people who just want to get on with their lives in a friendly and constructive community of nations.
I'm PROUD to be EUROPEAN BRITISH.
I am not proud of many of my country who swallowed your LIES - after all it seems that we WONT regain sovereignty, we WONT get control of all immigration and we WONT spend an extra £350 Million a week on the NHS.
The result of this referendum has been to really annoy the more than 16 MILLION British people who WANT to STAY IN THE EU.
Don't think that you are by any means representative of the population of the UK
Now, please go ahead and pull your MEP's from the EU parliament and stop pouring oil on the troubled fires that you have caused in the EU!
Mark
Apparently this was just teasing - can you believe the arrogance? Actually they are politicians - I can!
Dear Mark
Thank you for your undoubted support, and I know you are merely teasing.
For the reasons I gave earlier, UKIP will certainly not be withdrawing its MEPs, but we will be regaining sovereignty, and we will be getting control over immigration.
Just for the record, UKIP has never promised £350 million per week extra for the NHS. You'll have to take up that with Boris Johnson's Vote Leave group, I'm afraid.
As UKIP has always made crystal clear, the £350 million includes money spent on farmers and on British universities, but when we do have that "independence dividend" we certainly will be pouring many £-millions into the NHS and into Social Care (there's no point sorting out the hospitals if there's nowhere we can discharge vulnerable patients... otherwise we'll just end up with them bed-blocking).
Now you must excuse me. We have received 5,500 emails (and counting) since Friday, and 99% of them are not teasing. They are saying "Well done UKIP. Thank God somebody is standing up for Britain" So I'd better get back to them.
Regards
I honestly cannot believe that only 50 emails to UKIP are not messages of support - if they already support them why write? I honestly cannot believe that 4950 e-mails (and counting apparently) are positive!
I'm afraid I don't take patronising very well
I am not teasing. I am entirely serious.
Your party is a bunch of moronic hypocrites, led by a buffoon married to a immigrant.
This is not, repeat not, an indication of support.
I don't believe in UKIP, what you preach, stand for, or advocate.
I'd rather the country run by Belgians than by your lot
Kindly take the remaining chance to bog off to Istanbul to tell them not to come here, and let sensible people sort out the fine mess Boris and Nigel have gotten us into..
