From: gerard.batten@btinternet.com
CC:
Sent: 25/08/2010 13:56:32 GMT Daylight Time
Subj: UKIP Leadership
Dear All,
I am writing to those who have been kind enough to ask me to stand in the Leadership contest.
I have decided to do so today, and I am attaching the press release I put out earlier.
Thanks for your support.
Regards,
Gerard Batten
Member of the European Parliament for London
UK Independence Party
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Tim is Back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am back by popular demand with Gerard's election blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gerard is standing for the leadership of UKIP again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pants to the rest! Gerard is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PRESS RELEASE
UK Independence Party
From Gerard Batten MEP, London
GERARD BATTEN MEP TO RUN FOR
LEADERSHIP OF THE UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY
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Gerard Batten, UKIP MEP for London, announces his intention to be a candidate in the forthcoming leadership contest for the UK Independence Party.
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Mr Batten came second in the UKIP leadership election in November 2009.* He is founder member of UKIP and has represented London since 2004.
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Mr Batten said, "I will saying more about my programme for the Party as the contest progresses. At this stage it is sufficient to say that my vision for the Party is for it to continue its development as a radical alternative to the cross-party consensus that is reducing Britain the status of a colony of the European Union.
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"I have been persuaded to make my decision on the basis of the large number of calls and messages I have had from UKIP activists and members asking me to enter the contest and because I have a clear view of where the Party should be heading".* *
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Note: Press or media who wish to speak to Mr Batten can contact him on his office number 020 7403 7174.
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Gerard exposes Baroness Ashton
Dear Mr Barroso,
I was unable able to ask you a question today in the chamber. I would therefore like to make you acquainted with certain facts and ask you three questions.
Baroness Ashton was Treasurer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1980-1982.
CND was notoriously secretive about its sources of funding and did not submit its accounts to independent audit; however, after public pressure they were audited for the first time in 1982-1983 (Godfrey Lord & Co). It was found that 38% of their annual income (£176,197) could not be traced back to the original donors. The person responsible for this part of CND fund-raising, from anonymous donors, was Will Howard, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
The Russian dissident and internationally respected figure Vladimir Bukovsky, has shown from his research that the nuclear disarmament campaigns across Europe were largely funded by the Soviet bloc. Mr Bukovsky has proven with hundreds of top secret documents from Soviet archives that the worldwide disarmament campaign in the 1980s was covertly orchestrated from Moscow. The money was channelled through communist parties or other pro-Soviet organisations and individuals.
If therefore seems very likely that the unidentified income came from the Soviet bloc.
If Baroness Ashton did not know where the unidentified income came from she was incompetent. If she did not ask where it came from she was negligent. If she did know that it came from the Soviet block then she knowingly accepted money from a hostile foreign power in order to undermine Britain's and NATO's defence policies.
Anyone who was compromised by the Soviet Union in the 1980s remains compromised by the Russian Federation.
In the light of these facts, my questions are:
1) Do you still believe that she is a fit and proper person to be in charge of the EU's (and Britain's) Foreign and Security Policy?
2) Do you intend to investigate these claims further? If not, why not?
3) The answer to the second question is 'Yes' would you like me to supply you with the contact details of Mr Bukovsky, and others, who can give you more detailed information about this matter?
Yours sincerely,
Gerard Batten MEP
UK Independence PartyLondon
I was unable able to ask you a question today in the chamber. I would therefore like to make you acquainted with certain facts and ask you three questions.
Baroness Ashton was Treasurer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1980-1982.
CND was notoriously secretive about its sources of funding and did not submit its accounts to independent audit; however, after public pressure they were audited for the first time in 1982-1983 (Godfrey Lord & Co). It was found that 38% of their annual income (£176,197) could not be traced back to the original donors. The person responsible for this part of CND fund-raising, from anonymous donors, was Will Howard, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
The Russian dissident and internationally respected figure Vladimir Bukovsky, has shown from his research that the nuclear disarmament campaigns across Europe were largely funded by the Soviet bloc. Mr Bukovsky has proven with hundreds of top secret documents from Soviet archives that the worldwide disarmament campaign in the 1980s was covertly orchestrated from Moscow. The money was channelled through communist parties or other pro-Soviet organisations and individuals.
If therefore seems very likely that the unidentified income came from the Soviet bloc.
If Baroness Ashton did not know where the unidentified income came from she was incompetent. If she did not ask where it came from she was negligent. If she did know that it came from the Soviet block then she knowingly accepted money from a hostile foreign power in order to undermine Britain's and NATO's defence policies.
Anyone who was compromised by the Soviet Union in the 1980s remains compromised by the Russian Federation.
In the light of these facts, my questions are:
1) Do you still believe that she is a fit and proper person to be in charge of the EU's (and Britain's) Foreign and Security Policy?
2) Do you intend to investigate these claims further? If not, why not?
3) The answer to the second question is 'Yes' would you like me to supply you with the contact details of Mr Bukovsky, and others, who can give you more detailed information about this matter?
Yours sincerely,
Gerard Batten MEP
UK Independence PartyLondon
Monday, 23 November 2009
Gerard exposes Neil Kinnock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lord Kinnock: Serious allegations in the European Parliament EU Reporter
In 2006, London MEP Gerard Batten caused great controversy when he quoted highly placed intelligence sources that denounced Romano Prodi as a "KGB asset" during Strasbourg plenary. His sources included a former deputy head of KGB, as well the dissident and former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was to pay for his dissidence with his life just a few months later.
Today, in the same chamber, Batten made another allegation citing highly placed sources, using still classified evidence from the archives of the Gorbachev Foundation.Batten stated that former leader of the British Labour Party, and former EU Commissioner, Neil Kinnock approached the then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s to discuss a proposal to halt the Trident missile project.
He invited Lord Kinnock to account for himself, suggesting that if the allegation is true, then Lord Kinnock may be guilty of treason.
These allegations should be viewed in the context of the final years of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was weakening, and western military superiority helped lead to the dissolution of that polity, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Batten's allegations seem to suggest that Kinnock's actions could have actually jeopardised the eventual outcome that we are celebrating now, twenty years after the fall of the wall.
The full text of Gerard Batten's speech follows:
60 SECOND SPEECH TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
NEIL KINNOCK & THE SOVIET UNION
23RD November 2009
"Russian exile Pavel Stroilov recently published revelations about the collaboration between the British Labour Party and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Soviet archival documents state that in the 1980s Neil Kinnock, as leader of the opposition, approached Mikhail Gorbachev through secret envoys to see how the Kremlin would respond if a Labour Government stopped the implementation of the Trident nuclear missile programme.If the report given to Mr Gorbachev is true, it means that Lord Kinnock approached one of Britain's enemies in order to seek approval regarding his party's defence policy, and had he been elected, Britain's defence policy.
If this report is true then Lord Kinnock would be guilty of treason.The documents now available must be investigated at the highest possible level by the British authorities and Lord Kinnock given the opportunity to answer the Soviet evidence".
In 2006, London MEP Gerard Batten caused great controversy when he quoted highly placed intelligence sources that denounced Romano Prodi as a "KGB asset" during Strasbourg plenary. His sources included a former deputy head of KGB, as well the dissident and former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was to pay for his dissidence with his life just a few months later.
Today, in the same chamber, Batten made another allegation citing highly placed sources, using still classified evidence from the archives of the Gorbachev Foundation.Batten stated that former leader of the British Labour Party, and former EU Commissioner, Neil Kinnock approached the then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s to discuss a proposal to halt the Trident missile project.
He invited Lord Kinnock to account for himself, suggesting that if the allegation is true, then Lord Kinnock may be guilty of treason.
These allegations should be viewed in the context of the final years of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was weakening, and western military superiority helped lead to the dissolution of that polity, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Batten's allegations seem to suggest that Kinnock's actions could have actually jeopardised the eventual outcome that we are celebrating now, twenty years after the fall of the wall.
The full text of Gerard Batten's speech follows:
60 SECOND SPEECH TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
NEIL KINNOCK & THE SOVIET UNION
23RD November 2009
"Russian exile Pavel Stroilov recently published revelations about the collaboration between the British Labour Party and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Soviet archival documents state that in the 1980s Neil Kinnock, as leader of the opposition, approached Mikhail Gorbachev through secret envoys to see how the Kremlin would respond if a Labour Government stopped the implementation of the Trident nuclear missile programme.If the report given to Mr Gorbachev is true, it means that Lord Kinnock approached one of Britain's enemies in order to seek approval regarding his party's defence policy, and had he been elected, Britain's defence policy.
If this report is true then Lord Kinnock would be guilty of treason.The documents now available must be investigated at the highest possible level by the British authorities and Lord Kinnock given the opportunity to answer the Soviet evidence".
Gerard on the Politics Show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The bit on UKIp is about 50 minutes into the show.
Gerard came across really well. I am proud of him!
GERARD BATTEN. THE BEST CHOICE FOR LEADER
Friday, 20 November 2009
Gerard knocks them for six at the Peterborough hustings!!!!!!!!!
As I expected Gerard was the best speaker in Peterborough. He was GREAT. He answered all the questions with skill and won over many of the members.The other candidates didn't stand a chance!
Here is what some said.
Gerard will be a great leader says a member from Peterborough.
Mr Batten is the best by far says a member from near Huntingdon.
He gets my vote says a UKIP MEP.
Make your vote count. Vote Batten for a better UKIP and a better Britain.
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Gerard on the front page of the Express!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When you need a quote who do you call? Gerard!!!!!!
UK NEWS BRITAIN RULED BY A BELGIAN? YOU MUST BE JOKING
A FURIOUS backlash was growing last night against the drive to anoint Euro fanatic Herman Van Rompuy as President of Europe.The Belgian Prime Minister, who wants to impose sweeping Europe-wide taxes, is expected to be picked for the plum new job at a cosy dinner of the Brussels elite tomorrow.
But opponents of his crazed plans for building a European superstate and banning national flags and anthems were uniting yesterday after full details emerged of his ambitions for a massive new taxation offensive once he is installed in the £250,000-a-year post.
Gerard Batten, UKIP MEP for London, said angrily: “What is the point of Belgium? The only reason it would get the presidency is because by giving it to such a non-entity it is not going to upset anyone.
“They are adding insult to injury. It’s bad enough having the Lisbon Treaty rammed down our throats but a president from a nothing country telling us we shouldn’t exist? They are jackals biting the lion’s tail.”
VOTE BATTEN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UK NEWS BRITAIN RULED BY A BELGIAN? YOU MUST BE JOKING
A FURIOUS backlash was growing last night against the drive to anoint Euro fanatic Herman Van Rompuy as President of Europe.The Belgian Prime Minister, who wants to impose sweeping Europe-wide taxes, is expected to be picked for the plum new job at a cosy dinner of the Brussels elite tomorrow.
But opponents of his crazed plans for building a European superstate and banning national flags and anthems were uniting yesterday after full details emerged of his ambitions for a massive new taxation offensive once he is installed in the £250,000-a-year post.
Gerard Batten, UKIP MEP for London, said angrily: “What is the point of Belgium? The only reason it would get the presidency is because by giving it to such a non-entity it is not going to upset anyone.
“They are adding insult to injury. It’s bad enough having the Lisbon Treaty rammed down our throats but a president from a nothing country telling us we shouldn’t exist? They are jackals biting the lion’s tail.”
VOTE BATTEN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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