Lord Pearson’s leadership of the fake UKIP party will be remembered for his gross betrayal of his party’s members through his offer to disband that organisation to join the Tories and his failed attempt to steal BNP policy.
Lord Pearson, who announced his resignation as UKIP leader today with the simple and accurate explanation that he was “not much good” at politics, first came to prominence in 2009 when he admitted that he had offered to disband his party behind supporters’ backs and without telling them if David Cameron held a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Lord Pearson said he had approached Lord Strathclyde, the Tory leader in the Lords, with the offer.
Acting on behalf of his predecessor, Nigel Farage, Lord Pearson said that if Mr Cameron guaranteed a referendum and gave the Conservative Party a free vote, then UKIP would disband and its members stand down.
Lord Pearson also attempted to move on in BNP territory by adopting policies which nominally opposed the Islamic colonisation of Britain.
All these political stunts were bogus as UKIP’s manifesto clearly defined Britishness in civic terms, arguing that anyone from anywhere could be British as long as they spoke English and endorsed vaguely defined “British values.”
Lord Pearson’s stunts were not believed by the voters and he had an appalling General Election campaign in which his party was trounced almost everywhere by the BNP where the two parties came into direct competition with each other.
Despite UKIP fighting nearly every seat in the country, their total vote collapsed by over two million nationally, while the BNP, which only fought half the number of seats, saw its vote percentage increase.
Observers have pointed out that given the polling results, if the BNP had stood in the same number of seats contested by UKIP, the final BNP tally would have been around 200,000 or more higher than its Euro election vote, in stark contrast to the dramatically shrinking UKIP vote.
Lord Pearson also famously dismissed his party’s manifesto as ‘insignificant’ in a Freudian slip made during a BBC election broadcast.
During the BBC’s The Campaign Show, Lord Pearson could not remember points from his party’s manifesto.
When he was challenged on his failure to know what was in his own party’s manifesto and accused of being like Conservative politician Kenneth Clarke who admitted to never reading the Maastricht treaty which created the European Union, Lord Pearson objected to the comparison between the two documents.
"No, no,” he said. “The Maastricht treaty was a huge document of vast significance to this country," directly implying that the UKIP manifesto was of no significance.
The BNP will wait with interest to see who else will come forward to lead this Tory party stooge organisation but remains assured that no matter who it is, the BNP remains the only choice for patriots determined to resist the EU superstate and who wish to see Britain preserved for the British people.
