UKIP leader and parliamentary candidate admits to being a !ying git

[Nearly Sane]

Aye!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/14/ukip-leader-admits-claim-that-he-lost-close-friends-at-hillsborough-was-false

[Gordon]

Surely not!  I'm both shocked and stunned!! (not really).

[Anchorman]

Par for the course - and one of the qualifications for leading UKIP, innit?

[Aruntraveller]

C'mon guys - get with the program. That's not a lie - just an alternative fact.

[Harrowby Hall]

It now appears that an assistant has accepted responsibility for the alternative fact. Perhaps justifiably, but that then forces one to ask where did she get the information from?

Isn't it convenient when you have underlings who are prepared to fall on their swords for you?

[floo]

Aye!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/14/ukip-leader-admits-claim-that-he-lost-close-friends-at-hillsborough-was-false

Par for the course!

[Nearly Sane]

It now appears that an assistant has accepted responsibility for the alternative fact. Perhaps justifiably, but that then forces one to ask where did she get the information from?

Isn't it convenient when you have underlings who are prepared to fall on their swords for you?

Perhaps from interview given by Paul Nuttall


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-14562573

[Rhiannon]

What a dick.

[Nearly Sane]

To be fair to him, while he may not have had close friends die at Hillsborough, he did have several killed in the Bowling Green Massacre

[Nearly Sane]

I see that Arron Banks is such to death of hearing about Hillsborough and thinks anyone making political capital out of it is disgusting, that would be Nuttall then

[Nearly Sane]

Of course it is as Floo notes, par for the course



http://uk.businessinsider.com/all-the-times-ukip-has-called-for-nhs-privatisation-nigel-farage-paul-nuttall-2017-2?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral

[wigginhall]

I thought that Nuttall's website had deleted references to privatizing the NHS.   His website must be in tatters,  as gone are also references to having a Ph. D. (he doesn't), having lost a close friend at Hillsborough (he didn't), and being a professional footballer, (he was a youth player).   Is anyone actually going to vote for this guy?

[Rhiannon]

There seems to be a fashion for voting for inept liars.

[Nearly Sane]

#askpaulnuttall


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/paul-nuttall-twitter-hillsborough-friends_uk_58a43f05e4b0ab2d2b1abc0f?mk8v58wxaye5amunmi

[wigginhall]

Very good, those.   "Which of your lies would you like to be true, if you could choose?"

[wigginhall]

There seems to be a fashion for voting for inept liars.

That's horribly true.  But then Farage had 7 goes at Parliament. 

[Jack Knave]

Actually, if you lot can get passed the fake news, it was his press secretary who wrote it on his website and has now resigned. Nuttall hasn't done anything wrong and never lied on this point. 

[Nearly Sane]

Actually, if you lot can get passed the fake news, it was his press secretary who wrote it on his website and has now resigned. Nuttall hasn't done anything wrong and never lied on this point.

I note the 'this pount' so we have the other points and if he didn't lie, I.e. he didn't read what was put on his website under his name as a direct quote, then he's an incompetent idiot.

[Quizzimodo]

#askpaulnuttall


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/paul-nuttall-twitter-hillsborough-friends_uk_58a43f05e4b0ab2d2b1abc0f?mk8v58wxaye5amunmi

Brilliant

[Jack Knave]

I note the 'this pount' so we have the other points and if he didn't lie, I.e. he didn't read what was put on his website under his name as a direct quote, then he's an incompetent idiot.

Get real, he's a busy man. You have to trust those around you else you end being a one man band which in that game you can't be.

[Nearly Sane]

Get real, he's a busy man. You have to trust those around you else you end being a one man band which in that game you can't be.

Busy getting his Ph.D and playing professional football? If you don't proofread your own press rekeases you are an incompetent twat.

[Quizzimodo]

Get real, he's a busy man. You have to trust those around you else you end being a one man band which in that game you can't be.

Apparently the Hilsborough claim had been on his website since 2012.

[Gordon]

Get real, he's a busy man. You have to trust those around you else you end being a one man band which in that game you can't be.

Which involves competence and judgment in both the person you are trusting and in your own abilities regarding delegation and monitoring.

Anyone seeking elected office and who already has a public profile would ensure they were scrupulous in respect of the accuracy of information about themselves in the public domain - this guy is clearly an incompetent liar given he has been so easily undone by stuff he has no excuse for not knowing about, especially since some of the misinformation was in place for quite some time before he was rumbled.

[Rhiannon]

http://uk.businessinsider.com/paul-nuttall-claims-about-hillsborough-ukip-stoke-2017-2

[Jack Knave]

Busy getting his Ph.D and playing professional football? If you don't proofread your own press rekeases you are an incompetent twat.

What are you going on about? The press release came after those.