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 IN FAVOUR of rapid research & development of NEW NUCLEAR technologies
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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.
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I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial gross child abuse including sexual.
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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
living within a few miles of Arron Banks I have been aware of his progress to some extent for many years and am not remotely surprised to have read this article below!
You will find numerouse comments about Arron Banks & his background that I have written and you may well remember a most revealing article by an old friend of mine Daniel Foggo, which he wrote some years ago!
Before reading the article published below you may well find this article gives pause for thought and some interesting background CLICK HERE
Ukip and Brexit donor Arron Banks under financial spotlight
Allegations of ‘serious and widespread’ failings while chief executive of Brightside Group
The business career of Arron Banks, the biggest financial backer of the Brexit campaign, has come under scrutiny, after a court case alleged “serious and widespread” financial failings during his time as chief executive of an insurance company.
The dispute centres on events that took place during Mr Banks’ tenure at the head of Brightside Group, an insurance company that he co-founded but from which he was ousted in 2012.
Under Mr Banks, Brightside paid £17m to buy technology platforms that he co-owned. But Brightside’s new owners allege that the key software “suffered from a number of fundamental failings”.
They complain they would not have bought the company for £127m in 2014 had they known Brightside’s true financial position and have brought a negligence case against the company’s previous auditors, Baker Tilly, now RSM.
RSM has denied all allegations and said that it was never asked to review the technical merits of the online platform that Brightside bought. Mr Banks is not a party to the negligence claim and was not present at Brightside for the entire period covered by the claim.
But the auditors, in their defence, stated that if negligence did occur the responsibility should lie with Brightside’s former directors, implicitly including Mr Banks, for failing to carry out proper due diligence and failing to “take any adequate steps” in response to problems revealed by annual audits.
It also accuses the directors of “failing to bring all relevant matters to the attention” of the auditors. Mr Banks told the Financial Times that his current insurance company, GoSkippy, and Brightside had settled a separate legal claim, preventing further claims against him.
A close ally of Nigel Farage, Mr Banks has donated £1.3m to the UK Independence party since 2014, and during the referendum campaign set up his own group, Leave. EU, to which he lent £6m. This week, after tensions with Ukip’s new leader, he pledged to transform Leave. EU into a “direct democracy” group, modelled on Italy’s Five Star Movement.
Brightside claims that its owners AnaCap have had to spend £35m to stabilise the company and have lost a further £25m because of software problems. The company would have “ceased trading” in 2014 had its true position been known, its claim argues.
Auditors RSM argue that the claimants have failed to show a connection between any alleged breaches of accounting rules and their subsequent losses. Mr Banks has thrived on controversy, launching a rightwing news site and saying that he is “sick to death” of hearing about the Hillsborough disaster.
He has identified insurance as the source of most of his wealth, although he also has mining and other investments in Africa.
After co-founding Brightside in 2005 with John Gannon and Paul Chase-Gardener, he was chief executive between 2011 and 2012. In an interview with the New Statesman, Mr Banks recalled being so angry at being ousted that he punched Mr Gannon in the face “as hard as I could”.
During Mr Banks’ time as chief executive, Brightside bought ESystems and EDevelopment for £17m, in what Mr Banks called “a significant step forward”. The companies, which provided the online platform and software used by Brightside, were owned by Rock Holdings, which was beneficially owned by Mr Banks, Mr Gannon and Mr Chase-Gardener.
In their legal claim, Brightside’s new owners state that the software’s back office functionality “never worked” and that it was “incapable” of the controls necessary to protect “client money”. Brightside’s claim accuses its auditors RSM, of failing to conduct proper due diligence. It also argues that Brightside’s wider financial problems should have been recognised by its auditors, including during Mr Banks’ time as chief executive.
RSM says it identified “a significant deficiency” in Brightside’s internal financial controls in 2011 but that the problem remained unaddressed a year later. It says it passed the relevant audit report to various executives including Mr Chase-Gardener, then the finance director, but not Mr Banks, who left in June 2012.
Brightside has also filed a claim against Mr Chase-Gardener alleging breach of his duties as a director. Mr Chase-Gardener, who is contesting that claim, did not respond to a request for comment, made via his accountant. RSM said in a statement that it “would not be appropriate for us to comment on ongoing litigation”.
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
Donald Trump & Arron Banks The Tory Backer who switched to supporting Nigel Farage’s Ukip! Just how inept is Donald Trump?
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for some understanding of why the British Government is unwilling to involve Nigel Farage in negotiations regarding BreXit and even less interested in his being linked with discussions with Britain’s discussions with POTUS elect Donald Trump may be gleaned from the first article below:
‘Spy MP’ helped Russian woman in mafia inquiry
Documents show that Mike Hancock involved himself so closely in the case of the second woman that he hand-delivered a letter to her
Daniel Foggo Published: 12 December 2010
Hancock’s parliamentary assistant Katia Zatuliveter is in detention awaiting deportation (Chris Ison)
A Liberal Democrat MP whose parliamentary assistant has been accused by MI5 of being a spy intervened to stop another young Russian woman being deported. She was being investigated by Special Branch detectives over possible links to the Russian mafia.
Documents seen by The Sunday Times show that Mike Hancock involved himself so closely in the case of the second woman that he hand-delivered a letter to her, confirming her permission to remain in Britain. Her husband at the time, whom she had married to stay in the country, has accused Hancock of having designs on his wife.
Hancock’s parliamentary assistant, Katia Zatuliveter, 25, is in detention awaiting deportation. MI5 believes she is an agent of the SVR, the Russian intelligence service.
The scandal has threatened to escalate into a full-blown diplomatic incident, with the Russian embassy insisting she is not an agent, and has raised questions over whether Hancock was compromising himself by becoming overly involved with young, attractive Russian women. Ekaterina Paderina, then aged 25, married Eric Butler, then 54, in 1998 within months of meeting him in Portsmouth, where Hancock is an MP. Butler said he was questioned by Special Branch in 1999.
“There were concerns about whether Ekaterina was in the country for legitimate reasons,” said Butler, now 66 and a retired ship steward.
Another source, who knew Butler and his wife, said he was also questioned by a Special Branch officer about Paderina.
“It wasn’t her specifically that Special Branch were interested in; she was merely a cog in what they were looking at,” said the source. “To put it very bluntly, they were looking at a Russian mafia connection to Portsmouth.”
Butler said he realised shortly after his wedding that Ekaterina had married him only so as to remain in Britain. Despite the marriage, the authorities made attempts to return her to Russia, and the couple approached Hancock for help. Butler said he quickly developed reservations over involving Hancock.
“I could see him looking at her in his office in a certain way,” he said. “One day I came home and found them both in the conservatory, and Ekaterina had her legs positioned in a way which was very provocative and Hancock was leaning forward in his chair. I got angry and told him I would thump him if he didn’t get out.”
Hancock wrote letters on Paderina’s behalf to Barbara Roche, the immigration minister at the time, supporting her application to stay in Britain.
An entry in Paderina’s diary in September 1999, seen by The Sunday Times, stated: “Mike Hancock arrived, we had a chat, he gave me a letter which said that I have been granted another visa for a year. Immediately it was like having a huge weight taken off my shoulders.”
After being divorced by Butler in 2001, Paderina quickly remarried another British man. Paderina, now 37 and with the married name Banks, said she had no knowledge of Special Branch’s interest in her. She denied ever having had an inappropriate relationship with Hancock and said she could not remember a confrontation between Butler and the MP in their house.
Of her relationship with Butler, she insisted their marriage had been “valid” but added: “I didn’t marry Eric Butler for love.”
Asked if her motive in marrying him was to stay in Britain, she said yes.
Hancock denied having behaved improperly with Paderina. He admitted writing letters on her behalf but denied any knowledge of police involvement.
When told of Paderina’s diary entry, he said: “I might have dropped off a letter at their house but I was certainly never in their house. I’m not that stupid.”
To view the original of this article CLICK HERE To view this article as I first published 12-Dec-2010 CLICK HERE
Now consider just why Nigel Farage and his motley crew may not be perceived by Donald Trump in quite the same manner as their ambitions, spin and self publicity may be perceived!
That Donald Trump has been duped into consorting with these dubious individuals is potentially, in fact may already be, a reasonable cause for ire on his part – if it is not and he subsequently realises just how much his aids and allies have failed him that anger could be wider spread.
On the other hand if Donald Trump genuinely & wittingly chose to consort with these individuals it is a very poor reflection on him and should be of great concern to the American peoples who elected him as POTUS Elect and the world at large as it reflects attrocious judgement.
Such poor judgement may well be a clear justification of the lampooning article below as clearly Donald Trump has been duped into perceiving Nigel Farage as Mr. BreXit when he clearly had little or nothing to do with achieving BreXit and has consistently failed (8 times) to gain elected office in British domestic politicsdespite riding a populist band waggon.
Let us not forget Nigel Farage did all he could to prevent a Referendum on whether Britain left or remained in the EU – He did absolutely nothing to oppose the new EU Constitution subsequently enacted as The Lisbon Treaty, he and his team have repeatedly brought Britain into disrepute with their ogvert womanising and drunken loutish behaviour, not to mention childish antics and posturings eg. dressing as chickens, being cautioned by police for demonstrations few noticed, driving around like excited schoolboys with war time scout cars on public highways etc. etc.
Let us also not forget Nigel Farage’s goffer and sewer rat Mark Croucher’s drubbing in the Courts when they tried to set me up for bankruptcy with a dishonest claim in the Courts which found against them and their subsequent failure to pay the £13,000+ they were shown to owe me by the Court and failure to honour British Justice and pay their dues!
Then of course we take note of the fact that to try to block the petition of over 2.1/4 Million signatures that obtained the debate in the House of Commons on Britain’s future relationship with the EU and the resultant Referendum Nigel Farage was shown in Court to have dishonestly colluded with John Ison to try to set Nikki Sinclaire, who founded and managed The Petition that brought about the Referendum, they failed in their criminal conspiracy and Nikki Sincliare was totally exhonourated of the dishonest claims made.
These people Donald Trump’s team have foolishly presented to him should have no role in diplomacy or British domestic politics they in no way represent the values that our ancestors willingly gave their lives to enshrine in British justice, tollerance or daily life – They are largely beneath contempt. At least Donald Trump obtained the public vote that swayed the Electoral College to elect him as POTUS Elect let us not add to his problems by linking him in any way with the likes of Farage and his mottley crew of nere do wells.
As an asside: Just what is the fascination with trophy wives from behind the Iron Curtain and the fascination with the brutish politics of Russia, its satelites and its President that seems to hold these men in thrall? Clearly some amongst them are clearly a security risk, as is the ready willingness of RT to propagandise their dissidence!
US presidential election: Forecast failure
09 November 2016
A surprise victory for Donald Trump triggered volatility on markets, but investors should recall the lessons of the Brexit vote.
The victory for Donald Trump in the US presidential election appeared highly improbable only a couple of weeks ago; but it was always expected to create uncertainty and short-term volatility in markets. An initial ‘risk-off’ reaction was the likely result; bigger questions, such as over trade relations and fiscal policy, will be answered at a much slower pace.
In the meantime, it is important that investors sit tight and remember that such short-term fluctuations are an inevitable feature of markets, and do not alter the fundamental need for individuals to save and invest for their future.
Undeniably, Trump represented the ‘change candidate’; but regardless of the result, it is important to remember that the economic powers of the president are limited. Once in power, most presidents tack towards the centre. The reality is that major changes to the US economy have not corresponded with political shifts and there is little historic evidence that the US economy performs better under any particular political hue. The relationship between growth and who sits in the Oval Office is tenuous at best.
After an initial shock, markets may reflect that the checks and balances of the US political system will somewhat limit the new president’s freedom of action. Those who fear Donald Trump’s anti-trade stance will doubtless be reassured that even a Republican-controlled Congress is unlikely to simply rubber-stamp any extreme protectionist policies, not least because the Republican Party has generally favoured free trade. Moreover, the uncertainty created by the result may stay the hand of the Federal Reserve in raising rates, which should boost equity markets; should the dollar lose value on a sustained basis, it would also act as a cushion. The 10-week wait until Inauguration Day provides a further chance for initial fears to subside.
Trump will inherit a growing US economy that has recovered well from the financial crisis and is fundamentally strong, with corporate earnings on an improving trajectory. This should continue to give support to long-term investors. Uncertainties lie ahead but markets have dealt with similar recent concerns and volatility, such as in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, and reached new highs. Indeed, given the similar shock with which the result was received, the UK’s Brexit vote could even provide something like a road map over the next few months.
The reality of a Trump administration will only be known in time, but the key principles of investing still hold true, whatever the election outcome. Individuals should continue to put in place long-term plans for their financial future and not be distracted by short-term events. Skilled investment managers are best-placed to make the decisions that can help protect investments against a range of risks – political or otherwise.
According to the Wall Street Journal: “Mr Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and Mr Trump seemed surprised by the scope.”
Even Trump’s aides – who are supposed to be the experts here – were “unaware the entire presidential staff… had to be replaced”, it added.
After what must have been an epic facepalm, “Mr Obama realised the Republican needs more guidance. He plans to spend more time with his successor than presidents typically do”.
So what might that “guidance” be like? Here’s the first, imagined phone call between the two…
“Hello? Is it me you’re looking for?”(Photo: Getty)
“No. Look, anyway how are things going? I know we agreed you could have my number and call if you needed any guidance but it’s day one, Donald. Aren’t you busy settling into the Oval Office?”
If you didn’t have a fluffy bunny on your head the eagle wouldn’t peck it, Donald
“Not really, Barack. There’s a damn great eagle in here and I.T. haven’t given me a password to log on yet. Where are you anyway?”
“You would need slabs about 40ft high and 10inches thick, that would be planted 7ft in the ground. It’s uneconomic to move them thousands of miles. You’d have to make the slabs near the wall.”
“Sure, sure. We can do that. New jobs. The best jobs. Make America Great Again!”
“You don’t understand Donald. Concrete is made from aggregate you have to quarry. There aren’t enough quarries for that near the Mexican border. The nearest concrete facility is in fact Mexican.”
“Bummer.”
“And before you ask Donald, a fence has lots of the same problems”(Photo: Getty)
“And because a lot of the border is inaccessible desert and mountains you’d have to build some roads to get the work crews out there. And then dig 7ft into rock to put the slabs in, put some razor wire on the top, cameras, staffing. The total cost is projected to be $15bn.”
“We’re going to borrow lots of money though. Make America Indebted Again!”
“Donald, you can do that. You can borrow some money. And you’re going to have to spend quite a lot of it on concrete and on recruiting a LOT more border guards because those guys all get pensions, you know.”
“That’s right Donald, that’s what you said. You wanted to deport 11m people. More recently you said it’s 2m to 3m, so I’m not sure how many you want to deport now.”
“Uh. Some? Dunno.”(Photo: Getty)
“As many as we can, Barack. DRAIN THAT SWAMP. “
“OK Donald, 2m would mean 1,369 deportations a day, 365 days a year, throughout your term of office. That would need a lot of immigration officials, two jumbo jets a day, a suspension of the legal appeals process and removing the entire bottom tier of the US economy. No gardeners, no nannies, no garbagemen, no fruit pickers.”
“Well we can give those jobs to Americans!”
“Yes you can. But it would also mean fewer cars being bought, fewer goods and services, a lower tax take and probably a few more vigilante groups rounding immigrants up ‘to be helpful’, so probably some criminal justice costs too. Oh and all the decent baristas would be in Cuba.”
“Mine hurt every day for eight years, Donald. Mainly because I kept hitting the desk with it whenever some dumbass on Twitter said my birth certificate was a fake.”
“Please, someone make it better”(Photo: Pete Souza/The White House/eyevine)
“It’s a great idea! It’s one of mine! Everyone says it’s the best idea EVER. “
“That would start a global trade war with every nation raising or lowering tariffs in order to attract the best goods and services, with knock-on economic effects for the Earth’s 6bn inhabitants, diplomacy and global conflict, Donald.”
“Well, OK, OK, all right then how about this? I’m going to make it easier for people to access and pay for two- and four-year technical and vocational college courses so they can all get better jobs.”
“That’s a great idea Donald.”
“It is? You think so? WOW. I totally like thought Ivanka was stupid when she suggested it.”
“DON’T TOUCH THAT BUTTON DONALD. BAD. NO. NOT THE BUTTON.”
RUN AWAY(Photo: Pete Souza/The White House)
“You sure?”
“I’m sure. How about your tax cuts? How’s that going?”
“Oh I’m going to give a multi-billion dollar tax break to billionaires.”
“I’m sure that’s not what you promised Donald.”
“Oh yeah I said the middle classes but it’ll be billionaires too, so that’s cool. And corporations. And I’m going to close bits of the internet that ISIS uses. And scrap most of your dumb doctors and nurses thing. And, and, and I’m going to keep Guantanamo Bay open and send Hillary there.”
“Oh right. Hey Donald, guess what I just worked out?”
It all sounds LOVELY(Photo: Getty)
“What?”
“It sounds like America is going to have a big wall to keep people apart, no money, a thriving black market economy, mobsters, little contact with the outside world, perks only for those who can afford it, and internet censorship. There might even be some white supremacists in there. You know where else is just like that?”
“No, where?”
“Supermax jail, Donald. You’re putting America in jail.”
“No, I’m just going to put the webby guy in jail.”
“Is that because he hasn’t given you a password yet?”
“Whaddya mean I won’t be able to log on? How can I blow stuff up if I don’t log on?”(Photo: Getty)
“No the other guy. The guy in the webby stuff.”
“You’re going to have to help me out. Where did you see him?”
“He’s in the corridor. He runs after me all the time. He’s got webs all over his clothes. And there’s this guy with pointy ears on a mask, and some dude in blue pantyhose is drinking whisky in the kitchen.”
“That’s Spiderman, Batman and Superman, Donald. You can’t put them in jail. They’re the good guys. Well, Superman will be better in a bit.”
You got the wrong president, Spidey(Photo: Peter Souza/Twitter)
“Oh yeah? How about the French toast?”
“That’s French, Donald.”
“The cars?”
“Japanese.”
“Our iPhones!”
“Made in China.”
“DAMMIT, BARACK. This is so HARD.”
“I know, man. That’s partly why we have a year and a half of presidential hustings so we get the absolute best candidates who know their stuff. Something must’ve gone wrong this time.”
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
Ukip’s Ferrets In The Sack & Getting Positively Vicious & Untrustworthy! I do question whather the Tories would trust Douglas Carswell sufficiently for this story to be true!
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clearly the Ukip ferrets squabbling in their sack are ever more toxic and vituperative, as like ferrets they rip apart the body with little finess – the body in this instance being the near moribund body of the functionally disfunctional Ukip.
Ukip allo tearing at eachother for a piece of the corpse whilst the owner of Ukip & derfacto leader of over 20 years standing has quit to manage the battle from the shadows, leaving him with time to stand in the queue at the German embassy & embarrassingly when spotted had no ready excuse beyond the implausible claim that he was not seeking a German passport and EU citizenship.
Why would Farage not want a German passport as he has a German wife on his payroll and as for EU citizenship after a lack lustre series of jobs in the City that left him heavily in debt, lets face it an internet search soon shows him to have trousered around 3 to 7 £Million from his status as a career politician in the EU yet he has been a serial failure in British domestic politics.
Now we see Nigel Farage posturing in American politics and openly backing what could be the most catastrophic POTUS ever considered as he rides the trash waggon of populist politics. As a stand up comic his pitch at the odiopus Donald Trump’s rally was exemplary but in terms of truth and responsibility it was an embarrassment only believed by those of a similar low grade mindset with no grasp of either reality or the truth.
Little wonder that Farage would seem to have done all he could to prevent Nikkie Sinclaire mounting the petition that resulted in David Cameron’s Tory promise th have an in/out EU Referendum.
Nigel Farage even went as far as conspiring with John Ison to burgle her offices and fabricate evidence to seemingly frame her in a corrupt court case – presumably to try to prevent the Petition Nikkie Sinclaire compiled thaty forced the debate in The House of Commons which guaranteed the Referendum. After all why would Farage want to risk Britain leaving the milch cow that had supplied him with a successful career as a professional EU politician which had so clearly enriched him.
We now see Nigel Farage bending the truth and presenting his comedic and irresponsible fabricated fantasy of his role in achieving BreXit at Donald Trump’s embarrassing rally!
Now we see efforts to apparently ‘stitch up’ Ukip’s only ever MP – Douglas Carswell – foolish as I may think Carswell is, I do not for a moment believe that he stole Ukip’s mailing list nor do I believe he supplied consequential material to the Tories that resulting in Nigel Farage loosing his 8th. attempt to get himself elected as an MP.
A crass and ill educated letter, unfortunately devalued by vested interest, from what would seem to be a South African organisation hired & owned by Arron Banks as some sort of private investigators, is staggeringly unconvincing as evidence!
For details of Arron Banks’ involvement CLICK HERE
Senior Ukip figure accuses party’s only MP of helping the Conservatives defeat Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage and UKIP Party MP Douglas Carswell Credit: REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
A senior Ukip figure has accused the party’s only MP of helping the Conservatives defeat Nigel Farage during the General Election.
A company belonging Arron Banks, Ukip’s biggest donor, has written to Kent Police alleging that Douglas Carswell, the party’s MP for Clacton, helped the Tory campaign.
Precision Risk & Intelligence claims that Mr Carswell downloaded Ukip polling data for the South Thanet seat in Kent and passed it to the Conservatives, who allegedly used it during the campaign.
The letter sent to Kent Police says: “We have evidence of excessive spending by the Conservatives and secretive dealings between them and a senior Ukip representative to collude against Mr Farage.”
South Thanet was one of the most closely watched marginal seats of election night given Ukip’s surge in the polls the previous year.
Mr Farage eventually lost the seat to Tory Craig Mackinlay by around 2,500 votes and subsequently stepped down as party leader, though returned within weeks.
Arron BanksCredit: REUTERS/Andrew Yates
Responding to the accusations, Mr Carswell told the Guardian: “There is no basis in these claims whatsoever. We should just be relieved that those responsible for the disastrous campaign in South Thanet were not responsible for the successful referendum campaign.”
An analysis of election records shows that Ukip was potentially £10,500 over the legal spending limit of £15,000 in the constituency.
Documents show that Ukip split much of the expenses incurred during the campaign between Mr Farage and up to 64 local candidates.
Nigel Farage celebrates the EU referendum result Credit: GEOFF CADDICK/AFP
It includes £4,420 to rent an office in Ramsgate, which was split between Mr Farage and 62 local candidates.
Kent police are also currently investigating whether the Conservative Party broke spending limits in its attempts to stop Mr Farage becoming an MP.
Questions have been raised about why £14,000 worth of hotel bills were categorised as national spending rather than local spending by the party.
Singles Only. Applies to the next permanently appointed UKIP leader after Nigel Farage. Leadership ballot list may changed at any time. **All in, run or not** Others on request.
Surprisingly Jonathan Arnott is still included despite the fact that he has withdrawn as a candidate in the realisation that he didn’t stand a chance of winning!
Precision Risk & Intelligence:
CEO: Arron Banks
MD: Kobus Coetzee
COO: Liz Bilney
See CLICK HERE
You will note, though Wikipedia is frequently unreliable, that with the most cursory of glances that the entry for Arron Banks presents a fairly unsavoury picture of a man involved in strange relationships, including a wife with a ‘complex’ background and track record CLICK HERE, and a tangled web of companies, many of which are either located in tax havens or interlocked with companies in tax havens.
It is also unusual for a personal entry on Wiki to not include personal background and interestingly there is no mention of parents or siblings, with more store seemingly given to the fact he lives in the much madeover propert once owned by Mike Oldfield between Thornbury & Tockington near the junction of the M4 & M5, whilst his wife, formerly Katya Butler nee Ekaterina Paderina CLICK HERE, lives elsewhere in Thornbury.
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Some Background On Ekaterina Paderina & Arron Banks The Tory Backer who switched to supporting Nigel Farage’s Ukip!
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‘Spy MP’ helped Russian woman in mafia inquiry
Documents show that Mike Hancock involved himself so closely in the case of the second woman that he hand-delivered a letter to her
Daniel Foggo Published: 12 December 2010
Hancock’s parliamentary assistant Katia Zatuliveter is in detention awaiting deportation (Chris Ison)
A Liberal Democrat MP whose parliamentary assistant has been accused by MI5 of being a spy intervened to stop another young Russian woman being deported. She was being investigated by Special Branch detectives over possible links to the Russian mafia.
Documents seen by The Sunday Times show that Mike Hancock involved himself so closely in the case of the second woman that he hand-delivered a letter to her, confirming her permission to remain in Britain. Her husband at the time, whom she had married to stay in the country, has accused Hancock of having designs on his wife.
Hancock’s parliamentary assistant, Katia Zatuliveter, 25, is in detention awaiting deportation. MI5 believes she is an agent of the SVR, the Russian intelligence service.
The scandal has threatened to escalate into a full-blown diplomatic incident, with the Russian embassy insisting she is not an agent, and has raised questions over whether Hancock was compromising himself by becoming overly involved with young, attractive Russian women. Ekaterina Paderina, then aged 25, married Eric Butler, then 54, in 1998 within months of meeting him in Portsmouth, where Hancock is an MP. Butler said he was questioned by Special Branch in 1999.
“There were concerns about whether Ekaterina was in the country for legitimate reasons,” said Butler, now 66 and a retired ship steward.
Another source, who knew Butler and his wife, said he was also questioned by a Special Branch officer about Paderina.
“It wasn’t her specifically that Special Branch were interested in; she was merely a cog in what they were looking at,” said the source. “To put it very bluntly, they were looking at a Russian mafia connection to Portsmouth.”
Butler said he realised shortly after his wedding that Ekaterina had married him only so as to remain in Britain. Despite the marriage, the authorities made attempts to return her to Russia, and the couple approached Hancock for help. Butler said he quickly developed reservations over involving Hancock.
“I could see him looking at her in his office in a certain way,” he said. “One day I came home and found them both in the conservatory, and Ekaterina had her legs positioned in a way which was very provocative and Hancock was leaning forward in his chair. I got angry and told him I would thump him if he didn’t get out.”
Hancock wrote letters on Paderina’s behalf to Barbara Roche, the immigration minister at the time, supporting her application to stay in Britain.
An entry in Paderina’s diary in September 1999, seen by The Sunday Times, stated: “Mike Hancock arrived, we had a chat, he gave me a letter which said that I have been granted another visa for a year. Immediately it was like having a huge weight taken off my shoulders.”
After being divorced by Butler in 2001, Paderina quickly remarried another British man. Paderina, now 37 and with the married name Banks, said she had no knowledge of Special Branch’s interest in her. She denied ever having had an inappropriate relationship with Hancock and said she could not remember a confrontation between Butler and the MP in their house.
Of her relationship with Butler, she insisted their marriage had been “valid” but added: “I didn’t marry Eric Butler for love.”
Asked if her motive in marrying him was to stay in Britain, she said yes.
Hancock denied having behaved improperly with Paderina. He admitted writing letters on her behalf but denied any knowledge of police involvement.
When told of Paderina’s diary entry, he said: “I might have dropped off a letter at their house but I was certainly never in their house. I’m not that stupid.”
It is interesting to note that Ekaterina Paderina’s new married name is Banks and it would seem her husband Aaron Banks became the principle backer of Ukip with an income and resources that seem far from transparent6!
This correspondence between Ukip’s Press Office, the Farage gofer Gawain Towler and Gerard Batten thus becomes even more interesting:
From: Gawain Towler <gawain@gmail.com>
To: Gerard Batten <gerard.batten@btinternet.com>
Subject: Fwd: Evening Standard Letters – Katia Zatuliveter
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:27
Gerard,
Can you help here?
G
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From: <joshua.neicho@standard.co.uk>
Date: 6 December 2010 14:22
Subject: Evening Standard Letters – Katia Zatuliveter
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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For more facts about Arron Banks CLICK HERE or HERE & ALSO HERE plus CLICK HERE & HERE and HERE TOO also HERE & HERE
