Our £50Billion Brexit Divorce Settlement Will Fund Farages £73K Annual Pension

[Gromit]

Discuss.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/03/nigel-farage-criticised-for-saying-he-will-keep-eu-pension

[Old_Geezer]

Probably deserves it for achieving the most. It's the others' one questions.

[-Talbot-]

What's to discuss?

[Togo]

Thank God. Wonder what the bill is for the other gits? If anybody actually earned a pension from the cess pit of EU swamp politics it is our very own crocodile.

[Gromit]

- Talbot,
A whiff of hypocrisy perhaps?
Farage’s favourite rant was always about the EU’s Gravy train.
Maybe he could take the money and donate it to charity, that would claim the moral high ground ?

[ToraToraTora]

red bus again gromit? It will go to the EU and they will spend it on what they spend it on. No doubt all MEPs get a pension not sure why you are earmarking one MEP and our "divorce" payment. It is ironic that the EU will pay the pension of the man who has more or less single handedly started the unravelling of this insidious club.

[tonyav]

It is understood the 53-year-old former Ukip leader will be entitled to an annual pension of £73,000 when he reaches the age of 63.

May not be an EU in ten years time.

[Togo]

Good idea Grimot. He should announce just that.. On one condition. That Kinnock and all the other roll over, suck up, and swallow gobblers do the same. :))

[lindapalmara]

If anyone deserves a pension its him. At least he achieved something. The rest are snouts in the trough yes men/women.. He was a huge power in bringing about the Referndum!!!

[Davemano]

I agree with TTT, and think as Farage says that in ten years time he is unlikely to get any of it, and I believe by then the EU as we know it will be non existent.

[Davemano]

Sorry tony, that was not there when I posted.

[tonyav]

No problem, Dave.

[Gromit]

Well Kinnock was a full blown Europhile and apologist for the EU. So he is never going to renouce his pension.

On the other hand, Farage was Kinnock’s biggest critic, and constantly derided the EU gravy train. It looks pretty p hypocrital if he take the £73 grand while still pontificating about the EU’s largess.

[-Talbot-]

It's his money (as obscene as it is) there is no reason why he shouldn't take it.

He's voted himself out of a job and there's nothing hypercritical about him collecting his pension.

but he has earned his pension.

[Gromit]

// ...nothing hypercritical about him collecting his pension. but he has earned his pension. //

No doubt he is entitled to his pension. But someone who has continually lambasted the EU about the gravy train and its Largess, should then to take their grubby shilling for the rest of his life, is a tad hypicritical.

[ChillDoubt]

If we're talking hypocrisy. .....

From an internet source:

And this ex-Labour leader should know what he’s talking about because back in the 80s he wanted to abolish the House of Lords on the grounds it was packed with the descendants of “brigands, muggers, bribers and gangsters".

I guess life IS like a *** sandwich......the more bread you have, the better it tastes, eh?

[Togo]

Wonder if the ex UK politico pigs will be foregoing their UK pension pots because they changed sides to feather their nests? Meehh.

[Jackdaw33]

Nothing hypocritical about it. He's earned it. He wouldn't be the only person to *** off his employers yet pick up a pension at the end.

[mikey4444]

Farage has had his nose buried deep into the EU pig trough for many years.....none of us should be in any way surprised when he continues, in his retirement to feed from the same, publicly-funded trough.

[Jackdaw33]

You've got a nerve! No mention of the Welsh windbag and his missus doing the same, I see.

[New Judge]

If Mr Farage draws his £73k for, say, twenty years, that amounts to around £1.5m. Bearing in mind that had we remained he would have done the same thing anyway, I think a million and a half smackeroonies, spread over twenty years, is just about the best value for money of anything I have ever encountered. Without Mr Farage there would have been no UKIP, without UKIP there would have been no referendum and without the referendum there would have been no Brexit. Mr Farage was almost solely responsible for allowing the UK electorate to voice its opinion on the pernicious, corrupt and anti-democratic organisation in which the people of Europe have had the misfortune to have become enveloped.

It was Mr Farage that recognised all these things and almost alone at the time decided twenty five years ago to forego his lucrative career in the City and do his best to see the UK out of the EU. He felt the best way to do so was from within. As he said on his first appearance in the EU after the referendum “When I said I would see the UK leave the EU you all laughed at me. Well you’re not laughing now”. He deserves every penny of his pension and If I could afford to do so I’d pay Mr F his pension myself.