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PerkyLady · 27/11/2025 10:12

Hello.
Maybe some of you will consider this a fresh topic, but I'm interested in it nevertheless.
Did you vote for or against Brexit?
And what were your reasons?
Stay well.

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RedTagAlan · 18/12/2025 03:03

EEexpat2000 · 17/12/2025 19:33

@RedTagAlan

The article I posted was not about a pension lump sum, but about the transition allowance (redundancy payment in more common language) he had accrued due his length of service. The £70K pension per year was what he accrued from his contributions to his pension pot. It was not a 100% non contributory scheme.

If he has paid into a pension for 20+ years, he is entitled to receive a return on the investment.

Anyone can gift money to partners/relatives to buy a house. If the property is in the sole name of the person who received the gift, it’s irrelevant how many other properties the donor may have when calculating duties.

On the 9 May 2019 episode of BBC Question Time in Northampton, Farage was on the panel. He confirmed the Brexit party had been formed because the UK should have left the EU with or without a withdrawal agreement on 29 March 2019, but didn’t.

So, if people had accepted the referendum result and the HOC vote on 29 March 2019, Farage might have not reappeared.

Farage was on the pre 2009 EU scheme. The 50% top up one.

We have already established above that the UK taxpayer is still paying into the Farage pension pot.

But here you are, defending Farage for taking taxpayer top up funded pension.

European Parliament faces lawsuit over cuts to voluntary MEP pension fund | Investigate Europe (investigate-europe.eu)

European Parliament faces lawsuit over cuts to voluntary MEP pension fund

Payouts from the parliament’s controversial voluntary pension fund are being halved. Aggrieved beneficiaries of the top-up scheme now want the European Court of Justice to intervene.

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/european-parliament-lawsuit-voluntary-mep-pension-fund

EEexpat2000 · 18/12/2025 07:25

@RedTagAlan

If someone has paid into a pension scheme of any type, they are entitled to an annual payment when they retire.

Like most who work, Farage is a taxpayer. So, along with other taxpayers he receives tax subsidies.

However, pensions paid to MPs/MEPs/HOL, etc., seem to be much better compared to other professions.

RedTagAlan · 18/12/2025 09:32

EEexpat2000 · 18/12/2025 07:25

@RedTagAlan

If someone has paid into a pension scheme of any type, they are entitled to an annual payment when they retire.

Like most who work, Farage is a taxpayer. So, along with other taxpayers he receives tax subsidies.

However, pensions paid to MPs/MEPs/HOL, etc., seem to be much better compared to other professions.

"So, along with other taxpayers he receives tax subsidies".

Ahh right. So you claimed all his pension contributions were made by him. I showed that to be wrong. Now you say he got "tax subsidies". Whatever they are.

Of course, he was paid from the public purse too, to do a job he hardly ever done, and he is very happy to take an enhanced pension from an organization he fought against and wanted us to be no part of, while not doing what he was being paid to do.

How is he getting on representing the people of Clacton these days ? Or is he full time at Mar a Lago ?

:-)

EEexpat2000 · 18/12/2025 10:58

Ahh right. So you claimed all his pension contributions were made by him

The MEP pension scheme was contributory by the individual and with contributions added by the EU from the EU purse.

Not all employees agree with their employers policies, ways of working, ….. and many other issues which can’t all be defined and listed. Some go on strike. Some leave and move on. However, they would still be entitled to the pension they had paid into over their period of employment.

I have never been to Clacton. So, no idea what goes in that constituency.

RedTagAlan · 18/12/2025 11:08

EEexpat2000 · 18/12/2025 10:58

Ahh right. So you claimed all his pension contributions were made by him

The MEP pension scheme was contributory by the individual and with contributions added by the EU from the EU purse.

Not all employees agree with their employers policies, ways of working, ….. and many other issues which can’t all be defined and listed. Some go on strike. Some leave and move on. However, they would still be entitled to the pension they had paid into over their period of employment.

I have never been to Clacton. So, no idea what goes in that constituency.

"I have never been to Clacton. So, no idea what goes in that constituency."

Nor has Nigel :-)

EEexpat2000 · 18/12/2025 11:13

So, let the constituents’ vote him out with a recall petition.

hoopyvest · 22/12/2025 17:00

That is not possible unless one of the following applies:

  • convicted of an offence in the UK and receives a custodial sentence (including a suspended sentence) or is ordered to be detained, other than solely under mental health legislation
  • suspended from the House of Commons for 10 sitting days or 14 calendar days
  • convicted of providing false or misleading information for allowance claims under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/how-elections-work/types-elections/recall-petitions

MaybeNotBob · 22/12/2025 19:46

I wouldn't be surprised if he was guilty of the 3rd, but obviously it needs to come out.

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