How the Media and Musk Are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Well Beyond Its Size. Analysis of media mentions reveals that established news organisations are helping to boost Nigel Farage’s party well out of proportion to its number of MPs.

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  1. I haven’t looked at recent numbers, but a few years ago UKIP had appeared more in more episodes of Question Time filmed in Scotland than the Scottish Greens.

  2. This fish faced walloper and his party have been getting more media coverage than they deserve since the brexit campaign.

  4. Can’t turn on a TV or radio without hearing a promotion for continuity ukip. Journo class are scum.

  5. Whatever about Musk, he’s clearly biased, I can’t forgive the media for ramming that rotten cunt in my face at every given opportunity.

  6. > The Conservatives are covered far more by BBC News/Politics and GB News than other outlets, with the BBC mentioning them as many times as they as they did Labour, despite having 121 MPs.

  8. Farage would never have gotten anywhere if it wasn’t for the BBC.

  9. No point blaming musk for our problems. I’ll vote reform next time despite knowing they’ll be awful for the country. It’s a protest vote. Labour are too far left, Tories are fucked now so there’s nobody else left to vote for.

  10. England is providing us with a series of progressively less competent masters.

    Indy now.

  11. Obviously not a reform supporter but…

    They got more of the general election vote share than the liberal Democrats despite being a new party. They weren’t too far off the Tories. 

    Old Tories have realised there is a viable voting alternative and labour supporters have been reminded that labour are unfathomably incompetent and dishonest. As things continue to decline they could be a serious contender at the next election. 

    They won a safe labour seat in a Welsh election last week and multiple polls have them ahead of labour, the most unpopular new government of all time. 

    The establishment will probably  try to subvert the vote as the public aren’t voting the right way but the country is a powder keg evidenced by the recent race riots in England. 

    They have a lot of support in the neglected areas of the island, of which there are many. 

  12. Overrepresented in terms of MPs, yes, but we don’t have a proportional system. Why not look at vote share?

    I’ll use Question Time as an example since it is often brought up. From 2014-2023, UKIP+Brexit+Reform had 54 guests amounting for 5.2% of total guests. In this time period, UKIP+Brexit+Reform only fell below 5.2% of the vote in a national election on one occasion, the 2019 general election. That year however, the Brexit Party had won 30% of the vote in the EU elections, an increase from the 27% that UKIP won in 2014 and their 12% in the 2015 general election. The SNP made up just under 9% of guests despite never winning more than 4.7% of the vote in a national election.

    [Information from the Conversation here.](https://theconversation.com/bbc-question-time-analysis-of-guests-over-nine-years-suggests-an-overuse-of-rightwing-voices-232315)

  13. May not have the mp numbers but they did very well with amount of votes so kinda ignores that fact

  14. Yet when Reform changes its CEO there is no mention of the methods used and who decides.

  15. BBC are the Reform fan club.

    Needs to stop if they want folk to pay their TV license?

  16. Since when was number of MP’s an accurate measure of media attention?

    Common sense dictates it should be polling that influences the most.

  18. Labour also predictably doing their hardest to pump those numbers up.

  20. The BBC in particular has a solid track record of boosting Farage (and whatever party he’s in at a given time) far beyond proportionate levels.

    And so it continues.

  21. >boost Nigel Farage’s party well out of proportion to its number of MPs.

    We have a FPTP system. The number of MPs is kinda irrelevant. They were the 3rd biggest party by vote share in 2024..

    Maybe the reporting on them is out of whack anyway, but using number of MPs to justify it is nonsense. They’re a significant political force when they got 14.3% of the vote.

  22. Funny seeing Labour fanboys whining about media bias – when they have been cheering on any idiotic article about the SNP for years.

  23. Maybe if Labour and Conservatives took on even a fraction of the responsibility of the state of this country, Farage wouldn’t even make the local newspaper. Decades of decline and ignoring the issues of the people is what has fermented Reform’s success. 200,000 members now. I fully expect a war before the next election to prevent them getting those MPs. Starmer is suddenly want boots on the ground in Ukraine.

  24. We have that greedy disruptor Murdoch to thank for this. I guess he thinks it’s funny , steering a way a countries’ population thinks.

  26. I honestly think we need is to fight fire with fire. The Left doesn’t play dirty, so we’re loosing. We need a massive troll farm peddling conspiracy theories against the far Right, beginning with a paedophile conspiracy, possibly linking Farage with Jimmy Saville and that his real motive is to reduce the age of consent to 12 years old in the UK. Keep throwing things out until something sticks.

  27. Does that mean that these private company’s are interfering in democracy? Should probably take a look at that.

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