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To: maceng2 who wrote (709)	1/20/2005 6:14:09 PM
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Aw chit, and I was hoping this party was going to turn into something.. news.bbc.co.uk Kilroy-Silk quits 'shameful' UKIP Mr Kilroy-Silk has been feuding with UKIP's leadership Ex-chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk has announced he is quitting the UK Independence Party and has accused it of betraying its supporters. The MEP said he was ashamed to have joined a party which was a "joke". He plans to stand in the next general election and says he has not jettisoned his beliefs. He would not confirm he was setting up a new party called Veritas - the Latin for "truth" - but said there was a "gap in the market" for a fresh approach. Mr Kilroy-Silk explained his reasons to his East Midlands constituents at a meeting in Hinckley, Leicestershire. Frustration His decision came as UKIP officials began a process which could have triggered Mr Kilroy-Silk's expulsion. It marks the end of his membership of UKIP after just nine months. It began with a flood of publicity which helped UKIP into third place in last June's European elections but became dominated by rancour as he tried to take over the party leadership. He should resign as an MEP at once and return the seat to us Derek Clark UKIP MEP Mr Kilroy-Silk accused his fellow UKIP MEPs of being content with growing fat "sitting on their backsides" in Brussels. He told BBC News 24: "I tried to change the party, I nagged all the way through the summer to do things, to get moving because I thought it was criminal what they were doing, it was a betrayal." Mr Kilroy-Silk also told Sky News there was "masses of support" for him to form a new party - something he has yet to confirm will happen. 'Betrayal' UKIP won 12 seats and 16.1% of the vote at the European elections on the back of its call for the UK to leave the European Union In his speech, Mr Kilroy-Silk says the result offered UKIP an "amazing opportunity" but the party's leadership had done nothing and "gone AWOL". There were no policies, no energy, no vision and no spokespeople, he said. Mr Kilroy-Silk added that in his frustration he decided to push for the leadership himself but his campaign had been met with deceit from an undemocratic organisation run by a "cabal". "The party is going nowhere and I'm embarrassed with its allies in Europe and I'm ashamed to be a member of the party," said Mr Kilroy-Silk. 'Stand down' He said his conviction in Britain's right to govern itself had not changed. He would continue that campaign outside UKIP when he contested the general election in an East Midlands constituency. Reports of his new party plans have prompted a formal complaint to UKIP's disciplinary committee for bringing the party into "disrepute". On Thursday, the party challenged Mr Kilroy-Silk to stand down as an MEP so voters can get a genuine UKIP candidate. Derek Clark, the remaining UKIP MEP for the East Midlands, said: "While we benefited from his campaigning, he benefited from belonging to UKIP which enabled him to be elected." UKIP officials predict that any new party will just be a parody of the existing one.