186: Fa-rage Against The Machine
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Page 94, The Private Eye podcast.
Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94. My name is Andrew Hunter-Murray and I'm here in the iStudio with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Jane McKenzie. We're here to discuss all sorts of things that have been going on. It's been quite a busy new summer so far. I haven't entered the doldrums yet, which is thrilling. So first of all, I think we should come to one of the big stories and the one which is on the cover of the latest issue of The Mag. How could Nigel Farage have possibly seen this coming, that this might be a problem for him?
I want to start off by saying, how could Ian possibly have seen this coming? That cover went to press on the Monday, and then the story, his big, everyone has wronged me speech, was on the Tuesday.
2pm, exactly the same time as the Prince Harry judgment, which we'll be talking about a bit later on, came through. It was just like a Newsmageddon the day after we went to press.
I did see the Farrar speech of him having his hissy fit and saying, I'm standing down, but I'm coming back and all of this. And I thought, oh, that's such a shame, because I hadn't seen the cover yet of the mag, and I assumed they would have gone with something else.
No, we've got some cracking night. Where's your lolly from, Joe? It's fake. Was it fake? I want to say it's fake ice cream, but that's not a pun on fake news.
Fake news.
Fake news, there we go. You watched that speech live. I did, because I've got problems in my life, apparently. But it was fascinating because it seemed to me a genuinely emotional outburst. He first of all wanted to take on the fact that people said, you know, people have been saying I've been looking ill very recently. Like, you know, I'm fine. I'm absolutely fine. And then he seemed genuinely, personally very upset about the idea that reporters had been to his daughter's house, which was later explained was the house he was registered to vote at at the last election. He was trying to put the allegations to him. But it was an extremely personal outburst. It didn't seem actually particularly strategic, although everybody immediately tried to portray it that way.
He's definitely taken this to heart, hasn't he? There's none of the sort of bonhomie or anything. It was a couple of days before when he was approached by a Sky News reporter at an airport. And he was absolutely furious. He came back for another go as well and said, you keep away from my family. They pointed out they hadn't approached any of his family. None of his family were there at the time. He was there with a load of kind of reformed guys. But yeah, he does. He's definitely taken this one to heart, hasn't he? But that's the thing. I mean, there's a very...
angry tone about I don't know if I was at the top of the polls and I had been for a year and still was I think even after all this I would try to keep it light but it seems like asking questions is going to get you in big trouble in Farage's Britain immediately after it was announced that none of the other parties were going to run against him
Which is not without precedent, right? The one that people talk about is that David Davies resigned from Halton Price and Howden and ran a sort of civil liberties. And then everyone went, okay, thank you, David. We'll let you have your moment to talk about this. But this is for you, not for us.
How did Nigel Farage’s by-election announcement spark controversy in Clacton?
And one of the ones I was particularly interested in is that Restore, the much further right party from Rupert Lowe, they're not running. Even though it would have been a freebie media hits for them, they said this is the Nigel Farage circus. So despite a valiant rearguard attempt to say all the other parties are looking down on us, it's the uni party, no one cares. Actually, pretty much everybody across the political spectrum thought, let's let Nigel have this one.
Lawrence Fox is in there, isn't he? He's got it.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:04
2
How did Nigel Farage’s by-election announcement spark controversy in Clacton?
3:04–10:28
3
Why did other parties decide not to stand against Farage in the by-election?
10:28–13:17
4
How are Farage’s undisclosed donations and fundraising under scrutiny?
13:17–17:20
5
What role do joke candidates like Count Binface play in the Clacton race?
17:20–53:54