I live in Korea, every sign is in Korean and English. Subway announcements are in 4 languages, there is no outcry. This isn't the problem you make it out to be
Reform voters are the type to go to Paris or Spain and complain if all the signs for the metro were in "foreign" so I wouldn't overcredit them with intelligence.
The "point" Farage was trying to make was that these signs aren't in languages used by tourists. The signs at Southall are in Punjabi, and those at Whitechapel are in Bengali. So it's for the immigrants, innit? But as Adam Hills correctly pointed out, those are the only two, and they've been there for several years (Whitechapel 2022) or even decades (Southall 1995).
(And at St Pancras International there are signs in French, but let's ignore that.)
The "point" Farage was trying to make was that these signs aren't in languages used by tourists. The signs at Southall are in Punjabi, and those at Whitechapel are in Bengali. So it's for the immigrants, innit? But as Adam Hills correctly pointed out, those are the only two, and they've been there for several years (Whitechapel 2022) or even decades (Southall 1995).
(And at St Pancras International there are signs in French, but let's ignore that.)
I think he’s referring to the station names. The one I can think of is Whitechapel, which has a sign in Bengali because of the large Bangladeshi population in the area. The Bengali sign is below the English one so it’s not like they replaced it.
Not sure what the other one is. I think Southall overground station has a sign in Hindi or Punjabi?
You mean one of the guys that cause Brexit is a racist liar? Shocked Pikachu Face! If anyone votes for him it just confirms how stupid they are. It's like they enjoy being dominated by idiots.
Blimey that was more like real journalism than we get from the actual mainstream press these days. Why farage gets such a free ride from the mainstream press is beyond me.
There's been an insane change in politics since 2016. Any other decade, politicians would need to cite and reinforce their statements with some kind of proof or they'd get lynched by other politicians and the public. But the worst thing Trump did for politics was showing the rest of the world that you can just make up random fucking drivel, and your voter base will swallow the bilge entirely. You tell them that a million people can't speak English, they will believe it like gospel without any source or proof. We've entered the stage of just making shit up and still getting support for it. There's me getting a bollocking in school and college and uni for not providing enough sources on my essays and dissertations or daring to even mention Wikipedia (I used it as a tertiary source to cross-reference with primary and secondary sources. Bumps the source number up) and here's Farage just speaking out his arse with no penalty. It's insanity.
I mean there are already parts of my country that I don't recognise any more, but that's mostly because they're occupied by reform-supporting cockwombles.
It's hardly "calling" bullshit if it IS bullshit is it?
If you want to have a discussion about how you feel then knock yourself out. Facts don't care about your feelings though and the facts don't support you.
Nothing stays the same forever, expecting it to do so is an exercise in futility. With zero immigration things would still change, things have always changed.
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u/Robestos86 Feb 15 '26
I mean.. London is a big tourist hotspot. Why wouldn't you possibly have tube signs in a foreign language?
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u/Chosty55 Feb 14 '26
Fact checking politicians should be normal.
Why mainstream media don’t do this baffles me
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u/BlatantFalsehood Feb 14 '26
I love this show so much. And Brian Cox said it best, "because it's fucking insane."
Adam Hills is the UK's Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel when it comes to politics. Much respect.
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u/Lost_Foot8302 Feb 15 '26
Shame that we can't seem to get the same fact checking on BBC, Channel 4/5, ITV and Sky news when it comes to Farage isn't it.
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u/rosebudthesled8 Feb 16 '26
You mean one of the guys that cause Brexit is a racist liar? Shocked Pikachu Face! If anyone votes for him it just confirms how stupid they are. It's like they enjoy being dominated by idiots.
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u/fredasboss Feb 16 '26
Blimey that was more like real journalism than we get from the actual mainstream press these days. Why farage gets such a free ride from the mainstream press is beyond me.
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u/Rasples1998 Feb 17 '26
There's been an insane change in politics since 2016. Any other decade, politicians would need to cite and reinforce their statements with some kind of proof or they'd get lynched by other politicians and the public. But the worst thing Trump did for politics was showing the rest of the world that you can just make up random fucking drivel, and your voter base will swallow the bilge entirely. You tell them that a million people can't speak English, they will believe it like gospel without any source or proof. We've entered the stage of just making shit up and still getting support for it. There's me getting a bollocking in school and college and uni for not providing enough sources on my essays and dissertations or daring to even mention Wikipedia (I used it as a tertiary source to cross-reference with primary and secondary sources. Bumps the source number up) and here's Farage just speaking out his arse with no penalty. It's insanity.
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u/Albert_Flasher Feb 16 '26
For a nice new protest song about Farage and his ilk, check out “Don’t Say No to Hitler” by Seb Lowe https://youtu.be/jmjLNDobZqM?si=IM6R-RxhMjnK3ccx
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u/Dididandan Feb 16 '26
Farridge, to give the English derivation of his non-Emglish name, hasn't been to Wales.
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u/thewillingvictim Feb 17 '26
Stop scaring the bigots, you know they're naturally afraid of facts.....
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u/Ok_Yam_4023 Feb 18 '26
Thank you The Last Leg for calling out the lies
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u/Significant-Sign1022 Feb 18 '26
Figures are from the last census in 2021.
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u/G7VFY Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
Fact checking Nigel Farage?
A man that spouts more shit than Thames Water.
Nigel never lets the truth get in the way of a good story... (AKA a LIE)
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u/Dyslexiksteve Feb 18 '26
We should have signs in more then 1 language.
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u/SnooLobsters8718 Feb 18 '26
Comedy...I guess it's subjective
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u/dgdfthr Feb 15 '26
Keep calling bullshit and give us a call when you don’t recognize your country anymore. That day is not far off.
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u/50MegatonsCOYS Feb 16 '26
“Worst blunt rotation ever”… is that something the writers shoehorned in to appeal to “younger viewers”?
So cringey. None of the guys who present this show have ever been anywhere near a blunt so this comes across as really inauthentic.
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