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Friday, June 25, 2004 

Farage Fiddles with Forming EU Parliamentary Factions for Funds

What use are extra EU Funds if they are not used to fight Westminster by-elections. Yet that is all that now seems to concern Nigel Farage: maximising EU funding while secondarily perhaps gaining prestigious but meaningless titles- meantime while letting the Westminster Parliament go hang.

While important pending by-elections in the UK are apparently ignored by UKIP's MEPs, now comfortably aboard the Gravy Train, European parliamentary pacts are being formed to occupy the periods between meals. This report in the EUObserver linked here pretty much says about all there is to be said on the topic of Farage's personal priorities. A pertinent quote:-

There will be two co-presidents of the group - one will be Mr Bonde and the other, UKIP MEP Nigel Farage.

"The one thing that really unites us is the Constitution", says Mr Farage, whose party wants UK citizens to say no to the recently-agreed treaty in a referendum and then for Britain to leave the EU.


Earlier in the report it is made perfectly clear that the members have nothing in common at all. In fact Farage might just as well have joined with the Conservatives for all the difference there is in EU withdrawal policies between Michael Howard's stated views and what Jens-Peter Bonde says below. ONE GLARING DIFFERENCE, OF COURSE, IS THAT THE TORIES WOULD NEVER LET THE LITTLE TIN GOD FARAGE BE CALLED CO-PRESIDENT!

I quote again from earlier in the report:-

The new group, in an attempt to get as many MEPs on board as possible, will have two different wings - which will be separated by their degree of being anti-EU.

One of these wings will be headed by Jens-Peter Bonde, the Danish eurosceptic.

The veteran MEP, who says he is against complete withdrawal from the EU, will be joined on this side of the fence by the Swedish eurosceptic Junemovement, the French Mouvement Pour la France, and Dutch MEPs from the ChristenUnie.


(Later link added at 17:40 - Euractiv has produced a report on the rules regarding group formation in the EP, it requires 19 Deputies from 5 countries.)

It is clear EU funding is more important than fighting the organisation itself. Why else would UKIP consider joining a group with parties who will not work for the disbandment of the corrupt anti-democratic organisation to which they all now are committed.

Lobby any NEC member you know to ensure that UKIP offers the electorate two anti-EU candidates on 15th July!

posted by Martin |10:35 AM
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