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  1. Anonymous26 December 2024 at 13:32

    Reform UK are the real Opposition now-having overtaken Labour in the polls, their membership has overtaken that of the Conservatives. If you want to vote against the entire New Labour agenda, from high taxes and public spending to net zero and mass immigration, we're the only game in town.

    Even Trump's Republicans, who called Peter Mandelson a "moron" will only deal with Reform-if Labour had any sense, it would have appointed Nigel Farage as our man in Washington instead of Mandelson, a man who has repeatedly insulted the new President-elect. But as a British patriot, Farage has nonetheless offered his help as a go-between to build relations with the new US administration, and they should take it.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/26/reform-uk-overtakes-conservatives-as-membership-swells/

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    1. David Lindsay26 December 2024 at 13:58

      Controlled Opposition, or you would not be on the BBC. And you do not have members. You are a limited company.

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  2. Anonymous26 December 2024 at 18:23

    An entirely uncontrolled opposition: we get on the BBC because it can hardly ignore what is already Britain’s third largest party by vote share. We not only have members but have more members than the Official Opposition and soon we’ll overtake the government. And Farage already changed the constitution so it is a member-led party.

    We’re the only party opposing New Labour on every issue from net zero, crime, and comprehensive education to high taxation, public spending and foreign policy (including Ukraine where Farage’s views have always been aligned to those of Trump’s Republicans).

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  3. Anonymous26 December 2024 at 19:28

    It has to care about national popularity, which vote share demonstrates, because as a publicly funded broadcaster it has to at least pretend to be impartial. It couldn’t conceivably ignore a party that got nearly five million votes and has overtaken the government in the polls.

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    1. David Lindsay26 December 2024 at 20:34

      Oh, but it could. It was obsessed with Farage long before any of that.

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  4. Anonymous26 December 2024 at 21:13

    No it couldn’t or it would lose the support of license fee payers on which its survival depends. Farage has been by far the most influential figure in British politics in recent times, (one without whom Brexit would never have have happened) so one can hardly blame them for paying him attention.

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    1. David Lindsay26 December 2024 at 21:23

      It has never given a damn about licence-payers. If you don't pay, you go to prison. Upper-middle-class liberals find Farage types amusing, that is all.

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  5. Anonymous27 December 2024 at 14:39

    That is nonsense. I’m a big critic of the BBC but it has to give a damn-it’s bound by the Royal Charter. It wouldn’t be possible to ignore a party with that level of public support and a politician who has been that influential. Name a single other party-leftwing or rightwing-that garnered over four million votes but was completely “ignored” by the BBC. There isn’t one because they couldn’t get away with it.

    Point proved.

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    1. David Lindsay27 December 2024 at 17:56

      It gets those votes because it is on the BBC, which created Boris Johnson for a laugh, and which has created Nigel Farage for a laugh.

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