Farage has announced that he'll be making an announcement...

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... an 'emergency' announcement, no less.

Presumably to announce he's finally plucked up courage to put his money were his big mouth is and stand for Parliament, after bottling it!

Wonder what has changed he said last week he didn’t have the time to find a constituency in time for the GE…and that he was off to America to assist Trump!

Thank you for answering.

Most people don’t really agree with gender ideology, although I find it worrying that many politicians are afraid to say so. It seems to be the one issue that’s completely taboo, which is very strange! 15 years ago, the idea that women’s sports were for females only wouldn’t have been remotely controversial. Also, no one in the mainstream pretended that sex was assigned at birth.

Regarding immigration, I think only the Green Party would like to remove immigration controls eventually. But we badly need immigrant workers due to our ageing population (especially health and care staff).

Would you mind sharing some of the other things you like?

She doesn't have to answer. She is free to ignore it.

But freedom of speech means freedom to ask the question.

@fungipie - I’d not cottoned onto NHS - was thinking trade deals and Trump thinking he runs England with ‘his very good friend, a great guy’ - scary - hope this is on Reform manifesto then and folk can make their own minds up.

This is excellent news. It won’t affect which party wins the election ; as YouGov’s new mega-poll for Sky News shows, a Labour landslide is now inevitable. But it does mean the right wing vote will be even more split and Tories will lose even more seats. They are now facing the wipe-out they so richly deserve. 🥳

He made this abundantly clear on Question Time last week that the NHS had to be changed for a private system. Will try and find the link.

Yes that YouGov poll is something else!

Labour could be on course for 194-seat Commons majority - YouGov poll | Politics News | Sky News

Rishi might as well throw in the towel now - but who would take over with so many of the Cabinet set to lose their seats. Lots of Portillo moments to savour!

A perfect example of the need for tactical voting. Labour, Greens and Lib Dems should decide which candidate has more chance to block him and only vote for that candidate, even withdraw the others.

If he becomes MP what's the betting he joins the Tories and goes for the leadership after Sunak is trounced?

I don't think it's an issue for Labour because he'll take a lot of votes off the last election Tory vote.

Labour are looking to combine their 2019 share with a lot of soft Tories (i.e. centre right Remainers) as the Tories push further right to try and combat Reform.

Plus Brexit Party under Farage stood down all candidates in existing Tory seats. Election result could have been a lot different had he not done that. And in non-Tory seats they succeeded in splitting the Tory vote in a lot of seats which prevented a bigger majority.

Alright for you, but you got to leave 😩 I grew up there as a mixed race child and stupidly decided to return as an adult (and managed to escape again), it certainly deserves the reputation it has and I'm unsurprised that Farage is standing there.

Perhaps the people of Clacton should be reminded of what he thinks of the place

https://www.facebook.com/share/6oxWDEK2E4M2evMP/

They don't care what he thinks about them, only what he thinks about furriners.

He is a fascist and a true racist. I think he genuinely hates brown and black people, it's active hate.

Europe is going very right wing. We have been here before. Worrying.

Farage has been wrong about everything near enough. Sold Brexit to the nation on a lie, national self harm which has also created the channel crossings crisis.

He was a big champion of Truss and the kamikaze budget. If he became PM we'd be bankrupt in a similar 40 day period.

He's the right wing version of Corbyn. Fantasy politics. A campaigner/agitator, but got no answers to problems.

What is even much worse, and even more worrying, is that so many seem to be supporting him, just like Trump. WHO, but WHO are those people?

I’m pretty sure that’s his long-term plan. A reverse takeover of the Conservative Party. Objectively, that may not be a bad thing. Britain should have a right wing party which actually believes in conservative policies such as low taxes, a small state, reduced public spending, tackling the benefits dependency culture. A party whil will take action on immigration, law & order & wokery rather than empty words etc etc.

Read your rant back to yourself. You’ve just bemoaned being ‘shouted down as a moron’ while talking about ‘moronic Labour twats’.

Maybe he doesn't want to be associated with Trump now he's been found guilty ?
I could be wrong but I've long suspected Trump is on a downward trajectory.

This is my concern. How can he even be allowed to stand when he's so very clear about his racism?

This is another thing on MN. Every time something comes up which doesn't follow the simplistic left = good right = bad rhetoric, someone always pipes up about bots.
It's almost as if we all had to think the same.

The UK is an outlier with current left wing views in part due to the way the education system has developed politically.

In France for example voters in the 18-25 age group strongly favour right wing politics. The same is true in the Netherlands where Geert Wilders also has huge support from younger voters in the main because of their concerns over immigration.

The same will happen here in the end. Unfortunately we need to go through a world of pain before some people see the light.

Labour won't want to admit this but I bet he'll have quite a bit of support in the old red wall constituencies. I'm from there and many are are very socially conservative.

@Sturnidae it is bewildering.

I feel there's a pure racism there, active and well-exercised. I can forgive and understand a person using the wrong term, that is normally ignorance but not intentional or dangerous, but Farage's racism is very much a VERB 🥲

Well that doesn't make sense. Why would you feel for the people of Clacton if he gets elected by the people of Clacton? Doubt he will be, but your post makes no sense