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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Had Malcolm Pritchard stood an an Independent candidate(which he could have done) he would have been being honest about his political allegiance......but to my mind, he knew that standing as an Independent would not allow him to gain from the recent publicity that the UKIP party has had. He wanted to use this in an opportunistic way to gain......and that is dishonest, both to the UKIP party and to those who elected him on a UKIP ticket......
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He became independent mid term after being voted in by Labour supporters. He then lost his seat to Paul Cox who stood as Labour and Malcolm stood as independent. You may be right with your thoughts as to why he decided to abandon being independent and change yet again to UKIP just as they are having a surge in popularity.