News of the World investigating UKIP?

Wolfie Smith · 21-09-2007, 06:07 PM

An MEP was pulled out of somewhere unsavoury in 04. Its a matter of police record. Its out...

RTSTN · 21-09-2007, 06:41 PM

This is not the one where Farage is alleged to have been caught in a lap dancing club is it?

Britannist · 21-09-2007, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Aardvark

The News of the World has the largest circulation of all UK newspapers. It is obviously more appealing than any of the 'quality' papers. More ABC1s read the Sun than read the Telegraph. Rather than criticise such papers we should see what we have to do to get them to help us.

True - the News of the World (NOW) is the best-selling newspaper in the UK. I read that about one in three households in the UK take the News of the World on a Sunday.

More City of London people read the Sun financial page (the Sun, of course, being the 'sister paper' to the NOW) than they do read the europhile Financial Times.

The News of the World and the Sun are both very influential newspapers.

Wolfie Smith · 21-09-2007, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by RTSTN

This is not the one where Farage is alleged to have been caught in a lap dancing club is it?

No.

An investigative journalist might use the keywords 'Brothel' 'Gare du Nord' 'Brussels police' '2004'.

And if such a journalist came up with a name, they might then look at who this individual shares a pad with in Brussels....

Anthony Butcher · 21-09-2007, 07:51 PM

Any chance of a link instead of a cryptic clue? I couldn't find anything after numerous attempts on Google...

g hall · 22-09-2007, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Britannist

The News of the World and the Sun are both very influential newspapers.

And their rise has coincided with a lowering of educational and moral standards

ex-member · 22-09-2007, 01:15 PM

Surely this is not the old story about Godfrey Bloom-he who wrote at length of his visits to the brothels of Hong Kong- and his generous attempt to escort a black lady to her home in the middle of the night on one of his first visits to Brussels and before he had made appropriate arrangements for his needs-which was somehow misinterpreted by the puritanical Belge police who generously escorted Bloom to a police station where he played the Ashley Mote card of flashing his MEP credentials-read all about it

Petrina · 22-09-2007, 02:01 PM

No it`s not the Bloom story that has been circulating for months it`s something far more wide ranging than that and has already been discussed /alluded to on this forum some time ago .
However it has come to nothing so we can assume that there is nothing of substance which can be substantiated ,which frankly is a relief is it not ?

Wolfie Smith · 22-09-2007, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ex-member

his generous attempt to escort a black lady to her home in the middle of the night on one of his first visits to Brussels and before he had made appropriate arrangements for his needs

You got about 10% of that right....!

The Police involvement might have more to do with an unpaid bill in a brothel about an hour after the event you refer to...

Britannist · 22-09-2007, 10:09 PM

As the News of the World has been mentioned in this thread I just thought I would add that I understand that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written an article to be published the mass-circulation News of the World tomorrow - a newspaper read by many C2 voters (i.e. those in the category who help determine what the results are in many key marginal constituencies).

There is speculation from some that he has written the article just as he may be about to call a General Election.

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22-09-2007, 01:15 PM	#17 (permalink)
ex-member Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 20	News of the world Surely this is not the old story about Godfrey Bloom-he who wrote at length of his visits to the brothels of Hong Kong- and his generous attempt to escort a black lady to her home in the middle of the night on one of his first visits to Brussels and before he had made appropriate arrangements for his needs-which was somehow misinterpreted by the puritanical Belge police who generously escorted Bloom to a police station where he played the Ashley Mote card of flashing his MEP credentials-read all about it

22-09-2007, 10:09 PM	#20 (permalink)
Britannist Uber Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: London Posts: 22,896	Prime Minister Gordon Brown, News of the World, C2 voters, General Election As the News of the World has been mentioned in this thread I just thought I would add that I understand that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written an article to be published the mass-circulation News of the World tomorrow - a newspaper read by many C2 voters (i.e. those in the category who help determine what the results are in many key marginal constituencies). There is speculation from some that he has written the article just as he may be about to call a General Election.

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Wolfie Smith Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 82	An MEP was pulled out of somewhere unsavoury in 04. Its a matter of police record. Its out...

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Petrina Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: sussex Posts: 991	No it`s not the Bloom story that has been circulating for months it`s something far more wide ranging than that and has already been discussed /alluded to on this forum some time ago . However it has come to nothing so we can assume that there is nothing of substance which can be substantiated ,which frankly is a relief is it not ?