BBC working as Farage’s PR dept.

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The BBC cancelled this weeks episode of Have I Got News For You 20 mins before airing stating that as Heidi Allen, a key Change UK figure was on it, they couldn’t show it due to having to be apolitical during the run up to the Euro elections.

How is it then that Farage has been given an extensive interview slot on the Andrew Marr show to talk about such things as why the private sector should ‘relieve some of the burden’ from the NHS amongst other things?

WTF is going on? Farage is clearly working for American corporate interests. Why is the BBC working as his personal PR dept?

Wrt this specific occasion, the BBC are not allowed to feature politicians on entertainment programmes without balancing the points of view. News programming is subject to different rules.

I do, however, loathe how much the BBC give that haunted frogskin so much time to air his obnoxious, ill-informed, prejudiced views in general.

Did you actually watch the interview? Frage lost it with Marr, who wasn't up to his best this morning, Farage actually wiped the floor with him.

But back to your question, Marr is a political commentator -why are you isolating Farage out when according to iPlayer all these people were also guests? Andrew's guests are education secretary Damian Hinds MP, leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth MP and star of Mum, Lesley Manville. Newspapers are reviewed by economic commentator Grace Blakeley, assistant comment editor of The Telegraph Madeline Grant and deputy political editor of The Sunday Times Caroline Wheeler.

[[https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00052y9/the-andrew-marr-show-12052019

I only tuned in for Farage after I saw the headlines.

Sorry, I meant to clarify - the rules are stricter and different for entertainment programmes in the run up to an election.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00052y9/the-andrew-marr-show-12052019

The audience was loving him on Question Time this week as well

So how come Farage was allowed on the same programme close to the 2014 Euro elections? Did the rules only start this year? I just heard the radio news bulletin at 1.30pm. They were talking about him again. No mention of the other parties.

Saw him on QT this week. It was appalling that he was allowed to interrupt both the female pannellists repeatedly. Fiona Bruce did not shut him don and the cameras switched to him while they were still talking. I really wonder about the BBC at times.

Farage actually wiped the floor with him.

No - he did not wipe the floor with Andrew Marr. He just behaved in his usual hectoring, bullying, arrogant way. If he didn't like a question he just said something else and talked over Marr (the way he did with the other panelists and Fiona Bruce on QT last week).

Why was he so angry?

1. Because he didn't like being presented with evidence of him making blatantly contradictory statements.

1. Because he didn't want to talk about anything other than Brexit. FFS - we know what he thinks about Brexit. Would be interesting to know what his party's views are on other issues. Yet he was furious with Marr for asking him about such things.

Why is he given air time if he has nothing to say other than to repeat his Brexit mantra?

Thanks for this OP as I had no idea why it was cancelled last minute and was a bit miffed tbh.

I don't know why Farage is given so much air time anyway. He seems to pop up everywhere all the time. Makes me want to punch the screen with his sneery little chuckles and his relentless desire to only listen to his own voice.

Marr’s interview was appalling, why was he asking questions about 10 year old tweets and quotes. He should have asked questions about Brexit as that’s the key issue.

Farage gets so much airtime because the media bubble is London centric and doesn't know anyone else that represents his views despite them being rather widely held elsewhere in the country and therefore needing to be represented on a fairly regular basis.

He should have asked questions about Brexit as that’s the key issue.

Why? Where have you been that you don't know Farage's views on Brexit? Do you not think it's relevant that he has previously claimed there should be a second referendum? If there is a general election this year don't people want to know what else he and his party stand for?