Farage, when does he actually do his MP role??

nanna8

I can’t stand Starmer. I think he is awful and a bad leader. So ? Not illegal to hold those views. I think Farage is a fantastic speaker and can see why he attracts followers. I wouldn’t vote for him personally, he reminds me of a used car salesman but I can quite see his appeal. Look, I suppose if people have anger inside them and it helps them cope, fine but it isn’t nice. It has deteriorated on here recently, you are right Allira

Goebbels was an inspirational speaker too.

HousePlantQueen

Talking of bullying; there is one poster on here who lives overseas and has, over the past few years, been subjected to dreadful bullying of the "but you don't even live in the Uk" type comments despite said poster explaining that she was British but overseas taking care of parents. It was a nasty and pointed campaign and some of the bullies are no longer on GN. This poster was left of centre, remain supporting in her politics.

In contrast, a more recent poster who lives in Australia and has a down on the democratically elected Labour govt is lauded, by some of the same people who drove the other poster off GN for months at a time.

It is not clever, it is not nice, and the rules of bullying applies to all sides of politics.

Precisely.

I repeat, again, my request for evidence to support Mr Farage's work in, and for, his constituency in the several months that he has been collecting his £90K - plus expenses salary for this job?
I understand that he helped SillyNanny's friend.
Any more examples of his good works for the people of Clacton?
My new MP has been everywhere in the constituency, holding surgeries, chairing open meetings, visiting schools, collecting on poppy day, and talking about the needs of the area in Parliamentary debates, and on television.
All of which is what I would hope all MP's do for their constituents.
And - before I'm accused of a partisan view, the very long standing Conservative MP for the next area does an equally good job.
If I want to pay for a rousing speaker, I'll go to see some Shakespeare at the theatre.

Shinamae

Poor Nigel, such vitriol,
(You can get voodoo dolls on Amazon complete with pins 😜)
I’m just off to polish my pitchfork….

😂😂😂😂

Chocolatelovinggran

I repeat, again, my request for evidence to support Mr Farage's work in, and for, his constituency in the several months that he has been collecting his £90K - plus expenses salary for this job?
I understand that he helped SillyNanny's friend.
Any more examples of his good works for the people of Clacton?
My new MP has been everywhere in the constituency, holding surgeries, chairing open meetings, visiting schools, collecting on poppy day, and talking about the needs of the area in Parliamentary debates, and on television.
All of which is what I would hope all MP's do for their constituents.
And - before I'm accused of a partisan view, the very long standing Conservative MP for the next area does an equally good job.
If I want to pay for a rousing speaker, I'll go to see some Shakespeare at the theatre.

As I’ve said before my oldest friend lives in Frinton, part of Farage’s constituency. Our holiday home is also in his constituency, we visit regularly (at least twice a month), we know several people living in his constituency, he is conspicuous by his absence there but very visible on TV, in the US and other countries.

He simply needs to be the MP all his voters can rely on, not the odd one here and there.

Parallel Parliament shows what work MPs are doing in Westminster: Select Committee memberships, APPG memberships. contributions to debates both Departmental and Legislative;; Early Day Motions tabled or supported; Urgent Questions, Written Questions.

If you are in a constituency which elected a new MP last July, it can provide a way to gauge just how much a member is or isn’t engaged with the business of Parliament and which issues they have become involved with. Mine is a new MP and has already made far more contributions to Westminster business than NF has.

It’s also useful, to compare the contributions of other Reform MPs to Farage. Three have been slightly more engaged. McMurdock, obviously very inexperienced, hadn’t done much in Westminster but might be working hard in his constituency.

If NF hasn’t set up a constituency office then I would imagine he has the four Reform councillors on Tendring Council (all elected as Conservatives) doing some of the scut work.

Also Parallel Parliament:

www.parallelparliament.co.uk/glossary/parliamentary-day

... by not sitting on Fridays, MPs often return to their constituencies on Thursday evening and perform local events on the Friday.

Hmm.

My new MP has a monthly newsletter delivered which tells constituents what work they’ve been doing. This is supplemented with almost daily updates on social media. They are clearly working very hard and putting constituents first. They were an experienced local councillor before going to Westminster which must help in what must be a steep learning curve.

My new MP was an effective, hard working local councillor. I wish I could say the same about him now that he is an MP. To say that he is very tardy in replying to emails is putting it mildly. He has changed , and not for the better. No, I didn’t vote for him in the GE.

Both our new MP (Labour) AND our outgoing MP send out emails and printed newsletters.

Our Conservative MP used to do that …

The timing of the election didn’t help. New MPs had barely started their jobs when Parliament was in recess. People would have been exhausted after campaigning and needed a holiday. Then they needed to find premises and set up a constituency office, recruit an officer manager and caseworkers who all had to get up to speed and deal with a backlog of work. Once an election is called all work by the sitting MP has to stop including casework so there will have been months or work to catch up on.

But NF (and Zia Yusuf) are constantly telling people that NF works 24/7 eight days week and he’s not exactly a greenhorn in politics so he should be able to find time for his constituents.

As a tiny party, Reform don’t have much if anything to do with the real work of Parliament beyond the wind chamber and division lobbies.

He reminds me of a boxer. Enters the ring to loud music surrounded by his minders and seconds, throws a few punches the leaves the stage, It’s all performative, good for publicity but no substance.

Silverbrooks

The timing of the election didn’t help. New MPs had barely started their jobs when Parliament was in recess. People would have been exhausted after campaigning and needed a holiday. Then they needed to find premises and set up a constituency office, recruit an officer manager and caseworkers who all had to get up to speed and deal with a backlog of work. Once an election is called all work by the sitting MP has to stop including casework so there will have been months or work to catch up on.

But NF (and Zia Yusuf) are constantly telling people that NF works 24/7 eight days week and he’s not exactly a greenhorn in politics so he should be able to find time for his constituents.

As a tiny party, Reform don’t have much if anything to do with the real work of Parliament beyond the wind chamber and division lobbies.

He reminds me of a boxer. Enters the ring to loud music surrounded by his minders and seconds, throws a few punches the leaves the stage, It’s all performative, good for publicity but no substance.

Very well put!

Claremont

They have gone so so quiet.

So because somebody isn’t posting, you sound as if yiu find it significant that that they “have gone so quiet”.
There is a life outside GN, you know.
There are other commitments and interests, not to mention preoccupations or time pressures.
You can’t prove a negative or extrapolate from the absence of posts on any particular subject.
Me, for instance, I came on this by chance but Nigel Farage? I’m just not interested.

Farage too busy at the moment grandstanding at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the States critiquing the UK - instead of actually doing something in it.

This would be the one where Musk got out the chainsaw on stage with the appalling misogynist Javier Milei

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You think that we're not in a mess now?????
Strange, as I feel that it would be impossible to be in a worst one.
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This isn’t the first time the good people of Clacton have voted Farage into power.

If they haven’t noticed his absence the first time around, then I have no sympathy whatsoever for any of them.

Silverbrooks

The timing of the election didn’t help. New MPs had barely started their jobs when Parliament was in recess. People would have been exhausted after campaigning and needed a holiday. Then they needed to find premises and set up a constituency office, recruit an officer manager and caseworkers who all had to get up to speed and deal with a backlog of work. Once an election is called all work by the sitting MP has to stop including casework so there will have been months or work to catch up on.

But NF (and Zia Yusuf) are constantly telling people that NF works 24/7 eight days week and he’s not exactly a greenhorn in politics so he should be able to find time for his constituents.

As a tiny party, Reform don’t have much if anything to do with the real work of Parliament beyond the wind chamber and division lobbies.

He reminds me of a boxer. Enters the ring to loud music surrounded by his minders and seconds, throws a few punches the leaves the stage, It’s all performative, good for publicity but no substance.

well said Silverbrooks, I quite agree with your boxer analogy, I think Farage is a better campaigner than politician, rather like Boris and hopefully will meet a similar end

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Sky News reported in mid-November that NF had been back to Clacton twelve times since the GE in July
He has also purchased a house there and has been seen out shopping for essentials" on Saturday's since the New Year (for him that's limes and tonic water!!).
He also writes a weekly column for the Clacton Gazette.
I doubt that's any less or more than most MPs.
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Methinks you speak with forked tongue.

As the Clacton Gazette has pictured him on over a dozen visits since the GE, including out shopping and chatting with people, you are obviously not from the area.

Barbadosbelle, what makes you say that the people of Clacton voted for Mr Farage before ?
This is the first time that he has been an MP.
He was, formerly, an MEP.
I make no reference to forked tongue.

Reading all these replies I see there is no support for Nigel Farage but, make no mistake, all these far right groups springing up, not just here, but all over Europe and US
could be a very real threat - remember the similar situation
in the 1930s .

HousePlantQueen

Talking of bullying; there is one poster on here who lives overseas and has, over the past few years, been subjected to dreadful bullying of the "but you don't even live in the Uk" type comments despite said poster explaining that she was British but overseas taking care of parents. It was a nasty and pointed campaign and some of the bullies are no longer on GN. This poster was left of centre, remain supporting in her politics.

In contrast, a more recent poster who lives in Australia and has a down on the democratically elected Labour govt is lauded, by some of the same people who drove the other poster off GN for months at a time.

It is not clever, it is not nice, and the rules of bullying applies to all sides of politics.

It's a trait of the right, when backed into a corner of their own inconsistencies and previous utterances, to cry that they are being bullied. They go into victim mode. Please don't fall for it. Where is FGT2 BTW?

Yes, I'm sure a lot of us are keeping an eye open for example tomorrow in the German Elections. Their far right party is further right than most, it includes nazi flag wavers and holocaust deniers.

I agree with "Better at campaigning" than possibly being in power. Farage has always situated himself in an oppositional way, which is a great deal easier than having to run a huge, complex government.

Not sure about the nazi flag waving and holocaust denying because it is against the law in Germany.
The other political parties are agreed they will never allow the AFD to join a coalition, but nonetheless the rise of this far right party is concerning to most sensible Germans. The spreading through Europe of these groups shoukd concern us all.
Here’s to sense and to reason.

It's a trait of the right, when backed into a corner of their own inconsistencies and previous utterances, to cry that they are being bullied. They go into victim mode. Please don't fall for it. Where is FGT2 BTW ?

Why are you identifying one GN member?

As for claims of being bullied, these often happen anyway when people feel outnumbered or piled on- regardless of their political persuasion!

What a shallow, short-sighted man he is. He’s ranting in the Clacton Gazette this week about Tendring Council’s Local Plan to build a thousand more houses a year and is, of course, blaming it on migrants.

www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/24944800.nigel-farage-no-wonder-residents-furious-housing/

www.tendringdc.gov.uk/news/tendring-district-council-to-launch-local-plan-consultation-after-government-housebuilding-targets-confirmed

Demographics from Clacton local date profile 2024:

95.3% of people identified with a White ethnic group, 1.6% as Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh, 0.8% as Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African, 1.9% with Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups, and 0.4% with other ethnic groups.

Parts of Tendring are not even in his constituency.

Clacton has high unemployment and low skills. Why can he not see this as an opportunity to attract business and to promote training and skills for employment?

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