December 4383"We made it all up," admits Manningham-Buller's "independent expert"Lorraine Samson, a member of the Manningham-Buller committee that accused Valruzia of "fixing" the Nowogard OlympicsLorraine Samson, one of Frederick Manningham-Bullers 9 so-called "independent experts" who
verified his allegation that the Nowogard Olympics was organised corruptly and fixed in Valruzia's favour, has admitted in an exclusive interview with
TerraMedia GlobeNews that she and the other 8 members fabricated the claims they made in the report they published.
"It was bollocks from beginning to end, I don't deny it," she said, "we made it all up over a Kali (OOC: Indian) curry at Fred's house". Pressed as to why she did it, she replied:
Well, I think we all had our own reasons, sometimes different reasons, but for me it was because I'm fed up with these Valruzians trying to lord it over Seleya the whole time, acting like they're top dog. Specially after they won the most medals in the Olympics. They needed to be taken down a peg or two, that's all. I'm sick of hearing smug Valruzian accents on the telly all the time, it does your head in. You see a Valruzian face and, like, you want to slap it like, d'you know what I mean?
However, pressed further, she conceded "Yeah, it was untrue and I suppose in that sense it was wrong, but not in the sense a normal, ordinary working-class person would think was wrong, if you see what I mean - there was nothing vindictive in it".
Interesting though, she stood by the committee's claim that the non-Valruzian medal winners were given medals of an inferior quality of metal. "If you looked closely enough on the television, you could just see they looked different," she said.
Frederick Manningham-Buller responded to this revelation by describing Lorraine Samson as "an airhead and a very peripheral member of the committee", claiming "we only put her name on the list because we felt sorry for her and wanted to make her feel important". He dismissed her claims, saying "she doesn't know what she's talking about, she's just saying anything to get attention". He also added that Lorraine Samson "was convicted 8 years ago for defrauding a children's literacy charity".