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.

I also remember Starmer net-working at some conference in Canada when he was supposed to be working for his constituents (before he became PM);

https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-takes-lessons-from-winning-progressives/

Nigel Farage really lives in some people’s heads rent free.

Is this the best you got OP?

So we should ignore his grifting, greed and total disregard for the people who elected him? Ignore his shit-stirring, racism and misogyny?

You might want to do all the above, but decent people see the danger

Gosh really?

There was me thinking Farridge was just adding to the £3 million he has sitting in his company.

My bad.

Oh, we’re back to

The only traitor is Starmer.

I noticed a few days ago that you denied being a Labour supporter - things must be bad. You're not backing that toothless wonder leading the Green Party are you?

Oof. Don't hold back from spitting that venom, Clav.

Starmer has many, many faults but he is not a traitor.

I’m not backing anyone right now. I’ve got more than three years to make up my mind. As it stands it’s whichever candidate is best placed to beat Reform which ironically, given where I live, is likely to be the Tory MP. Of course if the Tories intend to form a coalition with Reform I’ll have to think again so thanks for the heads up.

He is late submitting his Reform Ltd statement with Companies House

I had you down as a dyed-in-the-wool Labour voter - as I say, things must be bad.

Maybe he has to buy his own clothes and footy boxes so needs the cash
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Not half as bad as they’d be if Farage got anywhere near power.

I was looking at his personal company, Thorn In The Side.

Reform is his personal company.

Labour in a coalition with the Green Goblin would be worse.

In your opinion. Not mine.

Is there no way he can be referred to a body, like the Ethics Committee?

How can he be allowed to get away with it?

Or is this normal for party leaders?

It is indeed.

But Thorn In The Side has been his personal grift account for years.

Well it is no suprise, it is well documented he is a grifter spewing out hatred, bile and mostly fake facts which I am not sure even he really believes. Johnson was the same, to a lesser extent, public schoolboys with an inbuilt belief they should have their time in power. Both populists preying on voter's anxiety about feeling poorer, less secure and blaming it all on the most vulnerable. Not years of austerity or constantly channeling public money to their rich mates.

What is really worrying is that people seem to fall for it. 14 years of Tory power in which they absolutely decimated public services (austerity is considered by most academics to have been incredibly harmful- and I would argue is what the Brexit vote was really about). Labour's vilification by the (mostly) right wing press has been brutal. I do not pretend they are getting everything right, but they are not even being given a chance to redress the balance and I suspect this is at the route of their constant back-tracking.

Farage is an absolute areshole and he and his 'shadow cabinet' are laughable. Farage is and arrogant work-shy and self interested man, who also happens to be married to an immigrant. Them we have Richard Tice's wife, Isabel Oakeshott, sterling work making herself look like a complete idiot whilst pretending to be a journalist stuck in Dubai at the moment (moved to avoid taxes and vat on school fees). Also there is the odious 'Dr' David Bull, who has spent his whole career not being an actual doctor but trying to be a celebrity who cannot string a competent argument together when challenged on simple matters. And that is without starting on all the Tory rejects.

Farage and Reform and getting lots of funding from very rich people. For those of you who think voting for them is the answer, maybe ask yourself why? None of them have the capacity, intellect or actual drive to work to make anything better for the 'normal' people of the UK and so maybe a bit of homework.

That made me think of the Eurythmics song. The lyrics are very appropriate!

"Thorn in my side
You know that's all you ever were
A bundle of lies
You know that's all that it was worth
I should have known better
But I trusted you at first
I should have known better
But I got what I deserved

To run away from you
Was all that I could do
To run away from you
Was all that I could do

Thorn in my side
You know that's all you'll ever be
So don't think you know better
'Cause that's what you mean to me
I was feeling complicated
I was feeling low
Now everytime I think of you
I shiver to the bone"

They're all as bad as each other. From the wimpering Starmer at yesterday's press conference. Utterly embarrassing. To Corbyn doing pro Iranian regime marches, to the Tories sinking into oblivion in the polls. Every single one arseholes. Its not exclusive to Reform. We're all doomed when the options we have are so dire. As it stands I'd vote in a donkey at the next GE. Cant do worse than any of the other parties.

It's normal. I guess at least hes pretty upfront and transparent about it. Whilst other party leaders do it via loop holes and keep it hidden.....

I wouldn’t say he’s upfront as a person though, he is a weasel.