Nigel Farage

Farage is a public enemy, but he's not stupid.

Michael Heseltine is at the Hay Festival and he spoke about Reform and UKIP, saying that the common theme running through both parties is racism.

Farage was on QT last evening (again!) and frankly he was an irrelevance.

Farage speaks for the racist element (always denied of course) in the U.K. so will always attract a following.

There’s something NQR about him. Not sure what. He reminds me of the school sneak.

Nigel Farage is a disrupter but how far he can succeed is a guess. Also Farage makes a common mistake of believing what fits his narrative. I don’t find him any more creepy than other politicians.

Rather than focus on the unlikely chances of Reform being elected in 5 years, I’d like to hear what Farage thinks will happen to the UK’s economy in that period. All this constant jockeying for power is a bit exhausting to watch.

I suspect Farage is more concerned about what happens to his own personal finances over the next five years than what happens to the UK's economy.

growstuff

I suspect Farage is more concerned about what happens to his own personal finances over the next five years than what happens to the UK's economy.

I expect we all are more concerned about our own personal finances

Well he was right about all the boats coming in with illegals. He even was going to Dover 1st thing in the morning to count them and to say noone was stopping it. I dont think any other politcal person did that.

He’d get short shift in Scotland and I do agree there something off about him.

I have no time for lies and false information and he’s full of it.

I dont get Farage at all.

I was expecting him to lead Reform. Or play a big role. But seems not?

Perhaps he likes to speak freer, rather than being tied to a Party?
Which may be better for the Country??

He went in I'm a Celeb, and got through that ok. A bit surprising to me.
Like I say, I dont really get him.

Perhaps it is about money, as growstuff says.
An MPs salary is peanuts, compared to what some some of them could earn.

Peartree

Well he was right about all the boats coming in with illegals. He even was going to Dover 1st thing in the morning to count them and to say noone was stopping it. I dont think any other politcal person did that.

Maybe because other MPs were doing their jobs rather than going to Dover every morning.

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growstuff

I suspect Farage is more concerned about what happens to his own personal finances over the next five years than what happens to the UK's economy.

I expect we all are more concerned about our own personal finances

I actually expect an MP (or somebody who has tried to be an MP) to be more concerned about the country's finances.

growstuff

Farage is a public enemy, but he's not stupid.

I agree, he’s creepy, hypocritical and a liar, but he’s not stupid.

Peartree

Well he was right about all the boats coming in with illegals. He even was going to Dover 1st thing in the morning to count them and to say noone was stopping it. I dont think any other politcal person did that.

“Illegals” Whether we agree these people shouldn’t be coming in this way, these are HUMAN BEINGS!

ronib

Nigel Farage is a disrupter but how far he can succeed is a guess. Also Farage makes a common mistake of believing what fits his narrative. I don’t find him any more creepy than other politicians.

Rather than focus on the unlikely chances of Reform being elected in 5 years, I’d like to hear what Farage thinks will happen to the UK’s economy in that period. All this constant jockeying for power is a bit exhausting to watch.

I think the fact that he’s stood how many times as a British MP, has probably out him off standing again! If he’d fulfilled his role as an MEP as he should have, ie turning up for every meeting, fighting to out right the things he didn’t agree with and actually earning his salary and pension, we might not be in post Brexit mess we are now experiencing.

He’s a snake oil salesman whom I wouldn’t trust as far as I could spit and he’s certainly not PM material (aside from in his fantasies)

I cant believe how irate people get when talking about NF. You all got to vote for Brexit and the remainers lost. Its up to you to vote and change things. He must be good because he helped to get the Brexit vote and I would vote for Brexit again and I dont care who that upsets and how many of you clutch their pearls when they read this. My life is very fulfilled so I dont get my knickers in a twist like a lot of you lot do.

Always ready with the clever remark, he chickens out of standing for election. He's not a team player, preferring the limelight.

Peartree

I cant believe how irate people get when talking about NF. You all got to vote for Brexit and the remainers lost. Its up to you to vote and change things. He must be good because he helped to get the Brexit vote and I would vote for Brexit again and I dont care who that upsets and how many of you clutch their pearls when they read this. My life is very fulfilled so I dont get my knickers in a twist like a lot of you lot do.

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Wyllow3

Always ready with the clever remark, he chickens out of standing for election. He's not a team player, preferring the limelight.

He’s lost the 7/8 times he’s tried to get a seat.

He’s all puff and fluff - but no real substance.

It’s always about him.

Maybe because other MPs were doing their jobs rather than going to Dover every morning.

Farage isn’t an MP.

He was useless as an MEP .Quite happy to take his salary but absent more often than not.He's a chancer and will side with the one which he thinks is more useful to him.He sided with Brexit and spun the lies. I suppose he thinks Donald will pay better.

sorry second line should say ...He's a chancer.

he’s certainly not MP material

I think there are many in the House of Commons who are not MP material.
George Galloway springs immediately to mind.

And don’t get me started on the House of Lords!

So what he is actually forecasting is the end of the Conservative party and a take over by Reform? I think he underestimates the financial backing behind the Tories.
He's trying to make himself relevant at a time when the right wing has shown just how useless it is and the harm it causes. His only hope is to forecast the failure of a Labour government.