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‘I’m with Nigel’: the Farage entourage tries to break America
Marina Hyde skews Farage's time in the USA - curiously coinciding with Trump going down in flames:
Thus he’ll do anything. Farage is now the Paul Ross of the Trump campaign – as in, his answerphone message says: “I’ll do it.” Wait – the candidate has been taped bragging about grabbing women’s pussies? Fine, Nigel will go on Fox News to defend him. Like he told the anchor, Trump’s apparent predilection for sexual assault was fine because “he’s not running to be pope”. Quite. That’s the last way to get ahead in the Catholic church.
Anyway, the pope bit was sufficiently splashy for Nigel to be invited into the post-debate spinroom, where he dispensed further look-at-me lines. Trump, Farage declared, was “like a big silverback gorilla” – an analysis that makes me wonder if those paw ashtrays are always morally wrong. Either way, the last thing you should think is that Nigel is coming off like a small fish in a massive pond. “I’ve been there myself,” he mused of the first presidential debate. “I remember my first debate.” Thanking you, Obi-Wan.
What is the endgame to all this? If Nigel has an Ari Gold figure, where is he steering him? My feeling is that Farage ultimately wants a berth on Trump TV, the network Trump is rumoured to be launching should his presidential bid fail. Our natural instinct is probably to see Nigel occupying the Partridgean 3am-6am graveyard slot. Then again, in the world of Trump, maybe the small hours are prime time? God knows that’s when the candidate has done some of his most eye-catching work.
Or perhaps Nigel hopes Trump will employ him as a sidekick on his own show – kind of like Hank on Larry Sanders. The fear, naturally, is that Nigel will end up some kind of Madge Allsop figure – monstrously insulted and abused, but too beaten to find the courage to escape. All we can do is remind Nigel that lil’ ol’ Britannia will be waiting for him with open arms if all goes tits up. Leave a $10 bill on her nightstand, Nige, and tell her about the time you were big in America.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2016/oct/13/im-with-nigel-farage-breaks-america-donald-trump-entourage
Anyway, the pope bit was sufficiently splashy for Nigel to be invited into the post-debate spinroom, where he dispensed further look-at-me lines. Trump, Farage declared, was “like a big silverback gorilla” – an analysis that makes me wonder if those paw ashtrays are always morally wrong. Either way, the last thing you should think is that Nigel is coming off like a small fish in a massive pond. “I’ve been there myself,” he mused of the first presidential debate. “I remember my first debate.” Thanking you, Obi-Wan.
What is the endgame to all this? If Nigel has an Ari Gold figure, where is he steering him? My feeling is that Farage ultimately wants a berth on Trump TV, the network Trump is rumoured to be launching should his presidential bid fail. Our natural instinct is probably to see Nigel occupying the Partridgean 3am-6am graveyard slot. Then again, in the world of Trump, maybe the small hours are prime time? God knows that’s when the candidate has done some of his most eye-catching work.
Or perhaps Nigel hopes Trump will employ him as a sidekick on his own show – kind of like Hank on Larry Sanders. The fear, naturally, is that Nigel will end up some kind of Madge Allsop figure – monstrously insulted and abused, but too beaten to find the courage to escape. All we can do is remind Nigel that lil’ ol’ Britannia will be waiting for him with open arms if all goes tits up. Leave a $10 bill on her nightstand, Nige, and tell her about the time you were big in America.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2016/oct/13/im-with-nigel-farage-breaks-america-donald-trump-entourage
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Sleep well.
Mind you, Le Pen was on my telly earlier (closely following Isabel Oakeshott on Question Rant and Katie Hopkins on The Weak in Politics - what a smorgasbord of delights my licence fee's buying).
Given Le pen's outrrrragegous accent, it may well be that Nige got the wrong end of the stick and she just wants to kill him and eat his diseased liver washed down with a fine chianti.
On the other hand, this doesn't exactly reek of concensuality:
