{"id":14271,"date":"2024-06-30T13:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14271"},"modified":"2024-06-30T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T13:29:15","slug":"farage-trolled-by-donkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14271","title":{"rendered":"Trolled by donkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwtc.co.uk\/columbine-centre\/\">Columbine Centre<\/a> in the Essex coastal town of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walton-on-the-Naze\">Walton-on-the-Naze<\/a> has not been renowned as a venue with a history of political drama.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Yesterday the good folk from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/LedByDonkeys\">Led By Donkeys<\/a> &#8211; in their own words &#8211; &#8220;<em>dropped in on Farage\u2019s election rally with a beaming picture of Putin. Nigel was not pleased<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p> \r\n\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_86311\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KBoDiuN2WoY?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Farage and the Putin banner\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/mar\/31\/farage-i-admire-putin\">Farage is on record as far back as 2014<\/a> in expressing his admiration for Vladimir Vladimirovich and his gangster regime in the Kremlin. Moreover, Farage has faced criticism in recent weeks for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cldd44zv3kpo\">outrageous statement<\/a> that the western democracies are responsible for provoking Russia to invade Ukraine.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In addition, Farage has also vehemently denied any Russian interference or involvement in the divisive 2016 Brexit referendum, a fact helped by <a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2024\/06\/11\/nigel-farage-and-an-extraordinary-lack-of-curiosity-from-uk-government-and-intelligence-services-over-possible-russian-interference-in-brexit\/\">British establishment reluctance to investigate<\/a> such claims.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbine Centre in the Essex coastal town of Walton-on-the-Naze has not been renowned as a venue with a history of political drama. Until now. Yesterday the good folk from Led By Donkeys &#8211; in their own words &#8211; &#8220;dropped in on Farage\u2019s election rally with a beaming picture of Putin. Nigel was not pleased&#8220;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15],"tags":[36,33,20],"class_list":["post-14271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14271"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14304,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions\/14304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}