RKS on Today Programme

22ANDUK · 13-02-2007, 08:03 PM

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Populist Lee- Written or Oral Questions Asked:
John Whitaker------1
Nigel Farage-------93
Graham Booth------2
G Batten-----------14
Jef Titford-----------8
Tom Wise----------16
G Bloom-------------1
R Knapman----------1
Derek Clark---------8
M Nattress-----------5
Total----------------149 RKS---512 A Mote--203
Figures taken from the site above.(13/2/07)

Woh woh woh. You're telling me that more than one UKIP MEPs have only asked 1 question? Most aksing under 10?

Disgraceful.

I'll be checking this information again before the next Euro elections.

komerad · 13-02-2007, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by harryaldridge

I agree with Matt. UKIP MEPs did not take up their seats in order to ask questions and take part in the sham. They took their seats so they could expose what was happening and take the money. This paid employment means they can spend time travelling round the country and building UKIP, .

harryaldridge - Are You honestly trying to tell me that certain of our MEPs
who have asked practically no questions at all, have never had the chance to ask a potentially embarassing question of this "fake parliament" .
Possibly questions Re: the accounts, the red-tape smothering small businesses in UK,The new vehicle daytime running lights, ANYTHING to cause embarrassment & disruption.
By NOT asking questions it appears they are happy with the ways things are going- and that worries me :cry:

mkpdavies · 13-02-2007, 08:09 PM

I'd give bonus points for 0 votes, as long as they had visibly done other more beneficial and useful work.

No-one can deny Farage has been like a machine with all the work he has done.

Batten gets out and about and has done some very useful work.

Bloom is regularly in the print media and attends a lot of UKIP meetings and public talks.

I think they are my top three for shear work for the cause.

I think it would be interesting to see what each area thinks of their MEPs. I doubt many joe publics know a single one of their MEPs, from any party.

Alex McKee · 13-02-2007, 09:06 PM

Graham Booth works hard for the party in the SW.
He is also fairly active in the Europarl.

sean43 · 13-02-2007, 09:24 PM

Just to tell you, RKS wont be running for re-election. I also believe that UKIP are not better off without him, he would have guaranteed us an MP in the 2005 General election maybe more.

Tom Wilde · 13-02-2007, 09:26 PM

From the Wikipedia page about Nigel Farage (okay - mainly from me as I looked it up and put it on Wikipedia in the first place, but never mind):

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Controversies and whistleblowing

Jacques Barrot controversy
On 18 November 2004, he announced in the European Parliament that Jacques Barrot, the French Commissioner designate, had been barred from elected office in France for 2 years, after being convicted in 2000 of embezzling £2 million from government funds and diverting it into the coffers of his party. He claimed that French President Jacques Chirac had granted Barrot amnesty. Although initial BBC reports claimed that, under French law, it was illegal even to mention the conviction [5], the prohibition in question only applies to French officials in the course of their duties [1]. The president of the Parliament, Josep Borrell, enjoined him to retract his comments under threat of "legal consequences" [6]. However, the following day it was confirmed that Barrot had received an 8 month suspended jail sentence in the case, and that this had been quickly expunged by the amnesty decided by Chirac and his parliamentary majority. The Commission's president, Jose Manuel Barroso admitted that he had not known of Barrot's criminal record when appointing him as a Commission vice-president.[7] The Socialist and Liberal groups in the European Parliament then joined UKIP in demanding the sacking of Barrot for failing to disclose the conviction during his confirmation hearings.

José Barroso controversy
During the spring of 2005, Farage requested that the European Commission disclose where the individual Commissioners had spent their holidays. The Commission did not provide the information requested, on the basis that the Commissioners had a right of privacy. The German newspaper Die Welt reported that the President of the European Commission, José Barroso had spent a week on the yacht of the Greek shipping billionaire Spiro Latsis. It emerged soon afterwards that this had occurred only a month before the Commission approved 10.3 million euro of Greek state aid for Latsis' shipping company.[8] It also became known that Peter Mandelson, a member of the Commission, had accepted a trip to Jamaica from an unrevealed source.[9]
Farage persuaded around 75 MEPs from across the political spectrum to back a motion of no confidence in Barroso, which would be sufficient to compel Barroso to appear before the European Parliament to be questioned on the issue.[10] The motion was successfully tabled on 12 May 2005, and Barroso appeared before Parliament [11] at a debate on 26 May 2005. The motion was heavily defeated. A Conservative MEP, Roger Helmer, was expelled from his group, the European People's Party - European Democrats (EPP-ED) in the middle of the debate by that group's leader Hans-Gert Poettering as a result of his support for Farage's motion.[12]

Joseph Daul controversy
In January 2007, the French farmers' leader Joseph Daul was elected the new leader of the European People's Party - European Democrats (EPP-ED), the European Parliamentary grouping which includes the British Conservatives. The UK Independence Party almost immediately revealed that Daul had been under judicial investigation in France since 2004 as part of an inquiry into the alleged misuse of public funds worth €16 million (£10.6 million) by French farming unions." [13]. It was not suggested that Daul had personally benefited, but is accuses of "complicity and concealment of the abuse of public funds." Daul accused Farage of publlicising the investigation for political reasons and threatened to sue Farage.

UKIP said for years that the EU was a rest-home for failed national politician, that it was widely corrupt and operated behind a veil of secrecy. UKIP MEPs promised to open up the stables and let some light in. They have already been more successful than I ever imagined, and I'm very proud of them.

Note that the above comments are under the Farage entry on Wikipedia as that seemed the most logical place for them, as Farage fronted the UKIP group through these controversies. However, these successes were plainly the result of extensive teamwork by the UKIP MEPs and their researchers.

mkpdavies · 13-02-2007, 09:31 PM

Farage putting the boot into Blair and making him lose his temper was worth voting UKIP alone.

UKIP should play that in every election broadcast it ever gets.

Tom Wilde · 13-02-2007, 09:37 PM

Yes, that was a golden moment.. Let's see that replay again!

Anyone got a decent link to a video of the entire exchange between Blair and Farage? I can only find this mini-clip on the old UKIP Bromley campaign website, and it is just Farage's response not the whole thing.

http://www.ukipbromley.com/

Britannist · 13-02-2007, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by 22ANDUK

Sorry to split hairs, but he was an MP from 1974 to 1986.

Yes, you are right. What I meant when I mentioned (earlier in this thread) his 17 years as an MP was his 17 years as a television presenter.

Britannist · 13-02-2007, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by eublues

However many questions he may or may not have asked in the EU Parliament. he is not sounding effective or focused on what matters.

Exactly. When did he go to his 'East' Midlands (of England) constituency and deliver a big speech blasting the EU and saying the EU is even worse than he thought before he became a member of the EU so-called 'Parliament'?

13-02-2007, 08:09 PM	#23 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 32,078 Party: Libertarian Party	I'd give bonus points for 0 votes, as long as they had visibly done other more beneficial and useful work. No-one can deny Farage has been like a machine with all the work he has done. Batten gets out and about and has done some very useful work. Bloom is regularly in the print media and attends a lot of UKIP meetings and public talks. I think they are my top three for shear work for the cause. I think it would be interesting to see what each area thinks of their MEPs. I doubt many joe publics know a single one of their MEPs, from any party. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Lib Dems

13-02-2007, 09:31 PM	#27 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 32,078 Party: Libertarian Party	Farage putting the boot into Blair and making him lose his temper was worth voting UKIP alone. UKIP should play that in every election broadcast it ever gets. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Lib Dems

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13-02-2007, 09:06 PM	#24 (permalink)
Alex McKee Moderator Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gloucester Posts: 6,666	Graham Booth works hard for the party in the SW. He is also fairly active in the Europarl.

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sean43 Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 161	Just to tell you, RKS wont be running for re-election. I also believe that UKIP are not better off without him, he would have guaranteed us an MP in the 2005 General election maybe more.

13-02-2007, 09:37 PM	#28 (permalink)
Tom Wilde Moderator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: London. Posts: 2,924	Yes, that was a golden moment.. Let's see that replay again! Anyone got a decent link to a video of the entire exchange between Blair and Farage? I can only find this mini-clip on the old UKIP Bromley campaign website, and it is just Farage's response not the whole thing. http://www.ukipbromley.com/