"and eventually bought a stable at Willitoft which she helped run. An equine physiotherapist, she met Katie Bloom with whom she formed a partnership in 1995. Katie Bloom was (and remains) married to Godfrey Bloom, who later became a UK Independence Party (UKIP) MEP. Collins became interested in the party, which she joined in 2003. Interviewed by the ""Observer"" ahead of the September 2014 UKIP conference and therefore unable to discuss their new policies, Collins described herself as a ""progressive libertarian"". Referring to comments made by Godfrey Bloom on international aid (in a speech in which he referred to ""Bongo-Bongo"
"to leave Britain after the latter called for greater ethnic diversity within the UK's creative industries. In 2015, a documentary called ""Meet the Ukippers"" filmed activists making racist statements; one said ""the only people I do have a problem with are negroes"". For many years such individuals were internally tolerated within the party, although as part of Farage's push to professionalise the party a number of its members, such as MEP Godfrey Bloom, were expelled for making comments that brought UKIP into disrepute. In 2018, Jo Marney—who was then the girlfriend of the party leader Henry Bolton—was suspended from UKIP"
"after being recorded by a BBC News crew referring to the Thai (or Thai-born) wife of a constituent, who were both UKIP supporters, as ""a ting-tong from somewhere"", a term used in Thailand for people with mental health problems. The woman and her husband threatened to withdraw from UKIP membership but changed their mind after a personal apology from UKIP leader Nigel Farage. Interviewed on camera later at their home, the woman and her husband said that Atkinson hadn't apologised to them and was quite belligerent. Whilst speaking of Atkinson, Farage said ""99% of UKIP members aren't like that and"
"a relationship with Jo Marney, a model and party member nearly 30 years his junior. As a consequence Bolton faced demands from members of UKIP that he stand down as leader. On 14 January it was reported that Marney had been suspended from UKIP following allegations that she had sent a series of SMS messages containing racist comments about Prince Harry's fiancée, Meghan Markle. On 19 January 2018, Jonathan Arnott resigned from the party, continuing to sit as an independent MEP. In his resignation letter, he said that he had lost confidence in Bolton, who he felt was ""not the"
"Crime Commissioner for Kent. Yeo was deselected as a Labour candidate for the 2015 local elections and left to join UKIP the next day. She was also replaced as leader of Ashford Council's Labour group, after being accused of non-attendance at council meetings and a failure undertake council casework. In February 2015, she left the Labour Party, blaming Ed Miliband's refusal to promise an EU In/Out Referendum, and announced support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) without becoming a member of UKIP, sitting as an independent councillor. Her daughter had also left Labour to stand for UKIP in the 2013"
"Jill Seymour Jill Seymour (born 8 May 1958) is a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands region for the UK Independence Party. She was elected in 2014. Jill Seymour joined UKIP in 2002. She worked for the MEP Nikki Sinclaire before the latter left Ukip. Seymour resigned from UKIP's NEC in 2011 citing personal reasons. After becoming an MEP, Seymour was criticized for renting an office in Shropshire from her husband Brian with taxpayers' money. ""The Independent"" commented that there was no suggestion that the arrangement was against European Parliament rules. She stood unsuccessfully for the UK"
"""No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age"" and ""I am here to represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you get home. I am going to promote men's rights."" The remarks engendered outrage from a range of fellow politicians. One UKIP MEP never made it to IND/DEM. MEP Ashley Mote was expelled from UKIP prior to IND/DEM's formation when it became known that he faced charges for housing benefit fraud. Mote went on to join the far-right Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty group before being convicted"
"candidates for the upcoming European elections. After Coburn won the seat, he was appointed leader of UKIP Scotland. His victory made him UKIP's second openly gay MEP, after Nikki Sinclaire. In July 2016, Coburn declared his support for Steven Woolfe in UKIP's leadership election to replace Nigel Farage. At the 2017 snap general election, Coburn unsuccessfully ran for the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency, securing just 1.2% of the vote and losing his deposit in the race. On 7 December 2018, Coburn quit UKIP and became an Independent MEP. In the face of local concerns Coburn has come out in favour"
"Steven Woolfe Steven Marcus Woolfe (born 6 October 1967) is an English politician, who has served as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region since the 2014 European election. Woolfe was considered a frontrunner in UKIP's 2016 leadership election, but was excluded from the race after submitting his nomination late. After Diane James resigned from the party leadership, Woolfe was standing in the second UKIP leadership election of 2016, but withdrew from the contest and the party after he was allegedly injured during an altercation he engaged in with a fellow MEP. The event resulted"
"John English. In August 2013 Dowling stood aside as chair of the Parliamentary Ethics Committee after it was revealed he sent explicit text messages and images, including a picture of his penis in a glass of red wine, to a former mistress Robyn Atkin from Wrapped in Travel Coombabah. After his wife kicked him out Dowling attempted a political comeback, running for the seat of Redlands as an independent at the 2017 state election, but was unsuccessful. Peter Dowling Peter James Dowling (born 12 August 1961) is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal National Party member of the Legislative"
"chairman for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire until that election. He was replaced as chairman by Judith Morris from July 2014. On 6 October 2016, Hookem was reported to have been involved in a fight with fellow UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe during a UKIP meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Hookem said he had not punched Woolfe, but did admit to a ""scuffle"" with him and that he acted in self-defence. The altercation was an outgrowth of a party meeting to discuss news reports that Woolfe was in talks about defecting to the Conservative Party. Hookem said Woolfe ""took exception"""
"attributed to their membership of UKIP. However, in May 2013, Rotherham council apologised, saying that communication about the decision gave the impression that it related to the couple's UKIP membership. This impression was incorrect; the children were removed because it was in their ""best interests"", though full details couldn't be given ""for legal reasons"". The council said it had ""taken action to strengthen the way it made decisions and how it communicated information."" She was selected to top the party's regional list for Yorkshire and the Humber in the 2014 European Parliament elections. Former UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom stated that"
"Janice Atkinson Janice Ann Atkinson (born 31 August 1962) is an independent Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region, formerly representing the UK Independence Party (UKIP). She was elected in 2014, second on the list for the region behind Nigel Farage. In March 2015, she was expelled from UKIP for ""bringing the party into disrepute"" after her chief of staff was recorded trying to fraudulently inflate her expenses. Atkinson is a former member of the Conservative Party and ran a marketing business for two decades prior to becoming an MEP. As Janice Small, she was a"
"out as lesbian in a letter to the LGBT newspaper ""The Pink Paper"". She however stated that she had no desire to be the leader of an LGBT group within UKIP. Sinclaire is a lover of animals especially cats, having owned six rescue cats. Nikki Sinclaire Nicole Sinclaire (born 26 July 1968) is a British politician and former leader of the We Demand a Referendum Party who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands from 2009 to 2014. She was elected MEP in June 2009, as a UK Independence Party candidate but later resigned from"
"September 12, 2018, Jones announced that she was leaving the United Kingdom Independence Party citing her reasons as the party moving ""to a more far-right position"" under Gerard Batten and a leadership election that was ""shambolic from beginning to end"". She also said that she was a victim of misogyny claiming that she was once told to ""shut up"" at a meeting. UKIP Group Leader Gareth Bennett admitted that she was told this by a participant, but that ""it had nothing to do with her gender"". UKIP Wales Leader Neil Hamilton called on Jones to resign her regional list seat"
"many other UKIP MEP's later resigned from the party in December 2018, forcing Batten to withdraw UKIP support for the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy alliance with their MEP representation being reduced to 9 from a height of 24 MEP's in 2014. In 2018, Batten was featured in the Channel 4 documentary ""Carry on Brussels: Inside the EU"". A reviewer from ""The Guardian"" said the high point of the programme was the scene in which he left the European Parliament chamber, complaining of being censored because his microphone had been cut off, after he had overrun the allocated time"
"Parliament, AgroEcology, Population Development and Reproductive Health, Obesity, Food Waste and Sustainable Resource. In January 2018 Jenkin attracted media attention after criticising abuse received by Conservative candidates during the 2017 general election in a debate on social media regulation in the House of Lords. Jenkin cited the example of a candidate being abused as a ""fucking Tory cunt"" - this was believed to be the first time the word ""cunt"" has been used in the House of Lords. In December 2014, she attracted controversy by suggesting that one of the causes of the rise of hunger and food bank use"
"to the technology as a “complete nonsense”. In October 2013, he branded opponents to the development of a type of GMO rice enriched with vitamin A ""wicked"". Paterson was mentioned by journalist Benedict Brogan as a possible replacement on the European Commission when the term of Baroness Ashton expired. Paterson was one of three MPs to leave the cabinet as part of the re-shuffle on 15 July 2014, and was succeeded by Elizabeth Truss as Environment Secretary. His departure was widely attributed to his botched handling of the summer floods and the badger cull. In a blog for ""The Guardian"","
"seen in each other's company. Responding to these reports, Bolton suggested that the controversy would ""fade away"". On 19 January 2018, MEP Jonathan Arnott announced his resignation from UKIP. In his resignation letter, he stated that he had lost confidence in Bolton, who he felt was ""not the right person for the job"" – but thought no better of those ""jockeying"" for position in the party. On 21 January, the UKIP National Executive Committee (NEC) delivered a vote of no confidence in Bolton; only Bolton voted against the motion. Bolton had made it clear earlier that day that he would"
"house, Don Harwin, found the term ""revolting slug"" to be suitable parliamentary language. The motion was passed. In November 2018 Greens MP Jenny Leong used parliamentary privilege to accuse Jeremy Buckingham of sexual violence toward a staff member whose job he then allegedly threatened, and following this the Greens NSW State Delegates Council passed a motion calling for Buckingham to resign due to violations of their sexual harassment policy . In retaliation Buckingham has threatened other party members and candidates with defamation proceedings if they support the former staff member . In December 2018, Buckingham resigned from the Greens NSW"
"with David Cameron and the Conservative Party on the EU as well as the general leftward drift of the Conservative Party. He fought the Northamptonshire County Council seat of Ise for UKIP in 2013 and 2017 and the 2014 European Elections, where he was third on the UKIP list. Following the retirement of Roger Helmer at the end of July 2017, Bullock moved up the list to succeed Helmer as an MEP for the East Midland on 1 August 2017. He resigned from UKIP in December 2018 over the breach of the party’s constitution by Gerard Batten but remains in"
"the vote, an increase of 24.2% on the 2010 figure. She was elected to the European Parliament in the 2014 election. James was the party's Home Affairs spokesperson, represented UKIP on the BBC's ""Question Time"", and took part in debates at the Cambridge Union Society. In December 2014, she was selected by UKIP in North West Hampshire to be its parliamentary candidate, having been given a 1.2% chance of winning. However, a few hours after making a speech at the 2015 UKIP Spring Conference in Margate, Kent, she stepped down from the Westminster candidacy ""for personal reasons"". In 2016, she"
"objectionable by his party leader, for his opinions concerning climate change and for making other controversial comments. On 20 September 2013, UKIP withdrew the party whip from Bloom after he struck journalist Michael Crick in the street with a conference brochure, threatened a second reporter, and at the party's conference jokingly referred to his female audience as sluts. Bloom resigned his party whip from UKIP on 24 September 2013 and thereafter sat as an Independent MEP until the end of his term in office on 2 July 2014. Bloom was removed as Honorary President of the Ludwig von Mises Centre"
"an Assembly Member on the 29 December 2017. On 9 January UKIP Wales announced that she would not be joining the UKIP group in the Assembly, due to employing members of other parties in her office. Helen Mary Jones replaced Simon Thomas as an Assembly Member in August 2018. Caroline Jones resigned as a member of UKIP and UKIP's group on 12 September 2018. Jenny Rathbone was suspended from Labour on 20 November 2018 following the publishing of a recording in which she claimed Jewish people's security fears could be ""in their own heads"" and that hostile behaviour towards Jewish"
"the 2010 general election, finishing 5th (1,490 votes, 3%). In 2012, she stood in the Corby by-election, finishing third with 5,108 votes (14.3%). Following the election of Henry Bolton as leader of UKIP in 2017, Parker was appointed deputy leader. After Bolton refused to stand down following a vote of no confidence from UKIP's National Executive Committee, Parker resigned as deputy leader. Margot Parker Margaret Lucille Jeanne Parker (born 24 July 1943) is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands region for the UK Independence Party. She was elected in 2014. She was born in Grantham"
"vote in the House of Commons. Following the Lord Sewel scandal and resignation on 28 July 2015, she said the House of Lords should no longer be an unelected chamber and should be moved to Glasgow. In November 2017, ITV announced that Dugdale would appear as a contestant on its reality television series, ""I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!"". It was subsequently reported that she faced disciplinary action from the Labour Party because she did not notify party managers she would be out of the country on non-work related business while the Scottish parliament is in session. On 21"
"of fracking in Falkirk, the constituency he stood for in the 2015 General Election. In 2015, Coburn compared Scottish government minister Humza Yousaf to the convicted terrorist Abu Hamza, later apologising and calling it a ""joke"". The then UKIP leader Nigel Farage called it a ""joke in bad taste"" and EU President Martin Schulz said that whereas the remarks were ""not worthy of any elected member"", he could not act on remarks made outside parliament. Parliamentary candidate Tim Wilson quit the party in response, saying he had been ""systematically gagged by the party whip and forbidden to speak about Islam"
"resigned as PPS to Cable after she voted for a Commons amendment – not supported by the government – calling for a moratorium on fracking in the UK. On 5 May 2017, in the UK local elections, she was elected as a councillor in Somerset, beating Somerset County Council leader, John Osman, by 95 votes. Munt lives with her two children from her marriage to Martin Munt, from whom she is separated, in the village of Wedmore on the Somerset Levels. A vegetarian, she is a governor of Hugh Sexey Middle School in Blackford, and is a member of the"
"of UKIP. This document was a radical departure from the 2017 UKIP manifesto. In 2017 UKIP revealed a new 'integration agenda' which proposed the banning of Muslim face-coverings in public, disbanding Sharia councils and physical checks on young girls believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation. Arnott stated that he had watched recent events with ""disappointment, bordering on despair"" and warned that the party was heading in a ""bland and anti-Muslim"" direction. He said that ""hardline anti-Islam nonsense"" and the ""crass"" integration agenda made it very difficult for people to vote UKIP. On 9 June he resigned as"
"married to Fiona, with whom he has a daughter. They lived on Victoria Road, Chester, until mid-2016, when they moved to Winchester. They have since divorced. Woolfe is a Catholic. Steven Woolfe Steven Marcus Woolfe (born 6 October 1967) is an English politician, who has served as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region since the 2014 European election. Woolfe was considered a frontrunner in UKIP's 2016 leadership election, but was excluded from the race after submitting his nomination late. After Diane James resigned from the party leadership, Woolfe was standing in the second UKIP"
"Upston was elected Chief Whip and joined by Tim Macindoe and Jami-Lee Ross who act as Junior and Third Whip in Parliament. Upston is conservative on conscience issues: she voted against the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill in 2013, and voted to raise the purchase age of alcohol to 20. In October 2014, she became the Minister of Land Information and the Minister for Women. In November 2014, Upston stated she is not a feminist when she sang praises of beauty pagents. In April 2015, Upston refused to comment on women's rights in the work place after it was"
"leader of UKIP in September 2016 as his successor. She resigned from the leadership of the party on 4 October 2016, 18 days after being elected. On 21 November 2016, James announced that she was leaving UKIP and would henceforth sit as an Independent. The length of her tenure was met with significant public and press ridicule. James was born in Bedford in 1959, where her father was an engineer and her mother a housewife. She was educated at Rochester Grammar School, Kent and Thames Valley University, Slough. James spent three decades working in the health industry, where she established"
"the NHS is excluded from this agreement."" Bours appeared on ""Question Time"" discussing her role as health spokesperson. In November 2018, Bours resigned from UKIP. She sits as an independent MEP in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. Bours previously served as councillor for Congleton borough and town councils and was elected Mayor in 2006. On 25 May 2014, Bours was elected as MEP for the North West England, replacing British National Party leader Nick Griffin. She has said that she wants to ""shake off the BNP in blazers thing"", for UKIP and it has been claimed that"