Press Conference for new leadership team #UKIPUnited
Jane Collins MEP, candidate for UKIP leader, will be joined by the three leadership candidates who have stepped aside to support her as part of a team running to reform the party.
Ms Collins will be making a speech and taking questions regarding the announcement that she will be the name on the ballot paper for a ‘slate’ of four candidates who will be setting out their vision for UKIP and their decision remove their names from the ballot paper as well as answering questions.
The other former candidates are Ben Walker, Marion Mason and David Coburn MEP.
The event will take place on
Monday 4th September
The Institute of Mechanical Engineers
Napier Room
1 Birdcage Walk
Westminster SW1H 9JJ
Start time 10.00.
All three team members will have senior roles in the party should Collins secure the support of the membership with Mr Walker confirmed as Chairman.
They bring with them their support base and their backers to bring a new edge to the contest which has been cited as the most important election UKIP has ever faced.
Jane Collins said:
“I am humbled that Ben Walker, Marion Mason and David Coburn have withdrawn from the contest for UKIP leader to join me in a team which will drive forward the libertarian agenda and make UKIP a winning party once again,” said Ms Collins.
“I am sure many of their supporters will have questions to ask and want reassurance that the candidate they supported for leader will have a senior role in any party I lead in order to bring about their pledges particularly on direction and reform.
“Having been involved in UKIP since 1998 I am not prepared to see it turned into an extreme pressure group or have the democratic structures which give the grass roots a real say in the party eroded by the new – and hopefully temporary ‘ ‘UKIP establishment’.
“We want our country back and we want our party back.”
This event will be streamed live and can be watched on Ben Walker’s Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/BenWalker4Leader/
Press Release from Team ‘UKIP United’ after their Press conference
UKIP MEP Jane Collins issued a rallying cry to party members as she told a press conference in London today “I want my party back”.
It is probably good to have an MEP as leader, but more important to have the right person in the job.
“ensure the party remains true to its libertarian roots”
Translation: “ensure the party turns a blind eye to Islam”
There is nothing libertarian about enabling a regressive, authoritarian political creed take hold in the UK.
First we plan our presentation.
Then we set up the camera to frame the speakers artistically.
We have each speaker taking a slightly different approach which dovetails to produce a clear and exciting vision,
giving the audience a clear idea of the Party’s aims…
Oh,well, I can dream.
I do remember something about getting leaflets on doormats and some people are working against the party, and Jane can’t tap dance, and religion is bad, and Jane wants our country back.
Did I miss something?
How does Jane Collins and her ilk get to become MEPs. It baffles me that they get selected in the first place.
As a long standing member who has shown no interested in the running of the party, until AMW turned up. I am pretty annoyed that ukip has selected halfwits to represent me and other members.
If AMW doesn’t win this contest then I’m off.
It is easy to criticise several of the candidates, and I have done so myself, but I think we should remember that they are devoting a lot of their time and presumably giving their best in very challenging circumstances.
The very fact that each candidate has committed to offering themselves for this thankless (and unpaid) task is at least worthy of our respect and gratitude, I think.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget what they have to go through, and I know I am sometimes guilty of this myself.
wake up Grummy please, we are contemplating the Leaders role for a major political Party, not some 5th formers representative committee.
What I saw happening this morning was nothing short of an embarrassing joke.
Don’t worry too much Jeff, hardly anyone saw it and the press haven’t covered it … ; )
….worry is something I rarely do 🙂
I reckon every UKIP member would do well to watch as much of it as they dare ( btw I could only stomach 90 % of it ! )
Well said Grummy.
Watching Jane Collins being a leader with a very small “l”, I wonder why that particular group didn’t opt for Ben Walker as the leader with a slightly bigger impact.
Having now attended numerous hustings and spoken to many members, here – for what it’s worth – are my predictions of the result:
AMW
PW
DC
HB
JRE
AC
AP
I wonder what odds I could get on that?
Sorry – I meant JC of course, not AC.
Defrauding the UKIP Membership of their democratic rights is the hallmark of David Coburn MEP who has been a complete & utter failure in Scotland, thanks to running Scotland in antidemocratic special measures, stitching up UKIP’s Scottish Parliament election lists and worst of all employing a sex offender called “Wristy” – The chief of rubbing his staff!
Any management or leadership team with that imbecile in it is a discredited fraud that will only be about corruption and nepotism.
I attempted to watch all of the video of “UKIP United’s” ! so called Press Conference, but have to admit I had to fast forward on a few occasions as it simply was so boring!
Jane Collins, you may be lots of things, but leader and motivational speaker of a political Party you ain’t ! I urge people to spend some time watching this lamentable performance. For me it sums up the poor position UKIP is in today and, not that I needed it, re-confirms why I believe the only person with the skills and frankly, intellect, to lead us forward is Anne Marie Waters.
From the video it appears that there were no press at the press conference.
If there were, they did not ask any questions.
FRAUD, FRAUD, FRAUD and FRAUD again.
I hereby call on Collins, Walker, Mason and Coburn to withdraw, or to be disqualified, from the leadership contest, for attempting to conspire together, and to cheat and to defraud all UKIP voters.
They well know that none of them will win the election and so they have decided to gang up and to try to win by fraudulent means.
What gives them the right to manipulate the vote!
Stand on your own two feet or get out!!
Alternatively, all the other contestants must come together as a single manaagement group and to conspire to overcome them.
This is attempted fraud and the four of them should be kicked out of the contest.
Just watched this live-streamed on facebook. It’s now available on Ben Walker’s facebook page.
I would encourage anybody thinking of voting for Jane Collins to take 20 minutes to watch this Press Conference. I suspect that afterwards you will wish to consider alternative candidates for the leadership.
Jane, by her own admission, has no charisma and cannot carry a room. She hopes that being a down-to-earth Yorkshire “lass” who offers “what you see is what you get” directness will compensate for the lack of box-office appeal.
In my opinion, very few people would be attracted to the party if she were in charge.
WAKEY WAKEY ROB MCWHIRTER!!
As you have a hotline to Jane Collins could you please telephone her and ask her to respond to the issue of criminal threats and extortion racketeering by the gang of criminals calling itself Antifa who forced the cancellation of Sheffield YI conference. Have the police been contacted yet? What measures are UKIP putting in place for the safety and security of ukip members ( and indeed the ordinary public) to prevent bedlam in Torquay? Why is this not a top priority for UKIP HQ and especially for temporary leader S. Crowther esq?
Having studied the videos and mesages of Martin Sellner of Austria ( I am fluent in German)who was the invited cuest of YI my feelings are that he is not a nazi but a patriotic nationalist who opposes the criminal gangs behind the migrant invasion of the EU. This is of legitimate concern to all British people and the cancellation of a legal meeting due to criminal threats is unacceptable. What is Jane doing about it?
If I held office in UKIP I would be raising Cain about all this ( pun intended).
Holding paid office in a political party eg MEP carries with it certain obligations. You become a public figure with a public profile and you speak for the party ( and your silence can be interpreted as aprobation of the status quo). An MEP is very well recompensed for the public profile and open forum they thus find themselves in.
If an MEP cannot do their job well what hope do we have of their role as leader?
I agree, CK – why isn’t EVERY SINGLE MEP, AM, LAM our Chairman and interim Leader out there calling press conferences calling police and raising merry hell?
Dear Jane Collins and team,
Please advise on what actions you have taken on the criminal activities that led to the cancellation of the YI conference? This is more than a serious matter that the police should now be investigating are they?
I am trying to find a betting shop that will take my bet – I bet that poundland will get less than 50 votes ( which will mean that each vote has ‘cost him’ at least £100).
Meanwhile the campaign continues in the doldrums.
Neither Kurten’s campaign today nor that of Collins has mentioned anything about the criminal gang that had the YI Sheffield meeting at Hilton Hotel cancelled due to threats of violence. This is a major issue and deserves the whole of UKIP to stand up and be counted. If only to stop disruption of the Torquay conference.
Crowther are you awake yet?
Does UKIP really need an MEP as leader?