Nigel Farage has been accused of being a supporter of controversial online influencer Andrew Tate in a new Labour attack ad.
It comes just weeks after a cabinet minister compared the Reform UK leader to Jimmy Savile and is a further a sign of the government’s concern at his party’s popularity.
The attack ad, being launched on Sunday, refers to comments Farage made on the ‘Strike It Big’ podcast last year.
He told the hosts, who are three male influencers in their 20s, that Tate was “an important voice” for many young men.
Farage said: “You three guys, you are all 25, you are all kind of being told you can’t be blokes, you can’t do laddish, fun, bloke things … that masculinity is something we should look down upon, something we should frown upon. It’s like the men are becoming feminine and the women are becoming masculine and it’s a bit difficult to tell these days who’s what.
Jaded_Strain_3753 on
Yeah this is a much better attack line on Farage than the Saville one, which was pretty obvious nonsense. I don’t know what Farage actually thinks of Tate, but it was weird he didn’t just outright condemn him.
Astriania on
Labour need to not get dragged into this kind of gutter politics imo, it just feeds into the “they’re all the same” impression and that’s not good for them.
This is also giving Farage and Reform way more prominence than they deserve, treating them as a genuine threat for the mainstream governing party.
TEZofAllTrades on
The fact that Labour is even doing Farage attack ads 3 years out from the next planned General Election…
knitscones on
He used him as a source in Farages riots last summer!
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Nigel Farage has been accused of being a supporter of controversial online influencer Andrew Tate in a new Labour attack ad.
It comes just weeks after a cabinet minister compared the Reform UK leader to Jimmy Savile and is a further a sign of the government’s concern at his party’s popularity.
The attack ad, being launched on Sunday, refers to comments Farage made on the ‘Strike It Big’ podcast last year.
He told the hosts, who are three male influencers in their 20s, that Tate was “an important voice” for many young men.
Farage said: “You three guys, you are all 25, you are all kind of being told you can’t be blokes, you can’t do laddish, fun, bloke things … that masculinity is something we should look down upon, something we should frown upon. It’s like the men are becoming feminine and the women are becoming masculine and it’s a bit difficult to tell these days who’s what.
Yeah this is a much better attack line on Farage than the Saville one, which was pretty obvious nonsense. I don’t know what Farage actually thinks of Tate, but it was weird he didn’t just outright condemn him.
Labour need to not get dragged into this kind of gutter politics imo, it just feeds into the “they’re all the same” impression and that’s not good for them.
This is also giving Farage and Reform way more prominence than they deserve, treating them as a genuine threat for the mainstream governing party.
The fact that Labour is even doing Farage attack ads 3 years out from the next planned General Election…
He used him as a source in Farages riots last summer!
Farage is dumb obviously!