Reposted by Lyndsey Goddard
Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.
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[TV show titles]:
SORT YOUR LIFE OUT
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[STACEY SOLOMON and the team are outside NIGEL FARAGE’S house with Nigel and his girlfriend LAURE FERRARI]
STACEY:
So Nigel - you're a politician aren't you?
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FARAGE:
Yes Stacey but I also have a hobby...
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LAURE [proudly, but slightly worried]:
Nigel collects nutters.
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[Interior - Stacey and the team entering Nigel and Laure’s house. It is crammed with weird-looking people].
STACEY:
Oh my goooorsh
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STACEY:
Look at all the weirdos!
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STACEY:
Where do you sleep?
NIGEL:
Over there
on the pile of racists
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[Nigel is showing Stacey his collection of lunatics]
NIGEL:
This one talks a lot about UFOs in Doncaster
[He gestures to councillor Kieran Lay standing in a display case]
STACEY:
Wowww...
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[Showing her Reform councillor Steven Lewis, standing behind a lamp]:
NIGEL:
This one thinks we are in a simulation made by Satan called ‘the Matrix’
STACEY:
So many types!
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STACEY [voice over]
But Nigel is worried his collection is affecting his electability at work.
[Nigel is starting to cry]
STACEY [putting hand on his shoulder]:
Oh babe...
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[They are now in THE WAREHOUSE where Stacey puts all the belongings out into zones. Each zone is full of weird looking people. They are labelled: RACISTS, ANTISEMITES, PLANDEMICS, MISOGYNISTS etc]
STACEY:
So listen Nigel,
We can't leave leave the warehouse...
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STACEY:
Till you've donated half of these to Restore.
NIGEL:
I CAN'T DO IT STACEY
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