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Related: About this forumUkip leader Nigel Farage accused of making threats in bid to win funding
Nigel Farage has been accused of putting pressure on two MEPs to break European rules as he sought to gain tens of thousands of pounds in taxpayers' money for the UK Independence party.
Nikki Sinclaire, MEP for the West Midlands, told the Guardian the Ukip leader told her the party would not be able to gain access to extra funds meant for a new political grouping without her support. If she failed to support the group, Farage said he would destroy her political reputation, she alleges. Sinclaire left Ukip in 2010 after clashing with the leadership.
A second MEP claims she was asked by Farage to secure an assistant for his 2010 general election campaign using money from Brussels, in breach of strict EU regulations. Marta Andreasen, who also left Ukip joining the Conservatives last month says Farage told her women of childbearing age should not work because they are "a burden to their companies".
Friends of Farage said Sinclaire had been a "thorn in his side" for many years and had an axe to grind. A Ukip spokesman told the Guardian: "We do not respond to vexatious allegations of this kind from our political opponents."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/mar/07/ukip-leader-nigel-farage-accused-threats
Smarmy git.
PDJane
(10,103 posts)Among other even less complimentary names.
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dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)is it just you doin' that when you see his photo's ?
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)... but on reflection seemed a little unfair.
Just in case anyone wondered.
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dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)complete t'r or w'r instead. That would've been accurate.
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)That's what he is.
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