Nigel Farage appearances on Sky News spark thousands of complaints

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-appearances-sky-news-35664340

by BestButtons

13 comments

  1. > Twice last week, Sky News broadcast the live feed from Reform’s studio, prompting campaigners to accuse them of “outsourcing editorial control” to Mr Farage’s far right party.

    > In one case Sky News broadcast a feed of Mr Farage “interviewing” party chairman Zia Yusuf about the Online Safety act.

    > In the same broadcast, Reform played Sky News’ interview of Tech Secretary Peter Kyle on their feed – meaning Sky was broadcasting its own interview, but through Reform’s live feed.

  2. LMFAO, listen he’s been leading in the Polls for almost a year. Listen I dislike the Charlatan but the left thinking if the de-platform him he will fall in polls is hilarious

  3. The press no doubt report on hot topics, and if they use this sub as a barometer, its no surprise he’s a hot topic as you and loads of other people post about him multiple times per day.

    Reform and Farage are a hot topic on the United Kingdom sub. Fact.

    Lib Dems? Who? I rarely see anything about them on the UK sub.

    If you don’t want the press to discuss him, maybe start by not mentioning him and posting Reform articles ten times per day and injecting him into non related articles.

  4. Ignore the morons whining. They got us into this mess by denying reality.

  5. Wonder if those thousands of complains were made by the same people that all carry the same mass produced/organised pro-migration placards

  6. To quote Father Jack Hackett, “How did that gobshite get on the television?”

  7. As much as I hate to pander to Farage, Labour need to make a drastic change to get a grip of illegal immigration or were going to get a reform government that doesn’t have the first clue how to run anything.

    I wonder if Europe as a whole decides to redesign our obligations to asylum seekers given how much the system is being abused.

  8. The problem here seems to be not that Nigel Farage has appeared on Sky News, but that Sky News have rebroadcast the content of a political party under the guise of ostensibly unbiased, or at least not directly politically affiliated, ireporting of news? So an analogous situation would be Panorama running a party political broadcast by Labour or the Lib Dems, rather than merely giving a platform to a controversial politician by interviewing them or covering their speech.

  9. It’s annoying that Farage gets the airtime he does and other politicians don’t. Reform has 5 seats for Christs sake, where is this level of coverage for the Lib Dem’s? The third biggest party in the country.

    Or even the Greens, who have the same number of seats as Reform?

    That’s why I will never buy when right wingers try and tell me that mainstream media in this country has a “left wing bias”. If that were true, we’d never see Farage all the time and we’d see way more of Corbyn and Sultana. But we don’t do we? That’s because mainstream media doesn’t have a left wing bias, it has a right wing bias.

    Because a lot of it is owned by billionaires who have a vested interest in Farage becoming PM because despite what Farage wants to tell you, that’s who he actually represents, not the working class.

    The media in this country is absolutely fucked. Maybe Farage wouldn’t be polling so highly if the media didn’t massively over-represent him.

  10. I was listening to some newspaper’s podcast the other week (think it was the times, can’t entirely remember) but they were saying it was a mystery why the Lib Dem’s got so little coverage, as if that wasn’t just because they just decide not to give it to them. “Why do we keep refusing to cover the third largest party in parliament? Such a mystery”.

  11. The frog faced cunt is going to be PM in 2029, sadly. It’s inevitable.

  13. That would seem to be an obvious breach of impartiality, but OFCOM won’t do anything.

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