Nigel Farrage where is he now?

the man is a self serving stirrer, he jumps on & off bandwagons when it suits , pretends to be the nice man who mixes with the'locals' down at the pub,

No, who are we talking about?

Couldn't that very same description be applied to the sainted Jezza of Glastonbury? He's down with the kids, making promises he knows he cannot keep in return for their votes.

Let;s also look at his connections and the groups he has supported.

From the Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/13/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-foreign-policy-antisemitism

And many who write on the politics forums of Gransnet want Corbyn to lead the country. Farage, tame by comparison, is odious to those contributers because he isn't in favour of open-door immigration or the EU.

Nowt so queer as folk.....

Just trying to strike a balance.

Plenty of opposition to Trumps visit in France.

'Also, even if it is sexist I wouldn't mind if someone said it to me now that I'm in my sixties. You?'
no, it's sexist and I wouldn't welcome it at all...

I agre, tegan, that it was Conservative backbenchers that pushed for the referendum as much as Farage.

I heard about Trump's remark to Brigitte Macron. I recognise that such remarks are seen as sexist and that Trump must be a total embarassment to Melania. However, I did wonder whether such a remark would be regarded as sexist if said to a man, if for instance the Macron couple's ages were the other way round. I rather think it wouldn't.

What do others think about that?

Also, even if it is sexist I wouldn't mind if someone said it to me now that I'm in my sixties. You?

No bigger hypocrite than one who gets paid as an EU MP for many years whilst spending all of that time trying to bring the EU down and not representing the people he was there to represent. On top of that he'll probably get a nice pension from it.

Nigel Farrage will go down in the history books as the man who got us out of the EU. Thank you Mr Farrage.

Loads of hypocrites on here, out roar on here when Theresa May invited Trump to the UK not a whimper when creepy Macron invited him to France.

I don't think Macron was toadying up to Trump, a bit the other way round, did you hear his sexist remarks to Brigitte Macron?

Yes, there were big protests in London when the Chinese leader came, it wasn't reported much.

There probably would eventually have been a referendum because of the members of the Conservative party who have been campaigning to leave the EU for years, but the fear of losing votes to UKIP made that more of an urgent issue. We would be seeing a lot more of the man had he managed to get the influence in America that he sought or if le Pen had been elected in France. Didn't he go to France after the referendum to help her cause, hoping that a le Pen vote would further his desire for the break up of the EU completely? On top of that is still the vision of that loathsome poster showing thousands of refugees which sowed the seed in peoples minds of this country being swallowed up by 'foreigners'. I never want to see or hear the loathsome man again if I can help it. He is evil and manipulative and he makes my flesh crawl .

I agree with Maddyone in that many of "Remainers" find UKIP objectionable. Though Nigel Farage is positively pleasant and rational compared to some other UKIP figure heads. What I really find so disturbing is the simple fact that both main parties in parliament are incapable of recognizing the simple fact people change their minds. The referendum result was a snapshot of opinion formed on the basis of misinformation and misunderstanding on all sides. Nigel Farage started the whole unfortunate business but he cannot be blamed for the blinkered attitudes of many parliamentarians as the facts begin to emerge.

Even more disturbing are comments coming out now regarding possible "sacking" of government ministers who dare to question Brexit. What happened to free speech and democracy?

I don't agree at all with that Maddy I found Farage loathsome long before he got on the Brexit bandwagon
His personal life is very dubious, he's a hypocrite ( didn't his French or German) wife used to draw wages working for him, he's totally dishonest ( he's drawing his EU money to this day) he's loudmouth and gruesome He is a racist there can be no other way of thinking, when you stir up hatred and division within a country....he s a manipulator that doesn't mean I like Kim Jon il or Robert Mugabe any better but I don't have the ability to vote for or against them
Didn't people line the street turning their backs when someone came on a visit a few years back wasn't that the Chinese leader ? Memory isn't so good now
I don't dislike people for the sake of it I don't jump in the bandwagon just to fit in with others I see the likes of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage as the masters of destruction and hatred and Farage helped paved the way to destroy our country through lies and just like Hitler he had the personality to rev people up to believing his rhetoric Remember the big red bus how can democracy be built on lies
A second hand car salesman in another life

It clearly is hatred said anyone doesn't believe that only need read through this thread to see the evidence. The people who find Nigel Farage objectionable are primarily those who are unhappy about the outcome of the referendum, I observe this on Gransnet and elsewhere.
As for seeing the job through, as he is not an MP or indeed in the Theresa May's cabinet, not the last time I looked anyway, and consequently Nigel Farage cannot see the job through.
I can find plenty of people worthy of dislike on both sides of the Houses of Parliament, not to mention in the wider community of well known people. Someone mentioned Donald Trump, I have to say I'm not a particular fan of his, but as with Mr Farage I find the vilification of him to be distasteful. Should we wish to be offended by people in the news, perhaps we could reserve the hatred for the really objectionable people who our government are more than happy to court eg the king of Saudi Arabia, the president of China, both of whom rule over a country which massively abuses human rights and yet there no demonstrations when they were here in the U.K on State visits, entertained our Queen and other notable people.
I suggest that we put things into proper perspective and reserve our hatred for those who really deserve it, and frankly that doesn't just mean someone with whom we disagree. This whole thread seems to have been started in order to give Nigel Farage a verbal bashing, sad!

Katie Hopkins got the sack...

Farage has outlived his usefulness to those who pulled his strings for the last twenty years, and helped him on his way. He will go down in history as a player in this tragedy and perhaps that will satisfy his ego.

True in theory. My grandmother had a very useful saying about people like that which is too rude to repeat on here but I concur with her entirely.

But he could still be a ghastly man and have something useful to say . Theoretically.

bags I've listened to him ad nauseum, and have come to the firm conclusion that he has nothing to say that is at all useful to this country, or to our way of life.

Ghastly man.

ww, I thought one was supposed to listen to what "the enemy" has to say . I have to admit I've only heard Farage speak a few times. I dislike his voice and his manner but what he said one those few occasions didn't sound alarming to me.

Isn't it Paul Nuttall?

Title for a new thread perhaps

Wasn't Macron 'toadying up' to Trump recently?

It is not hatred Maddyone, the man is a self serving stirrer, he jumps on & off bandwagons when it suits , pretends to be the nice man who mixes with the'locals' down at the pub, ' Definitely there are people who agree with subjects he raises but he doesn't stick around to do the hard graft, speaking on various shows doesn't constitute doing his best to see policy's through . And he is happy to take the money & glory that comes his way , no principles, the sight of him toadying up to Donal Trump was surely a very good indication of how self serving & arrogant he is .

And didn't they?