Nigel Farage fumes at ‘disgrace’ after TRIC Awards ‘deletes’ tweet about his win
Nigel Farage Discusses Deleted Tweet By Tric Awards
Nigel Farage hit out at the TRIC Awards after a tweet announcing his win disappeared.
The politician-turned-broadcaster picked up the news presenter of the year gong at the Television and Radio Industries Club ceremony yesterday.
The TRIC Awards shared a tweet shortly after his win at the glitzy event at the Grosvenor House in London.
But the GB News presenter accused the organisation of taking down the congratulatory message after it vanished today.
The tweet was later reposted but details of the sponsor were not included.
In a video shared on Twitter, Mr Farage branded it a “disgrace” and suggested it was because he “committed the cardinal sin in broadcasting by questioning the Barb figures”.
The former Ukip and Brexit Party leader took aim at the way the TV ratings of programmes are compiled by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board in his victory speech at Tuesday’s ceremony.
In his post, he branded the move a “disgrace”, saying: “Well it would seem I’ve committed the ultimate cardinal sin in broadcasting by questioning the Barb figures.
“By questioning the fact that the industry owns the very organisation that rates its programmes.
“Well today, TRIC, the organisation that put together the awards yesterday, they deleted their tweet announcing that I’d won news presenter of the year.
“It would seem that all of these people hate the British public, it’s not me they hate, it’s the people that voted for me they hate, and that’s why the whole thing needs a massive shake-up.”
After the TRIC Awards shared a new post, Mr Farage said: “The TRIC Awards have now redone their tweet. Democracy wins!”
Discussing the issue on his GB News show later, the presenter said he “simply couldn’t believe it” when he could not find the tweet this morning.
He said: “I commented obviously on it, and hundreds of people took to social to say, ‘Do you not respect our votes?’
“Over a million people took part in this process. This was the first year that TRIC had opened the whole thing up to be just the public voting without the committee themselves having a big influence over it.
“Well after my protest and those of others, the tweet was put back up. Interestingly though it was different to the first time round.
“Now they put up a nice picture of me standing there with the trophy and a pint, but you’ll notice the difference between the first tweet and the second tweet is that Screen Hits, the sponsor of this category, wasn’t involved in the second tweet.”
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