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The 12 most-read LDV posts of 2014 (Day 11)

By | Sun 4th January 2015 - 2:45 pm

Throughout the 12 days of Christmas, we’re bringing you the 12 most-read posts on this site of 2014. Here’s today’s offering…

Not everything you read on the internet about UKIP and Nigel Farage is true – Caron Lindsay | Tue 20th May 2014

There is no need to make stuff up about Farage and UKIP – there’s more than enough crazy stuff out there that is directly attributable to them. This has always been the way. Five years ago, just before the European election, I wrote about how they are really bad news. I could have written the same things today:

They have nothing positive to offer – their literature is a seemingly potent cocktail of half truth and scare story with no solutions to anything. The recycling is the best place for it.

It just goes to show, though, that, however plausible something might seem, you do need to check your sources before clicking like. All may not be as it seems.

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