by Nigel Farage has hit out at billionaire X owner Elon Musk alleging a conspiracy between the government and the media to support “open borders” while doubling down on a key claim about Southport’s breaches.
The leader of Reform UK released a video aimed at Musk, who was behind a large number of tweets attacking the United Kingdom, its government and its prime minister Sir Keir Starmer for the handling of the far-right riots.
Musk has backed claims of a “two-tier” approach to Muslims and the white working class as well as calling UK authorities “the woke stasi” over efforts to crack down on hate speech and misinformation on social media. control.
In a new tirade, Mr Farage said: “Elon Musk asks a very important question. Why does the UK media only with a few exceptions parrot the government line.
“Well I tell you why Elon, it’s dead simple. It’s called consensus. It is known when everyone comes together with groupthink and says ‘open borders are great! Come in everyone. We don’t care if you speak our language or share our values. We do not care about the population explosion, which means that our children cannot find homes.’
“If they were to ever admit it all Conservative Labor and the mainstream media would be going against the world view they have held for years. They believe they are kind, beautiful people and anyone who believes in borders, who believes in culture, who believes in community, who believes in country, we are the bad people in some way.
“We have a few people who think differently. I have done my best. But they are exceptions. There is a group and they have this very wrong as we saw on the streets of our country this week.”
Earlier Mr. Farage doubled down on his much-criticized claim because of the Southport stabbings, as a new poll shows the leader of the Reform of the United Kingdom plummeted in popularity.
After the killing of three girls last week, Mr Farage claimed that “the truth was being withheld” about the suspect and has alleged that the subsequent riots were caused by a lack of information provided by authorities to the community.
It was false claims shared about the suspect’s name and religion on social media that fueled anger that fueled the race riots that have rocked England over the past week, with nearly 500 people now arrested.
Despite the trouble, however, Mr Farage stood by his questioning on Talk TV on Thursday: “What I’m saying is… we weren’t told anything.
“There were a lot of us, I saw him as you did, ‘He came on a boat across the English Channel last October, he was a Muslim activist, etc.’ And I said, can you tell us, was this guy on a watch list? Yes or no. Remember the London Bridge attacks, within an hour of the attack we knew the man was on a watch list.
“One of the reasons the Southport riots were as bad as they were, one of the reasons the mosque itself was targeted is that the authorities did not tell us quickly enough what the truth was. We then learned a few hours later that he was born in Cardiff and is actually not a radical Islamist at all. But my question about whether he was on a watch list has not yet been answered.”
Mr Farage has seen his approval ratings fall over the past week, with the Reform UK leader’s net favorability score dropping by seven points.
Around 67 per cent of Britons have an unfavorable view of the MP for Clacton, a YouGov poll shows, while only 25 per cent think of him favourably. A previous YouGov poll conducted on 31 July put the Reform UK leader’s net favorability at -35, falling seven points in less than a week to -42.
Although he has a very positive net score among Reform voters, he has a negative rating among all other groups of the British public. For the first time Leave voters are now included here, with Mr Farage now scoring -4 among those who voted for Brexit, down from 7 points last week.
A protest is planned for Saturday evening outside Reform UK headquarters, with organizers accusing Mr Farage of “inciting and apologising for racist and fascist riots.”
“A pogrom is unfolding across the UK involving racist attacks of extreme and vicious violence,” they said. “Join the protest at Reform UK on Saturday 10 August at 2.30pm as part of the National Day of Protest against the far right.”
But, speaking to The Independent, Mr Farage called the planned demonstration “absolutely disgraceful, provocative behaviour”.
The Home Office has offered the leader of Reform UK extra security as a result of increased threats against his staff. During the general election campaign, a cup and other objects were thrown at the politician while on top of a party battle bus in South Yorkshire. A week earlier he had been beaten in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex.
Asked about allegations that he incited violence and riots, Mr Farage told Talk TV: “Some of what has been said is really sad. It’s cowardly, it’s unfair. I have been fighting elections for 30 years because I believe in the democratic process. I have never at any point in those 30 years been involved in violence, I have been involved in street protest. He was involved in any of those things.”
Last week, the husband of murdered MP Jo Cox accused the Reform leader of “inciting riot” by spreading “conspiracy theories”.
Brendan Cox added: “This is why Farage deserves the far right label. Everyone involved, normalized or promoted should be ashamed. This is bad.”
