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.

That was an an annual wage

Dameputtingonabraveface
(austerity is considered by most academics to have been incredibly harmful- and I would argue is what the Brexit vote was really about)

I'm not surprised - austerity was/is an EU policy.

@Livelovebehappy, whilst agree Starmer has not been the fresh changed people hoped, but he is a principaled man and an actual grown up Human's right lawer. He needs to back himself more and stop pandering to populism. Just imagine if Johnson or Farage was in charge at the moment? We would be dragged into the Orange baby's shite without question

It isn’t normal to the degree Farage does it. He makes the Tories look like saints.

Farage's inability to do any work as an MP is far from normal.

As an mep he barely showed up. As an MP he doesn't either. He's a useless piss-taking wanker who is fully aware that the people who vote for reform are on the dense end of the spectrum, and exploits the fuck out of them.

Last time the UK got suckered into a war in the ME it didn’t end well.

I’m not surprised the current government isn’t keen to get involved.

He doesn't care for anyone other than himself, always been plain to see. Hateful, poisonous man.

Well the good people of Clacton who voted for the grifter deserve what they get!

More people voted against Farage than for him and 40% of the people of Clacton didn't even bother to vote.

I was responding to a poster asking if doing highly paid work outside your MP duties is normal. I responded that it is. And we’re all naive if we think it doesn’t happen across all parties. I’m sure a lot of payments are made under the table and in private for services rendered by our party leaders. I wish people would actually place the blame for the increasing votes for Reform at the door of who is really responsible here. That’s Labour and the Tories who have failed us massively, so much so, that people are turning to extreme parties. Now we’re getting parties like Reform and those clowns The Greens getting more voter interest.

Totally agree. What outrageous entitled monsters so many of them are

Well they didn’t actually vote ‘against’ him. Just didn’t vote for him. Like Labour got into government in 2024 with just 33% of the vote, with a lot of people not voting at all.

Boris Johnson was praised by many European leaders for being ahead of the curve, supplying weapons and training to Ukraine before the invasion, whereas Starmer seems behind the curve, failing to turn up quickly enough in Cyprus.

He can’t back himself, because his hands are tied by his own party. Many of his party did not want him to throw his hat into the ring with Trump, so he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. He’s walking a political tightrope atm, and was reprieved recently by his party over the Epstein/Mandelson situation. If he steps one more foot out of line, his back benches will throw him to the wolves.

I was replying to the post "Well the good people of Clacton who voted for the grifter deserve what they get!"

On voting 'against' this is interesting.

Significant numbers of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters are prepared to vote tactically for each other, as well as the Conservatives, to stop Reform UK

https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54117-what-is-the-tactical-voting-landscape-in-february-2026

People were generally pro involvement in Ukraine.
This time people are opposed to involvement.

He’s attending a dinner with Trump at his Mar A Lago estate. Spare a thought for the waiting staff who have to serve food to these 2 odious men and act in a respectful way around them. 🤢

I wonder if they have food tasters to check their food for poison before it’s served to them like back in Tudor times. Asking for a friend.

Blair has never been forgiven for the whole WMD debacle and supporting Bush in 2003, involving the UK in a hugely damaging conflict.

Can’t blame the current government for not diving in.

Are you a stalker?

Dameputtingonabraveface
Johnson was the same, to a lesser extent, public schoolboys with an inbuilt belief they should have their time in power

I don't agree that Farage has an inbuilt belief he should have his time in power - I would suggest his position now is rather accidental. Keir Starmer strikes me as having much more personal ambition.

mostly fake facts

I would say that Ed Davey and Zack Polanski are noticeably worse than Farage for repeating false facts.

I don't think that's a good excuse for Starmer being late to defend our base in Cyprus. He is being roundly criticised for it.

How do you think the UK should have protected the Cyprus base from a drone attack? The MoD has confirmed it wasn’t an Iranian drone attack.

Do you think a warship sat off the island would be enough of a deterrent?

This was his 8th attempt to get to be an MP - I don’t think it was accidental.

He didn’t previously agree with the ME wars such as Libya - blaming them for increasing asylum seekers as well. He seems to just mirror Trump’s approach to these wars - I’m sure this is just coincidental with the UK’s sovereignty and best interests at heart.

I’ve just been looking at Kemi’s /Tory post on X, cos playing something with a tank. First I will confirm I think it’s ridiculous- but second I’ll say many of the many comments are absolutely vile, abhorrent and despicable - from the Reform and Restore fan club members it seems - so I would think any respectable Tory voter would find Reform’s fan base repugnant and wonder how/why the party attracts such followers and then consider whether they really should be a fan of Farage themselves. Just reading them made me want a good wash.

Some MPs are also doctors, or reserve members of the armed forces. I have no objection to them keeping their hand in. It keeps them a bit more grounded.

Being a minister is effectively a second job too, should we bar MPs from becoming ministers?

Not at the expense of their constituents though, their salary should be conditional on holding constituency surgeries and a minimum amount of time they should spend on the parliamentary estate.

Because there hasn't been an election since the first time he was voted in.