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Wednesday, 25th January 2012
UKIP MEP tells Romanian TV that the accounting system in the EU has shown no improvement in the last 10 years and if it was a commercial enterprise would have been shut down long ago.
She also says that the lack of stringency tests on the economies of those countries admitted to the EU contributed to the current Eurozone crisis.
You can watch the full interview from Televiziunea Romana here.
Tuesday, 24th January 2012
UKIP has announced a strong list of candidates for the London Assembly elections on May 3rd.
The list, approved by UKIP’s National Executive Committee last week, features a range of candidates that bolster up UKIP’s pledge of offering Londoners a fresh choice in this year’s elections.
The top six are listed below:
1 Steven Woolfe, 43, is a qualified barrister who works in the City of London. He is an active member of UKIP’s ‘Save the City’ campaign which is raising awareness of how jobs are under threat from EU driven legislation created to damage the City of London. Steven’s keen to highlight that those most at risk are not the bankers, but the thousands who earn their living as a result of the City. These include the IT companies, cleaning contractors, secretaries, cab drivers, and those that staff the pubs, restaurants and sandwich bars in and around the City of London.
2 David Coburn, 52, is UKIP’s London Chairman and also sits on the the party’s NEC. He has been in London business for the last thirty years, first as a City financial futures dealer and now as an arts and antiques consultant for a number of international designers.
3 Lawrence Webb, 45, has been an active UKIP member for twelve years and until recently was also the party’s London regional organiser. He stepped down from this role after seven years to focus on being UKIP’s London Mayor candidate for 2012.
4 Helen Dixon, 29, manages a multinational team of operators for a London-based provider of shipping services. She grew up in North-East Derbyshire mining town but left eleven years ago to pursue a maritime career.
5 Elizabeth Jones, 38, is a partner in a leading London law firm. She has a wealth of legal experience and has been exposed to the real problems that people face across the capital with regard to finance and access to justice. Elizabeth graduated at Cardiff University with a Law Degree and then qualified as a solicitor in Cardiff. She now lives in South West London.
6 Paul Oakley, 43, is a practising barrister and lives in South East London. A political activist for over twenty years, he worked for Bill Cash MP in the anti-Maastricht campaign.
The top six are supported on the eleven strong list by Jeff Bolter, Mick McGough, Winston McKenzie, Peter Staveley and Mazhar Manzoor.
Nigel Farage, UKIP Leader, said: “We have a strong and vibrant list of candidates which clearly demonstrates that UKIP is offering voters in the capital a fresh choice when it comes to London politics.
“People are fed up of the same old faces and empty promises.
“UKIP is known for challenging the status quo and asking those awkward questions and this is exactly what our London Assembly Members will do if elected.”
I remember many years ago Peter Sellers made a tape of a “political speech” in which he played the part of a politician and waffled on and on and said absolutely nothing that made sense…… Ladies and Gentlemen times haven’t changed .
Wednesday, 25th January 2012
UKIP Leader Nigel Farage has dimissed the Primer Minister’s postering over the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg today, telling him he must “face the facts”.
“David Cameron’s blustering to no avail about the harmful effect of the European Court of Human Rights,” said Mr Farage.
“He must face the facts and tell people the truth that the UK cannot leave the ECHR or the Convention on Human Rights while we are members of the EU.
“The stream of ridiculous judgements from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, protecting drug dealers and known terrorists will continue to bind us in knots while we are signed up members of the EU.
“I asked the EU Commission about this issue last year and they made it crystal clear that while the UK is a member of the EU, we must fully comply with the ECHR. David Cameron should not suggest otherwise.”
This is from today’s ”Daily Telegraph”
MEPs were attending a meeting of the African-Caribbean Pacific and EU(ACP-EU) joint parliamentary assembly to discuss with MPs from the developing countries how to tackle poverty in the world’s poorest regions.
At the November 2010 gathering in Kinshasa, MEPs racked up a bill of £17,067 per head – a sum that is 141 times the £121 that is the average annual income in Congo. The figures, revealed by The Daily Telegraph, were described by a Ukip MEP as “an affront to taxpayers”.
The same ACP-EU delegation of MEPs, a group of 64 this time, had previously gathered in Tenerife in January 2010. They ran up travel and hotel bills of £588,404, or £9,193 each, over the course of a week in the Spanish sunshine, according to the list revealed by The Daily Telegraph. A one week stay in a junior suite in London’s elite Ritz Hotel costs £3,928.
In July, 13 of the ACP-EU MEPs travelled to the Seychelles for a five-day trip that cost the taxpayer £4,374 per head in travel, hotel and “logistics” bills.
The costs of the first class flights and five star luxury hotels for the trips, totalling £230 million in 2010, have traditionally been shrouded in secrecy by an EU assembly that is wary of fuelling its “gravy train” image.
But following an investigation into spiralling costs by MEPs on the parliament’s budget committee, the EU assembly’s administration has compiled a list of the most expensive trips, breaking down costs for the first time.
The figures, seen by this newspaper, show the huge bills presented to taxpayers for keeping MEPs in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed.
A delegation of four MEPs to Argentina in March 2010 cost £21,878 in daily bills for each MEP. Seven MEPs on the parliament’s trade committee managed to rack up travel, hotel and other bills of £5,384 each over four days in springtime Rome.
Marta Andreasen, a Ukip MEP and the European Commission’s former chief accountant before she was sacked by Lord Kinnock for whistle-blowing in 2004, described the costs as “astonishing” at a time when the EU was imposing austerity programmes on the eurozone.
”Even as the eurozone crisis was starting to bite hard in 2010, MEPs were rewarding themselves with self-serving and largely pointless delegation visits,” she said.
”These figures are an appalling abuse of public money. They should hang their heads in shame.”
A parliament spokesman insisted that the figures include “global costs” such as accompanying staff and the cost of hiring rooms for meetings.
”The why of these meetings is that relations between the EU and third countries by necessity have a parliamentary dimension,” she said.
”These meetings provide the only way in which elected representatives of, for example, the ACP former colonies can make their wishes heard as regards EU policies.”
Other Brussels institutions and officials are increasingly concerned that spending by MEPs is in danger of damaging the EU during a period when national public budgets are being cut and living standards have been hit by a recession generated by the eurozone.
Earlier this week, Janusz Lewandowski, the European budget commissioner, wrote a letter to the parliament asking MEPs to show the public that the EU was tightening its belt and reducing the costs of administration.
”It is of utmost importance to continue to demonstrate that the European institutions are acting responsibly in the light of the difficult economic and budgetary conditions and to send a corresponding signal to European public opinion,” he wrote.
