I find it worrying that they haven’t realised that just being openly racist will make them even more popular than carrying on with this charade of deterring it.
Once they drop the act, they’ll romp away with the white moron/old vote, which is the majority who bother to actually vote.
Not going away, is it?
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He’s not used to having the spotlight on him like this.
It’s only going to get more intense for him as he gets scrutinised
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Lets hope he does boycott the BBC.
I stopped watching Question Time shortly after Tory Bruce got the chair, she was appalling. Why they thought a newsreader could do a job that needs an experienced interviewer I will never know.
Anyhow, I do see it advertised and it seemed that Farage was on every other week.
Fuck off Farage.
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Victim blaming comes easily to Tice. Pathetic really.
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Popcorn ordered.
Just flipping the script to discredit and destroy the BBC — his paymasters don’t like anything even close to impartiality.
I think the links to deeply ingrained racism and feeding division are pretty well known to everyone, especially those who support Reform and hold exactly the same views as them on those they consider ‘not British’ (ie have a brown face).
What id like the journalists who should fear Farage getting to power and silencing them in the same way Trump does, to do is go all out on establishing the same strength of link and evidence of Farages treasonous links to Russia/ Putins strategy of division in Europe.
This baby needs drowning at birth before they get anywhere near the power and apparatus of the state.
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Sadly, he does have power. No one would know or care what’s going on in Farage’s head—beyond whoever happens to be within earshot—if he didn’t receive such wildly disproportionate media coverage. For a small party, they’ve got astonishingly deep pockets thanks to mega-donors. (Harborne’s £9 million was the largest single political donation in UK history.) Add to that the US PR help from CapitalHQ, and most likely a warm welcome from the Kremlin—he certainly loved appearing on RT. Then there’s the huge amplification on X, the GB News platform, and so on. All of that gives him a reach a party of his size would never normally have.
(Keir could learn a thing or two)
Agree. Just imagine how much worse if he gets his hands on the NHS, police, the treasury, legislation etc etc
We have to stop thinking of them as small. That’s the biggest mistake we’re making. They’re not the Monster Raving Loonies. They’re not Your Party.
In the 2024 election (not rigged) they got over 4 million votes ! One in seven of all the votes that were cast went to them ! By this measure they were the third biggest party. We’re not going to be able to counter them by boycotting Question Time.
They don’t need to be ignored by the press. They need to be exposed.
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Totally. And when they are confronted just look at how they react - Farage yesterday was all over the place when off script and having to reply to questions from the ITV journalist about his own racist past and the Reform leader of Staffs council who he tried to deflect by criticising his own party’s vetting processes rather than addressing his racist posts!
Nigel Farage urged to sack Reform council leader accused of racism | Reform UK | The Guardian
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Small = five seats in the UK’s House of Commons, yet their influence is huge. I agree it would be impossible to gag him. The media gives his party an astonishing amount of airtime because it profits them in multiple ways. What’s really needed is some actual opposition using the same tactics.
Right now, Farage is in the playground with a pocketful of promises, a megaphone and a baseball bat. Starmer, meanwhile, has managed to turn up with a skid mark on himself and an out-of-date, well-cracked conker on a string.
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Promising what he can’t deliver.
Is in number 10, well aware that actually delivering involves raising funds, and that risks upsetting the chancers who run the markets as there will then be less for them to trouser. He can’t afford to spout pie-in-the-sky shite however popular that might make him with the voters of Clacton or Basildon or, yes, my home town Boston. He also has to negotiate with foreign governments rather than lick their arses (Farage with Trump) or shout playground ‘banter’ at them (Farage with the EU).
I admit Starmer is a disappointment. He’s not got the natural gifts that Blair had on his good days. But at least he’s not Corbyn.
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It isn’t a party. Reform PLC is a company cosplaying as a political party.
does that matter to him the moment, he can promise the world, win a GE and then happily ignore the promises for 5 yrs as he tears the state apart
That’s precisely my fear.
The media need to expose his promises for the shite they are before the GE. Sadly they have a very poor track record of that. We elected Johnson FFS.
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As for how professional Reform PLC is, Kent County Council is their ‘Flagship’ Council.
I’m sure you’ve all seen how well that’s going.
er the public
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In normal, rational times I’d agree, but as we increasingly mirror the USA—look at Trump: nonstop lies and promises that go pop, yet he still gets voted back in (The same could be suggested of Farage puking Brexit on the nation which has failed in every aspect). Being proficient, it seems, is not as effective as flooding the zone. And that’s exactly what Farage is doing.
I dislike what I’m suggesting, but fighting this kind of fire with reason — or even proof — matters very little when Farage has what he has: someone to blame, a very large megaphone, and a bat he uses to beat manipulative, divisive and misguided beliefs into the hearts and minds of people who feel powerless. Cummings / Bannon and Billionairs all know this method works best at deflecting from the real issues (It’s why they still use it)
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