Over the years, Farage has donned fine garb made by bespoke gentlemen’s outfitters, kept company with elite crowds and fox hunted with toffs. He has turned commoners against the EU, migrants and cosmopolitan liberals – all with a ciggie in one hand and a beer in the other. It’s quite an act. He basks in the adoration and now believes himself to be an invincible and supreme being.
The Beatles became his devotees, as did actress Mia Farrow, Clint Eastwood (briefly), burnt-out executives, bored, rich white ladies and masses of ordinary men and women drawn to the Maharishi’s easy personality and answers to life’s crises. Laughter was his most common remedy and he became known as the “Giggling Guru”. The movement grew massively, he moved to LA, money rolled in. John Lennon, first, then the other Beatles saw through the fakery. But most others did not.
I am not being flippant. The rise and rise of Reform UK is deadly serious. Journalists need to do their job, which is to expose lies and report truths. Why does the BBC give Reform leaders so much space and time? Why does Ofcom not stop Farage’s naked politicking on GB News? The excuses I am increasingly hearing is that critical assessments would upset his millions of supporters, as if our function is to back and never unsettle mass movements.
Tories are now incapacitated by the upstart right-wing party. That and the malleability of the Labour government imperils our diverse nation state. Populism first targets “outsiders”, then insiders, then the entire system.
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Read MoreSoon after Labour’s victory, Starmer said the result showed “a rejection, in this complicated and volatile world, of those who can only offer the easy answer – the snake-oil charm of populism… [which] does nothing to fix our foundations”. He called upon progressives to fight the malevolence infecting various democracies. He certainly won’t be repeating that call, after Trump’s takeover of the US. And the far-right AfD rising in Germany.
Farage, with his “mystical” powers will promise he will fly voters high up to the stars. When they fall down to earth, will Reform put out safety nets? Like hell it will. But like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s acolytes, they will still flock to Farage, our very own laughing guru.
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