Rejected as a United Bermuda Party candidate, outspoken building expert Mr.

Sanders Frith-Brown says he will run as an Independent in Warwick West unless the UBP conducts a poll to determine how he would fare in an election.

And Mr.

Frith-Brown told The Royal Gazette he is even willing to pay for the poll.

He believes the UBP has "lost direction'' and his candidacy could help turn that situation around.

"I am taking this stand as constructive criticism of the UBP,'' he said. Mr.

Frith-Brown wanted to be recognised by the UBP as an "approved candidate,'' which would allow him to take part in a primary for the chance to become an "adopted candidate'' in a constituency like Warwick West.

After he was turned down initially by former campaign chairman Dr. Grant Gibbons, Mr. Frith-Brown appealed to the party's central committee, made up of UBP chairman Sen. Gary Pitman and the party's 20 branch chairmen.

After Dr. Gibbons addressed the committee for 20 minutes in his absence, Mr.

Frith-Brown made a presentation of his own.

In the end, he was turned down.

"They think that I'm a loose cannon and I won't go along with a majority vote, which is not the case.'' And rather than a "some kind of fringe lunatic,'' as he said some party officials perceived him, Mr. Frith-Brown said he was "a mixture of ultra-conservative and ultra-liberal.'' At one point, Mr. Frith-Brown said a party official told him he had been polled in Warwick and did not poll well.

Mr. Frith-Brown did not believe he had been polled and officials later said he misunderstood what he was told and had not been polled.

Mr. Frith-Brown said he offered the UBP "diversity of opinion,'' particularly on Bermuda's race problem, where he could "separate what is myth and what is fact.'' "I will not be told by a collection of semi-elected officials that I am not electable and that I do not represent the view of the public,'' he said.

"I am going to run as an Independent in Warwick West...if they do not approve of me as a candidate.

"It will upset the apple cart in a very marginal district.'' However, "if they poll me in Warwick West and I do not poll well, I will not stand against the wishes of the people.'' Mr. Frith-Brown said he should be polled against any other person the UBP proposes to run in Warwick West or Warwick East.

This week, he met with Premier David Saul, who suggested he ask Warwick East branch chairman Mr. David Summers if he could begin attending the UBP's extended caucus meetings as a representative of Warwick East, which is lacking adopted candidates.

Mr. Frith-Brown said although some UBP officials associate him with outspoken backbencher Mr. Trevor Moniz MP, he actually supported Dr. Saul for the party leadership in August. Mr. Moniz and other MPs in the so-called "people's five'' supported former Tourism Minister Mr. C.V. (Jim) Woolridge.

At the annual general meeting in Warwick East last week, Mr. Frith-Brown challenged Mr. Summers for his branch chairman's post and was defeated 12-8.

Sen. Pitman said Mr. Frith-Brown exercised his right to appeal over his candidacy and "the decision of the central executive is final.'' He would not comment on why Mr. Frith-Brown was not approved as a candidate.

"The reasons are confidential,'' but "he knows the reasons,'' Sen. Pitman said.

It was very likely that Mr. Frith-Brown would be polled by the UBP in any case, he said.