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custardlover · 04/06/2024 17:47

I have just been listening to his speech at Clacton today about DDay and patriotism and it's all hot air and bluster and nonsense and honestly WHO COULD POSSIBLY VOTE FOR THIS IGNORANT CLOWN?!?

OK but seriously anyone who is tempted, please tell me. I genuinely cannot understand it.

Typo in thread title edited by MNHQ to make it clear the thread is about Farage, not a garage

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hattie43 · 04/06/2024 20:15

GwenogJones · 04/06/2024 20:12

I've just seen on twitter (so I don't know how true) that the milkshake thrower might have been Emily Hewertson - who is the girlfriend of the reform party press officer.
https://x.com/hewitson10/status/1798063324208533711/photo/2

https://x.com/hewitson10/status/1798063324208533711/photo/1

The papers are saying she said her name was Victoria .

GwenogJones · 04/06/2024 20:12

I've just seen on twitter (so I don't know how true) that the milkshake thrower might have been Emily Hewertson - who is the girlfriend of the reform party press officer.
https://x.com/hewitson10/status/1798063324208533711/photo/2

https://x.com/hewitson10/status/1798063324208533711/photo/1

x.com

https://x.com/hewitson10/status/1798063324208533711/photo/2

FrippEnos · 04/06/2024 20:00

Posters should by now know how he is managing to get in

1/ he is a master manipulator.
2/ He claims to listen to the people and promises to do something about their fears.

You can't do anything about 1 but if politicians actually gave a damn they could stop him from getting so many people on side by listening to these areas and doing something like increasing investment and getting jobs in those areas.

armwrest · 04/06/2024 20:00

yes immediately thought publicity stunt

Movinghouseatlast · 04/06/2024 20:00

Utter cunt.

Because Brexit has gone so well, hasn't it Nigel?

FrippEnos · 04/06/2024 19:57

MrsSkylerWhite

Assault? Bollocks. The nasty piece of work can wipe a bit of milkshake off.

It is classed as assault.

Whenwillitgetwarm · 04/06/2024 19:57

Anxiousheartbeat · 04/06/2024 19:05

I don’t care for Nigel Farage but the woman who threw a milk shake at him should be held accountable. It’s not acceptable to behave like that.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she hadn’t been paid by Reform to get publicity. It felt like a 90s style publicity stunt like Gayle Porter on Houses of Parliament.

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 04/06/2024 19:57

If the people of Clacton elect him they will be without an MP for the next 5 years as he will obviously try to continue his TV career and American side hustles.
I can't even see him turning up to Parliamentexcept for photo opportunities and symbolic votes.
Can you imagine him doing a surgery and listening to his constituents noise complaints, benefit disputes and planning objections???
He does not give a shit about them!!!

ExtraOnions · 04/06/2024 19:54

Racist Bulllshit “whole streets in Oldham where they don’t speak English”

if he’s that bothered about Oldham, why is he not standing there ?

I live in the NW, my town had a large population from Asia… and I don’t give a toot if they want to speak a language other than English to each other.

Are they only “British Values” (whatever they are), if you say them in English ?

I’ll tell you exactly who votes for him … People who want to blame other people for their bad life choices.

Blackcats7 · 04/06/2024 19:53

Total knob. The only upside to Reform is as a twat identifying service.

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Katemax82 · 04/06/2024 19:52

custardlover · 04/06/2024 19:47

Do you understand why?

Yes, because my husband is getting more right wing as he's getting older

OneFrenchEgg · 04/06/2024 19:52

You can only vote for him if you live in Clacton though?

LeggyLinda · 04/06/2024 19:50

I think we’re all missing the important point here.
The McDonald’s milkshake machine is working in Clacton! Let’s all get down there quick!

hattie43 · 04/06/2024 19:48

Katemax82 · 04/06/2024 19:43

My husband is going to vote for him

As are people in my office . They are ranting loons either but salt of the earth people with genuine concerns about the rise and rise of immigration. Most have children and grandchildren and are worried about their future if the trajectory carries on . Reform is the only party they think will really sort it .

custardlover · 04/06/2024 19:47

Katemax82 · 04/06/2024 19:43

My husband is going to vote for him

Do you understand why?

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 04/06/2024 19:46

I’ve never understood his so-called appeal. He makes me think of a particularly dodgy used car salesman. TBH almost as repulsive as Trump.

StMarieforme · 04/06/2024 19:45

custardlover · 04/06/2024 19:07

He really should be help accountable for the Brexit campaign lies. I care more about that than the milkshake.

Absolutely this!

Katemax82 · 04/06/2024 19:43

My husband is going to vote for him

LoobyDoop2 · 04/06/2024 19:42

If he wins, he’ll become the sole MP for Reform, with absolutely no power. The Tories will have too many of their own issues to worry about him, and nobody else needs to care. He’ll disappear. Or he’ll lose, and that’ll be about his 8th failure. Either way, he’ll return to being a Lord Sutch rentagob rather than the Kingmaker.

JimmyGrimble · 04/06/2024 19:39

Oh I think he’ll win. He’ll be an absolutely pathetic MP. Turkeys voting for Christmas again.

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/06/2024 19:34

Well one is assault. And if we allow people to go around throwing milkshakes at people they don’t like it’s a dangerous precedent isn’t it.
**
the brexit lies are also the responsibility of people who voted for them 🤷🏻‍♀️ he’s not going to be PM and also unlikely to be an MP so you don’t need to stress overly about this”

Assault? Bollocks. The nasty piece of work can wipe a bit of milkshake off.

His assault on the freedoms of millions of people will negatively affect them for years. You can’t blame it on those who voted Brexit: countless studies after the result showed clearly that it was mostly elderly people/economically disadvantaged people and people who did not benefit from higher level education who voted leave. They believed the lies he, Cummings and Johnson, etc., fed them, that their lives would be infinitely better if the UK left the EU.
I don’t blame them in the least. They were sold a pup by clever, manipulative people whom, had they a shred of decency, would have slunk quietly into the ether by now. But no, here he is, doubling down on his bullshit.

In Clacton, he’s quite likely to become MP.

Blueeyedmale · 04/06/2024 19:31

hattie43 · 04/06/2024 19:15

I think he might do rather well , not because people like his message but because people are sick and tired of mainstream parties promising the earth and delivering nothing .

Farage voters won't be on MN.

I also think milkshake girl should be arrested and prosecuted on the basis that we are a democracy and like the message or not politicians have a right to not be assaulted like the rest of us .

I think its right that the young lady that threw the milkshake has been arrested but some of the hate and threats and sexual comments towards her have been absolutely awful. misogyny is a major problem I hope the police will investigate these offences too but someone I very much doubt it

SuePreemly · 04/06/2024 19:27

Professional gobshite is exactly what he is.

Reminds me of Father Jack's "who put that gobshite on the telly!"......

JimmyGrimble · 04/06/2024 19:22

Populist nonsense in the same vein as Trump. He likes to spout his ignorant, racist bollocks but ask him about policy and he just laughs. He has no clue and holds ‘the people’ in total contempt. He’s an arsehole of the first order. Charlatan.

hattie43 · 04/06/2024 19:15

I think he might do rather well , not because people like his message but because people are sick and tired of mainstream parties promising the earth and delivering nothing .

Farage voters won't be on MN.

I also think milkshake girl should be arrested and prosecuted on the basis that we are a democracy and like the message or not politicians have a right to not be assaulted like the rest of us .