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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Ukip leader Nigel Farage boasts of his £2m in expenses

Ukip leader Nigel Farage boasts of his £2m in expenses



"Nigel Farage, who is calling on voters to punish "greedy Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem MPs" at the European elections on 4 June, boasted of his personal expenses haul at a meeting with foreign journalists in London last week".

In my view, it is rank hypocrisy for Mighty Mouth to call for a clean up of MPs expenses when his own fiddled expenses amount to £200,000 per year for 10 years totaling £2M!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Youkip whilst we steal.
Urban11

Tim Worstall said...

No, sorry, wrong end of the stick.

MEPs get an allowance to hire staff. This is around £200,000 a year. That's what the money gets spent on, hiring staff. Never touches Nigel's bank account.

Dan Hannan claims the same amount. Chris Davies claims the same amount.

Sorry, you've got entirely the wrong end of the stick.

jailhouselawyer said...

Tim: Blame the Grauniad.