I am sorry to disillusion the reviewers of Ashley Mote’s book but I would like to put the record straight. Mote, as a member of UKIP, applied to become a member of the European Parliament - an MEP. On the application form it asked whether the applicant had any criminal convictions or whether they were the subject any criminal investigations. Mote answered ‘No’.
At a pre-election meeting of the regional committee one candidate had been seen, in the USA, talking to a high-ranking member of an ultra-right American party. It was published in the British press and when questioned at that meeting he said he had no idea that the person he was talking to was of the far-right, immediately apologised for bringing the party into disrepute and stood down. Sat next to him was Mote who was under investigation by Chichester Council and the Dept. of Work and Pensions for benefit fraud but he did not mention it to the committee. He was duly elected.
He approached the then chairman of UKIP, Petrina Holdsworth, asking that UKIP fund his legal case (i.e. use membership fees and donations). She, quite rightly, refused his request. He was angry because his plan had been thwarted not only by someone who was intellectually superior but a woman. The facts finally came out and he was immediately kicked out of UKIP.
Eventually he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to twelve months in prison. At the next EU elections he asked the BNP if he could stand as an MEP for them (an indication of where he stood politically) but even they turned him down. Some time later he was under investigation again, this time for mortgage fraud. He was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison. Subsequently, his solicitors were investigated regarding where Mote obtained the money to cover his legal fees and the EU investigated him for misuse of his EU allowances.
Mote says that I was Political Assistant to Mr Farage and his political adviser; this is incorrect. I was only Mr Farage’s political assistant running his UK office. Mote tells of my approaching him at a party but I am afraid my recollection is somewhat different. I asked him why he hadn’t said anything about the criminal investigation and his reply was to utter an expletive and stalk off – something which took all of twenty seconds! There was no “tirade” as he suggests.
He maintained that the first criminal charges were brought by ‘The Establishment’ in order to discredit him as an MEP and close down his investigation into EU fraud. This is not true either as he was under investigation by Chichester Council two years before he stood for election so he knew about it before he applied to be a UKIP candidate. The benefit fraud was deemed serious enough for the council to call in the DWP. He states that he owned companies with offices world-wide but there is no evidence to support his claim.
At one point he suggested he join his wife’s cousin in her cleaning business and, after she became suspicious of his accounting methods, she resigned from the company and found that £30,000 had gone missing from the company accounts. He had no scruples as to who he involved in his various schemes including his family; his son narrowly missed being prosecuted for tax fraud due to his involvement in one of his father’s scams. Mote had a severe case of his own self-importance/self-aggrandisement and throughout his life he kept one step ahead of the law until they finally caught up with him. As for ‘A Mote in Brussels’ Eye’ I would take it all with a very big pinch of salt!
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