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Originally Posted by C_steam
So lets be clear.
Point 1 - why hasn't UKIP put JW to a disciplinary? Deal with him.
Point 2 - when the video was posted, fuller was an employee. Deal with her also.
Anything less is just weak and makes the party look complicit.
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Read my last post for my full views. In the final analysis, a political party is like a tribe or a family. Going all formal and harsh on people and casting them into the outer darkness, or having them charged and convicted of a crime is very unpleasant, creates enemies, and sews discord.
I think the problem we have in UKIP is that there are not enough lines of communication between the grassroots and the party leadership. The appropriate method of dealing with this would have been for John Whitaker to take John West aside some months ago and tell him point blank when he first began his internet campaign that his behaviour was wrong, and that if he continued it would be treated as proof as his unsuitability to be an MEP. Unfortunately I doubt Whitaker had a clue. Which calls into question the composition and usefulness of the NEC as presently constituted. You would think that NEC members would be responsible for passing this sort of information on to the leadership to be dealt with, but despite the fact that hundreds of UKIPers frequent this forum, no one with any responsibility took the initiative to nip it in the bud.