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Guido Fawkes: Putney Lib Dems Nobel Peace Prize Award Claim Biggest Lib Dem Leaflet Lie Yet

https://order-order.com/2019/11/12/putney-lib-dems-nobel-peace-prize-award-claim/!!!!!!!!

Ian Sedgewick ● 2556d15 Comments

It's just a typo (or two), hardly the crime of the century !  Very sloppy editing is the worst you can say about this claim, which as it reads is clearly ludicrous.

Richard Carter ● 2556d

It's just a typo (or two), hardly the crime of the century !  Very sloppy editing is the worst you can say about this claim, which as it reads is clearly ludicrous.

Richard Carter ● 2556d

Oops! Didn't mean to post that twice, it's a mistake of Lib Dem proportions...

Richard Carter ● 2556d

I assume this is not a one man band outfit and there are officials including possibly a legal team that approves the leaflet before its distributed.We can all make mistakes that’s why organisations have process.If there is no process in the Lib Dem’s then that is more worrying than this mistake!

Ed Robinson ● 2556d

In another leaflet she is clear that the campaign (back in 1997) got the prize not her personally. And on the LibDem website she is quoted saying: “I’ve been fighting for Liberal Democrat values since I became an anti-apartheid activist as a student in South Africa, where I grew up. After participating in that epic, history-making struggle, I co-founded and led the campaign to ban landmines in South Africa, part of a successful global campaign that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” Guido Fawkes is trying too hard!

Jonathan Callaway ● 2556d

As in soccer your team's  fair tackle is the other team's foul. One party's typo is another party's lie.

Hugh Thompson ● 2556d

I will double check the leaflet I received from the recycling and check!

Ed Robinson ● 2555d

I hope the other claims made are true!

Ed Robinson ● 2555d

It must have been a *very* big typo to confuse the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (which won the prize) and the South African Campaign to Ban Landmines (which didn't). That confusion appears in several pieces of Lib Dem literature. To let that go so many times would mean someone was really not competent or, heaven forfend, being misleading.

Simon Smyth ● 2555d

I must have received a different leaflet to you.In the one I received it clearly states that:"[Sue Wixley had] A 30 year career in the charity sector.  Played a key role in the global campaign to ban landmines that won a Nobel Peace Prize."I do not think that paragraph indicates that Sue Wixley won the Nobel Peace Prize, by any stretch of the imagination.

Ivonne Holliday ● 2555d

The point is it was not the campaign that she worked on that won the Nobel prize. Ig was a completely different campaign. Their correction was still wrong.

Andy Pike ● 2555d

"To let that go so many times would mean someone was really not competent or, heaven forfend, being misleading."Considering how there must be teams in all political groups going through every other group's material in tedious detail and with a fine toothcomb, I would favour the idea of simple incompetence. Certainly it is my own excuse in almost all case. Failing that, I tend to repeat my belief that the Devil actually may exist.

David Ainsworth ● 2554d

Good morning Andy,I would like to invite you to look up the following link: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1997/icbl/lecture/The first article relates to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Facts".  But the important one is the third article entitled "The International Campaign to Ban Landmines - History".  This one contains important information regarding the South African Campaign to Ban Landmines which Sue Wixley was involved with.  The latter joined the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. So, in summary, it is correct to state that Sue Wixley was involved in the international campaign against landmines that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.

Ivonne Holliday ● 2554d

Andy Pike, you have gone very quiet indeed...

Ivonne Holliday ● 2554d

just found your post. dont look at this site as much as I used to ,find all the repetitive posts a little boring and still 5 weeks to go !!!if my interpretation of the matter was wrong then I stand corrected.A bit like a Lib Dem leaflet.

Andy Pike ● 2554d