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!