Reform U.K. has reported Channel 4 to the police and Electoral Commission for “electoral interference” over the secret filming of a racist activist who the party says was a plant. The Telegraph has more.
Andrew Parker, a part-time actor who lists “secret filming” among his skills, was shown in a Channel 4 News bulletin using a racial slur against Rishi Sunak.
Nigel Farage has said he wanted nothing to do with Reform candidates who have been exposed as racists – but claimed the incident involving Mr. Parker was staged, prompting Channel 4 to stand by its reporting.
Adam Richardson, the Reform Secretary and a barrister, said he had also made a formal complaint to Essex Police on behalf of Mr. Farage.
In his letter to the Electoral Commission, Mr. Richardson said it was “entirely evident that Mr. Parker was a plant within the Channel 4 News piece”.
“It is wholly unbelievable that by complete coincidence Channel 4 was performing an undercover investigation and by chance was paired up to go canvassing with a man who was pretending to be someone else, using a false voice and saying almost exclusively racist and bigoted remarks.
“The Channel 4 broadcast has clearly been made to harm Reform U.K. during an election period, and this cannot be described as anything short of election interference.
“It is entirely untrue that Mr. Parker had any connection with Mr. Farage as he details in the documentary, and has obviously attempted to use this fictional association to smear him in the national media and damage his campaign.”
Parker himself has now said that the truth will come out “in the papers”.
“It’ll all come out in the papers, what’ll come out is the truth,” he told the PA news agency.
According to the Telegraph, he declined to say whether he had been paid by Channel 4 to appear in the footage, but added that he was “glad” that Reform had reported the broadcaster to the Electoral Commission.
Does this mean he has sold his story to a newspaper? Let’s hope so.
Stop Press: Farage has said he is boycotting the BBC – declining an invitation to appear on Laura Kuenssberg – over last night’s Question Time, where the supposedly balanced audience asked only hostile questions and failed to applaud him once. He called it “the most extreme example” of bias he had seen in 25 years of appearing on BBC programmes.
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 29, 2024
POLITICAL INTERFERENCE ALERT
It comes as no surprise that that the #BBCQT audience last night was rigged.
These were not ordinary members of the public.
They hand-picked a prominent pro-Palestine activist & even a BBC TV Director to attack me. pic.twitter.com/AbEqoAgOHS
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The system is rigged in so many ways.
The capture of the press by the establishment is just one of many.
They are the propaganda service for the state, nothing more. Pravda probably offered more challenge in the Soviet era.
How many lies before the BBC is defunded?
What ‘right’ does a ‘national broadcaster’ have to perpetrate a crime and smear and slander?
How many frauds does the BBC have to commit before it is shut down?
Do we so easily forget the entire Rona propaganda episode where they received £500 mn or more to spread the lies is memory holed?
Or their ‘racist’ denunciations of anti-vaxxers, Brexiteers and UKIP?
End the BBC.
I defunded it years ago
No establishment party will ever defund the BBC it will have to be the public who simply refuse to pay the licence fee as I and others have done.
But the thickos have done Reform a big favour.
“The Establishment” had a different meaning until the 1970s tgan “The Elite” does today. It survived for over a century because, despite being comprised of economically and socially privileged people, they generally had connections with reality.
The Elite is divorced from us and they are determined to ensure that remains so.
Perhaps we should ponder: who conquered whom?
No Labour Government can be elected unless endorsed by the Sun.
If Parker is a paid up member of Equity as has been claimed and wasn’t acting, then surely Equity must expel him because of his racism. If he isn’t expelled, then we know he was acting and it’s a set up.
Racism is to some degree a matter of opinion.
As is acting!
Acting can mean pretending and it can mean ‘getting things done, as in The Acts of the Apostles’.
That is what a reasonable person would say, and as such excludes most loudmouths in the media and politics.
Precisely. How many actors can you name who have extremist racist views? They are nearly all left-wing, to different degrees.
Good supply of upticks old pal but he is an actor & he was acting , we just need to know who put him up to it , whoever it was are surely amongst the dumbest media / political advisors ever !!
BBC and Channel4 have been known as the broadcast media with the most active campaigns against the parties Nigel Farage has led. Among the newspapers, in my judgement, the Guardian was keen to make disparaging comments while the Sunday Times could be relied on to dredge up a very old, long since rubbished report the last weekend before polling.
Historically the Daily Mail did not publish the name UKIP or Nigel Farage and on;y change after about 2015. Then its approach was to sneer and repeat any adverse story it could find without actually claiming it to be true.
Interesting and counterintuitive when you consider before the DM was taken over, it was on the Right.
Good stuff Nigel.
Keep attacking.
Are the left so stupid that they can’t understand that the more they try to hide, the more people see? Yes. To understand this, we have to understand the mindset of the left; to these people opposing views can only come from ignorance, and ignorance can only come from stupidity. They truly believe they are superior and we are dumb animals that need to be trained. They have zero understanding of opinion, so, to them, everything is a fact. We’re being led to hell by children.
Yes they are, utterly, as thick as planks, including red arrow.
A lightbulb moment! A poor attempt at a false-flag attack. Not nearly as good as that other actor chappie who was able to convince the media that he really was pleased to receive the LGBT+ Celebrity Ally award. You know, the brilliant actor guy that convinces us that he can travel through time…. Doctor…? Doctor..? Bah, I forget!
In my opinion they are so lost in their own arrogance they just cannot help themselves and as a consequence actually set themselves up!
Tommy Robinson has appeared in court today in Calgary. The court determined that he had done nothing wrong and he was free to go. Passport returned.
Good news.
Can he sue for wrongful arrest? – I hope so!
Oh, I must have missed that on the BBC…
Who are you red arrow? Come on, not a masked coward are you?
Andrew Bridgen leafleting and having a casual chat. Short video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LpUUposaqg
Andrew Bridgen is a British Hero.
I hesitate to use the word hero because everyone has their faults but AB is a true warrior. It’s good to see him smile and all free-thinkers should support and encourage him to continue the fight against the tyranny and apathy.
Reform UK are dangerously planning to make small and medium sized businesses thrive.
CRITICAL REFORMS NEEDED IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS:
Free Over 1.2 Million Small and Medium Sized Businesses from Corporation Tax
Lift the minimum profit threshold to £100k. Reduce the main Corporation Tax Rate from 25% to 20%, then to 15% from Year 3.
Abolish IR35 Rules to Support Sole Traders Britain’s self-employed often work longer hours and take more risks. Many have no pension and receive no sick pay.
Lift the VAT Threshold to £150,000
Free up small entrepreneurs from red tape.
Talk about history repeating itself! Nigel has rightly condemned Question Time “where the supposedly balanced audience asked only hostile questions and failed to applaud him once. He called it “the most extreme example” of bias he had seen in 25 years of appearing on BBC programmes.”
And yet 14 years ago, the supposedly balanced audience of BBC Question Time did the same thing to British National Party leader Nick Griffin. “The BBC was subjected to criticism from some of its own staff, as Radio 4 broadcaster Sue MacGregor said that the show “gave the impression of attack dogs against Nick Griffin”, and another presenter called it a “bear pit”.”
“At the heart of the matter was the BBC’s public broadcasting mandate, requiring it to give equal prominence to political parties above a given level of electoral representation. Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, defended the BBC’s decision to invite Griffin, stating, “the BNP has demonstrated a level of support that would normally lead to an occasional invitation to join the panel on Question Time. It is for that reason – not for some misguided desire to be controversial, but for that reason alone – that the invitation has been extended.”
“The BNP polled 6.26% of the national vote of 15,625,823 (from an electorate of 45,315,669), making it the sixth ranked party, behind the Conservatives (27.7%), UKIP (16.5%), Labour (15.7%), LibDems (13.7%) and the Green Party (8.6%).”
Nigel Farage was set up in Question Time. Right at the start of the programme the camera briefly scanning the faces of the audience showed a bad tempered pugilistic crowd. By the time Farage came on they were ready to go for him. It was depressing to watch, but remarkably he kept his cool throughout. The presenter was like a circus ringmaster controlling the audience, one member called him a massive racist during his question and she did not even give him a ticking off. She spoke over Farage too at times. Nearly all the questions were hostile and about the Parker episode, nothing about Reform UK’s policies. A doctor spoke up about the shortage of medicines as if that was somehow his fault, he replied saying she should ask the NHS. Fortunately, before the end he managed to get in a bit about the manifesto and income tax not being applied before £20000 per annum and how at a stroke many people would be better off. I think most people tuning in would have been bemused by the bias and at times viciousness of the audience. Then we had the spectacle of Sunak almost tearful on tv portrayed as a race victim of Reform UK, not a good move on his part, as the Channel 4 sting looks more and more like a false flag operation. And then Kemi Badenoch’s ad hominem attack on Farage. All within 24 hours. It feels like orchestrated bullying. The German anti immigration AfD party has had to go through much worse, however, reassuringly, if anything the popularity of that party has increased. All this smearing will rightly rebound on the Tories
Yes Sunak was doing everything he accused Nigel of, he branded Reform as one homogeneous group.. Also listening how Sunak & Starmer were condemning Reform proves how they are the Uniparty when the gloves are off, and on all the big economy destroying stuff like Agenda 2030.
As I said in my post you replied to but apparently did not have time to read,
BBC QUESTION TIME DID THE SAME THING TO NICK GRIFFIN 14 YEARS AGO.
None of us know what’s behind all this, all we know is that the man in question wasn’t a real, genuine Reform campaigner, he was obviously acting. If he isn’t just an individual being crazy on his own, if it was a set-up, I think it’s more likely to be a set-up by some members of the Conservative party than a set-up by Channel 4, but now I’m speculating.
Does Parker live in Clacton? It is very odd to canvass in an are where you don’t live.
I don’t think that’s odd, if you were a supporter of Nigel Farage you might want to travel a bit to campaign for him rather than for a no-hoper Reform candidate in your own constituency. But there’s certainly something odd about this whole story.
Yes, and I have not got a Reform candidate to vote for. The guy selected didn’t stand and no one seems to know why. Another Tory troll?
That’s quite scary to know how easily democracy is overthrown, and Nigel is not helping by his eagerness to let his Witchfinder General dump Reform candidates at the last minute, instead of letting the voters decide who they want to vote for. Echoes of the 300 UKIP candidates he forced to stand down in 2019.
Can you contact the Reform Party to ask what happened to their candidate for your constituency?
Especially as he claimed he was not being paid.
No, he did not claim anything of the sort. He refused to say whether he was paid which means he was of course.
The point I was making was that he was not paid to be a canvasser which makes it odd that he would travel from so far away.
Some Labour dude on GB News on Friday said he knows this Parker character.
Shows how frightened they are of us. This is not an attack on Reform, it is an attack on you and I. It is an attack on democracy. The BBC have been getting away with it for years and it has to stop. C4 clearly hired an actor to gain headlines which will lose Reform votes. It’s far too late to do anything once the headlines are printed.
3 year jail sentences for all involved should be a minimum sentence for issues like this. They all know they can’t beat us, they can’t silence us, so they have resorted to smears and lies. It is Project Fear all over again.
Who has seen Charles Moore’s leader in the DT today. He is insulting towards Nigel Farage nd regards Starmer and Sunak as “professional”. The DT is insolvent and it is not hard to see why.
They have backed everything that has been wrong about the Tory Party for decades. Just like the Speccie they miscalled it. Their devotion to the Tory elite has ben total and they have followed it down the path of wokery and socialism, albeit with fancy words and allusions and assurances to their readers they were, really, truly, honestly free market democrats at heart; it was just, well, we need to support our friends in the Party.
Ugggghh!
It’s sad to see so much denial and lack of courage to face the truth about the Tory party’s demise. So far Allison Pearson has been speaking up but most of the conservative-leaning commentariat have their head in the sand.
All the more reason to never buy their publications.
You couldn’t make it up, but channel 4 did.
You have to wonder at the stupidity of whoever is in charge at channel 4.
The truth will out. The ‘safe and effective’ soundbite should have been a warning to these idiots that you can’t hide the truth for very long in today’s society.
What a bunch of clowns.
Question Time has been rigged for years ! Surely the only reason Nigel went on was to highlight the reaction he would & has received .
The BBC and especially Fiona Bruce’s conduct on the Question Time debate was truly appalling. Bias is not the word, but an attempted hatchet job. We have these programs to listen to the party’s position on topics of policy, and Bruce’s number 1 job was to ensure that. She failed miserably, not bringing policy questions and constantly interrupting Nigel Farage. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reform also lodge an official complaint of naked bias against the BBC, as demonstrably and deliberately contravening their legal Charter of impartiality.. They should.
OFcom would not be interested, they’re on the same side. WEF shills. We will see how Mark Steyn gets on in his court battle against the state censor.
This clown show is an indication of how terrified the elite cabal who own the media are.
Terrified of right thinking patriotic people gaining power.