Nigel Farage

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Every time I see this thread get bumped.
 
bluebc said:
I know , how dare somebody with a different opinion be allowed to express their freedom of speech
Death to all men who think differently to the tolerant left !
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This reads like you're having a pop at @Thaksins Love Child freedom of speech.

I find it fascinating how figures like Farage who have climbed the political ladder, are paid handsomely for newspaper articles, and when compared to their peers, enjoy a disproportionate amount of airtime to spread their lies and abhorrent views, yet still claim their freedom of speech is being oppressed.

I wonder, what exactly it is he wants to say, that he feels he can't?

With freedom of speech warriors like Farage, freedom of speech isn't an issue, it's a desire for their speech to go unchallenged.
 
ROCKET80 said:
This reads like you're having a pop at @Thaksins Love Child freedom of speech.

I find it fascinating how figures like Farage who have climbed the political ladder, are paid handsomely for newspaper articles, and when compared to their peers, enjoy a disproportionate amount of airtime to spread their lies and abhorrent views, yet still claim their freedom of speech is being oppressed.

I wonder, what exactly it is he wants to say, that he feels he can't?

With freedom of speech warriors like Farage, freedom of speech isn't an issue, it's a desire for their speech to go unchallenged.
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They don't feel it, but it plays to an audience who grew up with Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language, who read the Daily Mail and Daily Express and absorb fear with every turn of the page. It is powerful to say that you are speaking up for the little guy who cannot get a hospital appointment now, or whose grandchildren cannot get a school place. There is absolutely nothing clever about him, what he says, or what he stands for. He is a one-trick-pony, inflaming for his own ends and those who fund him.
 
Pretty much the whole of the right in politics uses fear as a political tool these days. It's quite effective too. The funny this is, I am much more afraid of the loss of the NHS than I am about seeing a few more black faces around. Many seem to be the opposite of this.

30 years ago you would never have seen a black person in the area where I live and only rarely an Asian. Now there are quite a few of them, although the biggest minority remain the local Jews. To be quite honest, I can't perceive much difference in terms of crime or personal danger. Some drug dealer got his car blown up a bit back, but he was a white guy. The scallies (a minority) from the council estate are all white, although I can't certify them as Anglo-Saxon as they all look alike.

Yet we have people out there who seem to think that any change is the end of civilisation. Labour is going to 'destroy' Britain. Really? After 14 years of gross incompetence and corruption, Labour is somehow going to finish our nation off altogether? What arrant bollocks! Yet people believe it. They really do.

The Daily Mail and its ilk are fear merchants. They want you to be afraid. Scared people often turn to bombastic simpletons with easy answers to complex questions, and that suits the Mail's political ends perfectly.
 
oldius said:
They don't feel it, but it plays to an audience who grew up with Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language, who read the Daily Mail and Daily Express and absorb fear with every turn of the page. It is powerful to say that you are speaking up for the little guy who cannot get a hospital appointment now, or whose grandchildren cannot get a school place. There is absolutely nothing clever about him, what he says, or what he stands for. He is a one-trick-pony, inflaming for his own ends and those who fund him.
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Yes, so if we deal with those resentments (school/hospital places etc) he will cease to have traction.
 
hampshireblue said:
After the Southport murders, Farage decided it was really important that the ethnicity of the suspect should be released ASAP. The same doesn't seem to apply for the perpertrator of the murder of the 80 year old gentleman in Leicester. I wonder why?
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could be he is somewhere in the world where he can't keep up with UK news? He certainly won't be anywhere near Clacton.
 
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