Here's what Nigel Farage is up to this weekend.

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Nigel Farage is flying more than 3,000 miles to speak at a pro-Trump U.S. think tank.

For around 12 hours’ work this Saturday the Reform UK leader is expected to collect £27,856.88 from the Club for Growth, a Washington-based anti-tax lobby group that has pledged to work closely with Donald Trump ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterms.

This group helped raise £120m for Republican candidates in the 2024 election.

So while people in Clacton deal with rising costs, poverty and cuts Farage is being paid the equivalent of many people’s yearly salary to give a single speech in America.

Not surprised in the slightest

Anywhere but Clacton. Grift, grift, grift. Bet he couldn't find Clacton on a large scale map of Essex.

Wouldn't it be great if we had an option to vote for on the ballot who was going to deal with mass migration and redistribute wealth and generally look after this country. Then charlatans like Farage wouldn't have a look in. But there's a howling vacuum which make fools like this appear the lesser of all evils.

And still there seems to be plenty of people who are prepared to vote for his party. Ironically, many of those are the people who are going to suffer worst at his hands. They just can't see beyond all the rhetoric about immigrants being responsible for all the country's problems.

He is going to discuss the Chagos Island deal, always the patriot

I think it's totally reasonable to get paid for working. Yes, its a lot, but good luck to him. I don't think that we should be capping earnings at the Clacton average or whatever you are suggesting.

Here come the flying monkeys to defend him... The barrel has no bottom for some people.

He earns more from non-MP work than any other MP. He refuses to hold surgeries for his constituents.

Paid for work but the job he was elected to do isn’t being done. He’s an asshole and you’re a fool if you’re backing him,

Exactly. His constituents are not being effectively represented because he's too busy on private contracts. Anyone who thinks that is a good thing for an elected official needs their head examined.

Do you or don't you believe MPs should be able to hold paid positions whilst also serving as an MP?

If you don't you will have to take it up with the 30% of all MPs who do

https://gameofjobs.org/what-percentage-of-labor-mps-work-two-jobs.html

I happen to believe they should NOT and whatsmore they should get a pension for five years after they leave and not be allowed to take a job in industry, especially an industry they buttered up whilst in office.

However - don't just pick on Nigel, best to pick on all of them.

"However - don't just pick on Nigel, best to pick on all of them"

Yeah. No. I'll get round to the rest of them in good time but any excuse to piss all over Farage's smug face and death-breath is fine with me.
He's a piece of shit.

😂😂😂

That's a stretch all right.

And nope - he doesn't get a 'good luck to him' from me. Slimy weasel of a man.

True to form. The only MEP with a worse attendance record than Farage was terminally ill.

Hopefully the Green Party are working proactively in Clacton with a long term plan

Yep - we are very poorly served by our elected representatives. I can't believe a Labour MP's husband has been charged with spying! Shower of shite - the lot of them with very few exceptions.

What's that got to do with Farage and his shenanigans?

If you are an MP, your job is to turn up in the House of Commons daily, to be in contact with your constituents , to hold surgeries and represent constituents where and when necessary, to advocate for them and to do your best to make the area the best it can be and the people who live in it, have the goods, services and infrastructure they need.

If you’re not doing that, you don’t deserve to be an MP.

Then presumably his constituents will vote him out at the next GE. That's how it works.

If he's not the highest earner, someone else will be. Should they go too? And the next? Until there are none left?

I can't for the life of me understand why his constituents don't give him the boot🥾

Sure that’s an essential part of his job description? Can he not be fired for refusing to do the job he’s paid to do?

Arrested, not yet charged and so has an ex Reform party member, and ofcourse another one was sentenced for taking Russia bribes.

Not sure what that has to do with this visit?

What's new? He did fuck all as an MEP, now he does fuck all as an MP.

Anyone who voted reform are getting what they deserve.

This. They are doing a number, on those voters.

Anti-tax! Whatever this man is going to support next!
The Guardian is reporting he is also going to talk about Chagos at a dinner in Maralago.
He is clever enough to line his pockets well. All this publicity towards him is serving him well. I am sure he cares about nothing else than his bank account. And he will not need the NHS or schools or anything taxes pay for, once he retires to a tropical island with his stash of money.
I really cannot believe that anyone can follow him.
Not sure all the Reform candidates are that stupid, but quite a few of them have been caught saying some pearls!