改革党领袖对皇家空军费尔福德事件的反应再次暴露了他的本性。如果需要的是一双稳健的手和冷静的头脑，他绝非合适人选。又一周，奈杰尔·法拉奇再次有机会展示他那字面意义上的歇斯底里的领导无能。对于一个声称推崇战时英国精神的人来说，奈杰尔在那场冲突中很可能因屡次散布恐慌和未经证实的信息而被拘留。
The Reform leader’s reaction to the RAF Fairford affair is again revealing. If what’s needed is a steady hand and cool head, he’s not the guy Another week, another chance for Nigel Farage to demonstrate his literally hysterical leadership inabilities. For a guy who supposedly valorises the wartime British spirit, Nigel would genuinely have had to have been interned during that conflict on account of his serial predilection for spreading panic and unverified information at any given chance.
周末发生在皇家空军费尔福德基地附近的事件，只是他一系列令人怀疑改革党总部墙上贴着的标语仅仅是“失去冷静，开始胡言乱语”的场合中的最新一例。尽管那张著名的二战海报“保持冷静，继续前行”如今广受欢迎，但它在那场战争中几乎肯定从未被展示过。尽管印刷了超过200万份，但它实际上是被保留下来以备真正严重的危机发生时使用。
The weekend incident near RAF Fairford was simply the latest in a long line of occasions that make you suspect the poster on the wall at Reform HQ reads simply: “Lose Cool and Start Shitposting.”Despite its popularity now, the famous “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster from the second world war was almost certainly never displayed in that conflict. Although more than 2m copies of it were printed, it was in fact held in reserve in case a really serious crisis hit.
考虑到即使是轰炸似乎都未能达到这一标准，在当今时代，一些相对微小的事件却迫使某些党魁陷入长达24小时以上的疯狂、不负责任且情绪失控的在线失态，这几乎令人难以置信。
Which, when you consider even the blitz apparently didn’t clear the bar, it is almost impossible to conceive of in our era where comparatively minuscule incidents force certain party leaders into more than 24 hours of madly irresponsible and emotional online incontinence.
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