Tom Wise

Tom Wise was elected as the MEP and a member of UKIP, which was formed to get us out of Europe. Now it looks as though he has been treating his assistants badly and lying about it.

Anti-Europe MEP claimed £36,000 for his researcher, then paid her just one sixth
An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has revealed that Tom Wise, who was elected to the European parliament last year, gave Lindsay Jenkins only a sixth of the amount he has told the EU that he is paying her as his assistant. Given his basic pay of  £59,095 plus some very lucrative perks this qualifies as greed.
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UKIP's 10 MEPs make much of the wastefulness of the EU, including the profligacy of MEPs expenses and how they are abused.

In press releases, Mr Wise  denounces the EU for being "a hideous waste of your money".

He said recently: "UKIP are the only party who think that the whole concept [of the EU] is built on a succession of lies. The proponents of the 'project' [the EU] will not tell you where it is going, if indeed they know. They will not tell you what it will cost as they have no idea. Yet you - and I - have to pay for it."

Mr Wise, a wine-loving 57-year-old ex-policeman, first became financially connected to Ms Jenkins last autumn when they agreed a deal in which she would be paid £500 a month to work as a statistical researcher for him.
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He was a police man so he should be an expert liar. No doubt he will be working on his story.

 

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