Mr Farage promised me that he wouldn’t veto her, which isn’t quite the same thing. The UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen, who once asked Mr Farage to resign, told me in an interview which we will broadcast on C4 News tonight that Mr Farage and his party we’re “undemocratic”.Īndreasen fears Mr Farage will use his new power to relegate her down the UKIP party list for the south-east area for the 2014 Euro-elections. In particular they resent his command of the money the party gets from having MEPs, and a recent UKIP rule-change which effectively gives Farage a veto over candidates. I recall hearing Roy Jenkins there 30 years ago, at a huge SDP rally, and a photo in the basement shows the fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley speaking in the building.īut some in UKIP are coming to fear the party is becoming a one-man band, and accuse Nigel Farage of developing into a dictator. He was speaking in Birmingham’s old Victorian Town Hall building, which has provided a platform for many great orators in its time. Mr Farage declared that UKIP’s goal was now to top the poll, UK-wide, in the 2014 European elections. With one-man bands, it’s probably best to erase the image of chimney-sweeper Dick Van Dyke prancing about in the movie Mary Poppins.Instead, think of talented multi-instrumentalists such as. In his speech Nigel Farage welcomed the latest recruits, including Lord Stevens of Ludgate and Stephen West, a Conservative councillor from Basingstoke, who will now be UKIP candidate for Hampshire police commissioner.

Also on the stall, for some strange reason, were two goldfish in a bowl and a competition to find the best names for the fish. Nigel Farage’s stall, manned by his wife (and neither will mind me using the non-PC word “manned”) was full of pictures of the dear leader, copies of his books, Nigel Farage mugs, and and a tea-towel commemorating the time he called Herman Van Rumpoy a wet rag. Each MEP pays for their stall from the promotonal budget they each get from the European Parliament. Around the conference hall were st alls for each of UKIP’s MEPs – a clever way, the party freely admits, to channel EU money into UKIP’s coffers. It was an eyeopener – rather disorganised, but also very colourful – full of people sporting Union Jack ties, bow-ties or cravats, in bright waistcoats and with incredible moustaches. I’ve never been to a UKIP conference before. One Man Band is a combination of a virtual music-keyboard with automatic-accompaniment, a sequencer that utilises styles and a style editor. And when the party is competing with the Liberal Democrats for third place in the national polls, on 9, 10 or even 12 per cent of people’s voting intention, it’s hard to justify ignoring them. One Man Band v12 for MacOS/Windows One Man Band Live for iPad/iPhone/iPod One Man Band v11 for Ubuntu/Linux One Man Band Live for the Raspberry Pi More MIDI music software.

The BBC had at least two national correspondents at their gathering in Birmingham today, while ITV and Channel 4 had at least three between us. Suddenly broadcasters have started to cover their annual conference.

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