It just gets worse and worse reading for UKIP members these days.
After selling its soul to a group of city traders due to bankruptcy worries, the party that started out with a different fresh outlook from the LibLabCon axis has been plunged deeper into crisis as several of its MEPs are being probed for paying UKIP staff out of their EU expenses. It has been rumoured that the odious Regional Organiser (RO), Dr Fred McGlade, is funded to the tune of £50,000 a year from EU expenses but I couldn’t possibly comment on that!
The latest turn of events reveals that former leader Nigel Farage has appointed legal representation in advance of his interviews with the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).
All in all, a pretty shit week for Farage after Lord Pearson slapped him down and threatened to quit if Nikki Sinclaire was not reinstated.
This story is starting to get interesting…
Oh and by the way, here’s something fun from Paul Nuttall MEP that was sent to his loyal minions. Guess what? He wants your money!
Have a good weekend!
Tags: corruption, expenses, scandal, ukip
UKIP are just doing themselves no favours; they call themselves ‘The Real Opposition’ I have heard that one from the Lib Dems before but yet they are just doing everything wrong. Nigel Farage has given up leadership of the party to challenge Speaker John Bercow in Buckingham officially the safest seat in England, they have recruited pro-smoking publicans which has angered many rank and file members and now this. They really need to get their act together if they want to be taken seriously because I won’t vote for them with things the way they are now.
Farage has stepped down from leader because if he hadn’t then that group of hedge fund traders would not have put in the money to save the party from bankruptcy.
Further to that, whilst under investigation by OLAF he is not allowed to hold any positions in the party.
Interesting but one thing that has bugged me for ages was that I was certain that at one time you were not allowed to stand for public office with a criminal record as in the case of pro-smokers Hamish Howitt and Nick Hogan, but somehow they are allowed to stand. I think people with convictions should be barred, not that they’ll get in anyway, they’re just novelty ‘paper candidates’.
Nick Hoggan is the official spokesman for UKIP on pubs and leisure so he is not a paper candidate.
He’s not going to win in Chorley though, the guy talks complete nonsense. He once said ‘I have done no wrong because I was not in the pub when the smoking enforcement officer came in’. It doesn’t matter if he was there or not, he is the licencee therefore he is responsible and he was advertising that smoking was allowed in his pub.
Oh! Dear!, What a Pity!, Never Mind!. Poor old Hamish. If UKIP dose implode what will Hamish do next join the Salvation Army. I suspect UKIP may and like the Phoenix Raise Again from the ashes, with real honest members as officials etc. They will surely be a witch hunt to kick out the trash, that the bent hierarchy have carefully placed to keep their iron none democratic control of the party. And guess what Hamish you and your mate Nick from Chorley will both be out with rest of the trash and maybe Paul Nuttall Nuttall MEP “UKIP’s very own Mussolini” and the odious Fred McGlade will be in the same dustbin. You never know they may start a gutter rats party or a union for dishonest MPs and politicians they would fit in there very well and there are enough of them about. Personally I can’t wait for this lot to really get going in the press.
Fantastically well said Bruiser, I hope they do implode because TBH at the moment the party is nothing more than a joke. I want an MP who will speak up for Blackpool, show committment to Blackpool and put the people first. We have seen from the last 13 years that isn’t Gordon Marsden but Howitt getting in would be an even worse outcome.
Thanks True Blackpudlian
Very well put Mr B, could not have put it better myself.
I like the link that Phil has put in regarding Paul Nuttall’s ckeeky request for donations towards the campaign.
Only a fool would donate
I think this is going to be a very interesting election a few months ago you would have said the Cons will take it very comfortably but with the new polls saying they are only 6 points ahead they have little to look forward to. I think it may even be a possibility that Labour get in ahead of the Cons (not with an overall majority but more MPs). Would this mean the Lib-Dems will be the kingmakers? If that is case I have to say the country my be better of for it, after all they have the best financial policies and have so for many years. Anyway it is going to be interesting the election is still several months away, perhaps the UKIP vote will disappear and boost the Cons vote or BNP will get stronger (don’t laugh) and damage the Labour or (which if past elections are to go by) people will take more notice of the Lib-Dems and their vote will increase and take some key seats from both of the other major parties (they do have a history of taking seats and holding on to them). If the Cons do not get in then smiley Dave will only have one person to blame after all can anyone tell us what are Dave’s policies?
Tax, tax and more tax.
Liberals policies are the same.
Labour’s policies are the same.
The country’s borrowing up to the hilt so there wont be a dynamic spendaholic party, it’s just which party can spin its way into power by convincing us that they wont tax us as much as the others, but in reality we’re all going to get hit with a big tax hammer no matter whether it’s Labour or the Monster Raving Loony party.
I’d like to think the Tories would axe public sector jobs but I bet they don’t because it would be a grim realisation of the decline in private business in the UK particularly in certain areas where the Government is the primary employer.
We know Dave is going to tax the motorist quite hard to fund some of his family tax breaks. We know he’s into his eco taxes too, but will he boost investment into green technologies? Probably not. Apparently the Tories would stop this blanket housebuilding that is enabling Kensington to put in applications for the whole Fylde. Can’t think of anything else.
The Liberals dropped all their vote winners and don’t seem to have any policies. I quite like Vince Cable but he’s very good at telling us how badly things were handled after they have happened. Plus, I haven’t heard a chirp from our local Liberal PPC and unless I do I won’t be considering voting for her.
Labour, well, we know what they are like and as expected they haven’t mentioned any cuts they’re going to make or any taxes that will be implemented. This, I think, is because they prefer to sneak taxes in through the back door like they have for the past 12 years. I’m sure as soon as there’s anything in the kitty they will resume this spending for spending’s sake.
We know Labour’s policies already ‘tax tax tax spend spend spend borrow borrow borrow lie lie lie’ like the last 13 years. There is a ridiculous letter by Jack Croysdill in the Gasjet today filled with all the usual tired old Labour mantra. I want the Conservatives to win just to wipe the smug grin off his face, but then again I think if they get in we’ll be seeing more Croysdill and Gruntshaw letters than ever.
Here is a sample ‘Blackpool Gazette May 13 2010′ (one week after election)
The weather is miserable outside it has been pouring it down since the early hours and shows no signs of clearing, it has been this way for days. If only David Cameron and the Tories hadn’t got in. If Labour had stayed in, Joan Humble would be out there now making everything better with her magic wand returning us to the perfect utopia we had between 1997 and 2010. Now under the Tories we face miserable weather for the next 5 years. Vote Labour for better weather.
Jack Meldrew, Unelected Chairperson (thank you Harriet Harman) Blackpool North and Cleveleys Liebour Party
The LD have made a mandate to cut income tax have the Cons or Labs?
The LDs wish to reform the IH tax not abolish it.
The LDs have highlighted £20 billion saving that they could make in the government spending something the Cons have yet to do.
The LDs in the early 2000s wanted the Bank of England to regulate the banks more forcing them to have larger capital to loans, they wanted the high street banks and the high risk banks to be separate in other words everything the government want to do now to stop the bank crash happening again. If the Labs and Cons had stop saying that the banks should have less and less regulation and listen to the LDs then perhaps the crash might not have happened?
The LDs voted against the Iraq war.
The LDs are the only party talking about ending student fees. This would mean if you listen to Vince reducing university places but would this be a bad thing to many students coming out with stupid degrees.
None of the above is fantasy perhaps the politically aware people should start thinking who to vote for and why not who not to.
I agree John a lot of attractive and realistic policies there and Vince Cable would be a great chancellor a far cry from Labour’s economic illiteracy. I agree with all of those policies but the Lib Dems are too left wing for me on other issues they are too soft on crime and they are pro-Europe. But I would certainly vote for them before Labour or Hamish Howitt.
True enough John, but isn’t that all just after the event? I could talk about tuition fees ’til the cows come home but that doesn’t mean I’d scrap them (I would but that’s not the point).
Most if not all of the LD comments and prospective policy are after the event.
Say what you want about what Labour or the Conservative might or should have done in relation to the banks but it’s so easy to say once its all happened, and regardless it was Labour that failed to take action and not the Conservatives!
On income tax its easy to take it out of context. Any party can drop income tax and ram it up elsewhere, and I don’t think it’s fair to say that all things equal the Liberals would drop income tax.
Whats up with you lot is this love the Tories week or summat?
None of the mainstream parties are worth voting for and UKIP does offer a realistic protest vote option.
Liebor have failed the Country miserably in the last few years and the Tories have let us down badly over the Lisbon Treaty referendum, no not let us down betrayed us.
UKIP offer a referendum why cannot call me Dave? He could sow this election up with that one promise so Tory lovers why doesn’t he?
I think the BNP are a more realistic protest vote.
As for UKIP offering a referendum, they could offer each person a million quid but it doesn’t mean they have to actually do it.
And since the Lisbon treaty is ratified, I don’t see how they could just pull out of it unless they pulled out of Europe altogether. Would Mr Farage and all the UKIP staff that are being funded on EU expenses be happy with that? Probably not.
The Tories were crystal clear about the referendum. They said they would do it provided the treaty was not ratified. Since it is, there’s no point in holding a referendum unless it’s a referendum on pulling out of Europe completely.
That was a quick answer
UKIP was founded to ask the great Europe Question it is the only party prepared to talk about the huge elephant in the room.
The real question must be who will blink first? Do they need us more than them?
Perhaps not, but the single currency and erto the whole Euro project is starting to come under immense strain.
Greece is a knats piss away from a default, Spain and Portugal are not far behind and Ireland not far behind them.
I am not sure about the Eastern Euro states suck as Latvia and Lith but they also must be struggling badly.
Are the single currency powerhouses France and Germany going to guarantee a bailout for each of those states?
As yet I am not quite sure how the British taxpayer stands on this and/or our government will guarantee to stand behind the failures. They best bloody not…….
Interesting situation developing if I was a betting man I might be tempted to have a few quid on a nation or two pulling out of the Euro in the next year or so……
If that happens then the great Federal Euro dream must be dead in the water.
This load of rubbish has just arrived from a UKIP friend of mine. I thought geezer466 would want to watch in awe perhaps even get some popcorn as well, and a bucket for being sick into after looking into Farages huge Cavan of a mouth.
“Dear Member/Supporter,
UKIP’s Nigel Farage MEP will appear on the BBC’s Daily Politics Show at midday tomorrow (Friday 12th February). The programme will be looking at Nigel Farage’s plan to unseat John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons.
At previous General Elections, the media has downplayed the chances of UKIP winning any seats at all. With the media now taking Nigel Farage’s campaign seriously in Buckingham, it becomes harder for our opponents to dismiss a UKIP vote as a ‘wasted vote’.
UKIP now have our best-ever opportunity to make the breakthrough at Westminster – so why not tune in at midday to see Nigel Farage?
Yours,
Jonathan Arnott (UKIP General Secretary)”
Being slightly perverse for a moment…
Perhaps if it turned out the British taxpayer was to help keep Greece (and any others) afloat financially, then there could be a silver lining?
If it helped push us towards a tipping point where we no longer found it acceptable to be slowly, but surely steamrolling ourselves in to eternal political and economic union with the EU, perhaps it would be good for us in the long-term? Of course, people would have to pay such an immediate price that it would be painful, in order to realise this.
Given the immense cost of the European project – financially and politically – it would be a small price to pay for us to wake up and appreciate the value of our freedom and independence.
UKIP wont be going anywhere until they get rid of the crap that is running it, from head office to regional office.
They need to rid themselves of the dictators and power mad attention seekers, those that are in it for their own ends. By then the membership will be so depleted, it will take years to regain a position of credibility and a decent membership base.
Some other party will have filled the political gap by then.
Precisely, they are something of a joke at the moment. Peter Hitchens quite comically and aptly (I might add) referred to them as a ‘Dad’s Army Party’. As I have said before if I was a member right now I would have resigned by now with some of the shoddy practices that I have being hearing about. Its like a commenter said the other day, Nigel Farage is really the only serious candidate they have with a chance in hell of winning, and even then his chances are not that great.
Have to disagree about Farage TB, he is just as bad as the rest of them. He is getting a lot of bad press lately.
A couple of months ago I would have agreed with you, but not now.