Ashley Mote

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Ashley Mote (* January 25 in 1936 London ) is a former independent Member of Parliament for South East England. He was elected to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) list in the 2004 European elections , but was later expelled from that party.

In Parliament, Mote was a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and the Committee of Inquiry into the Crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and an alternate member of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs . In 2005 he joined forces with Paul van Buitenen ( Europa Transparant ) and Hans Peter Martin under the name Platform for Transparency (PfT).

British authorities have been investigating Ashley Mote for social fraud since 2004 . After an official lawsuit shortly after his election as MEP, he was expelled from UKIP in 2004. In 2007 he joined the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty faction , which dissolved a few months later.

In the criminal proceedings, Mote initially invoked his immunity as a member of parliament, before it was revoked by the European Parliament in June 2005 . He appealed against this to the European Court of First Instance . This refused an injunction to restore immunity, which allowed the process to continue in Great Britain.

On August 31, 2007, Mote was sentenced to nine months in prison. This judgment was essentially confirmed in the subsequent appeal proceedings. He also had to repay £ 67,000 to the British government. In November 2007, he was released after being detained for ten weeks with an electronic ankle cuff .

Since Mote's prison term was less than a year, he did not have to give up his seat in the European Parliament under British electoral law and retained his mandate.

Before the European elections in 2009 , he announced that he would not run again.

Mote has also worked in marketing and has published two political books.

  • Vigilance - A Defense of British Liberty (2001) on the European Union ,
  • OverCrowded Britain: Our Immigration Crisis Exposed (2003).

He is also a noted author of books on cricket history ( The Glory Days of Cricket (1997) and John Nyren's "The Cricketers of my Time" (1998)). As a member of the resurrected Hambledon cricket club in the south of England , he was instrumental in bringing cricket back to the famous Broadhalfpenny Down playground .

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  1. ↑ See the judgment of the appeal process (in English).
  2. ↑ BBC, December 14, 2007: Jailed MEP told to repay benefits .
personal data
SURNAME Mote, Ashley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (UKIP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH London