Farage heckled at Reform’s Jimmy Saville-aping London launch

With the local elections fast approaching, Reform UK are working overtime to scale their operation. In aid of this, Farage descended on the capital to push his London-phobic message to the people of London. In response, hecklers made it clear what sort of welcome he should expect:

Farage — ‘Boring’

First things first, the Live Stream and stage both displayed the following message:

We’re not sure why Reform have decided to mimic the catchphrase of Jimmy Saville — Britain’s most notorious paedophile — but here we are.

Notably, we’re not the only ones who are confused; even Reform’s fans are befuddled:

‘Not sure about the paedo catchphrase, but I do like the anti-migrant chat‘.

Good stuff.

They’re going all in on this, by the way:

Try not to look at the above image for too long, by the way, and especially don’t look him in the eyes.

Back to the London launch, the clip begins with Farage slagging off London fashion before descending into chaos as a heckler shouts over him:

In the most fashionable parts of central London, men now don’t wear… Oh, we’ve got a screamer! We’ve got a screamer! Boring! Boring! Boring!

As he said this, the word ‘BORING’ was flashing on the screen behind him.

Tip for next time, Nigel; it’s never a good idea to repeatedly shout the word ‘boring’ in the middle of your own speech. Also, from a branding perspective, you should have been saying ‘Now then, now then‘ to hammer the Saville stuff home.

Farage continued:

Oh, it’s… Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? And do you know what I’d say to that young man? Do you know what I’d say? I’d say this. What other party leader in modern Britain would have a public event in the Fairfield Halls in Croydon and invite anyone to come along and listen to what I have to say. And you know what? You can agree, you can disagree, it doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter. Who else would come along and do that?

This would be a good point if people’s concern was ‘party leaders won’t come to Croydon‘, and not that Reform is pursuing a far-right agenda of antagonising migrants and diminishing state capacity for the benefit of their tax exile donors.

The heckler resumed heckling, anyway, with Farage finishing:

Listen, mate, you’ll have a coronary. You’ll have a coronary. Do you know? Do you know I’d pay to watch this? And that is what… Well, as I always say, boring, boring.

It wasn’t that boring, to be fair, and it did at least draw attention away from the Saville stuff.

Perspectives

The following video shows things from the perspective of the hecklers:

As people noted, Farage might have suspected an easy ride given the massive anti-fascist protest going on elsewhere in the capital:

We covered that protest here:

There was also a protest outside the event:

Missing in action

While all this is going on, Farage’s constituency was yet again going dangerously underserved:

Farage is so consistently absent from Clacton that he’s now sending his Frankenstein’s monster to appear on his behalf:

How are you going to fix the country, Nigel, when you can’t even fix it to do your own job?

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