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UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY - AYLESBURY VALE
HISTORY
The UK Independence Party in Aylesbury was formed in 1999 by David
Bailey who lived in Wendover near Aylesbury Bucks. David was a superb
British supporter of the UKIP movement. David passed away in 2005, six
months after the General Election in May. He will be long remembered for
his battles for freedom of our dear country Great Britain from the EU.
In 2005 UKIP Aylesbury Prospective Candidate Chris Adams sealed an
impressive 4.8 % turnout of votes. After the election a new chairman was
appointed called John Lesingham. John is still chairman today and is
always there on all of our public meetings and rallies.
In 2007 UKIP Aylesbury Vale became the Vale's 3rd largest party beating
Labour into 4th place. A historic 25 candidates stood in the Aylesbury
Vale District Council local Election on May 3rd 2007. Dave Fowler
just missed being elected in Waddesdon by a mere 50 odd votes, while
Chris Adams was around 75 votes from being elected. UKIP picked up
substantial support in villages across the Vale including, Haddenham,
Aston Clinton, Bedgrove.
In 2007, the branches of Aylesbury and Buckingham merged together to
fight on a united front for the Vale of Aylesbury. UKIP was now
releasing quality leaflets in full blown colour, we even got accused by
the Lib Dems as being too glossy! The gloss was certainly coming off the
other LIB LAB CON parties where by UKIP lost sitting Councillors their
seats across the Vale. This was seen in Haddenham, Bedgrove in
particular.
At the AGM in December, a brand new committee was elected with many
positions being taken, a new vice chairman was elected -Mr John Wiseman
who was the chairman of the brand new policy at national level on
Agriculture. This will be released very soon. UKIP named long time
servant Gerard McCormack as it's patron after years of sterling work.
Prospective Parliamentary Candidates were selected: Mr Dave Fowler for
Buckingham constituency and Chris Adams once again for Aylesbury. The
Boundaries Commision has just changed the constituency boundaries of
Aylesbury & Buckingham. A list of all town's, villages will be posted
soon to the "Where I Live" section upon this website.
In January 2008, UKIP Aylesbury had a re-make of it's new website, Chris
Adams designed the new web and feedback has already been.......WOW! The
latest news appears day by day to the public of Aylesbury Vale.
UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY NATIONAL HISTORY
The UK Independence Party was formed on 3 September 1993 at the London
School of Economics by several members of the Anti-Federalist League
(AFL). The latter had been founded by Dr Sked in November 1991 with the
aim of running candidates opposed to the Maastricht Treaty in the 1992
general election.
UKIP has grown to have constituency branches around the country, new
national headquarters in Newton Abbot, and a national party newsletter,
the UK Independence News. It contested the 1994 Euro-elections running
candidates in 24 out of the 87 seats and secured a highly respectable
157,000 votes. On 28 October 1995 the party held its first annual
conference at the LSE which over 500 delegates from all over the UK
attended. The second conference was held on 12 October 1996 at Central
Hall, Westminster, nearly 1000 delegates attended and excerpts from the
speeches were broadcast on all TV channels.
Each year five members are elected to the NEC, which is the party's
highest management committee. There are 15 members in all. Elections are
on a one member, one vote basis. Party policy now also has to be
approved by conference. The party leader, under the party constitution,
is elected on the basis of one member one vote. The current Leader is
Nigel Farage MEP. The three previous leaders were Roger Knapman MEP,
Jeffrey Titford MEP and Michael Holmes.
In order to protect the party from infiltration by extremists, all party
members must sign a membership form supporting the party's principles,
which must also be respected by conference. All prospective candidates
and constituency office bearers must sign declarations confirming that
they have no criminal record and no previous association with extremist
political groups of right and left.
To date the party has made excellent progress. From half a dozen people
it has established itself nationally as the UK's fourth party, developed
a unique set of policies (on Defence, Crime, Agriculture, Housing,
Education, Welfare and Economics) for Britain's independence and
regeneration, and has shifted the whole political debate towards the
re-establishment of our independence. It fights all by-elections and in
the 1999 Euro-elections achieved strategic political breakthroughs by
returning 3 European MEPs. By the arrival of the new millennium UKIP has
been responsible for the reshaping UK politics altogether.
In the June 2004 European Elections the Party started taking giant
strides on the British political scene. 2.6 million people voted UKIP
(16% of the vote). This was more than the Liberal Democrats received and
more than half the numbers that voted Labour or Tory. This tremendous
success resulted in UKIP securing 12 MEPs.
(Two of the successful UKIP MEPs, Robert Kilroy-Silk and Ashley Mote,
now sit as Independent MEPs).
UKIP followed this up in September 2004 by coming third in the
Hartlepool by-election, relegating the Tories to fourth place. The Party
conclusively demonstrated that it has the potential to establish itself
as a significant force in British politics.
UKIP contested 497 in the 2005 General Election. Although the Party did
not manage to secure any MPs, we made steady gains in a hostile
electoral environment. Seats fought over the last three elections have
increased from 194 and 434 to 497, while the national share of vote has
increased from 0.34% and 1.47% to 2.38%, with deposits saved increasing
from one in 1997 to six in 2001 and 45 in the 2005 General Election.
Total votes stood at 106,001 in 1997, at 390,910 in 2001 and at roughly
610,000 in 2005.
Fielding 497 candidates was a considerable achievement and there is no
reason to expect that the Party will be any less tenacious in the next
General Election.
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