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Thursday, August 26, 2004 

A TALE OF TWO CITIES - UKIP TAKES ITS OLYMPIC CHALLENGE TO PARIS

The story of UKIP and the Olympic Games reached a surreal pitch when Leader of the UKIP Group on the Assembly Damian Hockney and the Paris bid officials had a huge prime time row on French tv!

The French accused the UKIP group of being nationalists deviously sabotaging the Paris bid by supporting it. Damian, in impeccable French, revealed the news to them that Athens had just that minute announced a $12 billion deficit, and not $7 billion (which itself was twice over budget). And then he challenged them to give the people of Paris a vote, or on those figures every one of them would be paying about 3,000 euros for the pleasure. "Are you going to tell the people of Paris?" he said. And the bad tempered collapse of the officials was a joy to watch!

This matter has struck a chord with people generally and it'll be interesting to see what happens from here. Watch this space.

posted by Martin |12:18 PM
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