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I’m hearing that Farage is really upset that the riots he has incited are being called the #FarageRiots.
Probably best if we don’t refer to the riots that Farage incited as the #FarageRiots.
Please share to raise awareness of the importance of not using the term #FarageRiots
Nigel Farage demands accountability from everyone except Nigel Farage.
That tells you more about his politics than any speech, campaign slogan or BBC lawsuit ever could.
For years, Farage has built his political brand around the idea that Britain is being misled. By politicians. By the media. By the civil service. By the establishment. The message is always the same. Other people are not telling you the truth.
1. Yet when you look at some of the most controversial moments of his own political career, accountability seems to disappear. After Southport, Farage amplified speculation and suspicion before the facts were fully established. At a moment when tensions were already dangerously high, he chose to raise questions that fuelled distrust rather than calm it.
2. Following the murder of Henry Nowak, we saw a similar instinct. Again, the focus quickly shifted towards institutional failure, hidden truths and public anger.
3. The point is not that politicians shouldn't ask difficult questions. They should. The point is that there is a difference between seeking facts and feeding suspicion.
4. Farage, like Trump, has latched onto something unpleasant that has entered modern politics. Distrust spreads faster than trust. Anger spreads faster than caution. People are far more likely to share a suspicion than a correction.
5. That is why today's threat to sue the BBC is so revealing. Because the same politician who has spent years benefiting from outrage, distortion and selective framing suddenly demands the highest standards of accuracy when he believes he is the victim.
6. The hypocrisy is obvious. When others are misrepresented, nuance often seems optional. When Farage believes he has been misrepresented, it becomes a matter for lawyers.
7. This is also why comparisons with Trump are increasingly hard to ignore. They share the same lack of accountability. If something helps the narrative, amplify it. If something damages the narrative, attack the source. If criticism follows, claim victimhood. And never, ever accept responsibility.
8. That last point matters most. Because accountability is not demanding answers from other people. It is being willing to accept scrutiny yourself. Accountability is not demanding answers from other people. It is being willing to accept responsibility when your own words have consequences.
That is the standard Farage applies relentlessly to everyone around him. Just never to himself. Because the central promise of Farage's politics is that Britain has been failed by everyone else.
The central flaw in it is that he never seems willing to consider his own role in making things worse.
So now we need Newsnight to do an extreme .in depth analysis of Farage, his finances and foreign funding
As he demands accurate reporting he must be desperate to clarify
- the £5million and the 3 stories so far as to what it was for
- security issues , as he says he is ignored / refused by the Home Office after Yusuf screamed it was cut
- g/f house purchase as initially he said he bought. then she bought
- the £1.4million house - bought oit of I'm a Celebrity funds allegedly but they never left the account
'It is inflammatory, it is extremist, it is divisive, it is everything the family didn't want.’
Former senior police officer Neil Basu tells James O'Brien that he believes Nigel Farage is using Henry Novak’s death to score ‘political points'.
It is not “scapegoating a community”…
Yes it is.
That is exactly what it is.
If he had been a Catholic with his mum’s bread knife, his religion would not have been mentioned.
Imbecile.
@AmeliaRocket1@Nigel_Farage To incite race riots.
To con the congenitally stupid out of their hard earned cash.
And to undermine the rule of law.
Right?