Nigel Farage and his wife Kerstin will continue to leech off the European Parliament payroll while doing no work in return
There’s a good piece about Nigel Farage’s freeloading hypocrisy in The Canary.
Having won the referendum on the basis of a disingenuous, disgusting campaign, Farage is taking the Boris Johnson way out – leaving someone else to pick up the pieces of the mess he has created. Having campaigned for the referendum, and the “out” vote for so many years, it would have been nice if he’d had the courage to see through the decision he’s been so passionate about.
It’s understandable that Farage wants his “life back”. It’s a very easy life.
As an MEP, he receives €7957 a month. He is paid in Euros, which given the collapse of the pound (which he has helped to orchestrate with the Brexit vote), means he is one of the few people to have seen a salary rise post-Brexit. Presently Farage’s salary is worth £6665.19 a month compared to the £6246 earned by MPs.
Given Farage has been absent, or refused to vote, on the majority of debates at the European Parliament, it seems the decent thing would be for him to resign his position. Instead, he is proving to be the very essence of everything he claims to hate about Europe – a lazy, worthless bureaucrat, sponging money out of the institution he claims to despise.
And of course, it’s not just his own salary that his despised EU is paying. It’s also his wife’s. He has put his German wife, Kerstin, on the European Parliament payroll as his secretary. The British MEPs are the only ones in the European Parliament who are allowed to do this, because they got an exception, for a supposedly transitional period, on the grounds that MPs in the House of Commons are permitted to employ their wives as their official secretary on the House of Commons payroll.
