By: Daniel Oxley

Daniel Oxley — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:50:43 +0000

Mary, I would be grateful if you would consider my observations about UKIP MEP’s having foreign wives. You name two who have foreign wives but you could have mentioned that UKIP MEP’s also have foreign husbands. As you know two new women UKIP MEPs appeared in the last parliament. One of them being Marta Andreason, former EU Chief Accountant. I think I think that I am right in saying that she has a foreign husband but however many foreign spouses these MEPs are found to have is in my view irrelevant. There is no mismatch between marital choices and political stances because UKIP is not anti-European it is pro-European.
Please do not mix up a disdain for the political intitutions of the EU with antipathy for its peoples. I am a huge fan of Egypt but this does not mean that I respect its corrupt President Hosni Mubarak.
You requested that readers of your blog discuss people of bad character in UKIP. The obvious point first – you are not perhaps, as a member of the Labour Party very well placed to ‘cast the first stone’. There are rotten apples in UKIP as in every other political party including yours. You concentrated your fire on two UKIP miscreants in the main, one of these was sacked from the Party within just 48 hours. Rather quicker than the PM, David Cameron or Whatshisname have moved. I do realise, of course, that you are not mindlessly partisan in your outlook; you have condemned referendums as being undemocratic even though your Party offered one and like UKIP you opposed the invasion of Iraq. You do think out of the Labour Box but you are a member and you campaign under the party banner. The same party that told us it would be ‘whiter than white’ and that it would have an ethical foreign policy. The party that should have stuck solely with its other slogan, ‘Things Can Only Get Better’, a statement which is actually more true now than it was when it was first used.

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