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Play online at www.sovereigndraw.co.uk or call 0870 085 3770 THE UKIP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2015 INDEPENDENCE AUGUST 2015 Justice & Home Affairs Referendum Campaign Who’s who Diane James MEP Chris Bruni-Lowe, Party Leader Local Government Campaigns Director Nigel Farage MEP Cllr Peter Reeve [email protected] Deputy Leader Migration Regional Organisers Paul Nuttall MEP Steven Woolfe MEP Paul Oakden, Party Director Independence Magazine House of Commons Overseas Aid [email protected] August 2015 Issue 99 Douglas Carswell MP Nathan Gill MEP UKIP Councillors Association House of Lords Political Reform Lisa Duffy, Secretary Lord Pearson of Rannoch, Douglas Carswell MP [email protected] THE UKIP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2015 Lord Willoughby de Broke, Science Websites Lord Stevens of Ludgate Dr Julia Reid MEP Damian Wilson, MEP Delegation Leader Small Business EFDD/Creative Director Roger Helmer MEP Margot Parker MEP [email protected] Leader in Scotland Trade William Dartmouth MEP David Coburn MEP Press Office Transport Leader in Wales Jill Seymour MEP Head of Press Nathan Gill MEP Welfare Gawain Towler Leader in Northern Ireland Suzanne Evans [email protected] David McNarry MLA Head of Media Party Chairman How to get in touch Alex Phillips CONTENTS Steve Crowther [email protected] Branches Deputy Chairmen Senior Press Officer Leader ...................................3 Ruth Purdie, Branches Admin Neil Hamilton, Suzanne Evans John Gill Apps News ......................... 4 [email protected] Party Secretary [email protected] NEC Elections .................... 4 Matthew Richardson Candidates & Training Chairman's Notes ..............5 Party Treasurer Paul Oakden, Party Director Regional Phil Basey [email protected] Party Director .................... 6 Deputy Treasurers Conference Chairmen Election 2015 Results Andrew Love, Christopher Mills Lizzy Vaid, Events Manager Eastern England .................................7 [email protected] George Konstantinidis [email protected] Northern Ireland ..............13 Our spokesmen Elections Cllr Chris Adams, East Midlands Agriculture Scotland ............................. 14 Cllr Alan Graves Stuart Agnew MEP National Nominating Officer Wales .................................. 14 [email protected] [email protected] Business London UKIP Second Places .......15 Christopher Mills Finance Phil Basey, Party Treasurer John Hellings UKIP Shop ................... 16-17 Commonwealth [email protected] [email protected] James Carver MEP Letters .................................18 Head Office & Enquiries North East Councillors .........................19 Culture David Challice, Nigel Coghill-Marshall Peter Whittle Communications Manager Conference ...................... 20 [email protected] Defence [email protected] North West Mike Hookem MEP 0333 800 6 800 John Stanyer Disability Leader’s Office [email protected] . Cllr Star Etheridge Kirsten Farage, Exec Assistant Northern Ireland Economics [email protected] Cllr Henry Reilly Mark Reckless Membership [email protected] Education Rod Peers, Membership Mgr. Letters, articles or photographs for Scotland [email protected] publication in the magazine should Paul Nuttall MEP Misty Thackeray be e-mailed to [email protected]. Employment Merchandise [email protected] Send snail mail to The Editor, Inde- Jane Collins MEP Nicky Edwards, UKIP Shop South East pendence, UKIP, Lexdrum House, Energy [email protected] Tim Scott Heathfield TQ12 6UT. Roger Helmer MEP National Executive Views expressed herein are those [email protected] . of the individual contributors and Financial Services Adam Richardson, General Sec South West do not necessarily represent those Steven Woolfe MEP [email protected] Tony McIntyre of the editor or other officers of Fisheries Party Administration [email protected] UKIP. Contributors retain copyright Paul Oakden, Party Director Ray Finch MEP of the materials, which may not be Wales Foreign Affairs [email protected] David Rowlands reproduced – except by UKIP – with- Patrons Club out their permission. Nigel Farage MEP [email protected] Liz Phillips Independence is published by Health West Midlands Steve Crowther on behalf of the Louise Bours MEP [email protected] Neil Whelan UK Independence Party, both of Heritage & Tourism Policy [email protected] Lexdrum House, Unit 1, King Charles Mark Reckless, Business Park, Heathfield, Newton William Cash Yorkshire & N Lincs Head of Policy Development Abbot, Devon TQ12 6UT. Printed by Housing & Environment Judith Morris [email protected] Printbridge, Bodmin PL31 2DU. Andrew Charalambous [email protected] 2 INDEPENDENCE AUGUST 2015 Nigel Farage PARTY LEADER Refreshed and THE EU REFERENDUM TOUR ready to face a September 7 Winter Gardens, Margate September 14 new challenge Park Avenue, Belfast September 17 ALREADY the General Election feels like Circus Tavern, Purfleet a long time ago. It was a remarkable and October 12 Sage, Gateshead unpredictable result. Even the day before October 23 the election, you could have got 13/2 BOOK TICKETS NOW Liberty Stadium, Swansea against a Tory majority. ticketsource.co.uk/saynotoeu October 24 If you’d said to me six months before or call 0333 666 3366 Town Hall, Cardiff November 2 the election that there would be a huge Carn Brae Centre, Redruth last minute swing to the Tories for fear November 6 of the SNP, combined with the fact that North West (tbc) Ed Miliband would not be able to control November 16 The Anvil, Basingstoke them, and that this would lead to a Tory November 20 majority, I would have laughed. Emmanuel Centre London If you’d further said that despite all of BELFAST November 30 this UKIP would still get 4 million votes, SEPTEMBER 14 Queens Hotel, Leeds I’d have bitten off your hand. Whilst the system may be stacked against us, as the UKIP vote crosses all of the traditional GATESHEAD class divides, we should be very proud OCTOBER 12 of the 4 million votes that we achieved. It marks another huge milestone in our LEEDS NOVEMBER 30 growth to being a major party. NW (tbc) Clearly as the 330 Conservative seats Up to the end of the NOVEMBER 6 each took 34,244 votes, one UKIP seat for year, I am heading off nearly 4 million is ludicrous and reform around the country on is definitely needed. One of the big the EU Referendum Tour, surprises of the campaign was how well themed Say No, Believe in UKIP did in the Midlands, the North and Britain. MARGATE in Wales. More dates may yet be SEPTEMBER 7 We hit the Labour vote harder than many confirmed and there will be further ones added PURFLEET believed possible and that helped the Tories SEPTEMBER 17 next year but we’ll keep SWANSEA get a majority. A situation that our tabloid OCTOBER 23 press simply cannot comprehend. you in touch as things LONDON develop. NOVEMBER 20 I regret nothing about the campaign CARDIFF In the meantime, you’ll OCTOBER 24 and am ready for the next great battle. find a campaign BASINGSTOKE From my own point of view the result poster in the centre of NOVEMBER 16 was disappointing as I tried as hard as I this magazine which you could in South Thanet. However, there can display to show your REDRUTH NOVEMBER 2 was a wonderful consolation prize in that support for our efforts to 33 UKIP Councillors have been elected to get Britain out of the EU. a grassroots movement. I will be travelling Thanet District Council and it is the first the country from the first week of authority in the country that we are in September up until the referendum in a charge of. large series of public meetings. I wish Council Leader Chris Wells all just love the EU. Even Sir Richard Bran- But we need you, the People’s Army good fortune and will be there to help son has appeared on television backing a to help in any way you can. We will need him whenever called. Yes vote and suggesting that joining the Euro is a good idea. you to support our meetings, to deliver But even better, we now have a leaflets and to put up posters when the What is for certain is that a Yes vote referendum on EU membership, some- time comes. We will need you to encour- will take us further down the road of thing that I have spent over 20 years age your friends and family to back the No political integration and that a No vote is working towards. Be in no doubt: this campaign. referendum would not have happened the only way to stop us losing our iden- The modern day Battle of Britain has without UKIP. tity. And in this referendum battle, UKIP begun. Already the establishment forces are has a key role to play. Nigel Farage MEP is the UKIP Party Leader lining up: giant corporate businesses who We are the only eurosceptic group with [email protected] 3 INDEPENDENCE AUGUST 2015 Our Jonathan’s Brexit song hits Nominations open the right note for six vacancies on National Executive NOMINATIONS for membership of UKIP’s National Executive Committee have opened. Each nomination must be made on an official form which requires brief personal details and the signatures of a proposer, seconder and eight assentors. Candidates should submit a personal state- ment of up to 150 words, a recent photograph MEPs may stand for election but, if elected, and a non-returnable deposit of £100. must resign from their paid posts. According to NOT content with leading the Party Constitution, the Party’s MEPs are not the pack with its Say No Nomination papers and rules for the elec- tion are available from UKIP Head Office from entitled to stand but have separate representa- Campaign, one UKIP branch tion on the NEC. With this exception, retiring chairman is heading for August 8. Apply to Head Office in writing or by [email protected] members are eligible for re-election. the charts with a referen- email to . The NEC has 12 elected members who nor- dum-themed Brexit song.
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