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The man behind the report – Richard Corbett MEP exposed
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Richard Corbett MEP delights in accusing UKIP of ‘extremism’. But did you know that :
1. He has his own links to extremism. He used to work as parliamentary researcher to Altiero Spinelli, the anti-democracy Communist whose Ventonene Manifesto shaped today’s EU.
2. Richard Corbett has written at least one article for Federal Union, the group which actively campaigns for a federal European superstate.
3. In the last Parliament Richard Corbett voted in favour of adopting a report by Willie Rothley. This report proposed increasing MEPs’ salaries by 30%. Richard Corbett then wrote to the press attacking a journalist for daring to suggest that he’d voted for a 30% pay rise!
4. In the last European Parliament Richard Corbett was ‘named and shamed’ by one newspaper after it emerged that he was claiming a £190 attendance allowance at the European Parliament, even though he had no meetings on that day.
5. Richard Corbett’s website features a children’s propaganda game set in a child’s bedroom. The EU flag flies proudly over the child’s bed and youngsters are encouraged to play various ‘games’ aimed at promoting the EU.
6. Richard Corbett claims that anyone wanting to leave the EU is an ‘extremist’, yet he was an elected Labour representative in the early 1980s when Labour favoured withdrawal from the EU.
7. Richard Corbett was quoted on the front page of a major national newspaper saying that in the 2004 council elections, UKIP “appeared to have a pact” not to stand against the BNP in council elections in Yorkshire. This comment was not only untrue, but Richard Corbett could have seen its inaccuracy simply by looking at the election results for Yorkshire, where UKIP did stand against the BNP in some wards. UKIP didn’t stand against other ‘minor’ parties often either because we didn’t field many candidates whilst concentrating on the European elections. The real question is whether Richard Corbett deliberately deceived readers, or whether he made his accusation on the basis of shoddy, incompetent research. |
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