In the thought that you would be interested here’s my take on the Bath promo-truck event which took place today [Ed: Saturday 29th September 2018]. There’s some good news and some really bad news to report. I don’t have Gerard Batten’s direct email address but I will DM him via Twitter as I think he should be aware.
This was a huge undertaking for UKIP Bath & North East Somerset Branch. We have never done anything as ambitious in the City of Bath before. We were very careful not to give it advance publicity, as we all recognised that Bath is “enemy” territory. By that, we thought the “enemy” meant LibDems and Bath for Europe, but not so – read on.
I met the truck outside the city centre at 9AM (as arranged). At the same time the team met in Kingsmead Square to set up the stall. There were around 30 kippers present from our own branch and from other local branches such as Yeovil, Wells, Somerton and Frome, Salisbury, Bristol, Stroud and others. Excellent turnout, and greatly appreciated.
The truck started off as arranged but the stall immediately encountered problems. There was a competing children’s event. Its organiser claimed he had exclusive use of Kingsmead Square and wanted us out. We faced offensive comments from his people like “how can UKIP be so insensitive as to put ourselves in front of children”. He threatened to call the police and council to remove us from the square.
We stood our ground and exhibited written permission from Bath & North East Somerset Council giving us permission to use the pitch and to play music. The police arrived, but quite rightly said it was not a police matter but a council matter. In the end (as the council offices were closed) we made peace with the other event organiser, and agreed to distance ourselves slightly from his area and to soften our music.
Despite this; sadly, one of the other event’s team (who apparently hated UKIP with venom) fired off like a loose cannon and tried to tape off our area to prevent anyone entering it. Although this raised tempers on our side, we spoke to the other event organiser who fortunately cooperated to remove his rogue team member from our area. At all times we urged our own members to take the line that we were not there to cause trouble.
Throughout the day we had more positive interest than we expected. Some new members signed up (pity they were from outside our own patch). We received a good donation, and people came up and talked sensibly about Brexit and other issues.
After this; a group of left-wing protestors turned up and positioned themselves right in front of our stall displaying a huge anti-Jacob Rees-Mogg banner. (We don’t know if they came because we were there or whether they would have come regardless). It mattered not one jot to them that Jacob is MP for North East Somerset and not MP for Bath!
Things got really out of hand around 2PM when we started to encounter trouble from punk-style anarchists. We expected opposition from the blue beret brigade or Bath LibDems, but we didn’t see either. We didn’t bargain for the sort of anarchist hatred we actually encountered.
One purple haired female (untypical of Bath) barged into our stand, grabbed large numbers of our leaflets and threw them into the waste bin. Although we had around 30 UKIP members present everyone went straight for the female, but when we turned round we found our UKIP flag and pop-up banners totally ruined and daubed with spray paint:
Obviously, the female was a (professional) distraction. We had to take them down, which was doubtless the intention. Nobody saw the paint sprayer and it all happened very quickly. This moment of anarchy caused around £115 of irreparable damage.
In view of the hostility we were encountering, Philip Evans, Branch Chairman gave everyone the chance to pack up early. I am pleased to say that not one Kipper agreed to move. To a “man”, (to coin a phrase) we all refused to be hounded out or to be silenced. Although some of our signage was wrecked, nobody was hurt and everyone present agreed to stand firm.
Things then took a turn for the worse.
Up to that time the truck had been circulating around Bath without problems, broadcasting our message of hope for an independent future, but not causing any trouble. However just after 2 PM the truck moved into our patch in Kingsmead Square, which is very narrow and partially closed off for the other event.
A group of anarchists then decided to stand in the road in front of the truck which hemmed it in. While it couldn’t move, the “paint sprayer” attacked both sides of the truck with his spray can, completely ruining both side panels. He sprayed offensive terms such as “racists” and “scum”.
Phil Evans took the decision to send the truck back to London, as we could not allow it to be seen again in that condition. Sadly, at this point we have to concede, that the anarchists won. They successfully shut down our costly event. Clearly, that was exactly what they intended. This high-profile event, made possible only by donations from generous UKIP members, was ruined at a stroke.
Even then, no Kippers would agree to close our table and we continued campaigning until our planned finishing time.
Philip Evans reported the criminal damage to the police and Phil holds an incident number. Brian Cooke has a video of the stall and a visual record of the damage. He also has a clear image of the perpetrator. This will be pursued. [Ed: we will publish the video of the stall and the damage as soon as we receive it.]
Our flags and banner can be replaced but we don’t know wat will happen regarding the truck. The panels definitely won’t be useable. We don’t know who owns them (we just rented them) or if they are insured. Can Russell Hicks comment on this?
Lessons to be learned for future events: don’t let the truck get hemmed in, keep it on the open road. Bath has narrow streets and lent itself to unexpected sabotage. Also, don’t take valuable material like pop-up banners on to street stalls. Use cheap, replaceable material like correx boards.
Brian Cooke said:
“Despite all the difficulties I think the day went really well and I like to think we made an impression today. ………. To think it has toured London & other places without incident and gets trashed in Bath! What does that say about the rabble from Bath”.
There may have been other incidents that I didn’t see or may have forgotten, but I have lived in Bath & North East Somerset for 30 years and always thought of Bath as a nice quiet City but have not seen anything like this happen before in the entire time I have lived here.
UKIP WILL OVERCOME IN BATH & NORTH EAST SOMERSET!
Best regards,
Steve Grimes, Branch Secretary, UKIP Bath & North East Somerset Branch
This article is basically a total lie.
You claimed elsewhere you had council permission. You didn’t.
The lorry did not have “positive messages” it was childish insults to politicians and people who want democracy.
Your lorry pulled over and illegally parked, there was no blockages.
No leaflet theft took place.
Your stall was staffed by aggressive people who told several provable lies.
The only truth was you brought idiots in from outside the area and you’re not welcome here because you lie.
Do you really have nothing???
I wonder how you would enjoy life under an Islamic government in the UK? No more drink, smoking or drugs under strict Sharia law. You would be permitted to beat your wife though. And keep sex slaves (as specified and allowed in the Koran). Are you OK with that? And are you OK with watching gays being thrown off the top of Bath Abbey?
Once we get out of the EU we regain our sovereignty. We will then have a chance, if democracy is permitted to operate correctly, to avert the Islamisation of the UK. If we remain in the EU then we will have no chance to do so. Because Islamophiles such as Angela Merkel are pushing that agenda.
You need to understand that you have a simple binary choice:
Either stay in the EU and accept Islam will be your master.
Or, exit the EU and have a chance to regain western values, human rights, equality for women, and one law for all (i.e. not Sharia law)
Which option do you prefer? There is no third option realistically available. Please get real.
What is hilarious is that you bothered to write that in response to my valid and truthful points.
You’re version of “Life in the EU” is nothing like the reality.
Under the ECHR (which is required for EU Membership, and was written by UK!) Article 9 we are guaranteed religious freedom, so your rant about Sharia law is completely IRRELEVANT and more likely to happen if we were to foolishly cast aside ECHR.
Still, don’t let facts get in the way of your silly strawman argument.
The European Convention on Human Rights does have some advantages over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In particular, the UDHR makes no provision for priority, (e.g. does gender have priority over religion – it does not say) whereas the ECHR does so.
Once we leave the EU the ECHR will not be suitable for the UK. Primarily because it is a muddled document. It has muddled together the fundamental principles, with a large amount of procedural details regarding the operation of the European Court of HR. This latter part will of course be irrelevant, once our own Supreme Court really is supreme. If they had more sense, these two aspects should have been kept as separate documents. It goes to show how useless the EU is, and pretty much everything it touches is of low quality.
Tony Blair made a complete mess of our constitutional arrangements, including the muddle regarding the status of our so-called “Supreme Court”. Hopefully, once we are out of the EU, some of the mess can be cleared up.
It is pathetic that the remainiacs had not put in the effort before the referendum vote that they are now putting into complaining. Get used to the fact that we are leaving.
Or do you think the EU is superb at everything it does?
In placing faith in the ECHR for religious rights protection, you are apparently ignoring the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam produced on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) which itself forms a large group at the United Nations.
Article 24 of this states “All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shar’iah.
Article 25 States “The Islamic Shari’ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification of any articles of this Declaration”.
Any European country that may become Islamic will without doubt become part of the OIC and the Declaration will trump any “man made” legislation including the ECHR.
Hi Viv,
I couldn’t find the REPLY button on your previous comment so thought I’d leave it here just in case.
You are correct. Time to calm down, face forwards etc. Don’t react to petty digs etc. I totally agree.
At the same time I hope Bath day has woken people up a bit. The vandalism will increase as social media goads the gullible in to doing copycat crimes.
We’ve had an offer of UKIP heavies revisiting Bath and a hilarious threat of a Twitter spat. That’ll sort ’em.
I like Mr Hicks’s idea.
Our problem is that there are not enough UKIP heavies (some being too heavy) to cover a nationwide election campaign.
Bath has shown us that we need new blood and more activists because that is what our opposition have in spades.
They will be coming out of every gutter, from under every stone and out of every union office.
We need help and that won’t happen if Kippers are calling possible voters the same words as the msm do.
That’s my lot.
Thank you to those who have reported occasions where their local police took action against ‘Vic the Vandal’. In 2015 we had a large board on a narrow rural lane. Unbenownst to the perps their action was recorded on the member’s secirity camera. Video footage of idiot number one giving it a good kicking got posted on the local cop’s social media but next to useless as, out of fear that the perp was underage, they blanked his ugly mug out.
Idiot number 2 (who may have been the same prat) left his car, plus VRN in full view of the camera. The little snowflake duly received a visit from the local constabulary and was said to be very shocked – as were the parents, himself being from a ‘good’ home.
You only have to look at the mob who insulted Jacob Rees Mogg to his own son recently or the screeching banshees who ambushed Nigel and his family having a quiet Sunday lunch in their local pub to see what the left have descended to.
Good morning folks.
Can I confirm that this political oppression occurred despite UKIP members doing what the protesters wanted regarding TR.
Now there’s a shock.
Apppeasing bullies to save yourselves embarrassment just encourages them to bully you more often.
UKIP Conference…….soft target…….50+ protesters.
Old Bailey……..hard target……..16 protesters hiding behind state protection.
Bath streetstall……… very soft target……vandalism, threats and intimidation.
You’ve turned away any help.you could have had by being abusive to those willing to join.
Being run out of town by Bath EU anarchists, no laughing at the back, is as ridiculous and pathetic as it sounds.
Good luck next time.
You write:
“You’ve turned away any help.you could have had by being abusive to those willing to join.”
Two points – and correct me if I’m wrong – firstly: weren’t there supposed to’ve been lots and lots of Veterans and Football Lads joining UKIP after Gerard supported them and one of their leaders joined UKIP earlier this year? They were ‘welcomed’ – but where were they?
Secondly: are you saying that supporters of TR cannot possibly support UKIP events like this one in Bath unless they’ve got their membership cards?
But most importantly: what would they have been able to do which the members present couldn’t? Setting up a ‘protective screen’ around the stall and the truck? How would that look to uninvolved Bath citizens? How would that look on videos? How would that have be spun in the MSM? I can imagine several unhelpful headlines …
And what to think of current members for whom the ruination of branch events and action days by Antifa thugs is the fair price these ordinary branch members have to pay for UKIP not having accepted TR as of yet?
Hm.
In any case UKIP cannot rely on street thugs like EDL/ DFLA to protect it at meetings. The very last thing UKIP needs is an association with a mob of moronic tattooed ex-football hooligans who fancy themselves as hard men.
The majority of the EDL / DFLA are just out for a drunken punch – up.
Let them do it at AMW / FB meetings instead.
The FACTS are that UKIP membership ( from figures submitted to Parliament from UKIP in early September ) has barely risen – net membership- since Bolton’s removal. There has been movement, as people leave and join, but it’s been small.
Anecdotal comments from branch secretaries that membership has ‘doubled’ might only mean 4 more members.
If UKIP is to even survive, it needs respectability is a political climate that is dominated by Momentum/Labour, which is now OPENLY far left, and a a muddled Tory party which does not know where it is.
The electorate tends to go safe in a crisis. It has never backed an extremist party in the last 120 years of the modern political era and it will not do so now.
UKIP has to be seen to obey the law and deal with idiots – like Antifa- lawfully.
We have the alleged perpetrators photo. It is not difficult to find him and insist the police deal with him lawfully.
It’s slow, it’s boring, but it’s the only way.
Well said. In full agreement.
The stall was tightly controlled and members well disciplined. We would not have welcomed undisciplined “supporters”. I’m sure most other branches running public events would say the same.
Well disciplined ??
They took your trousers down and tagged insults on your bum cheeks.
Well disciplined means you and your van go home proud and graffiti free and not like Keystone Kippers being laughed put of Bath.
Viv,
I understand why you’re unhappy with my comment. It’s the realisation that I laid down a future trajectory of problems we will face and have been proved correct within a week.
Here’s a realistic scenario for you Viv;
Bert Rucker, ex soldier and 2 convictions, reads comments by the UKIP Puritan Wing calling him a “thug” and “blackshirt”.
Will Bert turn up or will Bert think to himself that unlike the army he does not have to turn up and an embarrassing slap down may help re-evaluate their decision to insult their own side.
Bert was a lion led by donkeys when in uniform. Let the donkeys look after themselves on civvy street.
In answer to point number 1;
Only the organisers can answer that. Was it a UKIP only event ? Were affiliate groups contacted for assistance ? Are there communication lines between UKIP Somerset and affiliate groups ?
In answer to point number 2 ;
You say,
“Setting up a ‘protective screen’ around the stall and the truck? How would that look to uninvolved Bath citizens? How would that look on videos? How would that have be spun in the MSM? I can imagine several unhelpful headlines …”
Why do police officers stand outside Parliament and No 10 ? Why do security guards stand in the doorway of supermarkets ? They are a deterrent Viv.
How does the truck look after being vandalised and how the haters of Bath laughed. Once again it is UKIP shires embarrassing the rest of us by not doing a risk assessment before entering enemy territory.
Please explain your last paragraph. It was goobledy gook Viv.
It reads like you are criticising TR supporters for not being there to help despite UKIP members telling him and his supporters they are not welcome.
This will keep happening until UKIP shires accept that it’s our party not their club.
Exactly, Bryan: the police acts as the deterrent – not UKIP members, be they of the ‘shire club’ you so despise, or of the TR and other followers.
I do hope you can see the difference!
I’m sure the UKIP Branch chairman can answer your questions about other affiliated groups having been invited – but the presence of the truck was explicitly kept secret, on the advice of the truck owner.
And why do you keep saying that “UKIP Doesn’t welcome TR” – when there are a large number who do? I’m sorry if you overlook the point that this debate is also about the Constitution. Riding rough-shod over it is not acceptable. As I’ve written before and said before: associate membership and a constitutional reform are the way to go. Throwing our our own rules to which all members have agreed is not exactly confidence-building: a party standing on one law for all is throwing over their own laws for one cane easily throw out more laws to accommodate ‘exceptions’ again and again: member just have to swallow this because otherwise they’ll be denigrated.
There are ways out of this as I’ve said above.
Ok Viv, for some reason you choose to be obtuse so I’ll simplify my message for you.
1) I do not despise shire Kippers and have often helped shire Kippers at by-elections or local elections which run at a different time to London Boroughs.
It does amaze me that you feel I cannot disagree with some of their idiotic views without despising them.
I just read stupid comments by stupid people and feel it is my duty to help fellow Kippers by educating them on how not to be so stupid in future.
2) What looks worse, a large UKIP group big enough to keep the EU Anarchists of Bath at bay or a small group of Kippers being protected by the police ?
3) Our own rules state that anyone can join UKIP if invited by GB and accepted by the NEC. We both know that Viv so why pretend otherwise.
4) If UKIP welcomed TR he would now be a member. Too many posers have put their own self preservation before country and whined like babies to keep TR out. Obviously, the fact TR is not a member means he has not been welcomed in to UKIP.
5) I do accept your point that large numbers of Kippers support TR.
What is the large number Viv ?
6) I never agreed to any rule that banned people from UKIP just the same as I never agreed to any rule produced by the EU. How can any sensible person support a rule that allows a convicted member of a paedophile rape gang to join but bans the whistle blower. One rule for all ???
7) If we operate as equals why did you allow Gerald to mulri-post his list of TR’s criminal record but not allow anyone to question Gerald’s criminal history.
Fnally, if a criminal record now prohibits UKIP membership for some, can I suggest all new applicans produce a current CRB certificate.
I’ve just renewed my Enhanced CRB so I’m ok.
How many of the mouthy saints and angels can produce theirs ?
1) I do hope your halo doesn’t give you headaches. It must be very hard to be the only one who is in the right while all others aren’t.
2) Funny how you feel free to denigrate the Kippers who were present at the Bath action day while at the same time blaming all who don’t support TR as member of UKIP for sitting on their backsides. I hope you’re sending your comments from a smartphone, being out in the fresh air, as opposed to sit on the sofa.
3) So you didn’t agree to ‘any rules’ – oh, weren’t you asked personally and specifically, with a questionnaire of what you would agree to and what not, with the NEC bending over backwards to accommodate your views? IIRC, we agreed to abide by the Constitution and the Rule when we joined – didn’t you?
4) Can you please stop denigrating posters and Kippers – just because someone doesn’t happen to share your opinion doesn’t make him or her stupid.
Point 1 – Members only.
Point 2 – This was a branch event. Not a national event. Bath is our area. We cannot allow it to become an exclusive enemy preserve. Across South West England 1,669,711 people, that’s a 52.63% majority; voted to take back our independence on 23rd June 2016. No amount of propaganda by remainers will change the fact that 17.4 million people and a majority of 52% of the country voted to take back control by leaving the European Union. We had a people’s vote for independence on 23rd June 2016. Despite Bath for Europe and the Bath LibDems continually plotting to overturn it, the fact remains that 44,352 people all over Bath & North East Somerset voted in a national vote to leave the EU. As residents of Bath & North East Somerset, UKIP members had as much right as the enemy to make their voice herd here. And we did. The huge publicity may not have been as bad as you might think at first sight. (also remember that Bath is a major centre and many people we met in the centre were national, not local voters).
Fully agree Viv.
I won’t get into this debate. However, I would say (to best of my knowledge) the anarchists didn’t mention Tommy Robinson. Tommy Robinson did not appear to be an issue with them. .
If the unbathed from Bath didn’t question UKIP admitting TR why are some Kippers so upset.
We now have a madness inside UKIP that does the enemy’s job for them.
I do partly agree with what you say, my experience of UKIP is that many are middle-class and similar to the average Tory party member you see manning their street stalls. They are not prepared for rough times . The official UKIP policy regarding membership as it stands, is that if you are a ‘former’ member of the communist party, Socialist Workers Party or a group like these lefty thugs belonged to you can be a member, however, if you are a former member of the BNP you are beyond the pale. The extreme left must be laughing at such nonsense.
I can join the IRA, Hamas and the Black Panthers and then join UKIP.
No questions asked.
LOL, unfortunately so true…..
Also the Tory, Labour, Green and Lib Dems too if you wanted to.
Eddy You make a fair point vis a vis the proscribed list and I for one believe that UKIP will in due course review this. But please consider that the proscribed list was introduced to bury the spurious allegations of racism against the Party and its members which the media and our political opponents effectively used as a slur against us. The proscribed list was wonderfully effective, it buried a lot of hatchets, it rebranded UKIP favourably with the voters and the result was that UKIP went from strength to strength and it contributed hugely to Cameron capitulating to giving a referendum. Cameron could no longer slur UKIP and neither could anyone else after it was introduced.
You must have missed the constant slurring of UKIP that occurs on a daily basis across the msm, local news rags and paid-for Establishment agitators since, errrrrr, forever.
Brexit was won by members and supporters of other political parties too, from the Socialist Party to the BNP.
Cameron called the EU Referendum because he thought he would win not because UKIP had a ban on the BNP.
As a streetstall veteran, now retired, I can assure you that every ‘event’ included at least one accusation of racism.
UKIP and our Brexit partners won because we stopped taking any notice and millions of Britons could see with their own eyes the damage caused by free movement.
We should learn from that. Stop being squeamish. Don’t do their duty work by censoring ourselves. Don’t let the enemy decide who should be members of UKIP.
Don’t think the same people will join us if we demonise them.
They will say “we’re all the same” and stay at home on election days.
Bryan You rightly point out that it was not just UKIP and the Brexiteers from the Tories and Labour parties that won Brexit. We had representatives from the Communist Party of Great Britain helping us leaflet Vote Leave material in our constituency.
I diverge with you slightly regarding your suggestion that Cameron allowed a referendum soley because he though he would win it. Yes, he did think he would win it but I thought he called the referendum because of the perpetual lobbying and acute unrest of 50-60 MPs in marginals being in fear of losing their seats.
As for the suggestion that UKIP is squirmish with its decisions/policies/management being influenced by the approval or disapproval of the MSM – I fail to see evidence of this. We are the only mainstream political party standing up for a clean Brexit and free speech as well as being the only one banging on about creeping Islam and grooming gangs.
Like a rooky soldier those activists in Bath may have been taken by surprise by the so-called anti-racist activists but they will adjust, plan and be prepared the next time.
A rancourous comment Bryan.
Only rancours think that.
I’m wondering if anyone filmed much of the behavior that went on. These things, circulated on social media show the ‘opposition’ up for what they are. If no-one did so, it was an opportunity lost.
I think that a Stroud member may have filmed a good deal of the ”action’.
Hello Deirdre,
Long time no hear.
How did your Two Britain experiment work out ?
Local press comment (which was taken down and re-written this morning) now on line. Read the comments section. Come on UKIP you know what to do … https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/ukip-bath-kingsmead-square-graffiti-2057822
I am glad to read that this deliberate act to cause criminal damage to property (Section 1 Criminal Damage Act 1971) has been reported to the police. Please ensure though, that the supply of an incident number is not the sole action of the police in respect of this incident. What you need is the matter to be formally reported and supplied with a crime reference number. Some forces now do not take any action concerning minor acts of criminal damage and this incident may fall into that category. This state of affairs is a national disgrace, and UKIP need to be taking up this mantle which is being ignored by other political parties. No better way in my opinion, than making an example of this as the property belongs to UKIP.
Further to Hugo’s comment on the stolen boards, we had the same issues in Stroud in 2016. Of the twelve boards we put up, some very high, only two were in place three days later. On the day, as we were driving off, we were ‘informed’ by a shabby male that the boards would not be there come Monday. Sure enough, they had been stolen. Some days later the same individual saw fit to to stop his van at a junction and hurl verbal abuse at myself and RF who was with me. This in itself was amusing, but for the fact that there were two pensioners and a woman with two young children talking to us at the time. I took the vehicles VRN, and we made a statement to the Police including the original implied threat of theft.
A couple of weeks later the Police said they had traced the van to a local individual who had admitted to removing two signs. Under the Restorative Justice system, to save Court time on minor issues, the individual was ordered to pay for the two boards. This was done, and the Police sent me a cheque that went into the local party account.
However, the individual was treated to a second visit by the Police regarding the verbal abuse from the vehicle. On opening the door, the individual let rip at the Police saying he had paid the money. He was then informed that it was about abusive language in a public place (having just proved his guilt to the Police with the outburst), and was given a Police warning.
I too found the Police both helpful and willing to follow both matters up. So always maintain the moral high ground against these ‘challenged’ people and get the Police involved, especially if a third party is present.
I wonder what would happen if this was reported as a ‘hate crime’? 😉
We seem to be a small way behind America where the ideologues chase people out of restaurants. Time for bodycams or at least some members carrying phones or cameras and tasked with recording damage and threats.
These can be uploaded to a single channel and used to track the perpetrators.
Did you call the police? It’s criminal damage and breach of the peace isnt it?
Yes .. here’s the crime reference and how to contact the police if anyone recognises him …
http://bathnesukip.org.uk/suspect-wanted-for-criminal-damage-to-ukip-property-in-kingsmead-square-bath/
Hunt him down. Use Twitter.
Hunt him down. Follow me on Twitter “Mr Bav” and catch the bastard. Let’s show our teeth.
Turn the leftists weapon back on them, if ‘feelings’ were hurt, consider it a “hate crime” 😀
I hope the general public in Bath are taking note of the ideological battle happening in Britain. What does the Bath local paper have to say about fascist intimidation of this sort?
The Bath Chronicle is a Lib Dem mouthpiece. I gave up trying to get letters published in it. Far better was the Western Daily Press, which would publish around 80% of my letters relating to Brexit in the run up to the referendum. Several per week. After the referendum I did write letters about Islam. Not a single one of them were published.
Yes .. here’s the crime reference and how to contact the police if anyone recognises him …
http://bathnesukip.org.uk/suspect-wanted-for-criminal-damage-to-ukip-property-in-kingsmead-square-bath/
A perfect demonstration of the bigotry and low level of IQ, so typical of the British left. Wouldn’t it be a dream to get some of these tinsel brained idiots into a studio and ask them a few questions about the economics of uncontrolled immigration…or explain some Abbott/McDonnell comedy arithmetic. We will expose them in due course, it’s easy…because they are stupid.
I’ve run dozens of poster trucks and only once felt it necessary to have a security man on board, it adds to the cost but clearly we need a few big Kippers around next time to ‘have a chat’ with little middle class Che Guevaras with a can of paint.
I am very angry to hear that UKIP ladies manning the street stall were verbally abused. All of this makes me determined to hit back hard because these morons are the enemies of reasoned debate and fair play which once made Britain a great place to live.
Now there are no patriotic groups to attack the extreme left is turning on UKIP, remember next time you sneer at the BNP and other groups of yesteryear that they held the line, now you are on your own.
John,
Thank you for pointing this out.
I wonder how many will learn the lesson.
The BNP ? Holding ‘the line’ ?? The BNP are a proscribed group on UKIP’s list. They are an extreme racist party of misfits and political idiots who have no place here.
Hello Kevin
No surprise that you would be the one to bring me (very briefly) out of retirement.
I have (rightly or wrongly) interpreted John North’s comment to mean that organisations such as the BNP generally bore the brunt of the left’s venom and violence. Now that such organisations such as BNP are keeping a very low profile or, in some cases, ceased to exist, the left’s venom and violence is being concentrated on UKIP alone.
Still love you though!
Kindest of kind regards.
Brenda
Hello and welcome back out of retirement Brenda ! Churchill was in the wilderness for a while too, and we know how that went ….
According to the media UKIP are now an extreme racist party of misfits and political idiots, the media always have to have a bogey man and party to frighten the voters, step forward UKIP who are now filling the position formerly held by the BNP. You sound like a Daily Mail editioral Kevin, bet you stop laughing when you are discribed as a racist thug.
I was there with some big hearted and well Brexit educated people. We were determined to let people see we have amazing new Policies too and I wore my ‘No More Religious Slaughter in UK’ Tshirt. I got accused of wanting to kill Mulims, accused of being disgusting that we allow cows to be milked for cream, cheese etc! You couldn’t make it up. We are a very positive friendly approachable group and perhaps that is why the aggression and the most disgusting language I’ve ever heard over the course of 7 hours seemed so extreme. The criminal damage was totally unforgivable. I am embarrassed to say I live near Bath. The hysterics and photo taking of the Brexit fruck when it had been vandalised was hurrendous, they sure know how to cackle, sick. I pretended to laugh joyously along side one woman who thought it was so funny to destroy the van, then my face changed instantly to anger whilst I oh so sweetly said ‘Yes, enjoy your laughing while you can because at the end of March you certainly won’t be laughing then!’ ‘It will be us Brexiteers turn and you know the saying, him who laughs last laughs longest!’. The plague on all those undemocratic half wits.
I would like to thank all our dedicated team members from our own branch and others who travelled a long way for their stamina, sterling efforts and loyalty in the face of adversity. But it wasn’t all bad. This mindless vandalism gave us publicity we would not have received otherwise and there was a lot of positive interest in the stall. All in all this was an excellent publicity opportunity for UKIP in what we all knew would be a hostile area.
I thought that you handled yourself very well and am just disappointed that I had to leave before all the shennanigans.
Unfortunately, lame stream media doesn’t seem to report these incidents because the sight of rent-a-mob (in the US, witnesses have seen them being financially rewarded) attacking people with a peaceful message would repel most of the electorate and actually result in increased support and sympathy for the victims of abuse and vandalism. I wonder if these outraged, cretinous assailants have any idea for whom they are working?
Congratulations to all who attended in Bath for standing your ground without descending to the level of the bullies and thugs harassing you. I’m in London where we often encounter similar problems (being spat at etc) and it is not easy resisting provocation. Kippers are civil, law abiding folk and we do not get the credit for that that we deserve.
I hope Russell’s posters are washable. They are rain resistant so it may be possible to clean them.
‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.’ Some attribute this quote to Voltaire, others to Mahatma Gandi. No matter – we’re on the third stage now, folks, so we’re on the verge of winning. Keep the faith Kippers!
Disgraceful!
When I stood as a candidate in a local election in North East Somerset my correx boards were repeatedly vandalised. Swastikas sprayed on them, etc. This vandalism of the popup banners and the poster truck does not surprise me at all. Sadly.
And not mentioned in the article, a Jewish supporter of UKIP was told that he was a disgusting Nazi. Some of his relatives escaped from Nazi controlled Austria. And some did not.
Absolutely appalling, and I hope the police will take strong action against these perpetrators – although I don’t live in hope.
Sadly this is typical behaviour of the programmed left-wing mentality who truly believe they are the “resistance” against the “rise of the far-right”.
The actual truth is that UKIP is the resistance against the rise of the far-left.
I would doubt that the police will do anything – the officers in charge are too far gone, they are all programmed by Common Purpose and were probably quietly cheering on the scum who attacked the UKIP stand and truck.
Unless we get a change in Government attitude and/or some seats for UKIP this country is doomed. The lefties have infiltrated the education establishment far enough to bring Corbyn to the fore and for the electorate to be brainwashed into cultural Marxist beliefs, rather like our present and very stupid Prime Minister.
When my correx boards were not being defaced they were stolen. I did get the car number plate of the thief. The police were impressed that I did that. Of course it was a low priority, after a few weeks the thief was interviewed. Admitted the crime, and had to pay for the cost of the boards, write a letter of apology, and his action was recorded.
The police officers dealing with it were polite and helpful throughout.