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No, Nigel Farage. The political establishment is not out to get you

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Psychologists have a theory paranoia is a defence mechanism against the despair of loneliness. Better to imagine someone wishes you harm than to know no one gives a fig about you. Being hated means that at least you are someone's radar. There are people who are consoled by the fiction MI6 is steaming open their mail and bugging their phone. The secret service would hardly go to all that trouble unless you mattered to them. As Oscar Wilde once said: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.” Perhaps the playwright missed his vocation as a psychoanalyst. Nigel Farage thinks the establishment has got it in for him. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say That is not paranoia. Labour, the Tories, Lib Dems and Greens (along with Channel 4, the Daily Mirror and Guardian) really are out to get him. But this is not part of an establishment plot: Reform UK is itself part of the establishment. It is just politics. Mr Farage may like to portr

First report: Farage admits ‘we will make mistakes’ but vows Reform UK will win next election in closing speech amid donation row — thesun.co.uk, 9d