From the snippets I've read of the letters, Charles' letters go beyond expressing a concern for old buildings and an albatross.
In one of the letters, he is actively lobbying for a friend to be appointed in an agricultural role. It's at the Guardian if you want to look for yourself.
I don't mind Charles writing letters, but he has a level of influence way beyond the average man in the street, simply because of an accident of birth.
He has influence, but no accountability to the electorate.
I don't think we should be attacking Prince Charles for that but politicians for bowing to that. If he is lobbying as a person, that is fine as long as he is accorded the same influence as anyone else. If he is lobbying as a land owner and employer, I personally don't like that, but that is not any more of an issue than the power given to major funders and large businesses that stick their oar in. I don't think either group should, but they do. If it is because he is next in line to the throne, that is down to the government of the time as he has no real power. He can't DO anything, and any power at the moment is purely imaginary.
I'm not saying he is not influencing the government because he is next in line to the throne, just that it is a matter of politicians doing something they should not rather than him.
I don't think we should be attacking Prince Charles for that but politicians for bowing to that. If he is lobbying as a person, that is fine as long as he is accorded the same influence as anyone else. If he is lobbying as a land owner and employer, I personally don't like that, but that is not any more of an issue than the power given to major funders and large businesses that stick their oar in. I don't think either group should, but they do. If it is because he is next in line to the throne, that is down to the government of the time as he has no real power. He can't DO anything, and any power at the moment is purely imaginary.
I'm not saying he is not influencing the government because he is next in line to the throne, just that it is a matter of politicians doing something they should not rather than him.
If I'm being honest, most of these letters paint Charles in a good light. He comes across as well meaning, if a little bumbling, so I don't know why their publication has been subjected to such legal challenges. The taxpayers are paying for all this, get them in the open.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Another thing, does anybody think this is one of the scariest, anti-civil liberty viewpoints, that we've ever heard in recent times?
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone..." David Cameron
You what, Dave! Are you for real? I had to look twice at that. I should bloody think so that you'll leave people alone if they're obeying the law.
If this is what the next five years is going to be like, then I can see this country making its feelings known in the streets...
If I'm being honest, most of these letters paint Charles in a good light. He comes across as well meaning, if a little bumbling, so I don't know why their publication has been subjected to such legal challenges. The taxpayers are paying for all this, get them in the open.
The taxpayers pay for Alex Salmonds wild expenses, but those aren't in the open, and your SNP buddies are in no rush to be accountable.
Why pick on Prince Charles?
If I'm being honest, most of these letters paint Charles in a good light. He comes across as well meaning, if a little bumbling, so I don't know why their publication has been subjected to such legal challenges. The taxpayers are paying for all this, get them in the open.
The taxpayers pay for Alex Salmonds wild expenses, but those aren't in the open, and your SNP buddies are in no rush to be accountable.
Why pick on Prince Charles?
Hardly, tu qoque. The arrguement is not fallacious. The fallacious argument is to claim that Prince Charles is acountable due to taxpayer involvement when in reality his personal estate grants far more to the Treasury than he receives back in grant than normal taxation would allow.
Puting example to the complainers own political choices is most valid. Of which Salmond has a lot to answer for.
Salmond's total are known because the taxpayer has to pay. But the breakdown and justification are short in coming.
Thousands of people in the North of England have been using the hashtag "take us with you Scotland" to express their upset about the result of last week's general election, and the Scottish nationalists are welcoming this English minority with open arms.
Since last Thursday's general election in Britain the phrase "take us with you Scotland" has been used more than 24,000 times. Cities in the North of England have traditionally been a stronghold of the Labour party who retained many of them in the recent vote, but won 232 seats overall, 26 fewer seats than they won in 2010. Voters in the region also returned Conservative MPs - including Chancellor George Osborne who is today setting out a plan for greater devolution to northern cities. For obvious reasons, the left-leaning Scottish National Party didn't stand in the region - but won nearly all the seats in Scotland.
On Sunday afternoon left-leaning voters in Yorkshire and Lancashire started to use the hashtag to express their upset at this situation. "#TakeUsWithYouScotland genuinely beginning to wonder if the North of England becoming a part of Scotland would be better for us, I really am" tweeted Aaron Miller from Yorkshire. Some cracked more jokes under the tag after the North West Motorway Police account, which gives traffic updates, announced that they had "picked up a pedestrian on the M62 who was trying to walk to Scotland".
After the initial spike of jokes on Sunday evening, the hashtag really took off when users start to mobilise around a year old petition on change.org, which is titled "allow the north of England to secede from the UK & join Scotland". The petition's creator, a Sheffield resident who calls himself "Stu Dent", set it up to coincide with last year's Scottish independence referendum. A map created by Dent imagining the boundary of a "Scotland plus the north" was also widely shared.
Dent runs the Twitter account Hunters Bar, named after an area of southwest Sheffield which is very popular with students and which also happens to sit on the edge of the Sheffield Hallam constituency - represented by the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg. Despite having thousands of followers on Twitter, when Dent first posted his map last year, the image was shared less than 100 times - but in the past week it's been retweeted by thousands.
Dent told BBC Trending that he was surprised at how popular his petition had become. "In hindsight, perhaps I shouldn't have been," he said. "There is a huge frustration in parts of the UK about the things that have happened since 2010."
"I think people need a place to go where they can say 'not in my name! This is not the England I want'," he added.
So why has the trend grown so big now? The election results are clearly one factor, but there may be another: the power of the Scottish Nationalists on Twitter and their ability to influence the discussion on the platform. What started as a post-election joke in the North of England was quickly embraced by the so-called "Cyber Nats" and they were able to push the image and petition up the Twitter trending list.
Will the Right wing ever give it a rest? People don't just give deeply held convictions a "rest" guys, be realistic.
The left wing vote is often younger and poorer, two things that don't correlate well with getting out to vote, something that Labour need to look at. That and their track record of involving the UK in illegal wars, which was normally Conservative territory
If I'm being honest, most of these letters paint Charles in a good light. He comes across as well meaning, if a little bumbling, so I don't know why their publication has been subjected to such legal challenges. The taxpayers are paying for all this, get them in the open.
The taxpayers pay for Alex Salmonds wild expenses, but those aren't in the open, and your SNP buddies are in no rush to be accountable.
Why pick on Prince Charles?
The difference is that Salmond has allowed the electorate to judge him and they gave him a victory and a healthy majority last Thursday, as well you know.
The 'victory' in Iraq has been rendered even more counter productive by the rise of ISIS whose very existence can be traced back to the cack handed way that the Iraqi people and institutions were treated after Saddam fell. Some victory.
They actually seem quite reasonable given that the majority of those expenses (from 2008 by the way) cover staffing costs of his London office, at least it wasn't for a duck pond. During this time he was donating one of his salaries to charity so he is obviously a money grubbing monster.
welshhoppo wrote: I do wonder if the Left wing will ever give it a rest.
No, they wont.
You can sum them up as: We didnt get the party we want for the next five years, so we want to destroy a country united since the 8th century.
While only a feeling and not a true movement, it is pretty indicative of how far some distraught Labour voters will stick their bottoms up their backsides.
As for lefties walking to Scotland, let them claim benefit there. I will be half nice and advise them not to live in parts of Glasgow, they don't like English there. If they expect lefty equality and multiculturalism and an English embracing Nat community in somewhere like Paisley, they have another thing coming.
Orlanth wrote: [Au contraire, there would be enough merit because the cases would have to be reviewed, and the press triggered outrage is a normal use of popular democracy.
Which is still a massive step from actually releasing someone and nowhere near releasing dangerous people. Press driven outrage over this would be fear-mongering and certainly not popular democracy.
My home town is already in Scotland. It was in the Daily Mail so it must be true.
Nigel Farage clings to Ukip leadership as former allies call for his resignation
Party splits into two factions, with some of the most senior figures backing Ukip’s only MP Douglas Carswell
Koppo wrote: Bleeding hell, another 5 years of the Tories.
Gee, thanks Scotland... (See this is why we can't let you go, without you it'll be Tories forever)
Given this was quoted several times...
People did figure out I was mainly being facetious, right?
While Scotland has in the past been the balance of power for Labour for the UK as a whole, simple maths points out that in this instance it would have made no difference.
Maybe in 5 years my comment may be more apt.
Anyway, the FPTP system is, in my opinion, complete bull honky and I think a more federal system with proportional rep would be more democratic (but maybe more chaotic, with a small c.)
welshhoppo wrote: I do wonder if the Left wing will ever give it a rest.
Honestly, if you put this much effort into gaining support for Labour before the election you wouldn't be up a creek without a paddle.
I'm no fan of the Conservatives, but there is something unpleasantly bitter about what I've been seeing on Facebook. I doubt that many of the people who are bewailing how undemocratic the system is would be doing so if their party of choice had won.
welshhoppo wrote: I do wonder if the Left wing will ever give it a rest.
Honestly, if you put this much effort into gaining support for Labour before the election you wouldn't be up a creek without a paddle.
I'm no fan of the Conservatives, but there is something unpleasantly bitter about what I've been seeing on Facebook. I doubt that many of the people who are bewailing how undemocratic the system is would be doing so if their party of choice had won.
Well I'm from Swansea, which has been a proud Labour zone since 1964. Swansea East has been Labour since 1922. But the Gower turned to the conservatives and there has been a lot of hate about it.
Most of them seem to forget that Labour left our city to rot years ago, and its only now catching up with the UK.
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welshhoppo wrote: I do wonder if the Left wing will ever give it a rest.
Honestly, if you put this much effort into gaining support for Labour before the election you wouldn't be up a creek without a paddle.
I'm no fan of the Conservatives, but there is something unpleasantly bitter about what I've been seeing on Facebook. I doubt that many of the people who are bewailing how undemocratic the system is would be doing so if their party of choice had won.
Even if we do get electoral reform and a Proportional Representation system, they'd be complaining that it benefits parties they dislike, like UKIP. Can't have it both ways.
The first case, a challenge of the government’s right to detain terror suspects without trial, has already been heard on Kulth the War World and ended in the defeat of the Imperium of Man by Tyranid Biomorphs without the right to appeal.
The first case, a challenge of the government’s right to detain terror suspects without trial, has already been heard on Kulth the War World and ended in the defeat of the Imperium of Man by Tyranid Biomorphs without the right to appeal.
By the inquistion, a terrorist is a heretic and heresy must be punished by blamming.
Therefore all terrorists are to be shot, regardless of heresy.
welshhoppo wrote: Yeah there are a good 700,000 scots living in England. There was a big bru ha over the fact that they weren't allowed to vote in the referendum.
To be fair they are obviously no true scotsmen.
However, to return to something like on topic; as someone who works in the NHS with people with chronic conditions I am really not going to enjoy the next 5 years... even if the service I work for is not sold off to private "industry", it will become even more difficult to get funding to help supply equipment, support and assessments for people that need it.
Koppo wrote: While Scotland has in the past been the balance of power for Labour for the UK as a whole, simple maths points out that in this instance it would have made no difference.
It rarely does.
Orlanth wrote: You can sum them up as: We didnt get the party we want for the next five years, so we want to destroy a country united since the 8th century.
While only a feeling and not a true movement, it is pretty indicative of how far some distraught Labour voters will stick their bottoms up their backsides.
I think it's more a case of, each of the 4 countries voted entirely different ways, yet because one of them is the biggest that's how all are run. Politically each country is pretty different, with everyone else to the left of England, but because of the size difference their vote is essentially meaningless.
I really hope Sturgeon causes Cameron some awkward moments in the next government, because we're (as a nation) going to be spending a lot of it getting shafted.
welshhoppo wrote: Yeah there are a good 700,000 scots living in England. There was a big bru ha over the fact that they weren't allowed to vote in the referendum.
To be fair they are obviously no true scotsmen.
Give me my drink back! It's all over my screen, thanks to you!
Yep, looks like the Lib Dems could lose their only remaining MP in Scotland following a leak inquiry into and public admission of guilt regarding "Frenchgate"(I hate journalists who make everything a somethinggate). Turns out the fourth-hand memo containing an inaccurate account of a meeting between Nicola Sturgeon and the French ambassador which the Telegraph used to smear the SNP during the election campaign was deliberately leaked by the former Scottish Secretary Alastair Carmichael(and a cookie for you if you solved it), who then lied about having done so on C4 News.
Now there will be an investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commission, who will be forced to refer Carmichael to the House of Commons to be suspended, which would allow his constituents to call for a byelection. Considering he only took his seat by 807 votes(cut from a majority of 10,000 at the previous election), it's not looking good for ol' Fozzie Bear.
Child protection boss paid off with £134k after failing to speak out about abuse by Pakistani gangs is rehired as a consultant within 24 hours on £1k a DAY
Deputy children’s commissioner Sue Berelowitz criticised for not speaking out about sexual abuse by British Pakistani gangs
She took voluntary redundancy from her £99,333-a-year post on April 30 and received a pay-off worth £134,000
But the next day she was rehired to lead inquiry into family child abuse that she had been in charge of in her former role
A controversial child protection chief has quit her job with a six-figure payoff – only to be immediately rehired on almost £1,000 a day.
Deputy children’s commissioner Sue Berelowitz, who was criticised for failing to speak out about sexual abuse by British Pakistani gangs, took voluntary redundancy from her £99,333-a-year post on April 30.
She received a pay-off worth £134,000. But the next day she was rehired as a consultant, leading an inquiry into family child abuse that she had been in charge of in her former role.
The 61-year-old will be paid £960 a day under the new deal and will work for up to nine days a month. It means she will earn almost the same amount as she had been as a full-time employee – for much less work.
Last night, as MPs and victims’ groups described the deal as scandalous, the Treasury launched an inquiry into how it was agreed.
The case illustrated the revolving door culture in Whitehall, the NHS and local councils in which employees their jobs and receive large pay offs, only to be taken back on – often by the same organisation.
The Chancellor last night pledged to crack down on the abuse, putting an upper cap of £95,000 on the amount of redundancy that can be paid.
Keith Vaz, the former head of the Commons home affairs select committee, said the payoff received by Miss Berelowitz was ‘totally unacceptable’.
He added: ‘There is no justification for a public official to receive such a huge sum of money to then continue to do the same work.’ A Treasury spokesman added: ‘It’s wrong for someone to take redundancy payments then be immediately rehired as an external consultant.’
Miss Berelowitz caused controversy in 2012 when she wrote a report in the wake of high-profile abuse cases in Rochdale and Rotherham denying there was a growing number of Asian grooming gangs.
Despite finding that more than a quarter of perpetrators known to the authorities were Asian, Miss Berelowitz said there was no evidence to conclude that there was a particular issue with Asian gangs.
Instead, her report – branded ‘hysterical’ and ‘highly emotional’ – said simply that abuse is carried out by men of all backgrounds.
South African-born Miss Berelowitz started out as a speech and language therapist before gaining a masters degree in social work from Sussex University. The mother of two sons, who lives in a £950,000 house in Brighton with her husband, spent nearly five years as deputy director of children services at West Sussex County Council.
But some of its services were later labelled inadequate by Ofsted. And she caused controversy last year by warning against opening up secretive family courts to public scrutiny, claiming children might commit suicide if their names and troubled lives wereknown to the public.
Neither Miss Berelowitz nor the Office of the Children’s Commissioner were last night available for comment.
Apparently French police have confirmed that an "assassination attempt" was made against Nigel Farage by someone loosening the nuts on all his wheels of his car which made him crash.
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Apparently French police have confirmed that an "assassination attempt" was made against Nigel Farage by someone loosening the nuts on all his wheels of his car which made him crash.
The daily mail states it sought him out, not the other way round. It apparently happended back in October. If he's attention seeking, wouldn't he have been crowing about it on the news months ago and been accusing his political opponents?
Admit it, you're jumping to conclusions because you dislike the guy. If this was Alex Salmond, you'd be up in arms.
More likely it was just some crazy stalker with a vendetta.
Attacks on MPs and politicians arent unheard of. One mp was stabbed bya Muslim iirc. John Prescott was punched. Hell, wasnt the Spanish prime minister punched recently?
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: The daily mail states it sought him out, not the other way round. It apparently happended back in October. If he's attention seeking, wouldn't he have been crowing about it on the news months ago and been accusing his political opponents?
Admit it, you're jumping to conclusions because you dislike the guy. If this was Alex Salmond, you'd be up in arms.
More likely it was just some crazy stalker with a vendetta.
Attacks on MPs and politicians arent unheard of. One mp was stabbed bya Muslim iirc. John Prescott was punched. Hell, wasnt the Spanish prime minister punched recently?
The day I take the Daily Mail's word on anything is the day I paint my bedroom wall with my brains. That said; joke, learn to take one. Evidently using remarks like "Pff" and emotes isn't enough any more, I'll have to start using [IAMONLYJOKINGCALMYERSEL][/IAMONLYJOKINGCALMYERSEL] tags in future for the sake of the especially dour.
As for Alex Salmond; I know some folk actually believe the bollocks in the papers about everyone who votes SNP being neurolinguistically-programmed cultists who venerate Dear Leader Salmond(who's not even the leader any more, but don't let that stop you), but come on man. Hell, someone tried to run Alex Salmond off the road a while back and the most common response from SNP folk on twitter was taking the piss.
I can't find any direct quotes from the French police in that article. When I first read the headline I thought they were dragging up that light aircraft story again.
The day I take the Daily Mail's word on anything is the day I paint my bedroom wall with my brains. That said; joke, learn to take one. Evidently using remarks like "Pff" and emotes isn't enough any more, I'll have to start using [IAMONLYJOKINGCALMYERSEL][/IAMONLYJOKINGCALMYERSEL] tags in future for the sake of the especially dour.
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Apparently French police have confirmed that an "assassination attempt" was made against Nigel Farage by someone loosening the nuts on all his wheels of his car which made him crash.
"Mr Farage’s Volvo V70 comes with a single locking nut on each wheel which should be immune from interference. But if the other four nuts are loosened, then the remaining one is likely to sheer off as soon as the car is travelling at speed.
Concern : WHEEL MAY BECOME LOOSE
Description : It has been identified that the standard wheel securing bolts may not have undergone the correct hardening process. This will result in corrosion, a noise and/or vibration. If this condition is not rectified, there is a possibility that the wheel may become loose and detach.
Remedial Action : Recall all affected vehicles and replace the standard wheel bolts.
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Apparently French police have confirmed that an "assassination attempt" was made against Nigel Farage by someone loosening the nuts on all his wheels of his car which made him crash.
"Mr Farage’s Volvo V70 comes with a single locking nut on each wheel which should be immune from interference. But if the other four nuts are loosened, then the remaining one is likely to sheer off as soon as the car is travelling at speed.
Concern : WHEEL MAY BECOME LOOSE
Description : It has been identified that the standard wheel securing bolts may not have undergone the correct hardening process. This will result in corrosion, a noise and/or vibration. If this condition is not rectified, there is a possibility that the wheel may become loose and detach.
Remedial Action : Recall all affected vehicles and replace the standard wheel bolts.
Make: VOLVO CAR
Model : V60, V70, XC70, S80, XC90
Lololol, so the feckless berk likely just didn't bother to maintain his car, and when the wheels literally fell off it he claims it was an assassination attempt. Classic Niggle Farridge
UKIP leader Nigel Farage says all four wheels on his Volvo V70 car were tampered with, causing him to lose control and almost lose his life on a motorway near Dunkirk last October.
'The French police looked at it and said that sometimes nuts on one wheel can come loose, but not on all four,' he tells the Mail on Sunday.
Yet he asks the police 'not to make anything of it'. The prosecutor for the Dunkirk region, Eric Fouard, confirms that he's not aware of any police investigation involving Farage
A little mysterious, no?
I don't see what Farage has to lose by having an investigation if police suspect that someone wanted him dead. Were they political enemies — or personal ones?
Nor do I understand why the police would agree not to investigate what looks like the attempted murder of a prominent European Union politician. Surely the pampered boobies of Brussels themselves would demand it, even if it was to protect the allegedly anti-EU Englishman on the basis of 'today Farage, tomorrow the rest of us'.
Certainly, the cynical French cops of Engrenages (Spiral) — my favourite police show; roll on the 6th season — wouldn't be talked out of investigating such a case by Nigel's manly display of sang-froid, if that's what it is.
I have to agree that if this was a genuine bona fide assassination attempt -- and not for example due to the faulty product -- then the Police would investigate it, whether he wanted them to or not.
Thats a columnist, writing an opinion piece. The other DM article that I linked into went into more detail and said "The Police and mechanics were positive it was sabotage".
The story has also been picked up by The Telegraph, Mirror, RT, Metro, Standard, The Times, etc...For anyone with a pathological phobia of reading the Daily Mail.
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Thats a columnist, writing an opinion piece. The other DM article that I linked into went into more detail and said "The Police and mechanics were positive it was sabotage".
Which is a quote from Farage, not from the actual relevant authorities.
Given this was -- as according to him there was no investigation -- little more than a theory offered up on a cursory glance and presumably unaware of things like the faults with the car -- I think it's a bit ...generous .... to say that was definitely what happened.
And if they were 100% sure and certain that it was a malicious act -- as opposed to the fault or an error at his last service or whatever -- then it's not up to him whether it's investigated or not.
Désintox talked to the mechanic who rescued Farage, and to the prosecutor who should have been in charge of the investigation, if there had been one. Both denied ever suspecting a foul play.
On October 21st, Farage was indeed rescued on the motorway in northern city of Marck after one of his wheel fell off. But it’s only once the car was towed to the garage, that the mechanic noticed all the nuts were loose. Philipe Marquis, owner of the garage, told Désintox he «had never seen anything like it [and that he] found it weird». Why didn’t he call the police then? Because he did not suspect it was a consequence of a sabotage… Instead, the mechanic suspected the nuts «had been wrongly screwed after an other repair».
He tried to know if Farage had had his car fixed in another garage, but couldn’t get to the bottom of it because… he doesn’t speak any English. «We had to talk by sign language», he said. Did he mention a «sabotage» ? «I never said that, he just saw us screwing back the nuts». Marquis certifies no one at his garage could have said anything about a foul play to Farage, who drove back to Britain. The mechanic never heard from him since.
Not only no witness can vouch for Farage’s account about what the mechanics told him, but according to our information the police did not mention any sabotage either. The police did arrive to the scene of the accident, but according to an anonymous source they did not examine the car, because no one was hurt. Hence, they could not suspect anything.
Dunkirk’s prosecutor confirms police agents were present on the scene but their intervention report only mentions a repair service. «If they had noticed a sabotage, they would have had to open an investigation», the prosecutor says. Even if Farage did not want the police to investigate the case, the prosecutor would have been entitled by law to open an investigation nonetheless. Reached by Désintox, Ukip did not care to comment on this story.
A mechanic could change the wheel and be lazy with tightening the nuts. It is also an easy act of sabotage to perform.
It would make more sense if you were trying to kill Farage to loosen more than one wheel, take out two wheels on one side and you have a far nastier accident and the other will likely fail if the first does.
"French prosecutors and a mechanic have today refused to corroborate Nigel Farage’s claims that he was warned his car had been sabotaged."
That isn't actually a denial, the prosecutors have not made statements against what Farage is saying, just refusing the back his own comments. This is not unexpected.
"Dunkirk’s prosecutor said: ‘If they had noticed a sabotage, they would have had to open an investigation’. It would not have been left up to Mr Farage to veto an investigation."
Something reds8n mentioned. It doesnt wash frankly. The police would do as the police choose to do. Farage however has the choice as to whether to to seek publicity. However tell a police officer to ignore the paperwork and treat an incident as a non incident and what happens? Very often nothing, as expected. Its similar to saying 'I dont want to press charges'.
Its also of note that the incident happened months ago, and only came to light when the Daily Mail caught wind of it somehow and approached Farage for comment. At that point its already public knowledge so why deny it? If its purely publicity seeking, we would have heard about it months ago, he would have been crowing about it in TV interviews and 'far right' figures everywhere would be making political capital out of it.
Sounds like the guys just embarrassed and wants to forget it.
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: You would think that with an EU referendum coming up, Farage would have bigger fish to fry.
You would think with an EU referendum coming up he'd be making the most of it and crowing about it on TV, rather than reluctantly admitting it months after the fact.
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: You would think that with an EU referendum coming up, Farage would have bigger fish to fry.
You would think with an EU referendum coming up he'd be making the most of it and crowing about it on TV, rather than reluctantly admitting it months after the fact.
Knowing Farage, there was probably a lot of alcohol involved
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: You would think that with an EU referendum coming up, Farage would have bigger fish to fry.
You would think with an EU referendum coming up he'd be making the most of it and crowing about it on TV, rather than reluctantly admitting it months after the fact.
Knowing Farage, there was probably a lot of alcohol involved
In that case the assassins should just let him do their job for him.
Why bother assassinate Nigel Farage? Knowing his luck, he's more likely to get himself killed in a plane crash or some other publicity stunt.
"French prosecutors and a mechanic have today refused to corroborate Nigel Farage’s claims that he was warned his car had been sabotaged."
That isn't actually a denial, the prosecutors have not made statements against what Farage is saying, just refusing the back his own comments. This is not unexpected.
According to Farage the Police and a mechanic told Farage it was an assassination attempt not the prosecutors. Nobody has spoken to the Police, let alone the officers involved, and the mechanic had this to say when asked if sabotage had been mentioned: "I never said that, he just saw us screwing back the nuts." So the only primary witness (apart from Farage) did indeed issue a denial. Apparently he did so in French sign language so I suspect any nuance of language to which you are alluding would be lost.
Now people are looking into the facts of the matter and it is apparent he was stretching the truth? Yeah I imagine he'd want to distance himself from it now.
Are you for real? I had to look twice at that. I should bloody think so that you'll leave people alone if they're obeying the law.
