Nigel Farage is boycotting the BBC because the Question Time audience was mean to him – 21 thoughts and prayers
BBC’s Question Time has aired several election specials, in which party leaders faced the audience alone.
One of those programmes saw Nigel Farage receive a thorough grilling in his 36th Question Time appearance, and many of the Birmingham audience weren’t impressed by his responses – or him.
When Farage excused the amount of problematic candidates in Reform UK with an accusation that Channel 4’s undercover filming was faked with an actor, and a claim that he had ‘just taken over a start-up’, this happened.
NEW: Audience member to Farage: "I know some of my friends have start-up companies, but none of them employ a whole slew of massive racists like you"
The audience gives huge applause#bbcqt pic.twitter.com/K91cTckNTr
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 28, 2024
He was constantly pressed for answers by the crowd, and they weren’t impressed by any of his bluster.
#BBC #QUESTIONTIME Has there ever been a greater lying charlatan on UK TV than nigel farage? He’s on now being shouted at, laughed at, screamed at. He’s an embarrassing piece of utter nonsense.
— Nationwide (@NationwideBlog) June 28, 2024
Nigel Farage being massively beaten up by the Question Time audience is the best Friday night television I have watched for ages. They are destroying him, one after another, making him look like a complete idiot.
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) June 28, 2024
“I have no idea why this racist is a candidate for Reform” Nigel Farage getting a laugh from the #bbcqt audience – at him
— dave ❄️ (@mrdavemacleod) June 28, 2024
Just days later, he posted this petulant comment.
It wasn’t a surprise. The man has spat out more dummies than are standing for election in his party, and people are tired of it.
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The speed with which he resorts to pathetic whining & bogus victimhood whenever he’s exposed to the mildest scrutiny is extraordinary. Whenever the bullshit & bluster fail, the bleating begins. https://t.co/J59YXkaJDe
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) June 29, 2024
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Whiny little weasel of a man…
How about you apologise for duping half an electorate with your Brexit lies?
This man is an abomination. https://t.co/0A9RostbUy
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) June 29, 2024
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It was a representative sample of the electorate. That’s democracy, snowflake. https://t.co/Trnknd0A5f
— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) June 29, 2024
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oh dear, a little tantrum because he met an audience who had his number pic.twitter.com/hMLAlnVdsn
— Toby Earle Threads tobyontv (@TobyonTV) June 29, 2024
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The real shock. Farage declines a media appearance. Clearly he doesn’t like scrutiny.
PS it’s licence fee not license fee https://t.co/SYLafvLuGb
— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) June 29, 2024
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Nigel Farage, who has appeared on Question Time more than any other person, claims that the one time he got a hard time from the audience it's because the audience is rigged.
No Nigel, the fucking bookings are rigged. https://t.co/SIHpqQMnXh— Mike Holden (@MikeHolden42) June 29, 2024
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Big girls’ blouse #ReformUK https://t.co/wjhHSBx8BC
— Mitch Benn (@MitchBenn) June 29, 2024
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He's doing the dictatorship stuff out loud pic.twitter.com/kQMs5AkT5T
— HappyToast★ (@IamHappyToast) June 29, 2024
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Vetting websites, audience members, TV producers and even his own activists are now conspiring against him.
This is rapidly turning into one of the biggest extended sulks in political history https://t.co/XVVrvbvB9v
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) June 29, 2024
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Talk about cancel culture. Just because the BBC is no longer giving him an easy ride, or that supine regular seat on Question Time, Farage commits to abolishing it https://t.co/udxq3hxLvc
— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) June 29, 2024
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You pathetic little man-baby. Just a pound shop Donald Trump. https://t.co/CMsT27xXDr
— Dave Jones (@WelshGasDoc) June 29, 2024
