At 12:30 pm today UKIP Leader Gerard Batten will deliver an open letter to Theresa May demanding she resigns as Prime Minister immediately describing her leadership as a ‘disaster for the country’.
This is the letter:
OPEN LETTER FROM GERARD BATTEN TO THERESA MAY
In his brief LBC broadcast this evening Nigel indicated that he might contest the leadership of UKIP at the next leadership election.
I am quite undecided about this. Nigel did a fantastic job getting the Brexit referendum and quite rightly needed to get out for a rest after all of the flack he took whilst doing it.
Gerald Batten has done a really good job at re-building UKIP after the Farage endorsed Bolton fiasco. I wonder if Nigel would be so keen to stand if it were not for the immensely hard work that Gerald Batten has put into rescuing UKIP.
Nigel has been a great spokesperson and opponent of the Europhiles but he left too much of a mess behind to be considered for leader. Didn’t he support Bolton who nearly destroyed the Party?
JackT
I fully support Gerard Batten’s leadership and his quality rescue of UKIP.
Am also realistic that Nigel Farage is a household name, trusted by many, many more than the smaller number who have knowledge of what has gone on within UKIP during the HB period. UKIP has to have wisdom in picking its way through the current fast changing political landscape. It is an academic question though as the battle within the Conservatives has to play out first.
Yesterday there was a broad groundswell of public support for UKIP from former Conservative voters feeling betrayed by the Chequers deal.
Nigel Farage gives strong interviews on Fox News explaining to a large US audience how the Chequers deal went against leaving the EU and trade with US.
These interviews covers his return to politics, the Khan-blimp, NATO alliance.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=fox+news+nigel+farage+interview+9th+july+2018&view=detail&mid=3932B7B3D7603A9DF7B83932B7B3D7603A9DF7B8&FORM=VIRE
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=fox+news+nigel+farage+interview+9th+july+2018&&view=detail&mid=34813F27A682359A976734813F27A682359A9767&rvsmid=3932B7B3D7603A9DF7B83932B7B3D7603A9DF7B8&FORM=VDQVAP
Gerard said he is only a stopgap and would prefer not to be leader.
Bryan, yes, true, he has said that. I would be happy for him to carry on as leader for a couple more years as he is doing a good job. I think he will improve as well as time goes by. I’m not a fan of another leadership contest, which in my mind presents more risks than upside. However it is more than likely there will be another leadership contest. I agree with others on here that were Nigel to return, so to speak, it should be as a president type position. UKIP cannot afford to return to being a party run by one individual, if it is to prosper in the long term.
A good letter Gerard Batten. There is no longer any point beating about the bush. T May has spun this out for months and now the treachery continues. Some thought ‘this is all part of the game that has to be played out and our Prime Minister must have the UK’s best interests at heart. Well surely that time has well and truly gone! She has appeased the Remain MP’s and shown her true colours.
Any agreement she makes with the EU that doesn’t give what has been agreed will not be worth the paper it is written on. If she pushes this she will ultimately lose. The old school politics of deference are gone! Nobody that voted leave and many that voted remain try will have any respect left not just for T May but for the position of Prime Minister. It is an absolute disgrace and the country has to start again to refresh our Democracy
Theresa May’s “best interests of our country” really means best interests of the CBI, IOD, Law Society, BCC and Remain etc etc.
Those interests were outvoted and history has proven that when they win, wages, working conditions and living standards decrease.
“Our country” is our people not a ridiculous ocd to increase population, consumerism and GDP.
Theresa May has found out that rabid Remain MPs, especially those in Leave constituencies, will never be satisfied unless the clock is turned back and we all voted Remain.
May tells us free movement is stopping but no date. Article 50 negotiations will be extended and then a transitional period implemented after.
Free movement could be forever as elections and governments come and go.
Theresa May has stated in Parliament that payments to the EU will stop. Once again, nice words but no date.
The EU has been promised £40+ billion to ease our departure. When that is spent, vested interests will pressure HMG to pay again and again.
We’ve had the trade and judiciary soothed by EU trade compliance and ECJ jurisdiction. Now the service industries are stepping up to the trough and guaranteed Brexit will be watered down to help them.
We’re getting nowhere.
Rumour is the next resignation may be Boris?
I think Boris knows he’s never going to be leader of the cons. He’s got two options stick with May and her omnishambles quisling government or resign and be sent to the back benches for good. The 1922 committee won’t back Boris. That snake in the grass Gove is another matter!
BORIS JOHNSON HAS RESIGNED FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
The BBC is saying he has done so in order to fight Mrs May for the leadership.
My comment was made literally min before he left by the looks of it. He done right by resigning but now he’s an outsider in what will be a Remain run cabinet well that is unless the 48 signatures are obtained to go for the vote of no confidence in May’s leadership. If all the Leavers leave the cabinet that will happen.
Amazing.
He’s realised that the Theresa May and Tory HQ are taking the pee out of him.
Last week Heathrow.
This week Brexit.
I had Gove marked out as a Mk 1 creep well before he achieved ministerial status. He isn’t under any circumstances to be trusted. He was embroiled in the MPs’ expense scandal. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5305434/Michael-Gove-flipped-homes-MPs-expenses.html
It is fortunate that he cannot escape the TV interview he gave defending PM May’s chequers deal. He is now thankfully damaged beyond repair.
Boris lives to see another day by resigning just within the 48 hour period deadline afforded to him by the mounting internal conservative rebellion.
https://order-order.com/2018/07/09/bojo-goes/
Although I agree that she should resign I am concerned that, instead of the Cons choosing a committed leaver as their new leader, they will choose Sajid Javid to head up and even more pro-Islam government. I wait with baited breath and grave concern for the resignation and follow up
I wouldn’t put it past May to pave the way for Javid to become leader before resigning, I’d expect no less from the spiteful b*tch.
True and a true description of her.
I agree with your train of thought, I have for some time believed that the stage is being set for Sajid Javid to become the next Tory leader and Prime Minister.
Any ‘leaver’ that becomes the next Tory leader will know they will have to face the electorate in a General Election, and they will be set up to fail. If Mr Javid becomes Tory leader, he would not win the election because of Brexit, but if the Tories can steal the Muslim vote from Labour.
What a sorry state of affairs. The best that UKIP can hope for is to have a handful of MPs in opposition to a Labour government, I’m afraid to admit. But at least we might actually have some effective opposition for once.
Mr Sajid Javid had openly declared he does not practice any religion. His wife is a practising Christian.
From just before he was elevated to Home Secretary, though, he has said a few things which made me cock my ears.
Also, he joined the Cabinet as an “ardent Brexiteer”.
Then, he sided with Theresa May’s utter betrayal.
Out, out, out!