A UKIP POSTER TRUCK RIGHT UP KEN CLARKE’S AND ANNA SOUBRY’S BACKSIDES…
Ten good, patriotic, fighting UKIP stalwarts put their hands in their pockets to fund another poster truck on Monday 23rd July, aimed squarely at Ken Clarke’s and Anna Soubry’s constituents in Nottingham. Philip James, Chairman of Gedling branch, manned the truck in the morning and in the afternoon Fran Loi took over. He directed the poster truck onto busy junctions, high streets and outside council offices.
We tipped off the local media and BBC East Midlands invited Fran into the studios, to make UKIP’s case for Brexit and answer our accusation of BBC bias. Fran said:
‘It went well, they grilled me about our poster saying ‘the BBC’s in bed with Brussels’. The interviewer said ‘that’s a lie, we’re regulated to be impartial’. Clearly they have a sense of humour! But I said what I wanted to say, that Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire overwhelmingly voted to leave well above the national trend. Categorically it is a leave county – one of the presenters grimaced when I said that, more bias! I gave a positive view of UKIP being the guardians of this country’s sovereignty and democracy and this poster van was a public reminder to the remain voting MPs and the leave voting public that UKIP are here to ensure we get what they voted for. The response we received was fantastic!’
“BBC Report”
We have run this poster truck on a few occasions now, it was particularly effective in London on the weekend celebrating 2 years since the referendum, see HERE. It has also been run at no cost to UKIP HQ; it’s funded by grassroots Kippers. We’ve had donations from many people who love to see UKIP doing something punchy and pro-active. Donations have ranged from £10 to £1000. If you’d like to contribute, please drop me a line here: june23rd2016@gmail.com
UKIP NEWS MUST BE REGULAR…
I’ve repeatedly talked about the importance of an end-of-week update/newsletter, we’re getting some now but they need to be regular, every week.
We all get important and interesting things in our inboxes from from individual, grass roots Kippers and others working from home, far more than from anyone official in UKIP. Last week someone sent out the statement from the Government about the 170,000 signature ‘referendum on abolishing the House of Lords’ being rejected. There is more than enough news for a weekly newsletter.
INDIAN TAMPON TAX OR EU TYRANNY – WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT?
Last week a most important video on the staggering evils of the EU was published by ‘Black Pigeon’. We need to get this out fast before it’s taken down by acolytes of the EU. Black Pigeon has 365,000 subscribers to his stunning video channel. (Note: UKIP has 11,000 subscribers to its dismal channel). In a matter of days, this video has had 120,000 hits.
THE VIDEO BRITAIN NEEDS TO SEE: Dysfunctional & Disunited: The Coming CRASH of the EU
Now we cannot possibly make powerful videos like this. UKIP videos have always been amateurish so it is madness not to grab this gift. I alerted everyone from Gerard down…but so far I’ve seen nothing other than Margot Parker on the front of our national website, wittering on about a tax reduction on India’s sanitary products! Is this some sort of joke? More of the same old ‘unseen hand’ sabotage? Who is choosing what goes on our front page?
See HERE, I’m not making this up.
Talking of video… the Brexit and Tommy protests recently were quite poorly filmed. We need to learn that ‘the medium is the message’ and that hand-held filming with bad sound destroys the important message. Surely we can find people in UKIP to do good filming and editing, so that we have our own videos?
WE NEED TO LOOK LIKE A TEAM, RIGHT NOW
Britain is screaming out for a professional, competent party on the right, for Brexit, for law and Order, for border security and more. We could be that party, easily, but we need to function like a national party, not a local party. That means good spokesmen in key positions so that we look like a party in waiting, not a one man band. We need an Economics Spokesman now. We need a Spokesman on Immigration now. We need a Spokesman on Law and Order now. We need Spokesmen on the NHS, Education, Transport, Foreign Aid etc etc now, not in three months time. I’ve said all this before too HERE and everyone agrees, so why isn’t it happening?
We have more poster truck days booked soon, I won’t say where, we don’t like to tell the enemy we’re coming but if you would like details or would like to contribute to this unique PR effort, here’s my email address again: june23rd2016@gmail.com
We certainly need national spokesmen on all main policy areas
lol ! We’ll certainly co-operate having this buzzing around Soubry, and a few others…
Looking closely at the poster:
I found I kept looking for something in the drawings of the three EU puppets – but it was missing. All three were missing.
Can’t quite put my finger on it (don’t want to put my finger on it, too). What was it that’s not there, Russell?
By any chance, is the gent this was modelled on the well-known Mr Nuch and his two twins?
Given the relationship between the EU and Mr NUCH, that might explain the visual anomaly…
Those EU puppets look like Oily Robbins.
Ha! Don’t they just!
> look like Oily Robbins
Note it was the UKIP Gedling Branch (Notts) who used Russell’s van/poster.
It must be the heat, ‘cos when I first read it, I read “Gelding”. The inadvertent word association may have been caused by –
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/heywood-among-senior-figures-back-olly-robbins-after-briefings-against-civil-service
How about making them string puppets. Who ‘s really pulling the strings?
It’s probably a bit subtle but if you look at the cufflinks of the puppet operators, you’ll see the nasty gold stars! Strings might be better!
Dear Russell,
We, in the South East, admire what you are doing.
— Your newspapers are punchy and pictorial. We would love you to commit to do more.
— Your A-frame trucks are much more effective than static billboards.
Concerning the management of UKIP Central …. in the South East we have adopted the idea: “don’t shout at UKIP Central — instead get on with some things”.
Regards, Toby, 01932-873557
Thanks Toby, I’ve always been willing to do more newspapers but to do something REALLY good requires the support and cooperation of the UKIP hierarchy (severely lacking) AND VITALLY commitment from the hierarchy to support a credible distribution plan. I have seen too much grandstanding by senior Kippers in the past over newspapers, only to see oceans of money wasted on thousands of newspapers that end up in a skip. The 200,000 I had printed a few years ago were ALL delivered.
On shouting at ‘UKIP Central’ we really cannot go on with a dysfunctional, incompetent centre, it’s madness for odd branches to ‘do their own thing’, there must be a proper, coordinated, realistic communications plan.
I’d like to know who sanctioned the ‘Indian tampon tax’ posting on the National Website…this will identify a saboteur or complete idiot.
Dear Russell,
You mention “commitment from the hierarchy to support a credible distribution plan”.
I am happy to report that this commitment seems to be in place.
On 27 June 2018 there was a meeting of Regional Chairmen and Tony McIntyre encouraged us in the South East to offer our newspaper to all regions.
The pdf of the newspaper will go to all regions on 13.8.2018 and regions will instruct the printer about any changes they want in their regional editions by 20.8.2018. Printing for all regions (if they adhere to the timetable) will be on 27.8.2018 all on the same machine, same pagination, same size and thickness.
Orders will ultimately come from branches and will depend on what activists agree to deliver. Each branch will have to pay for supplies.
The limiting factor will be legs, NOT money.
If you will agree to produce a Spring 2019 newspaper, that distribution plan will be available for your paper. The plan has the support of Tony McIntyre and Sebastian Fairweather.
I am encouraging people NOT to guess how many papers to order, but to ask the activists what they can deliver (during Sep-Nov) and add the figures up. That way we should NOT be binning many copies.
Regards, Toby, 01932-873557
Thanks Toby, that sounds MUCH better! One vital detail that you have heard me say before, it is ESSENTIAL to print newspapers on decent paper and not chip paper. The quality of the paper used in newspapers and leaflets is hugely important, the medium is the message, ‘advice’ from UKIP’s usual printers is wrong. If UKIP push out cheap newspapers, it gives a cheap impression. The message is damaged. Can we be assured we won’t keep making that basic mistake over and over again? My first newspaper impressed a wealthy reader so much that he sent us a cheque for £5000, that paid for another 100,000 if I remember correctly…all on bright white paper.
Dear Russell,
You say “decent paper and not chip paper”.
For a 4 page newspaper, you may well be right.
For an 8-pager, on your costings, the cost seems to be 10p each.
We are selling our 8-page newspaper (on chip paper) to the branches for 4p.
So, I think we are both right!
Regards, Toby, 01932-873557
I am very curious. If the party does not have any published policies or spokesmen appointed (as seems to be the case at the moment according to the website) then how can you be sure that anything written in the newspaper is consistent with party policy? Will Gawain Towler review it? Someone should be reviewing it from the centre or else our messaging will be all over the place across different media. How do you know what you say in the newspaper is consistent with Gerard’s announcements and social media? Frankly this is just another example of the utter incompetence of the party management. You may well be well meaning Toby, but you are actually just perpetuating the problem and also wasting your time.
This is the big problem when there’s no manifesto, MEPs fighting like rats in a sack or invisible and no spokesmen/women who can sit together in a cool room, make decisions and have a consistent message.
An eight page newspaper? This is madness, we’ve been through this before, most people just won’t read that much. We all massively over-estimate how much people read these days. Far more important with a UKIP newspaper is the overall tone and overall look. Even a four pager contains far more than most people will read or absorb. Political communication is all about positive impressions and first impressions; that’s layout, happy smiling faces, bold, optimistic ‘better future’ images and things that make people laugh. It’s 95% layout/images 5% text. Daily paper sales have fallen off a cliff because people are just too busy/bombarded with media to read lengthy scrolls, the only time people read a paper is on a train or in a retirement home. Twitter has boomed because texts are a dozen or so words.
Russell, totally agree with you here. One of our past candidates insisted in producing a 10 page newspaper to be put through each letterbox on the ward where he was standing. The rest of us wanted him to adopt a simple leaflet with bullet points, but he wouldn’t have it. If an election document cannot be read within 20 seconds max, then forget it. Newspapers will be dumped in the green recycling bin without so much as a cursory glance. By the way, our candidate polled the least amount of votes.
There are subtleties of course, when people ‘read’ a newspaper, they don’t really, they scan headlines/photos, read the text that interests them but the text is a visual tool in itself, it needs to be there to suggest something detailed, like all the small print on products, few read it.
Excellent stirring stuff from Russell. I had viewed the Black Pigeon article earlier and agree it is so professionally produced and much better than anything we have produced or likely to produce. In the short term I consider that we do not have the manpower or in-house talent to match material like this. In that case ,it may be logical to buy the material or ask talented people like Black Pigeon if we can use their material.
As for the urgent need to appoint spokespersons we cannot buy that in and thus it may be necessary to appeal for active members with expertise to come forward and take up the baton,.
Jake, the point is the party does not know what manpower or in-house talent is has because it never asks, the reason it never asks is that the people at the centre DO NOT WISH TO SHARE THEIR POWER, when is this going to get through to ordinary kippers? Do you really think that incompetence would go on and on forever if it wasn’t for the fact that some people want it that way? This isn’t incompetence.
Tacitus Rightly or wrongly, I have to admit I am labouring under the illusion that what we have is more cock-up than conspiracy but I dearly want it to change. I concur with you that talent must be identified and given its head.
Even Gerard leaves open the possibility of sabotage, its just that he can’t prove it.
Thanks Jake. We don’t need Black Pigeon ‘s permission to post that video front and centre on our website and also email it to all members. I could do that job in 2 minutes. but it will take HQ twenty hour long meetings to make a decision, by which time it would have been taken down/buried by YouTube/the EU/Soros/same thing.
Spokesmen? UKIP is full of really good people but the good ones are walking away in frustration as I write this. Every day of delay sees golden opportunities pass us by. What sort of political party doesn’t have an Economics Spokesman/Shadow Chancellor, or Shadow Home Secretary/Spokesman on Crime or Spokesman on Immigration…at a time of staggering national debt, ballooning crime, out of control immigration??
What sort of party doesn’t have those people?
A one-issue party which lied to its membership, telling them they were going to: Change The Face Of British Politics, because otherwise no-one would listen to them if they said they literally only wanted to get out of the EU.
THAT sort of party Russell.
Then we have to fight to change it Rob.
HQ heard my plea about the irrelevance of tax on Indian tampons to UKIP’s core concerns, it’s off the front page now.
Very well done, Russell. I think the bus should keep touring and I’m happy to put in another few quid.
On the subject of weekly statements – yes, they must be regular. Leave.eu sends us one every Friday. It is always good, though somewhat depressing. UKIP should do the same.
For youtube videos, why don’t we commission Paul Joseph Watson or Sargon or Mark Meecham (Count Dankula) to do one for us. We could suggest a subject, give them some soundbites and set them off to add their characteristic flourish. These guys must be made as welcome as possible at UKIP and they need to familiarise themselves with UKIP and what we are about.
In fact, if UKIP HQ can’t do this, then us members can contact them. I’m in.
Thanks Geoff. That’s a good common sense suggestion, particularly the one about ‘doing it ourselves’. That’s how I’ve always got around the UTTER MUPPETS blocking UKIP’s progress, I just get on with things and leave them sucking their thumbs. No one ever asked me to do newspapers or poster trucks, I just grasped the nettle. Of course the wreckers in UKIP tried to stop me, I know who they are and will expose them in style in due course.
Russell, you are doing a fantastic job along with those other members in Nottingham. But with the silence from above, do you ever feel you are being played by The Powers That Be in UKIP???? The things you are doing are so self-evidently great that you would think TPTB would be shouting about them, encouraging others, etc….. but instead I am pretty sure you will be getting the cold shoulder. There is something very rotten in the state of Denmark that seems to outlive any party leader.
After all these years I’m still not sure how much of UKIP’s failures are cock ups or conspiracy. Maybe Rob McWhirter could help us on that conundrum. But things are coming to a head, we are starting to see now who the incompetents are, fiddling while UKIP burns and Britain along with it.
The BBC plays a tricky game. Whilst officially and editorially its meant to be impartial ( a duty overseen by the newly formed -2017- BBC Board ) in reality it wages proxy wars.
Here’s how its done. Influencers like Gary Lineker- the ex England captain, much loved in the main by a generation of football fans, are NOT free to give their political views whilst on their show, but on social media , where he has a massive following too, his anti- Brexit stance and politics are very well known. But does that breach the BBC code…. No.
The same goes for James O’Brien of LBC fame. An infamous UKIP hater, who makes no bones about it, and probably the most able of all Remoaner journalists, has often been a guest Newsnight presenter. But that does not breach the BBC code, because he does not go over the top on Newsnight. I can go on. I would however challenge anyone to identify any bias with say Andrew Neil or any of the really top-notch journalists at the corporation.
Question Time is another one that raises hackles. Dimbleby is one of the top-notch journalists, but his producer APPEARS to favour the selection of audiences that show a strong leftish bias. Having researched this, its easy to get past the junior researchers/production assistants (who may or may not be biased ) who allocate seats, and many a time its possible to see the same old faces in the audiences, invariably of the left. But does this break the BBC code? …. Well no…
UKIPs policy on the BBC ( and MBGA’s ) is to ‘scrap the licence fee’ . There are many many reasons why that is not a good idea but thats too much for me to go into now. A better policy would be to pressure for a cross-party Select Committee to investigate ‘bias by proxy’ and to stamp it out.
Antagonists like Lineker are dangerous to democracy and do not play to the spirit of the relationship that should exist between the BBC and the public. We know it and the BBC know it. We need change.
Very well said Mr Bav. I’m working on a cunning plan to fight back. Watch this space.
Big ears earns £1.75 million to spread anti-Brexit hatred.
Lineker in England kit = Good for England.
Lineker in EU kit = Bad for Britons.
12,000 Brexiters pay Linekers £1.75 million BBC wage. Can we have our money back.
Lineker or 70 nurses. You decide.
Lineker in EU kit shooting a ball and missing a Union Flag goal filled with positive Brexit messages………….Lineker misses open goal.
‘Lineker or 70 nurses’ that’s a great line.
Even one extra roadsweeper working part time cleaning the footpaths with a toothbrush is better value for money than Gary Lineker boring the pants off everybody with his unwanted political views. He is worth no more £5500.00 per annum, and even that would be too much. Far too many hangers on in the BBC. Time for that out of date institution to be abolished in my opinion
Clarification.
I should have added that James O’Brien self- censored and removed himself from the Newsnight lineup as he was not prepared to tone down his style. Credit to him for his honesty and professionalism. He is of course perfectly justified to express his views on LBC (Global) . Global’s policy is to balance the styles of its broadcasters rather than the programme content ( for example Nigel Farage gets a slot, and O’Brien gets a slot ) Its fair.
What is not fair is the campaign- led by Owen Jones- to pester advertisers to withdraw from LBC if LBC does not remove Nigel from the airwaves ( to swing the balance to the far left and Remain ) It was a similar effort that led to the demise of K T Hopkins from LBC. Watch out for this.
Is it beyond the realms of possibility that O’Brien is simply acting?
His on-air juggling and verbal ripostes suggest he is highly intelligent.
No one that intelligent can possibly genuinely own the odious, disgraceful and often idiotic views he so ruthlessly defends and promotes.
In 2014, my branch asked me to take on O’Brien on his call-in show. I declined. The playing field there isn’t even remotely level. I am willing to take on O’Brien one-on-one any time, any place in an open auditorium, in freestyle debate subject only to “parliamentary language” rules.
There is no way on earth he would accept. As I said, he’s not stupid.
He is pure evil and knows how to cheat, lie, whine and grovel for Marx. He said recently ‘capitalism only works for people with capital’ the sort of lefty slogan that appeals to people with the IQ of tinsel but that doesn’t stand up to calm debate for 30 seconds.
I’m amazed that private companies advertise in the Guardian which is fundamentally an anti-capitalist/communist newspaper. Of course it’s kept afloat by the endless comedy ads for ‘staff’ for the BBC and other Publicly funded bodies that wouldn’t last a week in the grown up commercial world.
You need to stop paying the license fee. Unplug the aerial, delete the iplayer app, nothing they can do. Watch Netflix, Prime or you can watch all ITV, channel 4, 5, UKTV through the apps and BBC radio and news website don’t need the license. Stop giving them your money!!!!
Mr Bav A cross party Select Committee investigation into ‘proxy bias’ is a good idean but really and truthfully the BBC is an anachronism even Paxman says that its licensed fee system is outdated.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scrap-bbcs-prehistoric-licence-fee-says-jeremy-paxman-vb2z05p96
I am particularly troubled by the Regional BBC political influence at the expense of regional independent press and radio.
I would support removing the licence fee and let it sink or swim.
The BBC is more than biased it is institutionally biased.
I need to put together an article about the BBC / the licence fee issue and so on. I’ll try and publish here in the next few days
K
Mr Bav, here’s a ton of material for you: http://news-watch.co.uk/
Mr Bav,
Any institution loved by so many millions would be able to Crowdfund their continued operation.
Or;
BBC viewers could be shareholders.
Or;
the BBC produces 2-5ish minutes per hour to advertise their own goods. That’s two hours per day for 24 hour channels that could be sold to their globalist mates.
Or;
Can the BBC achieve impartiality politically by removing politics from all channels except BBC News and BBC Parliament.
Or;
Allow BBC Sports to attract subscribers to a sports only channel.
Or;
No BBC employee can earn more than the Prime Minister while the BBC is funded by state enforcement.
As you may have guessed, the BBC liberals get right on my tits.
or:
release the BBC to thrive in the open market or PFI
or:
failure to pay the fines for not paying the tv license led to imprisonment for a lot of people over the years and too many of these have been financially poor mothers who stay at home more, so while the BBC luvvies drone on about how caring they are with their women’s hour and so on the bbc fat cats and bbc top earners sit on a pile of historically terrorising the most vulnerable women in society. Where was their hashtag.
0r: last five3 years or so none imprisoned in Scotland but dozens imprisoned in England and Wales
prison by post code
or: BBC tv licensing clogging up the courts with 180,000 prosecutions each year leading to criminal convictions to fund top paid TV hosts
or:
BBC tv licensing criminalising women over men 70% – 75% of criminal convictions were for women
or: when there was a public outcry over BBC top earners receiving too much the BBC neatly flipped that into a debate about wage disparity between female presenters and male presenters.
or:
1993 845 jailed for non payment of TV license fine
Regarding more women being prosecuted than men. Probably more women answer the door to the BBC man than the menfolk.. The BBC cannot prosecute anyone unless they establish the householders name at the door and admit they are watching an unlicensed TV.
There, I’ve gone and given the game away!!!!!!!!
I totally agree Jake.
The BBC’s liberal managers and programme makers have supported “sink or swim” for the rest of us. being cheerleaders for globalist ideals of mass movement of sweat shop labour to reduce wages and working conditions.
The liberals are the wealthiest in the country. Let them pay for their plaything or Crowdfund it.
Start paddling boys and girls.
“….. Regional BBC political influence at the expense of regional independent press and radio.”
This is a good point to make, the BBC is almost running a monopoly regionally.
Plus they have used their bulk size to ensure that a lot of internet searches for news items leads to the BBC output.
The BBC appear far too often at the top of search results.
Also is there not a dimension where they have a highly profitable non UK service which does not benefit UK license payers.
Lineker having influence, are you being serious. He is the most boring one dimensional presenter on TV. Yes, at one time he was a good footballer, but apart from that he is a vastly overpaid football hack. Seriously not interested in anything he has to say on a football match which has been seen by everybody else watching, or anything else that cones out of his mouth. Still, it beats working for a living. Nice to know our licence fees handed to the BBC on a plate is well spent (not).
Gary Lineker has 7,120,000 followers on Twitter . Gerard Batten has 28,600.
You do the math….