UKIP donor Arron Banks is ‘sick to death’ of hearing about Hillsborough
'Sometimes life is unfair and accidents happen'
UKIP’s biggest donor has decided that the best way to contain the Paul Nuttall Hillsborough story is to claim that Hillsborough doesn’t matter anyway.
In one of his trademark tweet rants, Arron Banks said he was ‘sick to death’ of hearing about the disaster, before repeatedly insisting the tragedy — in which 96 people were unlawfully killed through gross negligence — was ‘an awful accident at a football ground, that’s it’.
I’m sick to death of hearing about it. It was a disaster and that’s it, not some sort of cultural happening https://t.co/KTJPosOGDo
— Arron Banks (@Arron_banks) February 14, 2017
It was an awful accident at a football ground , that’s it. https://t.co/50NniGeluO
— Arron Banks (@Arron_banks) February 14, 2017
No one set out to kill people it was an accident. Cover up or otherwise. https://t.co/Cpj6081rZW
— Arron Banks (@Arron_banks) February 14, 2017
Not satisfied with the hole he had already dug for himself, Banks then decided to brush off the deliberate, multi-agency cover-up by pointing out that ‘it was the 80s’.
if a policemen opens a gate trying to help and makes a bad decision it’s an accident. As for a cover up it was the 80’s. https://t.co/shIMzVXNoL
— Arron Banks (@Arron_banks) February 14, 2017
The policeman opened the gate and got it wrong – that’s an accident. It was a tragic accident. https://t.co/2pTxMhR8Th
— Arron Banks (@Arron_banks) February 14, 2017
Then, deciding it was time to put the whole thing to bed, Banks accused those criticising him of becoming ‘hysterical’ and pointed out that ‘life is unfair’ which, as the billionaire owner of multiple diamond mines, he knows better than most.
People hysterical and to be frank it’s about people realised that sometimes life is unfair and accidents happen https://t.co/ED4ZsQHpkd
— Arron Banks (@Arron_banks) February 14, 2017
Of course, this isn’t the first time Banks has crudely diminished a violent tragedy, or attacked those who demand justice.
Two months ago, he accused Brendan Cox — husband of the murdered Jo Cox — of ‘politicising’ her death.
Arron Banks: keeping it classy.
Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin is editor of Left Foot Forward. Follow her on Twitter
See: Paul Nuttall didn’t lose ‘close personal friends’ at Hillsborough – but won’t admit he lied about it
See: Arron Banks accuses Jo Cox’s widower of ‘politicising’ her death
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