In the UK Nigel Farage, the former head of the Eurosceptic right-wing populist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), is an example of this lopsided marketplace of ideas. An elected member of the European parliament, Farage headed up a party that at its peak held only two seats in the British Parliament. Farage himself has run for a British parliamentary seat a total of seven times. He lost every single election. But when one looks at his media profile, it is vastly disproportionate to his modest success. By February 2018, the BBC’s most prestigious political debate programme Question Time
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