The Popular Alliance are well known in its views of the European Union as well as the large whiff of corruption and fraud surrounding the whole organisation, especially as the audit commission have failed to sign off their accounts for the past 11 years stating they found errors in programmes accounting for around two-thirds of its €105bn (£70bn, $130bn) budget, particularly structural funds going to poorer regions. These included incorrect paperwork, missing documents and possible fraud of funds that remain unaccounted for.

Today, it is reported that one of the main critics of the EU financial mismanagement, fraud and corruption is itself at the centre of an alleged financial mismanagement scandal.

This must beg the question, if UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) soon to be known as the Independence Party, cannot get a grip of its own finances, then how on earth do they expect the public and voters to believe they will fair any better with tax payers money?

It is clamed that hundreds of thousands of pounds donated to the UK Independence Party has failed to find its way into the party's central accounts, a senior Ukip official has confirmed.

David Campbell-Bannerman, the party's deputy leader, has said that only 15 per cent of funds donated to Ukip through a call centre in Kent has been paid into the party's head office accounts.

Outrage over the Ashford call centre has been blamed for the resignations of at least six senior party officials over the past 18 months.

Five former members of the party's national executive committee, Ukip's governing body, have told this newspaper they believe about £500,000 is unaccounted for in the party's head office accounts.

These claims are disputed by Ukip's leader, Nigel Farage. "All the money raised by Ashford can be seen in the accounts for the south-east unit - no money has disappeared," he said.

The Ashford call centre was set up in October 2003 by Mr Farage, who then ran Ukip's south-east regional office. Staff processed donations and annual membership subscriptions.

Members of the NEC at the time said they were appalled that this allowed Mr Farage to control the majority of donations to the party. They also said for a nine month period in 2004 and 2005 Mr Farage declined to provide the NEC with details of how much money the call centre generated. Mr Farage claimed that the south-east unit controlled the office because the central party did not want to. "The NEC did not want to have any responsibility or risk for Ashford because we had run call centres in the past at a substantial loss," he said.

"We ran call centres in London and they lost £5,000 to £6,000 every month. I said: 'This is ludicrous, let's do this professionally'. The NEC refused to take responsibility for it."

Mr Farage said that the call centre raised at least £400,000 over three years. He said the majority of this money was spent on promotional DVDs, videos, postage and leaflets.

Last week, The Sunday Telegraph revealed that Ukip filed its latest head office accounts more than six months late. It is understood that over the past few days some of the party's donors have sought assurance from the Electoral Commission before they donate more to the party.

However, disgruntled party insiders said questions about the call centre, which closed last year, are a "running sore that won't stop".

A recent resignation letter by Ukip's former chairman in Wales, Richard Suchorzewsji, refers to "financial and transparency issues" involving "the Ashford call centre and various aspects of Ukip accounts".

The full story may be read HERE

The Popular Alliance said “ If this turns out to be true, then it shows UKIP to be as incompetent as the main political parties and on par with the European Union in making peoples hard earned money disappear. The members need to ask some searching questions to Mr Farrage, and if they receive no satisfaction, then there are alternative Eurosceptic parties to UKIP ”