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Westminster Conservatives in chaos as Harrow Road branch defects en masse to UKIP

Westminster Conservatives are in chaos as the Harrow Road Branch has defected en masse to UKIP. The defection follows a 5 percent swing against the Conservatives in last Thursday’s Lancaster Gate by-election caused by the resignation of Sir Simon Milton.

According to the Bloggers4UKIP website:

“The Harrow Road ward of the Conservative Party has moved en masse to UKIP. Aware that the European Union is the paramount political issue of our time, it creating as it does 80% of our laws, the new Westminster North constituency association of UKIP realised that they simply couldn’t stay in a party that wasn’t going to do anything about it.

Jasna Badzak was the Chairman of the ward association, Susan Jacobs the political vice/chairman, Drgomir Mikulic the membership secretary and Luli Beqiri the secretary. They are adopting the same role in their new, and natural, political home, UKIP.

Ms Badzak, having had to flee her home in the former Yugoslavia, feels that she owes the UK a debt of gratitude for giving her the chance of a new life. She has become increasingly disappointed with the Conservatives and feels that they are out of touch and are not offering any policies which can deal with the current crisis facing Britain. Thus the move to UKIP.”

Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg, Leader of the Labour Group said:

“The rumours of infighting and division among Westminster Conservatives have been circulating for months. Now the extent of the split is very public and underlines the extent of the Conservatives’ local problems. Individual party defections are not uncommon but for a complete branch to defect is a political earthquake from which the Westminster Conservatives will find it difficult to recover.”

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