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Alan Moore Vs. Nigel Farage

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On Friday, Alan Moore made an appearance on Channel 4 News in the UK to promote the collection of short films made with Mitch Jenkins, called Show Pieces, as it begins to tour the film circuit beginning with this weekend's FrightFest in London.

Also booked on Channel 4 that night with Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP, the UK Independence Party, a nationalist British political party that seeks primarily to restrict immigration and remove Britain from the European Union. And he found his segment shortened as a result of Alan's appearance.

Apparently he wasn't based pleased with being bumped for a comic book writer and let his displeasure be known. Something Alan Moore delighted at in the Q&A at the Kickstarter backers premiere of Show Pieces we ran yesterday.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI51XbMtjUQ[/youtube]

He also talked about how, in the subsequent feature film script The Show, already written, a parody of UKIP appears as a background poster for a political party called GBIP, the Great British Independence Party with the slogan "Gas The Intolerant".

But as a result of the Channel 4 furore, he has decided to edit the script to give GBIP a more prominent role in the film…

 

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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