Monday, 3rd November 2008

Nigel Farage MEP

The British National Party today gatecrashed a high level UKIP meeting with an astonishing offer of an electoral pact. The offer was unanimously rejected by the party's National Executive.

Former British tennis star Buster Mottram, claiming that he represented the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, offered a deal: the BNP would fight seats in the north of the country and UKIP would have free rein in the south at the Euro-elections in June 2009.

Having made this rejected offer Mottram refused to leave the Whitehall meeting and had to be escorted out by uniformed police officers.

"There are no circumstances, no possible situations, in which we would even consider doing any type of deal with the BNP whatsoever," said the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage MEP. "I'm simply amazed that the BNP thought we would even consider such a thing, given that we are a non-racist, non-sectarian party."

Buster Mottram was immediately expelled from UKIP.

At the same meeting, two members of the NEC and one ex-officio member  were removed from their seats on the committee.

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