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Yesterday, hours before ITV aired its undercover documentary on his party, Nigel Farage told 584,000 viewers that "the carnage in France is our future" unless we return to "law, order, and borders". The French unrest he points to began with school pupils protesting over funding and teachers, then widened into a national day of action on 17 October joined by students, unions and farmers over the cost of living. Borders don't explain any of that. He turns a French dispute about schools and living costs into a story about migrants. It also arrives in the week his own councillors and candidates were filmed calling Muslims "parasites", describing black children as "animals", and one talking about training young men to round up immigrants. There was even mention of concentration camos. Reform’s answer was that a few bad apples get through vetting. Farage’s was to say the worst offender used to be a Tory, and that ITV only made the programme because “the establishment frankly want us out of the picture”. So the leader who wants to talk about law and order would rather we looked across the Channel than at what ITV found inside his own party. This is also a man whose name trended as #FarageRiots after his Southport video in 2024. Warning Britain that disorder is coming, while your own activists are on tape talking about rounding people up, takes some nerve. Law and order starts at home. So does vetting, as does voting.