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Marcus's avatar

Spot on, sadly a significant number of people cannot and will not see how they are being played and exploited by this feckless grifter.

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Mark Lammas's avatar

Mainstream MurdochMedia give this creepy, dubious character far too much credence. He's a hypocritical menace.

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Adam Badini's avatar

This piece is a masterclass in selective outrage and smug condescension masquerading as journalism. The Lead accuses Nigel Farage of "racialised logic," yet spends over 1,500 words cherry-picking Reform UK’s worst moments while conveniently ignoring the failures of the established parties they clearly favour. Where is the same moral fury for Labour MPs who downplayed grooming scandals for fear of appearing racist, or Conservative MPs who let violent crime soar while virtue-signalling about “community policing”?

Farage may be blunt, but at least he talks about real public fears without wrapping them in Guardian-speak. If 25% of sexual offences are committed by foreign nationals, even if imperfectly framed, that statistic should spark debate, not be dismissed as “misogyny with a side of white nationalism.” The remaining 75% doesn’t make the 25% irrelevant. Pretending otherwise is ideological self-deception.

This isn’t journalism, it’s a hit piece disguised as virtue. And voters are increasingly seeing through it.

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Maz's avatar
1dEdited

You've clearly not read anything else on the lead, nor have you read this article properly, but did you spam the comments with this multiple times to be an ass or do you have connection difficulties and a lack of patience?

Edit: Maybe it's because spammers tend to get banned from places, and grievance politics of the right means their favourite thing is to say they're being silenced by critics.. rather than the truth that they're being told to sit in the naughty corner until they're mature enough to join the rest of the conversation.

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Adam Badini's avatar

This piece is a masterclass in selective outrage and smug condescension masquerading as journalism. The Lead accuses Nigel Farage of "racialised logic," yet spends over 1,500 words cherry-picking Reform UK’s worst moments while conveniently ignoring the failures of the established parties they clearly favour. Where is the same moral fury for Labour MPs who downplayed grooming scandals for fear of appearing racist, or Conservative MPs who let violent crime soar while virtue-signalling about “community policing”?

Farage may be blunt, but at least he talks about real public fears without wrapping them in Guardian-speak. If 25% of sexual offences are committed by foreign nationals, even if imperfectly framed, that statistic should spark debate, not be dismissed as “misogyny with a side of white nationalism.” The remaining 75% doesn’t make the 25% irrelevant. Pretending otherwise is ideological self-deception.

This isn’t journalism, it’s a hit piece disguised as virtue. And voters are increasingly seeing through it.

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Adam Badini's avatar

This piece is a masterclass in selective outrage and smug condescension masquerading as journalism. The Lead accuses Nigel Farage of "racialised logic," yet spends over 1,500 words cherry-picking Reform UK’s worst moments while conveniently ignoring the failures of the established parties they clearly favour. Where is the same moral fury for Labour MPs who downplayed grooming scandals for fear of appearing racist, or Conservative MPs who let violent crime soar while virtue-signalling about “community policing”?

Farage may be blunt, but at least he talks about real public fears without wrapping them in Guardian-speak. If 25% of sexual offences are committed by foreign nationals, even if imperfectly framed, that statistic should spark debate, not be dismissed as “misogyny with a side of white nationalism.” The remaining 75% doesn’t make the 25% irrelevant. Pretending otherwise is ideological self-deception.

This isn’t journalism, it’s a hit piece disguised as virtue. And voters are increasingly seeing through it.

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Adam Badini's avatar

This piece is a masterclass in selective outrage and smug condescension masquerading as journalism. The Lead accuses Nigel Farage of "racialised logic," yet spends over 1,500 words cherry-picking Reform UK’s worst moments while conveniently ignoring the failures of the established parties they clearly favour. Where is the same moral fury for Labour MPs who downplayed grooming scandals for fear of appearing racist, or Conservative MPs who let violent crime soar while virtue-signalling about “community policing”?

Farage may be blunt, but at least he talks about real public fears without wrapping them in Guardian-speak. If 25% of sexual offences are committed by foreign nationals, even if imperfectly framed, that statistic should spark debate, not be dismissed as “misogyny with a side of white nationalism.” The remaining 75% doesn’t make the 25% irrelevant. Pretending otherwise is ideological self-deception.

This isn’t journalism, it’s a hit piece disguised as virtue. And voters are increasingly seeing through it.

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Adam Badini's avatar

This piece is a masterclass in selective outrage and smug condescension masquerading as journalism. The Lead accuses Nigel Farage of "racialised logic," yet spends over 1,500 words cherry-picking Reform UK’s worst moments while conveniently ignoring the failures of the established parties they clearly favour. Where is the same moral fury for Labour MPs who downplayed grooming scandals for fear of appearing racist, or Conservative MPs who let violent crime soar while virtue-signalling about “community policing”?

Farage may be blunt, but at least he talks about real public fears without wrapping them in Guardian-speak. If 25% of sexual offences are committed by foreign nationals, even if imperfectly framed, that statistic should spark debate, not be dismissed as “misogyny with a side of white nationalism.” The remaining 75% doesn’t make the 25% irrelevant. Pretending otherwise is ideological self-deception.

This isn’t journalism, it’s a hit piece disguised as virtue. And voters are increasingly seeing through it.

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Adam Badini's avatar

This piece is a masterclass in selective outrage and smug condescension masquerading as journalism. The Lead accuses Nigel Farage of "racialised logic," yet spends over 1,500 words cherry-picking Reform UK’s worst moments while conveniently ignoring the failures of the established parties they clearly favour. Where is the same moral fury for Labour MPs who downplayed grooming scandals for fear of appearing racist, or Conservative MPs who let violent crime soar while virtue-signalling about “community policing”?

Farage may be blunt, but at least he talks about real public fears without wrapping them in Guardian-speak. If 25% of sexual offences are committed by foreign nationals, even if imperfectly framed, that statistic should spark debate, not be dismissed as “misogyny with a side of white nationalism.” The remaining 75% doesn’t make the 25% irrelevant. Pretending otherwise is ideological self-deception.

This isn’t journalism, it’s a hit piece disguised as virtue. And voters are increasingly seeing through it.

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Billy Coyle's avatar

Get this Tory clown out.W Coyle

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