4th December 2014
“He claimed that if he had been working for Goldman Sachs he would need to earn £250,000 to match what the EU paid him because of taxation, secretarial allowances and ‘all the other games you could play’. So with his own fiscal evaluation meaning he must have earned the equivalent of £3.75m over the past 15 years, his claim in a new Channel 4 documentary about the couple’s wealth—that ‘I don’t know anybody in politics as poor as we are’—is rather surprising.”
“Financial experts will suggest that the Ukip leader is out of touch himself” but I feel perhaps he knows “all the other games you could play” rather well when pandering to his “people’s army”.
Nigel Farage wears the wrong trousers after champagne-fuelled stumble at Gogglebox guesthouse (telegraph.co.uk).
Not his Savile Row ones?
“The UKIP leader’s night chez Parker ended with him falling over and having to wear a pair of his host’s trousers after a ‘rip-roaring’ evening downing beer, wine and champagne.”
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