Nigel Farage’s Jo Brand fury doesn’t ring true with his own words from 2017 and it’s perfect
You’ll have seen by now how very, very angry Nigel Farage is with Jo Brand and the BBC after her ‘battery acid’ joke on Radio 4.
I am sick to death of overpaid, left wing, so-called comedians on the BBC who think their view is morally superior. Can you imagine the reaction if I had said the same thing as Jo Brand? pic.twitter.com/hCEFSCqMGI
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 13, 2019
And there were lots of people highlighting what Farage once said about picking up rifles in 2017.
Yeah, you did, er, something about rifles?
— Robin Blamires (@RobinBlamires) June 13, 2019
Just in case you don’t remember it.
Picking up rifles is OK though?…. pic.twitter.com/hYPJv2HbdE
— Pete Cordell #NoBrexitBetterThanBadBrexit (@petecordell) June 13, 2019
But the best bit is what Farage (via his spokesman) had to say to journalists who covered the story in 2017.
When I wrote a story in 2017 about you threatening to 'pick up a rifle' if Brexit wasn't delivered, this was the email you had your staff send me.
Perhaps you'd like to re-read it. pic.twitter.com/beY1UK5JrO
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) June 13, 2019
‘It’s very clear from the laughing demeanour that Nigel was talking about a ‘frontline return’ to politics using metaphors.
‘Any attempt to take his jocular words out of context would be both unfair and in vain.
‘UKIP is a liberal democratic party consistently in favour of free speech and opposed to any type of violence. And of course, you already know that.’
Oh, and the context, then, for your “jocular metaphor”? You’d just said that if Brexit wasn’t delivered properly: “There will be widespread public anger in this country on a scale and in a way we have never seen before.”
Then you said you would pick up a rifle.
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) June 13, 2019
The most “authentic” hypocrite in politics strikes again https://t.co/bant5hixKW
— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) June 13, 2019
To conclude …
— Christopher (@chriscrescent) June 13, 2019
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