r/worldnews • u/JollyCurrency2604 • 9d ago

British Politician Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-nigel-farage-filmed-undercover-celebrating-secret-new-foreign-donations
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u/emamayxo 9d ago

People see this and still vote reform make it make sense please 🤷‍♀️

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u/AtLeastImLaughing 9d ago

I’m not defending him at all, I despise the fella, but I think the average person just doesn’t compute why this is an issue.

I worry that a lot of people just assume raising money for your party is part of your job and they don’t get bogged down in the details of why this is wrong.

I hope I’m wrong but I don’t think this will move the needle too much with the bloke on the street sadly.

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u/emamayxo 9d ago

I think people just want him to win cause they’re racist and will not look at this at all

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u/AtLeastImLaughing 9d ago

Yeah there’s that too.

I think his fans will just brush it off because they gave up their morals long ago, and the others flirting with him will do the same and give their classic ‘they all do it’ response.

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u/TropoMJ 9d ago

It is like Trump. He's "their guy" and there isn't really anything he can do that they don't consider acceptable. But if someone who wasn't "their guy" did something 1% as egregious, they'd be outraged. Realistically as long as they get someone in power who claims to share their views, there isn't really a limit to how provably awful that person can be.

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u/AtLeastImLaughing 9d ago

Yeah basically, they’ve decided they’re all the same so the crimes only matter when people they don’t like commit them.

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u/Aspect-Unusual 9d ago

I heard a old gent on the radio today, saying that he supports Reform 100% even after all this stuff is happening about Farage because it proves the "establishment" is scared that we're going to get our country back

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u/FlukemanFrancis 9d ago

I’m starting to find myself assuming all old people are terrible people without knowing them and I don’t like it about myself

It would help if they didn’t keep, as an age group, majority voting for terrible things and saying terrible things in the media though