Tory Student Leader Says: Vote UKIP
Iain Dale 1:37 PM
...This leaves you with the Conservatives and UKIP as viable options. Both have well spoken representatives such as Dan Hannan and Nigel Farage. As for image it depends whether you favour a vaguely eurosceptic position and want to suggest that it might be time for a new government or if you want to tell your MPs that you think it's time the UK left the undemocratic, illiberal and wasteful EU behind. As you may have guessed, I favour the latter and would encourage you to do the same, but the decision is up to you.
So the chairman of the Conservatives is encouraging his fellow students to vote UKIP. Not acceptable. I think Mr Buckle will soon find he doesn't have a future. His fellow Tory students at York should bring him to book.
UPDATE 2.30pm: Mr Buckle has just been expelled from the party. Quite right too. If you are an office holder you just cannot go round advocating that people should vote for a different party. If he wanted to do that, he should have resigned his post before writing the article.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Student politicians think the world revolves around them. I remember. I used to be one! But if you hold an office within a political party you have a responsibility to support it. The University of York student newspaper NOUSE offered the chairmen of the three main parties a space to put forward their own party's viewpoint on who to vote for in the European Elections. Ralph Buckle is the chairman of University of York Conservatives. This is the conclusion of his article...
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