An email just received from the European Parliament...
I've come down to the Coffee Shop / Bar in the EuroParl to use the Wireless internet because the office is too full of people. It's 12:48pm. About 10 metres from me is a group of UKIP MEPs that are already pissed out of their faces necking Beer. What really pisses me off about these guys is that they come to the Parliament pretending to actually stand up for the UK and just spend their time getting pissed all day and living it up on expenses. None of these guys will do a f**king thing today apart from drink and fire off a couple of sarcastic press releases. The Chamber is about 50 metres from here and is currently hosting the International Trade Committee. Guess what, a quick glance through the window reveals it is (with the exception of Syed Kamall) packed out with complete Europhiles that are busy legislating while UKIP get aled. I agree with their objective but they have a funny way of going about doing anything about it. Pathetic w***ers.
The three UKIP MEPs were Roger Knapman, Tom Wise and Mike Nattrass.
UPDATE: It seems that this blog is more widely read in Brussels than I had imagined and that UKIP have gone apoplectic. I have been bombarded by emails saying it's all rubbish etc etc and that my informant has been identified and is about to offer an apology. Not true. I've just asked the question.
UPDATE: From being a rather flippant diary story type article this is getting a little silly now. In the interests of fairness, Mike Nattrass MEP has emailed this...I arrived here in Brussels this morning in order to clear a massive amount of paperwork, I am not attending any committee at all. I went to the canteen at lunchtime and met Roger Knapman (who was ready to go home with luggage) and Tom who had attended a morning committee. We each had one sandwich with one small beer and it took about 20 minutes while we discussed issues.(I have had no other alcohol for at least 24 hours) I worked in my office until I was told of this which would be 2pm English Time. What is this about? How anyone can make a story out of that beats me and how much of what is put on email is worth reading? This reveals far more about this blog than it does about UKIP. Exactly who is this person from the Tory school of charm who wrote this Email?
My informant responds that he was with others who can confirm they had 'more than one'. He also asks: 'why is Roger Knapman going home on a Wednesday durng Committee week? Oh yes, because he isn't a full member of any Committee and is a Substitute on a Sub-Committee!'
Even I'm getting a bit bored with this now.
14 comments:
I used to work in the European Parliament and this is the sort of behaviour I used to witness on a daily basis. The UKIP MEPs do nothing to stand up for Britain. On numerous occasions I heard them saying how much fun it was to able to go to all these receptions and parties and drink all this free (tax payer funded) beer and champagne!
I point you to Chris Heaton Harris' offer of a bottle of champagne if anyone saw RKS in the East Midlands (unsurprisingly no one claimed it!)
Not strictly UKIP anymore - but he was elected under the guise!
What a shame these people talk so tough on Europe at elections and fail so miserably when employed at our expense! UKIP/Veritas are a complete waste of space and money.
Roger Knapman, Tom Wise and Mike Nattrass are not members of the International Trade Committee. So I can't see how that persons sending the email can pretend that they should be in the ITC room voting in that meeting.
Btw, was Robert Sturdy absent or among the "europhiles" legislating in the committee?
I too used to work in the EP, and would regularly see the the UKIP members sitting in the bar by the beehive (which is the nearest bar to the Chamber), guzzling back beer and wine. They would sit and hold court, taking the piss out of anyone who didn’t share their views, tactics and dislike of ‘Johnny Foreigner’. They would privately resort to comments which I felt were distasteful and possibly racist (depending on how PC you are)! I used to find it frustrating that, as a genuine signed-up Eurosceptic, but one who loves Europe, European culture and European people – and refused to resort to racist stereotypes and poor taste jokes about the French and the Germans - Farage and his cronies would always regard me a Europhile. He would never get it that someone who could sit with a French or German MEP and discuss the issues in their language without having to resort to bullish and arrogant behaviour always stood more chance of making them think! He never understood that it is possibly to profoundly disagree with someone, yet to do so ina spirit of respect and friendship. Nigel Farage, who I would regularly speak to, clearly regarded us Eurosceptic Tories as ‘traitors’ because we decided to stay in the Tory party and argue for a change of position. Nigel Farage is a talented speaker, and very often wins the argument. Sadly, he alienates people, and, just like the rest of the UKIP is a total waste of time, space and money! As a result, he and his party do nothing to advance the cause of British removing itself from the EU, and in fact probably damages the cause because people who believe in leaving don’t want to get lumped in with a bunch of xenophobic Little Englanders who feel their duty to their electorate involves getting drunk and insulting people!
I was with Mike Nattrass and he was sober as a judge.... also, he is not a member of that committee, so why would he be in there at all?
Get your facts straight... whoops, you're a Tory aren't you, you guys stopped doing that years ago!!
Now that your informant has admitted that the story is not true, perhaps you will take this off this website?
An apology is on its way to the three MEPs concerned from the chap in question who decided to make up this story.
Adrian Yalland - What does this mean: "but one who loves Europe, European culture and European people – and refused to resort to racist stereotypes and poor taste jokes about the French and the Germans -"?
Could you tell us what race you think the French and the Germans are, please?
Re the three MEPs from UKIP in the bar.
Your informant has now said he was mistaken and is about to apologise to the three MEPs named in your blog.
Also somebody with them has said it is totally untrue.
None of the MEPs is on the committee referred to so they had no reason to be there.
All they had during a quick working lunch was one beer(small) and a sandwich.
In view of this please consider removing this obviously fabricated piece of rubbish from an otherwise excellent blog.
Iain,
Do check your sources. I have just spoken to your informant. He has promised to write an apology for his email which I await with interest. Currently one of the MEPs is on his way back to the UK, one is in Committee, and one is dealing with constituency correspondence. None are drunk.
At lunch it is not unknown for people to have a sandwich and a small beer.
I happen to regard your correspondent as a friend of some years standing, however this posting of his was dishonest, underhand, childish and beneath him.
I hope this clears up this calumny.
Some of those video clips are hilarious, thanks andrew. One of them rants about "Common Purpose" being part of the EU conspiracy; I've looked it up and it appears to be an ODPM-inspired BritGov initiative aimed at generating civil society, but there are also claims that it encourages nepotism and cronyism within government; given are mutual adoration of The Prescott, I wonder if Iain or others know anything more about this, is it a corrupt statist conspiracy?
Notice you are not using my comments pointing out this story is sheer rubbish.
Sureley the point of any blog is to own up when rumbled.
Or is your blog such that any rubbish can get on no matter how unfounded.
Grow up and if you don't want to admit to having made a bollox just take it off.
This is from the Horses mouth:
I arrived here in Brussels this morning in order to clear a massive amount of paperwork, I am not attending any committee at all. I went to the canteen at lunchtime and met Roger Knapman (who was ready to go home with luggage) and Tom who had attended a morning committee.
We each had one sandwich with one small beer and it took about 20 minutes while we discussed issues.(I have had no other alcohol for at least 24 hours)
I worked in my office until I was told of this which would be 2pm English Time. What is this about?
How anyone can make a story out of that beats me and how much of what is put on email is worth reading?
Mike Nattrass MEP
This reveals far more about this blog than it does about UKIP. Exactly who is this person from the Tory school of charm who wrote this Email?
"Oh yes, because he isn't a full member of any Committee and is a Substitute on a Sub-Committee!'"
Actually it's 100% accurate.
He isn't a Substitute on a Sub-Committee, but of a Committee (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs)
"Even I'm getting a bit bored with this now." Iain, that is a pretty feeble response. Your blog smeared three UKIP MEPs, the story was shown fairly conclusively to be a made-up Tory slur and you are "bored"? I'd say it was apology-and-retraction time, meself. And if you are standing by your wavering source, by all means ask him to name these folks who were with him who can supposedly back up his story, and invite them to do so toot sweet. Otherwise why mention them at all?
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