AIBU to think that Nigel Farage should resign from being an MEP?

[NannyMarmalade]

And that he's a hypocrite for claiming a monthly salary of £6k+?

"All politicians do that!"

No they don't.

Him and his MEPs have by not actually doing the job they're being paid for have created the situation they then whipped up the public about.

It would be like the SNP or plaid Cymru's leader and other elected officials not turning up to the Welsh assembly or Scottish Parliament and then telling voters it's a terrible place because the votes don't go their way...there'd be outrage.

But somehow because it's Farage it's a minor issue that's brought up as them being lazy occasionally.

You have misunderstood me.

ALL MPs stand for something. If they get elected they then have to work to make that something happen. They would be swiftly unelected if they did not.

Just because you don't agree with the way a specific MP goes about his job does not mean that his electorate agree with you! He was elected way back in 1999... so they obviously don't.

And if a SNP or PW MP did the same then it would be up to their electorate to deselect them!

Yes but if the SNP or Plaid Cymru were working towards independence while simultaneously making their parliaments not actually work as they're supposed to, it wouldn't just be a case of an occasional article about laziness.

I don't think he should be sacked or prevented from voting or shouldn't have been allowed to stand because he was working towards independence - it's because he worked towards it, in more than one term by actually not doing the job he was elected to do.

He was deliberately sabotaging the democratic system he was elected into.

And those who elected him did not object!

No, but sabotaging a democratic system should be something there are rules about IMO.

An opinion that few would disagree with... unless they lived in some African countries where dicatorships masquerade as democracies .