A fourth shared: “I’m no @Nigel_Farage fan, but that interview was an embarrassing and painful to watch from the awful @edballs & Ranvir. Absolutely shows up Balls to be out of his depth on this show, he should be working in the circus and Ranvir’s distain for Farage was overwhelming!”
A fifth opined: “How biased is GMB. @edballs is the husband of a cabinet minister how can he do political interviews? How are Ofcom letting GMB get away with this blatant bias?”
Meanwhile a sixth admitted they had also switched off commenting: “@GMB I’ve turned over… What a god awful interview with Nigel Farage. Ed & Ranvir are being hideous and snidey with him. It’s underhand and a really uncomfortable watch.. it’s like watching bullies. I know he’s not everyone’s cup of tea but seriously.. awful interview.”
During the chat Farage was also challenged about online remarks made by Reform’s Robert Kenyon about TV star Carol Vorderman which came to light prior to the Makerfield by-election. In 2021, Kenyon responded to a social media post about Vorderman in which another user wrote: “My God, I’d love to smell and lick your a******”, by saying: “He’s only saying what we’re all thinking”.
“Can I ask you, what you’ve learned about women voters in the wake of Makerfield?” Farage was asked before defending the remarks as “lad’s banter”.
“Our candidate, great bloke, plumber, rugby player, ex-army guy, drinker, one of the lads. And you know, if you go into pubs tonight for the football you would hear all sorts of banter that in the cold light of day would not look good, that did us harm,” he acknowledged.
“Most men do not say that kind of thing about women,” Balls challenged him.
“What was said by him was lads banter. I don’t approve of it. I don’t approve of it at all. All right, not at all in any way,” Farage said.
