It all began when two Reform UK councillors representing Arnold North let slip they were “not happy” with the proposed reorganisation of local government which would create an enlarged Nottingham Council. (Bear with me, this does get more interesting.)
Local news outlet Nottinghamshire Live reported the story in a very straight manner with rights of reply offered to all those involved.
But break Reform’s supposedly steadfast allegiance to freedom of speech it did.
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Now this could simply be dismissed as the act of one more petulant politician throwing his weight around. And yet, it feels like a precursor of so much more to come if Nigel Farage and Reform continue their march upon our local councils – and, who knows, perhaps even our government.
For this isn’t just Reform taking a leaf out of the Trump playbook – it’s transcribing the whole monstrous tome.
Many have cravenly settled, fearful of big costs and making an even bigger enemy of the White House. The Associated Press agency continues to fight its ban from presidential briefings due to its refusal to adopt Trump’s name – the Gulf of America – for what has been the Gulf Of Mexico since the 1550s.
Nigel Farage too regularly speaks of “fake news” regarding stories with which he does not agree. He has attacked the BBC and said Reform in government would “campaign vigorously to abolish” the license fee. He has also attacked Channel 4 for a documentary he described as “scandalous election interference”.
Only two months ago Farage falsely claimed journalists were involved in a protest outside a Reform UK event in Aberdeen.
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Only by visibly demonstrating themselves in opposition to a “liberal elite” media are they able to sustain their schtick as the “plucky outsider” who is telling it to people straight. It also ensures the attention they crave. And it causes sufficient confusion in the minds of the public that when the real misdemeanours take place (which they will) then no one is certain what or who to believe.
The fact that Nottinghamshire Live is no outpost of Islington-style elitism is irrelevant; Reform just needs to create the perception that it is.
The worrying thing is, perhaps they do not. But the British people do.
The Nottingham Post has been in operation since the 1870s, the decade in which free speech advocate John Stuart Mill died. In his 1859 essay “On Liberty”, Mill wrote: “In any argument there are only three possibilities. You are either wholly wrong, partially wrong, or wholly correct – and in each case free speech is critical to improving or protecting those positions.”
Alison Phillips is a former editor of the Daily Mirror
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