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The Guardian - UK
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Politics
Martin Belam

Nigel Farage ridiculed over video of him delivering letter to BBC

Nigel Farage outside BBC Broadcasting House in London with his letter
Nigel Farage outside BBC Broadcasting House in London with his letter. Photograph: Twitter/Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage has been roundly derided on social media for posting a video of himself marching up to the doors of the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London brandishing a letter of complaint.

Internet users were quick to see the funny side of the video.

And posing holding a piece of paper always goes badly for politicians when social media users are armed with Photoshop.

People repeated Farage’s phrase “Delivering my letter of complaint to the director-general of the BBC” on Tuesday, accompanying it with a range of different videos.

Farage’s complaint to the BBC dates back to reporting in the aftermath of the death of Polish man Arkadiusz Jozwik in Harlow in 2016, which sparked fears of a wave of Brexit hate crime.

In an interview with BBC reporter John Sweeney at the time, one local resident claimed that Farage had “blood on his hands”. The former Ukip leader has described this as a ‘slur’ that has caused his family misery.

Speaking on his LBC radio show, Farage said: “I want an apology and if I don’t get one then I think I’ll be compelled next year to feel why should I pay the licence fee.”

In response to Farage’s claim, a BBC Spokesperson said:

“The BBC’s reporting reflected, like other media, that racial motivation was a line of inquiry the police were looking at and our coverage also featured vox-pops giving differing views including anti-social behaviour as a possibility.”

Farage famously described the leave victory in the EU referendum as being achieved “without a single bullet being fired”, despite the murder of MP Jo Cox by far-right terrorist Thomas Mair taking place only days earlier.

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