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geardaddy

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Tue Dec 23, 2014, 11:47 AM Dec 2014

Schoolchildren Go Viral With App That Mocks Nigel Farage

http://www.hellou.co.uk/2014/12/schoolchildren-go-viral-app-mocks-nigel-farage-31005/



A group of schoolchildren seem to have succeeded where Russell Brand couldn’t by managing to get under Nigel Farage’s skin. How? By inventing a game called Ukik where players kick immigrants as far as possible off the white cliffs of Dover to gain the highest “racism” rating.

The students, who have formed game design company FonGames, say the game aims to “make a mockery of extremist views”

Farage isn’t very impressed, and he was quoted in The Telegraph as saying:

”Those elements are risible and in many ways pathetic. I think I’m quite well known for having a sense of humour. I’m a public figure and of course people are going to have views. But elements of this game appear to cross the line. Fair play to them for having a bit of fun. If they want to go away and look at Ukip policies, they will actually learn a lot.”

More at link plus video.
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Schoolchildren Go Viral With App That Mocks Nigel Farage (Original Post) geardaddy Dec 2014 OP
That's BRILLIANT!! truebrit71 Dec 2014 #1
Hilarious! shenmue Dec 2014 #2
Would this have gone viral if Farage hadn't had a tantrum over it? T_i_B Dec 2014 #3

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
3. Would this have gone viral if Farage hadn't had a tantrum over it?
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 06:32 AM
Dec 2014

I think this article is very relevant.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11310135/Nigel-Farage-and-Ukips-crybabies-need-to-learn-to-take-criticism.html

What's funny, though, is how incapable of rising above it Ukip is when something faintly rude is said about them. Yesterday, it broke that a mobile game had been made in which you could play Nicholas Fromage, the leader of a party called Ukik. The game was you kick immigrants off the White Cliffs of Dover, winning racism-points and damaging the British economy as you did so.

The real-life Mr Fromage, fierce defender of banter-squadrons everywhere, of course, took it with the sang-froid and buffalo-like hide for which he is rightly famous. Oh no wait, sorry, he blew his lid in spectacular style. "Those elements are risible and in many ways pathetic. I think I'm quite well known for having a sense of humour… but elements of this game appear to cross the line." Which is particularly funny since the Ukik game was made entirely by a bunch of Kent schoolchildren.

But this is just par for the course when it comes to Ukip. They can dish it out - "it" being a series of ugly comments about gay people, immigrants, ethnic minorities, bi-curious donkeys, women, Muslims and, of course, LibLabCon - but as soon as anyone issues the faintest criticism of Ukip itself, out come the smelling salts. A Green party member in Cambridge had a visit from the police after tweeting a jokey piece called "10 reasons to vote Ukip". The Ukip-supporting James Delingpole, formerly of this parish, has complained that Farage was "stitched up" in an interview with Steph and Dom, the posh ones off of Gogglebox. You really aren't in the right job if you're a politician who's been outfoxed by two tipsy B&B owners.

The place you'll see this the most, of course, is online. Under every piece criticising Ukip - even gently; even in the context of a generally positive piece - there will be 5,000 comments, most of them from people with names like Aethelred or Defender_Of_The_Realm44, roaring about anti-Ukip conspiracies and the mainstream media's efforts to keep the party down. (By, for instance, getting Farage on Question Time every three days.) Tweet anything remotely rude about Ukip and you'll see a similar response (the trick is to mute them, and leave them shouting ineffectually into the void, guys. You can have that one for free). And this is unique to Ukip. If you say comparably critical things about Labour, or the Tories, or the Greens, or the Lib Dems, you won't have to spend two days fighting angry spam.
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