Which brings us to Nigel Farage. This week we received yet another reminder that the supposed “liberals” will stop at nothing – and I mean nothing – to prevent him from becoming Prime Minister, just as they previously did everything in their power to reverse the Brexit referendum. The coming battle will be both political and deeply personal. We have already witnessed attempts to manipulate the democratic process; that may prove mild compared with what will be unleashed on the Reform UK leader in the months ahead.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking. The very same commentators who accused Kemi Badenoch of being too harsh on Rachel Reeves during her Budget response are now hurling grotesque slurs at the MP for Clacton, branding him a neo-Nazi. The BBC even joined in. A segment on Radio 4’s Today programme questioned Mr Farage’s “relationship when he was younger with Hitler”, a framing so ludicrous it was almost comical, were the implications not so serious. Suddenly, a chorus of self-appointed critics has emerged, eager to throw decades-old allegations at the wall in the hope that something, anything, might stick.
– Camilla Tominey (£)
Farage has been in politics for 30 years. For about 20 he’s had a high profile. In at least the past ten he’s had a very high profile. So after huge amounts of previous scrutiny, journalists think we are supposed to take any of these ‘new revelations’ seriously?
When I first became interested in politics it was widely known that the tabloid newspapers treated their readers like morons. Nowadays the ENTIRE media behave worse than the tabloids did 20 years ago.
The only way it may make sense to me is if the press are trying to put Nigel, like they would say in wrestling, ‘over’ by printing such ludicrous rubbish that the press and co look like desperate lying bullies and thus generate sympathy for Nige.
But the Main Stream Media, especially the BBC, and the (previously) main Political Parties are increasingly distrusted, for good reasons. Perhaps most people experience some disquiet, but others are campaigning against it with increasing vigour.
Every revelation about news management, every overreaction by the Police to Free Speech, every attack on democracy by politicians, just makes people look for an alternative to the machine Establishment. I don’t think British people are naturally ‘revolutionary’ but perhaps the hypocrisy on display is making them ‘rebellious’.
Is Farage the Messiah? No, but neither is he just a naughty boy. He is perhaps the spoke to stick in the wheels of the juggernaut.