The British politician Nigel Farage, who was decisive for Brexit to succeed with his string of lies, posted on Christmas Eve on Twitter (X) a picture of himself with a bottle of Baileys in one hand and the credit card with which I would pay it in the other. The tagline that accompanied the image read: “Last minute Christmas shopping. Achieving what is essential”. I won’t argue whether the essential thing to celebrate this holiday is an Irish whiskey liqueur with cream of milk, but perhaps it would have been more appropriate to have added a sentence like: “An alcoholic drink that will cost me more because it is made in Ireland, an EU country, from which we decided to leave”.
Farage was a City of London broker before becoming Eurosceptic leader. He left politics after achieving the Brexit goal, but this December he has threatened to return, with the anti-immigration campaign as his banner, which has horrified the Tories, who realize he will split the Labor vote. right and will facilitate the Labor majority. Farage wants to capitalize on the renewed popularity of being a finalist on a UK reality TV show alongside celebrities in the Australian jungle, where he pocketed a million and a half pounds.
It’s funny because in his appearance on this show in the style of Survivors, he not only had to face tests in which he had to eat a pizza of sheep’s breasts and cow’s nipples or stick the head in a nest of snakes, but has also verbally quarreled with other participants over their ideology. The TV presenter Josie Gibson told him that in the tests of the program he would do no worse than with Brexit, the chef Fred Sirieix harshly accused him of having demonized immigrants and the YouTuber Nella Rose embarked on a debate in which he warned him that black people couldn’t stand him.
Farage is a joke that people listen to, even if it leads to their ruin. Nothing new in the history of populism. The character is feared and, as was seen on television, not even the snakes dared to attack him, in case they could not digest such an extremely toxic individual.
