Nigel Farage will be leader of the UK Independence Party for another four years, it has emerged.
Mr Farage’s new term in office means that he is likely to be Ukip leader if there is an in/out referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union.
The Conservatives have pledged to hold a poll by the end of 2017, if the party is returned to power in May’s general election.
It also means that his leadership has been secured ahead of the Clacton and Rochester and Strood by-elections, which could see either Douglas Carswell or Mark Reckless elected as the party’s first MPs.
Mr Farage was re-elected during a leadership campaign before last month’s party conference in Doncaster when no one stood against him.
Mr Farage’s term as leader was due to expire on November 5 2014. His new term as leader will take him until November 5 2018. Mr Farage told The Telegraph: “We had a process which closed off a few weeks ago and there was no opposition.”
Mr Farage has already said that he would quit as Ukip leader if no Ukip MPs are elected in May’s general election.
This is now looking less likely given that Mr Carswell, the Tory MP who defected to Ukip in August, is set to returned as Ukip’s first MP on Thursday.
Mr Farage has said that he does not expect to be the leader of Ukip in ten years’ time. He said at last year’s conference that his successor would be a woman, saying Ukip is more likely to adopt a female leader than any other party.
Suzanne Evans, the party’s communities spokesman, is thought by members to be a front runner although she has played down her chances.
Ukip’s leaders are elected for four year terms. Mr Farage has been leader of Ukip intermittently for the past eight years, between September 2006 and 2009, and then from 2010 until now.
Asked in February at the party’s Spring conference if he would resign if no Ukip MPs were elected in May’s election, he said: “Good Lord yes. I will be out of the door before you can say ‘Jack Robinson’.”
It is Sad That Ukip’s most likely First Elected MP Is Clearly Untrustworthy – something of a Judas Goat it would seem changing party for his personal gain!
Douglas Carswell signed off a letter from condemning Ukip as a “one policy party” less than a month before he defected.
Giles Watling, the former Bread actor who is now standing for the Tories in Clacton, Essex, sent Mr Carswell a draft of a letter for approval which he was sending to the local paper.
The letter extolled Mr Carswell as a “strident Eurosceptic” and said that “a vote for Ukip will be a vote for Labour”. It said that Ukip’s attacks on the Tories were “madness” and that people should not be “fooled into voting Ukip”.
Mr Carswell replied in an email that the letter “reads very well” and that he would be “delighted” if Mr Watling sent it to the local newspaper.Less than a month later he defected to Ukip.
Details of the letter emerged ahead of the by-election in Clacton on Thursday, which the Conservatives are expected to lose.
However Mr Carswell said that “the significance is that I declined to sign a letter in my name attacking Ukip.
“I was decidedly cool towards the sentiments of the letter. My response was that of someone who clearly had doubts.”
The letter, which was subsequently published in a local newspaper, said: “The very idea that a UKIP candidate is standing against Douglas Carswell gives one the impression that this upstart party has no cogent thought of politics.
“They are a one policy party and yet they choose to attack a man who agrees on their one policy – madness!
“Since before UKIP was a glint in Nigel Farage ‘s eye Carswell has been a strident Eurosceptic – he would like to bring Britain out of Europe and has promised to hold David Cameron to his promise of an in/out referendum should the Conservatives form the next government.
“Don’t be fooled into voting for UKIP, they won’t and can’t deliver – a vote for UKIP will bring back Labour who put us in the mire in the first place, so the Conservative party must take UKIP seriously – no matter how difficult that might seem to be – for the sake of Britain!”
Mr Carswell replied: “That reads very well and I would be delighted if you were to send it to the press. Obviously, it is best coming from you – not me. Thanks so much and very well done.”
A Tory source said: “How can the public ever trust anything Mr Carswell says when he can’t be straight with people? This just shows Mr Carswell says one thing and does another.”
Some Conservatives are privately already conceding defeat in Clacton, where they expect to lose the seat to Mr Carswell by more than 6,000 votes.
If they fail to reduce Mr Carswell’s majority to 5,000, they are considering writing it off as a target seat in the 2015 General Election.
Ministers are instead likely to focus resources on the by-election in Rochester and Strood where Mark Reckless, another former Tory MP, has defected to Ukip.
Mr Reckless won the seat with a majority of less than 10,000 at the last election, and Cabinet ministers are confident that the Conservatives can win the seat and stem further defections.
By contrast Mr Carswell holds a majority of more than 12,000 and the former Tory MP is respected for his campaigning operation, which conservatives admit is “formidable”.
PANORAMA –
The Farage Factor
BBC One 20:30hrs Monday 13-Oct-2014
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The Farage Factor
Not currently available on BBC iPlayer
Duration: 30 minutes
UKIP and its people’s army have shaken the political establishment by attracting voters and defecting Tory MPs. It has been an extraordinary year for the once fringe party. Reporter Darragh MacIntyre has been on the trail of the charismatic and controversial leader who claims he’s revolutionising British politics – but is Nigel Farage really any different from the politicians he criticises? Show less
The program has been put together by Alan Head, Connor Spackman & Darragh MacIntyre who have interviewed a large number of Ukip supporters for details and you may recal that Nigel farage wrote them a letter some time back, which was published on this blog, clearly showing he was not prepared to risk being interviewed and making childish demands of the program.
Many believe that Farage was unwilling to risk making clear answers to simple questions on the record for fear of perjuring himself as he has a track record, from which he seems to have learned, of telling lies on camera.
The program has several revelations it will make that will prove new to many Ukip supporters who are largely ill informed regarding Ukip and Nigel Farage in particular but assiduous readers of this blog will know most of the details!
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.”
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
>GUEST POST On Ukip Training its personnel To Milk The EU Tax payers For Holidays – Where Kirsten Farage blocked the media from entry to try to prevent exposing the corruption!
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here is a GUEST POST
Ukip Team Up With Travel Agent To Milk EU Taxpayers
The wife of Nigel Farage yesterday barred The Telegraph from a Ukip fringe meeting instructing MEPs how to secure taxpayer-funded holidays for their friends and supporters.
Kirsten Farage asked this newspaper to leave a fringe meeting outlining an EU scheme that subsidises holidays for political activists to Brussels and Strasbourg. The European Union spends £25 million on the subsidies for tours arranged through Euro-MPs’ offices. Under the scheme, holiday makers are handed a subsidy of up to £200 in cash if they include a short visit to the European Parliamentary in their itinerary. That money can then be used to pay for hotel rooms, meals and transport. Ukip’s use of the scheme comes despite Mr Farage’s party being ostensibly opposed to wasteful spending in Brussels.Mrs Farage helped organise the briefing for the party’s new MEPs, which was held in a suite overlooking the track at Doncaster Racecourse at the party’s conference. “Oh dear,” she said as The Telegraph arrived at the event, which had been advertised in the conference schedule handed to delegates. “We didn’t really want the press.” “I’d much rather not have any press here. It’s an internal event. “I’m afraid I’m going to have to send you away.” She said the meeting was to instruct new MEPs of the “logistics” of booking trips. Asked about the scheme, she said: “Every MEP is allowed to take visitors’ groups over from their constituency or region, or councillors, or business groups they are supporting, or supporting them. It’s an EU scheme.”
She added: “It’s a nice thing to do.”
One five-day package advertised on a stand at Ukip conference, organised by a private tour operator, included a visit to the castles of Koblenz, a tour of Strasbourg Cathedral and a boat trip along the Rhine. The visit to the Parliament in Strasbourg lasts two and a half hours. After the EU subsidy, the holiday costs £389 a head. Another seven-day Ukip tour takes in Verona, Lake Garda, an excursion to Venice and a tour of Vicenza, known as the City of Gold, before driving on to Strasbourg for a short visit to the Parliament. Other taxpayer-subsidised tours incorporate visits to the tapestry at Bayeux and Monet’s garden in Giverny before visiting the European Parliament in Brussels.
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Here is The Telegraph’s take on the story:
Nigel Farage’s wife bars Press from EU junkets meeting
Ukip MEPs were given a briefing on how to secure EU-funded holidays for supporters – but Mrs Farage made clear the Press were not welcome
The wife of Nigel Farage yesterday barred The Telegraph from a Ukip fringe meeting instructing MEPs how to secure taxpayer-funded holidays for their friends and supporters.
Kirsten Farage asked this newspaper to leave a fringe meeting outlining an EU scheme that subsidises holidays for political activists to Brussels and Strasbourg.
The European Union spends £25 million on the subsidies for tours arranged through Euro-MPs’ offices.
Under the scheme, holiday makers are handed a subsidy of up to £200 in cash if they include a short visit to the European Parliamentary in their itinerary. That money can then be used to pay for hotel rooms, meals and transport.
Ukip’s use of the scheme comes despite Mr Farage’s party being ostensibly opposed to wasteful spending in Brussels.
Mrs Farage helped organise the briefing for the party’s new MEPs, which was held in a suite overlooking the track at Doncaster Racecourse at the party’s conference.
“Oh dear,” she said as TheTelegraph arrived at the event, which had been advertised in the conference schedule handed to delegates. “We didn’t really want the press.”
“I’d much rather not have any press here. It’s an internal event.
“I’m afraid I’m going to have to send you away.” She said the meeting was to instruct new MEPs of the “logistics” of booking trips.
Asked about the scheme, she said: “Every MEP is allowed to take visitors’ groups over from their constituency or region, or councillors, or business groups they are supporting, or supporting them. It’s an EU scheme.”
She added: “It’s a nice thing to do.”
A colleague added: “We are not doing anything clandestine.”
One five-day package advertised on a stand at Ukip conference, organised by a private tour operator, included a visit to the castles of Koblenz, a tour of Strasbourg Cathedral and a boat trip along the Rhine. The visit to the Parliament in Strasbourg lasts two and a half hours. After the EU subsidy, the holiday costs £389 a head.
Another seven-day Ukip tour takes in Verona, Lake Garda, an excursion to Venice and a tour of Vicenza, known as the City of Gold, before driving on to Strasbourg for a short visit to the Parliament.
Other taxpayer-subsidised tours incorporate visits to the tapestry at Bayeux and Monet’s garden in Giverny before visiting the European Parliament in Brussels.
The European Parliament says the scheme allows voters to see their elected representatives at work regardless of wealth.
A Ukip spokesman said the party bans its MEPs from taking party in fact-finding trips organised by the European Parliament to exotic destinations and said they are not in it for “personal gain.”
“Information trips to Brussels for members of the public are open to and used by every political party,” he added.
Little wonder Ukip held their annual conference on a race track – their policies are just speculative gambles!
Don’t Bet On Ukip They Rig The Odds!
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can you imagine an organisation of stature with responsibility behaving like this let alone one that pretends to a status participating in Governance of our country and arbitters of our future.
BUT Ukip IS A One Man Band
The Showman & His Ukip One Man Band
Nigel Farage has yet again shown that when the chips are down Ukip is just a vehicle for his personally controlled one man band.
Nigel Farager gave Patrick O’Flynn his MEP position by placing him in number one position on his MEP serlection list, in return for Patrick O’Flynn’s despicable underhand betrayal of what little credibility journalists have managed to retain by acting as a senior political reporter for the sleazy Express newspaper without telling his readers, in the run up to the sham of EU elections, that he intended to jump ship just in time to claim his ill gotten reward for misleading them!
Patrick O’Flynn may well have pretentions to lead Ukip and although he is duplicitous, a poor public speaker, uncharismatic and has shown no leadership skills one may well argue he is the best of a particularly uninspiring and unprepossesing bunch at the top of Ukip – But be in no doubt he will have to fight Nigel Farage for leadership.
Patrick O’Flynn has learned yet another lesson this conference and that uis that although Ukip ‘claims’ to make policy democratically and puts forwar so called spokesmen on various subjects – when the chips are down Nigel Farage will nmot only undermine his team, as he lacks any leadership skills, whether he does this by making policy for them to present t6o members at their conference or arbitrarily whipping away the policies they had agreed to announce, when it suits Nigel Farage personally!
Whether it is undermining his spokesmen in his leadertship teram as he so clearly has with the inept and inadequate Patrick O’Flynn or by jumping on to rolling band wagons as he does when usurping any concept of democratic party participation when he sumarily dismisses constituency candidates without so much as a personal meeting to surplant them with his Tory chums or merely for publicity.
Then again no one in the know would describe Nigel Farage to be a believer in the concept of loyalty is a two way street whether that is his wives, his staff, his team mates, his backers or his supporters and ostensible friends they are all merely grist to the mill in the advancement of his self serving one man band.
The facade put forward by the showman is nothing more than an act – an act that can be cast aside at a moments notice if there is gain for Farage personally. Consider the Ukip Manifesto that Farage had presented and signed off when it suited him yet cast aside dismissing it as drivel, out of expediency when called to account on it and passing the buck to others!
To openly describe ones biggest and most consistent backer Paul Sykes as ‘The Yorkshire Dwarf’ seems a poor way to run a principled organisation an organisation that pretends to power and claims to represent the people!
Nigel Farage vetoes ‘wag tax’ proposal
Nigel Farage at Doncaster racecourse, where the Ukip conference is being held. Andrew Yates/Reuters
Nigel Farage at Doncaster racecourse, where the Ukip conference is being heldAndrew Yates/Reuters
Nigel Farage yesterday ruled out a tax on designer shoes and handbags just 48 hours after the idea was floated at his party’s conference.
The Ukip leader slapped down Patrick O’Flynn, the party’s economics spokesman, over a proposal to introduce a “wag tax” of 25 per cent on luxury goods.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s dead,” Mr Farage told the BBC. “It was a discussion point yesterday, it isn’t going to happen.”
The Mail offers on line readers a more comprehensive eviceration of the unprofessional incompetence of Nigel Farage’s fiefdom:
‘The Wag Tax is dead!’:
Farage kills off UKIP’s plans for 25% levy on luxury shoes, handbags and cars after just two days
By MATT CHORLEY, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 12:11, 28 September 2014 | UPDATED: 16:33, 28 September 2014
Nigel Farage today dramatically dumped a flagship UKIP policy to introduce a ‘Wag Tax’ on designer shoes and handbags.
The UKIP leader tore up the plan, unveiled by his chief economic spokesman on Friday, insisting: ‘It’s dead.’ The idea of a 25 per cent VAT rate for top-end goods had been unveiled in an attempt to woo Labour voters at the Ukip annual party conference in Doncaster. Scroll down for video UKIP leader Nigel Farage today moved to kill off his own party’s plans to increase VAT on luxury handbags and shoes
UKIP leader Nigel Farage today moved to kill off his own party’s plans to increase VAT on luxury handbags and shoes Farage says ‘Wag Tax’ was never in the UKIP manifesto
The party’s economic spokesman Patrick O’Flynn had announced that it made ‘no sense’ to levy VAT on everyday goods at the same rate as luxury items unaffordable to all but the very richest. He said there should be an extra 5 per cent tax on £200 shoes, £1,000 handbags and £50,000 cars, amounting to a tax on the items favoured by the Wives and Girlfriends – or WAGS – of premier league footballers. Mr O’Flynn said the party would also look to scrap a loophole which allows foreign visitors from outside the EU to claim back VAT on shopping sprees in London and elsewhere.
‘I have to admit, it’s not been the best start’: As Tory conference is overshadowed by scandal, furious Cameron hits out at ‘senseless’ defections to UKIP ‘I have been a complete fool’, admits Tory minister Brooks Newmark after being forced to quit for sending explicit photos of himself in his Paisley pyjamas We’ll bring in UK-only passport queues say UKIP… as Farage vows to take fight to Labour’s key heartlands But in an interview recorded yesterday and aired this morning, Mr Farage dramatically consigned the idea to the dustbin. He told BBC One’s Andrew Marr show: ‘I am very happy to give the freedom to our spokesmen and spokeswomen to float ideas but I’m pretty certain that while I’m leader that will not be in our manifesto. ‘As far as I am concerned it’s dead. It was a discussion point yesterday. It isn’t going to happen.’ The move will raise further doubts about UKIP as a serious political party, despite claims they are now part of the mainstream. As far as I am concerned it’s dead. It was a discussion point. It isn’t going to happen UKIP leader Nigel Farage on a Wag Tax UKIP chairman Steve Crowther tried to put a positive spin on the debacle, claiming that part of the party’s appeal was that it was ‘shambolic’ and did not attempt to be as slick as its rivals. He told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pienaar’s Politics: ‘My feeling is we have to clearly make clear that we are capable of having ideas and being able to deal with all of the aspects of government that we might be asked to deal with following the next general election, and we do that. ‘But if sometimes we are a little bit hard-edged or sometimes we stub our toe, I don’t think that’s a problem. ‘It’s part of our brand, frankly, it’s part of what Ukip is.’ He added: ‘I haven’t said being shambolic is something I wish to boast about.’ But he continued: ‘I believe that it is true that Ukip is … liked by its electorate because it is not always as slick and as polished as the other political parties. ‘I think it’s very important. It is the slick polish and nothing ever apparently going wrong, that leads to, frankly, torpedoes hitting you below the waterline.’ The tax – which has been dubbed a ‘wag tax’ – would hit the Ryder Cup golfers’ wives and girlfriends,
or ‘Gwags’, led by Amy Mickelson (second right) yesterday
The tax – which has been dubbed a ‘wag tax’ – would hit the Ryder Cup golfers’ wives and girlfriends, or ‘Gwags’, led by Amy Mickelson (second right) yesterday Mr Farage had promised that the appointment of a series of new spokesman would set the party on course to draw up a sensible manifesto for the 2015 election. In January this year he dismissed the 2010 manifesto as ‘drivel’ and claimed he had not read it, despite having written the foreword. ‘It was a nonsense. We have put that behind us and moved onto a professional footing,’ he said at the time. But he has moved quickly to abandon the idea of a Wag Tax, despite it being seen as an obvious attempt to woo left-leaning Labour voters in the north. Under the plans announced by Mr O’Flynn, the personal income tax allowance would also rise to the level of the full-time minimum wage. This would mean no-one paying income tax until they earn over £13,500 a year. The party would also cut the 40 per cent rate of income tax to 35 per cent for earnings between £42,000 and £55,000. Inheritance tax would also be scrapped altogether. Mr O’Flynn told the conference: ‘I want it to investigate the feasibility of imposing a luxury goods rate of VAT. ‘It makes no sense to me that VAT is levied at the same rate on budget items purchased by the hard-pressed as it is on premium ones that are the preserve of the very well heeled. ‘And it seems to me that a luxury goods rate of 25 per cent could raise substantial extra funds from the wealthiest people. ‘I would suggest such a rate be built around simple thresholds such as £200 for a pair of shoes, £1,000 for a bag or £50,000 for a new car.’
A barrister from Henderson Chambers with a track record as a Fraudster is Now a Ukip Lobbyist trying co cajole gullible Tory MPs to defect to Ukip!
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I doubt if Henderson Chambers head of Chambers, Charles Gibson QC, can be too impressed with this chappie judging by his track record of delivering fraudulent lectures in China (for more facts CLICK HERE) and inept recruitment of Tory MPs for Ukip, where to date they have only managed to recruit two turncoats and neither of them were of much significance, all be it one of them isa also a somewhat unprepossesing Barrister unlikely to hang onto his Tory seat as a Ukip candidate at the General Election next year.
Carless & Rechwell can hardly be mistaken for value for money converts – rather just easy target disgruntled and passed over Tory back benchers of little note.
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Ukip’s man in the Commons bars woos Tory defectors over pint of beer
A Ukip official has been approaching a number of Conservative MPs to encourage them to defect to Nigel Farage’s party
Ukip’s legal officer Matthew RichardsonPhoto: John Taylor
Ukip are attempted to recruit Conservative MPs from under the noses of the Whips over glasses of beer on the House of Commons terrace.
A number of Tory MPs have been approached to defect to Nigel Farage’s party by a senior Ukip official working in the office of a member of the Lords.
Matthew Richardson, a barrister and Ukip’s legal officer, has approached a series of Tory backbenchers as they enjoy drinks in the autumn evening sunshine by the river Thames.
While Ukip does not have any MPs, Mr Richardson is able to access the corridors and cafes of the Palace of Westminster because he is a member of staff of Lord Willoughby, the Ukip peer.
Senior Ukip sources confirmed he had recently tried to recruit two Conservative backbenchers suspected of being sympathetic to Ukip: Adam Holloway, a former Captain in the Grenadier Guards who represents the Gravesham constituency; and Philip Hollobone, the MP who Kettering.
Mr Hollobone holds the record of the most rebellions against a party whip so far this Parliament, but he insisted that he would not be defecting. Mr Holloway did not respond to messages.
The terrace, running along the bank of the Thames, is packed in the summer months with MPs enjoying drinks from subsidised bars.
It was at the centre of allegations of sexual impropriety by MPs who had over-indulged.
Mr Richardson, a bon viveur in his early thirties, is also understood to spend several afternoons each week drinking coffee beneath the glass atrium of Portcullis House, the MPs’ office block, in order to approach potential defectors.
He is thought to have triggered panic in Tory ranks after boasting to targets of the number of Conservative MPs he had lined up to follow Douglas Carswell, the MP for Clacton, in quitting.
At Oxford, Mr Richardson studied engineering and was Treasurer of the Union. He made headlines as a student after he bluffed his way to China to deliver a series of lectures on economics at Beijing University, despite having no knowledge of the subject.
He was mistaken invited to speak on the course, and only gave up after nine hours of lectures, when he ran out of material from pages ripped out of an A-level text book.
Mr Farage is understood to have endorsed the operation but was incandescent after it came to light, threatening to “kick him in the b—s.” Mr Richardson declined to comment.
On Friday Mr Carswell was cheered by Ukip activists in Clacton, as he warned the “full weight of the Westminster machine” including Cabinet ministers been sent to hold the seat for the Tories.
Senior Ukip sources admit that no further defections are likely until Conservative and Labour MPs see the result of the Clacton by-election on October 9.
One senior figure said that by setting a precedent of calling a by-election after quitting, Mr Carswell may have “set the bar too high” and discouraged others from following suit.
On Friday Mr Farage said that he does not expect to be the leader of Ukip in ten years’ time. He suggested his successor would be a woman, saying Ukip is more likely to adopt a female leader than any other party.
Suzanne Evans, the party’s communities spokesman, is thought by members to be a front runner. Told about Mr Farage’s comments, she laughed before adding: “Leadship is a heck of a role.”
From That Which I KNOW of This Case I Believe It Is Corupt, not least because it pertains to activity years ago & justice this delayed is NOT justice!
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minded that during the period in question ALL Ukip MEPs accounts were under the direct scrutiny of Nigel Farage’s directly appointed staff and the details known of the dishonesty of sometime Ukip appointee staff member John Ison I am of the informed belief that in reality there is no case to answer for Nikki Sinclaire who has seemingly been set up!
It is also proven public knowledge that senior members of Farage’s leadership team have frequently lied about Nikki Sinclaire and Nigel Farage and Ukip have more than once been found guilty of af abuse of Nikki Sinclaire, whilst one time Ukip deputy leader and MEP Mike Nattrass acted on uncorroborated information supplied by the liar John Ison who worked in collusion with Nigel Farage’s sewer rat Mark Croucher!
That all three members of Nikki Ainclaire’s staff who were arrested originally based on the false premise of acting to money launder for Nikki Sinclaire were released with no case to answer despite their names being made public, yet no public appology was made by the police.
Further the false claim of money laundering accounted for around half of the police allegations.
Further the EU whom the police belatedly claim were defrauded by Sinclaire has made no complaint and seemingly has provided no evidence to support the West Midland’s police claims which it took them 29 months to construct.
It is also a matter of public record that Nikki Sinclaire’s auditted accounts show that she has paid in in cash, of her own money, to do her job and carry out her political campaigning during the period in question in very substantial excess of the sums she is, in my opinion, falsely accused of stealing!
Knowing thwe willingness of Ukip’s leade4rship team to lie to satiate their personal ambitions and personal enrichment and also their proven association with certain police officers that are believed to be corrupt I incline to believe that this entire case is a tissue of lies – that is not to say that she will not be found guilty and even spend time in prison.
Such an outcome would not surprise in our country where democracy is dead viz the fact that only 4% of the electorate have had a say in the possible destruction of these United Kingdoms and in a desperate attempt and without any democratic debate both Labour & Tory leaders have made promises to buy the result of Scotland’s independence vote. without ANY Parliamentary debate or mandate!
We are, as the last Government constantly claimed, living in a post democratic era – clearly one in which the occupying forces of the supra national state have an utterly corrupt police force which has never brought to justice on a murder charge one of its own who has chosen to slaughter a citizen on the street with lethal force in direct contrtavention of British law which prohibits a death penalty for ANY crime.
Further let us remember that irrefutable fact that the police have proved they are prepared to liue to defend their own criminal members and select which crimes they will or will not prosecute viz Rotheram police failure to defend children from industrial level sexual abuse known to them in their capacity as ‘Law Enforcement’ a term the modern police bring shame upon – just as Bailiffs act outside of the law to steal goods, often far in excess of the value of any debt claimed!
I do not believe that the alleged case against Nikki Sinclaire has any more validity than the pack of lies presented regarding Jasna Badzak and that the case is just as corrupt as were the lies and allegations regarding me made by Ukip MEP Gerard Batten and his police puppets – one wonders if Batten also abused his position to make enquiries with Interpol to further his lies regarding me as he did regarding Jasna Badzak!
It would seem a great evil stalks the body politic and its name is Ukip who IF they ever reached any real position of authority could, based upon their track record, be expectedf to abuse that authority and participate in industrial level corruption and obscene levels of abuse and bullying using their dishonestly obtained office for personal gain!
I believe that Nikki Sinclaire is and has consistently been abused by Ukip and is innocent of any charge of deliberate instances of fraud – misrepresented by the police as ‘Money Laundering’ to make the offence seem greater – ‘Money Laundering’ is an offence specifically designed to deal with drug and terrorist processing of cash and also the proceeds of major criminals.
It is clear that the police claims are dressed up to make them seem greater than they actually might have been had they ever occurred and IF they occurred there would seem to be no connection with Nikki Sinclaire but much to do with the original crimes Nikki Sinclaire personally reported to the police long before her arrest! Crimes that would have proved to be embarrassing to Ukip and the Farage leadership team!
Former MEP Nikki Sinclaire appears in court on fraud charges
First published 09:21 Wednesday 17 September 2014 in News by Gema Bate
A FORMER West Midlands MEP will appear before magistrates today (Wednesday, September 17) accused of money laundering offences after an inquiry into her expense claims.
Nikki Sinclaire, who lost her seat in the European Parliament earlier this year, also faces an allegation of committing misconduct in a public office.
Sinclaire was charged in July this year after a long-running inquiry by West Midlands Police and the European Anti-Fraud Office.
Two of the three charges against Sinclaire, brought under the Proceeds of Crime Act, allege that she converted criminal property between October 2009 and December 2010.
Prosecutors further allege that Sinclaire committed misconduct between October 2009 and July 2010 “in that she made or caused to be made” false and dishonest claims for travelling expenses.
Sinclaire lost her seat as an MEP for the West Midlands in last May’s European elections after leaving Ukip and standing for the We Demand a Referendum Now party.
The 45-year-old, who lives in Shirley, near Solihull, has described the allegations as “ludicrous and unfounded”.
In a statement issued in July, Sinclaire said: “I strongly refute these charges and will be firmly defending myself.”
Mr Spink said “the time was right” to rejoin the party, although he said he had no plans to stand in an election.
He said: “Ukip is a completely different animal from what existed in 2008 when it was pulling 1.8 per cent of the vote.”
Mr Spink was elected as Conservative MP for Castle Point in 1992 before he lost his seat in 1997, and regained it in 2001. He defected to Ukip in 2008.
He lost his seat again in the 2010 elections to Conservative Rebecca Harris.
One is forced to wonder if Douglas Carswell will also prove a fair weather friend having it seems quit the Tories in a fit of pique at being allocated a room for the confernce some.distance from the conference hotel, rather clearly showing his status within the Tories!
I believe he will challenge Farage for the leadership of Ukip sponsored by Stuart Wheeler and have his election campaign funded also, challenging Farage in his personal fiefdom may prove to leave blood on the carpet under which so much has been swept over the years!
Ukip Notably Absent In Intellectual Opposition to The EU having no representation of any gravitas, nor credible policies for an honourable exit & survival strategy despite 21 years of ‘claimed’ opposition to EU membership!
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Hi, some twenty of the country’s leading economists and economic commentators have backed calls for an In/Out referendum on the subject of Britain’s relationship with the EU.
In default of honourable patriotic leadership, in these United kingdoms, willing to restore the supremacy of the peoples over Westminster as the authority in Britain and restore respect for our borders and British Justice under British law in respect of our Monarch.
The peoples of Britain deserve to have their voices heard, in a free, fair and informed referendum equally funded in respect of democracy voting on Britain’s membership of the EU, which is long overdue.
The informed signatories of the letter, published in the Daily Telegraph, added that Britain had nothing to fear from leaving the EU, an argument self evident in the light of the damage to our industry economy and democracy that membership of the EU has proved to be, as warned of by Enoch Powell 25-Feb-1970 CLICK HERE whilst Edward Heath and his Government betrayed the peoples of Britain based on their lies, misrepresentation and Government funded spin and propaganda promoted by a largely subservient press..
The letter below was released to mark the launch of Economists for Britain, which under the leadership of Dr Ruth Lea, aims to provide an intellectual sounding board for the research.
The text of the letter follows:
Dear Sirs,
As economists and economic commentators we are writing to add our voices to the growing demands for a new relationship between Britain and the European Union and to express our support for an In/Out referendum.
For too long the debate over Britain’s EU membership has been characterised by half-truths and outright fabrications. The wholly misleading claim that millions of jobs would be lost if the UK were to leave the EU has been comprehensively disproven and refuted.
Research shows that British business wants and needs a substantial change in our relationship with the EU. The Prime Minister’s own Red Tape Task Force has warned that EU red tape is holding back job creation and business expansion. However, before thinking about leaving the EU, we must see if the British Government can first secure better terms of membership. But if the negotiations do not deliver, there is nothing to fear from leaving.
The UK’s future prosperity increasingly depends on its ability to trade with the whole world, not just its European neighbours. In 1980 the EU accounted for over 30 per cent of world GDP, today that figure is less than 19 per cent. The share of UK exports to the rest of the EU has fallen by 10 per cent in the last ten years alone. We need to move beyond a 20th Century economic mind set and be free to develop our links with the rising economies outside Europe.
Just as “little Englanders” are wrong to argue for protectionism, so too are “little Europeans” who only focus on Britain’s trade with its next-door neighbours. We need a global vision, a vision that looks beyond the limits of Europe and sees the opportunities that the wider world offers.
Dr Ruth Lea, Chairman, Economists for Britain & Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group. Professor Philip Booth, Editorial and Programme Director, IEA & Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School Roger Bootle, Managing Director, Capital Economics Ryan Bourne, Head of Public Policy, Institute of Economic Affairs Keith Boyfield, Executive Director, Keith Boyfield Associates Dr. Eamonn Butler, Director, Adam Smith Institute Mike Denham, Research Fellow, The TaxPayers’ Alliance Bryan Gould, Former Labour Shadow Cabinet member & former Vice-Chancellor, University of Waikato Dr. David Green, Chief Executive, CIVITAS John Greenwood OBE, Chief Economist, Invesco Ltd Dr. Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director, The New Zealand Initiative David Lascelles, Senior fellow and joint founder of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation Damon de Laszlo, Chairman, Economic Research Council Neil MacKinnon, Global Macro Strategist, VTB Capital Professor Kent Matthews, Associate Dean for Engagement & Professor of Money and Banking, Cardiff University John Mills, Chairman and Founder of JML Iain Murray, Vice President for Strategy, Competitive Enterprise Institute (Washington DC) David Myddleton, Professor D.R. Myddelton, Emeritus Professor of Finance and Accounting, Cranfield School of Management. Brian Reading, former economics adviser to Edward Heath Professor Colin Robinson, Advisory Council Institute of Economic Affairs & Emeritus Professor, Surrey University David B. Smith, Beacon Economic Forecasting Professor Phil Whyman, Professor of Economics, Business, Economics and International Business, University of Central Lancashire
Interestingly you will note the absence of any individual connected with or involved with Ukip largely for lack of anyone of any gravitas within Ukip or any intellectual standing of their views with regard to Leaving_The_EU
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