Former MS Neil Hamilton elected UKIP leader
The former MS Neil Hamilton has been elected leader of UKIP.
The news was announced that the ex-Senedd member for Mid and West Wales will now lead the party during its conference in Worthing.
The party’s official Twitter account posted: “We’re delighted to announce that Neil Hamilton has been elected UKIP leader!”
Hamilton is at least the seventh person to lead UKIP since Nigel Farage stood down from the role in 2016 following the EU referendum.
UKIP won 13% of the vote and elected seven members – including Neil Hamilton – at the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, a month before the Brexit referendum. But the party lost all of its seats at the Senedd at the 2021.
There has previously been confusion about who is the real leader of UKIP after Neil Hamilton’s right to be the party’s head was challenged by his predecessor.
Freddy Vachha was elected leader of the UK Independence Party in June 2020, but the party’s website then listed Neil Hamilton as UK Interim Party Leader, as well as leader, and spokesman, of UKIP Wales.
Vachha argued at the time that the Party Chairman, Ben Walker, had no right to remove him under the party’s constitution.
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S**t always floats to the top.
With all the empty shelves, driver shortages and sky rocketing food prices – are they still around? I thought they’d be hiding beneath the rock from which they came.
So what if Neil Hamilton’s the leader of Ukip. It’s a dead party full of society’s detritus.
UKIP – What’s the point?
Is Purple Homicide imminent, then? Eejit.
Dim ots. He’s no longer our problem.
And in other important news, slugs have eaten my cabbage in the back garden.
There’s something of tragedy about the political career of Neil Hamilton. From the promise of a young upcoming Conservative MP until he was involved in the taking money for questions scandal. He lost his safe seat, went into bankruptcy and then he and his wife tried to claw their way back by humiliating themselves on junk TV shows. Unfortunately there was something in his personality, smarmy and sneering, that never endeared him to his audience. Then along came UKIP, desperate for candidates as their populist anti EU, anti immigrant, isolationist nationalism struck a chord with many who were struggling. In… Read more »
Met at Worthing ? Which redundant telephone kiosk ? or were there enough to fill a hotel lift ?
Where’s the UKIP conference? In a phone box?
An irrelevant man leading an irrelevant party.
Are ukip still going.
__________________________________ Surprised to see so few mentions of “unscrupulous”, “sh*t”, “scandal”, “hotel lift”, “enema”, “detritus”, “liar”, “telephone box”, “irrelevant” in the responses to this article……… what’s wrong with people nowadays? Not even one reference to “crook”! __________________________________ Click on my postname for an update, for “having reduced UKIP to a racket of no significance, riddled by infighting and disaffection, of which he and his brown-nosing gopher are the major contributors”, he’s quitting next month and running away to enjoy more time with his family or some crap like that. __________________________________ The “Navel Flotsam” gopher he installed, a right W*nker if… Read more »