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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 

Should Farage have been 'Permanently Terminated' for the Deavin Lunch?

Increasingly the answer to the above question seems to have to be a most loud and definite 'YES', if information now arriving is true, and it certainly seems to be according to all the documentation in our hands. The following is circulating on one e-mail discussion group, appropriately enough that run by the now 'permanently expelled' ex-UKIP member and ace whistle blower Andrew Edwards:-

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As a matter of interest, is there any proof that The Times did pay Nigel Farage's costs in that action? The Oct 99 edition of Choose Democracy had this to say: "Times Retraction. Following the unfortunate Times newspaper stories which appeared just before the Euro Elections in June, UKIP Chairman Nigel Farage won a retraction from the newspaper and a promise not to repeat the allegations. He also received costs". Presumably CD's editor got this information from Nigel Farage himself?

In actual fact the Legal Manager of Times Newspapers Ltd wrote to Nigel Farage on 27 October 1999, sharply ticking him off for the fact that at conference Michael Holmes had referred incorrectly to the article in question as being 'scurrilous'. The letter said, "It may be that you did not tell Mr Holmes but The Times's article was not "scurrilous" and it did not apologise" to you. It was merely prepared to accept your word on the strange photograph of you, Mr Deavin and Mr Lecomber and publish a clarification/correction rather than waste time and money on a relatively insignificant matter. That
matter may not be so "insignificant" if Mr Holmes continues to report incorrectly the outcome of that litigation. I do not want to have to revert to this matter but Mr Holmes really should not describe the article in The Times by Dr Sked as "scurrilous" or what we published as an "apology" when it manifestly was not".

As the poster then adds This does not sound to me like a paper that has paid costs. Can anyone confirm?

posted by Martin |11:13 AM
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