Geoffrey Collier

Sponplaque: Your postings about the inconsistency of DCB being both the Deputy Leader of UKIP and a paid servant of the EU, needs to be answered. Unless this can be accurately explained, DCB must either leave his EU employment, or resign as an officer in the UKIP and as a prospective MEP candidate. This is not a personal matter, but one about anyone being allowed to hold posts which are clearly contradictory.

When did DCB accept his EU appointemnt, and did he make his employer aware of his
political involvement in the UK? When asked at his Eastern Region interview, did he know of any impediment to him being a prospective MEP candidate for UKIP, what was his reply? Don't let anyone engage in personal abuse, but seek clarification and explanations founded only on the exact facts.

Mikeuk

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mike smith 712 09-20-2008 11:20 AM ET (US) I thought you liked Campbell-Bannerman?

Gregory Lauder-Frost 713 09-20-2008 04:16 PM ET (US) Not Sir Henry I didn't. He was the leader of The Left in his time.

BASILDON BOY

naughty naughty David Bannerman (for he was born David Bannerman)

Don't spin the great nephew line for I fear you will be exposed in the media!

You are not a great nephew or a great great etc nephew.

Senior politiicans have had their reputations destroyed for embelishing their CVs.

A couple of weeks research, ordering birth and marriage certificates and checking census entries and parish records is all it takes...

Tony Bennett

Extracts - verbatim - from the current Wikipedia entry for David Campbell-Bannerman (yes, Wikipedia has him hyphenated):

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David Bannerman is a British politician and is Deputy Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)...His great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grand-Aunt married Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, the Liberal Prime Minister...between 1905 and 1908

Born in 1960 in Bombay, India as David Campbell Bannerman he later used his middle name with his surname when he joined the UKIP.

Political career

David Bannerman was formerly a member of the Conservative Party. He was a borough councillor in Tunbridge Wells from 1992-1996...In 1997 he stood for the Conservatives in Glasgow Rutherglen and in 2001 in Warwick and Leamington where he obtained nearly 38% of the vote in second place.

During the 2007 Scottish Elections, he stood as UKIP's Hollyrood Regional List candidate for the Highlands and Islands. His campaign gained UKIP 1,287 votes (0.7%) that was down 0.5% from UKIP's 2003 campaign.

***Outside party politics, he has been a member of the London Safety Camera Partnership Project Board***

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Barboo

Well, Wikipedia is wrong. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was married to a Charlotte Bruce. The Bannerman connection with the Campbell family is through Sir Henry's mother, Janet Bannerman.

However, Bannerman is not an uncommon Scottish name and there's no proof so far that David Bannerman is descended from Sir Henry's mother at all. He could be from another branch of the Bannerman family entirely, and using his middle name Campbell to create a false impression that he's related in some way to Sir Henry. It's already been established that he cannot be a great nephew as originally claimed by UKIP, but he could stop further speculation now by stating exactly what the links between himself and Janet Bannerman are.

BASILDON BOY

Everything has been established - await the Euro Election campaign for these to be printed in full.

Aardvark

Lions led by donkeys - we have had the Mote affair, the RKS affair, the Wise affair etc. Nobody will vote for a party that, instead of cleaning itself up, has a blatant liar high on its candidates' list.

BB, are you saying that the name Campbell wasn't even on the birth certificate? If that is the case someone should contact Wikipedia and have the reference to the Campbell's deleted or someone should edit the entry themselves. The UKIP watchers will have followed this thread with glee and will be poised for the elections ready to brand us all liars and frauds.

If the Campbell name is not on the birth certificate then it would be best for UKIP if David Bannerman resigned all offices in the party, withdrew his name as Euro candidate and quietly retired from politics.

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Independent UKIP

Why?

(As the above is too short for the forum - who will you be supporting at the next Euro elections?)

BASILDON BOY

Because of the ridiculous claim to being a great nephew of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and the promotion of this claim by UKIP.

Any common ancestor Mr David Bannerman/Campbell-Bannerman will be via the maternal grandparents of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The term 'Nephew' indicates descent from the siblings of Sir Henry. Any relationship will be as a distant cousin many times removed with a common ancestor born somewhere in the mid 1700s. The exact relationship (or not) has been established – it only takes a few weeks work-checking records accessible by any member of the public.

A detailed family tree of Bannerman descendants was prepared by Bannermans from the USA a few years ago as part of a research project - none of these claim to be great nephew of Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman – they are very distant cousins many times removed.

Using the surname of Campell-Bannerman (with or without the hyphen) when he was born with the surname of plain Bannerman and was known for most of his life as David Bannerman is ridiculous and shows a certain amount of embelishing of his political CV - political careers have been ruined by such embelishing.

Perhaps David Campbell Bannerman has started a trend and Nigel Farage will be now known as Nigel Paul Farage and David Cameroon will be known as David William Donald Cameron!

David Bannerman/Campbell Bannerman has made this an issue by his promotion of his alledged (impossible) relationship to Sir Henry Campell Bannerman.

Political enemies will use this to highlight untrustworthiness. If a candidate can mislead on this what else are they trying to mislead people on….

g hall

And just what has he done about this method of fleecing the motorist SFA I suspect

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