Independence February 2016

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THE UKIP MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2016

Let’s GO!How UKIP is embracing a brand new

grassroots strategy in the battle

to win the EU Referendum

B O O K

S P R I N G

C O N F E R E N C E

T I C K E T S

N O W ! S E E PA

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February 2016

Dear Branch Treasurer

2016 BRANCH INCENTIVE SCHEME

Many of you, as Branch Treasurers, will have had personal contact with me, or one of my colleagues, at some me

over the last three years. Perhaps I have visited one of your regular meengs to give a talk on the Sovereign Draw,

or you may have stopped by for a chat at Conference? You might also be one of the forty plus lucky branches that

have received a cheque from me towards your branch funds, as every Sovereign Draw winner also wins a donaonof £100 for their branch. Either way, the undisputed fact is that the Sovereign Draw is raising and donang ever-

increasing sums of money to UKIP, either directly to Head Oce, or to branches such as yours.

In 2015 we undertook a pilot scheme to see how branches might be able to partake in the Sovereign Draw Loery

sales process in return for donaons to branch funds. Several lessons were learnt. We now know that some

branches are very well established and solvent whilst others, perhaps only constuted in recent mes, are less

nancially sound. Accordingly, the directors have decided to establish a scheme that will enable every branch in

the country to benet from the Sovereign Draw, whether they have hundreds of subscribing members or are sll

at the early stage of their development.

The scheme will work as follows: for every twenty-ve players a branch signs up to play the Draw for a whole

year, your branch will receive a donaon of £100. This will be paid upon submission of the simple pro-forma thatwill be supplied to you, along with branch-customised Loery Applicaon Forms. For some branches this is an

opportunity to earn a considerable sum. For newer, smaller branches the immediate prospects may appear to be

less aracve, but as the Sovereign Draw is open equally to non-members the potenal for all branches is equal.

In addion, it is hoped that towards the end of the year, if the scheme is a success, a prot sharing bonus akin to

a small dividend can be distributed to all parcipang branches. This would not replace donaons to Head Oce,

but rather augment them. It is a concept that can be developed in the years ahead.

Inially, I would ask you to signal your intenon, as a branch, to join the scheme by contacng me by the end of

March. This will be acknowledged and a Sovereign Draw Account Number allocated to your Branch. That number

will not change and further details of the scheme will be supplied to you at the same me. When emailing me,

please put ‘Sovereign Draw Branch Scheme’ in the subject box and be sure to clearly indicate which BRANCH youact for.

Two Directors of Sovereign Draw are available, when diaries permit, to visit parcipang branches to give

promoonal talks and meet Treasurers.

These are excing days and I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Harland (Promoter)

[email protected]

play the lottery online at

www.sovereigndraw.co.uk

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CALLING ALL BRANCH TREASURERS!


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Who’s whoParty Leader

Nigel Farage MEP

Deputy Leader

Paul Nuttall MEP

House of Commons

Douglas Carswell MP

House of Lords

Lord Pearson of Rannoch

Lord Willoughby de BrokeLord Stevens of Ludgate

MEP Delegation Leader

Roger Helmer MEP

Leader in Scotland

David Coburn MEP

Leader in Wales

Nathan Gill MEP

Leader in Northern Ireland

David McNarry MLA

Party Chairman

Steve Crowther

Deputy Chairmen

Neil Hamilton, Suzanne Evans

Party Secretary

Matthew Richardson

Party Treasurer

John Bickley

Deputy Treasurers

Peter Jewell, Christopher Mills

Party Director

Paul Oakden

General SecretaryAdam Richardson

Our spokesmenAgriculture Stuart Agnew MEP

Business Christopher Mills

CommonwealthJames Carver MEP

CulturePeter Whittle

Defence Mike Hookem MEP

Disability Cllr Star Anderton

Economics

Mark RecklessEducation Paul Nuttall MEP

Employment Jane Collins MEP

Energy Roger Helmer MEP

Financial ServicesSteven Woolfe MEP

Fisheries Ray Finch MEP

Foreign Affairs

Nigel Farage MEPHealth Louise Bours MEP

Heritage & TourismWilliam Cash

Housing & EnvironmentAndrew CharalambousJustice & Home AffairsDiane James MEPLocal GovernmentCllr Peter ReeveMigration Steven Woolfe MEPOverseas AidNathan Gill MEP

Political ReformDouglas Carswell MPScience Dr Julia Reid MEPSmall BusinessMargot Parker MEPTrade William Dartmouth MEPTransport Jill Seymour MEPWelfareSuzanne Evans

How to get in touchBranches & MembersRuth Purdie,

Branches Administrator

[email protected]

Candidates & TrainingPaul Oakden, Party Director

[email protected]

Conference Lizzy Vaid, Events Manager

[email protected]

Elections Cllr Chris Adams,

National Nominating Officer

[email protected] David Challice,

Communications Manager

[email protected]

t 01626 830 630

Finance John Bickley, Party Treasurer

[email protected]

Leader’s OfficeKirsten Farage,

Executive Assistant

[email protected]

Membership TeamBristol Office

[email protected]

0333 800 6 800

Merchandise Nicky Edwards, UKIP Shop

[email protected]

National ExecutiveAdam Richardson,

General Secretary

[email protected]

Party Administration

Paul Oakden, Party [email protected]

Patrons ClubPeter Jewell

[email protected]

Policy Mark Reckless,

Director of Policy Development

[email protected]

Referendum Campaign

Chris Bruni-Lowe,

Campaigns Director

[email protected]

Regional Organisers

Paul Oakden, Party [email protected]

UKIP Councillors Association

Lisa Duffy, Communications

[email protected]

Young Independence

Joe Jenkins, Chairman

[email protected]

Websites

Damian Wilson,

Creative Director

[email protected]

Press OfficeHead of Press Gawain Towler

[email protected]

Senior Press Officer

John Gill

[email protected]

Regional ChairmenEastern George [email protected] Midlands Cllr Alan Graves

[email protected] Adam Richardson (Acting)[email protected] EastSteve [email protected]

North West John Stanyer

[email protected] Ireland Noel [email protected]

ScotlandKevin Newton (Acting)[email protected] East Tim [email protected] West Tony [email protected] [email protected]

West Midlands

Dave [email protected] & N Lincs Judith Morris

[email protected]

Letters, articles or photographs forpublication in the magazine should

be e-mailed to [email protected].

Send snail mail to The Editor,

Independence, UKIP, Lexdrum House,

Heathfield TQ12 6UT.

Views expressed herein are those of

the individual contributors and do

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the editor or other officers of UKIP.

Contributors retain copyright of the

materials, which may not be

reproduced – except by UKIP –

without their permission.

Independence is published by Steve

Crowther on behalf of theUK Independence Party, both of

Lexdrum House, Unit 1, King Charles

Business Park, Heathfield, Newton

Abbot, Devon TQ12 6UT.

CONTENTS

UKIP in Bristol.................... 4

Leader ...................................5

Referendum Shop ............ 6

Chairman ...................... ... 7-8

Party Director .................... 9

Shop ....................... ........10-11

Conference ...................... ..12

Independence Magazine

Issue 101 February 2016

INDEPENDENCE FEBRUARY 2016

Want to renew your

membership over

the phone? Call the

Membership Team

in our Bristol office

on 0333 800 6 800

or email

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Four fresh facestake up roles onnew-look NEC

UKIP VISIT TO THE BRISTOL MEMBERSHIP CENTRE

Nigel Farage chats with Flavia Filip of the Bristol Membership team

THE National Executive Com-mittee ballot saw a number ofnew faces take up position onthe party’s ruling body.

Liz Jones, Victoria Ayling,Toby Coke and Tomas Slivnik

join the NEC for the rst timewhile Alan Bown and PiersWauchope were returned.

Following the count on No-vember 12, Returning OcerAdam Richardson, said: “Allthe results were clear andwithout dispute and I wouldlike to thank the dedicatedteam of volunteers at Lex-drum House that assisted ina very professionally con-ducted count and would liketo congratulate the new NECmembers on their election.”

The full results were: VictoriaAyling 3,400 votes,Alan Bown

3,086, Elizabeth Jones 2,650,

Richard Coke 2,630, Piers Wau-

chope 2,206, Tomaz Slivnik 1,970,

Raj Chandran 1,946, Mick McGough

1,644, Terry Durrance 1,631,

Deborah Rennie 1,562, Roger Arthur

Victoria AylingLiz Jones

Toby CokeTomas Slivnik

1,555, Andrew Moncreiff 1,554,

Richard Hilton 1,308, Rosamund

Beattie 1,246, Roger Gravett 1,170,

Calum Walker 1,067, Otto Inglis

1,016, Afzal Akram 1,008, Alan Love

1,006, Melanie Roberts 1,002, Mark

Hughes 980, Caven Vines 975, Colin

Nicholson 971, Peter Griffiths 949,

Mark Anderson 942, Neville Watson

928, David Palmer 911, Mark Hanson

878, Anil Bhatti 815, David Allen

764, Andrew Chapman 761, Rathy

Alagaratnam 671, John Terry 661,

Robert Kimbell 626, Nigel Sussman

494, Seamus Martin 483, Seton

During 442, Patrick Dearsley 412,

Andrew Beadle 403, Andrew Price

363, John Poynton 300. Rejected

Ballots 68.

David Coburn, Call Centre manager Pam Palmer, Steve Crowther and Paul Oakden in Bristol

MEPs and NEC members on site at the Bristol Membership Centre

Nigel Farage takes a call on the membership renewal line Ready to help, Eva Singleton on callNeil Hamilton, Paul Nuttall and Margot Parker

have a look around the Bristol office


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THIS IS THE START OF A BIG YEAR BOTH

for our country and for UKIP as a party.

We start o in good spirits and in goodshape. YouGov’s end of year poll hadUKIP on 17%, up from where we were atthe General Election.

When it comes to the number one issuefor the British people – immigration and

border controls – UKIP is now the mosttrusted political party in the countryamongst voters. This is signicant andshows how our argument for an Aus-tralian-style points system has won ustremendous support across the country.29% of people now trust us the most onthis vitally important issue, more thantrust the Conservatives or Labour.

There is no doubt that establishing thelink between EU membership and opendoor immigration has been the biggest fac-tor in the growth of UKIP’s vote over thelast few years and that the issue will now become the biggest factor that will deter-mine the outcome of the referendum onour membership of the European Union.

THE ARGUMENT HAS RECENTLY BECOME even more serious. No longer are we justtalking about the impact on people’s in-come caused by wage compression, or ofmassive pressure put on our infrastruc-ture and public services. Though theseremain important, when we talk aboutEU open borders we are now talkingabout our safety, our security and the cul-tural make-up of British towns and cities.

I did try and warn with some of myspeeches in the European Parliament thatthe folly of the EU’s Common AsylumPolicy was a dangerous and grave error.

That the idea of allowing anyone whowanted to come to Europe to be allowed

Nigel Farage

to stay was madness. And indeed I alsopointed out that inevitably some of thosewho came would be Islamic State terror-ists. I warned that we should not, couldnot, aford to allow our compassion to im-peril our civilisation by allowing count-less amounts in without proper checks.

SADLY WE NOW SEE THE RESULT OF THIS

failed EU approach. British intelligenceocials now warn that Isis are activelyexploiting refugee routes to come to Eu-

rope, with some determined to get intoBritain and do us harm.

We see the chaos in Cologne that tookplace on New Year’s Eve with women

being assaulted by a group of up to 1,000migrant men. Even top EU ocials nowadmit that the majority of those cominginto Europe are not refugees eeingdeath or persecution, but are economicmigrants.

Events have caused the likes of journalistAllison Pearson (above) to conclude that toprotect British women, we must leave the

EU and take back control of our borders.So during this EU referendum we must

make these arguments. That we are safer,more secure, outside of the EU running ourown afairs with strong border controls.

Why now is the

time to ventureout on our own

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Nigel Farage MEP is the UKIP Party [email protected]


A European Unionwhich loses control

of immigration, which jeopardises its own

precious, civilisedvalues, then lies aboutit because it doesn’t

want to “spread a badmood”, doesn’t

deserve my support.

5% Lib Dems

15% Labour

24% Conservatives

29% UKIP

WHO DO YOU TRUST TO TELL THETRUTH ON IMMIGRATION?

ComRes, December 2015

BUT WE AS A PARTY HAVE TO DO EVEN

more than that. May 5th represents amassive set of elections for us as a partyand will be a huge challenge organisa-tionally. We have the chance of winningseats in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ire-land and London, as well as localelections and Police & Crime Commis-

sioner elections too.My aim is for UKIP to be the only

party that wins seats across all four partsof the United Kingdom. With your help,we can do it.

All of us in UKIP want our country back. We all believe that we must leavethe European Union so that we can makeour own laws, negotiate our own tradedeals, stop handing Brussels £55 millionevery single day and of course controlour borders.

THAT IS WHY I WAS DELIGHTED TO SHARE

a cross-party platform in Ketteringrecently, under the banner of GrassrootsOut.

Though we in UKIP of course willhave our dierences with those in otherparties, when it comes to this vital issueof EU membership we must work withthose who genuinely want to leave theEuropean Union and are prepared to puttheir heads above the parapet to cam-paign for this country’s independence.Country must come before party.

The meeting brought us together withConservative MPs Liam Fox, Peter Bone,

Tom Pursglove and Philip Hollobone, aswell as Labour MP Kate Hoey, DUP MPSammy Wilson and was chaired by UKIPMEP Margot Parker.

It was a magnicent day, a fantasticevent for all of us who believe in thisgreat cause to free our country from theshackles of the European Union.

A huge thank you goes out to ArronBanks and Leave.EU who supportedthe event and helped make it the hugesuccess it undoubtedly was.

I hope that in the weeks and monthsahead we will all go on doing what wecan to grab this golden opportunity, winthe referendum and free our countryfrom the European Union.

Allison Pearson,

Chief Interviewer and columnistfor the Daily Telegraph


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ON FEBRUARY 19TH, DAVID CAMERON WILL emerge red-eyed and tousled from a marathonnegotiating session with the other EU grandees(they may give him more than 15 minutes thistime), and with his jaw set rm, declare that hehas wrested major concessions for reform of theEuropean Union.

These ‘reforms’ will be some symbolic things

we either already have or which can be ignored by the EU as soon as our back is turned – beingallowed not to be in the Euro, setting a ‘target’ forcutting red tape, and exemption from ‘ever-clos-er union’; and one we don’t want – the right towithhold some benets from migrants – as itwill make no dierence to the real problem thatthree-quarters of the UK want xed right now:uncontrollable mass immigration.

ing group of Northamptonshire MPs (Peter Bone,Philip Hollobone and Tom Pursglove, all real‘outers’) to start the process of bringing togetherall the Leave campaigners from every party, con-stituency-by-constituency, to knock on doors andnd the votes we need to win.

And that’s what we have to do, starting now.Every UKIP branch needs to do one thing aboveall: combine with other ‘outers’, knock on everydoor and nd whether the household is for Re-main, Leave or Not Sure.

That information is gold dust. We can thenignore the Remains, put all our eorts into con-verting the Not Sures, and get all the Leaves outto vote on the day.

You can simply note the information on a copy

of the Electoral Roll, or use a computerised VoterID system (like the Caseworker system our targetseats used in the General Election). There areseveral of these systems available at modest cost,and we will provide details to the branches ofhow to get them.

As Peter Bone said, it doesn’t have to be com-plex: just take a piece of paper to write down theaddress, and whether they are Leave, Remain orDK. Simples!

GO! will be taking part in our Conference inLlandudno, providing insights and training tohelp our branches achieve this substantial task –

and build a historic victory.

ChairmanOur message as we

head to Llandudno:It’s all systems GO!

OUR new Membership

Team in Bristol is going

great guns helping mem-

bers to renew and new

people to join us. If you

get a call from a polite

youngster from Bristol,

it’s on our behalf!

They are finding,

however, that a fair few

of the members’ phone

numbers are incor-

rectly recorded on ourdatabase. Meanwhile

members are saying “I

didn’t realise I needed to

renew my membership

until you rang”.

Please make sure we

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possible, your email.

This edition of the full

Independence magazine

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So letting us have your

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us out of the EU.

We promise not to

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or email callcentre@ukip.

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Help us bycheckingyour phoneand email

details now

More importantly, he will then almost certainlyannounce that the Referendum will be on June

23rd, giving us the minimum possible time topoint out to the British people that this is hardlya ‘reformed EU’, and ensuring that the matter isgot out of the way before the Summer TrackingSeason really ramps up.

In that event, there will be 16 weeks for us toget the win. Just 16 weeks to identify all thosewho will vote for us, and get the right messagesacross to all those who are undecided. Yes, 16weeks to knock on every door in the land, andask people to vote to get our country back.

It’s a tall order. That’s why we are enthusiasti-cally backing a new group – Grassroots Out!, orGO! for short – which was launched in a blaze

of glory (and a deafening silence from the bigmedia) at Kettering on 23rd January.

Labour’s Kate Hoey and former Tory DefenceSecretary Liam Fox joined Nigel and the found-

From UKIP Myths to

Europhile Fairy TalesMANY PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN TO ME ABOUT the ‘newspaper’ Europe & You which utteredonto 10 million British doormats last week.Allegedly nanced by Goldman Sachs, thisspectacular damp squib gave a transparent (anduseful) insight into how the Remains are going toght the campaign.

On page one, we heard the old canard about3 million jobs, followed by the startling assertion

that the EU makes all of us richer (according to

‘independent experts’, the CBI), and lowers pric-es in our shops. The egregious European ArrestWarrant got a look-in too, suggesting a Lib-Demhand behind the publication.

TURN TO PAGE EIGHT

Let’s Go! The cross-party launch was a massive success

Leave it out, the Europe & You campaign ‘newspaper’


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Let’s all go to LlandudnoOUR 2016 SPRING CONFERENCE ON FEBRUARY 27

could be the opening event of the Leave cam-paign proper, if the Referendum announcement is

made in the preceding week.

And let’s not forget that on 5 th May, our perfor-mance in the major elections in Scotland, Wales,London and Northern Ireland will have a huge

eect on UKIP’s (and the Leave campaign’s)fortunes in the Referendum a month later.

We’ll be both launching our election cam-paigns, and unveiling the key messages for theReferendum campaign, on the Risks of Remain-ing in the EU.

Quentin Letts , the iconoclastic politicalsketch-writer for the Daily Mail , will be com-ing, and speaking at the Gala Dinner on Friday,Febraury 26. We will have speakers such asHenry Bolton , the Foreign Oce’s adviser onBorder Security to the EU’s External Action Ser-vice. And for the rst time we will be welcomingOuters from other parties to our platform, underthe GO! umbrella.

This is a Conference not to be missed, a historicevent in a beautiful seaside location.

Don’t delay – book your tickets and accommo-dation today at ukip.org/spring2016

SPEAKING alongside

Diane James MEP at

Llandudno on 27th

February, to launch thesecond of our big Risks

of Remaining – the Risk

to our Security – will be

Henry Bolton OBE.

Henry is an active

UKIP member in Kent,

and our candidate for

Police & Crime Commis-

sioner in the County.

But he is also rec-

ognised as one of the

world’s leading experts

on national border

strategies.A former Army

officer and decorated

ex-policeman, Henry is

currently seconded by

the Foreign Office to

advise the EU’s External

World experton BorderSecurity, anda UKIPper

On pages 2 and 3 we heard the same thingsagain, plus the fact that holidaymakers get freeemergency healthcare in EU countries.

On the back, the same ‘facts’ are re-ordered totake a swing at six UKIP ‘myths’ (thank you, allcredits gratefully received).

Is that it?

MEMBERS ARE ASKING WHAT WE’RE DOING ABOUTit. Fear not, the guns are being rolled up to thefront, and we will blow this nonsense out of thewater.

Our new leaet Do you know why we should stayin the EU? is starting to roll o the presses andwill be with you shortly.

The card Who wants to join the Euro? is now beingshipped to the Regional Organisers fordistribution. And we are developing our answerto the Europhiles’ imsy arguments: the Risks ofRemaining.

The rst of these forms the topic of our rstocial Party Political Broadcast which airs thisweek – Risks of Remaining in the EU, No 1:Turkey Joins.

Do youknow why we

should stayin the

European Union?

FROM PAGE SEVEN

A HARD-WORKING UKIP COUNCILLOR WAS SO busy attending meetings that his family report-ed him missing to police.

Two police ocers interrupted a meeting ofThetford Town Council in Norfolk onTuesday evening, January 26, searching forDenis Crawford.

The UKIP councillor, who also serves on Nor-folk County and Breckland District Council,had been reported missing by his family after

leaving home at 7am on Monday, January 25.He arrived back at his house at 10pm only to

set o again at 7am the following morning.

Little did he know that his daughter had been trying to track him down and eventuallygrew so concerned she contacted police.

Two PCSOs were dispatched and trackedhim down to the council meeting.

“It was a huge surprise. The rst thingI knew about any concerns was when twoocers poked their heads around the door andasked for me, Cllr Crawford said.

“I was thinking ‘what’s wrong?’ but theocers explained they were looking for me

because I hadn’t been seen at home for such along time.”

Cllr Crawford said he had spent nearlyve hours in an adult social services meeting,followed by a Breckland planning consultationand an action group meeting on Monday.

On Tuesday, he was at a children’s servicescommittee meeting, then a UKIP group meet-ing followed by the full town council meeting.

He said: “It’s not an unusual schedule - Iguess it just highlights how hard people inlocal government work.

“I went back into the meeting and asked

the mayor if I could interrupt proceedings toexplain what happened.

“Everybody took it in good humour butI’m sure I’ll get a bit of stick from my fellowcouncillors.”

Councillor’s family

call police after no

sign of Denis over

two hectic days

Action Service on border

security and stabilisation

missions – not dealing

with their own borders,

but helping other

countries with border

control problems.

His expertise was

gained during 21 years

working in and with

the military, including

deployment with the USMarines in Helmand and

a Mission Command in

Kosovo.

He served as a District

Governor for the UN, was

Senior Border Security

Adviser to the Organi-

sation for Security and

Co-operation in Europe

(OSCE) and founded

the International Border

Security and Manage-

ment Staff College in

Tajikistan.If anyone knows how

we should be securing

our borders after Brexit,

Henry does.

Henry Bolton OBE

On the missing list... UKIP Cllr Denis Crawford

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THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR MEMBERS

haven’t had the good fortune of meetingour Head Oce team in Devon. Thissmall group all work incredibly hard andtheir eorts are so often responsible forthe little things that we all know work,

but don’t often give much thought to.On Christmas Eve I volunteered to

divert the Head Oce phone number tomy oce in Leicestershire so that theycould begin their festive preparationsa little earlier; it was a well-deservedgesture and for my part an opportunityto learn rst-hand the sort of things thatprompt our membership to call in.

Primarily the calls were good wishesfor Christmas, branch queries andrequests for contact details which I man-aged to bat through with little diculty,

but it was the last call of the day I wantedto share with you.

At 5:47pm on Christmas Eve a gentle-

man rang our Head Oce saying that hewanted to re-join UKIP. I learnt that hismembership had lapsed a few monthsearlier and he’d decided not to renew fora variety of well-articulated reasons.

Delighted that he’d chosen to becomea member again I was keen to knowwhat had prompted the call at such atime on Christmas Eve!

He told me he’d just read an articleonline discussing the impendingreferendum. It outlined the variousgroups and sides that were being formedready for battle but made only a whis-

pering comment about UKIP and ourleader Nigel Farage.

My caller was outraged, and his nalcomment resonated such that I feltcompelled to share it with all of you:“This is UKIP’s referendum. UKIP did this

for Britain and UKIP need to be leading thedebate, not just an afterthought. This partyis more important now than they have everbeen and I want to help make sure they staythat way.”

Now there’s a New Year’s Resolutionwe should all share.

2015 CLOSED WITH THE BY-ELECTION IN Oldham West & Royton. What anexperience it was for those of us fortu-nate enough to work with John Bickleyand his campaign.

Why our role in

the referendumis so important

John was an outstanding candidate forour party again and we all felt immensepride at being by his side as he draggedthe Labour Party through another vat ofhome truths in Greater Manchester.

In any election that you don’t win,there is always a need to look at whatyou could do better next time and theparty has already begun that process butfor my part I wanted to take thisopportunity to say an enormous THANKYOU to every one of our members whotravelled up to support the campaign.

Despite rain, gales, sleet and sleep-lessness, nothing seemed able to keep somany of you away from getting stuck into Jeremy Corbyn.

The small team who worked therewith me every day played their part tooon a diet of exhaustion, uncomfortablechairs and spam fritters. They know who

they are and I thank them all.SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO SAY THAT you were beaten by a bigger machineand in Oldham we were. What aidedLabour so well though was that dozensof local councillors were able to poundthe streets every day and they knewexactly where their voters were.

Until we’re in a similar position inevery constituency in Britain then wewill always be starting the race from along way back.

I’m now working with your Regional

Teams to promote versions of Voter IDsoftware across the country so that wecan start to build our own database ofvoters in preparation for the 2020General Election.

Paul Oakden is Party [email protected]


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This will be key to our successes in thefuture and I’d ask everybody able to walkthe streets and knock on doors to speak toyour local chairman to see how you can help.

JANUARY HAS ALREADY FLOWN BY BUT this year oers far more electoral promise toUKIP than 2015 ever could and we all needto think of what we can do to help bring

that promise to fruition.With massive Assembly Elections in

London, Northern Ireland, and Wales andParliamentary Elections in Scotland, weneed help in all four parts of Britain. UKIPis the only Party with representation acrossBritain and our growing membership willplay such a crucial part in those successes.

Local Elections in 2016 are going to be asimportant as ever for us. UKIP Councillorscontinue to work wonders across the UKand are showing just what we can do whenwe get into Local Government.

Time and time again it’s proven that to be

successful in a Westminster ConstituencyElection a party must rst succeed in anarea’s Local Elections. It is the foundationupon which future success is built and iswhy nding a maximum number ofcandidates should be a priority for us all.

FINALLY I WANT TO MENTION OUR SPRING Conference in Llandudno. All Conferencesare important to UKIP; they help us to cometogether, to share our best practice and tohear some of our wonderful speakers butthis one perhaps is the most importantConference we have ever held.

It could well be the last time our Partycomes together before the referendum andwith that on the horizon it’s important togather one last time and plan for battle.

Alongside that is the fact that it’s takingplace in Wales. I’ve spent a good amount oftime in Wales recently and there is no doubtin my mind that our supporters and activ-ists there have created an environment thatis perfect for UKIP to capitalise onelectoral success in May. We need to showour support to them at this crucial time.

So whatever you have in your diary forFebruary, make sure that our Spring

Conference in Llandudno is a xed featureon February 27. I look forward to seeingyou there.

Party Director

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Let’s GO! LlandudnoSPRING CONFERENCE 2015 VENUE CYMRU, LLANDUDNO

Friday, February 26 – Gala Dinner Saturday, February 27– Conference and GO! launch

Come to beautiful Llandudno on the North Wales coast for

what could be the last Conference before the country votes

to Leave the EU. Support our teams who are looking to

break into the Scottish Parliament and Welsh, N Ireland and

London Assemblies.

We’ll be hearing from one of the world’s leading experts onBorder Control and Security, former UN Governor and EU

adviser (and UKIP member) Henry Bolton OBE. With Home

Affairs spokesman Diane James MEP, he will be showing

how leaving the EU is vital to maintaining our security –

one of the ‘Big Risks of Staying in the EU’ which we will be

unveiling.

Join us at the Gala Dinner to hear Quentin Letts, Daily

Mail Parliamentary sketch-writer, famous Eurosceptic

and scourge of political correctness, give his views on the

forthcoming contest.

And the for the first time, we will welcome MPs and

representatives from the Conservative and Labour parties

to our Conference platform, to introduce the GO! initiative,

bringing all the ‘Outers’ together in every constituency to

make sure we maximise our result.

Get the training, support and materials YOUR BRANCH

needs, to engage with every Leave voter to make sure we

GET OUR COUNTRY BACK.

PLEASE NOTE: For security purposes, you will need to give your membership number to book tickets, and identify yourself on arrival.

To book your tickets call 0333 666 33 66or visit ukip.org/spring2016

Day Pass (Feb 27) ................................... .....................£30

Young Independence Day Pass .................................£5

Gala Dinner (Feb 26) ..................................................£45(Please note, booking fee applies)

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like hot cakes!

• Launching our campaigns to break into Cardiff Bay,

Holyrood, Stormont and the London Assembly

• Kicking off the campaign that will win us the Referendum:unveiling our ‘Big Risks of Staying in the EU’ strategy

• Joining up with the cross-party Grassroots Out! (GO!) team

to maximise the ‘Leave’ vote in every constituency

SPRING CONFERENCE – CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF

SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Nigel Farage Quentin Letts

Diane James Henry Bolton

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