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Nigel Farage Has Yet More Trouble With His Nut(s), though he never seems short of sychophants willing to deal with them, a skill which seems a prerequisite in Ukip!
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Hi,
January has notoriously been a slow news month for Farage, as all who have followed him over the years will have noted!
Minded that Nigel Farage, like all other MEPs, has secure parking designated under the EU Parliament building, which rather damages the credibility of this story!
Parking with full security and camera surveillance in central Brussels, one is forced to wonder why the matter was not immediately reported to the relevant authorities, in a responsible manner – so that any alleged criminal miscreant could be apprehended.
It is also interesting that even the press report points out that if wheel nuts are slackened, driving at speed will rapidly loosen them – the last time it happened to me, when my garage failed to tighten the nuts on the front nearside wheel I had driven some 6 miles at 50 or below when the wheel flew off and the vehicle came to a rapid halt.
Fortunately losing a rear wheel does not effect the steering and when it comes off it is just as if you have dropped anchor as the vehicle rapidly halts as the brake drum/Disk gouges into the tarmac. The vehicle does not ‘fishtail’ leaving the only fishy tales those in print!
The last time the nuts on all 4 wheels were left loose, on a vehicle I picked up from the garage, I was aware of it after about 4 miles and I stopped the vehicle rather than risk losing a wheel or injuring anyone – I blocked the main road out of Inverness to Dingwall for about an hour!
I also note the media quote a Police Officer regarding the fact that it was deliberate loosening on all 4 wheels – is this hearsay or did they contact the officer at the scene and if so why did he not act responsibly and acquit his duty by investigating, what he believed to be a crime!!
The journey from Brussels to the tunnel is approximately 125 miles where the first 85 are in Belgium, before crossing into France – almost all the way it is on high speed motorways, where EU MEPs are exempt from speeding fines!
I believe there is much more to this ‘story’ than meets the eye!
That said may I hasten to add that I can vouch for the fact that neither I nor John West, Jasna Badzak, Nikki Sinclaire, Richard Suchorzewski, David Noakes nor Niall Warry were in either Belgium or France during October!
I expect all those listed at CLICK HERE can provide more than edequate alibis for any date Farage wishes to claim!
Nigel Farage’s car wheels ‘were sabotaged in an assassination attempt’:
Ukip leader lost control of Volvo when wheel fell off on motorway… and police confirm foul play
- Ukip leader careered off French road after a wheel on his Volvo came loose
- Police told Farage all the vehicle’s wheels had been deliberately unscrewed
- He was forced to jump over the road barrier to escape the speeding lorries
- Farage has received death threats during his tumultuous time as Ukip head
By GLEN OWEN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
22:00, 2 January 2016
UPDATED: 00:13, 3 January 2016
Nigel Farage fears he has been the victim of an assassination attempt after his car was sabotaged, causing a terrifying motorway crash.
The Ukip leader careered off a French road after a wheel on his Volvo came loose while he was driving from Brussels back to his home in Kent.
When the police arrived at the scene, they told him that the nuts on all of the wheels had been deliberately unscrewed, The Mail on Sunday has established.
‘Target’: Nigel Farage claims he was the victim of an assassination attempt, after he careered off a French road when a wheel on his Volvo came loose while he was driving back to his home in Kent (pictured)‘Target’: Nigel Farage claims he was the victim of an assassination attempt, after he careered off a French road when a wheel on his Volvo came loose while he was driving back to his home in Kent (pictured)
Mr Farage, who has received death threats during his tumultuous time as leader, last night spoke about the ‘frightening’ incident, which took place near Dunkirk.
‘It was the middle of bloody nowhere, and I was caught in a very bad position,’ he said. ‘There was a huge section of roadworks with cars going back and forth on the same side of the carriageway. I suddenly realised I was losing steering but there was no hard shoulder to pull on to. I slowed down, put the hazards on and then one of the wheels came off. I jumped over the wall as quickly as I bloody well could to get away from lorries and everything.’When the emergency services arrived, they told a shaken Mr Farage that he had been the victim of a malicious act. ‘The French police looked at it and said that sometimes nuts on one wheel can come a bit loose – but not on all four,’ Mr Farage said.
When he was asked who he thought might have been responsible, Mr Farage replied: ‘I haven’t got a clue. Quite frankly, the way my life’s been over the past two-and-a-half years, nothing surprises me.’
Quite frankly, the way my life’s been over the past two-and-a-half years, nothing surprises me.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage
The crash, which took place in daylight at the end of October, has been kept under wraps by Mr Farage until now. He agreed to talk about it this weekend after being contacted by this newspaper.
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.
The Ukip leader has been embroiled in a series of poisonous feuds within his party over recent years, both in London and in the European Parliament, where he sits as an MEP.
The Parliament splits its operations between the Belgian capital Brussels and the French city of Strasbourg. Mr Farage frequently drives himself to his offices in the parliament buildings from Kent because he says it is the easiest way to juggle his ‘mad’ schedule. For security reasons, Mr Farage would not say where he parks his vehicle in Brussels.
Getaway: Mr Farage was forced to leap over the barrier of the motorway near Dunkirk to escape from speeding lorries, as pictured in this reconstruction
Malicious: The Ukip leader has received previous death threats during his time at the head of the partyMalicious: The Ukip leader has received previous death threats during his time at the head of the party
UKIP’s Farage slams Hollande & Merkel in EU Parliament speech
>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3382294/Nigel-Farage-s-car-wheels-sabotaged-assassination-attempt-Ukip-leader-lost-control-Volvo-wheel-fell-motorway-police-confirm-foul-play.html#v-2738344123642393072<<
Mr Farage said he had not asked police to pursue the investigation because he didn’t want to ‘make anything of it’. When asked if he had received death threats, Mr Farage said: ‘Of course. It’s not a particularly easy game, this.’
He added: ‘The French police and mechanics looked at it but I have made no formal report in this country. The mechanics were absolutely certain of [foul play] but I have decided to take no further action.’
Mr Farage has endured a torrid time recently, with senior Ukip figures expressing concern that the party is losing momentum in the wake of its disappointing Election result, when it won only Douglas Carswell’s Clacton seat. Last month, Mr Carswell said the party needed a ‘fresh face’ as leader – only to be told to ‘put up or shut up’ by Mr Farage.
Last night, Eric Fouard, the prosecutor for Dunkirk, said he was not aware of any investigation into the accident involving Mr Farage.
No wonder he’s considering a TV career move…
The Ukip leader is considering a new career as a television presenter if he leaves politics after the EU referendum.
Mr Farage has been involved in discussions with production companies about fronting a three-part series on military strategy, including a history of the First World War. News of Mr Farage’s talks has been spread with glee by his growing number of critics in the party, who argue that Ukip needs a fresh leader to reinvigorate it.
Last night, a spokesman for Mr Farage said that the idea of him fronting programmes had been ‘bubbling away’ since early last year – when the TV companies were first contacted – but no deals had yet been struck.
Last night, ex-Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom, who once shared a flat with Mr Farage in Brussels, said he could see why the party leader would be interested in presenting a military history series.
Mr Bloom said: ‘We have done military tours together. Nigel is a very good raconteur, “Corporal Snoops manning the machine-gun at the bridge… here’s the spot he won his VC”, that sort of thing.’
A spokesman for Mr Farage said: ‘The TV thing is an idea that has been bubbling away for a while. He’d be bloody good at it – and it was discussed last year. But no deal has been done.’
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I note with interest that when I wrote about this ‘story’ I had read no other article or opinion yet made it abundantly clear that I found it implausible – I understand the Dunkirk police have now issued a statement that effectively there was no such incident to investigate.
Remember what happened to Vikki Price and her husband when they colluded to invent a ‘story’ regarding a motoring incident!
May I also remind readers that Nigel Farage ‘Claims’ he was in a contra flow system due to roadworks!
This would have meant that firstly he was driving a right hand drive Volvo V70 therefore at no time was there a need to cross the path of other vehicles as he waz\s driving on the rigjht and would have got out of his vehicle right door ajoining the barrier and merely hopped over it to safety.
Secondly his vehicle would have brought traffic to a complete standstill, until a recovery vehicle could remove the vehicle.
Last time this accident happened to me the front wheel ended up over 100 yards away although I was only travelling at about 40mph. and the vehicle came to a halt in a straight line although it was the front nearside wheel that flew off!
I appreciate after the many years I have followed Nigel Farage’s antics and those of his cult followers that his followers are VERY gullible – Just who would wish to see Nigel Farage dead and what motive would they have to risk issuing a death threat. Of course I appreciate that he and other Ukip MEPs would love to have body guards to gain publicity and elivate their status, but it would be a total waste of public money. It held up traffic near my house on the A48 for almost an hour before it was recovered by ny garage about one mile away!
I know Farage has claimed that he has received death threats but from whom? The EU would most clearly not wish to see him or his little group vanish as without them the EU would have to invent and establish a similar organisation of castratti to prolongue the pretence that the EU permits an opposition and is thus, in some way, democratic.
I am fairly sure that even with some of the nuts and back stabbing fantasists in Ukip, with their lies spin and lack of achievement none would be daft enough to actually contract Farage out and as for Batten’s ‘story’, in his desperation to elevate his insignificance, bouncing bricks and drug dealers chassing him was utterly without credibility – as with so much else he does!
Who for heaven’s sake would go to the lengths of removing Farage, terminally, to gain control of Ukip or the space they fill/waste.
That leaves us with just three options which are more plausible:
- Kirsten – but that seems very unlikely as if nothing else he is a good meal ticket, is away a fair amount of the time and has for some years ensured she is well paid in a convenient non job – so let us count that out!
- An irate or jealous male who is overly excited by his extra marital activities and other drunken antics – or for that matter a thwarted/scorned suitor.
- Finally the only likely example of someone, with perhaps some justification, would be an over zealous patriot, who is well enough informed, to realise just how much harm his prominent presence in the Leave-The-EU campaign is likely to be to the chances of these United Kingdoms leaving the EU!
Though I do not believe that it is anyone in the Leave-The-EU movement.
I really do not believe that Farage is remotely important enough or significant to be a target for any kind of realistic ‘Death Threat’, and as for Batten or any of the other even more insignificant Ukip MEPs to be worthy of such threats that really is too laughable for words!
UKIP ‘Furious’ After Details Of ‘Assassination Attempt’ Against Farage Leaked
UKIP leader Nigel Farage was involved in a crash on a French motorway in October after a wheel on his Volvo estate fell off, the nuts holding it in place having been deliberately loosened.
Details of a potentially fatal car crash involving Mr. Farage became public this weekend after they were leaked to the press. A UKIP insider told Breitbart London Mr. Farage is “furious” at the news of his ordeal entering the public domain, while party officials are angry at Kent police for having failed to offer him protection in line with his high profile status and the number of death threats he receives.
Mr. Farage was driving along a French motorway near Dunkirk while he was returning home from Brussels in October when a wheel came off his car, causing the vehicle to crash. Mr Farage was forced to leap over a safety barrier to avoid oncoming traffic, reports the Daily Mail. He said:
“‘It was the middle of bloody nowhere, and I was caught in a very bad position.
“There was a huge section of roadworks with cars going back and forth on the same side of the carriageway. I suddenly realised I was losing steering but there was no hard shoulder to pull on to. I slowed down, put the hazards on and then one of the wheels came off. I jumped over the wall as quickly as I bloody well could to get away from lorries and everything”.
When emergency services arrived to assist Mr. Farage, he was told by a police officer his wheel nuts had been deliberately unscrewed, suggesting the intention was to kill the UKIP leader by causing him to lose control while at high speed. Mr. Farage remarked that while police officers were used to single wheel nuts working themselves free without being noticed, for all four to do so at the same time was unheard of.
Mr. Farage would not be drawn on a likely culprit: “I haven’t got a clue. Quite frankly, the way my life’s been over the past two-and-a-half years, nothing surprises me”.
The UKIP leader had declined to speak about the incident until he was contacted by the Daily Mail newspaper after they received news of the crash from an unnamed source.
A UKIP source told Breitbart London the core UKIP leadership team who knew about the crash had “kept quiet” and the fact the incident had been leaked did nothing more but “rub salt in the wounds”.
To view the original of this article CLICK HERE
Could Nigel Farage’s fantasy spin all boil down to the fact that he never pays attention to detail and largely discounts facts and thus he completely overlooked this detail:
There is a strong possibility this pertained to Farage’s V70 and shows that this type of acccident is not uncommon – as I have shown I have had this problem, giving two instances of the 3 times it has happened to me; once when ALL the nuts were shown to be loose – accidents do happen hence the word accident and there is absolutely no reason to try to spin them to be assassination attempts, beyond of course delusion and self aggrandisement.
For these and other reasons I incline to the belief that Nigel Farage has spun this ‘story’ beyond plausibility, and the most likely official protection he or Batten are likely to receive are warders!
The ice is very thin around them!
That this fantasy piece was published atall reflects very badly not only on Nigel Farage, making him and his cult followers in Ukip and their obvious gullibility on Twitter look foolish – but also it was clearly utterly irresponsible of the various journalists to publish such palpable and easily checked dross!
If I can smell a rat where were the journalistic skills in the media, particularly when I was able to check my belief and show the ‘story’ just didn’t stand up on multiple counts!
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That really turns UKIP into a bed-blocker. Far from educating the voting public at large, Farage isn’t even reaching his own members. This is the response of a branch chairman to a question on UKIP’s policy to Art 50:
“My understanding is that Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty is designed to prevent the sheep leaving the fold. We must leave on our own terms, even though we know the technocrats will try to make it as difficult as they can”.
I suppose, though, that if this is the level of ignorance in the party, it is better if UKIP keep away from EU issues and leaves them to the grown-ups.
It’s a fork – bank on about the EU and stay on the outside, quieten down on that subject in order to increase your vote and get accused of abandoning your principles. The question is, do you really think Farage has given up Brexit as a goal?
A couple of points. Where is the sense in going quiet on the EU just as the ‘in’ campaign is dominating the debate? And surely the question to ask is if Farage has Brexit as a goal, what is he doing to bring it about? Finding evidence to support his exit credentials is getting harder all the time. I believe he is leaving EU withdrawal behind for personal reasons.
In answer to your question, I think Farage will do anything that helps him realise his ambition. If that means turning UKIP into just another mainstream party to help him into Westminster, then I have no doubt he would do whatever suits him.
The reality of the hustings may have been overlooked in this piece. Connecting with the voter and backing up the EU withdrawal case with other policies that appeal is important and probably necessary to attract votes.
It works like this, “That Nigel Farage who wants the UK to leave the EU, well he talks a lot of sense on HS2 (etc. etc. etc.), so maybe he’s onto something when it comes to Europe”.
Furthermore the complexities of withdrawal, via Article 50 or indeed any other means, will remain opaque until the process of withdrawal begins. No one in Brussels or London ever imagined Article 50 would ever be used in anger. Nobody, whether that be the Commission, Council or indeed UKIP can second guess this one. It is simply uncharted territory.
This is not to say that this issue should not be discussed, and that the possible options, mechanisms and pitfall analysed; but I suggest that for Mr. Farage to publicly raise this issue, at the present juncture, would be both foolish, unnecessary and counter productive.
First we ideally need the settled will of the people to be firmly in favour of withdrawal and for that to be demonstrated democratically and unequivocally. At this point the UK will presumably play its hand (badly or otherwise).
However, today we are not even sure if Lisbon will be politically or even legally the most important Treaty. Indeed if Cameron’s timetable is followed, it does seem possible that by 2018 a fully federalised Eurozone could be in-place (assuming that insolvency and civil unrest hasn’t put paid to the centralist agenda). This may well change the dynamic in Europe so that it is a new Treaty, not Lisbon, that federalists will rally around.
The criticism of Mr. Farage’s strategy is rather harsh, his job is to attract voters and at this stage not to inform them about the technicalities of the possible mechanisms of withdrawal. This is made especially so at this time when even the most prescient would be hard pressed to offer a credible forecast as to how things might actually pan out.
In light of that Farage, and UKIP’s over all approach of weakening the Conservative Party in its Europhile form at least (and of course to a lesser extent the others) and raising UKIP’s profile on EU and non-EU policy areas is working. So much so that even the President of the United States (whilst remaining philosophically a Europhile) raised the Referendum issue on the steps of the White House. It is UKIP’s rise that has forced the issue onto the agenda. So far their strategy not only looks relatively successful, it is also the only democratic game in town.
That does not mean those with more in-depth knowledge should not continue to debate, explore, and advise on the consequences, mechanisms and possible outcomes. Or that UKIp’s approach should not be criticised, as it has been consistently done on this site and at both a credible and intellectually coherent level .
Never-the-less there comes a time, especially as support and electoral success increase, when the politics of analysis and election separate.
The most important thing is votes cast in the direction of the UK’s withdrawal. With those votes comes moral authority, a force that may prove to be more powerful than Article 50, or indeed any other piece of ill thought out EU legislation (for in reality Lisbon was never designed to be a Treaty but a law within which the powers and functions of the EU were re-codified and increased).
It seems not unlikely that if, when and indeed how the UK leaves the EU, will be most influenced by the number of votes UKIP can attract in 2014 and the threat to repeat any success in 2015 and then ultimately on the size of any majority in favour of exit, should an IN/OUT be held and won.
It would seem that without UKIP none of this would be even a faint possibility. I might add that I am not a UKIP member, but it seems to me that you are asking them to jump a relatively distant fence when the electorate are still undecided at the water jump.
I am sure AT is right in all that he (and Richard North similarly) says about and criticises UKIP/Farage. For me, Farage has provided a valuable service in promoting EUscepticism and having brought it or helped to bring it to public attention. The success of UKIP now gives concern to the Conservatives and others and it was Farage with his tub-thumping who largely achieved this. For this I am appreciative.
But that, I know, does not mean he has the ability to lead a mainstream parliamentary party. The difficulty is that we have no alternative at this stage. Just for whom do I vote in the coming European elections and in the subsequent UK GE? None of the main 3 parties is worth considering so it just leaves UKIP or my not voting at all.
If AT or others have any helpful suggestions. my thanks in advance.
Sorry, I meant “AM”.
LeoSavantt,
Things can be seen that way.
However, the view you take depends on how much faith you have in Farage’s initial intent and then steadfastness to remain true to UKIPs primary purpose of leaving he EU.
I think Leo has put more strategic thought into one post than Farage has into one year of UKIP activity.
People don’t seem to grasp that Farage’s priorities are Nigel Farage and money.
Leo’s argument reminds me of the hundreds of comments on Conservative Home arguing Cameron was only pretending to be a social democrat Europhile and that once in power he would suddenly reveal his inner conservative. We all know what happened there. Why suppose Farage has any more depth than Cameron?
AM,
Yes, I was thinking about Cameron the supposed eurosceptic wolf in europhile sheep’s clothing, playing his cards close to his chest. He turned out to be a sheep and a lot of us thought he was nothing else from the outset.
Being a political party carries temptations and compromises.
In UKIP’s case it was argued that if they got MEPs they’d ‘go native’ and there’s certainly an argument to be made for that.
In the case of representation at Westminster, especially with no immediate prospect of power, there has to be the temptation to fit in with the social-democratic consensus and occupy the LibDem niche of being a general protest party – and letting the question of leaving the EU fade into the background.
Most UKIP supporters are I fear politically naive so it is not that they don’t care it is that they just simply don’t know or haven’t worked out what makes Nigel tick.
@Dufyken
“…For me, Farage has provided a valuable service in promoting EUscepticism and having brought it or helped to bring it to public attention. The success of UKIP now gives concern to the Conservatives and others and it was Farage with his tub-thumping who largely achieved this…..”
Well, you’re not wrong. Farage has, to an extent {promoted] EU-scepticism, but what has he done to advance it?
Can you name a single crowning achievement of any UKIP MEP since 2009?
No, neither can I.
No MPs, some county councillors (unless disgraced and resigned), sabotaged mayoral and London Assembly elections… at what point do you wake up and realise it’s a personality cult?
@Nailer
Thanks for the response. I do not take issue with anything you have said but I still have no answer as to how I should vote in forthcoming elections – who else but UKIP?
@ Dufken
I vote for them as by far the least worst remotely credible option, but I don’t believe in them as it were. They’re a political party and while we’re stuck with electing one team or another of dictators, there’s no reason to believe UKIP are immune to the forces which made LibLabCon what they are.
Actually, I don’t even see LibLabCon as elected dictators, more like the current suit worn by the permanent government of civil service, local government, the EU, NGOs, QUANGOs etc., all untouched by elections every five years. The answer I’d say, is some measure of direct democracy where political parties are much reduced in their role, and we’d be far less likely to have the likes of Blair and Cameron taking very unpopular and far-reaching actions on a whim or for completely self-serving reasons.
The other problem we have is the major players in the political party game having a gentlemens’ agreement not to address certain issues of wide concern, and then fighting over a middle-ground which they feel comfortable with. Is it heretical to suggest that UKIP could be drawn into this if they had enough tribal support?
@Nial Warry
Most (enter political party) supporters are I fear politically naive so it is not that they don’t care it is that they just simply don’t know or haven’t worked out what makes (enter first name of leader) tick.
Admittedly, we do expect far higher standards of UKIP, notionally the outsiders seeking radical change.
Dufyken don’t vote for any of them it only encourages them!!