Let's make Farage really hot under the collar

pinno

'Nige' - bless him, has benefited as an MEP. How ironic. Someone can clarify exactly the amount of expenses he has claimed (Rick C?) from the EU. He is anti-EU. He doesn't believe in it. He's probably gloating even though he will probably remain an MEP for the foreseeable and keep claiming expenses/salary etc. Morally wrong. Besides any moral debate, I cannot stand the man*.

All I need is 5 email addresses and I can start a petition:

"Should Nigel Farage refund all the expenses paid to him by the European Union as a Minister for European Parliament?"

If you can word it better, be my guest. In the current climate, I think we could get a few hundred votes.

*No need for fairness and Political correctness - he's hardly PC anyway.

Stevo_666

Here you go matey:
stevo666@itllneverbloodywork.co.uk

Pross

I would word it so that 'should' goes after his name therefore making it a statement not a question. I'm in if even for the laugh.

team47b

I think it's only right that you use his full name...Nigel No Let Me Finish Farge

Ben6899

Do you have enough email addresses? I can PM you mine, if required.

surrey_commuter

Just Google him and expenses, there are more than enough allegations out there. Then grass him up to the EU

pinno

Stevo 666 wrote:

Here you go matey:
stevo666@itllneverbloodywork.co.uk

As Pross said - 'Just for a laugh'.

PM me your email addresses. Can I use yours T47?

@Pross - Re-word it then please.

Stevo_666

Pinno wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Here you go matey:
stevo666@itllneverbloodywork.co.uk

As Pross said - 'Just for a laugh'.

PM me your email addresses. Can I use yours T47?

@Pross - Re-word it then please.

You've got mine...go on then. But given the sort of stick he has probably had in his career I doubt he will give a flying ****

surrey_commuter

Could we find a volunteer to grass him up to Yewtree? Not strictly in their remit but they seem to do alright for budgets

Pross

"Nigel Farage should refund all the expenses paid to him by the European Union as a Minister for European Parliament"

imposter2.0

'Member of', not 'minister for' I would have thought?

Lookyhere

i thought this was some sort of modern day Guy Fawkes you had in mind for Farage.

verylonglegs

Lookyhere wrote:

i thought this was some sort of modern day Guy Fawkes you had in mind for Farage.

Yeah, when I saw hot under the collar I was expecting him to mean a car tyre soaked in petrol put over his neck like you see in gangster movies. A bloody petition? Where is the drama in that.

florerider

biting the hand that feeds him?

Pretty much the same he has done to his fellow City workers too, made his millions, sod everyone else I guess.

pblakeney

I vote the we just ignore the cunt.

Flâneur

pretty sure you have mine so feel free to use

rick_chasey

florerider wrote:

biting the hand that feeds him?

Pretty much the same he has done to his fellow City workers too, made his millions, sod everyone else I guess.

I seriously doubt he made millions as an LME broker whilst spending every afternoon getting tanked in the lamb.

pinno

Technical hitches folks:

Background information needs to be filled our, in other words, a brief description to the reasons for the petition. I have started it:

Title: Nigel Farage should refund all the expenses paid to him by the European Union as a Member for European Parliament

Background: Nigel Farage MEP does not support the European Union, he does not endorse the European Union and has claimed £x amount in expenses from the EU over [missing info] years. It is our belief on moral grounds that he should refund all expenses paid to him.

Please edit the above and I need concrete figures and a time period.

Emails noted - thanks.

pinno

I have stevo, Flaneur, Pross, Loon. Need 1 other.

Can't use yours T47 - you live outside the UK. Soz mate.

imposter2.0

Pinno wrote:

Technical hitches folks:

Background information needs to be filled our, in other words, a brief description to the reasons for the petition. I have started it:

Title: Nigel Farage should refund all the expenses paid to him by the European Union as a Member for European Parliament

Background: Nigel Farage MEP does not support the European Union, he does not endorse the European Union and has claimed £x amount in expenses from the EU over [missing info] years. It is our belief on moral grounds that he should refund all expenses paid to him.

Please edit the above and I need concrete figures and a time period.

Emails noted - thanks.

Why just expenses? Get him to repay his salary as well.

pinno

Imposter wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Technical hitches folks:

Background information needs to be filled our, in other words, a brief description to the reasons for the petition. I have started it:

Title: Nigel Farage should refund all the expenses paid to him by the European Union as a Member for European Parliament

Background: Nigel Farage MEP does not support the European Union, he does not endorse the European Union and has claimed £x amount in expenses from the EU over [missing info] years. It is our belief on moral grounds that he should refund all expenses paid to him.

Please edit the above and I need concrete figures and a time period.

Emails noted - thanks.

Why just expenses? Get him to repay his salary as well.

I don't have much of a problem with a sceptical MEP. Some of the expenses he has claimed has been £15k for bodyguards.
Not sure he needs them when he is in Brussels.
Now, given the right argument and the reasons, I just might so go ahead; give me a good argument for it.

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On the expenses front, I have contacted both relevant bureau's in Brussels and Edinburgh. I was hoping for something with a little more expediency though - impatient b4stard I am.

bobmcstuff

Do you still need emails? I pm'd you.

team47b

Pinno wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Here you go matey:
stevo666@itllneverbloodywork.co.uk

As Pross said - 'Just for a laugh'.

Can I use yours T47?.

No, you ain't seen me, right

pinno

Oh, the irony:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/second-refere ... 58194.html

Pross

Signed.

pinno

It will be live as soon as it is approved. However:

We might fall over at point 2 or 8. The rest is okay (I think):

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Bobbinogs

I would rather start that kind of "Pay back the money" campaign with Sinn Fein, but use someone else's email address...

I don't have a problem with Farage, he says what many people would like say. Then again, much of what gets said where I live I don't understand as it is all in Polish.

Pross

Bobbinogs wrote:

I would rather start that kind of "Pay back the money" campaign with Sinn Fein, but use someone else's email address...

I don't have a problem with Farage, he says what many people would like say. Then again, much of what gets said where I live I don't understand as it is all in Polish.

Yep, but he's been taking money from an institution he thinks shouldn't exist and refuses to engage with. It's total hypocrisy, especially when the leave campaign kept going on about unelected bureaucrats with their snouts in the gravy train. At least they are working in some way for their money.

orraloon

Point 2 will prob but the blockers on this, unless the Westminster 'elite' are as hacked off with the gurning sleazeball as (most of) the rest of us.

Btw, see this "unelected bureaucracy" catchphrase. When was the last time you voted for a UK Treasury official, or indeed any Civil Service bod? How about your local council Planning Officer? No, me neither.

CiB

Pinno wrote:

Technical hitches folks:

Background information needs to be filled our, in other words, a brief description to the reasons for the petition. I have started it:

Title: Nigel Farage should refund all the expenses paid to him by the European Union as a Member for European Parliament

Background: Nigel Farage MEP does not support the European Union, he does not endorse the European Union and has claimed £x amount in expenses from the EU over [missing info] years. It is our belief on moral grounds that he should refund all expenses paid to him.

Please edit the above and I need concrete figures and a time period.

Emails noted - thanks.

Are we serious? I hope this thread is a joke that's zipped over my head...

Farage should give back all his expenses & salaries as he doesn't support the EU? Only tame lackeys allowed to be in EP now? Seriously?

Unless we suddenly believe that parliaments should consist only of easily controlled subordinates who won't rock the boat I'd say pay those people double who oppose and question the whole shebang. I've no time for Farage and the way he's shafted the country but it's a bit rich expecting him to give back the pay & benefits for doing exactly the job he was elected to do, and for highlighting & opposing its many areas of waste & incompetence.

Stevo_666

Stevo 666 wrote:

Here you go matey:
stevo666@itllneverbloodywork.co.uk

I told you so