Why ever would they do that? Because of Ashley Mote MEP's criminal record, for benefit fraud as it goes. Ash kept getting his pay cheques while incarcerated but sadly could not pull any of the usual travel and subsistence fiddles. Via Tim Worstall via Dale's Daily Dozen. Here's a little quote from our previous coverage of Mote (72) and his Tory antecedents: Nirj Deva MEP gave Ash a ...
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Hugh Muir: I never comment on rumours and I have no knowledge of any BNP advisory council meetings," says our good friend Ashley Mote
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Guardian on 9th Sep 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Hugh Muir in the Guardian still has a field of Maris Pipers on his shoulder regarding UKIP.Once again, he's tried to fabricate a split in the party, this time by failing to understand the difference between 'discrimination' and 'encouragement'.This does look somewhat familiar to an e-mail sent to Mr Spink by a less than savoury character who was allegedly outed by BNP leader Nick Griffin on a BBC ...
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Tim Worstall - back in harness after running for office as a UKIP MEP - writes about the Labour government's stated desire to ensure that not a single tract of the UK is without broadband access. It is the sort of techie, practical measure that Mr Gordon Brown thinks will help win him a bit of respect in the traditional Tory and LibDem shires. As Tim says, the logic of this idea is questionab...
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Hugh Muir: David Lyscom, who will take the helm at the Independent Schools Council, may be our hero
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Guardian on 27th Aug 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Hugh Muir: As we apply the Pritt Stick to Broken Britain, can there be any more pressing issue than fuel poverty?
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Hugh Muir: We wish Peter Mandelson the speediest of recoveries from painful kidney stones
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Hugh Muir: As an active Holocaust denier is apprehended at Heathrow, we look ahead to the first book in six years from David Irving
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Hugh Muir: We see only a fraction of the fear and loathing that has gripped the Labour party, and it is behind the scenes that things are at their ugliest
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Hugh Muir: Talent of official responsible for Sussex constabulary leaflet on tackling antisocial behaviour
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Hugh Muir: The journey taken by so many convicts in the 1800s is to be recreated by Nick Griffin
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Guardian on 16th Sep 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)