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On sentencing, Mr Justice Stuart-Smith told Mote: "[The jury] listened to you closely for days as you lied, protested, lied and lied again about the monies you had fraudulently claimed as expenses while serving your constituents and your country as an MEP."During the period from 2004 to 2009 you corruptly fiddled over £400,000 in expenses.
"Your greed and dishonesty were matched only by your hypocrisy, because while this was going on you carried out a high-profile campaign condemning corruption and the improper use of public money in the very institution from which you were leeching it."
Amazed he wasn't a Tory, sounds fully qualified....
The article doesn't mention that he has already served time for benefit fraud
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1562127/MEP-jailed-for-benefit-fraud.html
benefit [i]and[/i] expenses fraud. Impressive
Nearly half a million? He shows up the woeful lack of ambition in Westminster, with their duck houses, and moat cleaning, and whathaveyou
If you're going to do something, do it properly....
He shows up the woeful lack of ambition in Westminster
Different type of politics innit...........that's why people vote UKIP.
The offences took place between November 2004 and July 2010
Only took five years to secure a conviction, Swift Justice...
God bless the Kippers though, they might boot 'em out promptly enough, but the easily corrupted, hypocritical shites they put forward for election keep coming back to help them polish their image long after they've left...
what is Nigel's current status within the party? Is he their leader this week or not?
The article doesn't mention that he has already served time for benefit fraud
Apart from the bit where it mentions and links to the article on his previous conviction for benefit fraud
Mote sat as an independent from 2004-2009 after being expelled from UKIP for benefit fraud.He was jailed for nine months but was able to keep his seat because his sentence was under a year in length.
Apart from the bit where it mentions and links to the article on his previous conviction for benefit fraud
It's been updated considerably - the last update was 9 minutes ago. The original article was much shorter - it didn't mention his previous jail sentence.
Perhaps someone in the BBC read this thread 🙂