MayBee70
When he says he’s been the most targeted politician in this country for many years all I can think about is Jo Cox ( I still hold Farage responsible for her death and will never forgive him for it, or forget). Is there any way of finding out the truth about his comment re being attacked by a mob but not reporting it to the police?
No! He’s a grifter and I believe him to be a liar and he covers his tracks very carefully.
The piece of his speech today I “enjoyed” the most was the reason he became an MEP, “to rescue” the YK! How long did he stay an MEP, in that nasty corrupt EU?
20 years!!!! He accepted his inflated salary, did what he now does as an MP, made few appearances and had one of the worst voting records of all MEPs, and now he accepts his vast MEP pension. Apparently he bankrupted himself by becoming an MEP? Really ? 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Mr Google told him this:-
“When Nigel Farage started as an MEP in 1999, his salary was roughly €3,500 a month (around £2,400), as all MEPs were paid the equivalent of national MPs. When he left the European Parliament in January 2020, his standard gross base salary was €8,933 per month (over €107,000 per year).However, because of a European Parliament investigation into the misuse of public funds, his actual take-home pay was docked by 50% between 2018 and his departure, meaning his final gross salary was effectively reduced to about €4,466 per month during that timeframe.Here is the breakdown of the changes during his two decades in office:When he started (1999): MEPs' salaries were directly tied to the salary of members of their own national parliaments. At the time, UK MPs made roughly £47,000 annually. Farage's salary was set in Euros, equating to around €3,500 per month.The "Single Statute" (July 2009): The system changed so that all MEPs received a standardized EU salary, set at 38.5% of the basic salary of a judge at the European Court of Justice. This immediately raised his base pay to approximately €7,600 per month.When he left (January 2020): Standardized incremental rises had brought the annual base pre-tax salary to €107,208 a year (roughly €8,933 per month / £7,600), though his was subject to the temporary 50% deduction.”
Mr Google also tells me his pension is Nigel Farage's European Parliament pension is estimated to be worth around $97,000 (\(\pounds73,000\)) per year.
Mr Google also tells me that Nigel Farage spent about 30 years in the City of London's commodity market. He began his career in 1982 at the London Metal Exchange, worked for various brokers including Drexel Burnham Lambert and Credit Lyonnais Rouse, and founded his own firm, Farage Futures, in 1994. He transitioned fully into politics and media in the early 2010s.
