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The interesting thing is how people seem to fall for the common man stuff-both wealthy & Farage on c.£55,000pa as an MEP.
An MEPs salary is about £78,000 pa
Don’t forget all those juicy expenses which UKIP MEP’s are notorious for claiming.
£78K?
Where’s the application form!!
I could do a better job hanging upside down with one arm tied behind my back that plonker.
It’s just further evidence of the neo-liberal failure, leaving millions of people across the West feeling ‘left out’ of the massive wealth creation over the past 40 years, with nowhere to go, having been failed by the traditional major political parties – usually a duopoly. In such circumstances they turn to whoever claims to represent them against the establishment. It’s an understandable emotional response where facts and logic play a secondary role and it could all end up a very nasty mess. It’s Gramsci’s now oft-quoted ‘interregnum… of morbid symptoms’. What is surprising to me is that anyone is surprised.
“President Trump greets his friend and ally, the Prime Minister of Great Britain”.
Setting aside that particularly nightmarish scenario, I think better of Mr Trump for making Farage feel welcome: few would do so, and every day the guiding light of UKIP is absent from these islands is conducive to the public good.
Further: I am delighted to discover that I can think better of Mr Trump, however briefly. I hope that it is in me to speak well of any man, for surely all of us have some redeeming feature; and, to date, my best effort towards Mr Trump had been the observation “He is not a twin”.
“The only man who rivals Screaming Lord Sutch in his inability to get elected as an MP, leader of a party of crooks and shysters, offers his valuable experience to a political newcomer”