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Originally Posted by MrPinkPanther
Firstly, thats allowances - different from expenses as Farage explains above. The allowances are used to run a regional office.
In terms of hiring your wife - so? i've never ever slammed any politician from any party for hiring family members. If Mrs Farage was found to be doing no work and they were fixing it for personal gain then you might have a point, but until then its just grasping at straws.
Hiring his wife is not a problem, I quite agree. If she's doing a good job of it and the situation was available, that might be a convenient exploit but a perfectly legitimate one. What isn't legitimate is using EU tax money to fund anti-EU propaganda and suggest that that's part of his job whilst condemning the EU for taking our money. If he really thought that we shouldn't be giving our money out to them he could have used his entire expenses allowance to give back to the taxpayers directly, that would not only be a far stronger message to the EU but also would have gained him huge popularity rather than scandal
All UKIP MEPs slice of a margin of their wages and put it into the party funds, again its a different system and down to them in regards to their set wages (not expenses which were abused in the Westminister system). All regional offices are there for consituents and running them offices is funded via the allowances system - to echo Farage in the video above, i'd rather they were all sacked from their jobs tommorow and we left the EU.Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyingJesus
Gonna be honest that has bollock all to do with what I said. I wasn't suggesting that they should put more into the party funds, in fact I said quite the opposite in that I don't believe that putting £2m of our money into advertising his views is "for the best of causes" as he says.
No but your talking about allowances there, its the wages which go to the party funds. The allowances are used on the running of the regional office.Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyingJesus
I'm not talking about what's meant to go to party funds, I'm talking about the allowances and expenses that he claimed in order to promote his party which I classify as general party funds rather than a withdrawal necessary for running an office
But thats part of running the regional office, leaflets etc - local partys do it aswell.Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyingJesus