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NIGEL FARAGE DINED in illustrious company at the weekend, when he sat down with US President Donald Trump for dinner in the latter’s Washington hotel at the weekend.
However, it is believed that Farage only managed to secure a last minute invitation to the meal, which also had Trump’s daughter Ivanka, senior White House advisor Jared Kushner and Florida Governor Rick Scott also in attendance.
The UKIP stalwart tweeted a picture of himself at the dinner table with a look of delight on his face.
Nigel Farage / TwitterDinner with The Donald. pic.twitter.com/KAdvZ84d2Y
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) February 26, 2017
Journalist Benny Johnson, who was at the same venue, said that secret service personnel “swarmed the place” just before Trump arrived.
Johnson wrote a blog on everything he witnessed that evening, and said that Farage had just happened to be in the restaurant sipping a cocktail and met Trump in the foyer before getting a last minute invite to dine with the President.
He later asked Farage what it was like to have dinner with Trump, who replied: “You know what amazes me about your president? He is a regular bloke. Truly. Just a normal chap.”
When asked what they talked about, Farage said: “Nothing that interesting”.
Benny / TwitterTwo things:
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 26, 2017
1. Farage was not invited to this dinner. Squeezed in at last second
2. Sec. State Tillerson is dining w/wife alone across room
In a statement to the Guardian, 10 Downing Street downplayed the significance of Farage meeting Trump in such a manner and said that the President would not believe that he was being briefed on official UK policy during any discussions.
A spokesperson said: “We have an excellent ambassador who has and does meet the administration, including President Trump. We have formal, well-established processes for communicating with the US administration and those are the ones we use.
“They know we communicate through the existing channels, I’m 100% certain they are aware of that.”
Earlier this week, Farage told American conservatives that Britain’s vote to leave the EU and Trump’s presidential victory launched a “great global revolution” that will spread through more western nations.
Farage received a warm welcome at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he praised Trump’s “quite remarkable” victory.
“2016, we did it!” boomed the former head of UKIP.
“Just as Brexit becomes more popular by the day, President Trump will become more popular in America by the day,” he said.
With reporting from AFP - - © AFP, 2017
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Oh no. More cheap sensationalist TV. Why not legalise prostitution, generate some tax revenue, give more protection to sex workers, but most of all make the sordid sexually repressed gits who make these kind of documentaries permanently redundant
legalising onlyempowers the current crop of gangsters controlling it to enflict more misery on their unfortunate, captive assets.
Yeah. Cause its up to RTE to legislate for sex workers. If they didnt make these docs people would complain more so. Sensationalist comment more like.
And the News of the World will be relaunched as the Sun on Sunday soon…
Such hypocrisy. If you’re suspended, you’re suspended. Guess that doesn’t apply to state bodies then.
My ex used have a Prostitute outside the corner of his flat in Cork, the traffic on a friday and saturday night to see her was unbelievable, men in their family cars, the baby-seat in the back, availing of her services. The law needs to start focusing on getting these women off the streets and targeting those who are using prostitutes by naming and shaming. Setting up video surveillance of hot spots so number plates can be registered and those then can be charged for solicitation.
I’ll be interested to see this after reading about that “between the sheets” book the other day and some of the comments on that article. It made me realise that I really don’t know a lot about what these people are experiencing.
Are we really expected to believe that most of these women are trafficked and few do this ‘work’ of their own volition?
Prostitution is just damn disgusting!
The people that use the ‘service’ should be named and shamed, they are no better than rapists in my eyes.
i don’t see whats so bad about the nature of prostitution – to me it seems that most of the stigma comes from having to stand on street corners or run a brothel out of an apartment!
i dont see how legalisign it would be that much different to strip clubs (yea i’ve no real issue with those either!) – makes it safer for the girls / guys involved and regulates it in terms of health and safety and most importantly taxes!
I dated a girl in a sunny country far far away. I owned 2 pizzerias and doing very well and she was an18 year old lapdancer. I worked 7 days a week employed 15 staff and payed my taxes. She worked 4 to 5 nights a week at a club payed no taxes and earned almost double of what I earned. She was not a victim of anything nore was she trafficked. She was a good ‘ol home grown girl having a good time. Ireland needs to get out of the dark ages and join reality. Prostitution is one of the safest types of sex anyone can have especially for a guy. No false rape allegations, its always with a condom, she’s not the last drunk girl in a pub and its also probably cheaper than buying a girl drinks all night. Catch a wake up Ireland and all your feminists.
If one legalises prostitution it goes underground. Just look at the Dutch model and recent comments the mayor has said. Also the Swedish model does not work. The turn off the blue light website is run by pimps who think its perfectly ok to write a review on said experience with an escort! Which some believe. 70% of women in prostitution come from a background of rape incest abuse and neglect.
70% I’d say 70% of the whole population have suffered from rape, neglect, incest & abuse.
Has Curran & his cronies resigned from RTE? Who is in charge now ? What checks & balances are there? who has been disciplined? & what monies are they still been paid to these employees I continue to be suspicious of news investigation giving their abuse of broadcasting powers , pathetic apology & the inaction of the RTE board!
We really need to rethink our attitudes to prostitution and hardcore pornography. The former is illegal and completely taboo, while the latter is now legally available to anyone with and internet connection. Of course there is a legal technicality, when it comes to pornography – the actors and actresses are paid to be filmed, not to have sex. Pornographic actors also claim that they pick their partners. But seriously, does anyone really accept this? On the first point, the actresses would not be filmed or paid if they did not have sex. As for the second, prostitutes are actually free to turn away customers.
It makes zero sense for hardcore pornography to be legal and prostitution illegal, and vice versa.
Aranthos. WTF?
@ my politics. Da durty hoar
They’ll find a way out of anything if it makes them money.
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