UKIP are constantly on the look-out for real or imagined cases of financial mismanagement in the EU, though their credibility in this field was recently undermined by the fraud office investigation into Tom Wise MEP, a UKIP member accused of misusing his parliamentary allowances.

Another instance has now arisen: UKIP member Mike Nattrass is one of only two MEPs who – some five months into 2007 – has still not updated his declaration of financial interests for 2006 which all MEPs are required to register. He was named and shamed in Parliament last month, but to no avail as Monday’s minutes – naming and shaming him again – testify.