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550. Will Farage's Extreme Wealth Be His Downfall?
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Brexit: Why No One Will Pin the Damage on Farage
At 48:50 · chapter starts 46:20
Alastair frames the Brexit accountability question as one of the great unsolved puzzles of contemporary British politics: the three architects of Brexit were Cameron, Johnson and Farage; Johnson has privately conceded it hasn't delivered; yet Farage faces almost no electoral cost. Listeners ask why Labour won't use the weight of economic data against him. Cat gives two answers. First, Labour sits on a very shallow majority in many seats held by former Brexit voters, and the party is terrified of upsetting that coalition. Second, the Farage defence works: he campaigned for something, achieved it, and the people who ran it afterwards made a mess — you can't blame him for their failure [1] — Cat Neilan "It's actually arguably far better to push him on his record as a constituency MP now, or as the leader of a political party in Parliament n…" 48:50 . Cat adds a vivid detail: in Clacton, no one was talking about Brexit. The issues were small boats, potholes, dog mess, and e-bikes. Alastair concludes it may be more effective to attack Farage's current record as an MP than to relitigate Brexit.
Farage is a shareholder in All Perspectives, the parent company of GB News, which he does not declare on his register of interests.
Farage holds shares in All Perspectives, the parent company of GB News, and doesn't declare it. By all accounts GB News is currently loss-making — yet it continues to serve as a platform overwhelmingly populated by Reform figures. Cat Neilan flags this as a major unresolved transparency issue.
