Farage, Murdoch, Lebedev and Fox break bread: as told by Lily Allen

[Denzil_DC]

He has railed against the “out of touch” media and political elites in the past. On Sunday, however, the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, attended a garden party with the media moguls Rupert Murdoch and Evgeny Lebedev, as well as the Tory leadership candidate Liam Fox. And the whole thing was documented on Twitter by Lily Allen.

Farage was pictured by the singer chatting to Murdoch and the host of the party, Lebedev. And a video she later deleted showed the Ukip leader smiling after she gave him a sarcastic hello.


{L-R: Murdoch, Lebedev, Farage. Dig the footwear.}

Later, when contacted by the Guardian, Allen said that both Fox and Farage had made a beeline for Murdoch as the guests were choosing their seats to make sure they were seated near him.

But it was the media boss himself for whom she reserved most of her ammunition, calling him Voldemort. In a video of the media boss “breaking bread” with the former defence secretary, she called them both “wankers”.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/03/farage-murdoch-lebedev-and-fox-break-bread-as-told-by-lily-allen

In some ways trivial, but an insight into the social world of the anti-elites.


Meanwhile, Tories, it's not a good look when Nigel Farage shows more social empathy than your main first-round leadership contender:

Farage 'disgusted' at May's refusal to promise EU nationals they can stay in UK
From Guardian Brexit Live coverage - all good news all the frikkin time.

[LeftishBrit]

1. Very anti-elitist!

And honestly, isn't there a bit of irony in the leader of a party called the UK Independence Party celebrating with one media mogul who is Australian-turned-American, another who is a Russian oligarch, and a politician, who, while a sitting MP here, spent time working for the campaign of a Republican candidate for President of the United States (apart from being sacked as Defence Secretary for not taking the national security rules very seriously when it came to his friends!)?