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Why Vote … – the other books reviewed
I’ve already reviewed two of the titles in the new seven book series from biteback: Why Vote Liberal Democrat and Why Vote. But what to make of the other fives titles – covers Labour, Conservative, Green, SNP and Plaid? (Although a UKIP book was also publicised, it never got published as UKIP failed to produce [...]
UKIP expel MEP in dispute over ‘extremist’ links
This week The Times reported of Nikki Sinclaire:
The UK Independence Party has expelled one of its MEPs after she refused to sit with its right-wing Italian allies in the European Parliament and fell out with former leader Nigel Farage…
Ms Sinclaire, 41, an MEP for the West Midlands, insisted that she wanted to stay with the [...]
UKIP faces £367,697 bill after court rules magistrate wrong to levy small ‘fine’
Good news all in all for both the Electoral Commission and for the laws regulating donations to political parties with the decision today by an Appeal Court to overturn a previous strange ruling by a magistrate in the case of a series of donations to UKIP that the Electoral Commission had investigated and decided broke [...]
Conservatives expel branch chair for saying vote UKIP
Iain Dale has the story of Ralph Buckle, the chair of University of York Conservatives until he called for people to vote UKIP. He’s now an ex-chair and ex-member.
