The British establishment media has pivoted to full assault mode against Brexit’s Nigel Farage this past week, scrabbling to prevent him from achieving escape velocity at the UK elections on Thursday.
The central point of this piece is simple, so let’s get it done with right at the top. The legacy media in the United Kingdom love Nigel Farage because they see him as a weapon they can use to destroy the real enemy, the long-hated Conservative Party. Yes, you may hate the Tories now, and well deserved that is too. But for senior journalists in most of this country’s news media, this has been an ambition longer than many of us have been alive.
They see Mr Farage, with whom they profoundly disagree on absolutely everything, as a hot water faucet that can be turned up and down as desired to damage the legacy right.
At the beginning of this election cycle, Mr Farage faced…
