Cannot handle Nigel Farage being PM

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The goofy toad of toad hall-faced wanker

At least other countries have sexy right wing twats, why do we get him?

1.Please say his name as it is supposed to be said - farage like garage

1. Please don't vote for him he's one of Those Guys - smug, sweaty faced supercilious thickies

1. All his policies are gash

Yes, and no in that order 😂

I agree. But it wasn't me who brought her looks up. It was a pp.

Oh my lord. Your hypocrisy is staggering!

It really doesn't matter what any of the politicians look like. I think we all know that.

I just want to know which other countries have sexy right wing twats? Do you mean Meloni?

"Immigration has happened on such a scale that it has destroyed any sense of shared culture or shared history."
Immigration rose massively under the Tories and we only started seeing the 'boats' post Brexit. Labour have actually TIGHTENED immigration rules (Immigration White Paper) and have made considerable strides into the huge backlog of asylum applications left by the Tories.

Do you really think Reform, who are all for deregulation and capitalism, would protect your green spaces? Or do you think they would be on the side of the free market and the developers making money and building houses wherever is most profitable? Conservative governments made changes to Planning rules which mean that green belt can be prioritised over brownfield sites, even when locals and councils have rejected planning previously. These are not labour, or left wing policies or changes. These houses weren't built on your green belt due to lefties building houses for foreigners.

Yes but you still chose to give your opinion on her looks when they matter not a jot in her job.

Fine, I’ve worked under both a conservative and labour government and little difference day to day. One good thing is better control on spending under this government, T&S etc, cutting down on people spending. Trying to reduce headcount but by reducing the nice to have currently. That’s a good thing in my opinion but still an awful lot that could be done in that space.

And as for "two tier Kier", Farage's own nephew did quite well out of it didn't he?

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/who-is-nigel-farages-nephew-upskirting-where-388926/

A little fine for a sexual offence with a potential prison sentence. Didn't hear Reformers complaining about any injustices there.

(this was further to @Dappy777's post)

😲 if that had been any other politician's nephew there would have been outrage.

Trump is a sexy rightwing twat now? 😳

Don’t worry - Reform will have autodigested by the time there’s a GE.

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 know you won't like the term but this entire diatribe is racist as fuck.

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

YANBU for finding him unbearable
YABVVVU for insinuating it would be somehow tolerable if he was better looking.

I agree he can't be arsed and will stand down, but it leaves the door open for a horror from the Tory party like Braverman or Zahawi.

True - but there is definitely a toadish element to him which is hard to ignore.

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 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.

The disinformation machine has already started on that one, @Agrumpyknitter. They're tying themselves in knots to explain how Reform have no choice but to become a nursing home for washed up Tories who did the things they claim to be so cross about. It's a sight to behold.

With Trump spectacularly ruining the US and the poorly run Reform councils, I do not think they will win the next election. For now, it looks as though Green will get in.

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?

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

The whattaboutery is strong.