Paul Nuttall UKIP a road crash waiting to happen....

Paul Nuttall UKIP road crash waiting to happen .... Oh wait

Not the best picture, sorry Paul but ....

He is just a liability for UKIP, Nuttall's first grand shoot myself in the foot statement was that he thought the NHS was unsustainable and Privatisation should be looked at.
That didn't go down well with the assembled crowd, so some weeks later and careful thought and probably advise from someone, he changed his view to that of UKIP. Support the NHS free at point of use.

Myself I'm not convinced that his personal view has changed though, hes just saying what he thinks will get him votes.

Congruency is important in politics and Nuttal is anything but Congruent.  All I can say is bring back Nigel Farrage, love him or hate him he was a good speaker.

So his next, lets blunder into this one episode, was his lets try and make some votes off the Hillsbourough disaster. Really not a good idea Paul even if you were there, maybe you should have shown a little concern a few years earlier.

"As if enduring nearly three decades of lies and cover-ups wasn’t enough, the families of the victims of Hillsborough now have in their midst a would-be MP who in my opinion is using the disaster for political gain."

"Paul Nuttall’s admission that he did not actually lose “close personal friends” in the tragedy, despite these words being on his website for six years, comes after he signed nomination forms at an address in Stoke he’d apparently never been to."

Come on Paul sorry, but its been on your website for years and you didn't know, really? Either way that's inexcusable.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/paul-nuttall-ukip-hillsborough-stoke-central-election-truth-matters-a7581376.html


Well I did say he was a liability......

Now we have party officials resigning while Nuttall and Banks go to ground and try to figure out how they get themselves out of the mess they have created.

"Two UKIP branch officials have resigned from the party, claiming leader Paul Nuttall and donor Arron Banks showed "crass insensitivity" about the Hillsborough disaster."

"Mr Nuttall said last week he was "sorry" over false claims that he had lost close friends in the 1989 tragedy."

"Mr Banks later tweeted he was "sick to death" of hearing about Hillsborough."

"Mr Monkham added that he "felt that supporting a libertarian party was the right thing to do in order to effect change within the political system in this country".

"Unfortunately that dream has been shattered and the potential of UKIP has been squandered by people who have demonstrated they are not fit to lead at present."

"Mr Nuttall, who is an MEP for northwest England, is a candidate in the Stoke Central by-election, which is being held on Thursday."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-39025522


Tipped by the bookies as in a position to win the byelection I think you may have blown it Paul but we shall wait and see, theres nowt stranger than voters.




LINKS
https://www.ft.com/content/ff654ace-f517-11e6-8758-6876151821a6
http://uk.businessinsider.com/stoke-by-election-paul-nuttalls-false-hillsborough-claim-could-cost-ukips-victory-2017-2
http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/17/stoke-by-election-odds-suggest-ukip-are-not-too-far-behind-labour-6454818/

The Diane Abbott portrait Meme True but Misleading

OK Totally agree MPs shouldn't waste tax payers money, but it wasn't just Abbott was it. Eh?

Lets deal with the whole story as this just looks like a clumsy UKIP attempt to bash one party after their liability of a leader Paul Nuttall shot himself in the foot over Hillsborough.... Bring back Nigel lol

Anyway the Evening Standard broke a story ...

MPs spend £250,000 of public money on vanity portraits

Basically since 1995 (over 20 years ago) money has been spent on portraits and statues of MPs of all political parties.

So lets break it down into a simplified list, here's a selection of the main ones.

• John Bercow spent £22,000 on a painting and another £15,000 on a frame.
• £11,750 portrait of former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett
• Diane Abbott £11,750 
• £10,000 portrait of Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, 
• £8,000 painting of Kenneth Clarke 
• £4,000 oil painting of William Hague. 
• Tony Benn £2,000
• Dennis Skinner £2,180
• Sir John Major bronze bust by Anne Curry, costing £6,000
• Tony Blair cost unknown
• Margaret Thatcher statue £11,750.
• Charles Kennedy cost unknown
• Betty Boothroyd has been feature three times, in a £1,500 portrait in 1997, an £8,000 portrait in 1999 and a £9,000 bronze bust in 2000
• Lord Ashdown, £2,000
• Sir Menzies Campbell £10,346.
• Michael (now Lord) Howard painting which cost £9,400

I'm sure the money could have been better spent but to make it look like one party is to blame is an obvious poor attempt to get the focus of attention away from Nuttall's crass blunder. Actually blunder doesn't cover it, monumental crass fcuk up is better.

The truth is always better than fiction.