Could Ukip in Wales break away and and form a separate Welsh Party?
The BBC report that
Apart for 19 MEP who are going to cease to exist after Brexit Wales is the only part of the UK that the party has any presence and Mr Hamilton will be seeing the writing on the wall
The General Secretary of UKIP has compared his party to the "Black Death" after it was nearly wiped out in the local elections.
Paul Oakley insisted they were "dormant" rather than "finished" after losing more than 90 council seats up for the vote.
He told the Radio 4 Today programme: "Think of the Black Death in the Middle Ages - it comes along, it causes disruption then it goes dormant...that's what we'll be doing. Our time isn't finished.
But he said:
Whether this will fool the public is doubtful, it seems to be rather like a condemned prisoner finding God in a desperate hope for some redemption.
The BBC report that
It is likely UKIP Wales will become more independent from the rest of the party, according to leader Neil Hamilton.The Mid and West Wales AM said he wants to put a "Welsh stamp" on UKIP to show that the party is "more than just Europe".
Although he warned against dumping "an established brand", he said it could be supplemented with "something else".
The party suffered poor results in English council elections last week.
In the interview with BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, Mr Hamilton also told of his desire to see Wales "become a tax haven" with "proportionate regulation on business".
UKIP has five AMs in the Welsh Assembly. In Thursday's English local elections the party won three seats, but lost over 100.
Asked if more distance and independence for UKIP Wales would be tempting, Mr Hamilton said: "Inevitably devolution makes this not just a possibility, but something that's likely to happen."
He said he did not think there would be a new name and added: "It's a danger if you dump an established brand which people recognise on sight."
Apart for 19 MEP who are going to cease to exist after Brexit Wales is the only part of the UK that the party has any presence and Mr Hamilton will be seeing the writing on the wall
The General Secretary of UKIP has compared his party to the "Black Death" after it was nearly wiped out in the local elections.
Paul Oakley insisted they were "dormant" rather than "finished" after losing more than 90 council seats up for the vote.
He told the Radio 4 Today programme: "Think of the Black Death in the Middle Ages - it comes along, it causes disruption then it goes dormant...that's what we'll be doing. Our time isn't finished.
But he said:
"We might supplement it with something else, to cement the specifically Welsh nature of UKIP Wales."
"We've been thinking about various ideas," the AM explained.
Mr Hamilton added: "I'm not in a position to discuss them at the minute, but I do want to put a Welsh stamp on UKIP in the future because after the MEPs disappear in a year's time, we won't have any parliamentary representation apart from in the House of Lords, anywhere else.
"So everybody will, if they look at UKIP, be looking at us here in Wales where we are up and down in the assembly, day in and day out, fighting on domestic political issues.
"So then it'll be easier I think for the wider public in the UK to see that UKIP is more than just Europe."
"I see advantages in having a kind of federalised United Kingdom where you can have different solutions to problems in different parts of the country.So it seems that Mr Hamilton does not envisage Ukip in Wales reverting to an Abolish the Assembly and maybe absorbing the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party who gained 4.4% in the regional vote in the last Assembly Elections stance quite the reverse maybe adopting a Right Wing Welsh Autonomy stance .
"I want to make Wales into a kind of tax haven, and a haven for proportionate regulation on business to try and grow the Welsh economy and the tax base, because we're the poorest part of the UK."
Whether this will fool the public is doubtful, it seems to be rather like a condemned prisoner finding God in a desperate hope for some redemption.
2 comments:
Creating an UKIP (Wales)or an UKIP (Cymru) would surely be a contradiction in terms.
UKIP believes in one United Kingdom. One pre-Windrush kingdom, one empire, one nation, one queen, one sovereign parliament, one set of laws, one language, one culture, etc, etc.
But, as we saw last Thursday, the writing is on the wall. Most kippers in England seem to have jumped ship and gone back home to their real spiritual home in the Tory Party.
So - what is NH up to?? Have the Tories blocked his move to re-join??
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