Nigel Farage

I don't agree to giving away so much money when the UK borrows money to do the gifting. It's madness. I hope Reform will stop this nonsense.

And stop foreign aid -

Which countries receive overseas aid?
In 2023, Ukraine was the top recipient of UK overseas aid. It received £250m - a decrease of £92m (26.9 per cent) - compared to 2022.

Ethiopia came second at £164m in 2023, a huge 82.4 per cent increase (£74m) compared to the year before. Afghanistan was third place, receiving £115m.
Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan, Brazil, and Bangladesh were all in the top ten recipients, receiving a combined total of £597m.

You stop wasting so much money, that's how. Stop paying for gardening lessons and cake decorating for migrants and as for some London councils paying for immigrants DC being taught languages such as Somali the mind boggles. I've read about adverts for staff to teach these illegal immigrants balloon animal making g lessons. Stuff like this is happening up and down the country. Wtf can't their parents teach them if they want their DC to speak Somali? Why should council tax payers pay for it? No one needs to learn to make balloon animals or to decorate cakes. Stop paying for leaflets to be translated into so many languages. Stop giving legal aid to illegal immigrants. Stop housing them in 4* hotels. Put them in tents like they do across Europe. The pull factors are so strong to come to UK. This government wastes so much money. Then puts taxes high to pay for their reckless spending.

You stop wasting so much money, that's how. Stop paying for gardening lessons and cake decorating for migrants and as for some London councils paying for immigrants DC being taught languages such as Somali the mind boggles. I've read about adverts for staff to teach these illegal immigrants balloon animal making g lessons. Stuff like this is happening up and down the country. Wtf can't their parents teach them if they want their DC to speak Somali? Why should council tax payers pay for it? No one needs to learn to make balloon animals or to decorate cakes. Stop paying for leaflets to be translated into so many languages. Stop giving legal aid to illegal immigrants. Stop housing them in 4* hotels. Put them in tents like they do across Europe. The pull factors are so strong to come to UK. This government wastes so much money. Then puts taxes high to pay for their reckless spending.

@Jerrypicker- he often loses his temper, he’s very thin skinned. And he definitely dodges questions & does not have an answer for everything.

I’m politically neutral. I think Farage was saying that Europe has an immigration problem- which is fact. It’s not exactly false is it?

Because he is a snake oil charlatan?

@caringcarer You want lower taxes but more money spent on defence, education and benefits. How does that work?

Who else’s side would he be on, if not the British people’s? 🤔
He is definitely not on the side of illegal migrants or the woke leftists. So the only side left is that of the British people.
You might say he just wants to get into power. But to what purpose? To become rich? He already is.
His opponents like you just want to discredit him by any means.

Because he's a relatively skilled speaker. Like many others in the 1980s, he was literally taught the art of persuasive speaking - or rhetoric as it's properly known. So was Johnson as it happens. Trump's a monkey in comparison to these guys.

And because Farage learned from Enoch Powell, a successful Cambridge academic with a background in classics. The thing that Powell understood very well was that if you wanted the people to vote for you, then you must appear like you're on their side. There are various ways of doing this, for example, in Powell's case, for his River of Blood speech, he simply made up the housewives and concerned folk who he was quoting. Neither they, or the problems they were talking about, actually existed. But it didn't matter because it SEEMED real to people.

Farage is cut from the same cloth. His background also involves fiction - commodity trading and futures. He knows how to work a market, how to operate the levers and pulleys. And in the same way that people believe money is somehow real (when actually it's just numbers or bits of plasticised paper in their wallet), they believe what he's saying has some sort of basis in fact. It doesn't. He's a kind of one man casino. But you know what they say, the house always wins.

There's an old Latin tag: cui prodest? It means 'Who stands to gain?' Farage will know this in its original Latin. Powell studied it and understood it intimately. The average bod in the street has no idea that they're just the pawns in this game, the future casualties, the cannon fodder. They're clueless. They have neither the education or the skills to work out what's happening. And so like turkeys they'll vote for Christmas and then wonder why their teenage children / grandchildren are being called up to die in ditches.

Those who do not understand the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it, eh.

Actually he is a very intelligent man with excellent communication skills and very competent in debates. He has a distinct personality and charisma. He never loses his temper no matter how much some idiot wants to wind him up and I can tell he has a sense of humour. He doesn’t dodge questions and always has a measured answer.

If you read MN you get the impression that he is not popular, but MN does not represent the real world. MN is mainly a bunch of bored leftist housewives. Go on YouTube though, watch his speeches and it is a different story. Read the comment section below his videos and draw your own conclusion.
Here’s an example for you:

OK. Obviously you’ll deny something that’s right in your face but at least I tried. You don’t think this is racist? You’ll note that, despite allegedly being about the EU, the only white face on that poster is Farage’s.

Here you go. Plenty for you to choose from.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farages-most-controversial-moments-ukip-brexit-b1122381.html

Because he's not Labour, who have doubled the national deficit in a year, tried to screw over disabled people, pensioners, children and come October taxes will go up, inflation is up and job losses are hugely up so yes he isn't Labour, i can't believe that people still think that Labour are doing a good job.

But you said the racism word, I didn’t . It’s done to you to back up your comments.Which you couldn’t do after four posts replying to me

Because he's a relatively skilled speaker. Like many others in the 1980s, he was literally taught the art of persuasive speaking - or rhetoric as it's properly known. So was Johnson as it happens. Trump's a monkey in comparison to these guys.

And because Farage learned from Enoch Powell, a successful Cambridge academic with a background in classics. The thing that Powell understood very well was that if you wanted the people to vote for you, then you must appear like you're on their side. There are various ways of doing this, for example, in Powell's case, for his River of Blood speech, he simply made up the housewives and concerned folk who he was quoting. Neither they, or the problems they were talking about, actually existed. But it didn't matter because it SEEMED real to people.

Farage is cut from the same cloth. His background also involves fiction - commodity trading and futures. He knows how to work a market, how to operate the levers and pulleys. And in the same way that people believe money is somehow real (when actually it's just numbers or bits of plasticised paper in their wallet), they believe what he's saying has some sort of basis in fact. It doesn't. He's a kind of one man casino. But you know what they say, the house always wins.

There's an old Latin tag: cui prodest? It means 'Who stands to gain?' Farage will know this in its original Latin. Powell studied it and understood it intimately. The average bod in the street has no idea that they're just the pawns in this game, the future casualties, the cannon fodder. They're clueless. They have neither the education or the skills to work out what's happening. And so like turkeys they'll vote for Christmas and then wonder why their teenage children / grandchildren are being called up to die in ditches.

Those who do not understand the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it, eh.

I could do it but if people aren't intelligent to work it out for themselves then we don't want them in our party.😃