FORMER Tilbury councillor, Richard Bingley has announced that he has joined UKIP.
Richard was head of Labour’s East of England and London media operations during Tony Blair’s second and third terms as Prime Minister. He was seconded back to the Party to run its ‘Key Campaigner’ (Cabinet Minister) visits during Gordon Brown’s fateful 2010 general election. He also served for seven years as a c
ouncillor in Thurrock until 2010, where UKIP recently made spectacular gains.
Three of those years (1997 to 2000) was a Conservative councillor in Corringham and Fobbing. The other four years was as a councillor in Tilbury St Chads between 2006 and 2010.
Now a business leader and Senior Lecturer, Richard explains why he will be supporting UKIP at the 2015 General Election and beyond: “I have joined UKIP to help promote their values of democracy and fairness and also to endorse a general sense of pride and celebration in being British.
“I will miss some friends and former colleagues in the Labour Party, but I do have to accept the rather inconvenient truth, that UKIP is now the only credible political representation for hardworking, aspirational British families. For many years Labour has dogmatically abandoned hard working British people to promote a terrifyingly irresponsible ‘something-for-nothing’ culture. This has suffocated enterprise and society’s ability to convey positive messages around the value of hard work and achievement by merit.
“Working life, or establishing a business in Britain, has become a little like having a Grand Piano consistently strapped to one’s back and then being ordered to run a Marathon. The good news is voters do now have the power to change this. UKIP present hardworking, aspirational voters with renewed hope. UKIP is a refreshing, forward-looking, and innovative social change-maker. The Party provides sensible answers, to the many questions which David Cameron and Ed Miliband insisted – until recently – that we, in our millions, were mistaken to ask in the first place.
“UKIP is the only mainstream political party that supports democracy, social fairness and economic literacy. When we deviate from these values, Britain gets into a mess. UKIP represents the first chance in several generations for authentic representatives of hardworking British citizens to roll back the continuously out-of-control levels and misdirection of Government spending.
“There is quite rightly an overwhelming sense of frustration within this country – across all backgrounds and professions – that Britain’s political leadership has profoundly lost its focus internationally, and also any sense of fairness and sound judgement at home. Whether it’s the handing over of powers to unelected EU commissars, ham-fisted interventions into complex foreign conflicts, the early release of violent prisoners at home, the inhumane lack of resources for our elderly and disabled, or yet another calamitous response to a national crisis, the other three main parties have demonstrated time and again that they lack core skills in strategic leadership and situational management.
“Our politicians should follow the lead of our many successful British multinational business leaders, and stop treating countries outside of EU and NATO territories as adversaries who we have the right to patronise and issue rather facile, one-sided lectures to. Far more ministerial understanding and support should be allocated to helping our enterprises target the dominant, huge emerging markets: for example, Brazil, Russia, China, India, the Gulf States and Africa; rather than, say, negotiating Albania’s entry into the EU.
“People have asked me if UKIP is racist or full of bigots. Evidence from the campaigns that I have seen suggests that nothing could be further from the truth. My experience is that UKIP is overwhelmingly made up of decent, hard-working, open-minded people from all ethnicities and backgrounds, who are coming together to develop a positive pathway out of the mess that the three other main parties have left this country in. I would not touch UKIP with the proverbial bargepole if the organisation in any way condoned discrimination.
“For the health and wellbeing of British voters and viability of our future economic base, we do desperately need a fundamental change in the type and quality of our national politicians. Change is not an option but a necessity. UKIP’s broad range of members and supporters – including teachers, nurses, shopkeepers, business leaders and entrepreneurs – does at last offer hope that Britain can be run responsibly and honestly in the future.”
Tim Aker MEP who welcomed Richard to UKIP said: “This is obviously positive news for us and yet more sign that UKIP is appealing to those voters left behind by the Labour Party.”
Wow! What a well written and inspiring piece! Richard Bingley has definitely made the right choice.
Labour, under the leadership of an out of touch metropolitan elite, turned their back on the black, Asian and white working class of this country years ago. The people the Labour Movement was originally formed to protect have been left behind by the scourge of globalization which has benefited only a spoilt elite. Gone is the sense of social justice that was a given when I was at University. Now we have a new breed of ‘I’m all right Jack’ graduates growing up under successive pro-European governments who care nothing for the working class upon which this country depends.
With more than 200,000 migrants entering Britain every year (the size of a large conurbation!) the jobs and trades of hard working Britons are under threat like never before. In the last century Labour sought to protect the working man from harmful competition from migrant workers but now with it’s colours pinned firmly to the mast of the European dream they will do nothing. The Labour leadership and their families will never be harmed by migrant labour in the same way as the working class and their children’s job prospects are being harmed. My father who was a hard working shop steward would be horrified at what the Labour party has become.
Wasnt this guy Bingley also involved with the conservative party at some point?
Nice and decent man from a good family. Will be a big help to UKIP.
People have asked me if UKIP is racist or full of bigots. Evidence from the campaigns that I have seen suggests that nothing could be further from the truth. My experience is that UKIP is overwhelmingly made up of decent, hard-working, open-minded people from all ethnicities and backgrounds, who are coming together to develop a positive pathway out of the mess that the three other main parties have left this country in. I would not touch UKIP with the proverbial bargepole if the organisation in any way condoned discrimination.
Well Richard I think it would be prudent if somebody you know could lend you a bargepole
I take it you’ve made this bold statement in the knowledge that Robert Ray a former NF candidate and party organiser is the leader of the UKIP contingent at Thurrock
Why don’t you ask Tim Aker MEP about Robert Ray he seems to be a very good friends with him I’m sure he could tell you all about him
‘superman’ is on repeat again…
Although Robert Ray was a member of the National Front 40 years ago in the 1970’s his ultra right wing leanings as younger man are a thing of the past. I would hate to think anyone would judge me by my political affiliations back then which ranged from Marxist revolutionary to LSD Hippy activism and a number of other passing fads that embarrass my more mature years.
Unfortunately these ‘tales from the underbelly of youth’ and sometimes unguarded moments of inebriation are all too common among British political parties.
Here is just a small sample:
Labour Racism:
The Labour Party have been accused of “cheating” Milton Keynes residents after it emerged that one of their councillors was formerly second in command of a local neo-Nazi group.
Councillor Margaret Burke, was a far-right extremist who ran the Milton Keynes November 9th Society with her then husband Terry Flynn in the early 1980s. They both wore Nazi-style uniforms and recruited gangs of local youths to hand out racist leaflets and daub buildings with swastikas, as reported by the Milton Keynes Citizen.
Councillor Burke holds a drop-in surgery every Friday between 5.30 and 6.30 at the Labour Resource Centre, Newport Road, New Bradwell.
Tory Racism:
A Conservative candidate for a South Kesteven District Council by-election is a former British National Party activist. Dr Peter Moseley was selected to fight the single-member Aveland ward after the resignation of Conservative councillor Debbie Wren in January because of work commitments.
Moseley has a dark past. His name appeared on the BNP membership list leaked in November 2008, with the same address and mobile phone number as currently. The list described him as an activist and a “company director (remote environmental monitoring/web integration”. It added that he had an engineering degree and that his hobbies were “jive dancing, DIY”. It is unclear why those were of interest to the fascist party.
LibDem Racism:
A Sutton councillor has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault. Worcester Park Liberal Democrat Councillor Stephen Fenwick admitted a single count in front of Westminster magistrates yesterday and was handed a year-long conditional discharge and a fine. He has voluntarily resigned the Liberal Democrat whip meaning he is no longer a member of the Liberal Democrat group on Sutton Council and is now an independent councillor. Council leader Councillor Ruth Dombey has condemned Coun Fenwick’s actions. The charge relates to an incident at the Bonapartes pub in Charing Cross station in central London on January 4. He was involved in an altercation with a barman and called him a migrant and told him to go back to his own country.
He’s right about the Labour party. They are no longer the party of the working class. What Labour have to offer the working class is simpering lip service. Polly proves this every time she appears in the media.
The claims of racism are par for the course because UKIP don’t practice the liberal left religion of multicultrualism and therefore must be racist. It’s unfortunate that the liberal left still believe that the majority are interested in what they think. The reality is they don’t give the tiniest sh1t what they think.
The chances are that the liberal left will get another smack in the mouth at next years general election, even though the Labour party may still end up as the largest party. So they’ll still trawl around the ever welcoming television studio’s telling the public they’re all racist, bigots and xenophobes because ultimately they still believe that state enforced multicultrualism and globalisation are the way forward. They just don’t care that the vast majority of people don’t agree with them. They really should stop using the word bigot as they clearly can’t see the irony.
5 Labour Cllr’s also resigned from the Labour party in the North East just before last month’s elections citing racism among the local party leadership. Was this reported in the national media. Of course not. The friends of Labour in the media would never print a story like that.
Bolshie Betty
I agree it is not nice to be pulled up about things from the past; the only difference in this case is that
Robert Ray has made it quite clear and a matter of public record when interviewed that his views have not charged since leaving the
NF party
And if you can defend that, please try?
Superman,
That is a considerable distortion of Robert Ray’s position. He has made it plain that his National Front affiliations are a thing of the past telling the Thurrock Gazette he severed all ties with the party decades ago. When questioned by a mud-raking internet publication “Political Scrapbook” on the contents of a single paragraph leaflet written by him 40 years back he said that the points he had made there (which were in no way racist) about the rising crime rate (a serious problem at the time), dangerous left-wing influence in many of our schools (again a huge worry at the time), bad housing, unemployment and many areas being turned into ghettos were reasonable political concerns. And I think most people in Britain would agree with that.
That is a far cry from wearing Nazi-style uniforms, recruiting gangs of local youths to hand out racist leaflets and daubing buildings with swastikas as Labour Councillor Margaret Burke and her husband Terry Flynn use to do in the 1980s. Or having one’s name appearing as a member of the BNP as recently as 2008 and selected to fight a council by-election by the Tory party as was the case with Peter Moseley. Or indeed pleading guilty to racially aggravated assault as did Liberal Democrat Councillor Stephen Fenwick.
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/ukip/thurrock-ukip-councillor-s-nazi-past-3035
We read him the contents of his election leaflet and he told us that he still stood by everything that was written, claiming that immigrants still established ghetto areas in this country.
When we asked him if he had declared his NF past to UKIP he claimed that he had but he wouldn’t expand any further than that.
Robert Ray told us his fellow Thurrock councillors didn’t know about his far right past and believed that they wouldn’t be interested in what was now history.
We aren’t so sure about that Robert.
i can only hope your name is not Black Betty
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UKIP man’s departure leaves bill of £10,000
Redditch Standard by Ian Dipple | Sunday, 15 June 2014
THE RESIGNATION of a former UKIP councillor is set to cost borough taxpayers up to £10,000. It means the cost to county taxpayers for by-elections following the resignation of UKIP councillors in controversial circumstances is set to hit almost £49,000. Voters in Church Hill will go back to the polls on Thursday,
Newark byelection result puts the brakes on Nigel Farage’s juggernaut
The Guardian by Andrew Sparrow | Friday, 6 June 2014
Ukip’s seemingly relentless electoral advance stalled on Friday after the Conservatives held Newark with a larger than expected majority, partly attributed to people voting tactically to keep Nigel Farage’s party out of Westminster. Robert Jenrick held the Nottinghamshire seat with a majority of 7,403 over Ukip, who at one stage
Police now ‘looking into circumstances’ of UKIP v Labour dispute in Retford
Retford Times by . | Friday, 30 May 2014
Notts Police are continuing to investigate an allegation of assault against a Labour councilllor during an argument with UKIP members in Retford. Earlier this month UKIP’s East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer was surprised by a group of local Labour politicians during a campaign visit to the town. The UKIP delegation were sitting
Police investigate ex-UKIP councillor who called gay people ‘poofs’ and ‘perverts’
Pink News by Scott Roberts | Friday, 30 May 2014
West Mercia Police has launched an investigation into the homophobic comments of former UKIP councillor Dave Small. Mr Small was expelled from the party on Wednesday, just days after he was elected to Reditch Borough Council. Ahead of last Friday’s election, Mr Small wrote on Facebook: “Why on earth is this useless
UKIP candidate: party shouldn’t stand in Hounslow next year
Get West London by Robert Cumber | Thursday, 29 May 2014
UKIP should not stand at the general elections in Hounslow next year, the leader of the party’s local group has said. Colin Botterill, Hounslow UKIP group leader, said Feltham and Heston was probably unwinnable and he didn’t want to ‘water down’ the Conservative vote in Brentford and Islewort’h. Despite UKIP’s success nationally
UKIP chairman who tweeted that London is being ‘ethnically cleansed’ claims backlash proves freedom of speech is dead
Get West London by John Shammas | Thursday, 29 May 2014
An under-fire UK Independence Party (UKIP) chairman who said that London is being ‘ethnically cleansed’ claims attacks against him prove: “Freedom of speech is now dead.” Jeremy Zeid, UKIP chairman for the London borough of Harrow, took to social media website Twitter yesterday after a visit to Ilford, in north east
Revocation of membership
4.3 If, after becoming a member of the Party, a person
a) joins another political party (whether registered with the Electoral Commission or not) or any organisation membership of which the NEC has declared to be incompatible with membership of the Party; or
b) without the authority of the NEC, sets up or has set up or has aided and abetted the setting up of another political party, whether registered with the Electoral Commission or not; or
c) is later found already to be a member or former member of another political party or organisation membership of which the NEC has declared to be incompatible with membership of the Party; or
d) stands against a UKIP candidate in any election; or
e) is found to be a person who has been expelled from the Party
Aker who hides his Turkish ethnic origins. But it looks like Timur has finally fallen out with Gauleiter Robert Ray
I am sure Tim but Dim will be getting a substantial vote from the Turkish community, when they find out he is trying to hide he’s ethnic background especially when you consider the amount of Turkish immigrants that live in Germany , that are under ever-increasing pressure from German Nazis aligned with UKIP
Simple fact anybody who has belonged to the NF or BNP or any other far right political parties cannot join the UKIP for the precise reason they cannot be accused of having racialist views whereas your argument?
Superman,
As previously, your references to UKIP pale to insignificance when we look at the record of Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems:
Labour Fraud:
Former Labour MP Denis MacShane was jailed for expenses fraud.
Former Labour minister Elliot Morley was sentenced to 16 months in jail for expenses fraud.
Former MP David Chaytor was jailed for 18 months for expenses fraud.
Former MP Eric Illsley was given a year’s jail sentence for expenses fraud.
Ex-Labour MP Jim Devine was jailed for 16 months for expenses fraud.
Sunderland City Labour councillor, Lisa Smiles, convicted of benefit fraud.
Harrow Labour council candidate,Yogalingam Dayanamby, convicted of benefit fraud.
Canning Town Labour councillor, Paul Schafer, was suspended following fraud allegations.
A Labour Party councillor, Geoff Hammond stole almost £100,000 from a Christian charity and was jailed for 12 months.
Tory Party chairman Baroness Warsi accused Labour of stealing three seats from the Tories at the 2010 general election as a result of voter fraud.
Richard Mawrey QC, the Electoral Commissioner, ruled that six Councillors in Birmingham were elected due to massive postal vote fraud.
Allegations of council electoral fraud involving the Labour Party in Luton are still being investigated by police.
Tory Fraud:
Former Tory peer Lord Taylor of Warwick was jailed for 12 months for expenses fraud.
Former Calderdale Tory councillor Mohammed Saghir was found guilty of election fraud.
Tory Eshaq Khan and his supporters carried out “corrupt and illegal practices” to secure his election in Slough.
Wellingborough Tory councillor Bhupendra Patel was given a suspended jail sentence by magistrates, for benefit fraud.
Kirklees Tory councillor Tony Brice was convicted for benefit fraud.
Tory Ali Hayder Munir received a three month jail sentence after admitting to two charges of faking proxy vote applications.
Boris Johnson’s former deputy mayor pleaded guilty to fraud after using his City Hall credit card to entertain his girlfriend and another woman.
Tory councillor Mark O’Keeffe who stole £70,000 was jailed for 18 months.
Lib Dem Fraud:
Former coalition cabinet minister and Lib Dem MP Chris Huhne was jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice.
Lib Dem Isaac Lieberman, 29, and Tory Zev Liebowitz, 36, both councillors in Hackney, east London, were convicted of forgery and conspiracy.
Lib Dem Mohammed Bashir was found guilty of fixing the 2012 Maybury and Sheerwater ward election.
Former Kingston Lib Dem councillor Tim Dennen admitted benefit fraud.
Former Tiverton Lib Dem councillor Kevin Wilson received a suspended jail sentence in February following a £3,800 benefits fiddle. He used the money to send his teenage daughter to a £9,000-a-year public school.
EU MIGRATION INTO BRITAIN IS MOSTLY WHITE NOT BLACK
To start with migration from the EU is almost exclusively white not black. UKIP’s policy is to control the numbers of migrants NOT their colour! Britain can control immigration from the rest of the world but not from Europe because our membership of the European Union means that treaty obligations require us to maintain an open door policy. Only leaving the European Union will close that door. At the moment more than 200,000 EU migrants enter this country every year (the size of a large conurbation). Because of the damage this does to the job prospects of our Black, Asian and White working class families and the pressures it puts on resources this state of affairs is both unacceptable and unsustainable.
WHY GHETTOIZATION NEEDS TO BE AVOIDED
When EU migration of such numbers occur into a country the size of Britain the consequences are disastrous. The difficulty of housing such an influx speedily enough leads to haphazard ghettos being produced. This tends more often than not to be in working class areas. This is never a problem for the metropolitan elite whose European fantasy has created it.
To give some context for this unfolding misery I would like to recommend the BBC documentary “Police under Pressure, 1. Uneasy Peace” currently available on IPlayer. Here’s a brief introduction and link:
British policing is under pressure like ever before. South Yorkshire police has more problems than most. And tensions in it’s communities are threatening to boil over into violence. In the last few years around 700 Roma families from Slovakia have moved into the Page Hall area of Sheffield. It’s led to growing tension with the established communities who are mostly white or Asian.
Asian residents have asked the police, “What about these Slovakians who have been taking over? We can’t go to schools no more because there’s no places. We can’t go to doctor’s surgery because there’s no place. Every time I’ve been to the dentist it’s full. There aren’t the facilities. They’ve been taken over.” After this the conversation descends into very unpleasant accusations and abuse directed towards the migrants.
One of the problems is a specific cultural difference between the Roma and their immediate Asian neighbours. The Roma gather on the streets to talk in large groups sometimes late into the night disturbing their neighbours who complain that they can’t sleep properly. The program goes on to outline the criminal damage suffered by residents which they blame on the migrants and the general misery that this uncontrolled immigration has brought to the local community.
Police Inspector Simon Leek, in charge of community policing for North East Sheffield, comments, “Nobody told us that you can expect an increase of 700 families in a very small area. And oh and by the way here is some extra police and staff. Here’s some extra doctors. You know, here’s some extra council workers who will be able to support that because you’ll need it ………. that didn’t come! And there is a tension between communities. It’s about cultural differences, poverty and a lot of people in a very small area together.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04863bl/police-under-pressure-1-uneasy-peace
A Labour councillor in Liverpool was forced to resign recently after accusing the gay Liberal leader of the council of alterior motives for giving money to scouts groups. The Labour leader of Thanet Council has had to resign due to homophobic comments made.
Let us not forget the current and past members of the Labour government and current opposition that supported a paedophile group back in the 70’s,some of whom have refused to apologise for their role in this, mentioning no names Harriett Harman. And who backs the UAF/HNH, the unions and the Labour party. Very unbiased.
Bolshie Betty
My father fought and died in the Second World War against people that were considered Nazi Fascist I find your comments unacceptable, you are in my opinion trying to promote the views of a fascist in regards to Robert Ray,
if it was not for my father and many other people like him what state would Europe be in at this time, by trying to defend Nazis like Robert Ray I find an effrontery to my father’s memory especially in this commemorative 70th year of the Second World War and 100 years since the First World War, we cannot learn by things that are going to happen we can only learn by things that have already happened,
Robert Ray is a Nazi NF sympathiser who is already declared he’s views have not changed since he belonged to that part fall. Stop
Good old Godwin’s Law at its best.
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