Nigel Farage has lost the right | Andrew Marr | Election 2024 | the New Statesman
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Published 2024-06-25
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By saying the West provoked Putin to invade Ukraine, Nigel Farage has alienated Conservative voters who were considering voting for Reform UK, says Andrew Marr.
“You can’t appeal to [nostalgia for WW2] and have lots of candidates who think Adolf Hitler was a damn good fellow”, Marr says.
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All Comments (21)
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Farage has every right, we supposedly live in a democracy and debate is healthy, isn't it?
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Farage lost the Right is probably the worst ever take I've heard in my lifetime.
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I thought Sunak was a poor leader, but this campaign period has just proved he is in fact a terrible leader.
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Andrew Marr has lost the plot
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Andrew Marr has NEVER liked Farage - just parroting his old anti Farage narrative.
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Andrew Marr has just gone to rock bottom 🤡
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The media has generally not held the Tories to account over the last 14+years
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Marr lives in a Metropolitan media bubble that's about 35 years out of date The Sun expressing a preference for a political party is an complete irrelevance to 99% of people now compared to say the 1980s when people *physically bought a newspaper* that reflected their politics people skim the online version of the Mail and the Sun for a maximum of 4 minutes every couple of days The idea that Farage supporters care about his comments about Putin just because the media have jumped on it is simply way out of touch with how Farage supporters are thinking and feeling - they couldn't care less about Ukraine or Putin
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Andrew Marr is out of touch.
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57 years of me supporting the Conservatives has ended. Marr is a metropolitan fool and doesn’t understand the country. Vote reform.
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Reform ARE the right.
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Under 50s hate the papers
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These people who are nostalgic about the war, were never in it. Anyone who fought in the war would be 97 or over. My father was in the navy during hostilities, what he told me (some stuff I could not get him to talk about) was that war was horrific and we should never fight like this again. God knows what parents these people had!
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Tory for forty years and never again. Reform for me.
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Besides being tired of the utter venality and stupidity of the Tories, I’m sick of the media’s overuse of the ‘gate’ meme. Everything’s a ‘gate’. ‘Party-gate’, ‘Gamble-gate’ ‘moron-gate’. Time for something new eh?
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"hold the next government to account like they held the last government to account"? In what parallel universe did the Murdoch press hold the tories to account? Good lord...
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Liz will be furious. The title of “worst PM” is the only thing she’s got left.
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The low turnout will be lifelong Conservatives who can't abide this corrupt rabble but can't bring themselves to vote anyone else. On the other hands the anti-Conservative voters, and that includes for Reform, are enormously motivated.
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Nigel Farage hasn’t lost the right .
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Marr is a pro European pillock
