Furious Farage threatens Sky News with ‘serious consequences’



Nigel Farage shouting at a journalist

Nigel Farage has threatened Sky News with “serious consequences” in a belligerent airport encounter:

Farage and Reform have since claimed that Sky News harassed his family. Sky News claim this did not happen. Either way, it’s clear the stress is getting to him.

Farage raves about ‘serious consequences’

In the Sky News clip above, a journalist asks Farage:

Was it a mistake not to declare the gifts from George Cottrell, sir?

If you don’t know who ‘Posh George’ Cottrell is, he’s the convicted fraudster who was funding Farage in the runup to the 2024 election:

Back to the clip, an angry Farage responded:

You tell your bosses, you harass my family anymore, and… there’ll be serious consequences. That’s what your organisation has done this morning. Go away.

If Sky News actually harassed his family, that’s not good. Journalists shouldn’t be bothering the families of politicians (unless they’re involved in some sort of wrongdoing, obviously).

Back to the clip, the journalist asked again:

Was it a mistake not to declare the gifts, sir?

Farage turned around and angrily shot back:

Did you not hear me? You have broken all the rules, Leveson and everything else. Cut.

Farage seems to be suggesting that because Sky contacted his family (something they deny) he doesn’t have to answer any questions. That’s not really the case, now, is it? We mean, he’s free to answer whatever questions he likes; it’s just not going to do his political career any good if he refuses to engage with scrutiny.

Response

Reform UK and their outriders are claiming Sky doorstepped Farage’s daughter.

Regarding the above, the issue is that Farage is the owner of said home. The reason this came to the public’s attention is because Farage failed to declare three properties he owns, with the Kent residency occupied by his daughter being one of them. It’s another of his ongoing scandals, and a cynical person might accuse Farage of trying to deflect.

Mail commentator Dan Hodges said the following:

It is important that Farage backs up what he’s saying. After all, this is the guy who claimed we found out about his undeclared £5m ‘gift’ (one of his other ongoing scandals) because of a Russian hack. Farage then failed to provide any evidence to support this claim.

Farage himself actually said the Times published the address of the Kent house, which just isn’t true:

It’s certainly the case that there are enough details out there that someone could have found the address and turned up at the house. Maybe that person was a Sky journalist; maybe it was some random person claiming to be a journalist; maybe no one turned up at all. In some of these scenarios, Farage is the aggrieved party. But being aggrieved does not free him from accountability.

The Corbyn treatment

Some people are arguing that the establishment is closing ranks on Farage:

Honestly, we don’t even disagree with this. It’s certainly the case that the media has started subjecting him to an enhanced level of scrutiny. The fact that this appears to be motivated, however, does not mean he doesn’t deserve the attention.

One commenter noted the following:

The media relentlessly hounded Jeremy Corbyn, but the things they hounded him over were ridiculous. They literally continued doorstepping Corbyn even after he stepped down as Labour leader. The following was because he highlighted documents which showed the government planned to work with US health companies to gut the NHS:

Obviously there’s a big difference between harassing a politician because they tried to prevent the NHS being sold off, and harassing a politician because they began shilling for crypto after accepting an undeclared £5m ‘gift’ from a crypto billionaire.

We understand why Farage think it’s unfair that he’s facing scrutiny. The issue isn’t that the media is giving him a hard time now, though; it’s that they gave him an easy ride in the past.

Featured image via the Canary

By Willem Moore





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