I attended the same conference --- but as a member, in name anyway. My motive was the same as yours !
I think I know which one you were, at the back some of the time, maybe that's when you quietly shot your panoramic of the "dyspepsic"?
Remember the porky yank with a crutch who managed the projector? That was "Lord Wennington", more commonly known as Peter Gammons. An apter name couldn't be found for the notorious 2021 London Mayor candidate. Even he quit a month later.
Remember the mousy guest who spoke? She was appointed Lady Deputy Leader right after, so, while losing a "Lord", the farce gained a "Lady" !
I counted, the number of other members attending was 31. The rest were a mix of guests, lapsed members, and people who like you just strolled ! Ukip is that desperate.
Since Conference, Ukip's fallen to new depths.
I'm on to two ex-member mailing lists and found that true membership is now in double figures. In May it only managed to find fifty candidates, half the active membership, to fill eight and a half thousand vacancies, despite there being no deposits and, post-covid, relaxed nomination signature requirements.
Ukip lost all of these contests.
Now it has no Local Councillors, let alone Assembly Members or MP's, anywhere in the UK.
But in an official blustermail it pretended that parish councillors counted instead.
Weeks before the elections, it threw its doors open to those formerly banned for far-right extremism.
Lying and bluffing is about all Ukip does, to enrich a few, at the expense of the less few.
It exists to grab legacies from the uninformed dead, donations from the delusional, while offering sanctuary to the insane, provided they're well-heeled.
The funniest part is they are so bigoted as not to realise they are bigoted!
Your article, just found, is fair and accurate.
I attended the same conference --- but as a member, in name anyway. My motive was the same as yours !
I think I know which one you were, at the back some of the time, maybe that's when you quietly shot your panoramic of the "dyspepsic"?
Remember the porky yank with a crutch who managed the projector? That was "Lord Wennington", more commonly known as Peter Gammons. An apter name couldn't be found for the notorious 2021 London Mayor candidate. Even he quit a month later.
Remember the mousy guest who spoke? She was appointed Lady Deputy Leader right after, so, while losing a "Lord", the farce gained a "Lady" !
I counted, the number of other members attending was 31. The rest were a mix of guests, lapsed members, and people who like you just strolled ! Ukip is that desperate.
Since Conference, Ukip's fallen to new depths.
I'm on to two ex-member mailing lists and found that true membership is now in double figures. In May it only managed to find fifty candidates, half the active membership, to fill eight and a half thousand vacancies, despite there being no deposits and, post-covid, relaxed nomination signature requirements.
Ukip lost all of these contests.
Now it has no Local Councillors, let alone Assembly Members or MP's, anywhere in the UK.
But in an official blustermail it pretended that parish councillors counted instead.
Weeks before the elections, it threw its doors open to those formerly banned for far-right extremism.
Lying and bluffing is about all Ukip does, to enrich a few, at the expense of the less few.
It exists to grab legacies from the uninformed dead, donations from the delusional, while offering sanctuary to the insane, provided they're well-heeled.
The funniest part is they are so bigoted as not to realise they are bigoted!
Good work, Josh.
Matt