Ed: This questionnaire for UKIP members is of great importance. We look forward to your answers – either in the comments or sent to [email protected] – and we would ask all our readers to forward this questionnaire to their branches and send answers back to [email protected] so that the author of this questionnaire can collate them in time for the Bournemouth Conference. Answers to be received by September 11th!
The overwhelming opinion of UKIP members in South Wales East is that we need Constitutional Reform. But what are the principles upon which a new Constitution should be based?
Should UKIP members elect our governing body:
Yes
No
Would it be better for that election to be on a regional basis, so that electors have a better understanding of the candidates, and so that Wales, Scotland, and N Ireland are assured of representation:
Yes
No
Should members of the governing body be other than MEPs, MPs, AMs, SMPs:
Yes
No
Should the governing body appoint its own chairman instead of the chairman being chosen by the leader:
Yes
No
Should there be an independent Treasury Department with an audit committee comprised of suitably qualified representatives, elected by the membership, nominating and supervising the Treasurer:
Yes
No
Should there be an independent Disciplinary Committee composed of members with a judicial or legal background, such as present or former magistrates, and those with a significant legal element in their professional qualifications or experience. instead of the NEC whose members sometimes have programmes of their own:
Yes
No
Should there be a Rules Committee which can set out Rules dispassionately and several months in advance of any election, so that we never again suffer from an NEC which kept moving the goalposts in the Welsh Assembly Election and Leadership Election under pressure from one faction or another:
Yes
No
Ed: Please forward this questionnaire any way you want so that as many members have the opportunity to answer. Remember: we need the results so that the leadership – whoever that will be – will be aware of our opinion, and that s/he has proper material on which to call a Constitutional Conference.
This is our chance to be heard!
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11 Comments on “UKIP – We Need Constitutional Reform!”
A questionnaire should not contain questions that are loaded and reveal the biases of its originator. I think that quite a bit of background knowledge is needed to answer these questions with confidence, and not every member possesses that knowledge.
UKIP is NOT an English organisation.
I would say ‘yes’ to most of above, but most of all we need a new leader as Nigel still seems to being deferred to as being in charge. Where is Paul Nuttall? Is’nt he supposed to be in charge in Nigel’s absence?
It is not good enough to leave the party floating around like this and everyone else trying to come up with answers, there does need to be someone making decisions at the helm. I am sure there are many like me who are not happy with the present situation.