Below is a direct quotation from two pages of (free publicity) for Hugo Swire in this week’s Exmouth Journal. Hard to know why the newspaper published his long and rambling article as it had nothing to say about Exmouth or East Devon but had LOTS and LOTS to say about his globetrotting!

Compare the two glowing pages on Swire’s international profile to the succinct and straightforward letter from Independent Parliamentary candidate Claire Wright in the same newspaper on Knowle relocation:

We know which we prefer!

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5 Jan 2015

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Local UKIP candidate blames Prince Andrew scandal on EU

Andrew Chapman says:

“I have enormous sympathy with HRH Prince Andrew in his need to prove himself innocent of the accusation being made against him. In the UK we have a legal structure and tradition of evidence being required, and, until that evidence is produced, being “presumed innocent until proven guilty” in a proper court of law. That principle dates back to Magna Carta, and was further defined and confirmed by Garrow three hundred years ago. It has been a watchword in this country ever since – until, that is, we joined the European Union, where the maxim is “guilty until you prove yourself innocent”, a Napoleonic principle that is unfair to the innocent and a cause of so much injustice.

Think about it for a moment. How do you start guarding your back against any spurious charge that anyone who stands to make a fast buck with a newspaper can persuade them to publish, or you’re imprisoned on holiday by some EU village magistrate who has the power to arrest you as a foreigner without producing a shred of evidence in order to placate the anger of the locals over something that has gone on in his patch.

The dangers inherent in continuing our membership of the European Union make it absolutely fundamental to change our way of thinking, life and thought processes, to guard ourselves against such charges as Prince Andrew now faces – if we stay in the EU. No wonder the poor man is bewildered and stony faced. Personally, I wouldn’t have a clue where to start – other than drawing everyone’s attention to the need to leave the EU before it happens routinely to everyone in the UK.”

Source: East Devon UKIP Facebook page

EDA note: The British justice system “innocent until proved guilty” has not changed nor has the jury system and the scandal originated in, and was reported from, the United States.