Bluemerle

May I suggest that you have a look at Ashley Mote's site. It is full of informtion about what is going on over there in Brussels.

http://www.ashleymote.co.uk/index.php?TB=home

B.A.Ware

Bluemerle do you know why Ashley Mote is still an independent. I know he was facing some trial about something is that still ongoing.

Bluemerle

Yes, you know how these things drag on. I think he is quite happy to be Independent and he's doing a great job.

TomPhil

He was thrown out for not telling the party about the trial, not for the trial itself, as far as I understood it. Therefore it's irrelevant what the outcome of the trial is.

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Alex McKee

Not thrown out - suspended. Big difference there ya know.

He'll be back.

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Bluemerle

>Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:27:05 +0100
>From: ashley mote <ashley.mote@virgin.net>
>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4)
>Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
>
>Subject: Selling the EU Constitution to the member states - Ashley
>Mote's speech in the European Parliament, 12 May
>
>>Mr President, this report [about communications with member states]
>>claims that the Commission has a political responsibility to support
>>ratification of the Constitution. However, it also calls for Jesuitical
>>schools propaganda and using British taxpayers’ money to support the
>>ratification process.
>>
>>Mrs Wallström [Swedish EU Commissioner responsible for "selling" the
>>Constitution to the peoples of the member states] told this Chamber on
>>Tuesday evening [10 May] that people will get what she chose to call
>>‘information’ about the Constitution.
>
>>But I doubt it will point out, as eminent constitutional lawyers already
>>have, that the Constitution totally reverses the relationship between the
>>EU and the Member States. Whenever before did a sovereign nation permit
>>outsiders to write and impose a new constitution on them, except after
>>defeat in war?
>
>>Nor will the British be reminded that, in our country, the State draws
>>power from, and answers to, the people. In the European Union, the State
>>now seeks to exist in its own right and have the people answer to it.
>
>>Nor will it remind the UK that our rights and freedoms are our
>>birthright. They are not in the gift, or at the discretion, of a passing
>>parade of political nonentities.
>>
>>The proposed Constitution has done us a great service: it has
>>crystallised the threat.
>
>>We are beyond discussing legislation. It is time you recognised that you
>>are seeking to become masters in someone else’s house, and that is intolerable.

>(ends)

Tom Wilde

He's shown that he's a hard worker and a good digger. If he is cleared in his trial I hope he is swiftly reinstated as a member of the UKIP group.

Obviously we can't talk about his legal situation as it is sub judice. He says on his website:

chikrodah

Since Mote and his researcher parted company, there seems to have been precious little 'good digging' going on. A number of his press releases since December 2004 have either regurgitated old information, told us about what other MEPs are doing, or have proven to be little more than a vehicle for self-aggrandisement.

The EU's Legal Affairs Committee have been asked to determine whether his alleged parliamentary immunity should be waived; they're discussing it again on 24 May.

I would have thought that Aiken J's ruling was designed to curtail detailed reporting on the subject prior to the trial, rather than eradicating general queries as to whether it's still ongoing.

Googling on "ashley mote"+"housing benefit" or "ashley mote"+"parliamentary immunity" should answer most people's queries without this site falling foul of the ruling.

:?

SCole

Google for Ashley Mote....

result 1 - up for housing Fraud....
result 9 - He's complaining about Fraud in the EU....

If the result goes against it'll show he's a hypocrite, thief and liar and I for one hope he gets taken to the cleaners as an example to everyone who thinks they can make a bit on the side off the British people... whether the bogus claimant be Joe public or a sitting MEP.

On another note you've got to question the selection process of a party who lets someone being investigated for multiple charges of benefit fraud stand as a candidate; especially for a party actively campaigning on a promise to 'expose fraud'.

Bluemerle

He says he is innocent.