March 17, 2010

BNP chief Nick Griffin claims £200,000 Euro expenses

BNP leader Nick Griffin was accused of joining “the expenses gravy train” today after it emerged that he has claimed hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The British National Party chief, who was elected last year as Euro MP for the North West of England, has submitted claims for more than £200,000 for his work in Brussels. The costs, which come on top of his £82,000 MEP salary, include some £18,000 in “consultancy fees” and £10,000 in “agent fees”.

The BNP leader won his party's first seats in Strasbourg after attacking MPs for having their “snouts in the trough”. After being accused of failing to be more open about his expenses, he has now published a version of his claims on his personal website.

Mr Griffin claimed £175,000 in “staff costs” for eight employees with titles ranging from “European researcher” to “campaigns co-ordinator”. A further £31,000 was for “office management costs”, including an office in his home. His “office costs” included £2,800 on “furnishings” and over £4,000 on “repair, maintenance and security”. Mr Griffin made a pre-election pledge to be transparent about his expenses. But he is yet to reveal how much he has claimed of his £270-a-day MEP's subsistence allowance, worth £40,000 tax-free every year, or how much he has claimed for travel.

Fellow BNP MEP Andrew Brons has not published any details of his expenses. He and Mr Griffin are jointly entitled to expenses of up to £530,000 a year. As well as staff allowances, both receive a “general expenditure allowance” worth more than £44,000 annually.

A spokesman for campaign group Searchlight said: “Griffin talked a good game on expenses before the election, but as soon as he got to Brussels he couldn't wait to jump aboard the euro expenses gravy train.”

London Evening Standard

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Didn't take him long to get his snout in the trough, did it.

bob g said...

Hypocritical scumbag

Anonymous said...

Sleazy fat bastard!

Anonymous said...

Dont forget the 450k backhander that every mep gets to sign papers and keep quiet about them . Gollywog Collett let it slip one night at a meeting and Hitler Griffin was not best pleased by the look on his face.

Antifascist said...

'Dont forget the 450k backhander that every mep gets to sign papers and keep quiet about them . Gollywog Collett let it slip one night at a meeting and Hitler Griffin was not best pleased by the look on his face.'

We could do with some more info about this. By email or via the comments, we don't mind. :-)

Anonymous said...

by what im led to understand.the payroll pigs are butler [ex nf]
colgate[ex bloke or looks like it]
wingfields [he done time and ex charman of nf breifly]her -not very bright i think a degree in sociology[not even a proper degree]
jefferson ex bouncer and drug dealer [he couldnt join the nf he couldnt spell it]
darby [spends his time looking at sparrows]
john walker [gis a drink]
and no doubt several other cronies and hangers on.
Has anyone thought of approaching VIZ to do a comic strip,,so much material there

oinkergriffin said...

oink oink

Anonymous said...

Isn't that why Griffin's in politics? He knows he and the BNP will never amount to that much so has decided to line his pockets while he can and retire, in 10 years or so, to his nice villa on the Dalmatian coast, in the quasi-fascist State of Croatia.

Alright for some.

ex-fascist said...

@ Anonymous at 5:07 PM

I knew Tina Wingfield quite well and to be really honest she does not lack intelligence.

Except for the fact that:

1. she is a member of the BNP
2. she married Martin Wingfield, and
3. she married an even bigger idiot before she married Martin Wingfield.

Anonymous said...

Griffin promised 20% of is wages to the BNP if he was an MEP. The Pigs gone back on his word and keeps all the money for his self. Nearly all is family are employed by the BNP, and the euro staff are all yes men jumping on the gravy train. What GREEDY PIGS THEY ARE.

Anonymous said...

on arrival at Brussels , new Mep's are met by an official of the EU . They are given the chance to sign an official document stating they will "for 450k payment, sign and accept any scheme or law to be passed and have no comment on any of it.
Hope that clears things up a little.

Anonymous said...

"on arrival at Brussels , new Mep's are met by an official of the EU..."

Too many Morrocon-skunk-bongs me thinks!

Anonymous said...

"I knew Tina Wingfield quite well and to be really honest she does not lack intelligence."

Didn't this bunch all hate each other during the 'Political Soldier' days of the late 1980's? I once read a pamphlet called "Attempted murder" written by Nick Griffin where he rails against Tina and Martin Wingfield and calls them traitors and sell-outs. Strange how they're all in love now.

ex-fascist said...

@ Anonymous at 8:22 PM

I believe Attmepted Murder was actually written by Derek Holland, although Griffin put his name to it and possibly wrote the intro.

It's barking anyway, whoever wrote it. Tina Wingfield gets several mentions under her maiden name Tina Dalton.

If anti-fascists can bear to read through so many pages of fascist propaganda I recommend they do so, it gives an interesting insight into the paranoid mind of Griffin and some of those who surrounded him at the time.

Kev Scott loves The Jam said...

@ Anon at 7:13 pm

He did promise 20% of his WAGES.... the wages look like paper round money in comparison to what he's claiming on 'expenses'..... and those cheeky bastards had the balls to do that (cringingly bad) 'launch with all those nutzies in pig masks throwing money out of a trough.... ha ha ha

Does anyone know just how thick you have to be to pay money to be a member of the bnp? Do they record IQ as fractions?

Facey Romford said...

"on arrival at Brussels , new Mep's are met by an official of the EU . They are given the chance to sign an official document stating they will "for 450k payment, sign and accept any scheme or law to be passed and have no comment on any of it."

I'm sorry, but I simply don't believe this: do you actually have any evidence other than this bare assertion?