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

[RobinInTheCrabApple]

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.

They really don’t. I have graduate and uni studying children with desirable skills and the last place any or their friends are looking at is the USA. It’s far too unstable, then there is the potential for health bankrupcy, being turfed out on Trump’s whim, the guns….Heck even American family and friends we have don’t want to be there! Farage needs to wake up to the fact the USA doesn’t want us, doesn’t need us and will not help us. Chucking away the amazing role and deal we had in the EU to go begging and be beholden to the USA was lunacy.

Last years holiday was a destination popular with US residents. There were quite a few Europeans we were talking to who had been in high paying IT jobs in the States for several years - over a decade in a couple of instances. All, without exception, said they were considering leaving because the atmosphere was getting too hostile to immigrants. And they were white.

Yup. In May 2026, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a memo requiring most foreigners on temporary visas to leave the U.S. to process their green cards at an overseas consulate, rather than applying for "adjustment of status" domestically. Professionals have families, housing, jobs to consider. No way would I put myself at Trump or any US president’s whim. Pandora’s box has been opened. The USA doesn’t not want foreign workers and the arrogance of Farage and Reform voters who don’t seem to realise we are immigrants to them is hysterical!

The Chagos island deal isn’t what I would call patriotic to be fair.

Plus, employment rights are far inferior. Every American I know acknowledges this.

Farage was asking a foreign country to interfere with UK politics

But accepting to Julian Jessop and Clav you’re mistaken. 🙄

It’s actually simply a sign of the Heritage Foundation style think tanks deep pockets. Thiel and friends are bankrolling right wing lecture circuits in the US and beyond.

Well, it seems to be paying off. He’s forking out £700k for a beach house renovation.

All MPs feather their own nests though. 🤷‍♀️

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-home-christopher-harborne-37257878

Not to the tune of £5 million.

So why are you defending the clueless misogynist Kenyon on this thread? Do you do it just to be contrary?

I'm not being ridiculous. You know I'm not being ridiculous.

@Clavinova

This is for you. Mission accomplished?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-cost-eu-uk-david-miliband-b2979506.html

Well, if you continue to claim that I am being paid to post on MN I shall report you and then we shall see who is being ridiculous.

Thanks - I see in the comments there are replies quoting Julian Jessop!

Another pointing to David Miliband's 'gaslighting/bending the truth' over the Dublin Regulation. Utter tosh from Miliband on that topic.

You have a problem with me pointing out an egregious misinterpretation of one of his comments? Perhaps I have a better sense of fair play than you.

Honestly Clavinova, I've seen so many of your posts. Trust me, you don't have a better sense of fair play than anyone. I would argue you had no sense at all. I do wonder if you are even from the UK.

Which remarks have been misinterpreted?

I guess Jessop keeps being quoted as he is one of the very few economists claiming Brexit is a success?

Recent headlines not too shabby here:

The Economist 30 April 2026

How to capitalise on London’s thriving financial industry
The City has bounced back despite fears over Brexit

In fact, the City has suffered startlingly little damage. In 2017, the year after Britons voted to leave, 1.1m of them worked in finance; today that number is the same. Even better, more now work in the Square Mile itself, where the high-paying jobs tend to be. Financial services contribute 20% more per year, in real terms, to the economy than they did then: £224bn ($300bn), or 8% of GDP. Britain’s net exports of such services come to £93bn a year, more than any other country, and useful for one with a current-account deficit.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/04/30/how-to-capitalise-on-londons-thriving-financial-industry

Bloomberg 4 June 2026

A decade after the Brexit vote, the finance industry at the heart of London is doing... well, fine actually.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-06-04/a-decade-after-brexit-the-city-of-london-is-fine

Can't you read the thread.

I do wonder if you are even from the UK

Now you are being ridiculous again.

Well to be fair, the same tiny number of studies carried out post Brexit are quoted over and over again. In fact most people are quoting just the one study from NBER.

I can't read the Bloomberg article but the Economist is stating that City bigwigs are praising decisions by the Labour government,

You must have missed all the other studies.

Can you name anyone apart from Jessop who claims Brexit has not damaged GDP?