Tuesday 2 July 2024

Farage Using The Trump Playbook

In every poll the BBC comes out as the most trusted source of news and the fact that the BBC is attacked by the right for being too left and from the left for being too right then it must be doing something right but the Conservative Party have on occasion tried to paint the BBC as 'bias' but Nigel Farage has been hanging around Donald Trump too long because he is using the Trump playbook to blame the media as somehow 'undemocratic'.
As election day crawls closer he has taken to accusing Channel 4 of 'a stitch-up on the most astonishing scale' when it exposed one of his Party campaigners  saying immigrants should be shot and calling the Prime Minister an effing Paki and when challenged by audience members on BBC’s Question Time the following day attacked the Corporation for having 'rigged the audience' and said he would withdraw the BBC licence fee.
Farage has repeatedly accused the BBC of bias and double standards that 'interferes with people’s ability to practise their democratic rights' and has also gone after The Daily Mail, TikTok, Google and Ofcom for 'political and election interference'
Farage is now saying that only he is willing to stand up against the establishment and 'tell the truth against all the pressure' like some kind of saviour against the media establishment.
He has even began muttering the phrase 'Make Britain great again' which only entrenches the Trump playbook that he is using, make people not trust the media and paint himself as the only one to trust.
It appears to be working for Trump but then he is setting himself up against an American media which was barely a byword for good journalism to start with, whether Farage can pull off the same trick in Britain is unlikely because although the Press has more freedom to mislead as they regulate themselves, the broadcast media are ruled over by Ofcom who as RT, Fox News and now GB News found out, will come down on any broadcaster like a tonne of bricks if they are not fair and balanced so Farage has picked the wrong battle.

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