Godfrey Bloom Quits Nigel Farage’s Ukip & can now expect Farage to classify him as ‘Dregs & Rejects’ alongside the founder of Ukip Alan Sked, past leaders such as Roger Knapman and the majority of MEPs + around 70 NEC members who have dared to criticise!
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Godfrey Bloom Quits Nigel Farage’s Ukip & can now expect Farage to classify him as ‘Dregs & Rejects’ alongside the founder of Ukip Alan Sked, past leaders such as Roger Knapman and the majority of MEPs + around 70 NEC members who have dared to criticise his one man band and self serving, self enriching Ukip scam!
Douglas Carswell would do well to heed the warning Godfrey Bloom gave him that was most appositely endorsed by Dr. Richard North on Panorama CLICK HERE
It would be unwise to forget that Nigel Farage has personally controlled the party for his own gain and in the last parliament started out with 13 MEPs elected, but had alienated so many that two quit to stand as Tory candidates, where David Bannerman, Farage’s ex Tory buddy Ukip Chairman and deputy leader of Ukip (personally brought into the party by Nigel Farage and put in position), as with Roger Knapman who he recruited and placed as leader and even lord Pearson his puppet who held the leadership for a short time for him has become near invisible.
Then of course there was Marta Andreasen who had been dumped as an accountant by the EU unable to complete her brief to improve the systems to reduce the amount of fraud and make the EU more accountable CLICK HERE she was recruited by Nigel farage with much fanfare and he made her Ukip Treasurer. She quit in disgust siting bullying and dishonesty of Farage!
Also let us not forget that Nigel Farage defended Tom Wise to the hilt and NEVER removed him from Ukip going so far as to accept stolen money from him, which he knew was fraudulently obtained and which he never repaid, permitting Wise to remain a Ukip member for some years after he was exposed when Tom Wise eventually left it was in the February before the EU election when his Ukip membership ran out and he served out his full MEP term becoming eligible to the full pension as accrued!
One should also remember Ashley Mote who Nigel Farage ‘boosted’ into his own region as his number two candidate to raise his own status doing a total knife job on his long term associates David Lott and Steve Harris who were promised second and third position – but Ashley Mote’s presentation skills were used to ensure Farage’s return to the gravy train only to find Farage stabbed him in the back acting against him at the first possible opportunity.
Farage even turned on his own Father’s associates having ‘used’ them as with Buster Motram who he personally brought into Ukip against advice and likewise the wife of David Volker, Guy Farage’s Commanding Officer in the TA,who he placed as Chairman of his party yet engineered her removal when she was unwilling to go along with his fiddles – Petrina Holdsworth is currently Chairman of CIB!
The list of other highly competent people Nigel Farage has felt threatened by and has dishonestly removed is long and some understanding can be found by reading many of them’s resignation letters and further details at CLICK HERE
Be minded also of the vault face of Ukip’s first representative in The House of Commons the MP Bob Spink and just how short a time he was willing to tolerate Nigel Farage’s behaviour!
The only conclusion anyone of intelligence can make is either that Nigel Farage’s absolute control of Ukip hugely damages Ukip and that as a judge of people whom he personally selects is stunningly inept or they are unwilling to be corrupted to dance to his dishonest tune!
Nigel Farage single handedly reduced the party from 13 MEPs to a mere 5 remaining in the Parliamentary party – one wonders how few Nigel Farage will reduce the party MEPs to this time!
Godfrey Bloom quits Ukip and warns Douglas Carswell of ‘back-stabbers’
Former MEP, famous for his ‘sluts’ and ‘bongo-bongo land’ remarks, leaves party on day its first MP takes seat
Godfrey Bloom has decided to leave the party ‘with a heavy heart’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian
Godfrey Bloom, the colourful former Ukip MEP, has resigned from the party with a warning to its newest recruit, Douglas Carswell, to beware backstabbers among his colleagues.
The politician, whose gaffes have included calling women sluts and complaining of foreign aid going to “bongo-bongo land”, said he was leaving Ukip after party chairman Steve Crowther banned him from speaking at an event in Wearside.
Bloom initially had the Ukip whip withdrawn and subsequently resigned his official role last year, after Nigel Farage said his antics had overshadowed the party’s autumn conference.
He has now decided to leave the party entirely “with a heavy heart”, despite having had a role in founding Ukip and donating large amounts of money to campaigning over the years.
In a message to Carswell, who took up his role as Ukip’s first elected MP on Monday, Bloom told LBC Radio: “I would just say to Douglas: stick to your sort, you believe in libertarianism, you believe in classical liberal economics, don’t be pushed off. But I would say, Douglas, watch your back. If you bear in mind we started in 2009 in Europe with 13 MEPs, we ended up with five, so there are dead bodies of Ukip [politicians] all over the place with a knife quivering in their back, Douglas. Make sure it’s not yours.”
In a trenchant analysis of his former party, the ex-MEP said politics was not about the truth, and that he was “very sorry this disease has been picked up by Ukip”. “It seems to be drifting towards the politically correct mainstream like everyone else,” he said. “Instead of it being the libertarian party of common sense, I’ve been banned from speaking. I don’t know where the party has gone astray, but it has gone astray.”
Despite having formerly shared a flat with Farage in Brussels, Bloom said he had lost contact completely with his former party leader. He said Ukip was now being run by Crowther, who he described as a “svengali-like” figure and a “man of mystery”.
Bloom caused a controversy in summer last year after he criticised recipients of foreign aid in “bongo-bongo” land and proceeded to exacerbate the row by trying to justify the phrase in a series of broadcast interviews. He then became the centre of another row after hitting a journalist round the head with a Ukip brochure and joking that a room debating women in politics was “full of sluts”. He made these remarks after two of his colleagues admitted that they did not clean behind the fridge – a complaint previously made by Bloom – as they spoke at a fringe event at the party conference in London.
Bloom was then caught on camera ranting at Channel 4’s Michael Crick, who asked him why there were no black faces pictured on a Ukip conference brochure, before using the pamphlet to hit him over the head.
After Bloom resigned from the party, he gave an interview to the Guardian claiming Farage was “not interested in the running of the party, or in making policy” but was merely Ukip’s chief salesman.
In April, he argued Farage was not up to the role of “managing director or chairman of the board”, even though he was a “charismatic” and “articulate” advocate for the Ukip brand.
Farage, who described Bloom’s comments as “unhelpful”, has made repeated attempts to ensure Ukip candidates stop making off-colour and eccenrtic remarks by trying to “professionalise” the party. He has appointed a new raft of spokesman to his frontbench over the summer including more women and ethnic minority representatives.
having observed some very questionable decisions of the CPS over recent times and the abject failure of OLAF in the EU and CPS in Britain to bring to book criminals in public office – be they the likes of MEP Giles Chichester who used somewhere in excess of £100K from the public purse to fund his ‘Letts’ diary business, the failure to prosecute Nigel Farage and his cronies for what seems to be abuse of office, self enrichment, the enrichment of their low life cronies thus bringing the body politic into disrepute, the failure to prosecute Ukip MEP Derek Clark for abuse of office and misuse of somewhere between £35K & £100K, nor prosecution of Ukip MEPs Stuart Agnew, Nigel Farage, Jeffrey Titford, David Bannerman, Graham Booth and probably others for both known and publicly identified misuse of public funding – not to mention what would seem to be a number of ‘stitch ups’ endorsed by The CPS.
Yet there has also been a serial failure on the part of The CPS structure to bring to Court and prosecute a considerable number of police officers who have been involved in various crimes not least of which have been numerous outrageous murders!
Hence I am sure readers will understand why I am more than a little sceptical of the integrity of the 9 charges brought against Ashley Mote the ex Ukip MEP!I make no claims of innocence for Ashley Mote relative to these charges as The CPS has all too often over egged their claims and a great deal more details are required before any responsible judgement of the claims can be made.
I wonder will this be just another crass series of claims cobbled together from lies, inuendo and misrepresentation as would seem the case against Jasna Badsak and that against Nikki Sinclaire where it would seem corruption of due process has played a significant part in the hands of what would seem to be corrupt police and dubious judiciary too closely associated with Ukip and other parties in the case yet lacking the integrity to prorogue themselves!
One is forced to wonder why some are harassed and persecuted over paltry sums, eg Badzak £2K and Sinclaire less than £15K (in reality at most around £8K alleged!) whilst others never face prosecution over infinitely larger sums purloined?
Is this what British Justice has debased itself to under the influence of EU Corpus Juris?
Let us see more details regarding the claims against the retired 78 year old Ashley Mote so long after the offences would seem to be alleged
Ex-MEP charged with fraud offences and misconduct in public office
13/10/2014
Zoe Martin, of the CPS Special Crime Division said, “The CPS has today issued charges against Ashley Mote of obtaining a money transfer by deception, fraud by false representation, false accounting, receiving the proceeds of crime and misconduct in public office. We have decided there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.
“Ashley Mote will appear before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 3 November 2014.
“A decision has also been made that no further action will been taken in relation to a second individual who was investigated for offences of obtaining money transfer by deception, false accounting and fraud by false representation, as there is insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction. In addition no further action will be taken against two other individuals who were investigated for offences of money laundering.
“These decisions were taken in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors.
“May I remind all concerned that criminal proceedings against the defendant have been commenced and of his right to a fair trial. It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.
“Any decision by the CPS does not imply any finding concerning guilt or criminal conduct; the CPS makes decisions only according to the test set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors and it is applied in all decisions on whether or not to prosecute.”
Note:
The CPS’s function is not to decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence, but to make fair, independent and objective assessments about whether it is appropriate to present charges for the criminal court to consider. The CPS assessment of any case is not in any sense a finding of, or implication of, any guilt or criminal conduct. It is not a finding of fact, which can only be made by a court, but rather an assessment of what it might be possible to prove to a court, in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors.
This assessment is based on the evidence available arising out of the police investigation and not on the evidence that is likely to be gathered by the defence, and likely to be used to test the prosecution evidence. The CPS charging decision is therefore necessarily an assessment on the basis of the evidence that is available to the CPS at the time the decision is made.
CPS prosecutors must also keep every case under review, so that they take account of any change in circumstances that occurs as the case develops, including what becomes known of the defence case. If appropriate, the CPS may change the charges or stop a case.
Details of the full charges:
Ashley Mote
Charge 1: Misconduct in public office, contrary to Common Law
Charge 2: Acquiring criminal property, contrary to section 329 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Charge 3: Obtaining a money transfer by deception, contrary to section 15A of the Theft Act 1968
Charge 4: False accounting, contrary to section 17(1)(a) of the Theft Act 1968
Charge 5: Obtaining a money transfer by deception, contrary to section 15A of the Theft Act 1968
Charge 6: Obtaining a money transfer by deception, contrary to section 15A of the Theft Act 1968
Charge 7: False accounting, contrary to section 17(1)(a) of the Theft Act 1968
Charge 8: False accounting, contrary to section 17(1)(a) of the Theft Act 1968
Charge 9: Fraud, contrary to section 1 of the Fraud Act 2006
Now We Know Why Ukip MEP Roger Helmer Is So Tired! At least he was indoors unlike another Ukip MEP arrested copulating with a black prostitute on the bonnet of a car on the public highway & he believed his right to do what he felt like was covered by diplomatic immunity!
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so clearly it isn’t just hanging onto the gravy train inspite of his advanced years that makes him so tired 😉
UKIP’s Roger Helmer, who claimed gays ‘undermine’ marriage, calls for privacy after visit to alleged brothel
Married UKIP MEP Roger Helmer – who claimed gay people “undermine” marriage – has appealed for “privacy” after a tabloid newspaper published a report claiming he visited a ‘sleazy’ massage parlour.
According to the Sun newspaper, Mr Helmer – who represents UKIP in the East Midlands and unsuccessfully ran for parliament this year in the Newark by-election – was photographed visiting Victoria House massage parlour this week.
The parlour – described by the newspaper as “sleazy” – has the motto “Driving men wild since 1999″, and invites men to “come and play” and have an “adventure of the physical kind”.
Mr Helmer said: “MEPs are entitled to a private life. I work extremely hard and when I do occasionally have time off I enjoy a massage. I hope my constituents will agree people are entitled to enjoy their leisure time as they please.
When asked whether his wife – whom he employs as a research assistant – knew about the visit, he said: “She will tomorrow I dare say.”
The East Midlands MEP has also compared same-sex marriage to incest, saying: “If two men have a right to marry, how can we deny the same right to two siblings? Are we to authorise incest?”
He has also described homosexuality as “not a lifestyle worthy of equal respect” and claimed it is fair to see it as “abhorrent to God”.
Presumably roger Helmer would advocate that the Tory Minister Brooks Newmark should not have resigned when exposed as having sent lude pictures and messages to different women and where would that place Roger Helmer when considering the rights of other public servants whose morality clearly does not represent the majority of the public they pretend to represent such as the homosexual Chris Bryant who advertised for perverted sex in obscene terminology in a public distribution magazine with his portrait:
I wonder how many of his Rhonda electorate he had to compete with!
Just as one can speculate just howmany of Roger Helmer’s electorate visit brothels and pay for their pleasures as representatives of the public, salaried from the public purse!
Now, at least we know why Ukip MEP Roger Helmer is so tired! At least he was indoors – unlike another Ukip MEP who, subsequent to openly boasting of visiting brothels in Hong Kong, was arrested copulating with a black prostitute on the bonnet of a car on the public highway & he believed his right to do what he felt like was covered by diplomatic immunity!
Roger Helmer has the morality of a sociopath and many will recal his vehement defence of his criminal drinking chum Tom Wise another Ukip MEP who went to prison for embezzling public money – presumably Roger Helmer believed that to be OK as it was spent on a car and other items in his own time.
One wonders just what Roger Helmer’s attitude to the dubious expenses claims of his new associate Douglas Carwell might be and whether he believes that it is acceptable for a public servant living in Fulham to represent Clacton and make huges sums in expenses claims ‘flipping’ homes to profit from the public purse.
Whilst on the subject one wonders what his moral position is on the flagrant disregard for the public when MEPs have their associates employ their wives to get around the law or his views on his party leader opening off shore bank accounts with large deposits exempt from British taxes and then claim that even as a past banker, all be it a failure, they were unaware there were advantages in banking in the Isle of Man
Ukip Sales Literature So Frequently Distorts, which undermines what little credibility they might otherwise gain.
A technique so often selected by extremist organisations like Ukip, the BNP even The Nazi Party!
UKIP Deputy Chairman Suzanne Evans has helpfully written a book “Why vote Ukip?” to explain what the party stands for.
Apparently the media have been very unhelpful in the way we’ve explained Ukip policies. Who, us? Really?
Anyway, here are our seven favourite bits of Suzanne’s book…
1. The bit where she consistently overstates the cost of the EU
In the opening section she says “we hand over astonishingly high membership fees to the EU of some £55 million every day. We get some of that back, but less than half, by anyone’s analysis.”
When you factor in the rebate, and payments the UK receives for agriculture and other subsidies, the actual figure is £33m a day.
Now, you may well argue that is still too much – and you are very welcome to. But the net cost of the EU to the UK is NOT £55m a day.
Notably, the first time Suzanne uses the £55m figure she adds a footnote that mentions the rebate. Subsequently in the book she just continually refers to the £55m figure.
2. The bit where nobody can visit Britain as a tourist without proving they have medical insurance.
“100% guaranteed to cut down queues at the airport!
Proof of private health insurance would also be a condition for tourists entering the UK.”
3. The bit where she thinks the whole of Britain may be concreted over soon
“Demand for housing has never been higher; we need to build a new house every seven seconds to keep up with demand from our growing population, a crazy state of affairs that puts our countryside and precious green space at risk. How long before Britain is completely concreted over at this rate and ours is no longer a green and pleasant land?”
If you build one house of the average size (84 square metres) every 7 seconds for the next 57 years, we reckon you could just about do it.
4. The bit where she describes James Delingpole as a journalist
5. The bit where she lists some Government departments Ukip would seek to abolish, including “the Ministry of Justice”
Newsflash: Re-merging the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office is not going to save billions of pounds.
6. The bit where meat imports are going to give us Ebola
“UKIP will also impose far stricter controls on the import of bush meat from wild animals hunted in Africa, Asia, and South America which is frequently brought into the UK and sold illegally in butchers and markets. Not only does the trade have serious implications for the extinction of species, it can also pose a health risk and lead to outbreaks of serious diseases – such as Ebola – and UKIP will not be bound by political correctness in tackling this dangerous trade.”
7. The bit where there is actually a chapter that imagines what it would be like if Ukip formed a majority Government.
It’s probably quite a way off. Even Suzanne Evans herself is only predicting that Ukip will win “at least 8 MPs” in 2015.
Should you read the book?
If you DO fancy reading it, you can buy the book for £6.99. All sarcasm aside, it is an interesting insight into the policies and mindset that are obviously resonating with voters at by-elections.
And if we were sitting in Tory or Labour offices scratching our heads about how to re-engage people who are thinking of voting Ukip, we’d DEFINITELY read it.
Nigel Farage has it seems always had close ties with racists and extremists
It is not just his ‘blokeish’ & ‘sexist’ behaviour and propensity to useand semean women but his insecure and imature enthusiasm for lap dancing clubs and his drunken behaviour and well documented consorting with prostitutes – derspite his claim never to have paid one, unlike his great chum Godfrey Bloom who willingly copulated with a paid prostitute on the bonnet of a car in a public street near the EU Parliament and then claimed diplomatic immunity when arrested!
That Guy Farage, Nigel’s father was a member of the National Front has been an open secret for many years and I understand his membership data is in the hands of one of Ukip’s more racist MEPs of long standing with copies elsewhere.
Remember Nigel Farage having has lunch negotiating with BNP convicted bomber Anthony LeComber and BNP member Mark Deavin who attended Ukip NEC meetings!
Then of course there was the school letter exposing Nigel Farage’s racism at an early age published on this blog and by Channel Four.
It does seem to start at the top ion Ukip – what with Nigel Farage’s puppet Malcolm Pearson who stood in for him as so called leader for a short time and the vile racism he practiced including lecture tours in America! Then of course there is the odious type of racism practiced by Ukip’s MEP Gerard Batten with his vile Islamic charter and publications likely to promote racial intollerance and hatred!
Little wonder we see Ukip’s style of racism defended by them when exposed and the tokenism they use to try to cover up for it!
SENIOR Ukip official Martyn Heale was accused yesterday of “rewriting history” after claiming that the National Front (NF) was not a far-right organisation.
Mr Heale, party leader Nigel Farage’s campaign manager in the Kent constituency of South Thanet, had previously said that his membership of the NF in the late 1970s was “a bad decision” that he “sincerely” regretted.
But in an about-turn, Mr Heale has now leapt to the defence of the organisation.
In today’s issue of the London Review of Books, Mr Heale is quoted as saying: “There’s been an attempt by many people to associate the National Front with the far right. But that’s not fair, that’s not true.
“It was a bit of a social club,” he told the journal. “Initially the National Front was just a group of retired people and soldiers.”
Mr Heale was a branch organiser for the National Front in Hammersmith, west London.
He held his position at a time when the racist NF was blamed for encouraging a huge escalation in far-right violence in the city.
His neonazi links were first exposed last year when he ran successfully for a seat on Kent County Council.
Hope Not Hate organiser Simon Creasy told the Morning Star: “Maybe he’s trying to rewrite history and whitewash over his far-right past.
“Anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows that the National Front was a far-right organisation and still is.
“For him to try to deflect from questions about his history in this way is just laughable. It was always a far-right party.”
Mr Heale’s claims were published as the anti-immigrant party launched a shocking defence of one of its MEPs after she tweeted a link to an anti-semitic website.
Last week Jane Collins tweeted a link to an article drawing links between Labour leader Harriet Harman and the Paedophile Information Exchange, which incorrectly referred to Ms Harman as a “Jewess.”
But a Ukip spokesman told Jewish News yesterday that the term was “(no) more insulting than saying that Ms Collins is a Yorkshirewoman, it is merely descriptive not pejorative.”
Last year Mr Farage said he would not join an alliance with the French far-right Front National, led by Marine Le Pen, because of the “prejudice and anti-semitism” in the party.
Mr Heale’s comments are quoted in a 8,000-word polemic in the London Review of Books by author and journalist James Meek.
“In view of Ukip’s insistence that it isn’t a racist party, I thought Heale might be defensive, or embarrassed, about being a member of the NF in 1978,” Mr Meek writes. “To my surprise, he came to its defence.”
A Ukip spokesman said the party disputed the quote and claimed that when Mr Heale joined the NF he felt it was a left-of-centre community-oriented organisation with a national focus.
Party leader Mr Farage was adopted as Ukip candidate in South Thanet this summer.
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.”
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>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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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.
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