Nigel farage

[Georgeianotits]

Can we all give our opinion on reform and that guy please.

There is no irony.

It's entirely reasonable to vote tactically to get any government out, but that doesn't absolve you of responsibility for who you put in power instead.

For all of the shambolic mess that we have seen over the last year, I still think the Labour government that we have got is significantly better than the Tory government that we had. I am happy to own the choices that I made.

If you choose to vote for Reform to get the Labour Party out, you need to own the fact that you are voting for Reform, and you are 100% responsible for making that choice.

From what you've said, it sounds like you're happy to embrace a far right government. That is your democratic right. All I'm saying is that you should be held accountable for that choice.

Why would she be happy?

Haha yes.
he’ll give a ‘direct answer’ which is easy to understand, but if you’ve announce of sense can see won’t work. Sometimes, after grabbing a splashy headline they’ll retract it later.

Farage comes across to me as someone who's always desperate to air his pet grievances, and he will air them regardless of which questions he's asked.

He is very effective at holding lab and cons to account over their dire records, and is now calling the tune. Worrying times.

Friend and ally of Farage

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-ex-brexit-party-mep-nathan-gill-pleads-guilty-in-russia-bribe-case/

Farage in 2014 Telegraph article

Nigel Farage: Stop opposing Vladmir Putin in Ukraine and join forces to defeat Islamic terrorists

The Ukip leader says that West must stop poking the Russian leader with a stick and realise he is 'on our side' in the fight against terror

https://archive.ph/eNVX4

"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis."

Just amazing then how many of them are called Nathan Gill.

More Russia admiration from Farage

https://bsky.app/profile/nickreeves.bsky.social/post/3lzvovt3jls2n
1/ This speech made by Farage in September 2014, after Russia's first invasion of Ukraine, is a stream of Russian propaganda lies that could have come from Lavrov's mouth.

Thank you for your permission.

Farage is very clearly part of Putin's war on the Western world. The vast amount of money going into Reform and other right-wing propaganda on social media is part of this. It is intended to destabilise countries. It's going very well here so far.

I cannot comprehend why people think that a wealthy city trader who has been a useless MEP, caused Brexit which has been disastrous for our economy, has done all sorts of dodgy deals, is friends with Trump and Andrew Tate, and doesn't think women should get maternity leave, is somehow going to solve all their problems. And that's leaving aside his dog-whistle racism, which he's very careful to keep vague enough to claim he's being misinterpreted.

Wooooosh!

Unauthorised immigration is estimated at 40,000 a year I believe. This tracks with 174,000 between 2020 and September 2024.

So I think the answer is maybe 150,000?

It's very much follow the money with Farage.

Something he doesn't like being quizzed about.

C4 Matt Frei tried

bsky.app/profile/secret-labour-mp.bsky.social/post/3lzyxlyyzu22x

Most successful snake oil salesman in British politics.

Like Trump - who openly says he likes his supporters uneducated - I think Farage has zero respect or concern for anyone he views as beneath him (all of us), and knows what messages to sell to get votes, without really caring.

Witness his anger when challenged (an aspiring prime minister should expect to be challenged not yell "how dare you."). Or the fact that he still happily takes an EU pension.

What policies do Reform have - how will they implement them and cost them?

In the same way that Labours pre-election commitments were ‘fully costed and funded’, as well as their manifesto commitments, including house building, immigration, fiscal policy towards ‘working people’, and the promised recruitment of 6,500 new state school teachers.

They had 14 years to prepare.

I wasn’t asking about Labour but Reform?

Thank you, @Clavinova . That link is very informative.

Where do asylum seekers come from?
Syria has been the main country of citizenship of asylum seekers in the EU since 2013. In 2024, Syrians lodged 147 965 first-time applications (16.2% of the total number of first-time applications in the EU), followed by Venezuela with 72 775 applications (8.0% of the EU total), Afghanistan, which had been the second main country of citizenship for 6 consecutive years, ranked third with 72 155 applications (7.9%), followed by applicants from Colombia (5.5%, 50 330 applications), and Türkiye (5.1%, 46 835 applications).

And... which country has been a major participant in the war in Syria (officially and unofficially through Wagner Group?), and where did Assad flee to?

Oh yes, Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

In fact there's some evidence that Russian doctrine now includes intentional creation of refugees, and also that it facilitates their flow in order to put pressure on countries it considers hostile (that's everyone who isn't a client state).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/29/cruel-way-of-handling-humans-the-escalating-crisis-at-finlands-border

It's strange that Nigel Farage has been such an enthusiastic mouthpiece for Russia, and that his prominent colleague Nathan Gill was secretly working for Russia, when Russia has been such a major cause of people arriving to seek asylum in the UK (and other western European countries).

Makes you wonder.

He’s a career criminal who avoided stamp duty, fraternises with traitors and is prioritising foreign interests and his own self maximisation over anything else. Liar, racist, misogynist, rabble rouser and responsible for manipulating a brexit that had made every person in this country worse off. Except his very rich mates and masters.

This.

Ok. You get to mock people for stating their opinion on Nigel farage that you don't like. This is why people give up trying to converse with the liberals. It's all "look how much bigger and cleverer I am than you (smug grin, folded arms" I'm not right wing. I'm centre. But I can see why the right don't bother to debate with the left. They're just told they're "wrong" and mocked. I suppose it's why they start all this silly flag shit.