Farage goes to war with the BBC over presenter’s ‘Hitler’ comment
https://www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-bbc-radio-hitler-comment-racist-reform-uk/
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Farage goes to war with the BBC over presenter’s ‘Hitler’ comment
https://www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-bbc-radio-hitler-comment-racist-reform-uk/
Posted by do_or_pie
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> The Reform UK leader says he will not speak to the national broadcaster until they apologize for all their own past racist coverage.
Well, they have zip to apologise for, so lets watch ‘ol Nige fold like a cheap suit.
Enjoy the silence!
Love Nigel. The clip brilliant. Should have said this from start regarding this pathetic story.
> The Reform UK leader says he will not speak to the national broadcaster
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
It was a valid question considering the allegations form multiple people about Farage’s time at school.
But this is pretty much a win-win for Farage.
He plays the persecuted victim to his gullible followers, and he gets to ignore questions that challenge him on his policies, his past, his links to Russia or that the donations to Reform the party that’s just a grifting machine for him in an a cheap mask.
Awwwwh, the truth hurts doesn’t it, Far Right Farage…??
The worst thing you can do when attacking right wing politicians is comparing them to Hitler. It’s lazy and obviously isn’t true. Right wing != Hitler in the context of modern politics. Reform do not advocate genocide, endorse totalitarianism, nor many of the other extreme policies Hitler enforced.
They are a very right wing party in many ways, but they want to operate within democratic norms.
Hitler, they ain’t.
“I want an apology from the BBC for virtually everything you did throughout the 1970s and ’80s.”
OK, but Bernard Manning and Warren Mitchell are not trying to become Prime Minister in 2025 and the people who commissioned their shows retired 30 years ago.
What will happen first, BBC be forced to apologies due to accusations of left wing bias or Farage to forget about the entire quandary to get back on screens and spew bollocks on Question Time
Not a fan of Farage but should we be collecting stories from class mates on the behaviour of all our politicians when they were children?
Seems a like reaching a bit. And tbh he has a point that media of the time did actively push abhorrent views on children. TV from up to the 80s was quite messed up by today’s standards.
Like when it came out Justin Thrudeau did black face all I remember was the left saying he was dumb and a college kid at the time. Kids say and do stupid stuff. You can’t use hearsay or even a criminal conviction about a kid to bash them as an adult.
I think if this came out about anyone but him, the above would be pretty much the standard response. Attack what he is doing NOW. Not what he maybe did as a kid FFS. It just seems desperate.
>Farage read a letter from a school contemporary which said the culture was very different in the 1970s. “Lots of boys said things they regret today,” the letter said. Farage’s comments were “offensive” sometimes, “but never with malice.”
Just normal friendly banter like telling brown kids to go back where they came from and telling Jewish kids they should be put in an oven.
Wanker!!
Not my proudest political statement but possibly the most definitively accurate
Politicians whining about the media is always very unimpressive, regardless of their ideology. This appears to be a particularly pathetic example.
Kudos to Politico for this bit lol. The resisted the urge to type Führage
“The furor blew up after Radio 4 presenter Emma Barnett asked Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice about the allegations that Farage had made comments about the Holocaust to a Jewish pupil”
Hasn’t he been at war with his propaganda network for over a decade?
I do not care what literally anybody did when they were a teenager.
He does not like hars questions. Prefer GBnews where they never question anyting he says.
The BBC has evolved it’s attitudes, Farage has not. Also, Farage wants to be PM, his beliefs should be thoroughly scrutinised. The BBC is an organisation, not an individual.
What a bullshit line of defense.
Farage using the Trump playbook, attack the reporters.
If only he was smart enough to just deny what happened instead of whatabouting. Even Boris was smart enough to figure that one out.
The BBC for *all its faults* is one of the last vestiges of reasonbly trusted and watched media that *tries* to be truthful even if it has a mix of inherent biases – in fact that’s one of their biases …that truth exists and matters. The playbook from the States is to stifle any such scrutiny or example then you can simply invent the truth and repeat it. Reform which has some positioning about supporting traditional ‘Britishness’ will contrary to that , I have no doubt , do whatever it can to damage the independence of the BBC so we are left with the equivalent of Fox ‘News’. The irony is that when he was seen as entertaining , like Trump he was given the oxygen of publicity without serious scrutiny by the BBC. Now the ‘honest, man of the people’ is trying to wriggle out of teenage embarrassments , nit by being honest but by trying to attack those daring to bring it up. Something tells me that with a Reform government suddenly,y finding it can’t wave a magic wand and solve the problems it’s promised to, the BBC won’t be the first or last scapegoat.
This is brilliant for Farage, the whole of the British media is focused on some comments and behaviours of when he was young that most of his of his supporters won’t care about whilst his actual number 2 in Wales l, [Nathan Gill, was recently sentence to 10 years in prison for taking Russian money to undermine Europe and the UK through the erosion of public confidence in democracy](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd878ejqko?app-referrer=deep-link). This massive story has got far less attention than any of labours scandals.
Just watch this interview and tell me that he doesn’t have an awful lot of skeletons to keep hidden:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck – it’s a putin loving, russian money taking, grifting, duck.
I thought that ye was an advocater of free speech, nom
The media (mainly the BBC) has been making up a lot of things lately, they are showing how biased they are.
When has Farage not been at war with the bbc? Odd really as no media organisation has done more to promote him over the past 15 years.
Very, *very* satisfying watching the British press get a taste of their own medicine.