that the BBC has commissioned a Panorama programme with a wide ranging brief to expose both the roots and rise to prominence of UKip is hardly a secret as they have been interviewing the informed for sever5al montjhs and gathering facts for the programme.
One can hardly be surprised that a major investigative programme has taken the rise of UKip as a protest party is of course just cause for investigation – that of is what such programmes provide, rather than the endless gossip and soap operas we are usually regailed with. That the programme has tended to focus on Nigel Farage will be no surprise as realistically UKip has not a single individual of conseque4nce besides Farage and it is he who dictates, and has dictated, almost all policy – often invented and announced on the hoof!
It is also worth noting his insecurity which has led to witch hunt after witch hunt driving out honest and decent folk who would have formed the core of the party and provided the party with some gravitas, as they might have been a challenge to corruption and dishonesty of Farage and his clique as they rewarded the odious claque that found that sycophancy and ineptitude were the best route to the gravy train in Farage’s party.
You will note Farage has opted for attack as the best form of defence thus exposing himself to the obvious question ‘just what has he to hide’ and he has written to Panorama’s boss Elizabeth Byrne refusing to cooperate with the programme because he claims investigating UKip and himself is an act of bias and arrogantly demanding that his letter is read out in full in any programme that is broadcast.
Farage being well aware that there are many stories of bullying, abuse and corruption to hide, many of which have appeared in the media over the years varying from the lies he has told to get elected and his dishonesty in paying his wife with tax payers’ money designed to help fund expenses not enrich his family to the dishonesty of this ex Bank employee claiming he was unaware his Isle of Man account had off shore benefits in avoiding British tax and pretending he did not use the account despite the clear record of having deposited £250,000 to his account!
Although Farage has gone to great lengths to try to ensure his name is not attached to such behaviour, recently going so far as to ensure his wife continues to receive her tax funded income by dodging EU regulations that forbids elected individuals from employing their spouses and partners by having his goffer Ray Finch employ her just as he had employed Finch for some time. Such ‘loyalty’ from his long term staff member may well explain how such an individual got to become an MEP on UKip’s list of Farage supporters.
That the independent makers of the programme have ranged widely over UKip’s finances in particular is hardly surprising sfter so many years in which UKip has consistently obfuscated its monetary dealings, despite the money being from the public purse and donations from its members and supporters in a manner which has seemed consistently deliberate and has given rise to the widespread belief that possibly sums running to 7 figures have been purloined.
It is also little wonder that when there seems a consistent pattern of behaviour carried out again and again by apparently different individuals associated with Farage who so clearly controls and dominates his party obviously leads to the belief that it is he who is behind manipulating such events.
Little wonder that Farage does not wish to be interviewed for the programme as that would put him in a position of risk where he might well perjure himself on camera exposing his own dishonesty.
Naturally Farage will use the implausible claim of all extremists and so often by criminals that ‘the establishment (watever that might be) is picking on me’. Such claims are as thin and implausible as the claims that Farage was not employing various of his sexual partners – a denial with all the plausibility of the philanderer Bill Clinton!
Below you will find a copy of the somewhat desperate letter Farage has authorised but as usual avoiding it being seen to bear his signature and thus being deniable if it backfires! A common UKip ploy!
Farage’s alleged letter:
“Dear Elizabeth,
RE: Panorama Rehash of Times Campaign Against UKIP
“Thank you for your letter, the contents of which I have given careful consideration to and quite frankly are a rehash of a series of overtly hostile articles published in the Times during the run up to the May 2014 European Elections in which I hope you will note that over 4.3 million people voted for UKIP and we are now the biggest British party in the European Parliament.
“Having established that your line of questioning is in no way original or “fresh to the market”, it is apparent from the tenor of your questions and the approach being taken by you that you are adopting a specific agenda which clearly conflicts with the well accepted BBC principles that a programme for public consumption should be fair and balanced.
“Regretfully, the concept of Panorama as judge and jury on (last century and ten-year-old) allegations which have been well dealt with by me in the past does not fulfill the BBC’s charter obligations, or for that matter, its role.
“Accordingly, I can give you no further assistance and should point out to you that should you wish to proceed with this programme, I expect you to read out, without interruption, in full and without censorship, the entire contents of this letter.
“As you well know, our party is now in receipt of at least two new supporters for every ex-Conservative supporter and I wonder if it is your Labour contacts that have interested you in this project, which has previously been utilised by a panicking Conservative Party.
“A Panorama programme aimed at explaining the workings of the EU, as your Charter obliges you to do, would be far more beneficial to the British people than a tedious BBC hatchet job at the behest of your pro-EU contacts.
“Finally, if you fail to read out and place on screen this letter in any programme you choose to broadcast, this will be brought to the attention of the BBC governors and of course OFCOM.
“This letter is my final word on the matter so please do not continue the correspondence with me.”
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