Nigel's gravy train

[mos]

Nigel Farage 'employs both his wife and mistress at public expense' - Telegraph

Still, to be fair the accuser doesn't seem to have an impeccable record of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Well ... I knew about Frau Mehr and Mrs Nuttall who also 'earns' ca. 20K pa. But mistress .... oh Nigel ...
you are going down the Tiger lane ...

[Mich the Tester]

How many aspects of our lives are now governed by the diktats dreamed up by a bunch of faceless officials?

I don't know; you tell us. Try to provide facts, figures and evidence while you're at it.

[Gittins Gal]

I don't know; you tell us. Try to provide facts, figures and evidence while you're at it.

You think I've got time to trawl through every single piece of legislation that has enshrined in law some EU diktat?

I've got a job to do.

How about this for starters though. The Act which forbids the dumping of alluvial deposits on farmland which led to the cessation of dredging on the Somerset Levels and led to this winter's devastating floods?

[KentPhilip]

Well he is paying his wife a £20,000 salary, which is fair enough.

As for the other woman, Nigel has been denying it since 2006. I guess we'll never know, but she is rather fit (I think I would required fewer than Mich's 4 pints) so it would be a shame for her not to receive some money

[DodgyAgent]

I don't know; you tell us. Try to provide facts, figures and evidence while you're at it.

Google "immigrants from the EU"

How about Condom sizes, intervention prices for food, fishing quotas.

Europe starts fighting against condom length and banana curvature standards - English pravda.ru

The reason why I want out of the EU is because the EU condom size is just too small

[Mich the Tester]

You think I've got time to trawl through every single piece of legislation that has enshrined in law some EU diktat?

I've got a job to do.

How about this for starters though. The Act which forbids the dumping of alluvial deposits on farmland which led to the cessation of dredging on the Somerset Levels and led to this winter's devastating floods?

Well you have time to make assertions about EU 'diktats' so you should be able to back those assertions up.

Anyway, if the EU sets a regulation that can potentially cause such a disaster, why did the British government implement that 'diktat'? I'm pretty sure that public safety is of higher importance than this act, even within the EU.

There is one country in Europe that has the greatest expertise in the world in preventing floods and I live in it; do you think the Dutch blindly follow 'EU diktats' when deciding on how to manage water?

[northernladuk]

Nigel Farage 'employs both his wife and mistress at public expense' - Telegraph

Still, to be fair the accuser doesn't seem to have an impeccable record of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

His wife is paid well below the average of £60k and nothing in that article indicates he is doing anything wrong.. and all from an accuser who is facing charges already. I can't believe they have dedicated this much space to this rubbish.

[Flashman]

I don't know; you tell us. Try to provide facts, figures and evidence while you're at it.

The problem is its very difficult to say exactly what the proportion of EU Law to National Law actually is. The EU and National Governments have some many inter-connections now it is almost impossible to separate the two.

Though the EU is quite proud to say....

.....Clearly, not all citizens are aware that possibly a majority of the laws that have an impact on their daily lives are decided on by MEPs in the European Parliament. That is a democratic problem, and you and other journalists are better placed than anyone to explain what the European Parliament and the European elections are all about

EU Election press release Feb 2014.

https://fullfact.org/wp-content/uplo...-Press-Kit.pdf

[DodgyAgent]

Well you have time to make assertions about EU 'diktats' so you should be able to back those assertions up.

Anyway, if the EU sets a regulation that can potentially cause such a disaster, why did the British government implement that 'diktat'? I'm pretty sure that public safety is of higher importance than this act, even within the EU.

There is one country in Europe that has the greatest expertise in the world in preventing floods and I live in it; do you think the Dutch blindly follow 'EU diktats' when deciding on how to manage water?

Here is 100 of them

http://www.openeurope.org.uk/Content...egulations.pdf

[Flashman]

Well you have time to make assertions about EU 'diktats' so you should be able to back those assertions up.

Anyway, if the EU sets a regulation that can potentially cause such a disaster, why did the British government implement that 'diktat'? I'm pretty sure that public safety is of higher importance than this act, even within the EU.

There is one country in Europe that has the greatest expertise in the world in preventing floods and I live in it; do you think the Dutch blindly follow 'EU diktats' when deciding on how to manage water?

EU laws are enforceable in every country. That's a fundamental part of being in the EU.

But I kind of suspect British civil servants are much more enthusiastic in implementing them rather than say the Greeks or the French!