The scandal-ridden UKIP party, still reeling under the revelations that its leader Nigel Farage has swindled claimed more than £2 million in expenses, has now been exposed as a thoroughly non-British party whose candidates include an Argentinian who now resides in and is a citizen of Spain, and a Sri Lankan – both of whom are on record as enthusiastic supporters of the European Union.
UKIP’s adoption of the Argentinean-born, Spanish citizen and resident Marta Andreasen as an MEP candidate must be one of the most hypocritical, ridiculous and outrageous events of this year’s entire European election campaign.
Mr Farage has had to specially waive his own party’s rules which forbid non-UK nationals from standing for his fake party. Ms Andreasen’s candidacy in fact has given legitimacy to the entire EU concept. She does not live in Britain, holds an EU passport, yet is standing for election in the South East of England with Mr Farage.
More importantly, Ms Andreasen is actually in favour of the EU, and is diametrically opposed to its disbandment, which Mr Farage claims is the purpose of his party.
In fact, Ms Andreasen is on record as stating the following:
“I have been called a Eurosceptic, but I am not one. I want to fight for a good EU project. To do that we must fight for transparency, for responsibility, for accountability. We need real reform of the EU; but the new constitution will do nothing to combat the Brussels culture of graft, secrecy and corruption that so tarnishes the European dream.” - Marta Andreasen, The Times — 6th December 2004.

“And I asked myself, to whom was I not loyal? I wonder who can say that I’m not a true European, so to speak. I have been called eurosceptic and anti-European when I risked my job for defending the interests of the citizens of Europe.” -Marta Andreasen, speech to an International Rally hosted by the DM, CAEF & TEAM, 9th April 2005.

The fact that Ms Andreasen is a number two candidate for UKIP is conclusive evidence that this party is nothing but a front, designed to try and deceive patriotic British voters into thinking they are voting for a Eurosceptic party when it is nothing of the sort.
To add insult to injury, Mr Farage has alienated most of his East Midlands activists by parachuting Sri Lankan-born Deva Kumarasiri into his party’s candidate list in that region.
Mr Kumarasiri, who was appointed without UKIP East Midlands even being consulted, was until only a few weeks ago a staunch supporter of the Liberal Democrats, which is the most heavily pro-EU party out there.

According to a disgruntled UKIP insider, Mr Kumarasi is now almost a daily visitor to UKIP’s Nottingham office “where he spends most of the day drinking coffee and doing very little else.”
“Mr Kumarasiri is set to be one of the ’star’ speakers at Farage’s much vaunted Exeter rally. No doubt he will regale members with tales of how he used to refuse to serve certain customers,” the disgruntled UKIP insider blogged.

“Members may be interested to know that Mr Kumarasiri has said that unless UKIP pay all his travelling and hotel expenses he will be unable to attend the rally. Kumarasiri has also demanded that all his MEP election expenses — including his deposit — be paid for by UKIP. I can confirm that Farage has agreed to this.
“I wonder if Stuart Wheeler is happy with the cavalier way Farage has spent his £100,000 donation? As Kumarasiri owns two houses I would have thought that he could have at least managed to find the money to pay his deposit.”

UKIP party leader Nigel Farage has dealt his party a death blow by “cheerfully” announcing that he has taken “more than £2 million in expenses” from his time in the European parliament - over and above his salary.The shocking comment was revealed during a lunch Mr Farage had with former Labour Minister for Europe, Denis MacShane MP, after a Foreign Press Association conference on the future of the European Union yesterday (image alongside).The news firmly places UKIP into the same bracket as all the other Westminster political parties with regards to ripping off the hard pressed taxpayers in the shocking expenses scandal which has engulfed all the political parties in Britain - except the BNP.Talking on today’s BBC 2 Daily Politics Show, Mr Macshane was trying to defend his own personal outrageous expenses claims - and those of his colleagues - when he suddenly announced that this sort of thing was everywhere.“I was with Nigel Farage of UKIP yesterday afternoon debating and he said quite cheerfully - you know what Nigel is like - I have got two million pounds in expenses from the European Parliament,” Mr Macshane said, obviously hoping that the announcement of this bit of thievery would somehow excuse his own.Mr Farage’s outrageous claims could not have come at a worse time for his party, struggling as it is after losing 25 percent of its MPs after the 2004 election, with two of them being arrested for fraud.With the latest revelation, observers are now asking the question if Mr Farage himself - over whom there have long been questions about his financial probity linked to his refusal till now to reveal any audited statement of his expenses - will be able to avoid the fate of his colleagues already arrested for exploiting the expenses system.A secret European Parliament report, the details of which were earlier leaked but largely suppressed by the media, uncovered what it described as “extensive, widespread and criminal abuse” by Euro-MPs of staff allowances worth almost £100 million a year.Senior Euro-MPs and European Union officials have tried to hush up an internal audit that found severe problems and endemic misuse of funds worth at least £98.4 million a year, more than £125,000 for each of the 785 Euro-MPs.Such is the extent of the abuse found in a sample group of 167 Euro-MPs that “terrified” parliamentary authorities have shrouded the report in secrecy and security.Only Euro-MPs on the Parliament’s budget control committee are allowed to see the report. To do so, they must apply to enter a “secret room”, protected by biometric locks and security guards. They may not take notes and must sign a confidentiality agreement.