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.

Sorry to the posters and the OP, I haven’t rtft but has this been posted? It’s a cracking read. If it looks like a duck, etc….

https://www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-farage-carole-cadwalladr-brexit-party-arron-banks-george-cottrell-funding-electoral-commission

How did we manage to get one if the small number of bad Brexit s when there were so many good Brexits we could have had.

Clearly that's not the fault if brexiters, it's everyone else's fault for not believing hard enough, or something like that right?

Why don't any brexiters accept any responsibility? There were lots of people saying this is exactly where we'd end up.

Brexiters said we'd get exactly the same access to single market because EU needed us more. What happened to that lie brexiters? We got a hard Brexit from Boris oven ready deal - and yet the snivelling Brexit weasels still don't take any responsibility for the rubbish deal we got.

Quick blame remainers, it was clearly there fault, something about the boats right.

A lot of supporters are in delusional mode a

You do find yourself asking how delusional you must be to prefer a man with a bin on his head to NIgel ffarage though.

I don’t think that’s delusional at all.

I think Nigel Farage is actually less effective than a man with a bin on his head.

It's not a real bin man 😂
The man underneath seems a hell of a lot more "real" and decent than Farage ever does.

Yes, thinking that a bin could beat the main political voice of a generation is quite a stretch, that would be like putting both your feet in front of a moving bin lorry while emptying the bins over your own head?

Gosh, what a nauseating sentence that is.

“The main political voice of a generation” 🤢

He’s not my voice.

Stalin. Hitler and Mao have more claim to be the political voice of a generation. It's not necessarily something to be proud of.

The official spokesman for crapto currencies.

Donald Trump is probably the loudest voice I’ve heard in my lifetime.

And in that, I rest my case!

@DdraigGoch another excellent example

Brexiters said we'd get exactly the same access to single market

Did they?

Michael Gove said at the Vote Leave press conference in April 2016 that we
could have a relationship with the EU a bit like 'Bosnia, Serbia and Albania'.

Nigel Farage told Andrew Marr in a BBC interview in November 2015 that he wanted access to the single market 'like China and every other country.'

Two Tears can take some comfort from that at least.

He’s gone now, you can get over it.

Is he? Sky news were still giving him a platform the other day, in Ukraine of all places, to babble on about how he "saved the Labour party", he is completely delusional.

He’s definitely left 10 Downing St, I watched him move out.

All being terrible, you’ll get your turn with Nige in a few years.

Yes they did repeatedly, they repeated ad infinitum that German car manufacturers needed us more than we needed them, farage regularly claimed we'd keep the benefits but not the costs.

Eventually the EU, or individual countries breaking ranks like they have done over border control/immigration numbers, will come round to the idea of free trade deals with the 6th biggest economy in the world, it just needs the present toxic EU leadership to move on.

Trump is doing a good job uniting European countries

The EU is showing no signs of breaking up.

They don"t need to break up to show some economic sense.

UK could do the same and should.

The EU is open to it but it will take concessions and the Brexiteers will shout betrayal.

so you agree that we were promised something that 10 years later has not come to be, and currently apart from some fringe right wing nonsense is not anywhere near happening.

basically you were lied to, thanks for agreeing, why aren't you cross at being lied to?

the trade deals we've done have been net losses

the vaccine was developed with the blessing of the eu (while in the eu)

all thats happened is our passport is much weaker, we have less voice on the international arena, the boats sky rocketed and we are poorer.

remind me what sovereignty we've gained because it looks like you were utterly lied to (but you can stick in your obtusity because of your hatred of something you've conjured in your head)

that doesn't make any sense

Not people with actual money though.

Sounds like Farage was prepared for a 'no deal'/WTO Brexit here.
Pre-referendum debates - June 2016:

the UKIP leader argued ... that even if UK firms had tariffs imposed on them after leaving, this would cost less than the amount the UK was currently giving to Brussels.
"No deal is better than the rotten deal that we have at the moment," he said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36471787

"We are being sold that this is all about trade and that the single market is soft and cuddly and lovely like a baby puppy. But actually it is a smokescreen for the real, simply proposition of this referendum.

"It's actually rather simple: do you wish us to be a self-governing, independent, democratic nation or part of a bigger, broader, European Union?"

In a Q&A after his speech, the UKIP leader said that, should Germany and France choose to "cut off their noses" by not agreeing a trade deal with a post-Brexit UK "their biggest export market", the UK would still be better off than it currently is, under World Trade Organisation rules.

"The worst case scenario is better for this country than where we are now," he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36444014