Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Not for the first time, Farage looks stupid" video.

  1. Thank you! I honestly felt like I was going a bit mad! It’s not just me then? The guy should be the nonentity clown side show he’s always been, but somehow always ends up with disproportionate power to do real world harm, because the press and pundits just cannot get enough of the guy! Ed Davy, who, lest we forget, stands the biggest chance of forming the opposition after the Tories, has to fling himself off a bridge or parachute into a BBC studio, just to get a line in the Guardian or Telegraph! Whereas Farage bleats just one of his perennial LIES of the type that we’re all used to hearing from, “a bloke down the pub,” and he’s on the front pages of the tabloids and broadsheets across the land! WT actual F??? And this is all as a result of the client media being too cowed by the possibility of him becoming the leader of the party that signs their cheques and Tory MP’s being unwilling to take him on because they all want to be on his good side for the same reason. The right side, presumably? The further right the better. Add to that the fact that Farage has not raised his game one iota, but the Tories have LOWERED theirs to the point that they’re now indistinguishable from the known liar and clown side show act that’s chasing them wherever they go and soaking up their supporters! I’ve challenged Prof Wilson to get a grip and stop making every other video about Farage, but I doubt he’ll pay any attention to me, as it’s probably getting him higher views than more important matters like the post office scandal being the biggest conspiracy in British political history, or our water supply being polluted to deadly levels simply because it’s cheaper to treat fines as a business cost rather than fix the problem, or insider gambling networks, etc. I have huge respect for Prof Wilson, but he can be so wrong about some issues (admittedly, rarely in my view) and this is one of them.
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  2. Anything to get the attention of the pundits and keep the conversation about him. It works pretty well as strategies go. He doesn’t need to be right or anything. More responsible journalists and pundits can do their homework and establish that Farage NEVER made his claims about, “NATO provocation,” until well AFTER the fact of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Hardly anyone will talk about THAT. All he needs is to dominate the headlines and soak up the Tory voters who see him as a viable alternative because he’s in the press every day and he likes a pint. We do it to ourselves.
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  3. Honestly, I’m getting so tired of hearing about Farage and all this disproportionate coverage. I get why you would do it. He’s colourful, says things that stick with people and nearly always epically wrong. So there’s a lot to say, if you want to assist in raising his profile, and if you understand that Farage being wrong makes no difference to his success as a public figure. All he needs is ongoing discussion about him. Like the figure of Colonel Kurts in Apocalypse Now, we didn’t need to see Marlon Brando for him to dominate the picture, because everyone talks about him the whole time, acts either for or against him and makes it clear throughout the entire journey that everything we see happening is happening because of him. The fact that we don’t even get a clear look at him by the end of the movie, and that he mumbles a few lines from the shadows before making his exit, was neither here nor there. It is still credited as one of Brando’s biggest films! I think it’s related to, “The Streisand Effect,” in that respect. The press and people like you are building Farage up, way beyond all reasonable proportion. And the result will be that he will be empowered to take over the remains of the, “Conservative,” Party BECAUSE of people like you never shutting up about him! I’m certain there was an element of this distraction toward the bright and shiny objects involved in the rise of other historical dictators. And make no mistake, if everyone keeps playing his game, by his rules, fuelling him with the oxygen of attention, just because he says something a bit weird or different from the mainstream (right, wrong or indifferent) it will be those people (you included) who will have given him that power. The Tories are being exposed for what their opponents have long suspected to a wider cross section of the public and it is merely the fact that they are so empirically awful that makes right leaning voters confused. They no longer see Farage as the purely risible clown figure he once cut, but not because he’s gotten any better, more competent, less of a blatant liar, but simply because he’s no longer distinguishable from the rottenness we see from Tories at every turn! And the pundits and MSM are turning him into that viable alternative! You should act more responsibly, covering the many, many political issues and stories that are burning out there and limit your time on Farage to something more reasonable! Or forever take responsibility for the role you played in his rise to eventual power and the end of our democracy! I know you think I exaggerate. I’m being, “hysterical,” or, “hyperbolic,” perhaps? Well, let us see how well these words age?
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