UKIP's *ultra vires* prohibition prevents Claire Khaw from attending conference

24   August  2012



Dear Claire Khaw

On 21/08 you applied online for a two-day ticket for the UKIP Annual Conference in Birmingham due to be held on September 21st.

I must inform you that because of your former membership of the BNP and because we have previously refused you membership of UKIP, we are exercising our right to not provide you with admission tickets.  We have therefore today refunded your £30.

Yours sincerely


David Challice
Administration Manager

cc   Lisa Duffy (Party Director)
       Steve Crowther (Party Chairman)

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/ukip-to-readmit-claire-khaw-as-member.html explains why the prohibition is ultra vires, but don't expect Star Etheridge to understand this, though she is a qualified solicitor.    

Paul Oakley, who was their unsuccessful London mayoral candidate, who is also  practising barrister, does not get it either.    

UKIP to readmit Claire Khaw as member?

4 MEMBERSHIP
4.1 Membership is open to UK citizens and resident foreign nationals over the age of 16 years who share its aims and who are not members of any other political party or organisation membership of which the National Executive Committee ("NEC") has declared is incompatible with membership of the Party.   Associate membership may be made available if thought appropriate to persons not qualified under the preceding sentences.

PROHIBITION AGAINST EX-BNP MEMBERS FOUND ON ITS WEBSITE
Membership is not available to anyone who is or has previously been a member of the British National Party or the UK First party. Any applications made from people who are or have been members of these organisations will be refused, and any subscriptions collected will be refunded.
By applying for membership you certify that you are not and have never been a member of either of these parties.

The legally trained such as Paul Oakley (now of UKIP though for years a Conservative) will be aware of the term ultra vires as well as retrospective.   

UKIP have no right to exclude me from joining at all, because the prohibition at http://www.ukip.org/helpukip exceeds the terms of the clause 4.1 of the UKIP constitution.

Ultra vires - exceeding the powers on which it relies

Retrospective - making something an offence when it was not previously, thus making something that was previously legal illegal and punishing an individual for doing something that was legal when he or she did it.   

I no longer expect the average Englishman of the 21st century to have any regard for playing by the rules or fair play, so corrupted are their morals and so extinct their sense of honour, but thought I would just point this out anyway.  

The BNP are associated with being proletarian. Perhaps it is this that puts so many of these exiled Tories in UKIP off accepting ex-BNP members. It may not even be about racism, but about CLASS.

Working class people have a tendency to call a spade a spade and middle class English people like calling a shovel a trowel. 

That's all it is really. 

Were UKIP actually intent on poaching the best BNP members it would benefit enormously too. 

But, perhaps, like the BNP, UKIP don't really want power and don't want to win, not really. 

Maybe they just want to remain the underdog and whinge about that, just like the BNP. 

No killer instinct, no drive, just plodding and lots of it, and plodding in the wrong direction too ....

I suspect the reason why people like Paul Oakley the Conservative, who stayed loyal to Crap Camoronian Cuntism and only fairly recently joined UKIP don't want me to join even though they know I am not racist, is because of the notoriety and attention I would get.

Of course people like him would not wish me to reap the advantages of my taking bold, public and decisive action, while he huddled for YEARS like an indecisive rodent wondering whether to come out of his mousehole.

I am resigned to whatever decision they make, but just wanted to offer my services to UKIP first, out of respect to them for being the most established Eurosceptic party commanding the most votes. You see, I am an honourable woman who knows my place.

If they do not want me, I shall take my business elsewhere or even set up one myself, perhaps on the lines described at http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-english-conservatives-can-sort-out.html rather than suffer myself to be treated with the hysterical suspicion that the cowards who are afraid of being accused of racist would mete out to me, because I was once a member of the BNP.

Wiser heads at UKIP will know that having me would make UKIP less dull, dreary and elderly, but there is no guarantee that they will prevail. I know I have offended a few people in UKIP with my grandstanding, but these easily-offended people should understand that to err is human, to forgive divine, even if they do not believe in God.

I am not a racist.  I am so not a racist that even if you conferred on me racial superiority I would not accept it.

So there.   

2012 UKIP London Mayoral Candidates: Paul Oakley clearly front runner

UKIP's front-running 2012 London Mayoral Candidate: Paul  Oakley

http://www.indhome.com/londonmayor/?page_id=180 has the list prospective UKIP 2012 London mayoral candidates.

I have voted for Paul Oakley and wish him every success. It is a shame it took him so long to move from Tory to UKIP. He was the one who tore up the Maastricht Treaty at a Young Conservatives meeting in 1993.

http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist/ITN/1993/02/07/BSP070293015/?s=conservative+conference+maastricht&st=0&pn=1

Claire Khaw on August 7, 2011 at 12:02 pm said of DAVID COBURN:
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Obviously reading speech which is rather unprofessional.

Claire Khaw on August 7, 2011 at 12:10 pm said of MICHAEL CORBY:
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Reading from speech so rather unprofessional. Delivery rather manic and aggressive because of frantic nodding for purpose of emphasis.

Claire Khaw on August 7, 2011 at 12:15 pm said of MICHAEL McGOUGH:
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I have met Michael McGough a few times and know what a nice man he is, but the speech was clearly read, and read without much conviction. The swaying shoulders suggested a certain infirmity of purpose.

Claire Khaw on August 7, 2011 at 12:21 pm said of WINSTON McKENZIE:
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UKIP’s prospective Mayor of Rap has all the gestures and vocabulary of gangsta rap. FRIGHTENING.

Claire Khaw on August 7, 2011 at 12:25 pm said of LAWRENCE WEBB:
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Good looking chap but delivery rather hesitant and dull.

Claire Khaw on August 7, 2011 at 12:34 pm said of PAUL OAKLEY:
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PHWOAR. Says all the rights things and presses all the right buttons with his skinhead good looks and his recklessly generous offer to donate half his mayoral salary to charity. He ends with a seductive promise of consultative humility. Did you know how once tore up the Maastricht Treaty with his BARE HANDS as a Young Conservative? Only Claire Khaw (whose wedding he attended) could beat him now, and she wouldn’t feel the need to promise to donate half her mayoral salary either.


There is however a question mark on Paul's political judgement and ability to work with other Eurosceptics in other parties.

Below is his response when I asked him if he cared to point out to the powers that be in UKIP that the prohibition against ex-BNP members from joining is in fact ultra vires at http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2011/08/ukip-prohibition-against-ex-bnp-members.html

"Nope! I haven't studied the background to this so am not sure that I agree with your interpretation. Anyway - I support the policy for two reasons. Firstly, I'm not interested in racial politics in the slightest and don't want UKIP being tainted with it. Secondly, if there was an open-door policy for BNP members then the left would inevitably jump on this to divert attention from the prime reason for the existence of UKIP: to get us out of the EU. In short, I can't see any advantage at all to us in admitting BNP members. In fact, it would be disadvantage all the way. Sorry Claire."

It is of course no surprise at all that Paul should think this way. It took him long enough to move over to UKIP (which he only did this year), suggesting that he is a hesitant kind of man, afraid to take risks and venture out of his political comfort zone. He was a Eurosceptic and we met in 1993 during Bill Cash MP's campaign to oppose the Maastricht Treaty in the House of Lords Committee Stage.  He also thought Michael Howard was a good man to lead the Conservative Party even as I said that his slow sly smile would not serve him well in a country that is neurotically both consciously and unconsciously anti-Semitic.

He opposed the death penalty and probably still opposes it now.

Perhaps he is one of those people who prefer the Eurosceptic movement to be divided and ineffective and sees no long term harm in this. Perhaps he thinks UKIP alone is capable of being a viable opposition to the LibLabCon all by itself.

Perhaps he is one of those many white middle class men in British politics who is terrified of being called a racist and therefore easily intimidated by the Liberal Left.

If so, then one must call into question his judgement, his courage and his ability to respond swiftly and ruthlessly in a fast-changing and increasingly volatile political environment, foreign and domestic.