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Farage is ducking Polanski’s call for a one-to-one debate

On 9 January, Green Party leader Zack Polanski challenged Reform Nigel Farage to a one-to-one debate. As you’d expect, Farage immediately accepted the offer, as he was keen to defend his well thought-out political ethos to an engaged audience.

Oh wait, that’s wrong isn’t it; we meant to say he completely blanked Polanski and went silent:

The invisible man (Farage, not Polanski)

Polanski proposed the debate in response to this clip:

In the video, Farage says:

I mean this Polanski bloke’s appeared out of nowhere.

Farage is having the opposite problem to what a baby has when you play ‘peek-a-boo’. Polanski didn’t ‘appear out of nowhere’; Farage just hadn’t heard of him, because he wasn’t involved in left-wing politics.

To explain it in a fashion Farage can understand, it’s like our relationship to Nathan Gill – the former Reform Wales leader who was arrested for taking bribes to push Russian propaganda. Because we’d never heard of Gill, we could have thought he’d ‘appeared out of nowhere’ if not for understanding that people exist outside our own sphere of awareness. Gill didn’t feel like that to Farage, obviously, as the pair had known one another for years:

In the clip, Farage continued:

Ambitious sort of chap, isn’t he really, with something he’s trying to do. I mean clearly a lunatic.

Talking of people appearing to lose their faculties, Farage is currently causing controversy by refusing to say that X/Twitter should be banned if it continues to produce Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). We wouldn’t say that makes him a “lunatic”, as it seems to be a case of political opportunism (i.e. not wanting to upset Elon Musk – the facilitator of said CSAM).

Back to the clip, Farage continued:

But, you know, there’s a market out there for heroin. There’s a market out there for open borders. If this is what turns you on, then the Greens are clearly for you.

Talking of smack and borders, was Farage drugged up when he went to bat for Russia in the EU parliament?

Probably not, as we don’t think there is a drug which makes people randomly spout Putin propaganda. We can think of other exchangeables which might make a person do that, but that’s not for us to say.

On the run

We’re not sure why Farage would duck Polanski when he has such strong talking points, but he does indeed seem to be ducking him:

Hopefully Farage finds the courage soon, just like he found the courage to speak up for Vladimir Putin and Elon Musk.

Featured image via Barold / Nigel Farage

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.