How we will look back at the British media's current constant indulgence of Nigel Farage and his brand of anti-migrant politics as the biggest collective failure of our times
The British press is failing in its duty to ask the right questions of Nigel Farage
I suspect that most (if not all) Tories holding elected positions (MPs, councillors etc) will switch to Reform UK soon, because that's the future for the British right.
A few Tories may choose to go to other parties, but the Tory Party itself might as well adopt a Norwegian Blue parrot as its logo.
Reform UK has destroyed the host (the Tory Party) that it nested in, rather like when the Alien burst out of John Hurt's chest.
Mmm .... now I'm seeing Farage bursting out of Boris Johnson, that would be an interesting meme.
Is it because we don’t have the calibre of journalist to ask intelligent questions? They seem to turn up to press conferences without having done any research and accept any answer given to them.
The question I want to hear asked but never do is about how Reform's funders and the party's position on green energy seem to so weirdly coincide. I don't think there should ever BE an interview where that question isn't asked.
A Moseley tribute act 🤡🏴
No. Our media has always been this bad. Stop pretending. The problem is that people are listening to it even though it's all nonsense, and the government isn't pushing back at it, and anyone who doesn't agree with the right has been purged. Hence the Reform snowball effect.
BBC hierarchy is besotted with the odious little rabble-rouser. It will not end well.
The BBC made Farage out to be mainstream, thereby giving us Brexit, a treasonous endeavour at best.
I think people need to remember the media in the UK needs serious reform.
OFCOM has acquiesced its position.
Billionaires own the TV news, BBC in "both sides ing" arguments has started pushing far right talking points & GB"News" gets away with literally making shit up then paying what in...
A serious media would pay some attention to the kind of facts discussed here. Those who don’t like immigration need to understand what life would be like without it: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘Stop the boats’ is a popular refrain but it obscures the real issues rich countries across the world are facing
Totally agree
mmmmm....doesn't that rather depend upon who is writing the history?
Failure? This is the billionaire press and their BBC/Sky amplifiers working as intended to put the billionaire's Boy For '29 into Downing Street to try to Save Capitalism by the only means left to them: racist authoritarianism. See also: climate crisis coverage.
Farage is like a tinpot version of Oswald Mosley, with all of Mosley's fascism and racism, but without any of Mosley's charisma.
The British press loved Mosley too. It's not as if the press want to get it right. They indulge these goons because they're fascists too. It's not failure: it's betrayal.
Unless they’re still in charge. Our media policy and laws needs radical change to prevent consolidation by politicised owners.
Will we? That would require insight and considered reflection. A few people might do that. Most will follow the themes of the zeitgeist as defined by the MSM.
The @BBC are a Fascist endevour?
Nigel Farage, a man held together by hate, greed, nicotine and alcohol. What a man to look up to 🤢 What does it say about the state of British politics? What does it say about the constant drive of trash on media and internet feeds. Old men with stiff right arms need to be silenced.
It’s the same as the normalisation of Trump by the US media. Presenting him as a bit of a joke and a man of the people and giving a latitude not given to other politicians
Obviously not affecting as many but the media’s constant indulgence of anti trans figures will also come to be seen as a failure of our times. In this we can also see it’s a repeat of anti gay reporting in 80s & 90s with the addition of the MMR failures for trans healthcare. It seems we don’t learn.
Anyone who ever watches daytime tv will know how the incessant nature of adverts for cremation plans, Dormeo mattresses, or life assurance gets to you. You feel like you have to buy to make it stop, yet it never will. That's our media's Farage sales strategy.
The government needs to get a grip of the UK's fascist media owners.
.....and their Russian backers.
Nigel Farage is the Reform UK MP for Clacton, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.
The BBC is promoting him the same way they've unaccountably promoted some of the worst things in Britain from Enoch Powell to Jimmy Saville to Cyril Smith...
And Farage was a close friend of kiddy fiddler Powell. You'd think the BBC would ask him if he regrets their friendship.
At which time it will be too late. I doubt, by then, that we'll have the luxury of looking back, we'll be dealing with murderous far-right lunatics and too terrified of the future.
The media in all democratic societies is falling miserably In their mission. The model of offering news that are paid by sponsors drives them to the obscene, titillating, sensationalistic, banal & ridiculous. All the features of crooks and cons like Trump, Farage, Bukele & Hugo Chávez. Narcissists!
It's not a collective failure at all. It is a failure, though.
Looks like farage is straining at stool in that picture. And now l feel very unwell.. 🇨🇦
As I've said investigate this
Need to look now and complain until this shameless promotion of this international oligarchy and foreign intel controlled lying puppet
Yes but maybe an even bigger collective failure is the response to Gaza?
Exactly what happened across the Pond.
Trump equalled clicks and engagement, Trump equalled profit.
So they platformed him.
£250k for a champagne dinner with him? People’s champion my arse
Just as giving oxygen to X by subscribing to them so the UK press is doing so by featuring a rabid, fascist thug.
But what’s worse is their failure to question Farage’s lies at the time.
Fuck Farage.
In our attention economy broadcasters love Farage as he grabs your attention.
Starmer, about as exciting as soggy cardboard, stands no chance against Farage who already has a big following on TikTok (watched by many 16 year olds) whilst Starmer thinks a spot on Today at 8:10 is a big win.
If they must showcase the odious wanker then they should also be challenging his "policies" as they do all other politicians, they don't, usually they might as well be asking him his favourite colour.
Sorry, the British media are NOT failing to ask the right questions of Nigel Farage.
They are far too busy cheering him on.
Exactly.
The amount of time and energy wasted on this bag of stinking wind - given the number and scale of the challenges we should be focused on addressing - is a tragedy. So much hate and failure but still has an unchallenged platform - you have to ask - who benefits?
We will never truly discover the reason why the media and the establishment are busting a gut to get Farage into power.
We will look back at the current media indulgence of Farage as the (extreme) far right controlled media indulging an extreme far right politician. It is an entirely expected and predictable collective failure of the (far) right.
