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Nigel Farrage where is he now?

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norose4 Sun 16-Jul-17 19:45:29

After stirring everyone up , Nigel Farrage seems to have feathered his nest , and now is nowhere to be seen or heard of but do any of you who were his supporters now feel let down by his cut & run behaviour?

suzied Tue 18-Jul-17 15:02:48

They thought people wanted to listen to Katie Hopkins....

petra Tue 18-Jul-17 14:34:01

WhiteWave
If LBC didn't think people wanted to listen, they wouldn't have employed him.

maddyone Tue 18-Jul-17 14:15:29

Such a lot of unveiled hatred on here, Nigel Farage worked for many years towards achieving the referendum on remaining/leaving the EU. If it had been down to all of the other parties we would never have had a referendum. It was absolutely democratic to run the referendum as there was widespread antipathy towards the institution in Britain, therefore Mr Farage enabled a democratic vote, without him there would have been no referendum. Regardless of anyone's opinion on the outcome of the referendum or of Nigel Farage, I feel it is wholly inappropriate to be so derisory and abusive about the man who will be remembered for the achievement of the referendum (I am aware that many of those who are unhappy about the outcome of the referendum will decry the word achievement, but that is what it is, like it or not!)
Just for the record I voted remain, but I believe in the democratic process and respect the outcome. I do not feel the need to denigrate Mr Farage because he thought differently than I did, and frankly I dislike the often used term 'racist' as some form of abuse towards anyone who dislikes the open door immigration policy of recent years which has undoubtedly led to huge pressure on our services despite the obvious benefits of being able to staff the NHS and support the agricultural needs of the UK (and other industries too numerous to mention.)
I do not think there will be riots should there not be a final Brexit that many of the people voted for, but there may very well be a lot of discontent, but there again, there is much discontent anyway now.

GillT57 Tue 18-Jul-17 14:06:58

British people run Farage down Royandsyl for far too many reasons for me to be bothered to list here. I don't suppose you would believe me anyway, why not just try reading this thread and see why most intelligent people find Farage loathsome cheat who takes the money but does not do what he is paid for.

Royandsyl Tue 18-Jul-17 13:48:05

Whilst you are all complaining about Nigel Farage you are giving Donald Trump a rest. Nigel Farage is on LBC from 7p.m. To 8p.m. Monday to Fruday each night. He is still an MEP and doing that job, I do not belong to UKIP. He is a well educated man. Why do British people spend so much time running people down?

whitewave Mon 17-Jul-17 18:42:32

What puzzles me is that the media still seem to think we want to. Listen to what he has to say

suzied Mon 17-Jul-17 18:40:20

If he had an ounce of decency/ honesty he would resign as an MEP as a protest against what he claims to see as a corrupt institution. He doesn't turn up or vote, so isn't "earning" the money , he even failed to turn up for the committee he was on was it fishing or gender equality? He has no intention of trying to reform it , just undermine it. yuck.

varian Mon 17-Jul-17 18:36:48

Farage and his new BF Trump have a lot in common. They both believe that avoiding taxes, and taking taxpayers money fraudulently means "I'm smart"

Do you remember, many years ago a ghastly rich hotel owner in NY, Leona Helmsley, said "only the little people pay taxes"?

People everywhere, including most Americans, were utterly shocked and disgusted at this remark and her name was mud. When I heard Trmp, during his campaign, say almost the same thing, I was appalled and thought "He's finished" But I was wrong. Standards of decency in the USA have dropped to a level where that got him votes. I hope we never sink that low.

suzied Mon 17-Jul-17 18:28:56

Labour ruined the country with their pesky NHS, Equal Pay Act, Employment rights, minimum wage, amongst other ruinous laws. The country was ruined when we stopped sending children up chimneys etc....

GillT57 Mon 17-Jul-17 18:25:35

He is proud of the fact that he has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds in salary for representing his MEP constituency and has blatantly failed to do so. Not sure I would be chuffed if he as my MEP. Even on Parish Council level here in the vllage you have to attend a certain amount of meetings or you get booted off and that is unpaid! It is all very well him telling everyone what a gravy train the EU is, but he is a part of it and will be drawing a massive pension when he leaves, hypocrite that he is. I really am astonished that anyone can think him admirable in any way. My late Father would have described him as a cad. All he is is a well spoken racist, nothing more, nothing less.

whitewave Mon 17-Jul-17 18:08:30

Don't forget his odious friends

suzied Mon 17-Jul-17 18:06:01

Can't believe anyone would laud the odious Nigel but he obviously has his supporters who believe his every word. So noble of him to work so tirelessly in the European Parliament by not turning up that it cost him his marriage, didn't stop him hooking up with a French lady though. As for another job he is now a radio presenter and he could always stand for parliament in the next election, oops sorry he's tried that 7 times already and hasn't won.

GillT57 Mon 17-Jul-17 17:59:23

Ah, having read a few posts on here I now know how we are in this brexit mess. Explains it all.

quizqueen Mon 17-Jul-17 17:42:48

A UKIP supporter and proud to be so here. A Nigel Farage supporter and proud to be so too. So much nastiness on here about someone who only wants his country to be a self governing nation just like all the other countries in the world who are fortunate enough not to have been caught in the EU trap, rather than just a country that feathers the nest of other countries.

He is still leader of the UKIP MEPs and, as he has campaigned relentlessly for 25 years to leave the EU and thereby campaigning to lose his job, he obviously needs to find another. It has cost him his marriage and family life too. He also knows how corrupt the EU really is and that it is not worth him voting on anything there. If you watched videos on You Tube of how the voting system works in the EU Parliament you would see that for yourselves.

If you want to see cut and running then elect Corby for PM, watch him ruin the country as Labour always has in the past and always will in the future, then watch him disappear.

sarahellenwhitney Mon 17-Jul-17 17:10:12

Well for sure he got the UK the kick it needed.
Cocooned inside the web spun by our friends across the channel our 'Thank you I'm doing nicely' politicians were more than happy to have their nappies changed by 'when it and if it suited' Brussels.
I do not believe we have heard the last of Mr Farage
The dragon slumbers.

MaizieD Mon 17-Jul-17 16:41:27

Judging by the rate of pay which he and other MEPs receive, surely on these enormous amounts of pay alone, the country will save megabucks on exiting the EU.

We've spent those megabucks already. There aren't going to be any.

And we're going to have to pay the odious Nigel's MEP pension, just to heap insult on injury.

Esspee Mon 17-Jul-17 16:15:49

I meant do you really want to know?

Esspee Mon 17-Jul-17 16:14:35

Really? Who gives a damn?

Sheilasue Mon 17-Jul-17 14:41:18

He reminds me of those sort of people who like to stir things up. He certainly did too.

whitewave Mon 17-Jul-17 14:08:20

There have a number of times when Farage has hinted that should Brexit not come about there would be social, unrest leading to riot and violence. No I don't have a link but you can see him with Andrew Neill saying just that.

The man is a menace and extraordinarily unpleasant

libra10 Mon 17-Jul-17 14:04:08

I also caught some of Nigel Farage's interview on Good Morning earlier today, and agree with day6.

He spoke clearly and intelligently about several issues, and was an excellent leader for UKIP.

Judging by the rate of pay which he and other MEPs receive, surely on these enormous amounts of pay alone, the country will save megabucks on exiting the EU.

radicalnan Mon 17-Jul-17 13:24:28

Farage did some excellent work for a campaign group I was connected with, dealing with people who had been victim of NHS negligence. I don't see that he is any worse than any of the others, they are by and large, dross.

As for the racism thing it is so easy to call people racists and believe then, that you have won the arguement, plenty of non UKIP racists about and in all colours and persuasions.

I think he retains a huge personal following because people are concerned about the issues he represents. Democracy is all about having the different points of view explored and voted on, so he and others with differing viewpoints are essential.

Cameron made promises he could not keep and seems to have walked away unscathed. They are all nincompoops of the first order and yet we are saddled with them, all taking their pay and causing chaos.

Day6 Mon 17-Jul-17 13:07:33

Oh without a doubt Morgana, UKIP was a party beleaguered by racists.

I wonder if I am alone in feeling that the Scottish National Party is a closet racist group? All proud Scots but under that there is a lot of thinly masked hatred for the UK, and England in particular. I remain surprised that they haven't been called to account.

Morgana Mon 17-Jul-17 12:24:22

Unfortunately it seemed to lead to an awful lot of racism. Not just his party's fault I know.

maddy629 Mon 17-Jul-17 12:20:07

Well said Day6 I could not agree more and I hope he will return to UKIP as it's leader, it has certainly gone downhill since he left.