You totally exposed him for what he is. Good job you were at opposite ends of the table! 😂
Well done to the gent in the red jumper in the audience too. He voiced the fears of many of us so eloquently.
I hope the guy in the red jumper is the one she’s told me about! (I refuse to watch #BBCQT when the Fuhrage is on it for the umpteenth time - that’s one less @BBC )
He vocally, passionately and eloquently pushed back against said individual on the panel. He called out the divisive rhetoric and ‘othering’ comparing it with the potential slippery slope downward, which we have seen historically.
Farage needs to be fact checked , he lies prolifically. Saying No , when Alastair mentioned we take less asylum seekers than other nations in Europe . .
Indeed. Feel like there should be a Susie Dent-like fact checker to the side: ‘actually only 3% of immigrants arrive by boat. But here’s a fact, 41% are students. Making British universities great again’.
Nope, facts are like cryptonite to this rhetoric (which he possibly thinks is a very good thing… ‘yes cryptonite, we can trade in that and only that’), which is why we don’t have to go low with farage, we just need to counter every damn dangerous thing he says and call it out. Repeatedly.
Oh yes! Called out at every turn. Labour must make a tangible positive difference to public services and people’s lives or we are potentially in trouble at next GE. NF knows this and if gets Musk’s dollars he becomes even more slippery.
You were absolutely fabulous last night! Totally talking sense as usual. Thank you for bringing up Brexit. It makes me so angry that the facts are constantly being ignored. Brexit was an act of self harm to this country. Thanks Alistair you should be on more often.
Farage again. What's the BBC playing at? Is it not enough that they've promoted this odious rascist? No wonder so many of us have switched off. The BBC is not worth the licence fee and should go to subscription. That way, they can't prosecute and criminalise those who object to it.
That woman in red, who doesn't think there should be any asylum seekers & that there's been far too much made about fleeing war, is probably a direct descendent of Hitler!
And no one would watch it, comment on it and it wouldn’t survive 5 minutes. But every bit of clickbait legitimises the production company inviting him back again and again - he’s good for ratings and clicks/views cos we keep talking about him whenever he is on
As a leader in Westminster, Farage should be on BBCQT so the panel and audience can challenge him on his positions. What I don't think should happen is for him to get disproportionately many more invites than the Greens and other parties which has happened in the past.
Yeah, I've ditched the other place but not quite deleted the account yet. This place feels much more like Twitter 8 or 9 years ago. Good to be here, Andy.
I don't like his politics but on current trends, Reform have a strong chance of forming (part of?) the next government. Much of their messaging is through social media over which there is little control or scrutiny. At least BBCQT gives people the chance to push them.
Well the least we can do is leave it to the TV show and totally refuse to amplify him across social media. Ignore him TOTALLY. Dint quote him, don’t post clips of him, dont even mention him. He thrives on attention - and so do to shows like BBCQT. Starve them of oxygen.
You were remarkably restrained given particularly one of your panelists attitudes and his performance tonight. You also dealt with with the woman on immigration
The best comment of the whole show was from the bloke who laid out exactly the immigration position and put Nigel to shame for using it to demonise humans.
Didn't sound like it to me, but wish he had. Sick to death of Farage and Reform's bluff and bluster grievance politics BS that's so far made us poorer, incited riots, and is worryingly aligned w. Putin & Trump. They're deceitful, avericious wide boys, and their electorate are the self-entitled.
The MAGA 2 tier Keir shit at the end was the lowest point. Hope you spat in Farage's very expensive red wine in the green room - with or without him looking.
My least favourite bit was when he said that gov shouldn't subsidise green energy and you didn't didn't remind everyone how much gov subsidises farming, fishing, health etc. Every single Gov subsides everything that's important. Picking him up on that would have made him look like a bullshitter.
Only watched the second half to see you take Farage down. You gave it a good go on immigration but this is really a shit format to pin anyone down on anything, never mind that slippery fucker.
I don’t object to farage being on qt if he’s met with good opposition. If he is gaining influence (unfortunately he is), isn’t it better to expose the man (and people like ms red jacket) so we can understand and counter. To ignore him, however odious, would be v dangerous right now, look at the US
I might watch clips later. Life is too short to spend an hour hate watching that smug, self-serving, odious creature with a neck as thick as a jockey's arse at the far end of the table. I hope you press his buttons and get right under his skin.
Thank you for your composure tonight. With the other three bickering and shouting over eachother, it was refreshing when you had your turn. I can only imagine what was going through your head when facing that colossal twat at the other end of the table
Won't watch BBCQT because of the shocking Tory bias. Bruce's husband is/was in charge of Tory media management, nothing to see here, no conflict of interest, much. Since 2010, worse still since Farage's Brexit, BBC is stuffed full of Tories & pedals their propaganda. Licence payers deserve better 😤
I don't usually watch but it was worthwhile watching tonight in particular for the gentleman in the red jersey mentioned above. I have re posted his and Alastairs farridge baiting and they are worth watching and more importantly listening to
He wouldn't exist if the Beeb didn't platform him at every opportunity. They and QT specifically are directly responsible in large part for turning an ignored fringe kook into a mainstream political force.
This the 38th time he's been on? Only Charlie Kennedy and Clare Short beat him. Unwatchable.
Thank you for taking on this bullying Charlatan. Who's habit of talking over discussions while baiting with unsubstantiated divisive rhetoric. He will own this eventually but it's up to our MPs to make sure he does.
My concern is that too many people (imho) think he speaks sense! Why is this? The man is easily ridiculed as he talks nonsense, but still so many cling to his words and nod along to his missprepresntation of the facts.
I tailed off watching #bbcqt in the latter half of 2014 due to the independence referendum and aftermath when it started getting toxic then the euref finished things off
Mcmurdock the lying woman beater that farage knew all about
Reform uk LTD's unfunded, unworkable and illegal policies and who is lying farage who says they were not offered money and this pair of morons below that say they was
Just a few things i would like to see farage explain if you get chance
Ask him why small business can't ship to EU from next month and was his Brexit designed to shaft small business, entrepreneurs, farmers, professionals so they can't operate in the huge market next door? MEP long enough to know the rules for non members. Or Brexit just for spreadsheet money markets?
There was a world cheese competition in Portugal. British cheeses were caught up in the customs row and ended up excluded. We won't talk about British services companies that can't use Brits to travel and work in the EU.
You did good! He is an absolute ****** (swears) and the way he butt's into everyone's contribution made me very angry. Even when confronted with hard facts, he just rolls out the rubbish and talks over everyone. Just hope more people will realise that and that it won't come to be a cult like the US
Can you ask Jackie Smith to think very carefully before defunding all Level 7 apprenticeships. Many of these have been hugely successful is enabling kids from poorer backgrounds to access elite professions like law and accountancy. She risks harming significant progress on social mobilty.
No doubt dear old Aunty Beeb would edit it so it portrayed Frotage in a good light - perhaps rushing to the aid of an elderly person fainting in admiration
And there you went, Alastair. Your responses to Farage's inanities were admirable. They were a strong contrast to the disgrace of Starmer's supine Brexit betrayal. An excellent showing would have been perfect if Farage's dishonest chant, 'we are now free', was met with a confident, "we always were".
He said he was going to leave the country if Brexit was a failure. Why hasn’t he left?
What were the benefits of Brexit that he outlined in 2016? How have do they stand now? Did he honestly expect the EU & others to not look after their own interests?
Good luck! 👍
Ugghhhhh… there’s like 650 MPs and they drag that lying, slimeball Farage on time and time again. The BBC is just an embarrassment now. Will never watch that fascist frog-faced piece of evil ever. Sorry but no. Hate him with a passion. Hideous man. Yuk!
Just watching it and some brilliant points from Alistair and man in red jumper but Farage is genuinely frightening in his ability to exploit peoples deep seated anxieties.
That is a question for the last decade. There is balance and then there is bringing in a bit of a serial liar. He should be banned without mandatory fact checking.
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Give him hell.
Good luck 👍
Well done to the gent in the red jumper in the audience too. He voiced the fears of many of us so eloquently.
Calm but passionate, didn’t swear or insult, delivered beautifully
You're defence is... I'm "unwell", and "not in the real world". Ha, ha, ha, ha... thanks for that. Going to use it as a cheap cracker joke.
PS. I mean garage of course 😜
Is it the left 🤔🤔
#bbbcqt
Repeatedly.
And now we've got some climate denying turd brain spewing nonsense. 🤦♀️
This the 38th time he's been on? Only Charlie Kennedy and Clare Short beat him. Unwatchable.
Reform uk LTD's unfunded, unworkable and illegal policies and who is lying farage who says they were not offered money and this pair of morons below that say they was
Just a few things i would like to see farage explain if you get chance
Didn't hold back 😉😂
I hope I’m wrong, but that’s the direction of travel right now.
https://bsky.app/profile/br-uk.bsky.social/post/3lcfkvlbybk2a
I wasn’t going to watch it because I knew he was on, but now you are I will try!
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1985123/migrant-hotel-nhs-care
Oh, you mean the programme? 😬
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-i-will-emigrate-if-brexit-is-a-disaster-a7653786.html
Oh yeah… no freedom of movement………
What were the benefits of Brexit that he outlined in 2016? How have do they stand now? Did he honestly expect the EU & others to not look after their own interests?
Good luck! 👍
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