Farage swings …video shows he really does love Europe after all
IT LOOKS like Nigel Farage has changed tack. He’s done an impressive reverse ferret and backed Europe. “I love Europe, no, really, I do,” he says in his latest party political broadcast.
But before you drop your Union Jack mug and spill all your tea, it’s not a real broadcast; it’s for Paddy Power. And the Europe he’s backing is Europe’s Ryder Cup team.
“The first reason is Rory McIlroy, the lovely Rory – and what is the best the USA has to offer? Jim Furyk. A man whose swing has been described as a one armed golfer, trying to use and axe to kill a snake inside a telephone booth,” says a passionate newly Europhile Farage.
Indeed, it’s true, Rory is lovely. Thanks Nigel.
■ SOME SPURS fans have more to worry about than tomorrow’s north London derby. A number of minor shareholders have been receiving dodgy emails – and calls too. A warning flew up on Spurs’ website on Wednesday – warning shareholders to beware of share fraud. “It has come to our attention that some shareholders have been ‘cold called’ in respect of their shares in the Club,” it said, referring them to an FCA document about share fraud. Well, we tracked down one such shareholder. He’d been asked by a supposed US company to sign a nondisclosure form and put up a bond (refundable) to help fund a hostile takeover in return for £8 per share. The company claimed to have support from 41 per cent of big shareholders. Pah. Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy’s company ENIC owns 85 percent of Spurs’ shares. We gave this US “company” a ring. “Yes, we’re mounting a hostile takeover,” a weird sounding American accent finally told The Capitalist, having been passed around by the switchboard. With a website like theirs, we don’t think they’re mounting much, let alone a billion pound takeover. Beware Spurs shareholders, beware.