Ukip must be only too pleased to receive even small crumbs of encouragement, in view of the internal squabbling and the abject failure they are experiencing, and there are few smaller crumbs to be encourage by than this:
The former head of the Ku Klux Klan has backed Nigel Farage for PM
LONDON — The former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan has endorsed Nigel Farage for UK Prime Minister.
David Duke tweeted on Monday that the former UKIP leader, who is a close ally of US president Donald Trump, would make an excellent leader of the UK.
“Farage will make a fine UK Prime Minister. Looking forward to that,” he Tweeted.
Duke is the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan — a notorious white supremacist organisation. He is also well known for his belief in anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
Duke also previously endorsed Donald Trump for President.
Trump and Farage were recently photographed dining together in the US. The former UKIP leader is reportedly keen to work for Trump and has said that he is prepared to serve Trump “either formally or informally.”
Farage is not currently eligible to become prime minister after having failed to win election as a member of the UK parliament seven times.
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The Tories said they could not find a record of his donations, saying they could only locate a £25,000 gift. He then faced questions because some of his businesses appear to be based in the low-tax jurisdictions of Gibraltar and the Isle of Man.
But Banks’s public relations chief, Bridget Rowe, a former Sunday Mirror editor, released a copy of a cheque sent by Banks to HM Revenue & Customs for £1.865m in February this year.
The cheque supplied by Banks as proof he paid tax in Britain this year. Photograph: Arron Banks
Ukip hopes that the document will help to quell questions about Banks’s tax affairs since he emerged as one of Britain’s most generous political donors on Wednesday.
His money will be used to fund the general election campaign as Ukip threatens to destabilise the three main Westminster parties.
Companies House records, which are supposed to show a comprehensive record of past and present interests of a director, appear to show that Banks has set up 37 different companies using slight variations of his name.
Using the name Aron Fraser Andrew Banks, he was a director of Eclipse Insurance Services but resigned in 1995, records show.
Arron Banks is registered as a secretary of African Compass Trading, which appears to be still trading.
The same company is also registered as having a director called Arron Andrew Fraser Banks who is also still involved in another firm, Vavista Ltd.
Under the name Arron Fraser Andrew Banks he is registered as a former director or former secretary of 34 different companies, but has resigned from all of them.
The first, third and fourth names, according to Companies House records, use the same date of birth but register different lists of companies.
A spokesman for Banks said that he declined to answer questions over his Companies House entries as well as other matters and preferred instead to “correct [the Guardian’s] mistakes in court”.
Banks appeared to come from nowhere last week when a press release from the anti-federalist party announced that a major Tory donor had defected, following the defections of the MPs Mark Reckless and Douglas Carswell.
The businessman who had made his fortune from insurance announced a tenfold increase in his planned donation to Ukip – to £1m – after William Hague told the BBC he had not heard of him.
Ukip claimed that he had given £250,000 to the Tories. But from Electoral Commission records, he gave £5,000 under the name Arron F Banks in May 2009 to Thornbury and Vale Conservative Association; and a second payment of £20,000 to Northavon Conservative Association in January 2007.
A Ukip source said that he had also loaned £75,417 to Thornbury and Yate Conservative party through his former company Panacea Finance in September 2007. This loan was registered on the Electoral Commission’s website and has to be paid back in 2022.
However, Companies House records show that Banks resigned from the company in September 2005, two years before the loan was granted. This raises questions over whether he was controlling the firm at the time, or whether he was using the firm as a “proxy donor”.
Banks’s office declined to send a further explanation of how else he had paid the Tories any money.
The Conservatives have also said they can find no record to substantiate Banks’s claim that he was a Tory party official in Basingstoke.
Again, Banks declined to comment.
Interest in Banks increased when it emerged that his Facebook page included photographs of him holding a shotgun and sitting in a red sports car.
Banks, 48, says he is worth about £100m. Friends say that he has a controlling interest in a former De Beers diamond mine in Kimberley, South Africa, and another licence to mine in Lesotho.
He met the media before a black-tie fundraising dinner for a Belize children’s hospital on Wednesday night. One of the dinner guests was Kim Simplis-Barrow, the wife of the Belize prime minister, Dean Barrow.
Rock Services Ltd, of which Banks is a director, had a turnover of £19.7m last year and paid corporation tax of £12,000. The company deducted £19.6m in “administrative expenses”.
The main activity appears to be “recharge of goods and services” with Southern Rock Insurance Company – a part of the group of companies that is based in Gibraltar. Southern Rock Insurance states on its website that it underwrite policies for the customers of GoSkippy.com, which is run by Banks. Because it is based in Gibraltar, there is little information available on it.
Rock Services and Southern Rock Insurance’s ultimate holding company is Rock Holdings Ltd, a company based on the Isle of Man.
Banks dismissed questions about his decision to base some of his firms in the low-tax jurisdictions.
Asked if his companies paid full corporation tax, he said: “I paid over £2.5m of income tax last year so I’m not going to get knocked on that one, thank you very much. I really resented that, by the way. My insurance business, like a lot of them, is based in Gibraltar but I’ve got UK businesses as well that deal with customers and pay tax like everyone else.”
Charlie Elphicke, a Conservative MP and former tax lawyer, said: ‘Everyone knows that companies in tax havens like Gibraltar and Bermuda are often used to help minimise tax. This evidence raises serious questions about Mr Banks’s conduct and consistency of identity.”
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I AM strongly opposed to the subsidy or use of failed technologies eg. WIND TURBINES
I AM IN FAVOUR of rapid research & development of NEW NUCLEAR technologies
I see no evidence to trust POLITICIANS at any level or of any persuasion
I do NOT believe in GODS singular or plural, Bronze Age or Modern
I value the NHS as a HEALTH SERVICE NOT a Lifestyle support
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial or GBH rape.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial, terrorist, mass or for pleasure murder.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial gross child abuse including sexual.
I do NOT trust or believe in armed police
I do NOT believe in prolonging human life beyond reasonable expectation of sentient participatory intellectual existence
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that someone who so endlessly espouses a place amongst ‘the common man‘ and clearly does all he can to behave thus to be adopted by the4m, he even praises Donald Trump POTUS for being just ‘an ordinary bloke‘ as if that was an attribute for a world leader, when clearly it is insulting.
Nigel Farage has built a career on shunning and denigrating the establishment and yet he fails to understand that his over weening ambition to join that establishment either with a Peerage or a Knighthood is as base and vile an hypocracy as that of The Kinnocks, who built their career on damaging Britain and selling out its establishment only to grasp it with both hands when they failed politically and had ensured their bloated pensions!
Is Nigel Farage really so self obsessed and stupid that he can not see the folly of his ambition and does not realise that he will merely add to the opprobrium in which he is held by decent folk with his endless unpleasant behaviour and posturing!
It is inspite of Nigel Farage, not because of, that we obtained an In / Out Referendum, against which he actively campaigned and in which he played no beneficial part.
Surely the award Nigel Farage4 clearly deserves for his political antics is an O.B.E. which is ofter given to Council Leaders and the like and denotes ity was awarded to reward Other Buggers’ Efforts – I expect those like Nikki Sinclaire and those who petitioned for and obtained BreXitwould find so very apt.
Let us also remember that Douglas Carswell brought his MP seat to Ukip from the Tories and held it by election not because he had joined Ukip but because his constituency members knew him to be a decent if somewhat unclubable man who had acquitted his duties to his constituents, of all political persuasions, well – he was a good MP and was elected because of that.
Nigel Farage knighthood row turns farcical as Douglas Carswell issues mocking riposte
This photo of a smiling Douglas Carswell was taken the day it was announced Nigel Farage would be standing down as leader (Photo: Getty Images)
Felicity Morse 3 hours Tuesday February 28th 2017
As Labour infighting continued afresh on Monday, another somewhat farcical row erupted on the opposite side of the political spectrum between former Ukip leader Nigel Farage and the party’s only MP – Douglas Carswell. Now one of the party’s donors – millionaire businessman Arron Banks, who is good friends with Mr Farage, has said he may run against Mr Carswell at the next election Relations between Mr Farage and Mr Carswell have long been acrimonious, but the latest scuffle appears in part to be motivated by some antagonism over Mr Farage’s suitability for a knighthood. After the Ukip MEP, radio-host and Fox news pundit wrote an opinion piece in The Telegraph arguing Mr Carswell is attempting to sabotage Ukip, the Clacton MP sent a cheeky two word tweet, signed off with an emoji in sunglasses. “Knight night” it read. ‘Deliberately blocked Nigel’s knighthood’ Relations have long been acrimonious (Photo credit: PA) Relations have long been acrimonious (Photo credit: PA) The latest animosity, which has led to Mr Farage calling for the party’s only MP to resign, entered the public sphere on Saturday night, as Ukip donor Arron Banks said: “Carswell deliberately blocked Nigel knighthood that had been ok’d by Tories. Disgraceful behaviour from a nobody.” He added: “The system required the Ukip MP to confirm to the Tories and he refused to do it. I believe the email is not very pleasant in the subject!” An email on the subject was leaked to the Telegraph with Mr Carswell saying Mr Farage should be given an OBE “for services to headline writers”. Mr Carswell, defending the exchange, told the Press Association: “Quite clearly I tried my best to make sure he got an honour that reflects his contribution”. Carswell’s email to former Ukip leader, Lord Malcolm Pearson, 31 December “As promised, I did speak to the government chief whip. Perhaps we might try angling to get Nigel an OBE next time round? For services to headline writers? An MBE, maybe? Let’s discuss …” Mr Carswell has ‘brought nothing to the party at all’ Nigel Farage and Ukip donor Arron Banks stripped off on the eve of party conference (Photo: Getty) Nigel Farage and Ukip donor Arron Banks are good friends – they skinny dipped on the eve of party conference (Photo: Getty) Mr Farage argued in the Telegraph that since the 2015 general election Mr Carswell “has brought nothing to the party at all, other than constant division, at times I believe deliberately stirred up to bring maximum damage to the party”. He said that the Clacton MP tried to “sabotage my leadership”, describing the “ever-gullible Suzanne Evans” – who is Ukip’s deputy chair and parliamentary spokesperson – as being taken in by “these Tory posh boys”. Mr Farage asks, “If he didn’t like me, or our policy on immigration, why on earth did he join the party in the first place?” In response, Mr Carswell told the Press Association: “If he wants to come and talk to the Ukip parliamentary party about it, we are happy to put it on the agenda for Monday’s meeting. “I’m delighted where I am. I’m trying to double the size of the Ukip parliamentary party at the moment. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to do that in Stoke. But if he wants to come and talk to the Ukip parliamentary party about any concerns he has, very happy to respond. It won’t take long, it’s just me.” Arron Banks: Ukip run ‘like a jumble sale’ Ukip leader Paul Nuttall reportedly left the count after a ‘media scrum’ (Photo: PA) The row comes after Ukip leader Paul Nuttall failed to win a seat in the Stoke by-election, an electoral race that was mired in controversy for the MEP. What is an election agent? The person legally responsible for the conduct of a candidate’s political campaign and to whom election material is sent to by those running the election Mr Nuttall’s website is still “offline for maintenance” after it was highlighted that blog posts hosted on the site contained a number of false claims, including one saying the Liverpudlian had lost a “close personal friend” at the Hillsborough football disaster. Meanwhile, Arron Banks has waded into the row with a plan to revitalise Ukip and bring back Mr Farage to spearhead party success. He has offered to become party chairman and bring in a CEO from industry to oversee a number of election agents to help win seats and rebrand the party. Mr Banks said Ukip was being run “like a jumble sale”, and said if he were made chairman he would “toss out the likes” of Mr Carswell, alleging in the Sunday Express: “From what I hear, far from winning elections, Carswell’s main concern is sabotaging Nigel’s knighthood, which is why he must leave the party.”
ALL MY BLOGS & WEB SITES are clearly sourced to me
I do NOT use an obfuscated eMail address to hide behind
I do NOT use or bother reading FaceBook
I DO have a Voice Mail Message System
I ONLY GUARANTEE to answer identifiable eMails
I ONLY GUARANTEE to phone back identifiable UK Land Line Messages
I do NOT accept phone calls from witheld numbers
I Regret due to BT in this area I have a rubbish Broadband connection
I AM opposed to British membership of The EU
I AM opposed to Welsh, Scottish or English Independence within an interdependent UK
I am NOT a WARMIST
I do NOT believe the IPCC Climate Propaganda re Anthropogenic Global Warming
I AM strongly opposed to the subsidy or use of failed technologies eg. WIND TURBINES
I AM IN FAVOUR of rapid research & development of NEW NUCLEAR technologies
I see no evidence to trust POLITICIANS at any level or of any persuasion
I do NOT believe in GODS singular or plural, Bronze Age or Modern
I value the NHS as a HEALTH SERVICE NOT a Lifestyle support
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial or GBH rape.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial, terrorist, mass or for pleasure murder.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial gross child abuse including sexual.
I do NOT trust or believe in armed police
I do NOT believe in prolonging human life beyond reasonable expectation of sentient participatory intellectual existence
I believe in EUTHENASIA under clearly defined & legal terms
I try to make every effort to NOT infringe copyrights in any commercial way & make all corrections of fact brought to my attention by an identifiable individual
Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W)
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Nigel Farage Jonathan Bachman / Getty 
This photo of a smiling Douglas Carswell was taken the day it was announced Nigel Farage would be standing down as leader (Photo: Getty Images)
‘Deliberately blocked Nigel’s knighthood’ Relations have long been acrimonious (Photo credit: PA) Relations have long been acrimonious (Photo credit: PA) The latest animosity, which has led to Mr Farage calling for the party’s only MP to resign, entered the public sphere on Saturday night, as Ukip donor Arron Banks said: “Carswell deliberately blocked Nigel knighthood that had been ok’d by Tories. Disgraceful behaviour from a nobody.” He added: “The system required the Ukip MP to confirm to the Tories and he refused to do it. I believe the email is not very pleasant in the subject!” An email on the subject was leaked to the Telegraph with Mr Carswell saying Mr Farage should be given an OBE “for services to headline writers”. Mr Carswell, defending the exchange, told the Press Association: “Quite clearly I tried my best to make sure he got an honour that reflects his contribution”. Carswell’s email to former Ukip leader, Lord Malcolm Pearson, 31 December “As promised, I did speak to the government chief whip. Perhaps we might try angling to get Nigel an OBE next time round? For services to headline writers? An MBE, maybe? Let’s discuss …” Mr Carswell has ‘brought nothing to the party at all’ 
Nigel Farage and Ukip donor Arron Banks stripped off on the eve of party conference (Photo: Getty)
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