Police say they are investigating comments made by Nigel Farage after he said"we'll take the knife" to civil servants in Whitehall after Brexit.
The Brexit Party leader talked about"overpaid pen pushers... not doing a neutral job" in a speech to supporters in Newport on 21 September.to police, Alliance Party MEP Naomi Long called his words a"clear case of incitement to violence".Mr Farage's address to delegates and party members came during the Brexit Party Conference tour a week ago.
He added:"I suggest we listen to them and not the overpaid pen pushers in Whitehall who are not doing a neutral job. And once Brexit's done, we'll take the knife to them."
When Nige was referring to the overpaid...........pots and kettles?
He a rebel rouser - and thinks he can say what he wants and get away with it.
BBCprobe that ends in BBC disappointment. Still, plenty more fish in the sea, if this is not a pescatarianist hate crime for the BBC Atlantis Editor.
Like the police have nothing better to do! It is so disappointing that anyone can make a fuss about a reasonably innocuous statement and waste our hard working and fantastic Police force’s time
She should been in prison long ago. The things he said when he was in the Nation Front.
And promptly drop said investigation, as guess what, it was a metaphor.....🙄
Humbug
Who was that guy that got pissed off about that Joe Brand joke again?!!!!!
Ironic that a left wing lunatic reports Nigel_Farage to the SS, yet near every supporter of far left communist Labour Party is carrying knives and going around stabbing civilised law abiding pro democracy citizens!!
What the hell is wrong with bloody country, I know and probably everyone knows he meant to say axe and not knife, have 5pthe police really got time for this nonsense?
The BBC in 2019 are an absolute disgrace, obvious left wing propaganda machine. It is so blatantly biased on every single issue that it is a miracle it is still going. Hardcore, dangerous fairytale land left wing propaganda that frankly makes me want to move abroad. Shut it down.
Ffs
Stop it. England is so far gone! What a shame.
Farage is a total fraud, he has created the rise of the far right and will benefit by millions out of Brexit, through his rich financial backers
What a waste of tax payers money. Does anybody else smell a setup first Boris now Nigel.
brexitparty_uk PPC for Blaenau Gwent Pastor Richard Taylor, could request his best mate to intervene for Nigel_Farage Hallelujah!!
Oh knife, axe. What the hell?
a WASTE of police time !!!
remember this BS inciting stuff, any thing happen about that ? Stay calm n keep pushing propaganda....
Pathetic.
Better look at the LabourParty then, start there for Knife comments, Milkshaking mockery and General nastiness, oh and Antisemitism , 'I would knife Jeremy Corbyn in the front not the back' | Owen Jones mee... via YouTube
It's a figure of speech, a bit poor with the highlighted knife crime perhaps gun to the head instead 👌✌🤞👊👍🖕⛳🥅
Don't tell us there aren't enough police!
And they drop it immediately as there was nothing to investigate. Remoaners looking even more ridiculous lately
did he say Humbug? Because thats clearly incitement to having your shutters rattled on the other day when your surgery is closed
BBC a Liberal outfit are so corrupt, a TV Network that has become a Political Network spreading propaganda using UK Licence fee payers funds to promote their Far-Left propaganda. The irony of it, I ask you?
More FAKE news.... how do i go about getting a rebate on my license fee for this BS Nice choice of wording too, what ever happend to investigate FakeNews FakeNewsMedia
He should of said 'take the axe.' Like how the news says... 'jobs axed' nobody bats an eyelid. But because its NF some people knee-jerk. If you don't like him fine, but find a better reason to hate.
Shouldn’t the police be after scumbags, druggies, thief’s etc etc instead of hurty words- probably out of context?
Hepworthclare Two Plebs went to prison for Facebook posts but hey ho there were just lowly Plebs
But these are “ Fine” ..........
Here Jess Philips MP threatens to knife Jeremy Corbyn if he doesn't do what she agrees with. Yet media riot over the word 'Humbug'
When Brexit is done and dusted because the BBC was at the vanguard of anti brexit work, folks will call for BBC reporters to hang blah blah...metaphorically speaking. That's known as a Jess Phillips stay outta jail card.
What? Taking a knife to someone is quite a common expression amongst some groups of people. Psychotic violent killers for example. So what's the problem? We're all different.
Arrest him, horrid human
Investigate this bum:
No fan of farage but getting sick of this bullshit
Hepworthclare The trouble with reversed euphemism.
If this is actually serious then someone should be probing the police
Pathetic.
Check the thread. Politician threatens stabbing politicians. Brainwashed disciples defend him. Whatever happened to decency and values?
Hmm metaphors a matter for the police now. With all the vitriol from the left the right should start playing them at their own game. The police would have a backlog of complaints. This is the world now, words are a crime.
My God has everyone’s IQ suddenly dropped sharply in the last few days? It’s a standard way of saying to reduce - ie “cut”... as with a knife, the numbers of civil servants. The idea that it was any incitement to violence is just utterly stupid. This is getting bloody pathetic.
And to think he made such a song and dance about what Jo Brand said. What goes around comes around. Nigel_Farage is nothing more than a snake oil salesman and agitator!
One of those things everybody knows it’s a witch-hunting exercise. Stop wasting our taxes on silly enquires and probes 🙄
Why that headline when in the main text of the story it says the police said that there is no criminal offence?
I believe in the future, the world will be based on the European model, anyway!
The biggest Warmongeres and peddlers of Hate in the World today ARE THE BBC
For crying out loud you need top all this 😡Ofcom
Oh dear did the politically correct elite treat him the same as Boris and think that it encourages violence. People are not as stupid as they are & know what is meant unlike the bullying, name calling Opposition politicians.
Now it's your turn, BBC.
This is now getting stupid. Better the police started to defend the silent conservative MPS who do not make a meal of stupid threats and get on with their jobs
Oh for fucks sake, ITS A METAPHOR! Grow up!
BBC - You are partly responsible for that oaf’s popularity, as you have provided a platform all too often for him to drip poison into our society
I think the police have far more pressing things to occupy themselves with !
What a complete waste of time, but that's ok as police don't have anything else more pressing
Someone should be charged with wasting police time. Ms S N O’Flake I think they’re called.
Really? Ridiculous...🤦🏻♂️
Glad Boris planned for extra prison cells. As a start these 2 could well be needing it...
How about investigating the crime of false reporting? Wasting police time? Clearly a precedent has now been set for political hamstringing (in the non-violent sense....) by complaining about language (and no, I’m not a farage fan, I’m a realist)
It was quite shocking Farage should be prosecuted before he does it again 😉😉.
oh dear the anti / brexit wankers will try anything ...
IStandWithNaga
Should be deported to Spain! Seriously the world will be watching how police respond to this, hope they’re brave enough to treat him exactly the same as they would a young black man who threatened to take a knife to anyone!!
Promise to cut civil service numbers investigated by plod? Remain propagandists Bbc never miss a chance to smear, even when as ludicrous as this...
Farage's use of words was metaphorical. Jo Brand's use of words was instructional. When the police decide no offence has been committed, BBC, will you splash it across our screens, please?
The whole of Parliament are doing the same thing, can they be investigated too, before the violence starts!
The planned narrative continues. Once brexit is done serious questions have to be asked about the media in this country.
Only in the UK would MPs take action regards the use of the word knife than than the actual item
In that case, this needs to be reported to the police too...
Will the Police probe the misleading BBC headline “Police probe Nigel Farage 'take the knife' comment”, which implies that the investigation has not been concluded, and found the allegations groundless?
What rubbish !
This is the word police division then. Are they getting ready to prosecute all the libraries because theres a lot of threatening words in those books. You know the worlds gone mad when the police get called to investigate words yet all we get is a crime number when we get robbed
The police and the TheFCA should be probing him for more than just a knife comment, Nigel_Farage how much did you have to gain by Brexit ?
Brexit is so much more than just leaving the EU Dems dig their own graves in USA with Impeachment & both events will culminate in October with a 'New' world order emerging. The EU will fall, followed by China. Goodbye globalism. Hello Patriotism. Nothing will stop what is coming
Oh well. That’s metaphor added to the list of things banned.
What I'd give for some real statesmen to show up around now... These corporate bullshitters and charlatans everywhere. 🙄
What are they going to charge him with, 'using a figure of speach in a threatening manner'. As i said to someone earlier, if he farted he would be blamed for global warming.
Snowflakes
It's not incitement to violence, it's a figure of speech! We are all getting a bit bored of this pathetic over-reaction to anything and everything!
Good grief! These hysterical leftist bigots really will resort to every smear tactic extant. How many phony accusations are left in their and the BBC's little lucky bag of fake news propaganda?
I don’t see the arse wipe reporting on any of the much worse and quite frankly disgusting and outrageous comments from the left. They really are the worse of all the media’s and that’s saying something SkyNews
Did they investigate Jess Phillips when she said she would stab Jeremy Corbyn in the front? Just asking for balance.
Police? Haha, this is becoming more and more a joke. Not the best choice of words, but my goodness.... the police?!
There is obviously no real crime in Gwent for the police to be dealing with
Really? They haven’t got anything more important to do than to listen to this idiot.
More waste of public money it was clear what he was referring to. It’s getting that you can’t say anything
Drain the swamp.
When will the madness end...
Anti Brexit establishment..Khan up to his tricks again !!
Sounds like extremist rhetoric and radicalisation to me.
Just a reminder... words are not illegal, offence is not illegal! Unless it goes to the high court and they will make up laws to say it’s illegal.
Oh what a laughing stock this country has become. The police wasting valuable resources on this nonsense. Time these snowflake MPs grew up.
I think if they can probe Nigel then they should arrest Blair instead of protecting him.
Snowfake seeking offence where none exists
Investigate proper crime !! Wouldn’t have happened to a Remainer
News like this, is akin to 'Strawberries' to a Donkey!! Heehaww!!!
Why wasnt the labour shadow chancellor investigated when he said he wanted to lynch Esther Mcvey? Farage was talking about cuts not threatening anyone. This is really getting out of hand now.
tazwake Diplomatic immunity !
This is now getting ridiculous he was referring to getting rid of staff how anyone else can take his comment any other is surely politically motivated. A waste of police time and money.
We need to get the supreme court to decide wether or not metaphors are illegal.
The establishment are worried really worried
How the left tackles knife crime
The gulag.
Hopefully he'll be probed by aliens as well
Oh, grow a pair you weenies.....
Metaphors are dead in this world thanks to over-sensitive people.
Isn't probe when you stick something into something to search for answers camera, mic....knife etc..
Some people can take offence if you say 'Good morning'. The police clearly have too much time on their hands if they're stupid enough to take this seriously. brexitparty_uk
He should put his brain 🧠 in gear...before he opens his mouth 👄 to say something like that in today’s knife 🔪 climate is despicable
Send him down
I’m waiting on John McDonnell being investigated
And ed davy libdum decapitation gets no attention. Seems the wooden tops leaning towards the left. In fact they are over the cliff.
Omg!! How ridiculous!! Do gwentpolice not have much on right now or something
Inciting violence, surely?
Humbug sorry I ment codswollup
There actually are young people ‘taking the knife’ to each other, but then Farage says this and......?!
This is getting ridiculous,police probe into Boris now Nigel. This has to be parliamentary instigated, god knows what dirt can be dug up on Corbyn et al
Yawn!!!!.,., I can pull up numerous posts from MPs , some high up in shadow cabinet calling for the hanging of tories , stabbing of party leader , etc etc. This is a waste of tax payers money and waste of police time if not then forward all threats on social media and investigate
If these politicians cannot control their language, then let the law deal with them. Maybe that will cool them down a bit.
Are they probing these as well?
Any more centre-right politicians that the left would like the police to investigate for some spurious allegation? I guess when they can't beat political arguments this is all they have left. WitchHunt How's the EHRC investigation into Corbyn's antisemitism/racism going btw?
I'm offended by the word 'Probe'. How dare you use such a nasty word.
The BBC should worry because if Farage had his way the BBC would be heading for the axe/knife whichever you would prefer.
Does this mean they are going to probe jessphillips “stab Corbin in the front” comments as well, where and when will this lunacy end
And an apology will NOT suffice metpoliceuk
The remoaners are really struggling now...It's a pleasure to watch them wriggle and squirm.
Mr Farage most likely needs investigating for a lot of things
Ask Brexiters, which Brexit they want. Don't ask if they still want Brexit. Media, politicians, please concentrate. Ask conservatives the same. Find out what unity is there among Brexiters.
Funny how police probe both leave party leaders ,them Re-Mainers must be so butt hurt .
Clearly meaning cutting their numbers, reducing the head count. Stop trying to find offence where none exists. The bbcnews has become a disgrace.
The left send in the brown shirts again, FFS this is getting tiring.
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Why do people delight in taking things so literally? Is there no common sense these days?
Not the first time he’s incited violence. jailhim
Know what Kate just go ahead say what you want to say to me because your staff has been monitoring every single thing that the USA has done with camilla and negligence Meghan Markle!! JudicialWatch tv7israelnews osiyo_tv netanyahu IDF USArmy USNavy USMC
Good this dreadful language needs to stop, its not appropriate and the affect it is having will cause further tragedy
He later tweeted he should have said ‘axe’, which which would not have led to police involvement. This is ridiculous.
It did seem a bit silly - doesn't Nigel_Farage know about knife crime epidemic in the UK?
What a waste of time and police want respect F O
Advocating violence against your political opponents? Hmm, where have we seen that before?
BBC SO BIASED THEY USE GRETA THUNBERG AS SOCIALIST PROPOGANDA SO THAT GEORGE BUSH DID 9/11 COS HE FOUND OUT THE EARTH WAS FLAT AFTER STORMING AREA 51
Pathetic
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