In the first clip he clearly states "absolutely everyone"
Maybe we have different definitions of the term "absolutely"
Yes he did.
But I think this is actually a really important point that I want to stay on, in this thread.
Because the type of journalists that do this reporting and the type of people that post the stuff you do on here are, i'm afraid an absolute encapsulation of everything many people are utterly sick of in this country and its politics.
You and others think you're better than Farage AND more importantly, those who vote for him and those who listen to and agree with at least some of the things he says.
Luton Spurs for example is accusing me of "cognitive dissonance", which fundamentally means that he is saying i can't see the wood for the trees. He believes he is better than I am because he can "see through" Farage.
You and others like you will say stuff like Farage offers simple soundbites to complex solutions and you want "adults in the room" that acknowledge and engage with complexity. You like to think that your intellectual superiority means that you can see through lies and you like to actively mock people you believe are beneath you.
Yet Farage and Yusuf spent hours discussing various policies on illegal migration:
- The detention and deportion of those arriving by small boats (where he referred to absolutely everyone) and in response to a specific question about women and girls and unaccompanied children he confirmed that they would all be detained but also accepted (which is key) that unaccompanied children represent a much more complicated picture. In the full extract of the speech he talks about the complications and potential difficulties of the policy. Labour's immediate reaction to it for example stated "he can't even confirm his policy on women and children". Well which is it? He's either contradicted himself or he has talked about the complexities of implementing the policy.
- They also discussed policies related to illegal immigrants that were already here and discussed plans to detain and deport the estimated over 650,000 adult males already in the UK illegally.
- The press conflated the two issues including in the question he was asked in the second clip and so it was explained to the journalist that only adult males were discussed in that context, and reports otherwise were "wrong, wrong, wrong".
Sharing and voicing opinions based on soundbites and spliced together clips rather than accounting for the full information picture is exactly the behaviour you and others look down upon. "The right wing press and influencers just deal in inaccurate soundbites and fake news....
....then we will get the response "well i'm not interested in what Farage has to say so i'm not listening through his speech and news conference....i'm not going to engage with the EDL idiots flying flags, I'll avoid them.
You get the snide comments about them flying the flags at half mast as they're too thick to realise flags should be flown at the top of the pole. Which is ironic when the person making such a comment didn't think about the maximum height of a domestic ladder being the actual reason.
If you're unwilling to engage and unwilling to understand then fine, its a free country. But its the fundamental hypocrisy, superiority complex and unnecessary hostility and condescending attitude that people are sick of.
And Farage is doing a fine job of tapping into it in my view and i am more and more likely to throw my vote Reform's way with everything I see and hear.
