ThoughtCrime in Britain: “It felt like a criminal offence just listening to Nigel Finch’s speech.”
5th August 2025
Nigel Farage’s Summer of Crime is now into its third week, and we’ve reached the point in the plot where the boss recruits the other members of the gang, Ocean’s Eleven style.
This was his third press conference on as many Mondays, all done behind his no-longer brand new “Britain is Lawless” lectern. It’s not hard to work out why he’s doing it. Capturing the attention of the British public in the month of August is one of the easiest heists out there. You just have to say something, anything, and, for want of an alternative, people will listen.
Unfortunately, one of the first things Farage had to say was to urge the TV news channels that had shown up to please, please broadcast the press conference in full, because, yes, they might be about to discuss an extremely controversial crime that had allegedly happened recently in which court proceedings are very much currently active, but, don’t panic, they absolutely definitely wouldn’t be committing any sort of contempt of court.
Sadly, they did panic. Sky News and others chose almost this exact moment to play it safe and cut away, an editorial decision that would prove to be utterly vindicated, but we’ll get to that in a bit.
This time, he brought with him his two newest recruits. Yes, Farage has managed to once again break into the Tory vaults and this time he’d managed to bundle in to the awaiting getaway vehicle none other than the Leicestershire and Rutland police and crime commissioner Rupert Matthews.