Marina Hyde: Nigel Farage's selective outrage exposes his political opportunism
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Marina Hyde
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Summary
Guardian columnist Marina Hyde critiques Nigel Farage's selective outrage, comparing his vocal response to the murder of Henry Nowak with his muted or absent responses to the murders of Jo Cox (2016) and Sarah Everard (2021). Hyde argues that Farage only "speaks for the nation" when it serves his political interests, and that his incendiary rhetoric following the Nowak murder is politically opportunistic rather than principled.
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Can you be said to 'speak for England' if there are other times you wimp out on speaking at all, either out of self-preservation or moral smallness, or just not actually giving much of a toss?
The good news for Nigel is that he has struck political gold: increased numbers of people saying 'I don't like him, but I agree with him on this'. The less good news for the nation
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