Farage is an absolute master at this game. He could have come on too strong at the start and overplayed his hand, but instead he played it exactly right. Gave them enough rope to hang themselves, kept letting them lie and then releasing the proof that they were lying. Kept the whole story in the news cycle for weeks, despite the media's efforts to suppress it. The man is the greatest political organizer on the planet.
It's not the first time he's pulled off this kind of coup. He put together an outsider political party that, despite all of the media efforts to suppress it, eventually began taking big enough chunks of the Conservative vote that they were forced to call a Brexit referendum in order to hold on to power. Then he played a big role in the victory in that referendum. And then, when entire UK political establishment coalesced behind Theresa May in an effort to scupper Brexit, he put together another brand new political party overnight and had them leading in the polls within a month. He did all of that with the same level of organization that we've just seen him use again. A lot of it really is him.
Farage is an absolute master at this game. He could have come on too strong at the start and overplayed his hand, but instead he played it exactly right. Gave them enough rope to hang themselves, kept letting them lie and then releasing the proof that they were lying. Kept the whole story in the news cycle for weeks, despite the media's efforts to suppress it. The man is the greatest political organizer on the planet.
It's not the first time he's pulled off this kind of coup. He put together an outsider political party that, despite all of the media efforts to suppress it, eventually began taking big enough chunks of the Conservative vote that they were forced to call a Brexit referendum in order to hold on to power. Then he played a big role in the victory in that referendum. And then, when entire UK political establishment coalesced behind Theresa May in an effort to scupper Brexit, he put together another brand new political party overnight and had them leading in the polls within a month. He did all of that with the same level of organization that we've just seen him use again. A lot of it really is him.