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

The Comments under Farage's article in the Clacton Gazette are interesting - for example
"As well as an acute shortage of houses there is also an acute nay desperate shortage of doctors and nurses thanks to his rabid racist influence on migration policies.
It’s about time that evil people like Farage were banned from any input into public life and that includes his former rabble of Tory racists."

Indeed, Barbadosbelle, it was the post after yours. My apologies.

Barbadosbelle

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I'm sorry but I have absolutely no idea as to what your sentences refer.

Clacton people voted NF before?
MEP before?

I didn't reference either of those things.
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You didn’t, but someone else actually did.

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I'm sorry but I have absolutely no idea as to what your sentences refer.

Clacton people voted NF before?
MEP before?

I didn't reference either of those things.
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Greciangirl

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.

It’s the first time Farage has been voted into power as an MP in our Parliament.

Madmeg

Not sure how active my new Labour MP is unless people tell me about it, but his predecessor (Tory) is far more visible. Ours is a marginal seat and often alternates so unless the present incumbent ups the ante he will find he loses at the next election.

The new Libdem in a neighbouring constituency has been working her socks off since Day 1. I am told she gets 2,000 communications a week from her constituents and has a new team of people helping her out. I know she sends out regular updates to the constituents cos I help to deliver them. She has no outside job.

Re other jobs, don't forget that if an MP loses his/her seat he/she still needs to earn a living so I don't have a problem with them doing other work "on the side", it's sensible to do so.

I haven’t forgotten those who have a “profession” who need to keep up with changes, registration.

This doesn’t include Farage or describe him in any way.

Various sources quote his current net worth as between £2m-£3,500 and his GB News salary as anything from £4,000 per to to a staggering £100,000 per month, it’s not paid directly to Farage personally but to his company!

Wyllow3

I really wish we'd stop this from whatever POV we are coming from. It gets in the way of discussion.

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Wyllow3

I really wish we'd stop this from whatever POV we are coming from. It gets in the way of discussion.

Yes, me too.

Our Labour MP is gradually becoming more proactive and visible; perhaps it took her a while ro find her feet as someone new to Parliament.

Not sure how active my new Labour MP is unless people tell me about it, but his predecessor (Tory) is far more visible. Ours is a marginal seat and often alternates so unless the present incumbent ups the ante he will find he loses at the next election.

The new Libdem in a neighbouring constituency has been working her socks off since Day 1. I am told she gets 2,000 communications a week from her constituents and has a new team of people helping her out. I know she sends out regular updates to the constituents cos I help to deliver them. She has no outside job.

Re other jobs, don't forget that if an MP loses his/her seat he/she still needs to earn a living so I don't have a problem with them doing other work "on the side", it's sensible to do so.

Wyllow3

I really wish we'd stop this from whatever POV we are coming from. It gets in the way of discussion.

I agree. Bullying, or accusations of it are unpleasant, and very often untrue. We are all adults, and someone calling you out for an untruth, or misrepresentation is not bullying, it is discussion.

I really wish we'd stop this from whatever POV we are coming from. It gets in the way of discussion.

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IOMGran

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?

I am not of the right and disagree with the views of some posters but I can see bullying when it happens and it is unpleasant.
It can take many forms.

There is often a subtle undertone such as in a school playground where posters start forming a clique and finger pointing.

Why do you want to know where FriedGreenTomatoes is IOMGran? Are you concerned about her wellbeing?

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

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!

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.

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.

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?

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 .

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.

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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.

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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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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

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.

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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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