Cannot handle Nigel Farage being PM

Funny how Starmer bleated repeatedly about how their work was urgent when they first came to power and now suddenly everyone needs to be patient. 🙄

Farage is yesterday's news. It's Rupert Lowe now. Anyone serious about dealing with demographics in the UK is voting Restore. I'm not sure what Reform are for now?

The man is a walking contradiction

Hates the 'elites', yet was privately educated, worked in commodities trading prior to politics and is one of the highest earners in politics with his private interests.

Doesn't agree with working from home, yet employed his own wife to WFH and WFH himself doing Cameos and other jobs.

Thinks the EU is a terrible thing, but was an MEP and continues to take a pension from that.

Is anti-Europe, yet has an Irish and German wife/ex.

Is anti children speaking other languages, yet his own children speak German.

Is the voice of farmers, yet was the engineer of Brexit which screwed British farming with the loss of EU subsidies.

It's a (deeply unfunny) joke.

I am well aware you are a long term lurker of and occasional visitor to the long running "Starmer" series of threads.

Anyway. You asked me if I wanted to discuss Labour on this thread. I don't.

You may wish to inform Reform’s core, ahem.

Besides, why so quick to dismiss? I mean, we’ve all been told to remain patient with this Labour government, after u-turn no. 15, and reset no. 11 etc.

Farage is yesterday's news. It's Rupert Lowe now. Anyone serious about dealing with demographics in the UK is voting Restore. I'm not sure what Reform are for now?

The only good thing about him being pm is that people will realise very quickly what a stupid thing it was to vote for him

I hope Labour raises its game so it doesn’t happen but I’m not hugely optimistic

Now, that’s real hypocrisy!

Your Starmer posts are littered with Farage references - one rule for others, right?

Too right. I reckon some posters who talk about dog whistles need to take a look in the mirror. Notice how they pop up right on cue?

People are going to talk him into power at this rate.

Now, that’s real hypocrisy!

Your Starmer posts are littered with Farage references - one rule for others, right?

This thread is about Farage. There are plenty of threads to discuss Labour. Or you can start a new one.

😄Hating Farage is now the cool thing to do.

What frightens me more is a coalition of Labour, the SNP and the greens. That will be the end of Britain. It’s already too late to save our identity, of course. As two-tier Keir put it, this is now “an island of strangers.” Immigration has happened on such a scale that it has destroyed any sense of shared culture or shared history. I don’t know how people have got the nerve to call Farage a fascist. The Left have imposed this change on us. That is fascism.

But it’s also a question of space. My home town (Colchester) is now so crowded I could scream. The roads are clogged with traffic, and the hospital is at breaking point. My local woods have been hacked down and replaced with two new housing estates, and we’re going to have 400 new homes built on the fields in the centre of the village. That’s on top of the 300 new homes already jammed onto some fields at the other end of the village. But no matter how many of these vile rabbit hutches we squeeze together, we always need more, more, more. From the languages spoken, I’d say at least half the people on those new estates were not born in the UK.

This thread is about Farage. There are plenty of threads to discuss Labour. Or you can start a new one.

Come now, PS, what’s with the faux outrage.

But, let’s put that to one side for the moment.

How is this Labour government doing, in your assessment?

Oh my lord. Your hypocrisy is staggering!

I agree OP. I think if someone originally supported Reform, can they now still support it with the amount of ex-Tories that Reform have.

The same Tories who wrecked the country. Brexit made this country poorer.

Reform will get rid of our working rights when we leave the EHCR. It will be a disaster.

Quite.

I really worry about Vladimir Putin's influence with Farage (and others).

Recommend reading Luke Harding’s Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West on Russia’s influence operations in Western democracies and the outcomes of their efforts, including Brexit. There’s an anecdote about Alexander Yakovenko (Russia’s UK ambassador, 2011-19) who, on his return to Moscow post Brexit in 2019, was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky by Putin (a major Russian state honour), and reportedly told a fellow diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees, and they will not rise for a very long time.”

Also the influence of the US evangelical right. The fairly recent (Nov 24 press conference) talk of restricting abortion linked to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a U.S.-based Christian legal advocacy group that campaiged for overturning Roe v. Wade before extending its advocacy internationally. How did he manage 30 odd years in politics without commenting on this issue, are they now funding him?

What annoys me is Farage confirmed (“Anger Management” podcast) that his children with his second wife (German) hold British and German passports. His children with his first wife (Irish) have automatic Irish citizenship through her. The thought of his children being eligible for the EU passports our kids cannot now take advantage of makes me fume…. (Obviously they’re their own people and can do what they want…).

But agree with PP he wouldn’t want to put in the work of the daily grind of actually running the country, as shown by his (lack of) efforts for Clacton.

I’m totally with you on not wanting him as PM, but YABU with the personal insults. Imagine if you replaced the name with eg, Shabana Mahmood or Angela Rayner.