Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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hadn't thought of andy, sure he would do a good job but i would imagine that running his own business might not leave him with the time to take on the role.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I think when the persons name is out UKIP in Dover will get new members overnight and will help in geting more candidates to stand at the next local Election in May, and we have already asked a very well know name to stand for Dover in the next Gen/Election,Ijust have a feeling that the next Gen/Election will come within the next two years and under our new chairman UKIP will be ready for it.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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I, too, know who the mystery person is and understand that all will be revealed soon! Keeping you in suspenders, eh? Well, it proves that UKIP is more leak proof than the Labour party!! (Joking, Keef!)
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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vic/andy
I realy don't know why it's such a big secret, no ones realy that interested
but if you have to play games then i suppose thats your right.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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It's not playing games, Keef, it's making sure that the people involved have their priorities sorted. Don't be so churlish, it doesn't become you.
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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You will be pleased to know what the mystery candidate is not me!
Vic, I thought you were giving up politics???????????????????
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Bob I still am in the party and will help out at times, but thank you for asking,I am going out more with my wife now and looking forward to going to Spain later in the year and we are going round parts of the UK to meet up with some of our familys,this we have not done for some years.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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come off it vic, next april you will be yelling and shouting the odds as per usual.
not a real election without you to liven things up.
local elections are usually dire, with most people not even knowing they are on until they get their polling card.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Vic, you're not plannign to be the first Nude UKIP candidate I hope? A tin of baked beans for modesty perhaps?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We have to wait and see.Sid
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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So................the new Chairman of the Dover branch of UKIP is...me. It will be almost impossible to fill Vic's boots in the same way, and I've agreed to take on the role in an altogether different manner. This year will be spent trying to get younger members in greater numbers to come on board. Our membership is ageing, and that may be a reflection of UKIP policies themselves.
I look forward to many battles with friends on here, and elsewhere. I anticipate my tenure of office as being short term; I have my own business to run, and have promised to my wife that this coming winter's energies would be aimed at expansion of the business. If, when it comes to handing the reins on to another, the local UKIP branch has a significantly increased membership with our support staff strengthened, then I shall have done what I set out to achieve.
Here's the press release sent this afternoon to the KM and DE:
UKIP Dover Press Release
"As from 18th June, the Dover Branch of UKIP are pleased to announce that local businessman Andy Cooper has been elected Chairman in succession to Vic Matcham, who has announced his decision to retire from active politics.
Mr Cooper says in a brief statement : "I am delighted to take on the role of Chairman of the local UKIP branch here in the Dover Constituency. It is a role that has been magnificently performed by Vic, rightly labelled a 'local legend' by our MP Charlie Elphicke, and will be a hard act to follow."
"I do not intend to stand in the local elections nor as Parliamentary Candidate at the next General Election; rather, I see my role as trying to increase our membership by getting across the message that the continued British membership of the EU is against our national interests as things stand at the moment, to as many people as possible. I hope to bring this message to all residents in this constituency, including Deal and the outlying villages."
"As would, I suspect, many UKIP voters at the last election describe themselves, I am a Conservative supporter of many years standing who has simply lost patience in waiting for electoral promises to be honoured. My support dates from the Falklands war, when Margaret Thatcher stood up for this country in the international arena and made us feel proud of our country. Successive parties have been promising a referendum on British membership of the EU for decades now, and have simply not honoured those promises after coming to power. The Conservative Party have fudged the issue in recent years with deliberately vague language in their manifesto and no longer deserve the support of Britons who want to see our country governed from London, not Brussels."
"People criticise UKIP as a one-issue party. I see that as a strength, not a weakness: with our country having been left in such a terrible economic position through years of economic mismanagement by the Labour Party, I see the UK's contribution to the EU as a massive millstone around our neck that we simply cannot afford. Now, perhaps more than ever, we have to address the subject of British membership of the EU and ask ourselves if it's worth it. In my eyes, that has to be a resounding 'No'."
UKIP hope to put up candidates in all areas for elections to Town, District and County Councils and hope to be able to announce a high-profile candidate at the next General Election."
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Good luck Andy.Best of luck in your new role.
I think I won the bet as whom the next leader would be
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes Andy will make a very good chairman and we are all looking forward to working along side him.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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All the very best Andy, your the man! I`ll have to toast your success this week if I`m in the White Horse. And a happy retirement Vic, and we shall meet again next month or before.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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congratulations andy, i do not envy your job of recruiting young members, anyone under 40 would be so used to the bureaucracy in brussels they would not be able to comprehend any alternative.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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From a Conservative Councillor who has similar views on Europe, I "personally" wish you well Andy.
But don't take any of our (Conservative) seats !
What different message can you bring the voters, for Town and District elections ? - we all say we're working for Dover (but many don't).
Roger
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Roger, I have been saying just that for over ten years we all must look at the person who is standing and I know under Andy UKIP will be doing just that before that person or persons goes out in a ward to get votes.
