{"id":8547,"date":"2015-03-07T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T11:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2015-03-25T08:29:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T08:29:18","slug":"8547","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/politics-2\/2015\/03\/8547\/","title":{"rendered":"UKIP Increases Its Hove Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By William Mills<\/p>\n<p><strong>UKIP Hove and Portslade<\/strong> are now\u00a0fielding 17 candidates for the forthcoming <strong>Brighton and Hove City Council<\/strong> elections in May, and every ward is now represented.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7971\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/UKIP-Kevin-Smith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7971\" src=\"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/UKIP-Kevin-Smith-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"UKIP Kevin Smith\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/UKIP-Kevin-Smith-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/UKIP-Kevin-Smith-433x570.jpg 433w, https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/UKIP-Kevin-Smith.jpg 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UKIP Kevin Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Kevin Smith<\/strong>, as well as standing in the local council election, is UKIP&#8217;s candidate in the General Election which returns MPs to <strong>Westminister<\/strong> in the national parliamentary elections held on the same date.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time\u00a0UKIP have fielded candidates in each ward so everyone in the City can vote for them if they wish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Smith said;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are also\u00a0getting\u00a0\u00a0very\u00a0positive\u00a0feedback from the voters\u00a0and, are feeling quietly confident, especially with all the disharmony\u00a0among the other\u00a0parties.\u00a0UKIP\u00a0Brighton &amp; Hove has been restructured due to it&#8217;s enormous growth in the past year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brighton Pavilion<\/strong> is now a separate branch, fortunate in having the hugely experienced<strong> Nigel Carter<\/strong> who has\u00a0set up and is developing the new <strong>UKIP Brighton Pavilion constitency party<\/strong> .\u00a0Nigel is also\u00a0standing as the Parliamentary candidate there.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Hove<\/strong> we now have <strong>Patricia Mountain<\/strong> as the new branch chairwoman. She is a very active member of the party, and is also standing as council candidate for <strong>Hangleton &amp; Knoll<\/strong> ward.Our membership has increased significantly in the last year and we want to take full\u00a0advantage of our new found popularity and increase it further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; overflow: hidden; width: 2px; height: 1px; left: -288; top: -277; z-index: 177;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburgh-stylist.startingin.xyz\">stylist in Pittsburgh<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William Mills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,103],"tags":[1258,1329,1328,515],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-brighton","category-politics-2","tag-kevin-smith","tag-nigel-carter","tag-patricia-mountain","tag-ukip"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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