GB News donned its fatigues this week to report from “the epicentre of Britain’s biggest flag war”, sending presenter Patrick Christys to Faversham in Kent, where locals have been plastering the streets with Union Jacks and St George crosses only to see them removed at night.
Christys spoke to one unnamed local who told viewers how “the Union flag exists as a symbol of unity of the United Kingdom. Our people, our British people, deserve to have a flag that represents that. We’re flying them proudly and we should fly them proudly. What other country in the world has this kind of chaos going on? It’s a disgrace.”
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That unnamed local, though, just happened to be Kieran Mishchuk, Reform UK councillor for Milton Regis on Swale Borough Council. His ward is fully eight-or-so miles from the cul-de-sac that he was randomly trotting around that day.
Mishchuk was elected as an 18-year-old to become Swale’s youngest councillor last year, telling KentOnline: “Having lived on the cusp of Milton for 16 years and the Sittingbourne area my whole life, I know the issues the area is facing.” Alas, time constraints prevented Christys from pointing this out to viewers, who remained under the impression Mishchuk was a randomer.
In fact in the whole of Christys’s report, only one person was actually named and that was the presenter himself – or, as GB News’ crack production staff labelled him on screen, PATRICK CHRISYTS.
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