Burnham slams ‘desperate’ Farage over vile AI slop-post

Last Updated on 31 May 2026 by Willem Moore



Andy Burnham and Nigel Farage

On 30 May, Nigel Farage posted the latest in a long line of dehumanising political ads. Reacting with more good humour than Farage deserved, Makerfield candidate Andy Burnham responded as follows:

Using refugees as pawns like this shows that Farage lacks any empathy whatsoever.

And if he cares this little for the people who are most in need, we’ve got bad news for anyone deluded enough to think he cares about them.

Nasty Nigel

Farage later highlighted what he was talking about:

You’ll note Burnham’s plan relates to refugees and that Farage refers to “people who came here illegally”. Sadly ,in the UK, these two things aren’t mutually exclusive. The reason for this is because we’ve opted to use the loophole of being an island to shirk our international responsibilities.

Speaking more on how the UK criminalises desperation, Rose Cocker wrote for the Canary:

 safe and legal routes are desperately few and far between. Often, they focus on very specific groups of refugees, such as Ukrainians, who are predominantly white, whilst neglecting others, who are predominantly people of colour.

Without a massive expansion of safe routes, asylum seekers are left with no option but dangerous channel crossings. If asylum seekers have no right to work or other decent income, they will be forced to work illegally. Without adequate housing alternatives, the UK will have to use hotels to accommodate asylum seekers.

These are problems, certainly. But they are problems that our government has caused.

Farage doesn’t want to solve these problems; he just wants to treat the victims like a punching bag so Reform voters get to feel like there’s someone below them on the totem pole.

“Crypto millions”

Burnham’s response to Farage also included this line:

Maybe keep your crypto millions for something else. 😂

As we’ve reported, Farage is facing separate investigations over a £5m ‘gift’ he failed to declare:

Since all this came out, Farage has done his best to avoid interviews:

Given Farage’s reluctance to speak on camera, it will be interesting to see how he copes with this by-election. And with rumours of Burnham calling an early general election if he wins, things could get even more intense for the toad-faced huckster.

Burnham — A sign of things to come

In response to the Burnham-Farage exchange, Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked:

He’s predicting that the next election will be Farage calling Burnham a ‘refugee lover’ and Burnham accusing Farage of being in the pocket of billionaires. In other words, it’s an election in which Britons will decide who they think is bleeding this country dry: the refugees who have nothing or the billionaires who own everything.

And sadly, neither of these men seem set to represent the pro-refugee position:

Featured image via Leon Neal (Getty Images) / Leon Neal (Getty Images)

By Willem Moore





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