Ukip boss obligingly does his country a favour by standing in for Katie Hopkins but callers spoil his fun with inconvenient facts
Sunday 27 November 2016 14.18 GMT
A sobbing Nigel Farage has told the Sunday Express that Brexit and the election of Donald Trump had made him fearful of going out. A prisoner of conscience in his own land, who was reluctantly thinking of applying for political asylum in America.
But before our tortured, misunderstood refugee finally stepped foot in the leaky dinghy to make the hazardous 3,000-mile journey to the land of the free, he wanted to do his country one last favour. He wanted to stand in for that other champion of democratic values, Katie Hopkins, and host her two-hour radio phone-in show on LBC.
“Good morning, 2016 has been a year of seismic shocks,” he began chirpily, sounding nothing like a man who was suffering from being a hostage in his own home and everything like the all-too-familiar Piers Morgan of politics. For a man who goes on and on about the entitlement of the political establishment, his own sense of entitlement is never far from the surface. It takes one to know one.
Nigel moved on to the big issue of the day. Himself. Some people had been calling for him to be the ambassador to the US, he said, conveniently forgetting that the person who had come up with this idiotic idea had been President-elect Donald Trump. Take back control. And then hand it back over to a narcissistic sociopath. That’s just what the country voted for.
“Look, I’m not saying I should be an ambassador,” he said, not very convincingly. Nigel is a master of the humble brag. “But I do think I could be a senior envoy.” Or pro-consul. “I know Donald Trump very well and I think he’s a good man. We should put behind us the things he said in the election campaign.” That would be the racism, homophobia and outright lies. “And concentrate on mending fences.” Or building walls.
“President Obama said we would be at the back of the queue for trade deals; Donald Trump has said we will be at the front.” That must be why he told Theresa May to drop in and see him if ever she was on vacation in Florida. Nigel had so much life to live, he had so much love to give, he couldn’t understand why Theresa hadn’t at least called him to ask how his meeting with the Don had gone. Not calling Nigel has been one of the few things the prime minister has got right in the last few weeks.
Having spent the first 10 minutes talking about himself, Nigel reluctantly allowed a few callers to have a say. First up was Jason from Sutton who announced that Brexit had been a total disaster so far, what with the level of debt increasing and the value of the pound falling. “That’s just not true,” Nigel declared firmly. “Sterling had been falling before the referendum.”
“It fell by 1% before the referendum and by 19% afterwards,” Jason pointed out.
Nigel wasn’t having that. It wasn’t part of his script. “Well even if sterling has fallen, I think it’s great news for Britain. I only wish it would fall even further. Brexit has been nothing but a triumph so all this talk of Britain falling off a cliff has been complete nonsense.” Jason was probably about to say that Britain hadn’t actually left the EU yet, so it was too early to say, but Nigel cut him off. Facts are so inconvenient during radio phone-ins.
Next up was Joe, who wanted to say that Nigel was the Messiah and he knew the EU was no good because a friend of his mum’s had been mugged in Italy. Nigel began to purr. This was more like it. “I’ve got a very important announcement to make just after 11 o’clock,” he said. “So make sure you’re still tuned in to hear it.”
It turned out that what Nigel wanted to say was that he was planning to go back to the US in a few weeks’ time and that if the government wanted him to drop in on Trump again he’d be happy to cosy up to him on the country’s behalf. “It sounds like you’re advertising yourself for the ambassador’s job after all,” a caller observed.
“No, no,” said Nigel. “All I’m saying is that I’m around if anyone needs me. I want to help. Now can we talk about what a shambles the political elite currently are by trying to overturn the will of the people by calling for a second referendum.”
“But you wrote in June that if remain won by 52% then there would need to be a second referendum,” said a caller.
Nigel wasn’t having this. He may have written it, but he hadn’t really meant anyone to think that was what he thought. “Can more people ring in to say how much they dislike Tony Blair, John Major and Tim Farron?” he begged. As it happened they couldn’t. Perhaps not that many people were listening.
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be minded when reading the article below that Isabel Oakeshott recently wrote the hagiography claiming glory for having obtained #BreXit for Arron Banks & Nigel Farage – amusing and at times self depracating as her eventual novella was that it could claim Farage obtained the BreXit vote and failed to even mention the pivotal role played by Nikki Sinclaire which actually brought about the Referendum and the BreXit vote provides some measure of just how slap dash and inaccurate her book was.
However one must remember that ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune‘ so little wonder Oakeshott’s book was merely the work of a praise singer for Farage & Banks!
It is unfortunate that an otherwise apparently competent journalist like Isobel Oakeshott would willingly befoul their credibility by prostituting her reputation for cash but this is not her first such folly and I doubt it will be her last but when reading her articles one would be wise to question both her accuracy and her motivation.
Also be aware that Brietbart via Bannon are in the mix acting as puppet masters for and at times of Donald Trump!
Buddies sending shock waves through Number 10: ISABEL OAKESHOTT explains how Trump’s ‘Farage for ambassador’ plot was meticulously planned out
Advisers said to have ‘war-gamed’ plot before Trump’s tweet was sent
Gesture shows he was deliberately ignoring protocol
Trump was fully aware tweet would cause a political storm
Move comes because President-elect’s camp disdain current ambassador
Published: 23:29, 22 November 2016 | Updated: 00:50, 23 November 2016
Tonight at The Ritz London, there will be a lavish drinks party in honour of Nigel Farage.
Around 100 of his closest friends and supporters have been invited to the five-star hotel for a thank-you celebration for his role in the referendum, and an acknowledgement of the 25 years of his life he has devoted to getting Britain out of the EU.
And had Donald Trump lost the US presidential election, he would have been among the guests.
For a few weeks ago, when the polls suggested Trump would fail to be elected to the White House, he told Farage that he would attend the party ‘win or lose’.
When the polls suggested Trump would fail to be elected to the White House, he told Farage that he would attend the party in his honour tonight ‘win or lose’ – but a change in result meant a change in tactic
But after having won, he realised that he couldn’t spare the time coming to London – and decided to do the next best thing: invite Farage to Trump Tower in New York for a meeting, making the interim Ukip leader the first major foreign politician he received.
With this dramatic gesture, Trump didn’t so much as upset the diplomatic apple cart as kick it over.
More to the point, he was deliberately ignoring protocol and enjoyed the ensuing spectacle of stuffy diplomatic noses put out of joint.
Trump’s characteristic refusal to play by the traditional rules is also behind his cheeky suggestion that Farage should be Britain’s ambassador to the US.
The idea is a very painful message for Downing Street officials and the Foreign Office about how the stakes in the game of diplomacy between London and a Trump administration in Washington have been raised.
Trump was fully aware that his tweet – said to be a little piece of ‘friendly’ advice – would cause a political storm in the UK
Trump was fully aware that his tweet – said to be a little piece of ‘friendly’ advice – would cause a political storm in the UK.
It brutally emphasised his position of strength. For he realised that Prime Minister Theresa May would have no choice but to reject his advice (for a host of political reasons) and this would put them on collision course.
I’m told that his ‘Farage for ambassador’ suggestion was meticulously ‘war-gamed’ by his advisers.
In other words, the ploy was analysed at length and the note only sent after consideration of all possible tactics and the likely response.
Of course, Trump’s team never expected that Mrs May would welcome the suggestion and jettison the current UK ambassador to Washington, Sir Kim Darroch (a career diplomat with special interests in national security issues and the EU) to make way for a man who has caused the Tory Party so many problems.
They were simply trying to test Mrs May and sending a typically blunt message about how Trump intends to operate as president.
Trump’s team never expected that Mrs May would welcome the suggestion and jettison the current UK ambassador to Washington, Sir Kim Darroch to make way for a man who has caused the Tory Party so many problems
As a result, Downing St can be in no doubt that when it comes to his dealings with Britain, as with everything else, ‘The Donald’ will not play by the rules.
In time, he may inevitably be more restrained, but for now, at least, he intends to do things his way.
As someone based in Britain who has been in daily contact with his team since his election told me: ‘Fellow world leaders and diplomats had better get used to such behaviour.
‘If they want to deal with him, they have to realise that Trump doesn’t have any truck with diplomatic niceties.
‘He thinks all that stuff is part of the Establishment ‘swamp’ which he has vowed to drain.’
Meanwhile, Trump’s very close relationship with Farage is going to pose a major problem for Mrs May.
Already, the photo of the Ukip leader and Trump grinning together beside the gold-plated doors of the latter’s apartment in Trump Tower must have been galling to the Prime Minister.
Trump’s very close relationship with Farage is going to pose a major problem for Theresa May
What’s more, Trump’s advisers are taking daily advice from Farage, who ten days ago mischievously said Mrs May ought to meet Trump – particularly after her team had been ‘quite rude’ about him and that there were ‘fences to be mended’. For her part, Mrs May undoubtedly hopes that the issue over the choice of UK ambassador to the US will blow over.
Downing Street will agree the view of a former holder of that post, Sir Christopher Meyer, who said yesterday that our ambassador ‘exists to defend UK interests in US, not US interests in UK’ and that we ‘can’t have foreign presidents deciding who our ambassador should be.’
But with Trump calling the shots with his incendiary suggestion, urging the British Government to give his buddy a key job, Mrs May has been put in a quandary.
Behind all this is the fact that the Trump camp hold in disdain our current ambassador and do not want do business with him.
Privately, they describe Sir Kim Darroch in graphically rude terms.
This is not a good basis on which the Foreign Office to proceed as it tries to strike a new, favourable, trade deal for Britain with Washington post-Brexit.
This said, Trump is very keen that Britain makes a success of life outside the EU. Not only does he love the UK, he’s also compared his own ‘Make America Great Again’ project to Brexit.
This means that his belief in our two countries sharing similar ideals gives him an emotional stake in Britain’s future outside the European Union.
As a result, having an Anglophile in the White House should be good news for Britain – certainly better than was the case with Barack Obama who warned that the UK would be at the ‘back of the queue’ in any trade deal with the US if we quit the EU.
So, Mrs May ought to take advantage of Farage’s hotline to the Oval Office. She must try to defuse Trump’s animus against Sir Kim Darroch.
One way would be to find a suitable role for Farage.
Not only does Trump love the UK, he’s also compared his own ‘Make America Great Again’ project to Brexit
While making him our ambassador is clearly out of the question, an elegant solution might be to appoint him as a special envoy or give him a role with one of the ministerial teams planning Brexit.
If that happens, for the first time in his political career, he would be ‘inside the tent’ rather than outside it making life awkward for the government of the day.
Giving him a long overdue peerage or knighthood – as I expect will happen in the New Year’s Honour List – would reinforce his status and smooth the way.
Of course, Mrs May would absolutely hate doing this – and it would also attract a huge deal of opprobrium from Farage’s many enemies.
Of course, Nigel Farage is a divisive character. But like or loathe him, as is the case with Donald Trump, he gets things done.
Brexit is proof of that and his pivotal relationship with the Trump presidency must be exploited in Britain’s national interest.
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Diane James Jumps Ship, Quitting Ukip, Having Blown Her Cover, though to be fair she was in that position long ago!
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so Diane James has now qit Ukip giving a totally predictable appologia which has produced howls of rage from Nigel Farage, no doubt as a result of his inevitable loss of personal income as her Group President.
Funny isn’t it those who no clamour for James to resign her seat and quit as an MEP when no such rants pertained to those who removed themselves, or were removed, from Nigel Farage’s party or his control yet remained as props to his income stream such as Susanne Evans, Steven Woolfe, Godfrey Bloom, Janice Atkinson, Trevor Coleman, and the like – it is only those who leave Farage, or his allie France’s Front National (The Le Pen family party!), who are villified and demands of surrender their seat are made eg. Nikki Sinclaire, Marta Andreasen, Amjad Bashir, David the desk Bannerman and now Diane James!
Nikki Sinclaire was particularly villified as she worked hard, against Nigel Farage’s interestsd, to obtain the BreXit vote as it was she who orchestrated the petition, which Nigel Farage expressly opposed, that gained over 1/4Million signatures which gave rise to the House of Commons debate on Britain’s future relationship witjh the EU and the promise in the Tory manifesto of an IN or OUT EU Referendum which her tireless and well organised efforts ensured would end in a BreXit vote.
Together with the many backbenchers and Labour MPs like Kate Hoey and an army of bloggers led largely by Richard North’s expertise and sound advice ensured a BreXit vote the Leave.EU Nigel Farage campaign was damaging to the cause with its lack of facts, self serving jingo and endless squabbling – not least of which was with the Vote Leave campaigners and their badly led Westminster bubble data mining operation led by the professional parasites Cummings & Elliot who seemed only interested it data mining and follish comments like £350M a week currently spent on EU membership COULD be spent on the NHS – when clearly there would be no short term cash gain when we Leave-The-EU and their sloganising forgot to point out they had awarded themselves £99,000 a year salaries and expenses etc and set up a management company in Hong Kong which fortuitously is beyond the reach of Data Protection laws!
Clearly the BreXit vote owes more to Nikki Sinclaire than any other single individual qand for having the timerity to act in Britain’s interests Nigel Farage colluded with a criminal plant in her offices named John Ison to seek to frame her with false evidence for fraud – a charge that once the Judge in the case officially cautioned John Ison in open court and Nigel Farage was clearly shown to be involved in colluding & plotting with John Ison soon collapsed and Nikki Sinclaire was totally exhonourated from the lies and scheming of John Ison, Nigel Farage and others!
Sadly as yet British Justice is failing us, seemingly due to a corrupt police force and corruption colluding in the CPS, as Ison, Farage and others have not yet been charged and faced prosecution for their criminal efforts to corrupt the course of justice, bearing false witness and conspiring to mislead and corrupt in a manner which so far has cost the British tax payers an estimated £1.1/2 Million. For more details CLICK HERE
Nigel Farage accuses Diane James of ‘irrational selfishness’ after she quits Ukip over ‘difficult’ relationships
Nigel Farage with Diane JamesCredit: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP or licensors
21 November 2016 • 4:40pm
Nigel Farage has accused former Ukip leader Diane James of an act of “irrational selfishness” and called on her to stand down as an MEP after she quit he party.
Ms James, who was elected an MEP for South-East England in 2014 said her relationship with Ukip had become “increasingly difficult” since she gave up the leadership last month just 18 days after being elected. She has announced that she is quitting Ukip and will stand as an independent MEP.
Mr Farage denounced the decision as “yet another act of irrational selfishness” and said she was no longer fit to sit as an MEP. Ukip leadership candidate Suzanne Evans also urged her to quit the European Parliament.
In a statement, Ms James said that European Parliament President Martin Schulz had agreed to her request immediately to take up independent status.
Explaining her decision, she said: “At a high profile public event in Cambridge last week, I was asked why I had not completed the process to become leader of Ukip. I had little option but to give the truthful response that, although nominated leader by popular vote in the membership, I found that I had no support within the executive and thus no ability to carry forward the policies on which I had campaigned.
“My decision to retire from the election process and not complete it was very difficult personally and professionally, given that Ukip has dominated my life and all my efforts for over five years.
“In recent weeks, my relationship with the party has been increasingly difficult and I feel it is now time to move on. I wish the party well for the future under new leadership.”
Ms James, 56, said she would continue to serve constituents “effectively and diligently” as an independent for the remainder of her five-year term.
But Mr Farage, who returned as interim leader following her decision not to take up the post, said: “This is yet another act of irrational selfishness from Diane James.
“This pattern of behaviour says that is she unfit to continue as an MEP. She should do the honourable thing and resign.”
Her departure means that the 24-strong contingent of Ukip MEPs elected in 2014 has been reduced to 20. Amjad Bashir defected to Conservatives in 2015, while Steven Woolfe and Janice Atkinson now sit as independents.
Ms Evans said that all four – including Ms James – should give up their seats, which they secured due to their position on Ukip party lists under a proportional representation system.
“I am very sorry to hear Diane James has decided to leave Ukip,” said Ms Evans. “I am sure she has her own personal reasons and I do not question those.
“However she, like Steven Woolfe, were both elected as MEPs on a Ukip ticket, not as individuals. If they have any honour or integrity, both should now stand down as MEPs and vacate their seats. I reiterate my call for defectors Amjad Bashir and Janice Atkinson to do the same, for the same reasons.”
Ukip MEP Patrick O’Flynn said: “Sorry to lose a colleague but glad of my judgment that neither she nor Mr Woolfe were suitable candidates for leader.”
Ukip is currently undergoing its second leadership contest in a matter of months, with Ms Evans, Paul Nuttall and John Rees-Evans competing for votes of party members, with the successor to Mr Farage due to be announced on November 28.
This was a situation which clearly could have been avoided had Nigel Farage’s party understood and practiced due dilligence and was clearly predictable and in fact inevitable as this article shows CLICK HERE & also HERE and ALSO
However it would seem that Nigel Farage, his Ukip party & Donald Trump do have one thing in common and that is a slip shod approach to due dilligence and integrity not to mention leadership skills, attention span and ethics!
I presume some of the ideas Nigel Farage will give Donald Trump wil include: lie repeatedly until it becomes the truth by repetition in a bone idle media, publish as many hagiographies as you can to establish an entirely false truth and jump on any passing band wagon that will keep your name in the media!
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Looks Like Nigel Farage’s Ukip Has Been Caught Stealing From The Public Purse AGAIN! Once again they drag the name & values of British politics into the gutter with them!
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having watched and studied efforts made, including lies in Court & manipulation of Police by Nigel Farage’s dishonest crew, aiming at framing individuals, with their false testimony and bullying, I do admit that I am unsurprised at this report.
Would that I had the clout the EU has to force them to honour the court ruling and repay the money they owe me and I do believe they owe Nikki Sinclaire 10s if not 100s of £1,000s for their conspiracy to ensnare her in their utterly dishonest efforts as it would seem they managed (so far) with Jasna Badzak.
I guess there is a possibility that what goes around comes around and their own corruption, lies and dishonesty are catching up with them. In fact I hear from OLAF today
that they are actually investigating suspect spending of upto £20Million in Ukip under Nigel Farage’s leadership and we still have not seen the outcome of
Stuart Agnew and
David Bannermann’s embezling as reported by The Times or the laundering of donations by Stuart Agnew and Nigel Farage via
Lord Pearson’s company!
EU set to ask Ukip group to repay almost £150,000 in ‘misspent funds’
Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe is accused of misspending EU funds on party workers and Farage’s bid to become MP
Nigel Farage in the European parliament in Strasbourg. Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters
Ukip is likely to be asked to repay tens of thousands of euros by European parliament finance chiefs who have accused the party of misspending EU funds on party workers and Nigel Farage’s failed bid to win a seat in Westminster.
The Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe, a Ukip-dominated political vehicle, will be asked to repay €173,000 (£148,000) in misspent funds and denied a further €501,000 in EU grants for breaking European rules that ban spending EU money on national election campaigns and referendums.
According to a European parliament audit report seen by the Guardian, Ukip spent EU funds on polling and analysis in constituencies where they hoped to win a seat in the 2015 general election, including the South Thanet seat that party leader Farage contested. The party also funded polls to gauge the public mood on leaving the EU, months before the official campaign kicked off in April 2016.
“These services were not in the interest of the European party, which could neither be involved in the national elections nor in the referendum on national level,” concluded the parliament’s finance watchdog.
“The constituencies selected for many of the polls underline that the polling was conducted in the interest of Ukip. Most of the constituencies can be identified as being essential for reaching a significant representation in the House of Commons from the 2015 general election or for a positive result for the leave campaign,” the report continued.
The ADDE also used EU funds for polling ahead of the Scottish and Welsh elections in 2016, the report said.
Summarising, the report stated: “The administration discovered a substantial number of activities for which financing ought to be considered as non-eligible expenditure.”
Ukip rejected allegations it had broken EU rules. “We have abided by the rules at all times,” a party spokesman said. The ADDE has been contacted for comment.
The report suggests the ADDE would go bankrupt without these funds, a further problem for the cash-strapped Eurosceptic group. European parties are only entitled to EU grants if they can prove they have other sources of income, such as membership dues and donations.
If the report is approved by European parliament leaders on Monday, the ADDE will be asked “to propose measures for financial improvement” within a month.
The ADDE is a pan-European political party dominated by Ukip, but includes MEPs from Germany’s hard-right Alternative for Deutschland and one former member of France’s Front National. The pan-European party has a far lower profile than the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy, another Ukip-dominated group that manages the daily business of Farage’s party and his allies in the European parliament. Both have become significant sources of funding for Ukip.
Of the ADDE’s 35 members, 15 are Ukip MEPs, including Farage, as well as the frontrunner to replace him, Paul Nuttall. Steven Woolfe is listed as a member on the ADDE website, although he quit Ukip last month after a public altercation with a fellow MEP that left him in hospital.
The report names three Ukip party workers who were given contracts to run Ukip opinion polls said to be funded by EU money.
The report says Christopher Lowe, better known as Chris Bruni-Lowe, Sam Gould and Daryll Pitcher were found to have done consultancy work for Ukip while being active party workers – a breach of EU rules, according to the report.
Chris Lowe received €87,000 over six months in 2015 from Ukip, while he was the party’s campaign director, according to the report. Sam Gould, Ukip campaign manager for the Welsh elections and a parliamentary candidate, was given €25,000 between June and September 2015. Daryll Pitcher, another Ukip parliamentary candidate, benefitted from contracts worth €21,000 over the same period.
The report does not suggest the three men were aware they could be receiving unauthorised funds. From the work of the three consultants it was “obvious that the principal objective and the core activity of Ukip concerned the EU referendum”. The analysis from the polls “was indisputably useful for Ukip” and “the financing of these polls and the thereto linked activities shall be considered as non-eligible.
“The expenditure related to them is found non-eligible as the consultants were paid for an activity that was predominantly or even purely in the interest of the national party Ukip and therefore are considered as prohibited.”
The report covers 2015, so does not include the period of the EU referendum in June, or the frenzied weeks of campaigning in the spring and summer of this year. The ADDE is still entitled to €820,000 in EU funds for 2015.
The report will be presented to the European parliament’s most senior MEPs at a closed session on Monday night in Strasbourg. The committee, chaired by European parliament president, Martin Schulz, is expected to approve the request for repayment.
The total €500,000 in denied expenses includes €23,000 that will be refused to Belgium’s People’s party, another ADDE member accused of misspending.
Parliamentary auditors are also seeking €34,000 from the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe, a Ukip-affiliated pan-European thinktank. In this case, a Dutch political party is accused of misspending EU funds on a referendum in the Netherlands. Dutch voters rejected closer ties with Ukraine in April, in a vote seen as a victory for Eurosceptics months before the Brexit decision.
The report was drawn up as part of the annual checks on EU party finance. Other pan-European parties were given a clean bill of health earlier this year, but parliamentary authorities opened an investigation into Ukip after independent auditors refused to sign off the accounts.
The EU has been funding pan-European political parties since 2004 in an attempt to boost interest in European parliament elections. Parties are entitled to grants for conferences and European elections, but not national elections or referendums. Consultants are also meant to be independent from the parties they are working for.
Ukip spokesman Gawain Towler rejected the report’s central claim that the party and ADDE group had failed to comply with EU rules. “We have been scrupulously careful and we have abided by the rules at all times.” Asked about the named individuals, he repeated: “We have abided by the rules at all times.”
He questioned the timing of the report, which he said neither Ukip nor the ADDE group had seen. “I do think it seems odd … You received this before we did and [the ADDE] did.”
Joe Jenkins, an ADDE spokesman, accused the European parliament of trying to shut down the pan-European party and said the group would contest the claims in the European court of justice.
“The parliament administration has for months taken an aggressive and hostile attitude over the audit, amounting to nothing short of deliberate harassment,” he said in a statement.
“We have responded to their queries with a mass of information and explanation justifying our activities and expenditure. They have simply ignored our submissions and in several cases these submissions having been made repeatedly on their request.”
“They have broadened the definition of “expenditure supporting a political party” so widely as to deny us the right to undertake any activity which might be remotely interesting to ADDE members.”
ALL MY BLOGS & WEB SITES are clearly sourced to me
I do NOT use an obfuscated eMail address to hide behind
I do NOT use or bother reading FaceBook
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I ONLY GUARANTEE to answer identifiable eMails
I ONLY GUARANTEE to phone back identifiable UK Land Line Messages
I do NOT accept phone calls from witheld numbers
I Regret due to BT in this area I have a rubbish Broadband connection
I AM opposed to British membership of The EU
I AM opposed to Welsh, Scottish or English Independence within an interdependent UK
I am NOT a WARMIST
I do NOT believe the IPCC Climate Propaganda re Anthropogenic Global Warming
I AM strongly opposed to the subsidy or use of failed technologies eg. WIND TURBINES
I AM IN FAVOUR of rapid research & development of NEW NUCLEAR technologies
I see no evidence to trust POLITICIANS at any level or of any persuasion
I do NOT believe in GODS singular or plural, Bronze Age or Modern
I value the NHS as a HEALTH SERVICE NOT a Lifestyle support
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial or GBH rape.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial, terrorist, mass or for pleasure murder.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial gross child abuse including sexual.
I do NOT trust or believe in armed police
I do NOT believe in prolonging human life beyond reasonable expectation of sentient participatory intellectual existence
I believe in EUTHENASIA under clearly defined & legal terms
I try to make every effort to NOT infringe copyrights in any commercial way & make all corrections of fact brought to my attention by an identifiable individual
Donald Trump & Arron Banks The Tory Backer who switched to supporting Nigel Farage’s Ukip! Just how inept is Donald Trump?
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Hi,
for some understanding of why the British Government is unwilling to involve Nigel Farage in negotiations regarding BreXit and even less interested in his being linked with discussions with Britain’s discussions with POTUS elect Donald Trump may be gleaned from the first article below:
‘Spy MP’ helped Russian woman in mafia inquiry
Documents show that Mike Hancock involved himself so closely in the case of the second woman that he hand-delivered a letter to her
Daniel Foggo Published: 12 December 2010
Hancock’s parliamentary assistant Katia Zatuliveter is in detention awaiting deportation (Chris Ison)
A Liberal Democrat MP whose parliamentary assistant has been accused by MI5 of being a spy intervened to stop another young Russian woman being deported. She was being investigated by Special Branch detectives over possible links to the Russian mafia.
Documents seen by The Sunday Times show that Mike Hancock involved himself so closely in the case of the second woman that he hand-delivered a letter to her, confirming her permission to remain in Britain. Her husband at the time, whom she had married to stay in the country, has accused Hancock of having designs on his wife.
Hancock’s parliamentary assistant, Katia Zatuliveter, 25, is in detention awaiting deportation. MI5 believes she is an agent of the SVR, the Russian intelligence service.
The scandal has threatened to escalate into a full-blown diplomatic incident, with the Russian embassy insisting she is not an agent, and has raised questions over whether Hancock was compromising himself by becoming overly involved with young, attractive Russian women. Ekaterina Paderina, then aged 25, married Eric Butler, then 54, in 1998 within months of meeting him in Portsmouth, where Hancock is an MP. Butler said he was questioned by Special Branch in 1999.
“There were concerns about whether Ekaterina was in the country for legitimate reasons,” said Butler, now 66 and a retired ship steward.
Another source, who knew Butler and his wife, said he was also questioned by a Special Branch officer about Paderina.
“It wasn’t her specifically that Special Branch were interested in; she was merely a cog in what they were looking at,” said the source. “To put it very bluntly, they were looking at a Russian mafia connection to Portsmouth.”
Butler said he realised shortly after his wedding that Ekaterina had married him only so as to remain in Britain. Despite the marriage, the authorities made attempts to return her to Russia, and the couple approached Hancock for help. Butler said he quickly developed reservations over involving Hancock.
“I could see him looking at her in his office in a certain way,” he said. “One day I came home and found them both in the conservatory, and Ekaterina had her legs positioned in a way which was very provocative and Hancock was leaning forward in his chair. I got angry and told him I would thump him if he didn’t get out.”
Hancock wrote letters on Paderina’s behalf to Barbara Roche, the immigration minister at the time, supporting her application to stay in Britain.
An entry in Paderina’s diary in September 1999, seen by The Sunday Times, stated: “Mike Hancock arrived, we had a chat, he gave me a letter which said that I have been granted another visa for a year. Immediately it was like having a huge weight taken off my shoulders.”
After being divorced by Butler in 2001, Paderina quickly remarried another British man. Paderina, now 37 and with the married name Banks, said she had no knowledge of Special Branch’s interest in her. She denied ever having had an inappropriate relationship with Hancock and said she could not remember a confrontation between Butler and the MP in their house.
Of her relationship with Butler, she insisted their marriage had been “valid” but added: “I didn’t marry Eric Butler for love.”
Asked if her motive in marrying him was to stay in Britain, she said yes.
Hancock denied having behaved improperly with Paderina. He admitted writing letters on her behalf but denied any knowledge of police involvement.
When told of Paderina’s diary entry, he said: “I might have dropped off a letter at their house but I was certainly never in their house. I’m not that stupid.”
To view the original of this article CLICK HERE To view this article as I first published 12-Dec-2010 CLICK HERE
Now consider just why Nigel Farage and his motley crew may not be perceived by Donald Trump in quite the same manner as their ambitions, spin and self publicity may be perceived!
That Donald Trump has been duped into consorting with these dubious individuals is potentially, in fact may already be, a reasonable cause for ire on his part – if it is not and he subsequently realises just how much his aids and allies have failed him that anger could be wider spread.
On the other hand if Donald Trump genuinely & wittingly chose to consort with these individuals it is a very poor reflection on him and should be of great concern to the American peoples who elected him as POTUS Elect and the world at large as it reflects attrocious judgement.
Such poor judgement may well be a clear justification of the lampooning article below as clearly Donald Trump has been duped into perceiving Nigel Farage as Mr. BreXit when he clearly had little or nothing to do with achieving BreXit and has consistently failed (8 times) to gain elected office in British domestic politicsdespite riding a populist band waggon.
Let us not forget Nigel Farage did all he could to prevent a Referendum on whether Britain left or remained in the EU – He did absolutely nothing to oppose the new EU Constitution subsequently enacted as The Lisbon Treaty, he and his team have repeatedly brought Britain into disrepute with their ogvert womanising and drunken loutish behaviour, not to mention childish antics and posturings eg. dressing as chickens, being cautioned by police for demonstrations few noticed, driving around like excited schoolboys with war time scout cars on public highways etc. etc.
Let us also not forget Nigel Farage’s goffer and sewer rat Mark Croucher’s drubbing in the Courts when they tried to set me up for bankruptcy with a dishonest claim in the Courts which found against them and their subsequent failure to pay the £13,000+ they were shown to owe me by the Court and failure to honour British Justice and pay their dues!
Then of course we take note of the fact that to try to block the petition of over 2.1/4 Million signatures that obtained the debate in the House of Commons on Britain’s future relationship with the EU and the resultant Referendum Nigel Farage was shown in Court to have dishonestly colluded with John Ison to try to set Nikki Sinclaire, who founded and managed The Petition that brought about the Referendum, they failed in their criminal conspiracy and Nikki Sincliare was totally exhonourated of the dishonest claims made.
These people Donald Trump’s team have foolishly presented to him should have no role in diplomacy or British domestic politics they in no way represent the values that our ancestors willingly gave their lives to enshrine in British justice, tollerance or daily life – They are largely beneath contempt. At least Donald Trump obtained the public vote that swayed the Electoral College to elect him as POTUS Elect let us not add to his problems by linking him in any way with the likes of Farage and his mottley crew of nere do wells.
As an asside: Just what is the fascination with trophy wives from behind the Iron Curtain and the fascination with the brutish politics of Russia, its satelites and its President that seems to hold these men in thrall? Clearly some amongst them are clearly a security risk, as is the ready willingness of RT to propagandise their dissidence!
US presidential election: Forecast failure
09 November 2016
A surprise victory for Donald Trump triggered volatility on markets, but investors should recall the lessons of the Brexit vote.
The victory for Donald Trump in the US presidential election appeared highly improbable only a couple of weeks ago; but it was always expected to create uncertainty and short-term volatility in markets. An initial ‘risk-off’ reaction was the likely result; bigger questions, such as over trade relations and fiscal policy, will be answered at a much slower pace.
In the meantime, it is important that investors sit tight and remember that such short-term fluctuations are an inevitable feature of markets, and do not alter the fundamental need for individuals to save and invest for their future.
Undeniably, Trump represented the ‘change candidate’; but regardless of the result, it is important to remember that the economic powers of the president are limited. Once in power, most presidents tack towards the centre. The reality is that major changes to the US economy have not corresponded with political shifts and there is little historic evidence that the US economy performs better under any particular political hue. The relationship between growth and who sits in the Oval Office is tenuous at best.
After an initial shock, markets may reflect that the checks and balances of the US political system will somewhat limit the new president’s freedom of action. Those who fear Donald Trump’s anti-trade stance will doubtless be reassured that even a Republican-controlled Congress is unlikely to simply rubber-stamp any extreme protectionist policies, not least because the Republican Party has generally favoured free trade. Moreover, the uncertainty created by the result may stay the hand of the Federal Reserve in raising rates, which should boost equity markets; should the dollar lose value on a sustained basis, it would also act as a cushion. The 10-week wait until Inauguration Day provides a further chance for initial fears to subside.
Trump will inherit a growing US economy that has recovered well from the financial crisis and is fundamentally strong, with corporate earnings on an improving trajectory. This should continue to give support to long-term investors. Uncertainties lie ahead but markets have dealt with similar recent concerns and volatility, such as in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, and reached new highs. Indeed, given the similar shock with which the result was received, the UK’s Brexit vote could even provide something like a road map over the next few months.
The reality of a Trump administration will only be known in time, but the key principles of investing still hold true, whatever the election outcome. Individuals should continue to put in place long-term plans for their financial future and not be distracted by short-term events. Skilled investment managers are best-placed to make the decisions that can help protect investments against a range of risks – political or otherwise.
According to the Wall Street Journal: “Mr Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and Mr Trump seemed surprised by the scope.”
Even Trump’s aides – who are supposed to be the experts here – were “unaware the entire presidential staff… had to be replaced”, it added.
After what must have been an epic facepalm, “Mr Obama realised the Republican needs more guidance. He plans to spend more time with his successor than presidents typically do”.
So what might that “guidance” be like? Here’s the first, imagined phone call between the two…
“Hello? Is it me you’re looking for?”(Photo: Getty)
“No. Look, anyway how are things going? I know we agreed you could have my number and call if you needed any guidance but it’s day one, Donald. Aren’t you busy settling into the Oval Office?”
If you didn’t have a fluffy bunny on your head the eagle wouldn’t peck it, Donald
“Not really, Barack. There’s a damn great eagle in here and I.T. haven’t given me a password to log on yet. Where are you anyway?”
“You would need slabs about 40ft high and 10inches thick, that would be planted 7ft in the ground. It’s uneconomic to move them thousands of miles. You’d have to make the slabs near the wall.”
“Sure, sure. We can do that. New jobs. The best jobs. Make America Great Again!”
“You don’t understand Donald. Concrete is made from aggregate you have to quarry. There aren’t enough quarries for that near the Mexican border. The nearest concrete facility is in fact Mexican.”
“Bummer.”
“And before you ask Donald, a fence has lots of the same problems”(Photo: Getty)
“And because a lot of the border is inaccessible desert and mountains you’d have to build some roads to get the work crews out there. And then dig 7ft into rock to put the slabs in, put some razor wire on the top, cameras, staffing. The total cost is projected to be $15bn.”
“We’re going to borrow lots of money though. Make America Indebted Again!”
“Donald, you can do that. You can borrow some money. And you’re going to have to spend quite a lot of it on concrete and on recruiting a LOT more border guards because those guys all get pensions, you know.”
“That’s right Donald, that’s what you said. You wanted to deport 11m people. More recently you said it’s 2m to 3m, so I’m not sure how many you want to deport now.”
“Uh. Some? Dunno.”(Photo: Getty)
“As many as we can, Barack. DRAIN THAT SWAMP. “
“OK Donald, 2m would mean 1,369 deportations a day, 365 days a year, throughout your term of office. That would need a lot of immigration officials, two jumbo jets a day, a suspension of the legal appeals process and removing the entire bottom tier of the US economy. No gardeners, no nannies, no garbagemen, no fruit pickers.”
“Well we can give those jobs to Americans!”
“Yes you can. But it would also mean fewer cars being bought, fewer goods and services, a lower tax take and probably a few more vigilante groups rounding immigrants up ‘to be helpful’, so probably some criminal justice costs too. Oh and all the decent baristas would be in Cuba.”
“Mine hurt every day for eight years, Donald. Mainly because I kept hitting the desk with it whenever some dumbass on Twitter said my birth certificate was a fake.”
“Please, someone make it better”(Photo: Pete Souza/The White House/eyevine)
“It’s a great idea! It’s one of mine! Everyone says it’s the best idea EVER. “
“That would start a global trade war with every nation raising or lowering tariffs in order to attract the best goods and services, with knock-on economic effects for the Earth’s 6bn inhabitants, diplomacy and global conflict, Donald.”
“Well, OK, OK, all right then how about this? I’m going to make it easier for people to access and pay for two- and four-year technical and vocational college courses so they can all get better jobs.”
“That’s a great idea Donald.”
“It is? You think so? WOW. I totally like thought Ivanka was stupid when she suggested it.”
“DON’T TOUCH THAT BUTTON DONALD. BAD. NO. NOT THE BUTTON.”
RUN AWAY(Photo: Pete Souza/The White House)
“You sure?”
“I’m sure. How about your tax cuts? How’s that going?”
“Oh I’m going to give a multi-billion dollar tax break to billionaires.”
“I’m sure that’s not what you promised Donald.”
“Oh yeah I said the middle classes but it’ll be billionaires too, so that’s cool. And corporations. And I’m going to close bits of the internet that ISIS uses. And scrap most of your dumb doctors and nurses thing. And, and, and I’m going to keep Guantanamo Bay open and send Hillary there.”
“Oh right. Hey Donald, guess what I just worked out?”
It all sounds LOVELY(Photo: Getty)
“What?”
“It sounds like America is going to have a big wall to keep people apart, no money, a thriving black market economy, mobsters, little contact with the outside world, perks only for those who can afford it, and internet censorship. There might even be some white supremacists in there. You know where else is just like that?”
“No, where?”
“Supermax jail, Donald. You’re putting America in jail.”
“No, I’m just going to put the webby guy in jail.”
“Is that because he hasn’t given you a password yet?”
“Whaddya mean I won’t be able to log on? How can I blow stuff up if I don’t log on?”(Photo: Getty)
“No the other guy. The guy in the webby stuff.”
“You’re going to have to help me out. Where did you see him?”
“He’s in the corridor. He runs after me all the time. He’s got webs all over his clothes. And there’s this guy with pointy ears on a mask, and some dude in blue pantyhose is drinking whisky in the kitchen.”
“That’s Spiderman, Batman and Superman, Donald. You can’t put them in jail. They’re the good guys. Well, Superman will be better in a bit.”
You got the wrong president, Spidey(Photo: Peter Souza/Twitter)
“Oh yeah? How about the French toast?”
“That’s French, Donald.”
“The cars?”
“Japanese.”
“Our iPhones!”
“Made in China.”
“DAMMIT, BARACK. This is so HARD.”
“I know, man. That’s partly why we have a year and a half of presidential hustings so we get the absolute best candidates who know their stuff. Something must’ve gone wrong this time.”
ALL MY BLOGS & WEB SITES are clearly sourced to me
I do NOT use an obfuscated eMail address to hide behind
I do NOT use or bother reading FaceBook
I DO have a Voice Mail Message System
I ONLY GUARANTEE to answer identifiable eMails
I ONLY GUARANTEE to phone back identifiable UK Land Line Messages
I do NOT accept phone calls from witheld numbers
I Regret due to BT in this area I have a rubbish Broadband connection
I AM opposed to British membership of The EU
I AM opposed to Welsh, Scottish or English Independence within an interdependent UK
I am NOT a WARMIST
I do NOT believe the IPCC Climate Propaganda re Anthropogenic Global Warming
I AM strongly opposed to the subsidy or use of failed technologies eg. WIND TURBINES
I AM IN FAVOUR of rapid research & development of NEW NUCLEAR technologies
I see no evidence to trust POLITICIANS at any level or of any persuasion
I do NOT believe in GODS singular or plural, Bronze Age or Modern
I value the NHS as a HEALTH SERVICE NOT a Lifestyle support
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial or GBH rape.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial, terrorist, mass or for pleasure murder.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial gross child abuse including sexual.
I do NOT trust or believe in armed police
I do NOT believe in prolonging human life beyond reasonable expectation of sentient participatory intellectual existence
I believe in EUTHENASIA under clearly defined & legal terms
I try to make every effort to NOT infringe copyrights in any commercial way & make all corrections of fact brought to my attention by an identifiable individual
Self Serving Egotism Passed Off As Leadership! As at last Ukip may be rid of the monkey on its back losing him to a job in America – one can but hope!
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Hi,
I am, I said…
November 9th, 2016.
Just days before the US Presidential elections, the London Evening Standard published an op-ed by Nigel Farage MEP on the race to the White House (Trump is not perfect but he is the agent of change we need- Nov 4th).
Farage drew parallels between Trump’s supporters and those who voted in favour of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU – Brexit – in June of this year. Certainly the campaigns have been similar, with concerns about security, the economy, health care, crime, and unemployment all being placed firmly within the contexts of immigration and Islamic Fundamentalism. This is populism at its most simplistic; find an enemy, and blame him for all your nation’s woes. This strategy of issue linkage draws everything together; buck-passing, safety in numbers, patriotism, and at the end, salvation through national sovereignty. It certainly worked in Germany in the 1930s.
But the most interesting aspect of Farage’s article, which begins with the words “I had always said…” is that Trump himself is used as no more than a prop to assist the UKIP leader onto centre stage.
“…my trip ended up with me not only being invited to attend a Donald Trump rally but I was suddenly informed that they wanted me to speak and that Trump would be introducing me.” To refer to oneself five times in the same sentence is not good form, to say the least.
In fact, Farage refers to himself no less than an astonishing 28 times, whilst Trump, supposedly the subject of the article, warrants just 13 mentions.
This is naked narcissism, nothing more, nothing less. Farage sees himself at the centre of everything.
Farage’s behaviour in respect of the leadership of UKIP is also enlightening.
First elected to the office in 2006, following the leadership of Roger Knapman, who was widely credited as being the architect of UKIP’s performance in the 2004 elections, Farage was to resign in 2009 in order to contest the Buckingham constituency in the General Election of 2010. He handed the helm to Lord Pearson, a UKIP peer. Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained this rather strange move.
Farage, who was convinced he was on his way to Westminster, failed to secure the seat with 17.4% of the vote, coming 3rd, behind, amongst others, a man dressed as a dolphin.
And so, he reclaimed the throne, becoming party leader for the second time.
He was then to resign again, in 2015, stating that he wanted to resume a normal life. However, new standards in political farce were set when UKIP’s National Executive “refused” to accept the resignation. So Farage was “forced” to unresign, and he came back for a third time.
Following the Brexit vote in June, he resigned yet again.
The ensuing leadership election was wrapped in the now familiar internal bitterness and acrimony, but it was to deliver an absolute gem: the winner of the election, Diane James, announced after 18 days that she didn’t actually want to be leader after all. And so Farage became de facto leader for the fourth time. Yet another leadership election is due to be held later this month; Farage has declared that he will not stand.
Following the shock win in the US Presidential election by Donald Trump, Farage is quoted in the UK press today as saying that he is seeking a role in the Trump administration, and that he would like to serve as Mr Trump’s ambassador to the European Union that he professes to detest so much.
ALL MY BLOGS & WEB SITES are clearly sourced to me
I do NOT use an obfuscated eMail address to hide behind
I do NOT use or bother reading FaceBook
I DO have a Voice Mail Message System
I ONLY GUARANTEE to answer identifiable eMails
I ONLY GUARANTEE to phone back identifiable UK Land Line Messages
I do NOT accept phone calls from witheld numbers
I Regret due to BT in this area I have a rubbish Broadband connection
I AM opposed to British membership of The EU
I AM opposed to Welsh, Scottish or English Independence within an interdependent UK
I am NOT a WARMIST
I do NOT believe the IPCC Climate Propaganda re Anthropogenic Global Warming
I AM strongly opposed to the subsidy or use of failed technologies eg. WIND TURBINES
I AM IN FAVOUR of rapid research & development of NEW NUCLEAR technologies
I see no evidence to trust POLITICIANS at any level or of any persuasion
I do NOT believe in GODS singular or plural, Bronze Age or Modern
I value the NHS as a HEALTH SERVICE NOT a Lifestyle support
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial or GBH rape.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial, terrorist, mass or for pleasure murder.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial gross child abuse including sexual.
I do NOT trust or believe in armed police
I do NOT believe in prolonging human life beyond reasonable expectation of sentient participatory intellectual existence
I believe in EUTHENASIA under clearly defined & legal terms
I try to make every effort to NOT infringe copyrights in any commercial way & make all corrections of fact brought to my attention by an identifiable individual
When Raheem Kassam’s Inadequacy Became Apparent He Cut & Ran so at least he showed, if belatedly, rather more judgement than the other Ukip leadership contenders – None of whom are up to the job!
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Hi,
Try as he might to clone himself Raheem Kassam clearly lacked the ability on all front save the rather childish platform of social media.
Even posing in clothes from his dressing up box he didn’t make it and efforts to look the part played with props was equally futile – I guess the elastic band was the ultimate fail!
As Jo Biden didn’t say to Dan Quail, all those years ago:
“Dressing up for the part doesn’t make you Mr. Farage, Mr. Kassam.”
May I also remind Kassam that though this declaration may seem imprtant and was posted on 31-Oct-2016 I sincerely doubt it will be remembered as long as that which was posted at Wittemberg on 31-Oct-1571 CLICK HERE
Regards, Greg_L-W.
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Leave your name & a UK land line number & I will return your call.
ALL MY BLOGS & WEB SITES are clearly sourced to me
I do NOT use an obfuscated eMail address to hide behind
I do NOT use or bother reading FaceBook
I DO have a Voice Mail Message System
I ONLY GUARANTEE to answer identifiable eMails
I ONLY GUARANTEE to phone back identifiable UK Land Line Messages
I do NOT accept phone calls from witheld numbers
I Regret due to BT in this area I have a rubbish Broadband connection
I AM opposed to British membership of The EU
I AM opposed to Welsh, Scottish or English Independence within an interdependent UK
I am NOT a WARMIST
I do NOT believe the IPCC Climate Propaganda re Anthropogenic Global Warming
I AM strongly opposed to the subsidy or use of failed technologies eg. WIND TURBINES
I AM IN FAVOUR of rapid research & development of NEW NUCLEAR technologies
I see no evidence to trust POLITICIANS at any level or of any persuasion
I do NOT believe in GODS singular or plural, Bronze Age or Modern
I value the NHS as a HEALTH SERVICE NOT a Lifestyle support
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial or GBH rape.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial, terrorist, mass or for pleasure murder.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial gross child abuse including sexual.
I do NOT trust or believe in armed police
I do NOT believe in prolonging human life beyond reasonable expectation of sentient participatory intellectual existence
I believe in EUTHENASIA under clearly defined & legal terms
I try to make every effort to NOT infringe copyrights in any commercial way & make all corrections of fact brought to my attention by an identifiable individual
Claims Of Proof Of Ukip Leadership Contender Raheem Kassam’s alleged Criminal Fraud may well be very plausible but the provenance seems thin!
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Hi,
on the night that it has been announced that Hillary Clinton is to be put under further investigation by the FBI it seems apposite to bring investigation to bear in Britain also and where better to start than to give the squabbling ferrets in the Ukip sack a nudge.
Lets start with candidates for Ukip leadership starting with some background:
LATEST UPDATE: UKIP funders may not be fruitcakes, but they don’t do their research on their leadership candidates. In a bizarre twist, named and shamed UKIP criminal Raheem Kassam has the support of funder Arron Banks. Meanwhile, with much more to come, Kassam’s scoundrel-like behavioour is being revealed more widely. Furthermore, we reveal the extent of Kassam’s criminal fraud — £21K at minimum
UPDATE: Raheem Kassam admits he won’t pay taxes in London. He says he is “moral”. Yet, he can’t pay taxes on his extortion money, can he?. How would he tell HMRC his income was from crime? (See paragraphs 4/5). UK regulatory authorities are now actively considering the case, according to reliable sources
UKIP leader Nigel Farage is coming under growing pressure to disown Raheem Kassam, described as “totally weird” by former associates, after an article on the Breitbart news website attacked his female deputy accusing her of ‘crying and screaming’ in an astonishingly personal attack
Nigel Farage’s right-hand man Raheem Kassam — under suspicion of multiple criminal offences — has left the party, along with fellow director Matthew Richardson (who is not suspected of any unlawful conduct)
UKIP leadership contender Raheem Kassam is a criminal, and we can prove it
LATEST UPDATE: UKIP funders may not be fruitcakes, but they don’t do their research on their leadership candidates. In a bizarre twist, named and shamed UKIP criminal Raheem Kassam has the support of funder Arron Banks. Meanwhile, with much more to come, Kassam’s scoundrel-like behavioour is being revealed more widely. Furthermore, we reveal the extent of Kassam’s criminal fraud — £21K at minimum
The face of a British crimninal
On 11 October 2016 21:14
We have named and shamed UKIP leadership contender Raheem Kassam — who appears to emulate Donald Trump (Make UKIP Great Again etc) — as a serious criminal for more than two years. We have never been sued for doing so.
The reason for this is that Kassam, well known as a scoundrel in the Westminster Village — and associating there with like-minded scoundrels — is well aware that accusations of fraud, theft, blackmail, extortion, and more, are substantially correct.
Should a case go before a judge in a civil suit, he would
a) lose, and,
b) be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Police have been made aware of his crimes, but he has intimidated victims to the extent that no case has yet gone forward. He hides inside the cracks of a broken criminal justice system.
It is now a matter of urgent public interest that this criminal — aiming to influence our legislative system — be brought to justice.
UPDATE 1. We can reveal that when Kassam defrauded a company in 2013, the minimum extent of the fraud was £21,000.
UPDATE 2: There’s far worse, and much more, to come but this is how Kassam talks to people. Media starting to investigate. Boy, just you all wait…
UPDATE 3: In an extraordinary turn of events, the Guardian reports that UKIP’s most high profile funder Arron Banks is backing Raheem Kassam. This will certainly delight UKIP’s political rivals since gaining such a position would ensure Kassam’s prosecution, and UKIP’s demise. He has only evaded justice so far due to police inaction. This inaction is purely a product of the unwillingness of police in the UK to prosecute financial crime, preferring that victims seek a civil remedy. It is a widespread problem which Kassam has used to his advantage. So far… His crimes are still well within the statutes of limitations, and a serious police unit would inevitably take over the investigation should Kassam win the leadership given the obvious public interest in doing so. In a certain sense, therefore, go Raheem, go!
p.s. One can see from some of the comments below that criminal activity is not an important issue for far too many UKIP supporters. This is tragic, because there are many good people in UKIP. But it does look like a party in a state of collapse…
Though little or nothing would surprise me with regard to criminality of both the upper echelons of Ukip and those aspiring to the same levels of control – this article does seem very thin. Probability does not constitute provenance!
Regards, Greg_L-W.
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Ukip Scotland’s Chairman Arthur Misty Thackeray has been Charged With Sexual Offences & is To Answer To The Courts for his lewd behaviour!
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Former UKIP chairman denies sex offences
The former chairman of UKIP in Scotland has appeared in court, accused of a string of sexual offences.
Arthur Misty Thackeray, 55, denies 12 charges spanning eight years between October 2007 and December 2015, involving 12 different women.
The offences are said to have occurred at his Glasgow home, at 1 St Colme Street, Edinburgh and “elsewhere”.
UKIP Scotland leader and MEP David Coburn’s office is at the same address in the capital.
One of the charges is an alleged breach of the peace by making sexual remarks over the phone to a woman and her 14-year-old daughter and telling them he was watching a “sexually explicit video”.
Another is behaving in a threatening or abusive manner “likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm” by repeatedly contacting a woman and “causing” her to believe he was outside her home and watching her.
Image copyrightGOOGLEImage caption: Some charges are alleged to have taken place at the office address of MEP David Coburn.
The other 10 charges are for allegedly “communicating indecently”.
These include contacting women by telephone, “uttering sexual remarks” and “directing sexual questions” at some of them, as well as causing some to believe he was watching adult material while talking to them.
He is also accused of causing another woman to believe he was watching her and causing her to hear “sexual noises”.
His lawyer Jackie White withdrew from acting due to problems with legal aid and the court appointed another lawyer when the case was called at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday. The case was continued until a later date.
Mr Thackeray stood down temporarily from his position in UKIP when the allegations came to light in January.
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Ukip’s Enquiry Into The Fight Between Its MEPs An Inadequate Whitewash showing Ukip is inadequate to conduct a simple enquiry let alone represent Britain on an international stage!
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a whitewash to try to provide damage limitation for Ukip was of course inevitable in respect of the altercation between Steven Woolfe & Mike Hookem Ukip’s two MEPs who became involved in an altercation that by the addmision of both parties became physical – the only disputed fact is whether Hookem did or did not punch Woolfe.
That Hookem was rapidly spiritted away by his staff member Annabelle Fuller thus avoiding any embarrassing questions until a damage limitation story was in place. That he was unavailable to answer questions, believed to have been sheltered from the press in a VIP area before leaving Strasburg and returning to Britain early. That the proven liar and cheat Annabelle Fuller, sometimes passed off as Beatrix Trixie Sanderson, leads one to believe that her role was to keep Hookem out of sight and weave a tissue of lies to try to dupe the media as she has in the past.
I believe therefore that there is absolutely no rational grounds to believe a single word attributed to Hookem.
As for Woolfe, there is little doubt that his behaviour was foolish and irresponsible in the extreme. How can these two idiots be considered suitable international representatives of anything let alone constituencies of around 5 Million people!
That Ukip came up with this as the outcome of their enquiry and then fielded the most odious and ill mannered individual to defend themselves on the media speaks volumes of their squalid little party as does the abusive and pugnacious outburst of Hookem in the EU’s undemocratic and unprincipled chamber challenging Martin Schultz to Court action!
“The decision of Mr Hookem to join Mr Woolfe in the ante room is the only action which I have the ability to consider for disciplinary action. In the absence of eye witnesses, the true facts of what took place in the ante room itself are impossible to determine and neither man has made an official complaint to the party over the incident.
“Had Mr Woolfe not collapsed later that day, we may never have known that the altercation took place at all.
“However, as Chairman, I’m appalled that such a situation could arise between two of our most high profile representatives and I have strongly considered suspension as a possible course of action.
“I do however take into consideration the following:
(1) The apology and regret shown by Mr Hookem, for agreeing to join Mr Woolfe in the ante room.
(2) The excellent record of Mr Hookem in representing UKIP and its values prior to this incident.
(3) Acknowledging that Mr Hookem, whilst foolish, was not the instigator of this incident or subsequent press coverage and as such cannot be held principally responsible for either taking place.”
“In light of this, a formal reprimand will be placed on Mr Hookem’s internal record, to be considered in the event of a reoccurrence of any infraction which might cause damage to the reputation of the party.”
This statement from Ukip, at the end of their utterly inadequate enquiry, was totally predictable and also speaks volumes of both Ukip and the calliber of its MEPs who they have shown clearly to be untrustworthy as even Ukip’s enquiry has effectively admitted they can not trust the evidence of either of their own MEPs!
Interestingly we are given to understand that Ukip have also not accorded credibility to either the hospital, the doctors or the para medics or alternatively didn’t even obtain their evidence!
Fortunately Woolfe has issued a statement that he has made an official complaint to the police and we also have the public statement of Martin Schultz that he has requested the French Police to conduct an enquiry and we can be certain they will be granted public access to the EU building and its staff and incumbents.
This rightly moves the assault to a criminal footing for the police to investigate, thus clearly the Ukip statement can be treated with contempt and be dismissed as nothing more than a very amateur attempt to seek to act as damage limitation for the party.
Regards, Greg_L-W.
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