View Full Version : British MEP attacked in Strasbourg? Condition: "Serious"
UserSince2005
06-10-2016, 12:00 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37572377
Rumour is that he was punched several times by another UKIP MEP.
we obviously selected some nice representatives for ourselves there .... not
Firewire
06-10-2016, 12:16 PM
meh
Jack_
06-10-2016, 12:24 PM
Sad, in both senses of the word.
UserSince2005
06-10-2016, 01:00 PM
Was originally thinking this was going to be a European attack on British values. Imagine the scandal
Cherie
06-10-2016, 01:05 PM
Apparently he is in a serious condition, I hope he is okay, no one deserves that
Braden
06-10-2016, 01:07 PM
I hope he recovers. There's a few stupid people acting like this is nothing because of his political views. He has a wife and a daughter.
Cherie
06-10-2016, 01:08 PM
I hope he recovers. There's a few stupid people acting like this is nothing because of his political views. He has a wife and a daughter.
:clap1:
UserSince2005
06-10-2016, 01:19 PM
Well we can take comfort in the fact that if he comes out of this brain damaged, unable to understand and derive logical ideas, then he has a promising career as a labour mp.
Kizzy
06-10-2016, 01:36 PM
Obviously I wish the guy well, the wording of the statement regarding the incident 'lively exchanges' is odd though... however you try dress it up it's extreme violence that caused 'serious' injuries during exchanges.
Cherie
06-10-2016, 01:50 PM
Apparently he hit his head against a wall, and suffered a bleed on the brain, his condition is improving.
i want to know who took his jacket off and went outside to have a fight with him. Why are they withholding his name
arista
06-10-2016, 02:03 PM
Apparently he is in a serious condition, I hope he is okay, no one deserves that
No blood clot on his brain
he is now feeling better
Braden
06-10-2016, 02:06 PM
There's speculation that there was a meeting with UKIP members, and Steven Woolfe claimed that he was considering defecting to Conservatives. Things got heated so he asked whoever it was to take the problem outside and that's where he was hit.
I don't know how true that is though. I'm not sure why he'd want to take the problem outside of that were the case.
arista
06-10-2016, 02:40 PM
There's speculation that there was a meeting with UKIP members, and Steven Woolfe claimed that he was considering defecting to Conservatives. Things got heated so he asked whoever it was to take the problem outside and that's where he was hit.
I don't know how true that is though. I'm not sure why he'd want to take the problem outside of that were the case.
No he said her speech was good.
As he is out of the EU.
Conservatives would not have him.
Crimson Dynamo
06-10-2016, 02:42 PM
this is why you should never fight on tarmac or any hard surface, they should have found grass.
Braden
06-10-2016, 02:44 PM
No he said her speech was good.
As he is out of the EU.
Conservatives would not have him.
That's what I read on The Guardian. I took it with a pinch of salt though because it didn't seem too realistic.
Crimson Dynamo
06-10-2016, 02:44 PM
What a delightful party
what short memory you have :rolleyes:
8UhME8dcOqc
Oh and here is one for the Tories
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21796157
what short memory you have :rolleyes:
8UhME8dcOqc
...what does this have to do with the state of UKIP in 2016? Or anything at all?
arista
06-10-2016, 03:05 PM
That's what I read on The Guardian. I took it with a pinch of salt though because it didn't seem too realistic.
Yes the Guardian
the buggers
arista
06-10-2016, 04:02 PM
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/06/13/3929654900000578-3824837-image-a-24_1475757705793.jpg
Jack_
06-10-2016, 04:04 PM
D:
Northern Monkey
06-10-2016, 04:11 PM
D:
Your sig :joker:
Crimson Dynamo
06-10-2016, 04:18 PM
...what does this have to do with the state of UKIP in 2016? Or anything at all?
Nothing I am just broadening your horizons
:hee:
Crimson Dynamo
06-10-2016, 06:10 PM
CONFIRMED
No one punched anyone
source LBC just now
So, sorry to upset the haters
Nothing I am just broadening your horizons
:hee:
I already knew exactly what you were referring to and I still don't see how it was in any way relevant
CONFIRMED
No one punched anyone
source LBC just now
So, sorry to upset the haters
Ah, so he was knocked unconscious by thin air :)
UserSince2005
06-10-2016, 06:19 PM
Ah, so he was knocked unconscious by thin air :)
**** im scared now.
Oyxgen? nitrogen? water vapour?
trust no partial.
Crimson Dynamo
06-10-2016, 06:29 PM
I already knew exactly what you were referring to and I still don't see how it was in any way relevant
Ah, so he was knocked unconscious by thin air :)
looks like he slipped
sorry to disappoint your prejudice
I think I'll trust every single news article (and, y'know, the leader of the party) which clearly states a fight took place on this one, LT :) Not to mention you're trying to defend a party which has its foundations based on prejudice, which is ever so slightly ironic
I do not see how you can defend UKIP by using the word prejudice. It just doesn't work. The whole party is based on the idea of prejudice so surely you'd be encouraging this?
Oh what MB said
http://66.media.tumblr.com/ad84d36f144405d5d92374cc964985c9/tumblr_o0ad1ibnkK1s8dn3vo1_250.gif
Northern Monkey
06-10-2016, 06:57 PM
I do not see how you can defend UKIP by using the word prejudice. It just doesn't work. The whole party is based on the idea of prejudice so surely you'd be encouraging this?
No the whole party is based on the idea of the United Kingdom being independent.The clue'sin the name.What's predjudiced about independence?
If the whole party is based on the idea of the United Kingdom being independent then they should have ceased to exist by now
Northern Monkey
06-10-2016, 07:01 PM
If the whole party is based on the idea of the United Kingdom being independent then they should have ceased to exist by now
I kind of agree.I don't think there will be a need for them once we've left the EU.Unless someone tried some shady **** like calling for a second referendum or something.I think party's days will be numbered once we've been out for a year or so.
Especially when the Tories seem dedicated to doing much of what UKIP had wanted to do beforehand anyway
Plus are you genuinely trying to say that not one of UKIP's policies has a single undercoat of prejudice to them?
Northern Monkey
06-10-2016, 07:05 PM
Plus are you genuinely trying to say that not one of UKIP's policies has a single undercoat of prejudice to them?
Which policies are predjudiced?
Is a party specialising in making the United Kingdom an "independent" nation and so therefore having as little interaction with other countries as possible not enough?
Northern Monkey
06-10-2016, 07:28 PM
Is a party specialising in making the United Kingdom an "independent" nation and so therefore having as little interaction with other countries as possible not enough?
I think you may be a little confused.UKIP don't want us to have 'as little interaction with other countries as possible'.They just want us to not be dictated to by an unelected organisation.UKIP want us to be able to create our own laws without that organisation telling us we can't because it contradicts their agenda.They want us to have sovereignty in our own country.They don't want to exclude people from outside the EU's cosy little club who do discriminate against non EU countries.
arista
06-10-2016, 08:04 PM
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/06/19/article-3824837-392C1C5200000578-151_636x382.jpg
arista
06-10-2016, 09:40 PM
http://e3.365dm.com/16/10/536x302/d372fb43028763ef77c53d131c3c49fd0bc394321746356edb 402120622cc37f_3802348.jpg?20161006214457
http://e3.365dm.com/16/10/536x302/30c7ebae40985321fd1722b78eea87c873b74ed40e8f22ab27 27454ffa99e79e_3802350.jpg?20161006215120
Not the nicest of images to be pasted over every front page is it
Jack_
06-10-2016, 09:47 PM
Churchill once said the biggest argument against democracy was spending five minutes with an average voter. I'd say the biggest argument against a free press (or rather, the existence any [tabloid] newspapers in general) is one glance and the next day's front pages
Churchill once said the biggest argument against democracy was spending five minutes with an average voter. I'd say the biggest argument against a free press (or rather, the existence any [tabloid] newspapers in general) is one glance and the next day's front pages
omg, i agree :laugh:
That picture and headline are just nonsense as the guy collapsed long after the altercation
Not a nice image but then that's why you probably shouldn't take part in punch ups in the European parliament
Its unbelievable what a shambles Ukip are. It's silly to compare them to the Tories or Labour because Ukip have hardly any history, a small membership and only one MP and yet they suffer from deeper division and more controversy than any other party. Problem is that there are moderate figures in the party like Carswell, Suzanne Evans and even Neil Hamilton who are right-libertarians which is what Ukip originally was but now they are despised by the rest of the party. Carswell regrets ever joining Ukip, you can see that in every interview he does
Still interested in hearing LT's inside source as to the fact that no punches were in fact thrown and no one collapsed and how time is just a construct etc
Crimson Dynamo
06-10-2016, 11:39 PM
I think I'll trust every single news article (and, y'know, the leader of the party) which clearly states a fight took place on this one, LT :) Not to mention you're trying to defend a party which has its foundations based on prejudice, which is ever so slightly ironic
OK mb
Tell the forum it's prejudice policies?
:idc:
Pathetic
UserSince2005
07-10-2016, 01:10 AM
http://e3.365dm.com/16/10/536x302/d372fb43028763ef77c53d131c3c49fd0bc394321746356edb 402120622cc37f_3802348.jpg?20161006214457
http://e3.365dm.com/16/10/536x302/30c7ebae40985321fd1722b78eea87c873b74ed40e8f22ab27 27454ffa99e79e_3802350.jpg?20161006215120
imagine if he had died, what a last shot.
Mystic Mock
07-10-2016, 02:52 AM
Extremist parties are dangerous.
UKIP are just another one of those, the only time they ever seem grounded is when the master manipulator was in charge of them gaining his cult to do whatever he says, and ironically it might've been good for the party when it was like that as this isn't a good way for a competitive party to lose the upcoming votes.
It should be on policies, not for having thugs in the party.
Mystic Mock
07-10-2016, 02:55 AM
Well we can take comfort in the fact that if he comes out of this brain damaged, unable to understand and derive logical ideas, then he has a promising career as a labour mp.
That sounds more like the Tory party to me.:joker:
Kizzy
07-10-2016, 05:47 AM
Dear me the desperation ... he ran into that mans fist, very fast...several times :laugh:
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/steven-woolfe-gives-thumbs-up-from-hospital-bed-as-he-reveals-his-account-of-ukip-altercation/ar-BBx6Fum?ocid=spartandhp
..the accuracy of the 'witnesses' and the media reporting as well...
A party source said: “Words were said and suddenly the pair had taken their jackets off and went outside to have a fight"....
...but in the photographs, they both had their jackets on.../they must have felt a little chill outside so wrapped themselves up again to get down to their business...
Northern Monkey
07-10-2016, 06:14 AM
Why would he still have his brief case in his hand if he was having a 'punch up' too?
kirklancaster
07-10-2016, 06:29 AM
You could not make this up:
The other UKIP guy who people 'unknown sources' are saying is the one who went outside with Woolfe, is Mike Hookem. :laugh:
UKIP have temporarily suspended MEP's Billy Nutall and Martin Stabbingham-Hall, as a 'precautionary measure. :hee:
Why would he still have his brief case in his hand if he was having a 'punch up' too?
...get your handbags ready, girls..:laugh:...
Cherie
07-10-2016, 07:51 AM
Why would he still have his brief case in his hand if he was having a 'punch up' too?
He didn't collapse straight away, he hit this head, got up and went to vote, then collapsed
arista
07-10-2016, 08:25 AM
Yes over some hours , as well.
arista
07-10-2016, 11:14 AM
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/06/21/392BEEB100000578-3824837-image-a-28_1475787533969.jpg
staying in for a extra 48hours
Niamh.
07-10-2016, 11:16 AM
Why would he still have his brief case in his hand if he was having a 'punch up' too?
Excellent work Detective Monkey :pipe2:
Northern Monkey
07-10-2016, 11:18 AM
Excellent work Detective Monkey :pipe2:
Turns out it was'nt that good detective work as Cherie just pissed on my theory:laugh:
arista
07-10-2016, 11:19 AM
Turns out it was'nt that good detective work as Cherie just pissed on my theory:laugh:
So She Should
Crimson Dynamo
07-10-2016, 11:25 AM
Extremist parties are dangerous.
UKIP are just another one of those, the only time they ever seem grounded is when the master manipulator was in charge of them gaining his cult to do whatever he says, and ironically it might've been good for the party when it was like that as this isn't a good way for a competitive party to lose the upcoming votes.
It should be on policies, not for having thugs in the party.
Er mock I don't really think you understand what extremist means
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