Ashley Mote

Ashley Mote ( * January 25, 1936 ) was an independent member of the European Parliament for South East England. He was elected in the 2004 European elections on the list of United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ), but was later expelled from the 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 a substitute member of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. He graduated in 2005 with Paul van Buitenen (Europa Transparant ) and Hans Peter Martin under the name Platform for Transparency (PFT ) together.

Since 2004, British authorities determined because of social fraud against Ashley Mote. After shortly after his election as MEPs officially lawsuit was filed, he was expelled from the UKIP 2004. In 2007 he joined the group Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty, which a few months later broke up again.

In the criminal proceedings themselves Mote initially invoked his immunity as an MP before it was revoked by the European Parliament in June 2005 him. However, he lodged an objection with the European Court of First Instance. This refused an injunction to restore the immunity, which allowed the continuation of the process in the UK.

August 31, 2007 Mote was sentenced to nine months in prison. That ruling was upheld in subsequent appeals process essentially. He also had to pay 67000 pounds to the British government. In November 2007, he was released after ten weeks of detention with an electronic ankle bracelet.

Since Motes sentence had less than a year, he did not give up his seat in Parliament, and retained his seat after the British election law.

Prior to the 2009 European elections, he announced, not wanting to reapply.

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

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

He is also a well known 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 re- launched in southern England Hambledon Cricket Club, he has contributed significantly to the return of cricket to the famous playground Broad Halfpenny Down.