durhamjen
I think I've asked you before, not sure, but is the link you have provided again to 'Skawkbox' (with a k )the same organisation as CNBC 'Squwakbox' (with a q)?
I do hope your link to the Farage story doesn't turn out to be a 'Fake News' story . I am not saying it is, it could well be true for all I know. It's just that I think there was a post on GN if I remember saying the Pope backed Donald Trump and that was proven to be 'Fake News'.
I think I will agree with the comments that follow on in
your link asking for proof before I make a judgement call.
'I’m confused. Where’s the proof that those emails relate to Farage?'
'Enjoyed many of your articles, but the evidence for this one seems to be missing. I see no reference to Farage in the documents you provide. In fact, are you even sure they’re related to a dodgy citizenship request? My German is non-existent so I could be missing something.'
'The article claims, and I quote “The ongoing police case puts beyond doubt the question of whether Nigel Farage made an application for a German passport.” Well, no, it doesn’t. I read German and a) there is nothing in the documents cited in the article linking Farrago to the case (indeed he is not mentioned at all) and b) in this most Europhile of countries, were this to be the case, it would be all over the German news. Which, believe me, it is not. All the two emails confirm is that a case was opened on the 30th September 2016 (which could actually be someone’s budgie being stolen), and that a query is being forwarded from the Press and PR department (which could also be about budgie rustling) to another division – PK24 – of the Hamburg police. You claim “The evidence for the content of the formal police complaint was in the conversations with the source. That can’t be rendered photographically and a condition of the conversation was anonymity for the source”. So, effectively, we have to take your word for it, and the documents you cited prove absolutely nothing whatsoever. Until you actually link the case number to a document with Farage’s name on it, I will feel free to ignore this . PS I am not a Kipper, but false news will do our cause in debunking UKIP no good whatsoever.'
Yes I may well be proven to be too cautious but I think we know all too sensibly to consider carefully who/what we read and that includes links , perhaps even more so in my opinion.
As this story broke and died a death in August I would suspect this new 'evidence' will get scrutinized by the media , time will tell I guess.
