Why was Blair in Erewash? - Asks Veritas.

The following was a party press release issued yesterday afternoon:

Tony Blair in Erewash today

Blair, Prescott and Brown visit Erewash, Derbyshire

Kilroy: “Why all these Labour heavyweights in Erewash? Does Blair know something we don’t know?”

As Robert Kilroy-Silk, Leader of VERITAS, and Prime Minister Tony Blair toured Erewash earlier today, visiting Long Eaton and Risley in the constituency, Robert Kilroy-Silk, noting that earlier in the week both Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Labour’s heir-presumptive, and John Prescott, Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister had also visited the constituency, said:

“Why all the interest by the Labour hierarchy in Erewash all of a sudden? What are their canvass returns telling them, I wonder? After all, this is one of Labour’s safest seats in the country. Labour had a 7,000 majority here last time”.

Erewash is only the Conservatives 124th target seat.

This week bookmakers said that Mr Kilroy-Silk was the candidate most frequently bet on in this election to date.

Robert Kilroy-Silk will be in Erewash again tomorrow and hopes to do more canvassing in the Erewash constituency on Monday and Tuesday next week.

Reuters report Gamblers Backing Kilroy

As exclusively reported on this blog over one day ago Kilroy is the man making the running with the bookies. The Reuters UK report (so far behind Veritas Straight Talk and the Casino USA site we linked to yesterday) may be read from here.

Which all goes to confirm Robert Kilroy-Silk and his party Veritas are the ones to watch in this election and for the inside track on news of the party and the most up to date real facts - this blog is a must on your favourites or bookmarks.

Veritas Candidates rescue Ruth Kelly

The report may be read from this link to The Times Online, linked here.

"Ian Upton, the Bury North candidate for Robert Kilroy-Silk's party, Veritas, says that it was he and Mike Ford, the Veritas candidate for Mrs Kelly's seat of Bolton West, who rescued her.

"These two guys came over and practically rugby-tackled her, she nearly fell to the ground," said Mr Upton.

"One really had a hold of her and was ragging her around like nothing, it was awful to see. She was quite shaken in fact.

She complained afterwards that her wrists had been marked. "I was in the front row of the audience and got up first. It was a split-second decision. I put him in a head lock. Mike Ford got hold of the other guy with the handcuffs, and then one of Ruth's aides came to help and they were ejected from the building."

This version of events is backed up by the minister of St John's, the Rev John Howard-Norman, 47, who was leading the candidates onto the stage. He identified Mr Ford as one of the men who rescued Mrs Kelly."

Odds drop on RKS win in Erewash

The betting website Online Casino News USA, linked here, reports that the odds offered for a win by Robert Kilroy-Silk in Erewash have fallen from 16/1 to 7/1

The Telegraph weblog on the election concludes as follows:

Meanwhile, UK Independence Party leader Roger Knapman, fresh from giving his own party £15,000, stages a London press conference to beef up publicity for the anti-EU cause. Both Ukip and Veritas, the Robert Kilroy-Silk party, are suffering from relative lack of publicity, with the main three parties getting the election limelight......

Making it clear why the link above was worthy of mention!

David Soutter blamed for Leaflet Fiasco

The controversial Veritas Campaign Manager is once again hitting the news in Wales with bad publicity, this time over the failure to get candidates' leaflets to the Royal Mail. The full report may be read from this link.

RKS on GMTV says Howard's policy racist

The report of this Sunday's early morning broadcast may be found by clicking on the title of the newspaper in which it appeared, The Scotsman.

'Today Programme' bans EU questions

The following report appeared on an internet forum from a well-known anti-EU campaigner in Leicester who made a wasted trip to 'Today's' live broadcast.

"After getting up at 5am to get to the broadcast venue by 6am for the programme
to be live on air from 7am to 9am, no questions were admitted referring in any
way to the EU.

The only mention of the EU came from a recorded comment from BNP paving the way
for Blunkett to speak.

So - "Who Governs Britain - Westminster or Brussels" is not an important
election issue I am told!"

'Street Democracy' in the absence of the real thing?

Fuel Protesters' get set to enliven election campaign?

The Scotsman has the report linked here.

If we are to accept continental rule then perhaps the lorry drivers realise that continental style blockades are the best way ahead?

So far the protesters seem to be restricting their aims to the question of fuel prices - but can the mounting disillusion with proper political debate and frustration at the obvious avoidance of all the main issues in the election campaign not soon also be voiced?

Bets continue for RKS to win in Erewash

The following is a quote from a election betting website linked here:

Also, William Hill report impressive support for both Robert Kilroy-Silk and George Galloway to win seats the General Election on the 5th of May. Robert Kilroy Silk has been the subject of two good bets today including a bet of £1000 at 16/1. Hills now offer 12/1 on Robert to win the Labour held seat 'Erewash'. Liz Blackman (Lab) is the 8/15 favourite to hold the seat with David Simmonds (Cons) offered at 6/4.

BBC's Excuses for Ignoring the EU

The following pathetic justification for the state broadcaster to ignore the organisation that now controls some two thirds of our domestic legislation during the present election campaign may be read from this link to their website. Click here.

VERITAS’ 65 Candidates ‘Better than Labour in 1906’

‘We would have had 200-plus but for lack of money’- Damian Hockney

VERITAS, the Party founded by Robert Kilroy-Silk on 2nd February this year, announced today that it will field a total 65 candidates in the General Election.

The Labour Party (as the Labour Representation League) could only manage 15 candidates in their first election in 1900 and 50 in the 1906 General Election. Damian Hockney, Party Deputy Leader and Leader of the VERITAS Group on the London Assembly, said: “Given that Veritas is just 76 days old, this is a remarkable and historic achievement. Our candidates and our local branches have done an absolutely fantastic job”.
He added: “If we’d had more money, we would have had over 210 candidates, not 65. We had many good quality candidates who could not afford the minimum £1,500 or so that it needs to find the deposit and print an election communication. With more backing, those candidates would have been able to stand”.

Party Leader Robert Kilroy-Silk will stand in the Derbyshire seat of Erewash, while Deputy Party Leader Damian Hockney will stand in the neighbouring seat of Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire.

Other candidates of special interest include:

Alan Eastwood, O.B.E., for Cornwall North. Alan is the former Chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales and has helped shape the Party’s tough policies on crime and policing.

Therese Muchewicz, for Bradford South. Therese is a business woman with a law degree. She made a big impact in Bradford two years ago when she publicly protested at a meeting of the Asian community, called by lawyer Imran Khan. The meeting was called because of Asian concerns that Asian rioters had been given unfairly long sentences in relation to allegedly similar ones by white rioters in Manningtree a year earlier. Ms Muchewicz pointed out to a hostile audience that the previous disturbances by whites had been much less serious and that the sentences on the Asians were appropriate in view of the seriousness of the riot.

David Harris, for City of London and Westminster. David is the Senior Partner of the St. James’ Place Partnership, formerly part of Lord Jacob Rothschild’s empire, and the Principal Partner of a financial practice within the partnership. He specialises in taxation, and personal and corporate finance.

Tony Martin, for City of Durham. Tony has written a lively book exposing Labour Party and Council corruption in Durham. When he stood as an independent candidate two years ago, nearly getting elected, his website was damaged twice by two prominent members of the Labour Party. After a lengthy police investigation, they admitted their crimes and were dealt with by cautions for criminal damage.

Winston McKenzie for Croydon North. Winston, of Jamaican origin, is from the famous McKenzie boxing family and has devoted a lot of time in recent years to young people, often speaking in the Borough’s schools. He is the organiser of the annual Croydon Youth Games and is head of the Winston McKenzie Sports Foundation. Its Chief Executive, Marianne Bowness, is the Party’s candidate in Croydon Central. Winston has spoken up publicly about the adverse effects of a huge influx of asylum-seekers in the borough on its settled Afro-Caribbean community.

Frank Leeming, for Derby South. Frank is the former UKIP, now VERITAS, Councillor for Derby City Council who now holds the balance of power on Derby City Council, much to the frustration of Derby Labour Party. Frank has led the local campaign to retain Elvaston Park as a publicly-owned park - it is threatened with sale because Derbyshire County Council is cash-strapped.

Peter Gifford, for Falmouth and Camborne. Peter is Chief Executive of Ecowest, a pioneering British recycling and waste management company with 3,000 staff worldwide. He speaks for the Party on environmental issues.

Edward Spalton, for Derbyshire South. Edward is an expert in animal feed and nutrition and a long-time campaigner against British membership of the European Union He translates articles from German journalistic sources relating to Germany’s political ambitions, within and beyond the European Union. These appear regularly on the freenations.freeuk.net website. He also lectures on Balkan nationalism and terrorism.

Housing and Environment Policy Launch

VERITAS to launch its policies on Social Housing and the Environment

Thursday 21st April, 11.30am:
MWB Business Exchange, Berkeley Street, LONDON W1J 8DJ

The Press Conference will be chaired by the Leader of VERITAS, Robert Kilroy-Silk.
Speakers will be: FIONA LUCKHURST-MATTHEWS, housewife and businesswoman, spokesperson on social housing and VERITAS Parliamentary Candidate for Tony Blair’s constituency of Sedgefield,

and PETER GIFFORD, 38, VERITAS spokesman on the environment. Peter Gifford is a Cornish-based businessman. a family man with two children, and is the VERITAS Parliamentary Candidate for Falmouth and Camborne. Peter runs a global business based on the waste-to-energy market called Ecowest, operational in several parts of the world.
Notes for Editors and Newsrooms:

VERITAS will launch an innovative manifesto document on social housing. Homelessness has doubled under Labour and hundreds of thousands of households are overcrowded in today’s Britain. We believe there is a real need to tackle this major problem on the scale of the 1950’s massive Council housing programme. We believe we can provide the framework and the vision to create sufficient social housing for all. Fiona will unveil a radical set of policies that would make much better use of existing housing stock and would be tough on families who deliberately run up rent arrears or are anti-social. “They should be evicted and be made responsible for finding their own accommodation”, she says.
VERITAS will also be launching a manifesto document on its environmental policies.

VERITAS will unveil an environmental policy which will be ‘greener than the Green Party’s’. The Party will propose an effective waste disposal policy which will end landfill, yet achieve 100% recycling - using modern technologies that will generate biomass fuels and renewable energy.

How to get to MWB Business Exchange: Follow the link for the map. It is located on the junction of Berkeley Street and Piccadilly directly opposite the Ritz Hotel, within one minute’s walk of Green Park underground station with access to the Victoria, Piccadilly and Jubilee lines.

For map of venue click here.

RKS print media absence but planned TV slots

The only 'google news alert' I received this morning for 'Robert Kilroy-Silk' was from the CNN USA web-site, linked here, which comments upon the absence of the EU from the UK election campaign and has this quote:

"All three main parties are hugging themselves that UKIP's collection of eccentrics has since last summer turned the party into a laughing stock and that further damage was inflicted by UKIP's acrimonious parting with their former member Robert Kilroy-Silk, the daytime TV presenter who has now formed his own Veritas Party. (Others are calling the latest vehicle for the Kilroy-Silk ego the Vanitas Party)."

If you find this suspicious, at least Ferdinand Mount has been permitted to highlight the matter in the Telegraph today, see our posting below which has also been placed on my other blogs.

The point missed by Mr Mount in his conclusion, is of course that the EU is no longer a matter of Foreign Affairs but now as clearly illustrated in his own article involved in every activity of ordinary daily life which is about as domestic as things can get.

We are at least informed that Veritas leader Robert Kilroy-Silk might have the chance to put this fact across on TV in the coming days and have been told of the following planned slots:

Thursday evening - Adam Boulton interview - around 7pm on SKY

Friday - Jeremy Vine just after 12.00 noon

Sunday morning early (recorded Friday) - GMTV - I think between 7am and 8am

A Conspiracy?

The following is an extract from an article by Ferdinand Mount in this morning's Daily Telegraph linked from here:

"While I was staring at Mr Blair's eerie tan, the Prime Minister may have been launching a vigorous defence of his decision to invade Iraq. Or Michael Howard, while I was dreaming of the first cappuccino of the day, may have been explaining to us exactly how he would renegotiate the European fisheries policy.

But I do not think so. On the contrary, so far foreign affairs have been kept off both parties' menus with Stalinist rigidity. It is as though their leaders had signed some secret concordat not to mention the war, or indeed the outside world in any shape or form

I heard Mr Howard start off yesterday morning with a thumping denunciation of Blair's lies: the lies about Tory spending plans, the lies about Labour's pensions policy, the lies about the patient's passport. Terrific stuff, but was there not one other little area of, shall we say, prime-ministerial prevarication that earnt some notoriety not all that long ago?

With few exceptions, the media seem happy enough with this weird vacuum. They will remorselessly quiz the politicians on almost anything else you can think of: where the Blair tan came from, what Rupert Murdoch thinks of immigration, the treatment of prostate cancer. But as for the world and Britain's place in it, for the moment these seem to be no-go areas.

Which is peculiar in the extreme. Because outside the political hothouse, as far as I can see, people talk of little else. Perhaps for the first time since 1945, it is two foreign issues - Iraq and the European Union - that are foremost in the minds of the most agitated voters at this election.

Every Leftish person I bump into is obsessed with Blair's lies in the run-up to war. Every Rightish person is exercised by the latest excesses of Brussels and in despair at our apparent impotence to undo them, let alone to find a stable and enduring relationship with the EU, in or out of it. Every tobacconist and taxi driver is liable to let rip on either front.

There are not one but two elephants in our sitting room. And the politicians are doing their best to pretend that neither of them is there. In the American elections, the candidates chewed over every aspect of the Iraq war. In France, each clause of the EU constitution is being hotly contested. In the British election campaign to date, zero public debate on either."

RKS Assaulted - Police Inactive

ROBERT KILROY-SILK M.E.P.

European Parliament Member for the East Midlands Region
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland



Monday 18 April 2005
Mr David Coleman,
Derbyshire Constabulary,
Force Headquarters,
Butterley Hall
RIPLEY
Derbyshire
DE5 3RS


Dear Mr Coleman

re: Caution for premeditated assault with a bottle

As you are probably aware, I was assaulted outside Asda in Long Eaton in my constituency on Saturday by a man who smashed a bottle of water against the side of my head as I was being interviewed. The assailant ran away shouting at me, but he was pursued for several hundred yards by my colleague, the Veritas Party candidate for Amber Valley, Alex Stevenson, at great risk to the safety of his own person.

The thug had previously used foul and obscene language towards me in the foyer of Asda.

I was informed by the arresting officer late on Saturday evening that it was in the custody officer’s mind merely to caution the offender, because it was his first offence, he had admitted the offence and he said that he was remorseful.

I do not approve of this lenient approach to yobbish, anti-social and criminal behaviour. I and my Party VERITAS believe in zero tolerance of such offences. That is the only way to restore decent standards of behaviour in public places.

This was a deliberate, premeditated and cowardly attack by an adult man who should have known better. He could have caused serious injury. He should suffer the lawful consequences of his actions.

The approach of your force seems to suggest that you are more concerned about the welfare of the offender than the interests of the victim. No wonder so many people have lost faith in the criminal justice system.

What, indeed, is the point of the VERITAS candidate for Amber Valley putting himself in danger - and the police arresting, detaining and interviewing the offender, and me spending time giving a statement, and hours of police and witness time being expended, if all the police then do is to give the criminal a pat on the shoulder and send him on his way?

So far as he and those like him are concerned he ‘got away’ with a caution. This is not a good example to set. It suggests that the Derbyshire Police force doses not take violent assaults seriously.

If you do not take violent assaults seriously, can you tell me which crimes you do consider to warrant prosecution?

You can be assured that if I am elected as the MP for Erewash, I will put pressure on yourself and the Home Secretary to ensure there will be zero tolerance of crime in Erewash - and that I will not be prepared to accept offender-oriented policing.

Yours sincerely



Robert Kilroy-Silk M.E.P.
Dictated by Mr Kilroy-Silk and signed in his absence.

RKS Assaulted - Police Inactive

ROBERT KILROY-SILK M.E.P.

European Parliament Member for the East Midlands Region
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland



Monday 18 April 2005
Mr David Coleman,
Derbyshire Constabulary,
Force Headquarters,
Butterley Hall
RIPLEY
Derbyshire
DE5 3RS


Dear Mr Coleman

re: Caution for premeditated assault with a bottle

As you are probably aware, I was assaulted outside Asda in Long Eaton in my constituency on Saturday by a man who smashed a bottle of water against the side of my head as I was being interviewed. The assailant ran away shouting at me, but he was pursued for several hundred yards by my colleague, the Veritas Party candidate for Amber Valley, Alex Stevenson, at great risk to the safety of his own person.

The thug had previously used foul and obscene language towards me in the foyer of Asda.

I was informed by the arresting officer late on Saturday evening that it was in the custody officer’s mind merely to caution the offender, because it was his first offence, he had admitted the offence and he said that he was remorseful.

I do not approve of this lenient approach yobbish, anti-social and criminal behaviour. I and my Party VERITAS believe in zero tolerance of such offences. That is the only way to restore decent standards of behaviour in public places.

This was a deliberate, premeditated and cowardly attack by an adult man who should have known better. He could have caused serious injury. He should suffer the lawful consequences of his actions.

The approach of your force seems to suggest that you are more concerned about the welfare of the offender than the interests of the victim. No wonder so many people have lost faith in the criminal justice system.

What, indeed, is the point of the VERITAS candidate for Amber Valley putting himself in danger - and the police arresting, detaining and interviewing the offender, and me spending time giving a statement, and hours of police and witness time being expended, if all the police then do is to give the criminal a pat on the shoulder and send him on his way?

So far as he and those like him are concerned he ‘got away’ with a caution. This is not a good example to set. It suggests that the Derbyshire Police force doses not take violent assaults seriously.

If you do not take violent assaults seriously, can you tell me which crimes you do consider to warrant prosecution?

You can be assured that if I am elected as the MP for Erewash, I will put pressure on yourself and the Home Secretary to ensure there will be zero tolerance of crime in Erewash - and that I will not be prepared to accept offender-oriented policing.

Yours sincerely



Robert Kilroy-Silk M.E.P.
Dictated by Mr Kilroy-Silk and signed in his absence.

Conservative Party Rejects British Constitution and Parliament

The following is taken directly from the website of the British Declaration of Independence which is linked from here.

15 April 2005

We talked to the Policy Unit at Conservative Central Office.

CCO said that:

1. The Conservative Party rejects the British Declaration of Independence principally because of paragraph 2 - the right of the British Parliament to "initiate, pass and repeal laws applied to the British people". That is unacceptable to the Tory Party. (In other words the Party rejects a Parliament and Democracy itself not only for Britain but for the whole of the European Union as well. "The Tory Party is committed to the treaties signed since 1972 which contradict paragraph 2 of the BDI".
2. The Tory Party would NOT withdraw "from areas where the EU Court has jurisdiction over the United Kingdom". It would request re-negotiation of specified areas –e.g. employment, immigration, international aid and fishing.
3. The policy he was stating had been decided by Michael Howard and the Shadow Cabinet. We asked if candidates had been told NOT to sign the BDI. He replied the policy was that candidates should not sign statements which are inconsistent with Conservative policy. We stated that the BDI was entirely consistent with "in Europe but not ruled by Europe", a sovereign independent Britain in the European Union. They said they disagreed with the BDI because it meant "withdrawal from Europe". But the BDI does not concern itself with Europe it concerns itself entirely with British Democracy.
4. Therefore the Conservative Party confirms that membership of the European Union has destroyed British Democracy and that the British Parliament was replaced in 1972 by a British Assembly. The British Conservative Party confirmed that this always was and remains their intention.
5. The Conservative Party rejects the British Constitution. They also reject the European Constitution. Therefore they believe in NO Constitution – which means unfettered control by the politicians.

The Tory Party refutes the British constitution, rejects the terms of the Oath of Allegiance, denies Britain a Parliament, rejects the 1966 UN Convention of the Self determination of peoples (a treaty which the British Government signed) and thereby disqualifies Britain as a sovereign nation from membership of the UN.

This confirms Michael Howard's stance that, on being elected, he will request permission (of what he recognises as a superior power, the European Union) to govern in the United Kingdom and even then in only certain areas.

The Conservative Party has been forced to produce a new "form of words" designed to fool their candidates and the British people. The BDI, by demanding they sign up to their previous "form of words" (i.e. "In Europe but not ruled by Europe"), has forced them to refute those words.

The BDI is concerned solely with the sovereignty of the British people and the status of their Parliament as a forum in which their laws are made. Our concern is the British Constitution, not the European Union – or any other Union!

This has all come as a great shock to many Conservative candidates and voters. Those candidates who have signed the BDI regardless of party pressure deserve our unstinting support. We need to do everything we can to strengthen them in the party and encourage allies to join them.

Tell others about the BDI and the Petition. (You can sign up others if they have no computer and you have their post code and permission!)

The BDI is powerful - use it.

Flat Rate Tax Article in 'The Economist'

An article extolling the virtues of a flat rate tax which has been proposed by the Veritas Party may be found from this link.

BBC Reporter 'Despised' Kilroy

Read the latest on the distorted BBC news report from the latest Veritas Press Release:-

MEDIA ADVICE
Sunday 17th April, 12.30pm - immediate

BBC’s biased reporter ‘deliberately misled’ viewers and listeners over Derby asylum-seekers: Kilroy-Silk
“I despise the man” - BBC Reporter

A BBC reporter sent to cover Robert Kilroy-Silk’s walkabouts in Derby and other East Midlands towns last Wednesday told VERITAS supporters: ‘I dislike him’, and later told another -when offered a Veritas leaflet, ‘”I despise the man”. The supporters have since lodged formal complaints with the BBC.

And following the BBC’s apology for not reporting in its main news item last week that Kamal Bourgass, the murderer of Detective Constable Stephen Oakes, was a failed asylum-seeker, Mr Kilroy-Silk, the leader of Veritas, has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over its editing out of references made on a Derby street by Bosnian and Croat asylum-seekers to their home countries.

“The BBC has deliberately distorted news items in which I was involved, in order to portray asylum-seekers in a positive light, whereas both encounters demonstrated how asylum-seekers were abusing our health and benefits system”.

Mr Kilroy-Silk was recorded by BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme, and also filmed by BBC TV News, having two separate conversations with asylum-seekers in Derby town centre last Wednesday. Both were living on benefits, agreed that their home countries were now safe enough to return to, but confessed that they intended to remain in Britain.

Instead of reporting this truthfully, the BBC edited the exchange to suggest that the man was returning home to Sarajevo in July, whereas he had actually told me that he was only going back to Bosnia for a holiday in July and would return to continue to live in Derby on benefits.

This was broadcast on the ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4 on Thursday morning. The BBC then continued the deception by providing a clip of the broadcast the encounter to the satirical programme: “Have I Got News For You” which, again, had the man saying only that he was returning to Sarajevo in July - not, as he said, that it was to be a holiday and that he will be returning to Britain to live on benefits.

“The provision of this deceptively edited clip to “Have I Got News For You” clearly added insult to injury, given that the item in question had never been broadcast as a news items so far as I am aware, yet was provided to a satirical program in order to ridicule me”, said Mr. Kilroy-Silk.

In the second conversation, a Croatian woman told the M.E.P. that she would not go back home to Croatia because Britain had the best free health service. She had, she said, had serious heart and kidney problems. She had had some operations, and she needed more. She was not working. This was not reported.

Mr. Kilroy-Silk said: “Clearly the BBC has its own agenda. It wishes to be politically correct. It wants to help the government. It clearly is not telling the truth, not the whole truth, but deliberately deceiving. It has become the ‘Blair Broadcasting Corporation’.

“I know that the BBC TV News reporter was not impartial to me. She could not be. She told two of my supporters that she ‘despised’ and ‘disliked’ me. But I did not expect the BBC to be so untrustworthy as to report the opposite of the truth”, he concluded.

“What’s going on? Can the corporation be trusted any more, to be fair, impartial, truthful? Obviously not”.

BBC's Creative and Biased Editing

The following is a press release issued by the Veritas Party:-

VERITAS…The Straight Talking Party
Head office address: 109-110 Bolsover Street, LONDON W1W 5NT
Website: www.veritasparty.com

VERITAS PARTY We say what you’re thinking…

BBC misled ‘Today’ listeners over Bosnian asylum-seeker - Kilroy-Silk

Robert Kilroy-Silk has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over its editing out of references made on a Derby street by a Bosnian asylum-seeker to his home country of Bosnia.

The young man had approached Mr Kilroy-Silk in St. Peter’s Street, Derby, asking for his autograph, in front of a team from the BBC’s ‘Today’ programme. The BBC, however, played only a selected part of the exchange between Mr Kilroy-Silk and the young Bosnian.

Listeners heard Mr Kilroy-Silk challenge the asylum-seeker as to why he did not return to Sarajevo, which Mr Kilroy-Silk described as ‘a pretty city’, where there was no oppression or danger. The asylum-seeker told Mr Kilroy-Silk that he was ‘returning to Sarajevo’ in July - but the BBC edited out that part of the exchange where the asylum-seeker admitted that this was ‘just for a holiday’ and that he was claiming welfare benefits.

Mr Kilroy-Silk said this morning: “The BBC presented a false picture of this asylum-seeker. He should not be here. He admitted to living off Britain’s welfare benefits and told me in front of the BBC journalist that he was only going to Sarajevo in July for a holiday, then coming back to Britain, where he would continue to live off benefits. The young Bosnian is an asylum-seeker who has no right to be here and should be deported. The BBC - as they often do on this subject - gave listeners a false impression of the true facts by editing out the references to his claiming benefits and the fact hat he was not returning to live in Sarajevo permanently. I have lodged a formal complaint with the BBC today”.

· VERITAS would appoint a joint Police and Immigration Service special task force to find and deport all failed asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants, except for those with children, who would be allowed to remain here on compassionate grounds

Personal Villification and the Unmentionable EU

I suggest that the Christopher Booker column in this morning's Sunday Telegraph first be read in full from here.

Now read this report on the UKIP launch that appeared in The Scotsman, linked here, of which this is a quote:

"But far from blaming his party’s lack of money, organisation or even coherent policies for its dim prospects, Mr Kilroy-Silk said the media was responsible.

"Most of us won’t get elected. We haven’t got a chance," Mr Kilroy-Silk told journalists.

"Every single one of you personally vilifies me," he said."

The facts regarding the UK Independence Party;s actions since the June election should then be carefully considered. These are detailed if memories need refreshing on my blog UKIP Uncovered linked here

A tenth item , I am sure most readers would here agree, could then be added to the list provided of unmentionable general election topics set out today by Christopher Booker: ' Who is Co-ordinating this Apparent Conspiracy?'

Can anyone really believe this is all just co-incidence? Look at this poll also from today's Sunday Telegraph (or even this quite contrary poll in the Sunday Times, linked here, which has only 19 per cent of respondents trusting Michael Howard) and ponder on the removal of Iain Duncan Smith at the point of his leadership where he was just beginning to speak out more openly against the EU - then consider the farce that lies ahead next Tuesday when various no-hope UKIP candfidates will deliberately stand against their sincere, anti-EU (sometimes) former colleagues now within Veritas. Can such things all happen by chance?

Felgategate?

The following is a repeat of a post on Ukip Uncovered:

Further evidence of a UKIP plot to sabotage Veritas comes from their decision - announced on the UKIP website earlier this week, and confirmed this week by the 'Harlow Star' - to put up a certain Mr John Felgate against Tony Bennett, who is standing for Veritas in Harlow. Bennett announced his candidacy several weeks ago and has received excellent local coverage.

Well-known after having lived in the town for 27 years and having worked for 10 years as its Principal Welfare Rights Officer, helping thousands to claim extra benefits, Bennett managed 1,223 votes (3.0%) at the last General Election - in UKIP's top 10% results in 2001 - and had realistic hopes of increasing that vote.

The decision of UKIP to run John Felgate in Harlow confirms other examples nationwide of UKIP deliberately placing their candidates in seats in Staffordshire and elsewhere, where it has become known that Veritas has already announced candidates. The decision of UKIP to run steam train enthusiast Geoffrey Kingscott against Robert Kilroy-Silk is a classic example. Kingscott was famously quoted by the local press in the European election campaign as saying: "I hate leafleting".

The really curious, even sinister, point about Felgate running in Harlow is that he lives in the constituency of Hertfordshire North-East, in Hitchin. Neither UKIP nor Veritas is fielding a candidate there. One must therefore question the motives for attempting to split the eurosceptic vote in Harlow and denying the voters of North-East Hertfordhsire a chance to vote for a eurosceptic candidate.

Ther are several other Hertfordshire constituencies where no Veriats nor UKIP candidate will be standing.

Harlow is in Essex. So UKIP has failed to put up Felgate in any of those constituencies in Hertfordshire in order to try to undercut Bennett's vote in Harlow.

The true face of UKIP is revealed by the case of 'Felgategate'.

UKIP, it may be remembered, is the Party that has frequently run on the slogan: 'It's time to put country before Party'.

Oh yes?

World at One interview with Kilroy

The Radio Four interview aired this lunchtime may be heard by clicking this link.

Veritas Manifesto Launch

There are presently 58 different links to media reports on the party's manifesto launch and there has been similar first rate coverage in the broadcast media. Typical is this short summary from Reuters UK linked here but the full list can be reached by clicking here.

Daily Mail Highlights Veritas Tax Plans

The Daily Mail, linked here, has just issued a detailed description of the radical Veritas tax proposals to be launched this morning with the Party's other policies in its Manifesto which may be read in full from this link.

The Veritas flat rate tax proposal at twenty two per cent also received headline coverage on the BBC Radio Four eight o'clock news bulletin

The Mail report states:

Robert Kilroy-Silk will promise to take 10 million people out of income tax altogether by introducing a new flat-rate scheme if his Veritas Party wins power.

The Veritas manifesto for the May 5 General Election, launched in Westminster, proposes a 22% flat rate for income tax, with payments starting only when earnings reach a threshold of £12,000 a year.

The party believes the scheme - used in Hong Kong and the Channel Islands for many years and recently adopted in Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia - could boost the take-home pay of low-paid workers by as much as 12%.

Veritas deputy leader Damian Hockney said that if the scheme were successful, the personal allowance for earnings on which no income tax is payable - now £4,895 for most people - could be increased to £15,000 within two years and eventually as high as £25,000.

"A flat-rate is a much better way of imposing income tax," he said. "It is fairer - we will take 10 million of the poorest people out of the tax bracket completely.

"It reduces compliance costs and evasion and in all the other countries where it has been introduced, it has worked very well."

At present, income tax is charged at 10% for the first £2,090 over the allowance threshold, 22% for the next £30,310 and 40% for anything above that level.

Mr Kilroy-Silk founded Veritas after quitting the UK Independence Party earlier this year, following a row over his ambition to lead the eurosceptic party, for which he was elected an MEP in June last year.

The party is putting up at least 79 candidates in the election, including the former TV chat-show host in Erewash, in Derbyshire, where Labour are defending a 6,932 lead.

The manifesto - already published on the Internet - also calls for withdrawal from the EU, strict immigration controls limiting access to the UK to those with in-demand skills as well as "our fair share" of refugees, more police, life sentences for paedophiles and a Royal Commission to review the drugs laws.

Falmouth gets even more INTERESTING

The Scotsman this evening reports that the former Tory MP for Falmouth and Cambourne, David Mudd aged 71, will now also contest the seat as an Independent. The report may be read from this link.

The following quote is from the MP as it appeared in the article :-

“In recent years many people have become totally disillusioned with party politics.

“Voters have a choice of either abstaining altogether, which is contrary to their in-built nature, or voting for a political system they don’t like.

“I’m standing so that those people who want to make a protest against political manipulation have someone to vote for.”

Kilroy makes a Marmite hit in Burton on Trent

The BBC carries this report on a Marmite sandwich thankyou kiss, linked here only slightly at odds with this more local report from here.

Either way the Veritas Party Leader is clearly already striking a chord of which Blair and Howard must surely be jealous. OK Charles Kennedy also had a good day! But its seems unlikely his wife will be able to similarly deliver every day of the campaign!

Guardian report from Erewash

The following is from an election report in this morning's paper linked here:

On up the M1, to bustling Trowell. "Oh God, the election," laughs Sarah Taylor, a teacher from Manchester, as though one had just mentioned an embarrassing mutual acquaintance. "I really don't know this time. I'm a Labour type, I suppose, but I really don't know."

Why not ? "Top-up fees, I think, above all - and just general disappointment". Who will you vote for? "Perhaps Liberal Democrat."

Trowell is in one of the key constituencies: Erewash, which straddles the motorway between Nottingham and Derby, Labour-held (Liz Blackman, with a majority of 6,932) but a place that usually swings with the victor, and where Robert Kilroy-Silk will make his appearance.

At the IKEA retail park, Rupa Patel, a social services worker, and Raymond Barnes contemplate "a new room for £614" before heading to the canteen. Rupa is determined to vote Labour but Raymond wavers: "I don't see much to choose between them to be honest," he says. "You're daft," chides Rupa, "of course there's a difference." Over education and the health service, she insists. Raymond wants to continue shopping.

The pedestrianised high street in Ilkeston in the heart of Erewash goes about its business with no visible sign of the election. The only canvassers in sight are a couple of Mormons. "I'm worried about immigration and schools being out of control," says Mary Thompson, a housewife with a Ramones T-shirt; but she is undecided about who to vote for. Last time Labour, this time "maybe Conservative, I don't know".

There is a world of difference between apathy and another word: disaffection, about which politicians talk less, and which is more dynamic, albeit negative.

There is a surprising coyness about this election - a lack of confidence in talking about it as though one were introducing some topic of distaste.

People do not really want to have the conversation. "I don't know yet," says Gerald, in telecommunications. "Tony Blair maybe, but I don't know if any of them can sort out what matters." What matters? "Well, it's the pound in your pocket, isn't it? And I suppose those other things like health and crime and all that. All right? I must be going."

The Bath Street fish bar offers pensioners a special of fish, chips and peas for £2. Taking advantage, Jack Stanley says he has voted for Jim Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, but this time is undecided. "They're not as serious as they used to be," he says. "It's all done by television, not for real.

Another important repeat post from Ukip Uncovered

UKIP vs Veritas AGAIN!

From my e-mail inbox it is pretty clear that many ordinary UKIP and Veritas party members see the insanity of the two parties competing in different constituencies up and down the country on 5th May.

Why is it proving so difficult for the likes of David Lott, Petrina Holdsworth, Robert Kilroy-Silk and Roger Knapman to face up to the likely lunatic consequences of their presently intended course?

Even Nigel Farage on yesterday's 'Frost on Sunday' had the grace to admit that Kilroy had done wonders for UKIP. The report in The Scotsman on that broadcast is linked from the posting below.

My earlier suggestions of a national pact, local understandings etc., having seemingly so far been ignored, let me, therefore, make yet another proposal to these parties' leaders:-

Kilroy's strength in the European elections and the thrust of the Veritas General Election campaign is likely to be in the East Midlands. Ukip should agree to stand aside in that particular area giving Veritas the opportunity to maximise their efforts and resources in those constituencies.

In return Veritas will ask its candidates outside the East Midlands to stand-down, contribute their set aside resources to the East Midlands campaign and maximise the anti-EU effort for the benefit of all.

I cannot imagine the thinking electorate seriously considering a vote for either of these parties on polling day if they have been seen to compete against one another during the campaign. I doubt either party will ever recover credibility with that electorate either in national or european contests for years to come.

Adverse Press

The following report appeared in icWales today, linked here:

Spin doctor in debt row

Apr 10 2005

Marc Baker, Wales on Sunday

ROBERT Kilroy-Silk's General Election spin doctor was last night threatened with losing his home over a £14,000 debt. David Soutter, who is helping to mastermind the campaign for Kilroy-Silk's party Veritas "The Party of Truth", was the focus of legal action expected to be launched by the Legal Services Commission. The 46-year-old father-of-two, who is also chief of staff for the party and manages Kilroy-Silk's diary on a daily basis, has rebuffed the claim. His Surrey-based lawyers Don Capo and Co said he has sufficient money to pay any debt and he was not notified of an important hearing in the debt case. The legal action follows the sale of an annexe to his home, called The Dairy, at Tranquil House, Milwr, near Holywell, North Wales for £160,000. The property was sold with freehold through Holywell-based estate agents Town & Country last December. A charging order was placed on the property after Mr Soutter was brought before Chester County Court in November 2001 by former friend Phil Butterworth for nine months unpaid rent on the property which he later bought from him. Mr Butterworth, 57, of North Wales, received legal aid for the case which he later won. In losing the case, Mr Soutter and his wife Elizabeth were liable for all costs and a charge was placed on his property. The order was lodged to ensure the Legal Services Commission - formerly the Legal Aid Board - re-couped all court costs on sale of the property. The commission last week learned that Mr Soutter had sold The Dairy and last night vowed to start proceedings to get their money back. Commission spokesman Richard Shand said: "David Soutter did not receive legal aid for the proceedings at Chester County Court in November 2001. "Philip Butterworth, who did receive legal aid, was successful in these proceedings. A costs order for £14,405 was awarded. "A charging order was placed on Tranquil House to recover these costs. This charging order remains on the property. "In order to obtain the money owed to the Legal Services Commission, we have instructed solicitors to issue possession proceedings for the property. "These proceedings will be issued imminently. Once possession of the property is obtained it will be sold to recover the costs order, plus interest." David Soutter last night insisted he has the money to pay the Legal Services Commission, saying it is in the hands of his Wrexham-based solicitors Cyril Jones & Co. But he claimed the debt is subject to counter legal action he intends to take against Mr Butterworth in respect of a £20,000 loan he says is owed to him. Mr Butterworth denies owing Mr Soutter any money. Last night, Mr Soutter's lawyers Don Capo and Co, said he had indicated that the sum of costs being claimed under the charge has been paid as security to Cyril Jones & Co, pending further proceedings Mr Soutter intends to bring against Mr Butterworth for a debt of £20,000 he said was loaned to Mr Butterworth in 1999. His lawyer said Mr Soutter was denied the right to bring his claims in the original county court proceedings in counterclaim to Mr Butterworth because at the time Mr Soutter had not paid the court fee required, though leave to bring the claim was given by the district judge. The lawyer also claimed Mr Soutter had not been notified of a costs taxation hearing and as a result, there are questions over whether the costs order could be set aside or successfully appealed. "Mr Soutter is more than able to meet payment for any debt that may be alleged," the lawyer said. Mr Butterworth last night welcomed the intervention by the Legal Services Commission. "I hope this brings an end to the matter for all our sakes," he said. "I do not owe Mr Soutter a penny and I am not aware of this court case he intends to bring against me." Robert Kilroy-Silk's party last night distanced itself from the row. Veritas party secretary Michael Harvey said: "This is a civil matter between David Soutter and the Legal Services Commission. Veritas has no comment to make." The party is fielding three candidates to gain seats in Wales in the May 5 election in Alyn & Deeside, Aberavon and Ceridigion.

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I have asked David Soutter for his explanation and will publish the response here upon its receipt.

The Distortions Continue

The following is the only reference to Robert Kilroy-Silk that the Google News Search facility can find in this morning's Sunday press. Silence and distortion are being mobilised in equal measures to thwart any chance of this election providing a platform to promote the recapture of Britain's sovereignty and democracy. The quote is from Scotland's Sunday Herald linked here:

Newquay is not all surfboards and bleached hair. Ronald and Jayne Hyde moved here three years ago to get away from “crime and drugs” in Essex. “I have two sons, 18 and 21, and people were being shot there over drugs,” says Jayne, who now runs a successful bed-and-breakfast in the town.

They come from Basildon, the Essex touchstone constituency that Neil Kinnock needed and failed to win in 1992 . Crime here is lower; Jayne feels it is safe enough to leave the doors unlocked, which she wouldn’t do in Essex now because of all the gypsies she reads about in the papers. She saw Robert Kilroy-Silk’s TV diary with the gypsies and thinks he spoke a lot of truth. Kilroy-Silk, standing alone for Veritas in the Midlands, was in this area last week, says Jayne, perhaps spoiling the pitch for UKIP or anyone else he has fallen out with. She has an obvious respect for him, while her husband’s derogatory comments about multicultural Mile End send me on my way with stinging ears.

If UKIP and Veritas candidates end up competing and the media continue to ignore the sovereignty and democracy concerns that should be the main theme of this campaign, then it is my increasingly strong view that grass root euro-sceptic efforts will have to concentrate on promotion of the British Declaration of Independence in the coming campaign!

UKIP's Candidate in Erewash

I quote below a posting put on UKIP Uncovered blog this afternoon. Veritas members may wish to telephone Mr Geoffrey Kingscott and put the same questions I suggested to UKIP members.

Why not use the UKIP Candidate search facility linked from this posting to find the name and telephone number of UKIP candidates running against othe Veritas candidates and put exactly the same questions?

Herewith today's UU blog.

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UKIP's Candidate in Erewash - Naive, Nuts or Nasty?

Mr Geoffrey Kingscott is the UKIP candidate for Erewash according to the UKIP web site. Mr Kingscott's telephone number is listed on that party's website and may be reached by clicking here (you may need to enter Erewash in the search field).

Why not give Mr Kingscott a call and inquire why he feels that he might stand a better chance of winning the election in Erewash rather than Robert Kilroy-Silk MEP, who brought victory to 12 UKIP MEPS last June, went to the Strasbourg Parliament and demanded our country back(a slogan now emblazoned across the UKIP home page), was repeatedly rebuffed by UKIP when wishing to take the fight directly to the other parties in Hodge Hill, Hartlepool etc., and in final frustration was forced to form his own EU withdrawalist party.

If there is one constituency in the country where there is a real chance of a euro-sceptic party candidate victory, one firmly espousing the withdrawalist cause, it surely must lie with Robert Kilroy-Silk MEP in Erewash.

What then does this Geoffrey Kingscott and the UKIP leaders who are supporting his candidature think they are playing at? If you belong to UKIP - contact them and find out! NOW

Next week will be too late!

Why do UKIP constantly seem to wish to prevent any euro-sceptic MPs ever sitting in Westminster?

Unquote to pity me but instead learn from my past and believe that
behind dark clouds THERE'S A SILVER LINING*

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Tony Bennett grabs Harlow Headlines for Veritas

The local newspaper Bishop's Stortford Citizen highlights Tony Bennet's standing for Veritas against the three main parties as may be read from this link.

A typical constituency where a challenge from UKIP would be plainly suicidal for the anti-EU cause as has been repeatedly argued both here and on our sister blog UkipUncovered where this posting is being repeated.

No surprise here then!

Two Parties out of Three Say NO to any Electoral Pact - Shame on Them!

Naturally I directed my request for an electoral pact (read below) to the senior leadership of all three parties concerned. I received a pretty immediate positive response from the leadership of the English Democrats, followed by a polite but curt and definite NO from the Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party, Mr Mike Nattrass. This latter reply was remarkably similar in reasoning to the equally negative response that came from a senior member of my own party, Veritas.

It is therefore now up to the UKIP and Veritas membership in the individual constituencies across the country to prevent this madness. UKIP members denied their own chance to resolve the bitter and acrimonious leadership dispute by the constitutional means of an EGM should impress on their local candidates where clashes arise that they and their often ex-colleagues now in Veritas should jointly decide which is the best candidate to proceed with nomination while the other is prevailed upon to stand aside. How many prospective candidates could really relish fighting a campaign with no helpers on a platform identical to that of another candidate?

The 630 odd individual contests that make up this general election are just that - local and independent. Each depends on volunteers which in the anti-EU, pro-democratic cause will mainly be drawn from party members within the UKIP and Veritas. These ignored patriots, now have the power to halt this pointless and destructive competition in their own constituencies but only during the next few short days!

Guardian Letter on the BDI

The following appeared in yesterday's newspaper, linked from here:

Election principles

Tuesday April 5, 2005
The Guardian

At this election the only thing that matters is whether the parliament to which we elect MPs has the power to govern in our interests (Election countdown, April 4). The British parliament no longer makes our laws. This happened without the knowledge or permission of the British people. The British Declaration of Independence makes sure that in future only our MPs make our laws and that we can sack our law-makers if we don't like those laws - in other words that we live in a democracy.

By signing the declaration, parliamentary candidates acknowledge the authority of the British people and commit to exercising British self-government when they get to parliament. People pressure them to do so by signing our petition (www.bdicampaign.org). We then tell the candidates how many votes they gain by signing. We urge the electorate to vote for a candidate who has signed the declaration. Without self-government there is no point in voting at all.

Rodney Atkinson
Frederick Forsyth
Leolin Price QC
Lynn Riley
Alfred Sherman
David Stoddart
The British Declaration of Independence

Last Gasp for Democracy -

Time for a UKIP/Veritas/English Democrat Pact

If, as is widely expected and reported, a General Election is indeed announced today by Britain's lying, authoritarian and deeply distrusted Prime Minister, Tony Blair - then a huge responsoibility for the future of democracy in Britain will fall upon the shoulders of the UKIP leadership, Robert Kilroy-Silk and Robin Tilbrook of the English Democrat party. (Possibly also IMO, other nationalist or EU withdrawalist parties and/or independent candidates in Scotland and Wales).

An electoral pact, prohibiting EU withdrawalist candidates from these parties from standing against one another in the coming election is the very least that the British electorate should be expected to be offered from protest parties whose driving principle is supposedly the reversal of the anti-democratic forces now at work in our society.

As short-lived Chief of Staff to Robert Kilroy-Silk and within days of the formation of the Veritas Party, I attended a meeting of the committee of broadcasters responsible for allocating Party Political Braodcasts during the coming election campaign. I was informed by the BBC employee Chairing this group, that even were Veritas to field a candidate in every constituency for the Westminster Parliament the maximum broadcasts we would be allocated would be ONE!

The judge reporting on the Labour Party postal ballot election rigging in Birmingham stated yesterday - the episode would "disgrace a banana republic" (read the full Daily Telegraph report from this link), this seems to me another case for a similar attack.

WHAT CAN BE SAID OF THE DEMOCRATIC CREDENTIALS OF A COUNTRY WHERE THE EMPLOYEE OF A PUBLIC CORPORATION - FUNDED BY A COMPULSORY AND UNIVERSAL LEVY - WHOSE VERY FUTURE IS KNOWN TO LIE ENTIRELY IN THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT ELECTED IN THIS COMING ELECTION - CAN SO MANIPULATE THE ENTIRE POLITICAL PARTY BROADCASTING DURING AN ELECTION CAMPAIGN - SO ARBITRARILY AND WITHOUT ANY APPARENT RIGHT OF APPEAL, DETERMINE THAT A NEW FORCE IN BRITISH POLITICS (EVEN IF FIELDING THE SAME NUMBER OF CANDIDATES AS THE MAIN PARTIES) WILL ONLY BE ALLOWED A SMALL FRACTION OF THE BROADCASTS ALLOCATED TO THE MAIN PARTIES?

What might one of the international election monitoring organisations make of the BBC's proposed allocation of this most crucial electoral resource?

Will such grave concerns be aired and fully discussed in the election campaign? Certainly not if the smaller protest parties fight mainly themselves.

There is, however, a quirk in the strange mish mash of rules and precedent that the BBC relies upon to justify its PPB policy, one that would allow three independent parties forming an electoral pact to be granted one broadcast each. Thus a UKIP/Veritas/English Democrat electoral pact could result in three national Party Political Broadcasts. That alone, in this TV dominated time of democratic crisis, should be sufficient to get those party's leaders around a table today!