'Ukip: The First 100 Days' Imagines Nigel Farage As Prime Minister And It's Terrifying

A Ukip government would lead to riots in the streets and the loss of millions of jobs after the UK leaves the EU, according to Channel 4 docudrama screening tomorrow.
Ukip: The First 100 Days mixes archive footage with scripted scenes featuring actress Priyanga Burford playing the part of the party's only Asian woman MP.
Her character, elected for Romford in an imagined landslide that puts Nigel Farage in Number 10, is left grappling with her conscience as the new government brings in tough anti-immigration raids and withdraws from Brussels.
The show predicts riots in the streets between protesters for and against the raids and features a factory closing after EU withdrawal.
Burford, who said she is not a Ukip supporter, said her own politics were "irrelevant".
She said: "I didn't meet anyone from Ukip but I watched most of the conference speeches from the conference in Doncaster or generally I watched a lot of politicians speaking and a lot of politicians get in sticky situations."
Channel 4's head of documentaries Nick Mirsky said "a lot of research" went into the film and Mr Farage had been invited to watch it before broadcast.
He said: "We did invite Farage to come and do an interview after the programme in which case he would have seen it before it went out but he declined.
"We do reflect that they say they're going to put more money in the NHS, we do reflect that they've got thoughtful, considered MPs, we do reflect various things about them but we suggest the ride over those first 100 days might be quite bumpy".
Richard Bond from RAW productions, which made the film, said the party's policies were a "bit of an unknown" so the show concentrated on its most widely-publicised wishes which he said were "leaving the EU and having a robust immigration policy".
He said: "When we conceived of it Ukip were the big political story and had a quite extraordinary result in the European elections and I guess for us at that point we just thought 'What if?' What if that kind of trajectory was projected into the future.
"One of the toughest things at the script stage was trying to write something plausible whilst what was happening in the real world was sometimes implausible. The day Mike Read released the Ukip calypso we all looked at each other and thought we certainly wouldn't have written that and had we people would have said this is completely mad and insane."

Ukip: The First 100 Days is on tomorrow on Channel 4 at 9pm.

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nice piece of anti UKIP propaganda, with not an iota of objective truth to back it up, sod all research and damn all knowlege...just assumptions and doubless a large "gratuity" from the incumbent bods.

in fact its gerrymandering
its deliberate interfernce with the political process using PURE fiction to attempt to scare people away from a particular party
It is partisan propaganda

IT OUGHT.....to be illegal, given the proximity of the elections...

darknessss wrote:nice piece of anti UKIP propaganda, with not an iota of objective truth to back it up, sod all research and damn all knowlege...just assumptions and doubless a large "gratuity" from the incumbent bods.

in fact its gerrymandering
its deliberate interfernce with the political process using PURE fiction to attempt to scare people away from a particular party
It is partisan propaganda

IT OUGHT.....to be illegal, given the proximity of the elections...

Freedom of opinion is paramount to freedom, full-stop. (I just made that up.)

darknessss wrote:nice piece of anti UKIP propaganda, with not an iota of objective truth to back it up, sod all research and damn all knowlege...just assumptions and doubless a large "gratuity" from the incumbent bods.

in fact its gerrymandering
its deliberate interfernce with the political process using PURE fiction to attempt to scare people away from a particular party
It is partisan propaganda

IT OUGHT.....to be illegal, given the proximity of the elections...

Its called a hypothesis based off many factors, which I find very interested and believe in part this would be a reality if UKIP did obtain power. You forget a substantial amount of British citizens are of ethnic groups which would no doubt take issue if as seen UKIP followed through with some of its policies. You may not like how accurate this seems to be, but that is down to you to have to stomach Victor.

As to its effect on UKIP, you really have no clue, as something like this actually brings the party further attention to the point people look into more UKIP itself and decide for themselves as what they are like.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

darknessss wrote:nice piece of anti UKIP propaganda, with not an iota of objective truth to back it up, sod all research and damn all knowlege...just assumptions and doubless a large "gratuity" from the incumbent bods.

in fact its gerrymandering
its deliberate interfernce with the political process using PURE fiction to attempt to scare people away from a particular party
It is partisan propaganda

IT OUGHT.....to be illegal, given the proximity of the elections...

Freedom of opinion is paramount to freedom, full-stop. (I just made that up.)

except you have NO idea...if this was made up about the cons then large (even larger)amounts of money would be changing hands to bury it....

OR people would be "committing suicide"

or........

I have no objections to it being shown........It should however have been held till after the soon to be held elections....

as it is it is a deliberate attempt to influence those elections.....

Three months into Britain’s first Ukip government, pubs are again filled with cigarette smoke, border guards are forcibly repatriating illegal immigrants, and the streets are filled with violent protests. Prime Minister Nigel Farage is accused of dividing the nation with his “racist” policies.

This is the provocative scenario played out in a “plausible” Channel 4 drama-documentary, Ukip: The First Hundred Days, which imagines the effect on Britain of a Ukip win in May.

Produced by the team behind the “disaster” film Blackout, which explored the effects of a cyber-attack on Britain’s electricity grid, the Ukip film combines archive footage and scripted drama to depict civil unrest as the party tries to enact its policies.

The film, which portrays many Ukip supporters as racist, is likely to infuriate Nigel Farage, who was invited to discuss the scenario in a Channel 4 interview with Jeremy Paxman after the programme, which will be broadcast at 9pm tomorrow.

Nick Mirsky, Channel 4 head of documentaries, defended the film from charges of anti-Ukip scaremongering. “A lot of research has gone into it. We wanted to create a drama that feels plausible,” he said. The writers extrapolated from Ukip policies, such as a guarantee that those who have served in the armed forces for 12 years will be offered a job in a border force.

Channel 4 hopes the film will attract a young audience, who might not normally watch a political programme. Richard Bond, the producer at Raw TV, said he would like to attempt a similar film about the Greens but Ukip had been chosen because their surge in popularity made the party the “story” of the election.

Mr Bond said: “I hope Nigel Farage watches it. I think he will find it plausible. We explore the policies Ukip are clear about, and imagine what would happen if they were implemented.”

The post-screening interview offer appears to have been shelved after Channel 4 and the Ukip leader could not come to an agreement. The docudrama is not required to show balance as it is being shown outside the election period. A drama about the 2010 formation of the coalition will follow soon.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/channel-4-dramadocumentary-ukip-the-first-hundred-days-imagines-nigel-farage-in-power--and-britain-in-meltdown-10046787.html

darknessss wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Freedom of opinion is paramount to freedom, full-stop. (I just made that up.)

except you have NO idea...if this was made up about the cons   then large (even larger)amounts of money would be changing hands to bury it....

OR people would be  "committing suicide"

or........

I have no objections to it being shown........It should however have been held till after the soon to be held elections....

as it is it is a deliberate attempt to influence those elections.....

I guess you have never watched V for Vendetta then.

The fundamental fact you are missing here Victor is that it is plausible what they are proposing, not that it would be a fact, that it is a possible outcome of UKIP obtaining power and implemented their known policies. Unless you can discount any possibility of this happening if they obtain power, then you cannot claim to say this could not be possible true.
If something in fact can be a possibility then it is possible this could turn out to be true.
It is a hypothesis after all.

Have a good evening mate.

who says it is plausible?

as for blackout ...nice "disaster film" but so far removed from reality as to be risible...

darknessss wrote:who says it is plausible?

as for blackout ...nice "disaster film" but so far removed from reality as to be risible...

Like I say prove it is not plausible.

On that I really have to go.

Laters dude

given the situation it is NOt for me to prove its "not plausible"

it is the duty of the "publisher" to prove (given the impact) to prove that it IS plausible...otherwise its a pile of fiction dressed up as "docudrama"

Wrong, they have proved it is plausible off evidence, which there is countless of our own history to show what creates civil unrest and one of them has involved ethnic minorities. Brixton, Bradford, Tottenham, Notting Hill etc riots are just some examples.
Hence it is very plausible.

Laters Victor