Nick Griffin asks Mr Farage to show some moral fibre - EU "pensions" scandal

[newspresenter]

Leading UKIP member Nigel Farage has been named as one of the MEPs exploiting EU taxpayers in the growing “pensions” scandal.
Mr Farage has joined the ranks of other British MEPs already identified in the scandal, named as Tories Daniel Hannan and Timothy Kirkhope, Labour’s Glenys Kinnock, the Lib-Dem Andrew Duff and, of course, the already jailed UKIP MEP Tom Wise.
Nick Griffin MEP sent Mr Farage a letter of demand through the European parliamentary postal system yesterday, asking the UKIP leader in Brussels to show some moral fibre and withdraw from the disgraceful scheme which forces taxpayers to contribute twice as much as that which MEPs pay.
To make the scandal even worse, the MEPs can charge their contribution to their parliamentary expenses bill, meaning that they can draw a pension without paying a penny in at all.

The letter:
“According to reports, the taxpayer contributes two euros for each euro paid by the recipient, with the MEPs’ personal contributions coming not from their salary but taken automatically from office expenses,” Mr Griffin wrote.
“New Europe magazine states that MEPs ‘are supposed to reimburse this account but there are no checks and balances’.
“In 1997, the Dutch Parliament stated the fund was ‘morally objectionable’ and that it allowed MEPs to ‘get rich by milking the taxpayer’.
“In April 2007, MEPs voted to keep secret the list of names of those MEPs who benefit from the fund. The December 2007 list of MEPs in the scheme is now in the public domain, thanks to German investigative journalist Hans-Martin Tillack.
“Your name is included amongst some of the most loathed of Europhiles and MEPs, including European Commissioner Antonio Tajani of Italy; French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner; former Belgian PM Wilfried Martens, who heads the European People’s Party, which rules the Parliament; another former Parliament president, Pat Cox; Umberto Bossi, Italian Minister of Federal Reforms; and former French PM Michel Rocard; jailed ex MEP Tom Wise; Glenys Kinnock (S&D); Timothy Kirkhope (ECR); Andrew Duff (ALDE); Rumiana Jeleva (EPP) and Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Green).
“Please will you confirm:
“1. That you have reimbursed your office expenses’ account.
“2. That you will withdraw from this pension scheme which milks taxpayers’ funds.
“3. That you will lead by example and condemn this monstrous waste of taxpayers’ monies,” Mr Griffin concluded.



Mr Griffin member of Parliament - standing up for the tax payers of Britain.

[DTE]

I love the title of this thread...what's next, 'Caroline Flint asks Jeff Hoon to show some party loyalty'?

How far UKIP have fallen...when you're getting thumped on your morals by a fascist, anti-semite homophobe I guess the jigg is up

[Greg Lance-Watkins]

I love the title of this thread...what's next, 'Caroline Flint asks Jeff Hoon to show some party loyalty'?

How far UKIP have fallen...when you're getting thumped on your morals by a fascist, anti-semite homophobe I guess the jigg is up

Hi,

Indeed - a clever bit of politicing but lets face it EUkip are a bit of an easy target as they lack vision, competence, structure, trust, gravitas, insight, strategy, tactics, morality, integrity, standards, achievements, manners, facts or ability.

Even pond life like Griffin and the vile BNP can look good when measured against EUkip who have now joined with the racist, anti Jewish, pro EU membership, sexually intolerant advocates of violence of the EFD which Farage leads.

EUkip's politics are it seems based on smear, innuendo and corruption - train wreck politics happening in slow motion and it is unlikely they will reach 4% in the General Election - they have absolutely no credible candidates that they have displayed to date - imagine a 17 year old party which has NEVER had meaningful training!

In 17 years of demand and ill manners they have achieved not so much as an 'Exit & Survival Strategy' leaving the EU is not as simple as catching the first bus home! EUkip has NEVER provided a plan nor even shown the benefits in any coherent form. Look at their web site 17 years, loads of clever whistles and bells but absolutely no substance!

Of course Griffin uses them for cheap shots.

Regards,
Greg L-W.