Caerphilly’s UKIP candidate Sam Gould was left red-faced and wet-shooed when he tried to get the better of pro-immigration protesters at the party’s spring conference in Margate on February 28.
Mr Gould wrote “we love Nige” in the sand when he heard protesters from the campaign group Stand Up to UKIP were planning to write messages on the beach.
Mr Gould beat the protesters to it, but misjudged the tide and had to be pulled to safety by a fellow party supporter.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Margate in opposition to the conference and minor scuffles took place between demonstrators and UKIP supporters, some wearing clothing representing the far-right Britain First group who have ‘invaded’ mosques across Britain.
Pro-immigration campaigners later changed messages on the beach, such as “we love UKIP”, to “we love immigrants” and wrote slogans in the sand promoting open borders.
Mr Gould said: “Anyone who has ever been a member of Britain First, the BNP or the EDL are not allowed to be a member of UKIP. Britain First were not allowed into our conference.”
UKIP provides us with lots of entertainment but very little politics.
I don’t know about providing “very little politics” UKIP afterall did win the European Election in Britain last year and their MEPs are constantly working for Britain’s best interests in Europe. As far as I can see the other parties who have European seats are just there to make up the numbers.
As long as UKIP gets us out of the failing EU experiment that is really all that matters
UKIP provides us with lots of entertainment but very little politics.
I don’t know about providing “very little politics” UKIP afterall did win the European Election in Britain last year and their MEPs are constantly working for Britain’s best interests in Europe. As far as I can see the other parties who have European seats are just there to make up the numbers.
As long as UKIP gets us out of the failing EU experiment that is really all that matters
I’m sorry to say that there is no evidence that UKIP’s MEPs are constantly working for Britain’s best interests in Europe.
Sadly, UKIP’s MEPs are not doing much for us at all. In the last European parliament UKIP’s band of MEPs were the laziest of any political party in the whole of the European Union. They barely ever turned up to debates and votes, and when they did bother to vote they obstinately voted against almost every motion, no matter whether it was in Britain’s national interest to do so or not. Their inherent laziness didn’t stop them from claiming millions in salaries, expenses and party subsidies from the “EU gravy train” that they’re always so
keen to criticise.
The schizophrenic UKIP stance on the TTIP corporate power grab is one of the
clearest indicators that they simply cannot be trusted to do as they say. TTIP
represents a huge threat to UK sovereignty because it would allow multinational
corporations to completely bypass our democratic and judicial systems in order
to sue our country every time our government does something that they don’t
like. Some UKIP politicians like Louise Bours have criticised TTIP, while others are clearly strongly in favour of signing away our sovereignty to corporate interests. William “Dartmouth” Legge propagandised in favour of TTIP in the European parliament and their industrial spokesman Roger
Helmer even voted in favour of it when it came before the European parliament!
In December 2014, UKIP set up an EU-wide political party – the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) – and will now benefit from a further £1mn of EU tax-payer funding – for iotself, not for Britain.
Less than a year after the 2014 elections, the MEPs saw their first casualty:Yorkshire MEP Amjad Bashir, who defected to the Tories in January 2015, calling UKIP a “vanity project for Nigel Farage” and saying that “many of the criticisms made of the party [including accusations of racism] are true.
A former Tory Party member, our MEP for Wales, Nathan Gill, was PA to former Welsh UKIP MEP John Bufton. He is now keen to go to Westminster in the General Election. UKIP’s policy against immigration and claims that migrants take British jobs did not stopped Gill from employing migrant workers from Eastern Europe and the Philippines in his family’s residential care business in Hull (which closed down in 2008). Many of the workers were paid less than £300 a week and kept in bunkhouses as “temporary accommodation”
I have been as kind as I can be.
– I believe some of your comments of laziness does not represent any of our current MEPs. UKIP MEP Nathan Gill since being elected to represent Wales in 2014 has had the best attendance and voting record out of all of the MEPs for Wales.
– We are opposed to TTIP and Nathan Gill is against this, there is no party whip, please do not take the opinions of an individual as that of the party when they are not.
– In terms of the ED2 group within Europe led by Nigel Farage, it is short changed in funding compared to the other groups, rather than an EU party being funded based on an equal amount per MEP, there is a sliding scale so the more MEPs they more you get per MEP which puts groups for which UK Labour and the Conservatives are members of at a greater advantage.
– In reply to UKIP’s immigration policy, we are not “anti-immigration” we support controlled immigration based on an Australian style points based system. Many immigrants support UKIP and its policies on immigration. You may find our more on my website: http://samgould.uk
I’m sorry to say that there is no evidence that UKIP’s MEPs are constantly working for Britain’s best interests in Europe.
Sadly, UKIP’s MEPs are not doing much for us at all. In the last European parliament UKIP’s band of MEPs were the laziest of any political party in the whole of the European Union. They barely ever turned up to debates and votes, and when they did bother to vote they obstinately voted against almost every motion, no matter whether it was in Britain’s national interest to do so or not. Their inherent laziness didn’t stop them from claiming millions in salaries, expenses and party subsidies from the “EU gravy train” that they’re always so
keen to criticise.
The schizophrenic UKIP stance on the TTIP corporate power grab is one of the
clearest indicators that they simply cannot be trusted to do as they say. TTIP
represents a huge threat to UK sovereignty because it would allow multinational
corporations to completely bypass our democratic and judicial systems in order
to sue our country every time our government does something that they don’t
like. Some UKIP politicians like Louise Bours have criticised TTIP, while others are clearly strongly in favour of signing away our sovereignty to corporate interests. William “Dartmouth” Legge propagandised in favour of TTIP in the European parliament and their industrial spokesman Roger
Helmer even voted in favour of it when it came before the European parliament!
In December 2014, UKIP set up an EU-wide political party – the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) – and will now benefit from a further £1mn of EU tax-payer funding – for iotself, not for Britain.
Less than a year after the 2014 elections, the MEPs saw their first casualty:Yorkshire MEP Amjad Bashir, who defected to the Tories in January 2015, calling UKIP a “vanity project for Nigel Farage” and saying that “many of the criticisms made of the party [including accusations of racism] are true.
A former Tory Party member, our MEP for Wales, Nathan Gill, was PA to former Welsh UKIP MEP John Bufton. He is now keen to go to Westminster in the General Election. UKIP’s policy against immigration and claims that migrants take British jobs did not stopped Gill from employing migrant workers from Eastern Europe and the Philippines in his family’s residential care business in Hull (which closed down in 2008). Many of the workers were paid less than £300 a week and kept in bunkhouses as “temporary accommodation”
I have been as kind as I can be.
– I believe some of your comments of laziness does not represent any of our current MEPs. UKIP MEP Nathan Gill since being elected to represent Wales in 2014 has had the best attendance and voting record out of all of the MEPs for Wales.
– We are opposed to TTIP and Nathan Gill is against this, there is no party whip, please do not take the opinions of an individual as that of the party when they are not.
– In terms of the ED2 group within Europe led by Nigel Farage, it is short changed in funding compared to the other groups, rather than an EU party being funded based on an equal amount per MEP, there is a sliding scale so the more MEPs they more you get per MEP which puts groups for which UK Labour and the Conservatives are members of at a greater advantage.
– In reply to UKIP’s immigration policy, we are not “anti-immigration” we support controlled immigration based on an Australian style points based system. Many immigrants support UKIP and its policies on immigration. You may find our more on my website: http://samgould.uk
@BillChapman. How do you know they are lazy? Might they be just choosing not to vote as a protest?
@BillChapman. How do you know they are lazy? Might they be just choosing not to vote as a protest?
Seems a little fact checking should have been done on this article. As shown at https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/margate-tide-times-20150228 the tide at Margate was going out when Mr. Gould went down onto the beach. Unfortunately in his boundless enthusiasm he had not ensured that it had gone out far enough for him to exit the beach via the slipway without getting his shoes wet.
Seems a little fact checking should have been done on this article. As shown at https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/margate-tide-times-20150228 the tide at Margate was going out when Mr. Gould went down onto the beach. Unfortunately in his boundless enthusiasm he had not ensured that it had gone out far enough for him to exit the beach via the slipway without getting his shoes wet.