| Topic: | Latest - Isleworth UKIP candidate Kelly Adams stood to settle a score, then "found" two other candidates | |
| Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
| Date/Time: | 02/05/14 19:41:00 |
| Isleworth UKIP candidate Kelly Males/Root/Adams revealed on the Brentford TW8 forum this morning why she was inspired to seek to serve Isleworth residents for four years as their councillor: "This is why I decided to stand as I believe no one has the right to obtain personal information about anyone with out known the facts as your FOI questions were all aimed at me and all focused at me and I am the 3rd party so the council was restricted in what they could release" Now that the story has been picked up by the Hounslow Chronicle we learn where the other two candidates came from in the 48 hours between the first candidate being deselected and the slate of three being nominated: "He (UKIP leader Councillor Colin Botterill) says Ms Adams then found the two other UKIP candidates because she was so upset by Mr Andrews' behaviour towards her on the street" http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/ukip-denies-accusation-loaned-labour-7067117 So now we know how Britain's fastest growing party makes a strategic decision as to which candidates to field and where. Find one person with a grudge against another candidate in the ward, then take on two of her mates as well. Whatever happened to UKIP's stringent six-week vetting process? I think Councillor Botterill would have been better to have stuck with the Antichrist with the thing about breastfeeding. At least he had a certain raw honesty about him. But he did, it seems, demonstrate one rare moment of sound judgement: "getwestlondon also asked to speak directly to Ms Adams but was told by Mr Botterill he was speaking on her behalf" Wise move by Colin, that one. |