Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

Is there something that the BBC isn’t telling us about these Norwegians?

A man has set fire to a train in Switzerland and stabbed lots of people. On the BBC News last night the perpetrator was described as ‘a Swiss national’. Similarly on the BBC News online today:

‘The suspect, described as a Swiss man aged 27, was also taken to hospital after the incident near Salez in St Gallen canton, close to Liechtenstein.’

Do you know, I think there is something the BBC – and the Swiss authorities – are not telling us. This attack was quite similar in some respects to one carried out in London recently, in which an elderly American woman was murdered. Then, at least, the BBC and the authorities told the truth – the perpetrator was Norwegian. It seems highly likely to me that the pyromaniac stabber in Switzerland was Norwegian too. And they are not telling us the truth to stop us taking revenge on perfectly innocent Norwegians, of which there are several.

The more I think about it, the more it occurs that the bloodshed and mayhem in Thailand may have been the work of Norwegians, too. At first we were told that it was not terrorism – just someone having a bit of a bad hair day. Then we were told it might be Opposition Groups (who they, ed?). More latterly the BBC reported that the Thai government has admitted that it may well have been the work of ‘insurgents’ and ‘separatists’ in the south of the country. Aha! So, probably Norwegians again. When are we going to face up to the threat posed by these blonde haired Scandinavian maniacs?

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