If you lived in Stoke would you vote for a serial liar in the forthcoming by election? Well, if Ukip’s leader Paul Nuttall becomes their new MP, that’s what they are getting.
This is a man who claimed last year that he supported the privatisation of the NHS, who recently lied about where he lived and now, it transpires, he lied about losing “close personal friends” at the Hillsborough disaster. The last bit is unforgivable.
Nuttall has entered the land of Kelvin MacKenzie in lying about Hillsborough. History, I believe, will forever judge MacKenzie as the worst of a bad bunch and quite right too. His lies about Liverpool fans stealing from and urinating on the dead were so awful that apologies from MacKenzie in particular and the Sun in general were meaningless weasel words. Nuttall is not far behind.
Why would you say you lost “close personal friends” at Hillsborough when you hadn’t? Only one explanation: to attract support from working class voters, especially those from Merseyside. “I am one of you”, he is effectively saying. But he is not. He has been caught out.
I am not sure I believe Nuttall was actually at Hillsborough, as he claimed. Why should I believe his claims which, he says, could be backed up, presumably by other Ukip type liars? And if he was there, why the hell has he never used his clout as an elected MEP to join the fight for the truth and justice for the 96? If he is so sympathetic, as he now claims to be, where has he been through the intervening 28 years?
The people of Stoke deserve better than a bigoted, racist, opportunist liar as their MP but it’s up to them to send him packing from the house in which he does not live and and never has. If Nuttall becomes their MP, it will not reflect well on the city.
