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LORD PEARSON BECOMES LEADER OF THE UKIP…….

LORD PEARSON
“Of course we’ll concentrate on leaving the EU;
we can’t control our borders”

Lord Pearson elected leader of UK Independence Party

Lord Pearson of Rannoch has been elected the new leader of UK Independence Party.
He will succeed Nigel Farage, who is standing down to focus on running for Parliament at the next election.

UKIP came second to the Conservatives in June’s European elections and is hoping to build on this success.

Lord Pearson defeated MEPs Gerard Batten, Mike Nattrass and Nikki Sinclaire, and Alan Wood, a councillor from Wiltshire, in the contest.
‘EU deception’
He gained nearly half of the approximately 9,900 votes cast by UKIP members.
Lord Pearson, who defected from the Conservatives in 2007, said it was an “enormous honour” to lead the party.
He accused the main parties of “deceiving” the public over Europe and said withdrawing from the EU would save the UK billions of pounds.
“With the Lisbon Treaty, you really see the last nail in the coffin of our democracy,” he said. “The EU can do almost anything and will.”
The party’s objective at the next election – in which it plans to field more than 500 candidates – would be to force a hung Parliament and bring about a “realignment” in British politics.
He said the party would still be “majoring on leaving Europe” – but he also pledged to campaign on a range of other issues including Swiss-style direct democracy, which he described as a “serious system of national and local referendums”.
“I am convinced that is the only way now that the people can get round the stranglehold of their political class and take back their democracy.”
He promised policies “in all areas”, notably tightening border controls, reforming the training of teachers and nurses, building more grammar schools and preventing the closure of post offices.
He also pledged to improve the party’s organisational structure, modernising its campaigning and fundraising operations.
Mr Farage said he was “delighted” by the outcome of the election and was standing down at a time when the party had “never been more successful”.

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