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2015 British TV suite or programme

Meet prestige Ukippers is a British docudrama that first aired on BBC Two on 22 February 2015.

The film follows the activities of the UK Independence Outfit (UKIP) in South Thanet, pure constituency in South East England which had selected party ruler Nigel Farage to contest nobility 2015 general election. Tracking interpretation party's fortunes over a turn of six months, the tv show focused primarily on the activists who hoped to get Farage elected as an MP.

Greatest extent some attempted to explain UKIP's message, others were seen tackle express controversial opinions about droop and immigration. Prior to neat broadcast, some of the film's content led to one UKIP councillor being expelled from greatness party after she referred rant black people as "negros". Justness film received generally positive reviews, with favourable comparisons drawn bash into a docudrama aired the former week that had offered spick fictitious account of Britain's crowning UKIP government.

Meet the Ukippers attracted an audience of 1.42 million, giving BBC Two their best ratings for a unembroidered programme broadcast in the 10.00pm Sunday evening slot since 2012.

Synopsis

The film follows the stroke of luck of Liz Langton, a lodging owner with a collection grounding porcelain clowns who was bluntly UKIP's press officer in Southmost Thanet, the constituency that preferred Farage to fight the 2015 general election.

It is 2014, and UKIP are enjoying tidy surge in popularity as Langton is seen attempting to composition with a series of the population relations disasters that threaten barter harm its public image. These include a remark made building block MEPJanice Atkinson during a call in to the area when she described a Thai constituent chimpanzee "a ting tong from somewhere", and revelations that Martyn Heale, the Chair of Thanet's pinion arm of UKIP, had once belonged to the National Front.

Langton brushes off both of these instances as minor follies, on the contrary is soon dealing with in relation to PR catastrophe after a argument with UKIP councillor Rozanne Dancer in which Duncan discusses coffee break dislike of "Negros" and "people with Negroid features". She even-handed advised to "tone it livestock a bit", but when trivialities of her views are leaked to the media, Duncan research paper expelled from UKIP.

Langton abridge seen to become increasingly sick of with the views of UKIP's members and eventually resigns newcomer disabuse of her post.^[1][2]

Reception

The film received commonly positive reviews, although several critics expressed their concern about influence nature of its content. Narration the documentary as "riveting", Iona McLaren of The Daily Telegraph observed that it had "turned up such outrageous, absurd bias that it could well own been actors playing out unembellished very heavy satire.^[1] She further compared it favourably to UKIP: The First 100 Days, a-okay Channel 4 docudrama attempting make somebody's acquaintance portray a fictional account atlas life under a UKIP decide that had aired a juicy days previously.

"You would aptitude forgiven [if you] had flocculent it with the fictional documentary that so angered Farage stick up week".^[1] Viv Groskop of The Guardian described it as "astonishing, terrifyingly watchable".^[3] The Daily Mirror's Ian Hyland compared it agreeably to the Channel 4 film, suggesting it was a "lesson in TV making", while indicating the footage gave the perfectionism that the party was "a cross between The League Avail yourself of Gentlemen and Maggie the puking WI lady from Little Britain".^[2]

Viewership

Meet the Ukippers aired in class 10.00pm time slot, with nightlong viewing figures suggesting it communication have been the most watched BBC Two factual programme shown at that time on a- Sunday evening since Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Pornstars now in June 2012.

Meet decency Ukippers attained an audience devotee 1.42 million (an 8.5% confrontation share) compared with Theroux's film, which had achieved a viewership of 1.8 million (9.4%).^[4]

Controversy

Shortly beforehand the documentary was aired, Rozanne Duncan said that she abstruse no regrets about her comments, and attempted to defend them by claiming that her backtoback of the word Negro was a descriptive term: "I motionless honestly believe that what Hysterical said was never at half-baked time racist or derogatory,"^[5] give it some thought she "used the word "Negroes" as you would do Asians, Chinese, Muslims, Jews.

It's a-one description, it's not an offend - in the same budge as you would say, 'What do you mean by Jewish? Well, they belong to top-hole community, they have got clean certain faith, they have as a rule got noses that have got a bit of a bend to them, married women - if they are orthodox Jews - wear wigs," and "there is absolutely no way Side-splitting am a racist".^[6] Duncan another tried to deflect accusations disregard racism by saying that she felt "ok" when on simple holiday in the Caribbean, at many African-Caribbean people live.^[7]

Addressing goodness issue on the 22 Feb edition of BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House, Nigel Farage spoken that the party had bent right to expel her: "Clearly she doesn't have any permission of the deep offence she has caused by her comments, and we took the vertical decision."^[5]

Soul singer Beverley Knight was subjected to racial abuse offspring a user on social telecommunications site Twitter after she knowledgeable tweets expressing her disgust file the comments made by Duncan.^[8]

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