| Dear Members,
I am happy to announce that the new ukip.org website is live and available to view.
The concept behind the new website is to project UKIP’s message to a broad audience, through easily sharable news items, videos, and imagery.
I hope that you will agree with me that we have achieved our aim in realising this concept in the first phase of development?
The design of the new website also allows for the continued addition of features new to our party.
New features in the works include an interactive policy section that will highlight UKIP’s rewritten manifesto pledges; a new members area that will incorporate campaigning tools for candidates; and a web app to help promote our branches nationwide.
However, I have to ask for a little more patience as we continue to develop the new site.
I would also like to add a note of thanks to my deputy leader, Mike Hookem, who kindly donated the funds to make the new website possible. Through Mike’s kindness, the party has been able to release funds for other purposes that were previously committed to this area.
On another note, please also accept my apologies for the broken link to the new polling data in my last members’ update. Here is the correct link.
Kind regards
Gerard Batten |
I wonder if Rob Mcwhirter and his technical committee did the website, or were they by-passed? As something got accomplished I assume they were by-passed.
Thank you Gerard and also a thank you to Mike for donating the funds for the website, communications are looking up.
There is a big enemy out there namely our own Government who have effectively made any vote worthless and proved the democratic process is an illusion.
The finer detail of our website can be addressed and achieved, we pressingly need a united front with a tangible, visual actions and pressure to drop Mays deed of capitulation.
Can any contributors provide any light on any actions planned by leave EU? they keep asking for donations to ensure Brexit and have a large data base of anti EU voters myself included but no tangible campaign?
The last i heard from Leave.eu was Aaron Banks advising us to join the Tories to keep their Brexit deal honest. Larf out loud……smiley face.
That worked well. Fold your own party to prop up the enemy.
It’s even worse than that…
Well done Gerard, definitelt a step up from the old one. I like the videas. However I still prefer the UKIp-D, which is seriously entertaining with the many many refreshing and often brilliant views. Where as the org is still a bit more of the same. For example ……What will happen at the cliff edge ?…..Answer nothing .!…. The Govt still gets its taxes, pays its bills, Our industries carry on and maybe put the odd item into stock instead of sending it to Germany it can go to Australia etc.HOWEVER… The Civil Service will be in uproar! They rely on regulations and such. Sod em. They do not matter for a montha or two. And the gov’t dare not withold their pay. Teachers and police will do the headless chicken thing but settle down when they realise nothing has happened.
or something similar
Thanks for the plug t.g. 🙂
So PJW is not Alt-Right because the Alt-Right believes in the Ethno-State. I wonder what he thinks of these words of Benjamin Disraeli :
“All is race; there is no other truth, and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.”
There’s only one race, the human race.
Everything else is just jostling for position using multiculturalism to divide and rule us.
What do you make of talking gorillas ?
Well Peter, it’s a good job for us, that Winston Churchill’s parents, mixed some of their blood .
Sorry, explanation…
Churchill’s American mother was believed to have a great grandmother with Iroquois [native Indian] blood.
Nice to see UKIP starting our new website on strong Brexit foundations.
It’s the one and only subject that will attract all 17.4 million Brexit supporters.
Hope to see other UKIP elected representatives, including NEC winners, introduce themselves with a shortisn cv of their political beliefs.
The more people we see speaking up, the more people will have confidence to join in.
“Mike’s kindness” ! Laughable. This is the same Mike that resigned the party whip in August 2017 in protest over the NEC’s decision to allow Anne Marie Waters to stand in the leadership election thus contributing to the publicising of internal party disputes. It’s the same Mike who rose to Woolfe’s challenge to a fight. Such judgement, such dignity, the perfect deputy leader. And, we now learn, so kind!
Funding a few quid for a new website does not approach the sum needed for atonement.
Hookem gave a quote to The Times (12 Aug 2017): “I strongly disagree with the views of Ms Waters and Mr Agnew,” Mr Hookem said, “and I would like to put as much distance between me and them as possible.”
Waters has gone but Mr Agnew is still in the party (and a generous contributor to it but no mention of his
kindness'). I wonder how thedistance’ is going? Hookem happy to publicly criticise a fellow MEP and respected party representative. Not very “kind” one might think.We had a vote and AMW lost. She lost when she tried to be a Labour candidate too
All that flouncing off and taking activists away because other views are more prominent did us no favours.
AMW is over there now. Putting up candidates to split the pro-British vote.
I always thought she was a wrong-un. Turns up from nowhere, thinks she can be leader with no experience and then leaves us with half our support.
Just because I’m a conspiracy theorist doesn’t mean that AMW wasn’t sent to break us.
AMW was not sent to break us.
But others have been, post-Referendum, and several of their agents had applied to stand for the NEC to prepare the way for a second attempt to “disappear” UKIP. They thought they’d done it the first time.
Labour agent-provocateurs are easy to spot. They tend to be thick, crude and manage to give themselves away as soon as they achieve some position in party hierarchy. In London we get a steady supply; easy to foil.
But Conservative double agents are much more subtle and can be impossible to spot until they move.
They want to fold UKIP, deliver it in a pine box to their masters.
Would I speculate that the price for folding UKIP will be gongs for bad lads?
Of course I wouldn’t.
But I’m on to them, and I will not let go.
I wouldn’t trust Hookem as far as Woolfe could punch him.
I do not care they’re both brexiteers and useful with some gravitas. and I wouldn’t decry help from AMW either. The fact that they can do it, and have taken people way from us, shows us up and proves they can do it.
You should care if AMW’s 5% is shaved off of UKIP’s 25% and we all lose out.
Best thing AMW should do is wind her neck in, concentrate on Brexit and encourage her supporters to unite with UKIP.
I have made numerous overtures. They have been rebuffed, politely except here on UKIPDaily.
UKIP banned thousands of decent folk from joining because they were in other parties UKIP made a big thing out of repudiating. They constitute a lot of AMW’s supporters and are not allowed to unite with UKIP as Bryan recommends. If you want unity drop the outdated ban. This is a campaign for national survival not the Lords members area with a dress code.
As someone said at yesterday’s rally, if they want to call us all far-right let them get on with it. That’s their notion. Issuing denials is pointless and just makes you look defensive and constantly on the back foot. You end up lured into fighting on ground of their choosing not yours. I could go on about Agincourt … again.
UKIP should not be asking members who they supported in the past as freedom of political expression is as important as freedom of speech.
The proviso is that all members sign a good conduct pledge on joining. You can’t have maniacs using the UKIP logo.
Obviously, UKIP are not responsible for member’s personal views. If they continually cross a red line of decency, politeness or criminality their membership can be cancelled by Branch Chairs.
After signing the good conduct pledge anyone posting mad content can be outed as not-UKIP and as LibLabCon saboteurs.
UKIP spokesmen should not be offering quick judgements when journalists attempt to demonise member’s comments.
The LibLabCon allow allcomers to join and are arrogant enough to stick with their decision.
“We were aware of Margaret’s past and we questioned her at length. We had no doubt at all that her misdemeanours of 20 or 30 years ago were serious matters but I do not believe that somebody should be punished or penalised for what they did such a long time ago.”
https://order-order.com/2018/03/30/corbyn-campaigned-ex-nazi-councillors-ward-yesterday/
Why are UKIP so frit when the LibLabCon are so blatant ?
Of course Bryan it’s incumbent on any member from anywhere not to bring disrepute. The reason why UKIP is frit is because of its dreadful Achilles heel. Wanting to bring radical change while remaining ‘respectable’ in the eyes of the system. An impossible contradiction which leads to dancing to the tune of the MSM as they grin evilly. Thankfully the Overton window has shifted and the ability of the MSM to demonise is faltering.
A Big Bad Book of LibLabCon Nutcases should be carried by all UK reps.
Whenever a journo asks why an ex-Tory, now UKIP member blames floods on gays ask why journalists never ask LibDem reps about the LibDems councillor that planted bombs in his Welsh town.
Once UKIP reps start reminding biased journalists that Labour Councillors gave character references to peadophile rapists and that a Tory Councillor is being questioned over 500 gifts received from property developers meeting his planning department, the msm will stop their tactic.
Seconded and good comment! Be objective and focus on what really matters. Winning against the LibLabCon Party and MSM.
I think you’ll find it was Hookem – an ex Marine – who did the punching. Woolfe minced and posed for that ridiculous photo laid out on the floor.
Well, its an improvement, if not quite yet the finished article! Well done all involved, looking forward to seeing further developments.
On that note, I hope we have people in place who are able to manage and update the site on a regular basis.
Yes it is an improvement but there is still a lot of work to be done, the Home page in particular needs attention. No less than EIGHT videos on the Home page three of which are repeated on the same page! As to the Breaking News running banner that is just bad practice and needs to go.
The webmaster who designed the South West websites studied the psychology of how people look at websites and one of his his main objectives was to keep Home pages as scroll free as possible otherwise people lose interest. This can easily be achieved by cutting out the large full screen video of Gerard and by using smaller picture links to the Video page, the picture links under Local News are fine.
There could be some improvement on the About and Campaign pages but these are minor compared to the Home page.
Thank God for that! Judged by its web site, for years UKIP seemed to regard social media as an insignificant sideline to political campaigning requiring a token presence. The site looked like self-sabotage to me – if not worse.
Well done a good modern web-site, and a reply this morning to the emailed ‘wish list’ Now come out of the shadows and start ramming home the facts of what this prime example of how not to negotiate P.M.T is actually doing. What’s with all these political women ‘leaders’ wearing white jackets too, is it some sort of message?