"Nigel Farage: No police action over 'take the knife' comments"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49865706



It Just a JOKE

He's a very dangerously divisive politician.
In a really bad way.

The majority of politicians have elements of divisiveness but it can be healthy division, such as on policy.

Farage knows what he's saying and knows how controversial and damagingly divisive he wants to be too.

I don't see any redeeming qualities in him whatsoever.

Who's we anyway?..... since when did farage have any power whatsoever to cut or axe anything?
If he gets a government position post brexit as an unelected body won't that make him.....a civil servant? :/

He's dreaming of a coalition with cons.
I mean anything is possible but I do hope providence saves us from this worst possible scenario

I have a suspicion Boris has already hinted at this :/

lol I doubt anyone actually thinks he was being literal, they just want him punished.

That said, he should choose his words more carefully, there are nutters out there.

Farage was just Live in The Westminster Studio
talking to Sophie Ridge (Inside the Conservative Conference)
on SkyNewsHD
And Farage again updated his Joke
to a AXE

...it wasn’t a joke, it was a term he used in explaining something his way..knife, axe...taking up a rifle ..?...these are all terms he’s used which relate to weapons and violence...terms do not have to have this vein about them to explain any situation...there are many terms that can be used which have no reference to violence...I mean this is the politician who has been shocked with milkshake attacks...so he should know the importance of these things more than anyone...of things that could incite...

"Taking the axe" to something is a turn of phrase, despite the strong imagery it clearly means to "trim the fat", and misunderstandings are wilfull and/or influenced by a dislike of Farage himself.

..the point that is being made with our politicians atm...(..regardless of where political leanings may lie..)...is that words can incite whether intended or not...and words carry weight ...so to choose more wisely in their phrases, which don’t have to relate to weaponry or violence at all...as you said yourself, Oliver...words need to be chosen more carefully, there are ‘nutters’ out there...these are not private, living room type conversations...

Absolutely right.
I agree with all that.

Words do carry weight, very much so.

Oh I don't refute that his words could theoretically be used in the wrong way. But he clearly didn't mean them to be, he made the mistake of assuming everyone in the room had an IQ higher than a tub of yogurt.

Yes Trim The Fat

Perfect Oliver

:joker::joker:Funny analogy and true :wavey:

...just referring to your post...’it’s influenced by a dislike of Farage’...it really isn’t, I’m thinking that you may have realised that I’m no huge Boris fan either...but I haven’t really engaged in any of the conversations about his use of words recently...with Farage though, he for me is becoming more a ‘serial offender’ with his choice of hostile phrases, which are including weaponry...and he’s also personally been subjected to milkshake attacks...and then afterward, condemned any use of ‘joke words or phrases’ that could be interpreted as incite full....the irony of him having just been investigated by our police force for his own hostile word choices...our very, very stretched police force atm, as well...

whenever you want to take a cut to something, whether it be a film, a book, an organisation or whatever, it is customary to to say take a knife to it. If it were not a common saying it could be considered unusual and therefore threatening, but it's not.

The title of this thread is incredibly misleading, because Farage neither encouraged others to violence against the civil service or suggested he would be violent. And for the record, I detest Farage, i am certainly not one of his supporters.

Oh the irony

I will laugh at what I want,but thanks for your input .

Exactly like when BB was AXED we all knew it didn't mean Emma had murdered the producers:wavey::laugh:

It was a knife when it made the news :hehe:

...he did use the wrong expression though...(..that’s something he said himself..)...there is no phrase so far as I’m aware that would be to take a knife to...things are axed...like a TV programme..?...it still wouldn’t have an axe ..(..as in referring to an actual weapon...)..taken to it, it would be axed/cut etc...no use of a specific weapon used or necessary...These phrases, how they are being manipulated to evoke images of hostility is IMO an intentional thing in some cases...possibly all cases...

...’taking an axe/knife to Emma Willis’ and ‘BB show will be axed etc’...are absolutely not the same thing at all...

Are people really that stupid that they really didn't know what he meant ,Jeez.:facepalm:

He was talking about "pen pushers" so maybe the old phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword" crept into his head.

You'd be surprised

Some people go through life not knowing there's independent Ireland