Farage only goes down on one knee.

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, 29 June 2024 06:55.

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Just as the US media finally had to come clean about the capacity of Joe Biden to lead the country, the UK media went into full dirty tricks mode, salivating over the “racism” of Reform candidates and party workers. According to Nigel Farage this included sending in an actor to tell a Channel 4 crew that Rishi Sunak is “a fucking paki”.

We have been here before. During the 2015 general election campaign a UKIP candidate named Richard Blay, allegedly a ‘former’ Tory called Richard Blay confided in a complete stranger that he held violent racist views. The complete stranger turned out to be an undercover reporter who was able to catch it all on camera.

This time round Farage used a BBC Question Time appearance to defend his corner:

Nigel Farage has repeated claims that a canvasser caught on camera branding Rishi Sunak a ‘f****** p***’ is actually an actor playing his part in ‘a total and utter set-up’, during a fiery appearance on Question Time.

The Reform UK leader’s much-anticipated appearance on the BBC Leaders’ Special at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham came just hours after the Prime Minister lashed out at him over the slur.
At the centre of the furore is Reform activist Andrew Parker, who made the remark about Mr Sunak during a secret recording made by Channel 4 News in Essex.

He also suggested that migrants should be shot by soldiers as they arrive on UK beaches and called for Muslims to be ejected from mosques so they can be turned into Wetherspoons pubs.

Unfortunately, other Reform folk who are not actors have also been caught out wrong-thinking out loud. This time Farage folded:

Elsewhere, Mr Farage was faced with laughter from the BBC Question Time audience when he said he has ‘no idea’ why candidates who have made racist comments are still standing for Reform.

He was read racist or xenophobic comments made by Reform candidates, including Leslie Lilley, candidate for Southend East & Rochford, who reportedly said he would ‘slaughter’ migrants and ‘have their families taken out’ in a Facebook post about small boat crossings.

Edward Oakenfull, candidate for Derbyshire Dales, who tweeted derogatory comments about the IQ of ethnic minorities, and Robert Lomas, candidate for Barnsley North, who claimed ‘black people of Britain’ were ‘grifting the race card’, were also referenced.

Mr Farage said: ‘In most cases, they’ve been disowned. People like (Leslie) Lilley, honestly, what he said is criminal.’

When asked: ‘So why is he your candidate?’ Mr Farage said: ‘I have no idea’, prompting laughter from the audience.

He said: ‘I inherited this. It was a start-up party. I paid a professional London vetting company to weed this out. The work wasn’t done.’

Asked if he would withdraw support from the three referenced candidates, Mr Farage said: ‘I wouldn’t want anything to do with them’.

So another opportunity to take the initiative goes begging. Were I Farage’s advisor I would have urged him to go on the attack. The answer I would have written for him is:

“An awful lot of proud and loyal Englishmen are absolutely furious that they have never been asked if they want what the Establishment euphemistically terms diversity. They do not accept the Establishment’s dictate. They will never accept it. They want the question of the English people’s future to be front, left, and centre of public debate. They see the sneers and smears from Establishment politicians and journalists as just a means to avoid that and impose silence on the lot of us. They’ve had a belly full, and sometimes it shows. Sometimes they don’t express themselves with the authorised political niceties. Well, not everyone writes for the Guardian. Perhaps politicians and journalists should show some humility before the English people, stop hiding behind confected moral outrage, and have the courage to engage honestly. And if that means some very frank blow-back for the last twenty-five years of one-way political traffic, so be it.”

Perhaps he might have added to that a couple of new policy announcements to the effect that a Reform government would repeal all anti-free speech laws and get the debate started.

Sleepy Joe, meanwhile is down on both knees, and won’t be getting up. He cannot be allowed to run in November. The immediate problem is that if he stays in office until November or even the January hand-over it means admitting that the world’s most powerful nation is in the hands of a mental incompetent. If he goes it means four months of care-taker president Kamala Harris followed, one would suppose, by the campaign for her re-election. Democrats might prefer almost anybody else, and there is some Republican precedent for them here. The politically dead and buried Richard Nixon was kept in place until Spiro T Agnew could be relieved of his vice-presidential role on 10th October 1973. Might it, time-permitting, be vice president Newsom, followed by Biden’s rapid retirement and Trump vs President Newsom in November?

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Posted by Manc on Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:03 | #

It seems that the actor in question, Andrew Parker, has worked for Channel 4 in the past. The last time was in 2020. Parker has cited “undercover filming” as one of his specialties. For their part, Channel 4 News claim that they don’t know Parker and hadn’t paid him. This may well be true, however the broadcaster didn’t send out its own crew to do the filming. Instead, they subcontracted a private film company and paid them. This one is going to run for some time.

The audience member on QT who presented himself as someone with friends involved in start up companies and called Farage a “massive racist” isn’t what he seemed either. His name is Salman Mirza and for the last 20 years has worked as a “refugee and migrant legal representative”. He’s also something of a political activist, having been photographed “taking a knee” with clenched fist raised at a BLM demo, when they were in fashion. More recently, he has been caught on camera at several anti-Israel marches in London. Perhaps he misspoke when he said “start up companies” as earlier this year he addressed a motley collection of Islamists and “socialists” in Birmingham, about the birth of a new party, which he named “Don’t Forget Gaza”. Catchy, right?

I suppose that I should feel more sympathy for Farage than I do but you know what they say about karma.

Posted by Thorn on Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:43 | #

GW,

The answer you have written for Mr. Farage is excellent!! A++ grade on that.

WRT Biden, I suspect his political future hinges on whether the big donors ditch him or not. If they do, then he’s toast. If they don’t, he still has a real chance of winning come November.

How the heck can a braindead Biden get reelected?!?

Answer: Over the last ~70 years, massive non-white immigration plus the colleges and universities each year since the 1960s cultural revolution have been turning out a bumper crop of leftards. Of course, leftards will always vote for the candidate with a (D) after his or her name. The sobering fact is, in the year 2024 left-lib Democratic voters outnumber conservative Republicans. That’s just the way it is. For Trump to win he MUST pull from the independent voter pool. To do that he has to pander to minority groups such as blacks and Hispanics. However, that strategy is a double-edged sword. The gains may make with blacks and Hispanics in a risky gamble; that being he runs the risk of alienating a significant portion of his white base.

At any rate, Biden was never really in charge. His staff and cabinet are running the show. Everyone who’s been paying attention knows that.

Bottom line,
Biden is not out of this race. Despite his dementia, he could still secure a victory.

Posted by Thorn on Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:05 | #

“The gains may make with blacks and Hispanics in a risky gamble”

correction:

The gains Trump may make with blacks and Hispanics is a risky gamble.

Posted by Manc on Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:45 | #

Starmer isn’t doing too well either. Seventy two Labour party members in Islington North, including most of those who actually run the constituency, have signed a letter urging Labour voters to vote for Jeremy Corbyn, who is standing as an Independent.

Here’s an Angela Raynor parody song which is worth a listen….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhy1mdvc1PE

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:38 | #

EXCLUSIVE
Don’t Be Fooled: Joe Isn’t Stepping Down
July 1, 2024

Excerpt:

It’s hard to imagine a presidential debate more triumphant than the one we saw last Thursday night—or, if you’re a Democrat, one more miserable.

In the immediate hours after the debate, a chorus erupted on television and online from the supposed opinion-makers of the liberal ruling class: Joe Biden must step aside, they said.

The New York Times editorial board itself took the dramatic step of calling for Biden to step down.

Just as the media seemed to be waging a full-on assault against Biden, prominent Democrats stepped in with a rather different message. In a matter of hours, the most senior and respected Democrat officials came out with public support for Biden.

[...]

It may seem like we are on the brink of a protracted struggle over whether Joe Biden will be forced off the top of the Democratic ticket. This showdown is interesting and consequential not only for the obvious impact on the presidential race but also because it is a rare public struggle between the mainstream media and the elder statesmen of the Democrat Party—usually the most reliable of allies and bedfellows. If Biden’s cognitive inabilities simply serve to underscore how opaque power is in the most powerful nation in the history of the earth (if Biden is brain dead, who is running the show?), the struggle between the Democrat elite and the media will at least offer a glimpse as to the pecking order among two key components of our otherwise inscrutable power structure.

[...]

RTWT

https://revolver.news/2024/07/democrats-panic-but-joe-biden-not-going-anywhere/

Posted by Al Ross on Thu, 04 Jul 2024 02:29 | #

#2 Congrats , GW you got graded and achieved an A by Thorn’s dubious lights.

GW , I think NF is performing to the time - honoured definition of Politics , viz., the art of the possible , and even beyond those margins , especially these dire days.

Posted by Guessedworker on Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:28 | #

Cheers Al, but I agree wholeheartedly with Thorn’s grading. Well, maybe a couple more stars might have been not quite so mean.

Elesewhere, I see that the political appointees of Ofcom, the media “watchdog”, have issued the following statement concerning C4’s shameless abuse not only of Reform but of broadcasting standards at election time:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-standards/update-complaints-channel-4-news-undercover-reform/

We received over 270 complaints about Channel 4 News’ ‘Undercover inside Reform’s campaign’. Given the election period, we have urgently assessed them against the due accuracy, due impartiality and offence rules under the Broadcasting Code.

For all of these complaints, we have concluded that they do not raise substantive issues warranting further investigation. Any person or organisation directly affected by a programme has 20 working days from broadcast to make a fairness and privacy complaint to Ofcom. We would not comment further on fairness and privacy cases, in line with our published procedures.

Posted by Guessedworker on Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:14 | #

From the Telegraph’s coverage of The Biden Question ...

Allowing Ms Harris to take on Trump would also likely give her access to the $240 million (£188.5 million) in funds raised by the Biden campaign because she is on the ticket with him.

So maybe the money matters more than Newsom and his WEF young-leader image.

Posted by Thorn on Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:11 | #

It’s not just a matter of money, GW. According to the rules, Harris is rge de facto heir apparent to the throne.

Not only that, Harris, incredibly, is more popular than Newsom amongst the electorate. The latest polls confirm that. E.g., the latest CNN poll has her neck and neck with Trump. Moreover, current polls show Harris has a better chance of beating Trump than any other Dem candidates being considered - that includes Newsom. BTW, GW, don’t believe the prima facie media hype about Newsom; overall, a little digging reveals he has considerably more negatives than Harris.

Then there’s the matter of replacing a black woman with a white man. That, of course, would cause a massive revolt. Other than Harris willingly stepping down, I can’t see how they get around that.

P.S., Maybe your ideological compadre, Al Ross, can chime in and put his abnormal spin on the factual reality of the situation? Al knows things! (lol)

Posted by Thorn on Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:38 | #

GW, here is a piece that will give you an accurate overview of the current events surrounding Biden. Admittedly it’s not the quality or at the level that Al Ross can produce; that, of course, is to be expected. After all, he operates on a much higher plane intellectual existence than us plebs. /s

Biden Tells Allies He Knows He Has Only Days to Salvage Candidacy

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-told-ally-weighing-whether-151745457.html

Posted by Thorn on Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:45 | #

“on a much higher plane intellectual existence….”

Should read: on a much higher plane of intellectual existence…

Typical pleb mistake on my part.

Posted by Thorn on Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:19 | #

Hitchen’s On Voting Against
.

https://youtu.be/RTqJvAYd-f8
Why I’m Voting Against Labour - Peter Hitchens

Posted by Thorn on Fri, 05 Jul 2024 22:39 | #

@12

Just so you know, GW, the opinions of Hitchen’s and I are almost identical. He gets it.