14-06-2024, 06:48 AM in response to #53384
Fola Onibuje Wrote: Farage is really, really good at politics isn't he. To take a party most haven't heard of into second in the polls and be the only thing talked about for weeks, it's just good. I don't care about your opinions about him/his party, he is clearly objectively very good at the game. Certainly the best we've had for decades in terms of skill.
Now where it all goes wrong is substance. Nige is great at 30 second soundbytes that slag off all the right people, but give him a blank sheet and a pen and say 'write our education/healthcare/policing program' he wouldn't have a clue.
He trades off punch lines and easy answers, but boy is he fucking good at it.
He's a better communicator than the vast majority, but this is made easier by not being hidebound by any responsibility to do a job or tell the truth, and having huge amounts of dodgy money/tech behind him.
I think the LEFT-WING BBC more or less created Farage though, he's spent 15 years being all over it like shit in a field.