# Farage and His Mortifying Dimwit Entourage Represent No-One but Themselves
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- Author: [[Ian Dunt]]
- Full Title: Farage and His Mortifying Dimwit Entourage Represent No-One but Themselves
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- Summary: Reform is holding its annual conference today.
- URL: https://iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-and-his-mortifying-dimwit
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> Seventy-two per cent of Reform voters consider immigration one of the top three issues in deciding their 2024 vote. The figure for the general public is just 27%. Fifty-five per cent of Reform voters think immigration should be the number one priority of the new government. The figure for the public is 19%. Seventy-five per cent of Reform voters want large reductions in numbers. The fixture for the public is 38%. Their perception of immigration is -62 negative. The figure for the general public is +3 positive. They strongly oppose supported resettlement schemes for Ukrainians, Hong Kong citizens and Syrians. The public supports it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j879k8rv592kh1zpz4vw9bp0))
> More than five times as many people come to the UK to study each year than claim asylum. But the public thinks there are twice as many asylum seekers as international students. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j879prjsdpzs1g8wts1gfa43))
> Now it's people on small boats. In each era, the concern the public has, the image it has in its mind, is provided by press coverage. The Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Sun, churning this stuff out, day after day. Farage revels in it, nearly always appointing himself the assigned representative of this position. And then, in the most important moment, it is taken up by broadcast journalists who use it as an attack question against politicians and spread it to a much wider audience. A remorseless machine-gun round of 'genuine concerns'. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j879s9t7ngkx6mm9tfmbycqz))