Nigel Farrage - does he have much influence ?

You have opened Pandora's Box Nanna8 and along will come a torrent of abuse for NF because there are so many left wing posters and they can't stand him!

Well, he was in your "Jungle" (aka Rainforest in normal speak) recently and we hoped you might keep him there .
Actually, despite the fact that I don't agree with him at all politically, he came across as quite resourceful in I'm a Celebritity, Get Me Out of Here and, if I was lost in the rainforest, I'd have chosen him as a companion out of all of them.

But no, he's tried before and failed so I can't see that he'll become an MP.

Isn't he in the USA at the moment, supporting his friend?

Well, he apparently persuaded David Cameron to hold the Brexit Referendum, and he certainly exposed the banking fiasco and did for Alison Rose. He speaks well with a good command of facts and is energetic in pursuit of what he believes.
I think he should have been placed in the House of Lords, where he could do sterling work in galvanising the more somnolent and actually contribute to issues without having a political axe to grind.

The USA are welcome to him. Many don't want him back here.

I have always liked him, each to their own.

He is very knowledgeable about many topics. It’s good he can use his platform to raise awareness on some issues that others would prefer to stay out of the limelight. I don’t think Farage will join Reform UK and run for Parliament. He might front the party though to raise it’s profile.

He was often in our local pub, very charismatic and a very good conversationalist.

Urmstongran

He is very knowledgeable about many topics. It’s good he can use his platform to raise awareness on some issues that others would prefer to stay out of the limelight. I don’t think Farage will join Reform UK and run for Parliament. He might front the party though to raise it’s profile.

He's a director of Reform UK and his occupation is listed as "Leader of a Political Party".

nanna8

We don’t hear much about this man here but I happened to watch a YouTube he was on. Do you reckon he will run for parliament? He sounds very confident but quite destructive ( what does he actually like?). In a funny way he reminds me of Donald Trump- speaks quite well, probably gets quite a few agreeing with him, bit of a show pony.

He has stood for Parliament seven times and not yet managed to win. He's a grifter so will probably weigh things up when he knows the date of the election. If its outside the Presidential election he might try but he will go to America for their election as he can earn more there.

He would really like to run the country without making any real effort.

He's like a fly which bites a horse's leg, causing it to kick out and knock somebody on the head.

Well he always seems like a spiv to me. Someone who smells of nicotine and beer.

Honestly someone I would always avoid in a social situation.

Does he have much influence?

Yes he certainly has done in the past. Cameron was so s..t scared of him we went through the utter debacle of Brexit.

Not convinced about going forward though.

His friendship and promotion of Trump must put a question mark over his judgement, and Trump is so unpopular in the U.K.

I took very little notice of him until he took on the banks so in that context I think he highlighted some very questionable practices. Alison Rose picked on the wrong person to have an indiscreet snigger about when she broke client confidentiality in relation to his financial affairs. Banks, establishments who are nobody's friend and well and truly played their part in bringing the country to its knees now subscribe to the holy than thou environmental and social governance. Whilst he was being de banked he brought to the public's attention just how many others were in the same position, sometimes for the most spurious of reasons, or like him, someone who didn't fit their client profile. Without a bank account it is impossible to function. Who the hell are banks to make such judgements. As NF pointed out, mass murderer Rose West has a bank account I might not agree with him or his politics but defend his right to have a bank account and I might add I'm very glad that he was not only instrumental in Alison Rose's resignation but reducing her eye watering bonus of £11,000,000 how can anyone be worth that much money? I think it's appalling the remuneration the top strata receive in this country. I believe I read somewhere that in Denmark there is a limit to how many times more the highest paid executive can be paid in relation to the lowest paid worker.

In the banking context I regard him as a crusader like Alan Bates and Maggie Oliver. We need these people to fight our friggin' awful establishment, who are often far from exemplary people themselves.

Although I don’t support his politics I think he is a good speaker and unlike most politicians actually answers the questions.

I agree about the banks Terribul and Farage's stance.

Whatever people think of him, it seems there are even worse people in charge of this country and its institutions today and I don't mean just politicians.
It's quite horrifying.

He's Honorary President of Reform. He'll stand and probably be their one win.

Regardless of my own views on Farage, it does worry me that people continue to believe things about him that are not true.

As has already been pointed out, Reform UK is a company, and Farage is not just a director, but a Person with Significant Control, which is important in governance terms.

1 active person with significant control / 0 active statements

Mr Nigel Paul Farage ACTIVE

Nature of control: Right to appoint and remove directors

The company was formerly known as the Brexit Party Limited, and changed its name is 2021. It only files filleted accounts, but looking at its balance sheet, it is in debt to the tune of £1.1m, which is a director's loan, and which is only payable when the company is in a position to do so (that will be if and when it's collected enough donations from the public, I assume, since the filing states that will be the company's income generating strategy).

With regard to the great bank campaign, both the Travers-~Smith and FCA independent enquiries found that he had not been unfairly or illegally debanked, and that his political views did not drive the decision, which was commercial. Nor was there any evidence that political debanking is routine practice amongst UK banks.

The reports said there were mistakes in the process, and in how Farage was communicated with, and Alison Rose was censured for breaching confidentiality, for which she quite rightly lost her job.

As far as the actual campaigning and supporting ordinary people goes, I used one of my junk email accounts and some false information* about account closures to register and ask for support when his website www.accountclosed.org/ went live last summer.

I leave you to guess how much help or information I have had...

*there are no checks. Some may believe, as a consequence of this and the lack of follow up, that it is merely a data harvesting platform.

What I like about him is he can speak to people from all walks of life and treats them all the same. Whether they are politicians, pop stars, self made business people, landlord of a pub or a postman he gets on with them because he doesn’t just speak but he listens. He is a people person.

The young blonde girl who was with him in the jungle was on tv last night and was saying how much she loved the experience and how pleased she was he was there at the same time.

He was talking about the King going to hospital and said he admired him for highlighting prostate problems and said he had testicular cancer and always tries to encourage men to get checked out.

I agree with chestnut about the left who hate him.

Farage has had undoubted influence on the politics of the UK in spite of having failed seven times to be elected as an MP.

Why did the BBC invite this failed candidate to appear on Question Time no less than 29 times in the years before the fraudulent referendum of 2016?

Why was QT employing a member of his party to select the QT audience?

No-one can deny that Farage has had a great influence - in my view a very malign influence on this country.

Questions should be asked of the BBC.

Who?

Casdon

Who?

You didn't watch IACGMOOH, then!
You'd know who he is if you'd watched it 😂

Callistemon21

Casdon

Who?

You didn't watch IACGMOOH, then!
You'd know who he is if you'd watched it 😂

I watched a bit, but I’m not sure being on I’m a Celebrity qualifies anybody for having influence, it’s Billy No Mates territory?
I always think of Farage as an anachronism.

😁

Actually, IACGMOOH could be regarded as his finest hour.

The rest?

It’s interesting reading the comments.

Whatever we think of Farage or Brexit, it is an unarguable truth that Nigel Farage has had a greater impact on this country than many other politicians, including Prime Ministers.

Sounds as though he asks some uncomfortable questions then. People like that are really needed if only to get people to look at a situation from both sides. The banking thing sounds appalling, reminds me of the Americans chasing reds under the bed but in reverse. Blues on the loos ? So he would be an ‘extreme’ right winger- would that be right?