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Reform orders 500 mannequins as seat fillers for Nigel Farage’s next speech | NewsThump

SATIRE7 hours ago|Discuss (0)|Politics
Article written by Nathan Cowley
Reform UK's solution to Farage's embarrassingly sparse audiences is a bulk order of 500 department-store mannequins, strategically angled to fool cameras into thinking anyone actually showed up. The bit lands nicely with the Lee Anderson 'dummy' gag and the bonus swipe at Trump's rally numbers, though it runs slightly long before it's done patting itself on the back.
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Reform orders 500 mannequins as seat fillers for Nigel Farage’s next speech
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Nothing says 'man of the people' like spending five million quid on H&M mannequins to fake a crowd — truly the dummy the dummies deserve.

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