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词条 Catherine Blaiklock
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  1. Non-political career

  2. Political career

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  3. Personal life

  4. See also

  5. Notes

  6. References

  7. External links

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| education = Christ Church, Oxford
MA (Hons) Geography[1]
| party = Brexit Party
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| office = Leader of the Brexit Party
| term_start = 20 January 2019
| term_end = 20 March 2019
| predecessor = Party established
| successor = Nigel Farage
| residence = Lingwood, Norfolk, United Kingdom[2]
| birth_name = Catherine Anne Blaiklock
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1963|4}}[3][1]
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| nationality = British
| father = Ken Blaiklock
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| occupation = Financial trader[1]
British politican[1]
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| known_for = Founding the Brexit Party[7]
Former UKIP Economic Spokesman[8]
| spouse = Gyaljen Sherpa {{small|(divorced)}}[9]
Christopher Kirkpatrick[2]
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Catherine Blaiklock (born April 1963) is the former leader of the Brexit Party, a British political party she founded in January 2019 to support Brexit. She was forced to resign in March 2019 when it was disclosed she had made anti-Islamic and racist statements online. Blaiklock was a former Economics Spokesperson for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which she left in late 2018.[3] Before entering politics in 2016, she worked as a financial currency and derivatives trader.[13] She also founded a Nepali health-care charity with her ex-husband, an Everest Sherpa.[1] Her father is polar explorer, Ken Blaiklock.

Non-political career

In 1981, Blaiklock entered Christ Church, Oxford, on a scholarship,[4] the second year the College admitted women.[5] She earned an MA (Hons) in Geography.[6] She then went to India on a Commonwealth Scholarship.[4][13] Blaiklock then worked as financial currency and derivatives trader with Merrill Lynch and other investment banks, and was located in New York, Tokyo and Singapore.[4][13][6] She returned to Asia and founded a health care charity in Nepal, called Nepal in Need, with her then-husband Gyaljen Sherpa,[5][7] which she is still involved with, and for which she continues to raise funds.[6][8] In 1999, she returned to Norfolk, from where she runs a guest-house, and other small businesses in the local hospitality sector.[4]

Political career

UKIP

Blaiklock joined UKIP in 2014, says that she never voted before 2015,[9] and says that she only really entered politics after the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.[6] Blaiklock was the unsuccessful UKIP candidate for Great Yarmouth in the 2017 general election.[30][31] During the campaign, she produced photographs of her British Jamaican husband to show UKIP was not racist.[10] In September 2018, she was appointed the Economic Spokesman of UKIP, was the Eastern Regional Chair,[11] and wrote articles for UKIP in The Daily Telegraph.[12] Blaiklock left UKIP in 2018 when Gerard Batten appointed the English Defence League's Tommy Robinson as an advisor to UKIP.[6]

Views

Blaiklock has been criticised for articles she posted on The Conservative Woman where she discussed introducing hanging for drug dealers and argued that food banks are contributing to obesity in low-income families, who should be eating potatoes, being cheaper and healthier.[13][14][15] She has also been noted for her anti-Islam statements written on a range of conservative websites.[16][15] In January 2019, The Guardian reported that, in blogs and tweets since deleted, she had "argued crime and fatherlessness among black men are due to high testosterone levels, and suggested their lower academic achievement could have a biological basis".[17]

Brexit Party

On 20 January 2019, Blaiklock launched a pro-Brexit political party called the Brexit Party,[18] and listed her Norfolk guest house as the headquarters.[2][19] She immediately outlined her desire for former UKIP leader Nigel Farage to lead her new Brexit Party,[20][21] and on 8 February 2019, Farage announced he would be a candidate for the Brexit Party in any upcoming EU MEP elections.[22] In a 27 February 2019 interview, Reuters said: "Blaiklock wants Britain to leave the EU without a trade deal and says the threat of economic damage from a potentially disorderly no-deal Brexit has been vastly exaggerated".[9]

On 20 March 2019, Blaiklock resigned from the party after The Guardian enquired about deleted anti-Islam messages from her Twitter-account from before she took on the role.[23] Her deleted tweets were recovered by the advocacy group, Hope not Hate.[23]

Personal life

Blaiklock is the daughter of explorer Ken Blaiklock,[24] who moved his family to Norfolk when she was 3 months old, from where Blaiklock was raised until college.[4] Blaiklock says she detested growing up in Nofolk describing it as intellectually devoid.[9] As a teenager she spent four years in care homes because she had bulimia and her parents found her "wayward and difficult".[9][6] Blaiklock’s first husband was a Nepali called Gyaljen Sherpa whom she met in 1997 at Everest base-camp,{{efn|The Nepali in Need website notes that Gyaljen Sherpa summited Everest and was involved in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.[7]}}[25][5] and with whom she has two children.[26] Her second husband is British Jamaican, Christopher Kirkpatrick.[10][26]

{{As of|February 2019}}, Blaiklock continues to run a guest house from her home in Lingwood in Norfolk called The Annapurna Guest House.[27] Her husband manages the guest house on a day-to-day basis, and the BBC reported that its Tripadvisor page has been the subject of politically motivated attacks, requiring intervention by Tripadvisor.[28]

See also

  • 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

Notes

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References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.derehamtimes.co.uk/news/catherine-blaiklock-confirmed-as-ukip-s-general-election-candidate-for-great-yarmouth-1-4996797|title=Catherine Blaiklock confirmed as UKIP’s general election candidate for Great Yarmouth|publisher=The Dereham Times|date=2 May 2017|accessdate=16 February 2019|author=David Hannant|quote=Ms Blaiklock, 53, who recently fronted a campaign against a proposal for dualling the A47 between Blofield and North Burlingham, will represent the party in June's snap general election.}}
2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/779383/MS-CATHERINE-BLAIKLOCK|publisher=CheckCompany.co.uk|accessdate=16 February 2019|quote=MS CATHERINE BLAIKLOCK is a Real Estate from Norwich. This person was born in April 1963, which was over 55 years ago. MS CATHERINE BLAIKLOCK is English and resident in England.|title=CATHERINE BLAIKLOCK - NORWICH - REAL ESTATE}}
3. ^1 {{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/20/nigel-farage-to-lead-new-pro-brexit-party-if-eu-departure-delayed-ukip|title=Nigel Farage to lead new pro-Brexit party if EU departure delayed|last=Halliday|first=Josh|date=20 January 2019 |publisher=The Guardian|access-date=14 February 2019 }}
4. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/watch-who-is-standing-in-the-general-election-2017-in-great-yarmouth-and-why-do-they-think-you-should-vote-for-them-1-5051164|title=WATCH: Who is standing in the General Election 2017 in Great Yarmouth and why do they think you should vote for them?|publisher=Great Yarmouth Mercury|author=Dan Grimmer|date=6 June 2017|accessdate=23 February 2019|quote=Who is Catherine Blaikock}}
5. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/ChristChurchMatters27_0.pdf|title=Christ Church Matters: Trinity Term|date=2011|accessdate=17 February 2019|page=24|quote=Norfolk Lunch: One wintery afternoon this year, thanks to Catherine Blaiklock and her husband [Sherpa] Gyaljen, alumni of the House convened in rural Norfolk for wonderful food and company. From one of the first women to enter the House as a student, [to myself] one of the most recent to leave.}}
6. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite web|url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/who-is-norfolk-based-brexit-party-founder-and-friend-of-nigel-farage-catherine-blaiklock-1-5893096|title=Brexit Party founder, friend of Nigel Farage, and Norfolk resident – who is Catherine Blaiklock?|publisher=Eastern Daily Press|date=15 February 2019|accessdate=15 February 2019}}
7. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://nepalinneed.org/who-we-are/|title=Nepal in Need: Trustees|publisher=Nepal in Need|accessdate=17 February 2019}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/norfolk-call-for-tents-to-help-nepalese-aid-effort-after-devastating-earthquake-1-4055043|title=Norfolk call for tents to help Nepalese aid effort after devastating earthquake|date=30 April 2015|accessdate=15 February 2019|author=Peter Walsh|publisher=Norwich Evening News|quote=Catherine Blaiklock, from Lingwood, founder of the charity Nepal in Need, has today issued an urgent plea for people to donate tents so that they can be taken out to the devastated region by trustees who are flying out in the coming days.}}
9. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-brexit/brexit-betrayal-would-explode-british-politics-farages-party-warns-idUSKCN1QG1Y5|title=Interview with Catherine Blaiklock: Brexit 'betrayal' would explode British politics, Farage's party warns|author1=Guy Faulconbridge | author2=Andrew MacAskill|date=27 February 2019|accessdate=27 February 2019|publisher=Reuters}}
10. ^1 2 {{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/election-2017-ukip-black-husband-catherine-blaiklock-photo-candidate-great-yarmouth-not-racist-a7742201.html|title=Election 2017: Ukip candidate takes photo of her black husband to hustings to prove party isn't racist|author=Charlotte England|publisher=The Independent|date=18 May 2017|quote=}}
11. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=https://www.ukip.org/national-ukip-news-item.php?id=62|title=Catherine Blaiklock appointed as Economics Spokesman|date=12 September 2018|publisher=UKIP|accessdate=15 February 2019}}
12. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/10/03/theresa-may-has-turned-deaf-ear-wanting-powerful-leadership/|title=Theresa May has turned a deaf ear to those wanting powerful leadership on Brexit|author=Catherine Blaiklock|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|date=3 October 2018|accessdate=3 October 2018}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/former-ukip-candidate-catherine-blaiklock-says-foodbanks-fuel-obesity-1-5853723|title='Let them eat spuds!' Ex-UKIP candidate says food banks are fuelling the obesity crisis|publisher=Eastern Daily Press|date=26 January 2019|author=Liz Coates|accessdate=16 February 2019}}
14. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brex-factor-nigel-farage-ukip-brexit-catherine-blaiklock-1-5864618|title=Brex Factor: Another strange sidekick making plans for Nigel|publisher=The New European|date=26 January 2019|accessdate=15 February 2019|author=Steve Anglesey|quote=It's as a pundit, though, where Blaiklock comes into her own. On New Year's Day she popped up on the Conservative Woman website where, under the headline 'Hungry? Let them eat spuds!' she explained that poor people 'cannot be bothered' to cook and claimed the use of food banks was causing obesity.}}
15. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2019/02/let-them-eat-spuds-we-should-fear-brexit-party-not-reasons-you-think|title='Let them eat spuds': we should fear the Brexit Party – but not for the reasons you think|publisher=New Statesman|date=12 February 2019|accessdate=15 February 2019|author=Anoosh Chakelian|quote=Its leader, former Ukip candidate Catherine Blaiklock, has had Islamophobic, racist and classist remarks dredged up by BuzzFeed and from other online pieces.}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/blaiklock-farage-brexit-islam|title=The Founder Of Nigel Farage's New Brexit Party Has A History Of Anti-Muslim Comments|publisher=Buzzfeed|date=11 February 2019|accessdate=15 February 2019|author=Alex Wickham|quote=In a blog post titled "Burka's [sic] in Detroit" published on her website in May last year, Blaiklock complained that when she ordered a Thai takeaway meal in the US city it was delivered by a woman in a burka.}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/22/farage-ally-black-men-are-violent-due-to-high-testosterone|title=Farage ally said black men are violent due to high testosterone|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=23 February 2019|date=22 January 2019|author=Peter Walker|quote=Soon after Blaiklock announced she had registered the party with the Electoral Commission, her Twitter feed appeared to be deleted, as were some posts from her personal blog. One of the deleted posts, titled 'Baby mamas, gangs and testosterone', argued biological reasons could be behind gang violence and family breakdown among men of African-Caribbean origin in the UK and the US.}}
18. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/the-new-ukip-nigel-farage-offers-full-support-for-another-brexit-party-37729406.html|title=The new Ukip? Nigel Farage offers 'full support' for another Brexit party|work=The Independent|date=20 January 2019|quote=[..] former Ukip economics spokeswoman Catherine Blaiklock applied to register the new party last week and she sounded out Mr. Farage for a role in the organisation. He told the paper: "This was Catherine's idea entirely – but she has done this with my full knowledge and my full support.}}
19. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/nigel-farages-brexit-party-may-relocate-after-malicious-trolling-on-tripadvisor-page-a4069371.html|title=Nigel Farage's Brexit Party may relocate after 'malicious' trolling on TripAdvisor page|publisher=Evening Standard|accessdate=18 February 2019|date=17 February 2019|author=Sophia Sleigh}}
20. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/01/21/new-brexit-party-founded-nigel-farages-support-will-fight-democracy/|title=My new Brexit Party, supported by Nigel Farage, will fight for our democracy|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|date=21 January 2019|author=Catherine Blaiklock|accessdate=15 February 2019}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=https://talkradio.co.uk/news/founder-brexit-party-i-wont-run-it-without-nigel-farage-19012429631|title=Founder of The Brexit Party: 'I won't run it without Nigel Farage'|publisher=Talkradio|author=Samantha King|date=24 January 2019|accessdate=30 January 2019}}
22. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/d3197116-2bcf-11e9-a5ab-ff8ef2b976c7|title=New ‘Brexit Party’ backed by Nigel Farage launches|date=8 February 2019|accessdate=19 February 2019|author=Jim Pickard|publisher=Financial Times|quote=Catherine Blaiklock, founder of The Brexit Party, said hundreds of Tory members had been in contact saying they wanted to defect to the new party.}}
23. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/leader-of-pro-brexit-party-catherine-blaiklock-resigns-over-anti-islam-messages|title=Leader of Nigel Farage's party resigns over anti-Islam messages|publisher=The Guardian|date=20 March 2019|accessdate=20 March 2019|author=Peter Walker|quote=The leader of the new pro-Brexit party backed by Nigel Farage has abruptly resigned, after the Guardian asked her about a series of deleted anti-Islam Twitter messages sent from her account before she took on the role.}}
24. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1091135/brexit-news-brexit-party-nigel-farage-tory-split-theresa-may|title=BREXIT BOOST: Nigel Farage to POACH senior Tories from UNDER MAY’S NOSE for Brexit Party|publisher=The Express|accessdate=23 February 2019|date=23 February 2019|author=Martyn Brown|quote=Ms Blaiklock, the daughter of surveyor Kenneth Blaiklock - who took part in the first overland crossing of the Antarctic - said members signing up to the party had now topped 150,000 and that donations were continuing to pour in.}}
25. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/charity-ball-raises-cash-for-nepal-1-500539|title=Charity ball raises cash for Nepal|publisher=Great Yarmouth Mercury|date=3 July 2010|accessdate=17 February 2019|quote=Catherine, 46, and Gyaljen, who met 12 years ago when they were both at Mount Everest base camp, will go back to the centre at the end of September to oversee while work is completed on the last few rooms.}}
26. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=Ukip candidate 'proves' party isn't racist by showing off photo of her black husband|url=https://metro.co.uk/2017/05/18/ukip-candidate-proves-party-isnt-racist-by-showing-off-photo-of-her-black-husband-6646692/?ito=cbshare|publisher=Metro|date=18 May 2017|author=Fiona Parker|accessdate=15 February 2019|quote=Ms Blaiklock, who runs a charity called Nepal in Need, has two children from her marriage to her Nepalese ex-husband.}}
27. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/the-annapurna-guest-house-lingwood-norfolk-nigel-farage-catherine-blaiklock-hq-1-5891539|title=Bed and Brexit: The guest house which is new Farage HQ|date=14 February 2019|accessdate=15 February 2019|publisher=The New European}}
28. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-47292229|title=TripAdvisor suspends reviews on 'Brexit Party B&B'|publisher=BBC News|date=19 February 2019|accessdate=19 February 2019|quote=TripAdvisor has suspended reviews for the bed and breakfast used as the official address for the new Brexit Party after "malicious trolling". Annapurna Bed & Breakfast in Norfolk, run by leader Catherine Blaiklock's husband, was the address used when the party registered on 5 February. A party spokesman said the venue's rating had dropped in recent days. TripAdvisor said it halted reviews after "an influx of review submissions that did not meet our guidelines".}}

External links

  • [https://www.catherineblaiklock.co.uk/about-catherine/ Official website]
  • [https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/author/catherineblaiklock/ The Conservative Woman: Catherine Blaiklock]
  • The Salisbury Review: Catherine Blaiklock
  • Nepal in Need, a Nepalese charity founded by Blaiklock and her ex-husband Gyaljen Sherpa
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