The Times predictable attack on Farage

[DodgyAgent]

Yep, we all understand it but what's your issue with this? Maybe they have written plenty of stories about it, but nobody noticed because there weren't Euro elections just around the corner.

Where have I said I have an issue with this?

[Mich the Tester]

Where have I said I have an issue with this?

Quite obviously the timing of this is geared to smear Farage just before the Euro elections.

Why is this obvious? I don't think it is; it's 'obvious' to those who believe there is a campaign to smear Farage AND that this is part of that campaign. It's quite possible that there IS a campaign to smear him but that this news has come out independently of that campaign.

[Unix]

Yep, we all understand it but what's your issue with this? Maybe they have written plenty of stories about it, but nobody noticed because there weren't Euro elections just around the corner.

Can you link to any front page stories about Farage's expenses not a month before of a Europe election where they are tipped to gain large swing?

[DodgyAgent]

Why is this obvious? I don't think it is; it's 'obvious' to those who believe there is a campaign to smear Farage AND that this is part of that campaign. It's quite possible that there IS a campaign to smear him but that this news has come out independently of that campaign.

Anyone with a brain can work out the logic of the timing. I have no proof of this and I am willing to accept that just as one day pigs will fly past my house that this story "just happens to be around" and "purely by coincidence" it has come out in the midst of farage being the centre of attention just before the Euro elections. I have no issue with it at all. They can print what they like whenever they like I am simply putting it into perspective as I see it. If you are trying to pick an argument to score points over me I suggest you try another topic.

[SpontaneousOrder]

This thread proves a theory I've long held to be true:

The lower the IQ, the greater the propensity to believe in conspiracy theories.

What does that even mean? It's like saying the lower the IQ the greater the propensity to believe in rainbows.

[speling bee]

What does that even mean? It's like saying the lower the IQ the greater the propensity to believe in rainbows.

Are conspiracy theories like rainbows?

[speling bee]

Anyone with a brain can work out the logic of the timing. I have no proof of this and I am willing to accept that just as one day pigs will fly past my house that this story "just happens to be around" and "purely by coincidence" it has come out in the midst of farage being the centre of attention just before the Euro elections. I have no issue with it at all. They can print what they like whenever they like I am simply putting it into perspective as I see it. If you are trying to pick an argument to score points over me I suggest you try another topic.

Which one of us would you like to explain it to you?

[Mich the Tester]

Which one of us would you like to explain it to you?

[Mich the Tester]

Anyone with a brain can work out the logic of the timing. I have no proof of this and I am willing to accept that just as one day pigs will fly past my house that this story "just happens to be around" and "purely by coincidence" it has come out in the midst of farage being the centre of attention just before the Euro elections. I have no issue with it at all. They can print what they like whenever they like I am simply putting it into perspective as I see it. If you are trying to pick an argument to score points over me I suggest you try another topic.

By that logic, anyone with a brain could figure out that it's quite unsurprising that Mr Farage would be fiddling expenses, given that the record of UKIP in voting in the EU parliament is so poor that they've effectively been collecting salaries for not turning up to work. You see, I see a pattern, you see a pattern, and both of us fit any new fact into the pattern we see.

[DodgyAgent]

By that logic, anyone with a brain could figure out that it's quite unsurprising that Mr Farage would be fiddling expenses, given that the record of UKIP in voting in the EU parliament is so poor that they've effectively been collecting salaries for not turning up to work. You see, I see a pattern, you see a pattern, and both of us fit any new fact into the pattern we see.

Where have I said that Farage was unlikely to be fiddling expenses? Did I dispute somewhere the claims of the story? Perhaps it was written on one of the pigs that flew past my house?