OUSTED members of Brecon and Radnorshire's UKIP branch attacked the party at a public meeting they called in Brecon.

The local UKIP committee was suspended from the party earlier this month in a row over the selection of its candidate for this May's general election.

The suspended committee members held a public meeting at the Castle Hotel, Brecon on Friday, February 20 and outlined their complaints at how UKIP Wales had handled the second running of its local candidate selection -ordered by party chiefs.

Less than 20 people attended the Friday evening meeting, with UKIP members from other areas of Wales also complaining about the party's Welsh leadership.

The party's Welsh MEP Nathan Gill, UKIP Wales and senior party officials did not attend the meeting, and seats reserved for them remained unoccupied at the front of the hotel's board room.

A spokesman for UKIP Wales said it had investigated complaints made by the local committee and had taken the decision the candidate selection should be run by the Welsh executive.

He also dismissed the row with the local party, he said: "We have one objective above all else, to regain our national independence anything else is getting in the way of that objective and is superfluous."

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