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Cannot handle Nigel Farage being PM

415 replies

Designless · 17/02/2026 10:46

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
OP posts:
MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 17/02/2026 15:21

Rubyring444 · 17/02/2026 15:19

Farage won't be PM. My money is on Jenrick. Is that OK with you OP?

Yeah, I reckon Farage may have done a deal with Jenrick. There is no way that Farage actually wants to be PM, whereas Jenrick wants that desperately. I suspect that was part of the deal when he defected.

Whether the electorate will want Jenrick as PM is rather a different matter.

Miggledyhiggledy · 17/02/2026 15:21

Codyrhodesisaheel · 17/02/2026 15:18

That's exactly what I think.

He has a proven track record of laziness and not showing up for work. Most notably right now as a Clacton MP.
He's very much like Boris Johnson. Wanted to BE prime minister. Wanted to have BEEN prime minister. Just too damn lazy to do the bit in the middle of actually BEING prime minister

There's still 3.5 years to go - a LOT can happen in that time.

We're seeing firsthand how the reform councillors are cocking up everywhere. We're seeing him fill his band of misfits with extremely unpopular ex-tories, so how the hell can he say he's the 'party of change?'
He seems to be aligning himself with Liz Truss of all people, there's not a fucking hope in hell that anyone would vote for her again.
We're seeing in real-time the danger of what's going on over in the US. A lot of people are going to wise up and say, "I don't want that"

Is that a bit like Starmer and Rayner who were hungry for power? Snarling from the opposite benches (Rayner) and acting the martyr (Starmer). The ease with which a government's opposition makes such promises for them to dwindle once in power. Martyrdom is all very well but the reality of running a country should be saved for the business men and women.

Gallowayan · 17/02/2026 15:24

JHound · 17/02/2026 10:53

I actually am interested to see if Reform will be a shit show and if they are a shit show whether Reform voters will take accountability.

They did not take accountability for the brexit fiasco; if anything that just encouraged them, so I would not get your hopes up.

Rubyring444 · 17/02/2026 15:31

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BeardOToots · 17/02/2026 15:32

JHound · 17/02/2026 10:53

I actually am interested to see if Reform will be a shit show and if they are a shit show whether Reform voters will take accountability.

If we treat Brexit as an example you have your answer. They will stay angry and take no blame.

LoveItaly · 17/02/2026 15:33

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 17/02/2026 12:14

I think a lot would resign.

Quite a lot of staff have left our local authority because they were struggling to work under Reform. Not because of the policy as there has been very little actual policy - what I'm hearing is that people just can't cope with the level of chaos and dysfunction.

I very much doubt many people would resign given the terrible jobs market at the moment, where would they all go?

BeardOToots · 17/02/2026 15:33

Btp · 17/02/2026 15:15

I can't believe farage would be anywhere near as bad as starmer, who has lied, cheated and conned his way to lead this country

Prepare to be amazed.

RedRiverShore6 · 17/02/2026 15:33

He’s not

MsJinks · 17/02/2026 15:34

Rubyring444 · 17/02/2026 15:19

Farage won't be PM. My money is on Jenrick. Is that OK with you OP?

Well according to today’s press conference - another day another presser for Reform - Jenrick will be chancellor.
Tice will be deputy as well as business minister.
Braverman equalities!
Replacing Tory fuddy duddies apparently, umm, and also calling themselves shadow whatevers now.
I don’t know about OP but each and every one of them make me shudder and I can’t bear to see/hear them.

ACynicalDad · 17/02/2026 15:35

I find the thought of Angela Rayner or the second coming of Ed Milliband unbearable, but it's democracy, if he gets the votes that's it, he's in.

Miggledyhiggledy · 17/02/2026 15:35

BeardOToots · 17/02/2026 15:32

If we treat Brexit as an example you have your answer. They will stay angry and take no blame.

A bit like Labour voters not taking blame for what we are landed with. A party who despises biological women. Luckily, right wingers have more stamina than bleating about not being able to handle Starmer, one of the worst PMs on record. We just have to suck it up.

DiySteve · 17/02/2026 15:41

LoveItaly · 17/02/2026 15:33

I very much doubt many people would resign given the terrible jobs market at the moment, where would they all go?

Absolutely right.

EasternStandard · 17/02/2026 15:41

LoveItaly · 17/02/2026 15:33

I very much doubt many people would resign given the terrible jobs market at the moment, where would they all go?

True, sounds like a bad idea given the jobs figures.

BeardOToots · 17/02/2026 15:43

Miggledyhiggledy · 17/02/2026 15:35

A bit like Labour voters not taking blame for what we are landed with. A party who despises biological women. Luckily, right wingers have more stamina than bleating about not being able to handle Starmer, one of the worst PMs on record. We just have to suck it up.

Bit like that yeah. It’s always someone else’s fault.

Rubyring444 · 17/02/2026 15:46

MsJinks · 17/02/2026 15:34

Well according to today’s press conference - another day another presser for Reform - Jenrick will be chancellor.
Tice will be deputy as well as business minister.
Braverman equalities!
Replacing Tory fuddy duddies apparently, umm, and also calling themselves shadow whatevers now.
I don’t know about OP but each and every one of them make me shudder and I can’t bear to see/hear them.

Yes, saw that. I am talking about when there is a general election. Farage needs to secure victory first.

DiySteve · 17/02/2026 15:47

Miggledyhiggledy · 17/02/2026 15:35

A bit like Labour voters not taking blame for what we are landed with. A party who despises biological women. Luckily, right wingers have more stamina than bleating about not being able to handle Starmer, one of the worst PMs on record. We just have to suck it up.

I’m rather surprised that Labour voters are not directing their ire at their government.

Talk about self-imploding, Labour bought this upon themselves - unforced error after unforced error, talking down the economy, u-turns, incompetence, the leaks, the freebies, the authoritarianism, the terrible judgement, the vicious tax policy, the scandals, and on, and on.

How anyone can continue to defend them is beyond most reasonable people.

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 17/02/2026 15:47

LoveItaly · 17/02/2026 15:33

I very much doubt many people would resign given the terrible jobs market at the moment, where would they all go?

I don't know. I only know that quite a lot of staff have left our local council.

PandoraSocks · 17/02/2026 15:53

MsJinks · 17/02/2026 15:34

Well according to today’s press conference - another day another presser for Reform - Jenrick will be chancellor.
Tice will be deputy as well as business minister.
Braverman equalities!
Replacing Tory fuddy duddies apparently, umm, and also calling themselves shadow whatevers now.
I don’t know about OP but each and every one of them make me shudder and I can’t bear to see/hear them.

No job for 30p Lee?

DifferentNameForQuestion · 17/02/2026 15:56

Octavia64 · 17/02/2026 10:53

He isn’t PM

he doesn’t want to be PM.

PM has to actually take difficult decisions and negotiate. He (and his party) are a pressure group that aim to influence the party in power.

his councillors have done jack shit.

This.

They won't get enough seats to form a government. He tgellhe sort to heckle from the sidelines, not actually do anything to improve the country.

StandFirm · 17/02/2026 16:22

DiySteve · 17/02/2026 15:08

Crack on - bark at the moon.

Let me know how that works out for you, or don’t.

It’s all good.

I think I touched a nerve here. Pre-Brexit: freedom to live and work across 27 neighbouring countries and a dynamic economy. Post-brexit: only endless bureaucracy.

Brexit has imposed a large and persistent cost on the UK economy. By 2025, we estimate that UK GDP per capita was 6–8% lower than it would have been without Brexit. Investment was 12–18% lower, employment 3–4% lower, and productivity 3–4% lower.
Source: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impact-on-the-uk-economy/

Apart from that, yeah, all good. I'm not the one believing in the fictional sunlit uplands.

Brexit’s impact on the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe

Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka, and Gregory Thwaites argue that there is evidence that Brexit has had a large and persistent negative impact on GDP, output and productivity in their new NBER working paper.

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impact-on-the-uk-economy/

Miggledyhiggledy · 17/02/2026 16:24

DiySteve · 17/02/2026 15:47

I’m rather surprised that Labour voters are not directing their ire at their government.

Talk about self-imploding, Labour bought this upon themselves - unforced error after unforced error, talking down the economy, u-turns, incompetence, the leaks, the freebies, the authoritarianism, the terrible judgement, the vicious tax policy, the scandals, and on, and on.

How anyone can continue to defend them is beyond most reasonable people.

They are only defended because it would hit the lefties egos to admit they've really got it wrong. We all know how big, but embarrassingly disillusioned those egos are. As women, they call out misogyny in every direction except their own power house of deceit towards the demographic who get shafted all ways round.

Luckyingame · 17/02/2026 16:24

Cannot stand? To what extent? Would you emigrate?

JHound · 17/02/2026 16:25

BeardOToots · 17/02/2026 15:32

If we treat Brexit as an example you have your answer. They will stay angry and take no blame.

It’s sad but I think you’re right.

Miggledyhiggledy · 17/02/2026 16:27

The threat of emigration is never carried through. I note one poster on the unfriending right wing friends thread, said she would leave the UK if Reform got in 🥱 I take it she won't be residing in the Middle East. Empty vessels.

MsJinks · 17/02/2026 16:30

PandoraSocks · 17/02/2026 15:53

No job for 30p Lee?

No, I can’t see one. He’s quiet lately - or they’re keeping him quiet - I can’t complain at either!
Wonder if he’s narked he trailblazed defections Tory to Reform and he’s now sidelined.
Yusef is Home Affairs but can’t see a Foreign Affairs.
I expect the gaps will allow another presser!