Current-Member of the Libertarian Party
October 2000-February 2009 Member-UK Independence Party.
Aug 2004-Sep 2008. Employed by Dr John Whittaker, MEP as UKIP’s North West Regional Organiser.
Responsibilities included branch development, election strategy and training and support of volunteer branch officers and candidates. I also took lead responsibility for communications, press and PR matters.
Responsible for local election campaigns, the 2005 general election campaign in the North West and the 2007 Crewe and Nantwich by-election campaign.
On the party’s NEC from 2003 to 2004.
Voted lead candidate in the North West by the party membership in September 2008. Having had serious doubts about the lack of development on issues other than the EU for around 2 years, I decided to step down. Unlike others in UKIP I was not prepared to merely use politics as a source of income. Due to this decision I also felt that I could not carry on in my role as Regional Organiser and left Dr Whittaker’s employment as a result.
Additionally I organised regional meetings and other events and organised the party’s 2007 national conference and agm.
Before 2000-Member of the Conservative Party from 1979, although my membership frequently lapsed after about 1993.
In the early 1980s I was Chairman of the City of Manchester Young Conservative Association and the Greater Manchester Association.
In 1981 I was agent for a Conservative candidate in the elections to the old Greater Manchester County Council.
I was also a member of CIB and the Anti-Federalist League, which became UKIP around 1995.
Candidacies
Local Elections
1982-Conservative- Manchester City Council
1992-Conservative- London Borough of Greewich.
1999- Independent - Lancaster City Council (elected). Vice Chairman Housing Policy and Finance and General Purposes committees. Chairman Audit and Support Services and Council Housing committees (1999-2001 [introduction of cabinet system])
2003-UKIP-Lancaster City Council (lost seat!)
2007-UKIP-Lancaster City Council
Parliamentary Elections
2000-UKIP-Preston by-election
2001-UKIP-Morecambe and Lunesdale
2005-UKIP-Manchester, Gorton.
European Elections
2004-UKIP-No.2 on North West party list.
Additional Information
I have many years experience, politically and professionally, of working with the media; press, radio and TV. This has included ‘to camera’ appeals on behalf of charities, TV and radio interviews and political debates.
I have extensive public speaking and debating experience.
Congratulations to Gregg on being selected by the NCC and North West Region. We now need to start raising funds to fight the next Parliamentary Election.
Other Candidates will be listed over the next few weeks.
8 comments:
Congratulations to Gregg, and Good Luck!
He sounds perfect.
But watch your spelling, Guthrum, it's spelt "parliamentary" ;)
Good luck to the man!
good luck sir, may you be touched by his noodly appendage
RAmen
Speaking as someone who is "Libertarian-curious" and interested in the answer and not trying to make a party political point, why is this selection being made by the party and not by the local electorate along the lines of the recent Totnes primary?
John R: resources dear boy, resources.
I would like an even larger picture of Gregg, this one has proven big enough for me to build a life-size cardboard shrine to him, but at the cost of a little blurring. Something to consider for next time perhaps?
I wouldn't be in favour of open primaries anyway - that's one aspect of the American political process that we don't need over here. We'd only end up with a bunch of bland, middle of the road candidates who didn't really represent the Party. I can see the Tories going in for open primaries, because they don't really believe in anything much anymore, but we have a definite set of beliefs, and the candidate's job is to promote those beliefs to the electorate.
Congrats for your selection!
John R,
Open Primaries are a neat way to prevent new or smaller parties from competing.
As mentioned, I expect the move to DEMAND such to be put forward by the incumbent ladder-kickers.
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