BBC accused of having ‘hostile Left-wing audience’ for Nigel Farage Question Time debate
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/28/bbc-nigel-farage-audience-question-time-general-election/
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BBC accused of having ‘hostile Left-wing audience’ for Nigel Farage Question Time debate
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/28/bbc-nigel-farage-audience-question-time-general-election/
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>Mr Farage did not receive a single round of applause from the studio audience during the entire broadcast.
Honestly Nige that sounds like a you problem
It’s always somebody else’s fault with Farage. First the vetting company didn’t do its job. Then Channel 4 planted an actor. Now it’s the BBC supposedly inviting people hostile to Farage’s ideas *because that would never happen in real life.*
He’s not just a huckster, he’s not just a snake selling snake oil, he’s not just a common crook: he’s a coward.
Well 4 out of 5 don’t support Reform, so what did Farage expect.
Most people are left wing when compared to nazi Nigel.
The permanently aggrieved will always find somebody to blame.
He shouldn’t even have been on question time.
You win seats at an election and then you’re entitled to airtime, not the other way round but he’s a darling of the BBC and has always been given an easy ride.
Quit crying Farage.
I bet he was fuming that his usual bluster and hyperbole wasn’t getting any applause at all.
Amusing hearing him talking about actors playing a character too as if thats a negative. Considering his entire public persona is a right wing playbook cartoon character (as with Johnson and JRM).
Lol, is this the same Question Time that’s had Nigel Farage on as a panelist more than any other living person in British history? Aside from maybe Kate Andrews?
The problem Farage has is that he’s so used to communicating with his own echo chamber and never hearing any criticism of the slightest against him that when he does, he snaps so quickly like Sunak does in debates.
Its like Trump not being able to accept he lost in 2020 – the likes of Trump and Farage have spent their privileged lives always getting their own way and being surrounded only by people who agree with them that whenever things get hard or people start getting critical they lose their minds.
Question Time has had every right wing nutjob going on it for years. Its certainly not “left leaning”
Maybe Farage just isnt as popular as he thinks
TBF it’s not their fault. His supporters are probably far less likely to attend this sort of thing. If it’s BBC they probably think it’s biased already. If it’s in London they might see a “foreign” which might be an issue. If they are older and don’t live nearby they might struggle to get there.
All fits their own narrative though, just like them complaining about their candidates being “targeted” by the media. Of course they are because stories are almost certainly guaranteed.
Maybe this is what he means when he says he is supported by the silent majority
Don’t believe that for a second, but on the off chance it’s true, it’d make a change from the usual mostly center right bias Question Time has.
I don’t really understand this as an issue. What an opportunity to lay out your vision for the country, stand up to those who oppose you, and counter arguments made by your rivals. Here is a man who wants to be the leader of the opposition but is moaning about people disagreeing with him. If he had real political ambition he’d relish this chance to uproot the Tories when they are at their weakest. Instead there are complaints about a supposedly left wing audience who didn’t clap like those at the Reform events.
A piece of garbage posing as a human being is surprised his terrible behavior makes people hostile towards him.
Who would have thunk?
These clowns are hilarious. QT has been packed with Kippers to the brim by the Kipper owner of the production company, with Farage being the most frequent guest for an entire decade.
Finally people see through Farage’s clueless BS and now it’s a “hostile lefty” audience. Comedy gold!
Awww the Telegraph feeling sorry for Nige 🥹
Warms my heart 🫶
/s
I would think it was anti farage rather than left wing.
Farage unites left and right with their distaste of the slimy cunt.
That’s what happens if all your supporters make sitting at home complaining and never doing anything about it your whole personality.
The BBC should be accused of grooming the UK by giving farage 40 appearances on prime time TV show slots even though he isn’t even a main opposition MP/MEP over the years.
This really made me laugh because now Farage (who moans about cancel culture) is saying he is cancelling the BBC until they apologise for their alleged ‘dishonest QT audience’.
This is on top of him saying he’s reporting C4 to the electoral commission because one of his campaigners was filmed saying all that racist crap. He’s claiming C4 are engaged in election interference by exposing this.
As well as a barney with the Beeb, Farage has also reported Channel 4 to the Electoral Commission for an undercover piece on a racist Reform UK campaigner.
Farage is finally being scrutinised like other leaders, along with his party members – instead of simply being given a platform to rant – and he doesn’t like it.
‘The audience were only saying what everyone is thinking’
Well. he did kick off by proudly telling people how he had absorbed BNP voters as if they were moderate centrist floating voters.
I would hope 95+% of people are left of Farage tbh
Might be a first for Question Time to have anything but a right wing audience for once.
Fucking LOL.
If the BBC was fair and balanced, he would never have been given a platform by them.
When you’re further right than Margaret Thatcher and you have a skin so thin a milkshake is in danger of causing you a mortal wound, everyone is going to look left wing and hostile. I’m sorry Nigel but that’s the cost of your disgusting business.
‘Accused’ by who?
Well, the article specifies the ‘accusation’ is from ‘Lee Harris, a political commentator’. Although it does not tell us that Lee Harris provides almost all his political commentary for… GBNews.
So a more accurate headline would be ‘GBNews political commentator accuses BBC of…’. But the Telegraph, like most of the right-wing press, love to hide behind these very passive headlines to imply there’s a broader groundswell of public support for what are often very partisan opinions.
This is the guy that once blamed being late on the motorway being full of immigrant drivers.
Probably blames his farts on the deep state.
Let’s face it he still has his EU pension and his German passport
Jesus christ the telegraph used to be right wing but at least tried to have a veneer of respectability; now its turned into the sun 2.0
Especially amusing as QTs had plenty of tory (and iirc ukip?) councillers and aides in the audience before lmao.
That maybe because the British tend to be hostile against some racist neonazi?
They’ve been caught numerous times with tory councilors in the audience pretending to be normal people
Dear Nigel,
This is what happens when you meet members of the public outside your sycophantic, pint swilling bubble. We aren’t easily taken in by the showmanship, the “I’m one of you” BS, and see through the carefully crafted veneer you’ve spent years putting on. You may have hoodwinked a percentage who want something different, but most of us can see you for what you truly are.
Regards,
The British public who aren’t voting for you whether they’re left-wing or right-wing or centrist.
At least 80% of the country is left-wing of Farage, that’s what you get when you keep inviting on fringe idiots to supposedly reputable programmes because it boosts your ratings. Ironically this is probably the first time I can remember where polls indicate Farage’s party might be any kind of significant contender, and yet they’ve been shoving him in people’s faces for the last 20 years when he didn’t have a single MP. His increase in support is probably directly correlated to way too many people taking him more seriously than he deserves and letting him distort the public discourse.
Ha! And yet the conservatives v labour debate kept zooming in on the 60 yo white man nodding every time Sunak said _any word_
Makes a difference from the hostile right audience I suppose
I’m right wing , and I can’t stand the Putin arse licker that is farage . Opposing you farage doesn’t make someone left wing . You bleat on about the illegal immigration to Europe , yet never mention Russia and Belarus are intentionally trying to get them in to destabilise Europe . Why is that ?
Ignore and continue. The right will always cry foul play, because that’s what they would do.
Fiona Bruce really put him on the spot about how he would actually deal with people coming over on boats. He was left looking naïve, which is why he’s crying foul. C’mon, Royal Marines storming the beaches of Normandy to return migrants. JFC!