Nigel Farrage - does he have much influence ?

Casdon

Nicenanny3

12:28HousePlantQueen

Perhaps you should look in the mirror just saying 😉

Your name on here belies your true nature by the looks of it Nicenanny3. People are allowed to hold different views to your own without you resorting to comments like that.

There's no point, Casdon.

A misnomer if ever there was one.

So it seems to be that some posters think that it is OK to come onto a forum and slander a public figure like Nigel Farage HousePlantQueen calling him a gifter etc. Seems double standards apply. Perhaps a few more should take a look in the mirror 😉

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
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Nicenanny3

So it seems to be that some posters think that it is OK to come onto a forum and slander a public figure like Nigel Farage HousePlantQueen calling him a gifter etc. Seems double standards apply. Perhaps a few more should take a look in the mirror 😉

HPQ called Nigel Farage a “grifter” not a gifter. It means a con man, someone who cheats or a swindler. None of which is nice or as far as I know, true of NF.

People resort to nastiness like this when they are unable to get their point across or get people to agree with them. So they try and think of the worst thing they can say. It’s not pleasant and it’s very juvenile.

And it’s usually a lie, as in the NF case.

Do you not see the difference between people expressing their points of view about public figures, and being insulting towards each other? I give up.

I never could stand him, but then quite apart from his politics I’m always irrationally prejudiced against any man who wears one of those camel overcoats with darker velvet trim on the collar. Screams spiv to me - and yes, I know that’s VVU of me.

On a similar theme, how anyone can NOT find Trump utterly physically repulsive I do not know.

I'm puzzled as to why so many people hate NF. He seems quite pleasant and intelligent to me. Yes, it's his politics, I know, but I sometimes find I agree with what he says.
Trump, on the other hand, I find very easy to dislike.

I thought this thread was about whether or not Nigel Farage has much influence, not a hate fest of Nigel Farage. I answered in what I thought was a reasonably considered way, and speculated on how much influence Farage has had , or has now, on politics and life in general in the UK.
I’m not surprised by the hate expressed by some posters, but it hardly answers the question posed by the OP does it? Individual dislike of Farage has got nothing to do with whether or not he has had, or still has, any influence on British politics.

Witzend

I never could stand him, but then quite apart from his politics I’m always irrationally prejudiced against any man who wears one of those camel overcoats with darker velvet trim on the collar. Screams spiv to me - and yes, I know that’s VVU of me.

On a similar theme, how anyone can NOT find Trump utterly physically repulsive I do not know.

Remember those little wool coats we wore when we were young? Your best coat, with matching hat, to be worn to Sunday School or when visiting Great-Aunts!
They had velvet collars 😂

Or perhaps you're too young to have worn one.

Sorry, maddyone, I digress.

To answer the original questions:

Nigel Farrage - does he have much influence ?
Sartorially, I would say no, definitely not!
Yes, he did but even he seemed shocked when the referendum vote went his way.

Do you reckon he will run for parliament?
Possibly but I doubt that he would win

He sounds very confident but quite destructive ( what does he actually like?).
Hard to say, he wanted UK independence from Europe but was never in a position to pick up the pieces when the dream became a reality.

^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 is far more articulate and clever than Trump, whatever anyone thinks of him.

Thanks Callistemon.

(And yes, I had best Sunday clothes, worn for church and Sunday school, and parties etc. Best coat with matching hat in winter, best dress, little straw hat, and white gloves in summer. Oh and white ankle socks with white toe shoes.)

Back to NF’s influence.

Nicenanny3

So it seems to be that some posters think that it is OK to come onto a forum and slander a public figure like Nigel Farage HousePlantQueen calling him a gifter etc. Seems double standards apply. Perhaps a few more should take a look in the mirror 😉

I have not slandered Farage, what a silly comment. I don't understand the mirror reference, but no matter. As for the original question; yes he does have influence, he shouldn't, but some people are gullible.

He's not any worse than what we've got.
We need a government to do something, not just talk about it.

Bella51

He's not any worse than what we've got.
We need a government to do something, not just talk about it.

Do something about what?

vegansrock

When he was running UKIP he amassed a great deal of money for himself - he also wanted to copy the USA in relaxing gun control and wanted to bring back smoking in pubs. He’s a total fake.

Any evidence the first two accusations are true? You seem to be implying he stole UKIP money which would be illegal.

I'm quite sure he would like smoking in pubs, it's his comfort zone. 🚭

Callistemon21 he wanted UK independence from Europe but was never in a position to pick up the pieces when the dream became a reality.

Never in a position that’s true, but if he was in a position then the outcome might have been different. I heard him say how badly Brexit had been managed by the Tories. It hadn’t gone the way he would have liked. In fact it probably didn't go the way most people who voted for it would have liked, or indeed any of us! But that's down to the Tories who navigated the ship, not Farage.

Not forgetting that Brexit was skewed by Covid which crashed the economy just as Brexit was underway. A perfect storm.

I'm sure that quite a lot of decent folk voted for brexit because they believed lies. There would never, under any circumstances have been "brexit benefits" or "sunny uplands".

That was all a fantasy and a con.

Callistemon21

Witzend

I never could stand him, but then quite apart from his politics I’m always irrationally prejudiced against any man who wears one of those camel overcoats with darker velvet trim on the collar. Screams spiv to me - and yes, I know that’s VVU of me.

On a similar theme, how anyone can NOT find Trump utterly physically repulsive I do not know.

Remember those little wool coats we wore when we were young? Your best coat, with matching hat, to be worn to Sunday School or when visiting Great-Aunts!
They had velvet collars 😂

Or perhaps you're too young to have worn one.

I do remember them - perfectly all right on small children!
But seeing them on grown men makes me think of Arthur Daley!

Re Farage and relaxing gun control in the UK

2013 www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/29/ukip-gun-control-comments-slammed_n_3176961.html

2014 www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/24/nigel-farage-uk-gun-control-laws-relaxed

2015 www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/16/nigel-farage-lbc-gun-control_n_8310938.html

Someone dies from gunshot about once a fortnight in this country.

In the USA there are about 100 gun deaths each day

Even allowing for the fact that the population of the USA is about 5 times as large as the UK ,this is a startling comparison.

It means that you are about 40 times more likely to die by gunshot in the USA than in the UK.

Thank God for sensible UK gun laws.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/21/eu-referendum-who-in-britain-wants-to-leave-and-who-wants-to-rem/