Gransnet forums

News & politics

So - what is Farage up to now ?!?

(344 Posts)
jura2 Sun 21-Jan-18 17:12:31

any thoughts?

lemongrove Tue 06-Feb-18 17:09:01

To call Rees Mogg a thug and fascist is simply laughable.

whitewave Tue 06-Feb-18 17:07:48

Blimey lemon are you sure?

whitewave Tue 06-Feb-18 17:07:15

No need it is sorted re ringing the police.

GabriellaG Tue 06-Feb-18 17:02:51

jura2

I said thst if you do NOT live here then it's none if your business but if you DO, then ring the police yourself. I note that, although not in the UK yourself, you do have relatives here, so why not ask THEM to contact police on your behalf instead of asking GNs to do so? As you clearly have internet connection, why don't you email UK police with your concerns? That seems the most sensible avenue to take.

Morgana Tue 06-Feb-18 17:02:25

Can there be any doubt about the racism of parties such as UKIP and B.F.?
Can there be any doubt about Nigel being racist and hypocritical?
And I do take issue with the poster who seems to think that anyone can do well for themselves if they work hard enough. Having worked in a primary school for twenty years I can tell you that some kids just seem to have all the disadvantages stacked against them from the start. Life is not a level playing field.

lemongrove Tue 06-Feb-18 17:01:43

radicalnan great post, and you said it so I don’t have to.?

jura2 Tue 06-Feb-18 16:57:02

Sillyoldfool - I can't see any antipathy for the Country- on the contrary- it is because people love what Great Britain has stood for, and been world famous for since WW2- openess, tolerance, that many of us feel desperately sad and angry that this is changing and threatened. If anyone supports the threats of that awful BF man- then perhaps you are in the wrong place.

GabriellaG Tue 06-Feb-18 16:53:56

Jalima1108

With respect, I think you have the numbers mixed up.
It was not £350m per week. Part of it was a rebate from the EU.
We give them £X pa and they give some of it back. I can't be definite as to the figures but £350m is incorrect.

Sheilasue Tue 06-Feb-18 16:52:05

Doing the usual winding gullible people up. Idiot.

jura2 Tue 06-Feb-18 16:51:33

GabriellaG - do you support such violence and hatred ?

Who do you think you are, to tell me if it si 'my business' or not- how dare you. I am British and my British family and grandchildren live in the UK and we come back to UK very often, where we still are part resident. Way out of order sad

GabriellaG Tue 06-Feb-18 16:45:34

If you're not in the UK then it's none of your business. If ordinarily you are a resident, phone or email them yourself.

jura2 Tue 06-Feb-18 16:43:22

So, here it is:

www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=566530327014232&id=100009718081602

100s have complained to Facebook- but were told it did not break FB guidelines (whereas a mother BF a baby is taken off in seconds sad )

amt101 Tue 06-Feb-18 16:41:20

I've never read such tosh whitewave. In fact I feel so in sensed that I feel like just deleting anything from GN in future. The last thing I would ever call JRM is a thug.

GabriellaG Tue 06-Feb-18 16:36:34

varian.
I think that the word 'pointless' could be one of the milder words applied to any party by any other party voter.

MaizieD Tue 06-Feb-18 16:34:25

Well, I've re-read tge thread, Sillyoldfool and I can't find anyone being antipathetic to the country they live in (which 'country' are you referring to, BTW?)

What I can see is a great deal of well deserved antipathy to two fascist politicians. As I recall from history (and I suspect that very few Gnetters were adult at the time of WW2, so not really speaking from 1st hand experience) both wars were fought initially to halt the territorial ambitions of one country and WW2 was also a fight against fascism...

Odd that some people approve the very undemocratic system that our parents fought to overthrow...

whitewave Tue 06-Feb-18 15:55:48

mary grin love it

JaneD3 Tue 06-Feb-18 15:45:05

I don’t think the commodity traders will have him back - difficult to be effective when a drinker I hear.

maryeliza54 Tue 06-Feb-18 15:43:39

What did we fight two world wars for?

Sillyoldfool Tue 06-Feb-18 15:35:43

I am truly astonished that there are mature people on here that seem feel such antipathy to the country they live in. What did we fight two world wars for??

maryeliza54 Tue 06-Feb-18 15:34:09

That was to ww btw

maryeliza54 Tue 06-Feb-18 15:33:38

Well knock me down with a feather, who’d thunk it?

quizqueen Tue 06-Feb-18 15:33:29

I find the vitriol and comments about Mr Farage and Mr Rees-Mogg (and Trump) on here actually quite pathetic especially from people our age who should know better but instead choose to behave like the school bully. Both men campaign tirelessly for our country to return to be able to organise its own affairs and you think that is wrong!!!

You would rather just be a vassal state of a large corrupt organisation led by countries who wanted to conquer us by war in the past. We actually need more of their calibre. You think Corbyn is some sort of bearded white knight because he wants to punish people who have done well for themselves and are rich so he can give it all away to the 'poor' (often undeserving, in my opinion). Very often these are people who find themselves in unsatisfactory situations because they have bed-hopped around just as you accuse Mr Farage/Bolton of doing, in fact).

Everyone has a chance to do well in this country if they do well at school and in work but many choose to just drift along and blame others for their perceived hardship. Don't get pregnant if you can't afford to have children and, if you have them, then feed them properly instead of buying fags and booze and then expecting the schools to feed them (with tax payers' money).

I am proud to have been a UKIP supporter in its heyday although I admit it has lost its way since Nigel left. I am proud of Nigel for helping to win the vote to get us out of the EU. I fully support Mr Rees-Mogg to be the next leader of the Tory party and, hopefully, Prime Minister and I support all the Americans who voted Mr Trump in to office rather than that awful Clinton woman.

whitewave Tue 06-Feb-18 15:31:02

I read that one of Farages cronies/supporter has been detained in South Africa and passport confiscated for spreading racial hatred.

Who?

Why Hopkins of course. No surprises there
.

maryeliza54 Tue 06-Feb-18 15:21:38

Politicians’ private lives are not necessarily irrelevant - it depends. Having a string of mistresses/wives (Farage and Boris for example) would only matter if what they were saying politically did not match their private behaviour. However, with Bolton, the fact that his girlfriend sent such vile racist texts does matter I think. As for Farage, I remain astonished at the fact that he has 5/6 slots a week on LBC to peddle his lies and fantasies and that the BBC allows him so much airtime - at one time he seemed like the resident panellist on Question Time.

Jalima1108 Tue 06-Feb-18 14:14:12

Come on whitewave - I thought that Nige promised £350m per week to the NHS!

Oh, sorry he then backtracked sad.