Did anyone else spot this about Reform?

All I can see is, he’s definitely had his teeth done if he is the same person.

Well the person from York is unfortunately deceased.

Well he seems a nice bloke and is very happy about all the publicity!
Here is the actual man himself:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqmVtKsi0lM

You might think that after failing to be elected to parliament seven times and finally getting elected on his eighth attempt, that Farage would have had the good grace to respect the traditions of our parliament at least on the first occasion he was called to speak. But no. Farage was allowed to follow other party leaders in congratulating Sir Lindsay Hoyle on his re-election as Speaker and took the opportunity to take a totally inappropriate swipe at the previous Speaker, John Bercow. Disgusting behaviour

varian hear, hear!

What an odious little man he is!

There’s so much history and tradition underpinning our parliament, which is probably why we’re able to have peaceful transitions of power, that elude many other countries.

Every party leader that spoke at today’s ceremony (which is what it was) did so graciously and respectfully. Not Farage!

Of course, he thinks he’s going to be the anti-establishment disrupter; the agitator. Hopefully, he’ll quickly realise that it takes more than a big mouth to outdo hundreds of years of history.

Just who does Farage think he is!

The leaflet we had for them only showed a photo of Farage and the chap that was the leader before him, nothing about the local candidate, I don't think it even had his name on it. It was on the local council website, his address was within the constituency or on the border( due to border changes).
It went in the recycling bin obviously😂

Farage being the ‘odious little man’ not ‘Bercow’!

Farage is clearly behind the curve, and hasn’t yet understood the message about integrity etc.

“Nigel Farage, in his first House of Commons speech, describes John Bercow as the "little man" who "did his best to overturn the biggest democratic result in the history of our country".

ReformUK already bringing indignity, personal abuse and lies to Parliament”.

Just looked him up on FB, apparently he started a Gofundme page to help his election campaign on 18/6 not sure how much he raised.

Bercow was a horrible man

That’s as may be BevSec but my point was that Farage made a critical comment about him at an inappropriate time.

Today was not the arena for criticism of past speakers. No other party leader felt the need to criticise any other individual politician at today’s ceremonial, traditional event.

My point was not about whether Bercow was ‘a horrible man’ or not!

LizzieDrip

That’s as may be BevSec but my point was that Farage made a critical comment about him at an inappropriate time.

Today was not the arena for criticism of past speakers. No other party leader felt the need to criticise any other individual politician at today’s ceremonial, traditional event.

My point was not about whether Bercow was ‘a horrible man’ or not!

He behaved like a plank. Colum Eastwood, the SDLP leader was on just before him, and his speech was full of humour, with no point scoring. It wasn’t the time or place.

J52

Apparently they had someone standing in York who was dead! They realised this when they sacked him for 'inactivity'.
Doodledog
Thanks, it’s the funniest thing I’ve heard of all day! 🤣🤣🤣

me too

Shows Farage up for the nasty piece of work he is. Disrespecting our own traditions in parliament. Arrogant jumped up narcissist.

Absolutely Casdon. I thought all the various party leaders’ speeches were intelligent, humorous, gracious and respectful… then it came to Farage.

You summed it up well Casdon - it wasn’t the time or the place👏

Whitewavemark2

Apparently Farage didn’t turn up as his first day as an MP -

Of course he didn’t.

Is anyone truly surprised?

He had among the worst attendance records when he was a member of the European Parliament
bylinetimes.com/2019/04/11/the-worst-in-the-european-parliament-how-truant-brexit-meps-make-a-mockery-of-britain/

But he was still happy to take his £100,000+ salary, plus his £117,000 transitional grant when he stepped down from the EU plus his £70,000+ pension ... despite doing little work,

Although he did get docked £35,000 in an expenses scandal for misusing his MEP expenses
www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/12/nigel-farage-eu-salary-docked-claim-misspent-public-funds

I think Farage regards it all as a bit of a game tbh

Casdon

LizzieDrip

That’s as may be BevSec but my point was that Farage made a critical comment about him at an inappropriate time.

Today was not the arena for criticism of past speakers. No other party leader felt the need to criticise any other individual politician at today’s ceremonial, traditional event.

My point was not about whether Bercow was ‘a horrible man’ or not!

He behaved like a plank. Colum Eastwood, the SDLP leader was on just before him, and his speech was full of humour, with no point scoring. It wasn’t the time or place.

Exactly so.

DH tells me that Sky News interviewed Farage this evening but didn’t appear to interview any of the other opposition leaders. Why? I’m getting fed up of Sky News, especially after Beth Rigby kept asking Keir Starmer how he felt about being boring and unpopular. Just when our parliament seemed to have rediscovered it’s self respect we get a serial disrupter on the back benches who can say what he likes because of parliamentary privilege.

👏

Hopefully the speaker will forget to call him too often. We are trying to re-build the reputation of parliament not drag it back down into the gutter.

MayBee70

DH tells me that Sky News interviewed Farage this evening but didn’t appear to interview any of the other opposition leaders. Why? I’m getting fed up of Sky News, especially after Beth Rigby kept asking Keir Starmer how he felt about being boring and unpopular. Just when our parliament seemed to have rediscovered it’s self respect we get a serial disrupter on the back benches who can say what he likes because of parliamentary privilege.

The cut and thrust of Parliament? When Jeremy Corbyn was on the back benches he always acted as he liked.Agree that today wasn’t the time tho for any score settling.

I think Farage regards it all as a bit of a game tbh

I think too many of the last Government thought it was a game. There's a certain entitled cabal in Parliament who think it's all a bit of a laugh, and when it hits them that thing are getting d
serious, (like Covid) they can't deal with it.

There are are rather fewer of these people in power now.

.... A serial disruptor on the back benches who can say what he likes because of parliamentary privilege
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

MayBee you have to agree the irony is palpable.
What's sauce for the goose? ....

Farage's intent, by any means, is to keep attention on him. He's succeeded once again, and he knew exactly what he was doing.

Namsnanny

.... A serial disruptor on the back benches who can say what he likes because of parliamentary privilege
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

MayBee you have to agree the irony is palpable.
What's sauce for the goose? ....

Back benchers needing control by the speaker is par for the course in the normal running of parliament - there are various guidelines and even discipline: Farage was deliberately attention seeking on a formal occasion:

how childish.

OldFrill

Farage's intent, by any means, is to keep attention on him. He's succeeded once again, and he knew exactly what he was doing.

I agree