I followed Nigel Farage on and off for 10 years.
When all's said and done about his standing in Clacton, milkshake incident etc, he remains at the end of the day one of the most repugnant shameless liars in UK history.
Some of his standout lesser-known lies I've compiled FTR 🧵
In 2015 Farage tweeted this doctored pic of a Canadian woman at a pro-Syrian refugee rally purportedly wearing an Amnesty sign saying “My legs are open for refugees", which was quite obviously a bad Photoshop job.
"These people are sick" he tweeted, without irony.
In 2019 Farage claimed whole streets of people in Oldham who've lived here 30 years don’t speak a word of English, amongst other outrageous falsehoods which he still has the nerve to repeat today.
Told Radio 4's @MishalHusain "The Guardian reported it" - yes, reported his lies
In 2016, one of countless Brexit fictions promoted by Farage was that our fishing industry "would thrive outside of the EU".
The post-Brexit reality for the fishing industry turned out to be, of course, the complete opposite of what Nigel promised.
In Farage's 2021 videocam era, he would happily propagate his lies on video to his followers, including demands for an "EU Human Rights Act" which doesn't exist to be scrapped, and the classic culture war drivel of a school 'banning Churchill' etc
Incidentally, I was chuffed to see during this period one of my tweets on Farage being our 'Brexit dividend in human form' heading a @LondonEconomic piece on his latest load of untruths
thelondoneconomic.com/politics/brexi…
When Prince Philip died Farage seized the opportunity to claim Joe Biden hadn't issued any condolences because the Democrats hate the UK or something – somehow missing or not bothering to find the full statement doing exactly that on the official White House website
In Feb 2021 Farage was quick to deploy Covid-19 fears against migrants during the growing pandemic, falsely claiming that a boatload of 12 of them had arrived in Dover all infected with the virus.
The Home Office itself had to reply to refute it as a complete fabrication
Later that year, when England got to the Euro 2020 final held in 2021, Farage busied himself with the likes of Laurence Fox not supporting the team but whining about them taking the knee against racism, here telling @rioferdy5 to "keep politics out of sport".
Then, last October:
That same month, Farage had the absolute audacity to declare "Fake news can do real damage".
I mean, where do you start with that.
In fact, I'm just gonna finish there as it's a perfect conclusion and encapsulation of exactly who Nigel Farage is and what he stands for.
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