Hopi Sen (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Alistair stands up. Tory MPs clearly up for a bit of shouting and barracking and so on. Starts off by talking about global economy. Update 1 Global economy will recover - root of todays failing in global system. Tory MPs disagree loudly. Michael Fabricant told off. Perhaps he fears a tax on hairpieces. Update 2 Strong attack [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Simon Hoggart: We welcome back Michael Fabricant from his Latin American hell which involved Coffee-mate
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Spare a thought for the folically-challenged Michael Fabricant, the idiosyncratic Tory MP for Lichfield, who was on a trekking holiday with a friend in South America when he ran up against the moustachioed authorities. He was in Colombia when he was confronted by a stern-faced police officer glaring at him and rummaging though his bags. At gunpoint, he was questioned about the dodgy-looking jar in...
Owsblog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The BBC describe the 'ordeal' of Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant who has mentioned how, whilst on a trekking holiday to South America last week, he was held at gunpoint by guards in Colombia who searched his bags, they all carry guns so it’s fairly common at Colombian airports – I'm presuming he was in Bogota - to be 'in the line of fire' so to speak; however I am dubious, MF says that they "mistook...
WayOdd (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
A British politician had a scare recently when armed Colombian soldiers mistakenly took his powdered coffee-mate to be raw cocaine. Michael Fabricant, 58, who represents the Staffordshire constituency of Lichfield and Burntwood, was on a trekking vacation in South America when he and his friend ran into a group of soldiers in the jungle. The gun-wielding militants searched their belongings and found...
inca kola news (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Silly hair , silly man "Dumbass Gringo of the Week" award goes to UK member of parliament Michael Fabricant (literally a made-up name, methinks). I always thought coffee whitener was a pretty nasty substance, but this batch was close to lethal (mixed with AK-47, not java) . I'll let Reuters tell the story, but this guy is from the party that's very likely to be in power after the next election. Minister...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Hot on the heels of the 'Tory MP in cocaine bust' headline comes news of a Tory PPC who has set up a hooker hotline. But unlike Michael Fabricant's rather dubious account of his alleged skirmish with Colombian soldiers, Mark Clarke's account of his one-man campaign against Tooting prostitutes is quite clear. "Most people in the community are afraid of tackling them. They think the pimp will get
Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Reports that Tory MP Michael Fabricant had been stopped by Colombian officials who beleived he may be trafficking something illegal are correct, but the exact truth of the story has been "lost in translation". The BBC and other news services report that he was stopped by officials who thought his coffee whitener was cocaine. This is not entirely correct. Colombia also has strict laws about the smuggling...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Coffee whitener causes trouble for Conservative politician, Michael Fabricant, while in Colombia
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Like many other British travellers setting off for far-flung destinations, the Conservative MP Michael Fabricant thought it prudent to take his own supply of coffee whitener. But his decision led to a terrifying encounter while trekking in Colombia, where he was detained by soldiers who mistook his jar of white powder for cocaine.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
MP Michael Fabricant yesterday told how he was threatened by armed Colombian soldiers who thought that his coffee whitener was cocaine.
Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
It could have been worse. They could have mistaken his hair for a toupee. An MP has described how he was held at gunpoint by guards in Colombia who mistook a jar of coffee whitener he was carrying for cocaine. Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant had been on a trekking holiday to South America last week when he said he was held by armed soldiers who searched their bags. The poor fellow was forced to
The Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A suspected drug smuggler has complained of his treatment at the hands of brave boys doing a difficult job under difficult circumstances. The sub-Johnsonian Conservative, Michael Fabricant, claimed that he was forced to eat "several mouthfuls" of Coffee-Mate™ at gunpoint while on what he described as a "trekking holiday" in Colombia. Fabricant had entered the country despite the fact that, on
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Troops suspected Lichfield and Burntwood MP Michael Fabricant of smuggling cocaine, he reveals
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A Conservative MP today described the terrifying moment he was held at gunpoint and forced to eat coffee whitener to persuade a group of excitable Colombian soldiers that he was not a drugs trafficker.
