Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage was an individual who "pissed off" Andy Hansen during 2016. (PROSE: Cliff Richard Saves the World [+]Loading...["Cliff Richard Saves the World (short story)"])
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
In December 2016, after discovering that the Jezrafeq were controlling the minds of most of humanity, Andy Hansen jokingly asked Erimem, "You don't think this could explain Brexit and Donald Trump, do you?". Later, while tracing the source of the mind control signal, Andy suggested that the signal may have been coming from Trump Tower "because [Donald Trump] and Nigel Farage want[ed] to piss [Andy] off even more before the year end[ed]". (PROSE: Cliff Richard Saves the World [+]Loading...["Cliff Richard Saves the World (short story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Nigel Farage is a British politician who is currently the leader of Reform UK. He is the party's MP for Clacton, having succeeded Conservative Party MP and former DWU actor Giles Watling in 2024.
In the real world, Farage was the leader of UKIP for most of 2016, and as such was a key public figure for support for Britain leaving the European Union (Brexit) in that year's referendum. The comic Remembrance [+]Loading...["Remembrance (comic story)"], released in January 2017, depicted Britzit-247, a planet that parodied aspects of Brexit, mostly with individuals who all resembled Nigel Farage and only said the word "Britzit".
On 3 October 2023, Farage posted a photo on Twitter of himself posing with a Silver Dalek.[1] The image was taken at a BBC stand at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, which Farage was covering for GB News. A similar photograph was published in The Telegraph.[2]
BBC Question Time controversy[[edit] | [edit source]]
During the 2024 general election campaign, Nigel Farage appeared on a party leaders' special of Question Time as the leader of Reform UK. In the audience was former Doctor Who assistant director Mark Corden, who asked him a question regarding a recent Channel 4 report on racism in Farage's campaign team. Farage responded that the report in question had been a set-up, stating that one of the individuals at the centre of the report had been an actor.[3] Following the Question Time special, Farage accused the BBC of bias, citing Corden's past involvement with Doctor Who as evidence of an unrepresentative audience, and declared his intention to boycott the BBC.[4] At a Reform UK rally in Birmingham, Farage stated that he did not expect a member of the Question Time audience to have worked on previous BBC programmes "including Doctor Who, which I used to love, and they've completely ruined".[5]
Depictions in other media[[edit] | [edit source]]
He was voiced by Jon Culshaw in Newzoids, as well as Dead Ringers.
