Nigel Farage to boycott BBC over ‘biased’ Question Time audience

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/29/nigel-farage-to-boycott-bbc-over-biased-question-time-audience

by mines-a-pint

40 comments

  1. FFFT Nigel Farage finally cancels himself (it’s not like anyone else will).

    I look forward to hearing absolutely nothing from him for the foreseeable future.

  2. Of course the audience is biased since most polls indicate 80% of the public don’t support Reform.

  3. Actual Scrutiny was cast on Farage, it was highly effective.

    Farage retreats back to the safety of the shadows

  4. I mean has he indicated what precisely the bias was in the questions being asked?
    It’s looking an awful lot like Farage just isn’t keen on facing a bit of scrutiny.

    If memory serves wasn’t he begging to get in on these debates?

    Farage keeping to that tried and tested tactic of it always being someone else’s fault.

  5. Tedious manchild. Hopefully the tone is now set and when he inevitably abandons his boycott he finds QT, Politics Live etc are no longer biddable.

  6. Sure buddy. Didn’t see you boycott it the last umpteen times.

    Easier to appear on it and complain about biased lefty mainstream media after.

  7. Oh thank fuck – we’re finally spared the nasty fascist

  8. Funny how this is deserved, he is coming at England hard and good, you fucking asked for it

  9. There was no bias…he just doesn’t like scrutiny. He cried to get on the show and now he cries they didn’t agree with him

  10. BBC just need to say “ah well nevermind” and move on

  11. Haha imagine him leading the country when a QT audience sends him running, pathetic.

  12. Can I boycott him from my life?

    Sick of hearing from this Nazi and his followers.

  13. Thank the gods we won’t have to listen to all that hot wind.

  14. He did shit and his takes and party’s policies go down like a bucket of cold sick to the decent populace. What we saw yesterday was a man who stepped out of the alt-right echo chamber and got a slap.

    And he knows it. This is a genuinely childish and desperate reaction.

  15. The man cannot face up to the idea that maybe, just maybe, he might not be all that popular… 🙃

  17. Aka coward looking for a reasonable excuse to hide away from scrutiny and questions.

  18. Most people are raging over the effects of Brexit…no wonder they couldn’t find anyone that liked him outside of Clacton…

  19. Just like he said he’d fuck off abroad if Brexit is a disaster… Yeah right!

  20. He said he won’t be on the BBC until they apologize, so I welcome the BBC never apologizing to him and trust for once he will be true to his word.

  21. Nigel, you have ~14% support. This means 86% of people dont support you.

    This means in practical terms 86 people in a hundred person audience will be “leftie biased” or whatever drivel you want to shout. You are not popular and never have been.

  22. Please Nigel, boycott all the TV stations, and the radio, and the internet, and newspapers.

  23. A long period of silence from pound shop Mosley would be most welcome.

  24. Remember when C4 held BJ to scrutiny so he refused to go on their debate and instead C4 used an ice sculpture to comment on the environmental disaster, so BJ then tried to stop the funding for C4?

    I imagine Farage will do the same for the BBC as an MP.

  25. Every brand needs an enemy. This is too helpful to him. I’d rather everyone, including the BBC was just a bit meh about Reform.

  26. Reform already have it their manifesto to legislate against the ‘wrong’ political opinions and now Farage is boycotting the public broadcaster for not showing him sufficient deference.

    A worrying view of what’s to come if him and his ilk come anywhere near power.

  27. He has no issues with the disproportionate amount of times he’s been on QT.

    When the going gets tough, Nigel gets going.

  28. I for one support Farage’s boycott on public appearances. May he never appear on TV again.

  29. Farage to boycott reality and spread  conspiracy theories. 

  30. Nigel Farage won’t be on the BBC every day anymore? Oh no.

    Anyway.

  31. I had no idea Farage was such an absolute fucking melt

  32. Can he boycott the UK. I think pooptin’s Russia will welcome him and thank him for his service.

  33. He saw the damage that being so visibly opposed would do to his brand, and affect normalising his views.

    I hope he’s scared back into his little hole.

  34. -support a candidate because they’ll fight the mainstream narrative and speak their truth no matter how offensive or unpopular it is
    -candidate is received badly by a general audience like you explicitly wanted
    -throw tantrums about it

  35. The right wing trying to bully the media in to giving them special treatment? Never seen that before.

  36. Brave sir Sir Robin ran away 😁

    “He was not in the least bit scared
    To be mashed into a pulp.
    Or to have his eyes gouged out,
    And his elbows broken.
    To have his kneecaps split
    And his body burned away,
    And his limbs all hacked and mangled
    Brave Sir Robin.

    His head smashed in
    And his heart cut out
    And his liver removed
    And his bowls unplugged
    And his nostrils raped
    And his bottom burnt off
    And his penis…”

    “That’s, that’s enough music for now lads, there’s dirty work afoot.”

  38. You mean I never have to see him on another BBC panel? Be still my beating heart

  39. Good. About time *somebody* got him off the fucking BBC.

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