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Farage called this a " misrepresentation ", pointing out that the money had been used to promote UKIP's message and staff salaries, not his own salary, but he welcomed the focus on the issue of MEP expenses, claiming that " ver a five year term each and every one of Britain's 78 MEPs gets about £ 1 million.
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" Neil then mocked the so called internal error which had made Farage " a joke ".
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Interviewed by the following Sunday by Andrew Neil and asked about " the game plan ", Farage welcomed the " average 13 % vote " across the country, and stated that the party was preparing for County council in 2013, European elections in 2014 and a general election in 2015.
" After refusing to apologise for behaviour that was, in the words of the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, " inappropriate, unparliamentary and insulting to the dignity of the House ", Farage was reprimanded and had his right to ten days ' allowance ( expenses ) rescinded.
Farage strongly opposes the use of ' bailouts ' and claims that " buying your own debt with tax payers money " will not solve the problem and that, " if we do, the next debt crisis won't be a country ", " it will be the European Central Bank itself ".
In December 2005, the phrase was used by British United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ) Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) Nigel Farage who said the French President Jacques Chirac was "... no cheese-eating surrender monkey, he ", in an unflattering comparison to Tony Blair during a session of the European Parliament following Blair's brokering of the EU budget deal.
Farage and money
In May 2009, The Guardian reported that Farage had said in a speech to the Foreign Press Association that over ten years as a member of the European Parliament he received £ 2 million of taxpayers ' money in staff, travel, and other expenses on top of his £ 64, 000 a year salary.
Farage and had
On the 5th November 2010 it was announced Farage had won the leadership contest.
Farage had unsuccessfully contested UK parliamentary elections for UKIP five times, both before and after his election as an MEP in 1999.
Asked what would happen to UKIP if the Tories made a Manifesto commitment to a European referendum, Farage said they had already failed to honour a " cast iron " commitment for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty.
Farage regretted " the wrong choice of words " but further described Warsi as " the lowest grade chairman the Tory party has ever had.
" Farage conceded London was a failure but they had won council seats elsewhere.
On 18 November 2004, Farage 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.
During the spring of 2005, Farage requested that the European Commission disclose where the individual Commissioners had spent their holidays.
After the speech of Herman Van Rompuy on 24 February 2010 in the European parliament, Farage — to protests from other MEPs — addressed the first long-term President of the European Council saying that he had the " charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of low grade bank clerk ".
Farage and been
Farage has been noted for his passionate and sometimes controversial speeches in the European Parliament.
Farage has been married twice.
Farage and UKIP's
Farage, then head of UKIP's South East office, asked for a video and got friends to make illegal copies which were sold for £ 5 through the UKIP magazine.
In the autumn of 2003, the CEP mounted a " Parliament or Partition " conference in London which was attended by about 300 people and was addressed by Simon Hughes MP and UKIP's Nigel Farage.
Farage and own
Farage predicts that if the situation continues it will lead to violence due to the people's inability to " determine their own futures through the ballot box " as it will become the only " logical " tool to enable them to escape from their " economic prison " i. e. the Eurozone.
Farage and on
The party's leader Nigel Farage pledged to support him in the election for the National Executive Committee. Hamilton was elected to the committee on 1 November 2011.
In response to this revelation, Nigel Farage MEP of the UK Independence Party persuaded around 75 MEPs from across the political spectrum to back a motion of no confidence in Barroso, so as to compel him to appear before the European Parliament to be questioned on the matter.
Shortly after the polls opened on 6 May 2010, Nigel Farage was injured in an aircraft crash in Northamptonshire.
Farage was born in Farnborough, Kent on 3 April 1964 to Guy Farage and Barbara Stevens.
Active in the Conservative Party from his school days, Farage left the party in 1992 when John Major's government signed the Treaty on European Union at Maastricht.
Farage said: " We've got three social democratic parties in Britain — Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative are virtually indistinguishable from each other on nearly all the main issues " and " you can't put a cigarette paper between them and that is why there are nine million people who don't vote now in general elections that did back in 1992.
At 10pm on 19 October 2006, Farage took part in a three-hour live interview and phone-in with James Whale on national radio station talkSPORT.
On 4 September 2009 Farage resigned as leader of UKIP to concentrate on his campaign to become Member of Parliament for Buckingham at Westminster in the 2010 general election.
On 6 May, on the morning the polls opened in the election, just before eight o ' clock Farage was involved in a light aircraft crash, suffering injuries described as non-life-threatening.
Farage persuaded around 75 MEPs from across the political divide 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.
During the standing ovation that followed, Farage was the only MEP to remain seated and went on to describe the Prince's advisers as " naïve and foolish at best.
The group's co-chairs were Nigel Farage ( UKIP ) and Hanne Dahl, the latter succeeding Kathy Sinnott, who in turn succeeded long-time MEP Jens-Peter Bonde ( June Movement ) on his retirement in May 2008.
Farage and MEP
From taking office as a UKIP MEP in 1999, Farage has often voiced opposition to the " euro project ".
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However shortly after he began work, Independence and Democracy MEP Nigel Farage revealed his previous conviction of fraud in 2000.
Edit Herczog gained some attention for an attempted intervention into a speech being made by Nigel Farage MEP, a representative for United Kingdom Independence Party.
It was backed by David Clelland, Labour MP, John Hemming, Liberal Democrat MP, and Nigel Farage MEP, and leader of UKIP.
Farage and year
Debates in the past year have seen such figures as Andrew Mitchell, David Blunkett and Nigel Farage discussing the merits of the coalition government, Max Mosley debating whether the British press have too much freedom and Max Clifford discussing reality TV.
Farage and MEPs
" The leader of the UK Labour Party's MEPs, Gary Titley, accused Farage of anti-Royalism.
Farage and about
Heffer has written sympathetically about and backed the United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ) and Nigel Farage.
Farage and 1
On 1 December 2010, the pilot of the aircraft involved in the accident was charged with threatening to kill Farage in a separate incident.
Farage and million
In September 2006, Farage became the UKIP Leader and led the party through the 2009 European Parliament Election in which it received the second highest share of the popular vote, defeating Labour and the Liberal Democrats with over two million votes.
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