The Reform UK Party (latest nigel farage vehicle) is it to be laughed at or not

[Lotte]

On the subject of normalisation, I hate people like Farage and Widdecombe appearing on reality TV because it makes people forget how dangerous they are. Widdecombe goes on Strictly and gets a glow-up and now she's a national treasure.

 

[Ax^]

Farage and Widdecombe have had about 8 times the tv time across the board in the last 20 years

the normalisation has been massive .. help massive by the BBC just give Nigel a Puff Piece if he drops a dunce leaving a Wetherspoons on a Tuesday

and channel five Jeremey vine every day of the week has had a member of the brexit/reform party as a guest for at lease as long as the party existed

 

[stavros]

I suppose Widdecombe was a (junior) cabinet member back in the 90s, and then a shadow front-bencher. Lots of other people held similar or higher roles, it's true, but there is a narrative there, in her journey from the right-wing of the Tories to the complete insanity of today.

As for Farage, I have no answers as to why he's been given so much oxygen by the media, especially the BBC, for twenty years or so.

 

[Calamity1971]

Have we had this?
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