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Wednesday, December 24, 2003 

Chairman Lott "AT IT" Again!


A letter from UKIP's three MEPs was published in the Telegraph on 22nd December:-

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Re: Gobbling the income
Date: 22 December 2003

Sir - D Haller (letter, Dec 20) may well be right to calculate an MEP's gross income as £249,000 a year. This is quite a gravy train, and helps to explain why all mainstream MEPs continue to promote the EU system. But the cost to the taxpayer is, of course, much higher.

When we take into account the duplicated parliaments in Strasbourg and Brussels, each with its attendant fleet of limos, banks of interpreters and hordes of bureaucrats, the bill is more like £1.25 million per MEP. Then we must remember to allow for the income required by the numerous fraudsters within the system, and for the vast extravagances incurred through incompetence.

It has been estimated that withdrawal from the EU would leave Britain's economy some £25 billion per year better off. Withdrawal would, it is true, create a little unemployment - among the so-called political elite, including all 87 British MEPs, plus commissioners Neil Kinnock and Chris Patten.

You can rest assured that, should we be given the chance, we three UKIP MEPs will become turkeys voting for Christmas.

From: Graham Booth MEP, Nigel Farage MEP, Jeffrey Titford MEP, Paignton, Devon
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According to a Christmas message put out by UKIP Press Spokeman Mark Croucher (more about his bungling from Brussels in a while!) Party Chairman Lott in his Christmas message to members completely distorts this statement with the following:

"From: "Mark Croucher"
To:
Subject: Xmas message from the Party Chairman
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:36:56 -0000
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U.K. Independence Party
The Office of the Party Chairman
Wednesday 24th December 2003

From David Lott - UKIP Party Chairman.

Our three MEPs had a letter printed in the Daily Telegraph on Monday 22nd December. In it they revealed that each one could receive £249000 a year if they so chose. We know that every one of them provides the Party with every penny they legitimately can. At the end of the letter they pledged themselves to become the turkeys that voted for Christmas and eschew forever any benefit or salary they might otherwise receive.
"

The last phrase that we have put in bold print appears to be a product of Lott's very fertile imagination as there is no sign of the phrase in the version put out by the newspaper!

posted by Martin |4:46 PM
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