No I have watched many years of HIGNFY and to me he seems to be a liberal conservative, hence why I put him as soft right.
Never called him a tory, he is more an orange book liberal, and they are still right wing.
And how does he talk nice? His accent isn't posh and is quite neutral and common so their is no region bias to pick up on
I wouldn't even class Hislop as a comedian - he is the editor of a satirical magazine. His political views are on record as thus
Political views[edit]
Hislop has been highly critical of all major British political parties for over 20 years. Appearing on
Question Time on 18 September 2008, he praised
Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman
Vince Cable for his analysis of the
financial crisis of 2007–2008, and apparently expressed support for the Liberal Democrats, jocularly stating "I'm standing for them."
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In a 2009 "Five minutes with" interview with
Matthew Stadlen for
BBC News, Hislop stated that if he were required, "at the point of a gun", to stand in an election for any British political party, he would stand for the fictional "Vince Cable for
Treasurer Party".
[42] After the formation of the
coalition government in 2010, Hislop remarked in an interview, "I like the idea of this coalition neutralising the loonies on both sides".
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He has also been highly critical of the leadership of the
European Union, calling for a referendum on the
Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in a 2003 recording of
Have I Got News for You.
[44] However, referring to Britain's vote to leave the European Union (
Brexit), Hislop said on
Question Time that "after an election or a referendum, even if you lose the vote, you are entitled to go on making the argument".
[31] A joke on the front of
Private Eye titled "BREXIT LATEST" mocking the reaction to
Brexit received "fifty or so" letters of complaint in the next issue.
[45] Hislop mocked this, saying that "There was one [letter] from a vicar, too, who told me that it was time to accept the victory of the majority of the people and to stop complaining. ... I wrote back and told him that this argument was a bit much, coming from a church that had begun with
a minority of 12".
[46] He has expressed dismay over the level of public debate in the aftermath of Britain's vote to leave the EU and the election of
Donald Trump, describing it as
Orwellian in nature, saying that "one is unsure whether to feel relieved at the sense of
déjà vu or worried about the possibility of
history repeating itself, not as farce, but as tragedy again."
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In 2019, an outtake from
Have I Got News For You went viral, featuring Hislop saying that he would like to see Boris Johnson "have a fair trial, with a desirable result of him being in prison forever". The comment was made in response of the
High Court's ruling that Johnson would not have to face a criminal prosecution for claims he made during the EU referendum.
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