Farage cites Andrew Tate as source of questions about alleged Southport attacker
Nigel Farage has said he was referring to claims made by influencer Andrew Tate when he asked whether the alleged Southport attacker was known to security services.
In a video posted on July 30, the day after the attack that killed three young girls, Reform UK leader Mr Farage said there had been “reports” that the suspect was being monitored by the security services.
Referring to the police description of the attack as a non-terror incident, he added: “I just wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us. I don’t know the answer to that. I think it’s a fair and legitimate question.”
Speaking to LBC on Tuesday, he declined to apologise for his comments, saying the disorder following the Southport attack had been so bad because “we weren’t told the truth”.
He said his comments about the security services had been referring to posts by “prominent folks with a big following”, such as Andrew Tate falsely claiming the suspect had arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in a small boat in 2016.
Human trafficking
Tate, a former kickboxer, has risen to prominence as an influencer and is awaiting trial in Romania on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Mr Farage told LBC: “There were some stories online from prominent folks with a big following, Andrew Tate etc, suggesting that the man had crossed the English Channel in a boat in October 2023.”
He added: “I asked a very simple question, was this person known or not.”
Asked whether he had fallen for false claims online, Mr Farage went on: “I didn’t believe any of it, I hadn’t got a clue.”
The teenager who has been charged in connection with the Southport attack, Axel Rudakubana, was born in Wales to Rwandan parents in 2006.
Police confirmed he was born in Cardiff in a statement on July 29, the day of the attack, but could not release his name for legal reasons until a judge lifted his anonymity.
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Heard it. He gets very upset when people point out he is wrong. He gets very argumentative. Farage is part of the problem.
So Mr Farag(ING) for attention prefers to believe the likes of Tate to ordinary constituents. Sums him up..
People like Farage and Tate have been stoking the fire and need to be put on trial too.
Trumpers gonna trump
Farage. The arsonist playing the fireman.
In Welsh:
Codi pais ar ol p**o
IF he genuinely wanted to ask a question, do so behind closed doors through official channels. However, I, and most reasonable people, believe that what motivated Nigel Farage and his ilk was racism and Islamophobia. He should be ashamed of himself, but he’s clearly incapable of admitting when he is wrong. Terms like Narcissist and Sociopath cover people like that. No wonder he’s friends with Agent Orange 🙄😒😠😡🤬
It’s remarkable how many self-declared ‘reasonable’ people tend to throw terms like racist, Islamophobe, narcissist, and sociopath around like confetti, based on no evidence, and not being remotely qualified in psychoanalysis.
How many candidates did farage have to heave ho out the party because terrible comments but only after they came to light via media reporting including awful comments on the then PM? Funny that a party claims to be sensible also attracts so many racists and terrible that his vetting system missed it. How many Reform MP’s have been convicted of attacking women? Farage also didn’t film himself at a bromsgrove hotel saying things, oh hang on….I mean he has never gone on about people in hotels has he, wait….he didn’t stand in-front of a large poster with people a… Read more »
Qualifications in psychoanalysis are not necessary just an ability to detect the smell.
Maybe some words used to describe the smell will not be technically exact but the smell itself can’t be missed.
Farage has caused decades of increased hate based on lies that allows a Tate to exist. He is part of the issue of the rioting going on that is apparently to demonstrate these awful murders in South port. He should shut his mouth and let the grown ups act. Get him back on GBeebies that nobody watches and away fro mthe public.
A guy who lives in a parallel Trumpist world of alternative truth crossing into our world seeking actual truth after the actual truth had been given only to cross back into his alternative truth world to say he couldn’t find it.
Typical of the sort of weasel words I’ve come to expect from Farage – it is, of course, never his fault (it’s always someone else), he was only asking questions any supposedly ‘reasonable’ person would, he didn’t mean to imply (when of course he insinuates) etc. etc.
He’s an MP now – he could’ve asked the questions in Westminster which would be the proper forum for an MP.
Let’s face it, he’s desperate for parliament to be recalled because he thinks that from there he can spew his bile with impunity. It’s only a matter of time before he trips himself up.
The headline in one of the tabloids in my paper shop was “Farage claims the UK is at a tipping point” or something similar – I didn’t bother to try to read it. Yet he has been one of those stoking the fires of racism and Islamophobia!