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.

He’s supposed to hold surgeries for all his constituents, not just businesses. Are you tired of being a Tory Clav? Do we infer you now support Reform?

What about his ordinary constituents? Find evidence of an open surgery for people to talk about their every day housing or whatever issues. It's a deprived area, there will be a lot of constituents with problems who don't run businesses. Find evidence of something he does for them.

Well it’s not his place to do this and he has no authority or ability to change anything anyway so it’s pointless, as well as bordering on traitorous.

Keir Starmer's constituents complained he wasn't available for surgeries either after he was made Labour leader. Starmer claimed he was a “mobile clinic” - you had to catch him in the pub or on the school run (his children were secondary school age);

https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/sir-keir-im-still-your-local-mp

Are you tired of being a Tory Clav?

Still very much a Tory.

So why the sudden defence of Farage? It seems a bit odd.

Not to put to fine a point on it
He's the cunts cunt.

Trump approved the Chagos deal until Starmer told him no on invading Greenland.

The UK tried to pander to Trump and the relationship with the second State visit, didn't do us much good on the tariffs.

Farage can keep kissing his arse and keep taking the UK into war.

Quite clearly the Conservatives are not going to win a majority at the next election. Who else do you suggest we have a coalition with?

The prioritised spending £75,000 of tax payers money on putting flags on lamp posts over parking for Blue Badge holders.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdr3npe33do

The Tories may as well pack up and go home now. Remember what happened to the Lib Dems after their stint as a junior partner in a coalition?

I didn't suggest we would be the junior partner.

Going by current polling it is quite likely that you would be if Reform won a GE.

Business surgeries and constituency surgeries are 2 different things.

If that’s your biggest come back…

Not the biggest but it looks a dodgy website.

Well case closed.

everyone go home.

nothing to see here.

He’s not, he’s going to sow as much division as he can. He’s a traitor and should be named as such.

Even if he was going with good intentions, he has absolutely no standing to do so. A decent US administration wouldn’t entertain him.

https://www.independent.co.uk/politics/farage-reform-mps-second-jobs-tice-anderson-gifts-b2819953.html

More info if you are still interested

I’d trust Iran news over the Independent. But I’ll look …

Last year, Commons leader Lucy Powell said that Labour would restrict MPs’ capacity to take on additional work, in particular lobbying or advisory roles, while the party has previously pledged to ban MPs from having second jobs. However, neither policy has come to fruition.

Yes, shame it hasn't happened yet.

He'll be being a cunt like every other day of the week.

I don’t think your leader is particularly taken with that idea, particularly as she’d be the junior partner.

How about he does the work that he’s already paid to do, by the taxpayer, ie represent his constituents? Are you really this daft?