Well, look at this. Short-lived UKIP Leader Lois Perry “is back”. And in the pink, it would appear. And now she’s promising to “tell all” on Talk TV on Thursday. She’s referring, of course, to her sudden resignation as Leader, announced in the early hours of the morning, just a few weeks after being elected […]
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Final farewell from UKIP Party Director
Well, as we predicted, recently departed UKIP Party Director and NEC member Pat Mountain has now also resigned her Directorship of UKIP Ltd, the company which controls the party, and indeed as a party member. So, it’s an angry goodbye from her, the latest in a long list of high level departures, as concerns about […]
Knives being sharpened after extreme right election disaster
By Paul Gale As the dust settles on an election campaign which for them was universally catastrophic, the UK’s extreme right is licking its wounds and eyeing up potential targets for blame. The main factor behind their dire performance, of course, was the involvement of Reform UK especially after Farage announced his candidacy in Clacton […]
UKIP in disarray as members “leave in droves”
Photo: Short lived leadership team Lois Perry and Nick Tenconi For a party in the middle of a general election campaign, UKIP is in a state of some disarray, with reports of an exodus of members outraged at recent revelations. Although its website continues to insist that Lois Perry is party leader 2024-2028, this is […]
UKIP veteran hints at Farage linked anti-UKIP plot
Was Lois Perry’s resignation as UKIP leader part of a Nigel Farage-inspired plot? “I couldn’t possibly comment” says her UKIP leadership election rival, Bill Etheridge. Interviewed on the right-wing online ‘Freeman Report’, Etheridge, a long-standing, senior UKIP veteran and one of its Euro MPs from 2014 -2019, pours scorn on the idea that she was […]
Searchlight exclusive: ‘UKIP is over. Its members are simply lining one man’s pocket’ – former Deputy Leader’s open letter to UKIP members.
Rebecca Jane Sutton (aka simply ‘Rebecca Jane’) was Deputy Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party from October 2022 to January 2024. Rebecca has decided that Searchlight would be an appropriate vehicle to carry an open letter from her to UKIP members. After reading that letter, we feel that she is right. We are, of […]