The Times predictable attack on Farage

[SpontaneousOrder]

Are conspiracy theories like rainbows?

In what way?

[speling bee]

In what way?

In the way that you suggest they may be.

[doodab]

I suppose all the stories around Scottish Independence have always been been there also, we just notice them more this year, we will notice them more and more as September approaches...BUT there is no correlation between them and the referendum.

I think there is a big difference between reporting on an upcoming event, public pronouncements made by the protagonists in that event and general background stories about those protagonists. There have been stories about Alec Salmond doing this that and the other since before the referendum was ever announced.

[doodab]

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

Not really. Rainbows are an observable phenomenon backed by thousands of years of hard evidence. A conspiracy theory with that sort of evidence behind it wouldn't be a conspiracy theory anymore.

[darmstadt]

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?

Whether they're front page I wouldn't know:

2013 - UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Euro MPs pocket £800k in expenses - despite wanting UK to leave - Mirror Online
2009 - Ukip leader boasts of his £2m in expenses | Politics | The Observer

There's a lot out there about UKIP expenses like there is a lot about other political parties and their expenses.....

[speling bee]

Not really. Rainbows are an observable phenomenon backed by thousands of years of hard evidence. A conspiracy theory with that sort of evidence behind it wouldn't be a conspiracy theory anymore.

You would say that, wouldn't you?

[Mich the Tester]

2009 - Ukip leader boasts of his £2m in expenses | Politics | The Observer

That was just a couple of weeks before an EU election! Proof that it's a smear campaign!

[darmstadt]

That was just a couple of weeks before an EU election! Proof that it's a smear campaign!

Bugger. Actually while checking that one out I came across a nice graphic showing the outcome of the last election. Its quite interesting that eurosceptics bang on about the EU being a left wing conspiracy, a Marxist organisation, blah blah, etc. when the majority of seats are held by the right who are in actual fact the side of the political spectrum who are more liable to want this type of organisation, subdue your democratic rights, blah blah, etc.

[Mich the Tester]

Bugger. Actually while checking that one out I came across a nice graphic showing the outcome of the last election. Its quite interesting that eurosceptics bang on about the EU being a left wing conspiracy, a Marxist organisation, blah blah, etc. when the majority of seats are held by the right who are in actual fact the side of the political spectrum who are more liable to want this type of organisation, subdue your democratic rights, blah blah, etc.

Yes, and it's also interesting that some on the left call the EU a 'neo-liberal conspiracy'.

[DodgyAgent]

Yes, and it's also interesting that some on the left call the EU a 'neo-liberal conspiracy'.

They all have one thing in common - they are all on the gravy train. UKIP are milking it whilst it lasts.