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Hi,
in the light of Derek Clark’s lies and serial
dishonesty perhaps it is apposite to ask how even such a consumate spinner and
showman as Nigel Farage can justify his dishonesty as he lied to the media,
lied to the electorate, lied to the UKIP members, lied to the Regional
Committee and lied to his colleagues as admitted in the press:
Ukip MEPs misused EU allowances to fund party’s UK work
Two senior Ukip MEPs have repaid more than
£37,000 they say they were asked to divert by a senior adviser to the party
Ukip leader Nigel
Farage has admitted that he also might have been investigated for diverting EU
money, but says he has done nothing wrong. Photograph: Sean Smith for the
Guardian
MEPs from the United Kingdom Independence
party, whose organisation has railed against the European Union‘s “gravy
train”, have been found to have misused taxpayer-funded allowances following a
crackdown by Europe‘s anti-fraud watchdog.
Two of the party’s senior members have
repaid more than £37,000 meant for office staff after diverting it to party
workers based in the UK. One MEP told the Guardian that he was
asked to divert the funds by a senior adviser to the party.
The findings follow an inquiry by Olaf, the EU’s
investigative unit, and will raise further questions about the way that Ukip
has sought to profit from the European parliament’s generous expenses and
staffing regime. The party argues the EU is a waste of money and calls for Britain’s withdrawal.
It comes days after a YouGov poll gave the party a major boost, showing Ukip in third
place behind Labour and the Conservatives on 9%, with the Liberal Democrats at
8%.
Documents released by Olaf show that Derek
Clark, Ukip’s MEP for the East Midlands, had successfully applied for money from the EU to pay for two
assistants in 2004 and 2005.
But instead of working for Clark, the inquiry found they worked almost
exclusively for Ukip from Britain.
EU rules state that staff paid with this
allowance must work predominantly for the European parliament. “The provided
allowances are only eligible when spent on activities and objects which are
directly linked to the office of a member of the European parliament,” EU
documents state.
One of those paid by Clark was Niall Warry, Ukip’s former office manager in its Birmingham headquarters, who received around £10,000
for six months’ work.
He told the Guardian that the decision was
approved by senior people within the party. “Ukip MEPs, sanctioned by the top
of the party, have been paying for salaried party officials with public money.
I knew I was being paid by Clark,
but I was not aware then that it was against the rules,” said Warry, who has
since left the party.
Clark said he began paying political workers
with EU money only after being asked to do so by an adviser to the party, whom
he refused to name. He has repaid around £31,800.
“We were using legitimate ways to use this
money to try and alert people on the problems of the EU. We believed that we
were doing it for Britain,” he said. “It was an honest mistake.”
Olaf’s inquiry concluded that there was a
breach of rules. “The discussed payments could be considered illegal indirect
party funding,” it said.
Graham Booth, the late Ukip MEP for south
west England, was asked to pay back £5,555 after Olaf
found he had also diverted money to fund a party official. It is understood
that Booth, who died in December, paid the money back in full.
Another Ukip MEP, Mike Nattrass, was
subject to an Olaf inquiry but was not forced to pay money back.
Other Ukip sources have claimed there was
a “systematic” attempt to pay party officials using EU money.
In 2009, a former Ukip MEP was jailed for
diverting £39,000 meant for a member of staff into a bank account he secretly
controlled. Tom Wise, who represented East of England, spent some of the money
on fine wine and a car.
Nigel Farage, Ukip’s leader, admitted he
also might have been investigated by Olaf for diverting money from the EU to
political campaigns, but said he had done nothing wrong. He insisted there was
not a systematic attempt to defraud the EU by his party.
“There is a hell of a difference between
that and seeking personal gain from public money. In the case of poor old Derek
Clark it has cost him out of his own pocket,” he said.
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There is no escaping the truth that derek Clark is a
liar and the backing of someone as corrupt as Nigel Farage does not alter that
– clearly UKIP Leadership is unfit for purpose and not just the rigging of
selection processes, the fiddling of internal elections and the deliberate
abuse of the public purse with endemic theft from the tax payer to fund their
life style of luxury, their wives and their staff can be justified.
UKIP leadership are unfit for office as shown by the
fact they tyake advice from staff that they should lie!
UKIP members in the know are no better as by
supporting UKIP they debase these United Kingdoms and aid and abet the corruption and self enrichment
of the garbage that has floated to the top of the septic tank that is UKIP
politics.
UKIP with its serial liars like Derek Clark, Gawain
Towler, Nigel Farage, Mick McGough, Gerard Batten, Tom Wise, David Bannerman,
Douglas Denny, Mark Croucher, and the rest of the self serving low life trash
of politics! Propped up by a seemingly constant flow of bimbettes and other
failed Tories!
IF they had any self respect, integrity or ethics
they would speak out publicly to make the party fit for purpose but this is
unlikely as they all have their own personal ambitions and will peddle the
monsterous lie that to expose the corruption will damage the party – Have they
no integrity? A party that corrupt needs to be exposed to rebuild a EUroRealist
movement of some gravitas and consequence that can achieve what UKIP never has
and never will in their present state – The leadership required to
Leave-The-EU.
In 20 years UKIP have achieved absolutely ZERO to
Leave-The-EU and have associated and even selected some of the most sordid
politicians in EUropean politics and clearly all for the gain of a small self
serving clique of liars and ner do wells.
Some may feel my comments are harsh but let us
remember that it is UKIP leadership that has tried to defame me, tried to
bankrupt me, lied to the Police about me, lied at meetings, owe mke £12.1/2
Thousand in unpaid debts to me, it is scum like Annabelle Fuller and Mick
McGough who have openly stated they hope I die of cancer.
Yes I find UKIP little more than an excrecence as
with many of its self righteous members who although aware of the vile
behaviour of its leadership still will not speak out in public against the
corruption for fear of damaging their route to the gravy train. The excuse is
for the good of the party – which is clearly dishonest as the party is going
nowhere with the present leadership as election after election has shown.
Let me remind you that Tom Wise was ordered to pay
back less than Derek Clark and to the very end Nigel Farage was telling lies to
protect Tom Wiser and himself just as is the case now with regard to his lies
to protect Derek Clark – The man is a low life scoundrel who has betrayed all
who ever trusted him!
Let us not forget the lies and abuse of Daniel Foggo
who had the timerity to expose their corruption in the media and do not forget
the lies to The Derbyshire Times see CLICK HERE & CLICK HERE & also
CLICK HERE
It is a matter of record that to cover-up UKIP’s
criminality Tom Wise spent £8,000 of public money on solicitors trying to
prevent me publishing the truth – then when Junius & I posted the OLAF
investigation numbers on Derek Clark he LIED to his regional committee and
claimed there was absolutely no enquiry and that we had made the numbers up and
were telling lies.
Will Farage, Derek Clark and the other UKIP liars be
making a public apology to Junius and I for having lied about us? I doubt it as
they lack the integrity and clearly are without fundamental emorality or
understanding of ethics – They are therefore unfit for public office.
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