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How the media created Reform

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Luckygirl3 Sat 05-Sept-26 08:05:49

I have always said tgat Farage and Reform have virtually been created by the media, which likes drama and polarities.
Today on the BBC news site there are SEVEN separate items about Farage and Reform.
Farage has achieved nothing ever, and yet here is our national news channel feeding his ego.

Samwam Sat 05-Sept-26 08:29:14

Channel 4 are good for investigative journalists, also independent media. The BBC are a waste of TV licence money. Also Channel 4 did a good exposure of royals charging various charities money.
Can see how bbc is not a good trusted news source not giving all the truth.

Peacelilydilly Sat 05-Sept-26 08:30:36

Perhaps you and others on GN are by keep starting threads about him, just sayingsmile

veronica678 Sat 05-Sept-26 08:42:46

I would have thought it's more of a concerted effort to get rid of it.

Galaxy Sat 05-Sept-26 08:45:23

I couldn't disagree more, it is the utter failure of the other parties that have cr3ated reform.

Aveline Sat 05-Sept-26 08:59:46

I agree. There seems to be a deep well of discontent in the country that the other parties don't seem to recognise. Farage is dreadful but I quite like Offord who knows what he's talking about, is down to earth and from a lowly background but has really done well by his own efforts. That said, I'd never vote Reform but see their value as an irritant/stimulant to other parties.

MaizieD Sat 05-Sept-26 09:41:21

I don't think that you're likely to see this on the mainstream media.

A woman protestor being assaulted as she is removed from the Reform conference.

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Graphite Sat 05-Sept-26 09:54:33

I have seen that Maizie and it’s shocking - a mob, including pensioners, assaulting a young women, while Farage laughs from the stage.

Ironic isn’t it that Reform - a party which bangs on about protecting women - treats a young woman with such violence.

I hope police make some arrests especially those two old codgers pulling her hair and attacking her with a crutch.

AGAA4 Sat 05-Sept-26 10:01:01

The fact that Farage found this appalling attack funny says a lot about how he feels about the safety of women.
Those men should be arrested for assault.

MT62 Sat 05-Sept-26 10:12:40

The left can just be as aggressive as those on the right from what I’ve seen on these marches on the news- the mainstream don’t show the bad side.
In no way do I condone that behaviour, especially to a woman. From that clip, maybe NF didn’t see her having her hair pulled, or if he did he should have said something.
Yes they should be arrested for assault for sure.

MT62 Sat 05-Sept-26 10:13:55

AGAA4

The fact that Farage found this appalling attack funny says a lot about how he feels about the safety of women.
Those men should be arrested for assault.

It was another woman as well from what i could see 😳

MawsRosie Sat 05-Sept-26 10:16:10

I don’t think you can blame the media for UKIP, the Brexit party or Reform.

I know where I’m pointing the finger though. 👉

eazybee Sat 05-Sept-26 10:17:03

Yes. It is in part the failure of the other parties to listen to views of the electorate with which they disagree, which has allowed Reform to flourish.
Note; not necessarily agree with the views,, but listen

So much easier to blame the Press, particularly the Daily Mail, as we saw on here recently.

Graphite Sat 05-Sept-26 10:27:30

West Midlands Police have recorded the incident as number 924-050926 so we shall see what happens.

Peacelilydilly Sat 05-Sept-26 10:28:38

Perhaps the other parties are boring with nothing new to offer. Reform give the journalists something to write about and it is their Conference.

MG55 Sat 05-Sept-26 10:49:28

This man hit the heckler with his walking stick.
On the video you can see him and the woman next to him grabbing at her.
I could also see someone pulling the heckler’s hair before security dragged her away.
Disgraceful mob behaviour!

J52 Sat 05-Sept-26 11:07:02

MG55

This man hit the heckler with his walking stick.
On the video you can see him and the woman next to him grabbing at her.
I could also see someone pulling the heckler’s hair before security dragged her away.
Disgraceful mob behaviour!

I hope they’re prosecuted for assault as it was an unprovoked attack.
The Women’s Suffrage movement demonstrated in a similar way for the right for women to vote and their voices to be heard.

JenniferEccles Sat 05-Sept-26 11:42:12

Well wasn’t that entirely predictable?
The Reform Party’s Annual Conference and along with the other protesters is an hysterical woman screaming, shouting and waving her arms around causing so much trouble that she had to be removed.

Then lo and behold there’s an accusation of an assault.

Yet another set up.

The very existence of the Reform party has certainly rattled a few cages!

AGAA4 Sat 05-Sept-26 12:02:08

JenniferEccles

Well wasn’t that entirely predictable?
The Reform Party’s Annual Conference and along with the other protesters is an hysterical woman screaming, shouting and waving her arms around causing so much trouble that she had to be removed.

Then lo and behold there’s an accusation of an assault.

Yet another set up.

The very existence of the Reform party has certainly rattled a few cages!

Don't know if she was hysterical? She was definitely assaulted.

MT62 Sat 05-Sept-26 12:04:19

I’ve watched that clip back, there is no way NF could have seen what was taking place.
For a start it’s dark, it’s right at the back.
He’s just heard that woman heckling which has made him laugh.
I would hardly call it a mob attack- just a couple of heavy handed pensioners 😳

nanna8 Sat 05-Sept-26 12:06:47

I think the media love it, quite sickening really. Serve them right if Farage gets voted in as PM ( sure he won’t,though, despite their efforts )

MT62 Sat 05-Sept-26 12:22:37

nanna8

I think the media love it, quite sickening really. Serve them right if Farage gets voted in as PM ( sure he won’t,though, despite their efforts )

You never know, I thought KS would be there to the very end, but that wasn’t to be.
Anything can happen in the world of politics.

Plevey08 Sat 05-Sept-26 12:34:54

I thought Farage encourages free speech?

I thought he was all for the protection of women?
He certainly has enough donations for the security he says he needs.
He is despicable. And they are the typical Farage supporters? God help us.

Graphite Sat 05-Sept-26 12:45:17

I would hardly call it a mob attack- just a couple of heavy handed pensioners.

More than one women was attacked. There is a variety of footage online of several attacks showed from different angles showing the mob brutality. One thing you can be sure of nowadays is that people will capture events on their phones.

One of the women assaulted has given an interview to LBC. She explains she protests at conferences and other events - as she had every right to do - but says this was by far the worst assault she has ever experienced, conducted by members of the public and security guards.

She describes being pulled in every direction, had shown the interviewer the bruises she has sustained, had her hair stood on by security guards while others tried to lift her, and was lifted by her hair so her weight was suspended from it. That would have been very painful. This was deliberate brutality and illegal.

She’s a very slight, slim women. A couple of security guards could have dealt with this without the brutality.

Meantime, Farage stood on the stage exhorting the mob to chant, Boring, boring, boring!

Please don't try to defend what happened here.

Galaxy Sat 05-Sept-26 12:56:48

Incidents like this were bread and butter to the trans activists against women. It was very rare that anyone raised the slightest concern. The movement was supported by all political parties. I am afraid I dont particularly trust this sudden concern for womens safety.