Saturday, 21st November 2009
Wheeler speaks up for UKIP
A major donor to the UK Independence Party has hit out at the Electoral Commission over its decision to push UKIP for the return of a £360,000 donation while allowing the Lib Dems to keep £2.4 million given to them by a criminal now on the run.
Former Tory donor and spread betting millionaire Stuart Wheeler, who donated £100,000 to UKIP before the European elections said today: "I am not a member of UKIP but I do support them and this does not seem right.
"The Electoral Commission has now said it does not intend to take proceedings against the Liberal Democrats for the recovery of gifts totalling about £2.4 million pounds given to them by a company controlled by Michael Brown, a man who was not a permissible donor and who is now on the run, having been sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
"It is clear that the donation came from abroad and was therefore entirely against the spirit of the relevant legislation.
"But the Commission has decided to pursue UKIP for recovery of a donation given by somebody who could easily have made the donation through a permissible company and who would have been a permissible donor but for a purely technical slip which is acknowledged by the court to have been entirely inadvertent."
| Brown trumpets UKIP trade plan |
Monday, 23rd November 2009 |
UKIP's call for withdrawal its membership of the European Union was given a welcome boost today by none other than Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
UKIP Leader Nigel Farage said: "Speaking to the CBI, Brown emphasised the importance of two key points of UKIP policy: That Europe can't do without the UK as a trade partner and the need to look outside the EU, to China and India, for new trade partnerships.
"Both of these are not only vital to understand for Britain to achieve economic growth, but they also underline why our membership of the EU is totally unnecessary.
"He expanded on the idea of encouraging thousands of Chinese firms to base their businesses in the UK and British companies in China and talked of strategic partnerships with India and the USA. Great!
"But what do these three massive players in world trade have in common? They're not members of the EU! And neither should Britain be.
"Much as I appreciate Gordon's help with spreading the UKIP word, I couldn't disagree with him more when he says Britain should be at the heart of Europe.
"We all see what happened when he last tried to do anything about that. His old pal Tony Blair was given the cold shoulder, Peter Mandelson sent a chill through Brussels, David Milliband quickly retreated and we ended up with political pygmy Cathy Ashton supposedly looking after our best interests.
"The UK could do a much better job at working towards economic recovery on its own. Let's just leave the EU now."
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