Hi,

those who may have to date been beguiled by the lies and dishonesty of the corrupt spin published to try to hide the lies of Nigel Farage, Andrew Smith and others in EUkip's leadership which earned them a Guilty verdict in the Courts and a £3/4 Million of debt, do note their lies even made a fool of the veteran journalist, author and authority on the corruption and lies of the malign EU - A very damaging diservice to the EUroRealist opponents of membership of the EU on the part of EUkip!

Ukip’s rulebreaking
SIR – It is not correct for Christopher Booker (October 25) to suggest that Ukip was guilty of only a “trivial breach of electoral law” due to an “oversight” by not checking whether their donor, Alan Bown, was on the electoral register.

The law is clear: political parties must check that a donor is on the electoral register each time they accept a donation over £200. Ukip chose not to do so on 67 separate occasions, over a period of more than a year, and despite repeated warnings from the Electoral Commission.

Ukip took donations it was not entitled to receive, which gave it financial resources it was not entitled to have under the law. Ukip accepted that these donations – which totalled more than £365,000 – were all impermissible. But the magistrates’ court ordered them to forfeit just £18,481.

The Electoral Commission’s view was that this treatment of one party which had not followed the rules was unfair to the majority that do follow the rules and which have previously forfeited impermissible donations. The Court of Appeal shared that view.

Christopher Booker also claimed that the Commission “seems unwilling to take further action” in relation to donations from 5th Avenue Partners to the Liberal Democrats. In fact, we are conducting an ongoing investigation into that issue.

Peter Wardle
Chief Executive
The Electoral Commission
London SW1
I hope this helps you to understand just how befouled UKIP has become by its leadership in their self interest and venal incompetence.

It may also help understanding to know that The Lib.Dims. received a major donation from 5th. Avenue a British company - they performed all aspects of 'due dilligence' and cleared the receipt with The Electoral Commission BEFORE banking the payment. The Lib.Dims. did all they could to assist the Police, El.Com. and other authorities and it could be argued that as a result of Lib.Dim. assistance the Director of 5th. Avenue a Mr. Brown was I understand arrested, charged and subsequently found guilty of various crimes - these crimes were NOT such that the Lib.Dims. had in any way breached electoral law.

It may be of interest that knowing the facts about the breach of electoral law by EUkip in some detail having advised the defacto leader Nigel Farage, the then chairman David Lott and the then treasurer (I believed) John de Roeke that Alan Bown was not a permissable donor as he was not on the electoral role as far as I could ascertain - EUkip LIED TO THE COURTS & claimed they did not know despite the facts!

I also interviewed the Lib.Dim. treasurer responsible for the donation from 5th. Avenue in some detail prior to publishing an article on the subject.

Any questions and I am happy to try to clarify the facts.

Regards,
Greg L-W.