Nigel Farage in London with hundreds of farmers today

vegansrock

Tax the Junk Food, Fast Food, Super Processed Food giants driving obesity which costs the economy nearly £100 billion a year in obesity driven ill health.
Talk to farmers and sort out the inheritance tax so it doesn't bankrupt them and our countryside ends up being sold off to the international hedgefund managers and billionaires that already own every other bit of British assets.

Well said, vegansrock

My divorced mother took out a mortgage, aged forty-one, in 1956. She had been running her own business for about five years, and persuaded a life insurance company local manager to arrange a with-profits endowment mortgage for her.

I hope it paid out, grumppa

The two we took out in 1980 didn't. One firm made up the difference but the other firm did not.

bathsalts

Farage and the Fishermen.....sounds like a band.

Farage , saviour of farms and food.

Musk, champion of abused young girls.

Do people actually believe this guff?

A lot of people must do, as a lot of people voted reform

Mt61

bathsalts

Farage and the Fishermen.....sounds like a band.

Farage , saviour of farms and food.

Musk, champion of abused young girls.

Do people actually believe this guff?

A lot of people must do, as a lot of people voted reform

I actually don't think anyone does, it just draws attention in sound bites, spoken by a high profile person, to a problem.

Allira

Women could not take out a mortgage on their own until at least 1975.
Under 21s could not take out a mortgage at that time.

You must have been on a very high salary, theworriedwell, to be able to save for a deposit and persuade a bank or building society to offer you a mortgage at 20.

Banks were much easier to deal with in those days, if the individual manager liked you and saw you had prospects, knew you previously, maybe had a good reference you would get the loan.

Today it’s all centralized tick the right boxes and you’re OK, little personal discretion.

Farage - saviour of farms and remover of Inheritance Tax.
Both of these matters high on the agenda in his constituency, obviously, ...or, maybe not.
Who knows? Mr Farage doesn't, because he's not there.
He does know that representing his constituents is unlikely to give him the same publicity.

Chocolatelovinggran

Farage - saviour of farms and remover of Inheritance Tax.
Both of these matters high on the agenda in his constituency, obviously, ...or, maybe not.
Who knows? Mr Farage doesn't, because he's not there.
He does know that representing his constituents is unlikely to give him the same publicity.

Given that his constituency is extremely mixed, two of the most deprived wards in England, some farmland, and like pretty much everywhere pockets of very wealthy (Frinton, etc), its most unlikely that Mr F is representing his constiuency but rather, as always, using this as a photo opportunity!

Clacton is near where I live and I can assure everyone that farming and IHT are not high on the list of concerns. Clacton has pockets of real poverty and the associated issues of poor health and badly performing schools, many pensioners relying only on SRP etc, overburdened GP surgeries. A high percentage of residents are on some kind of benefit. They are not being helped or represented by Farage, the very occasional photo op with a pint in his hand just doesn't cut it.

Good for Nigel I say. If its OK for MP to March in the support terrorist marches, Corbyn, then OK for Nigel to support British farmers.

I suspect one of the reasons Farage avoids his constituency is that people might actually question him on what he is doing about any of the factors highlighted here:

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6603f6bc9741c5001139dc41/Clacton-on-Sea.pdf

Over 95% white population, low skilled, low employment, high crime.

What progress has been made on any of these issues since he won his seat?

HousePlantQueen

Clacton is near where I live and I can assure everyone that farming and IHT are not high on the list of concerns. Clacton has pockets of real poverty and the associated issues of poor health and badly performing schools, many pensioners relying only on SRP etc, overburdened GP surgeries. A high percentage of residents are on some kind of benefit. They are not being helped or represented by Farage, the very occasional photo op with a pint in his hand just doesn't cut it.

Exactly. He should stick with the job he’s paid to do and a friend of mine, living in his constituency has seen sight not sound of him since he was elected, though he was most vocal and very visible prior to this. We have our holiday lodge in St Osyth, again in his constituency, we over there around three time a month and heard nothing at all from locals about him.

Curlywhirly

We got a mortgage in 1976 - we were both 20.

When we married and moved into our home I was 16, my husband was 18. Mortgage until we were 42 and 44 because renovation, Mansard addition.

And Freya, do you think that it's good for an MP on £90K to be too busy to visit his constituency ?

SilverBrook has demonstrated the problems in Clacton. Does anyone have any ideas as to how the lives of the many unskilled, long-term unemployed people with criminal records are to be improved? Perhaps a problem for James Timpson, rather than Farage, to grapple with.

Norah

Curlywhirly

We got a mortgage in 1976 - we were both 20.

When we married and moved into our home I was 16, my husband was 18. Mortgage until we were 42 and 44 because renovation, Mansard addition.

References and prospects must have been very promising at that age, pretty much impossible these day without a parents guarantee.

David49

Norah

Curlywhirly

We got a mortgage in 1976 - we were both 20.

When we married and moved into our home I was 16, my husband was 18. Mortgage until we were 42 and 44 because renovation, Mansard addition.

References and prospects must have been very promising at that age, pretty much impossible these day without a parents guarantee.

We'd a mortgage because my husband worked 2 years after leaving school at 16, lived with his parents - saved the deposit.

“We'd a mortgage because my husband worked 2 years after leaving school at 16, lived with his parents - saved the deposit.”

I suspected that he had completed his apprenticeship. We were far more responsible in those days, 90% of us started work at 15 or 16 yrs, no Uni, no gap year.

David49

“We'd a mortgage because my husband worked 2 years after leaving school at 16, lived with his parents - saved the deposit.”

I suspected that he had completed his apprenticeship. We were far more responsible in those days, 90% of us started work at 15 or 16 yrs, no Uni, no gap year.

My husband is the very definition of responsible. However he'd no apprenticeship, no university, no qualifications at 18. He just worked to a goal.

Barleyfields

SilverBrook has demonstrated the problems in Clacton. Does anyone have any ideas as to how the lives of the many unskilled, long-term unemployed people with criminal records are to be improved? Perhaps a problem for James Timpson, rather than Farage, to grapple with.

There are just no jobs of merit in the area, no major employers, mainly minimum wage retail and the odd seasonal job in hospitality. A friend's husband was employed by one of the major skilled employers in the area ( now moved away), and they just could not entice skilled, graduate labour that they needed . Yes, you get a lot of house for your money, but with the schools generally in need of improvement at the least, no young families wanted to move there.

Not everyone is a criminal, but many are poor, and IHT is not high on their list of concerns.

There certainly needs to be some sort of intervention, but I don't think Farage is the man, in fact he is the last thing Clacton needs with his views on free at point of use NHS services and such.

It's OK, HPQ, Clacton is not going to be troubled much by their well paid MP.
He's too busy to visit.

It’s a great shame that Farage was elected to serve Clacton, though I’m not surprised that the people there voted for Reform. I don’t know what they thought he would do for them, what he told them, but by now they must realise that nothing’s going to happen any time soon. I don’t know who last represented Clacton, but the town has been in this miserable state for a good many years. It’s a disgraceful state of affairs, but replicated in many other places I’m sure.

Barleyfields

SilverBrook has demonstrated the problems in Clacton. Does anyone have any ideas as to how the lives of the many unskilled, long-term unemployed people with criminal records are to be improved? Perhaps a problem for James Timpson, rather than Farage, to grapple with.

Not all of the residents in Clacton and the remainder of his constituency are unskilled, unemployed criminals.

My dear friend lived in Clacton for many years, she was a nurse and her husband a local GP. When he retired they moved to Frinton, but my children and I spent many a summer day on Clacton beach, with her and her children.

It’s an interesting place (😱), I also had the joy of visiting Clacton Jobcentre, whilst working for the DWP. (along with scary Jaywick!)

He is a cynical opportunist, jumping on any bandwagon that he thinks will get him heard and seen. I doubt he has given a thought to farming in his entire life! - but lo and behold here he is trying on some wellies for size. Dreadful man.

Of course not all Clacton people are unskilled, unemployed or criminals (I worked with someone who lived there who was none of those things) but far too many are and until that’s addressed somehow things won’t improve. Yes, Jaywick too …