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The company Farage keeps....
(162 Posts)"The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison after admitting taking bribes for pro-Russia interviews and speeches.
Nathan Gill, 52, from Llangefni, Anglesey, is thought to have received up to £40,000 to help pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine.
He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) when he accepted money from Oleg Voloshyn, 44, a man once described by the US government as a "pawn" of Russian secret services"
And I recall Farage et al collecting their generous wages as MEP's, doing nothing at all for our country, that moment when they, like petualnt small children, turned their backs on the EU parliament
Be very aware, we are all are defined by the company you keep, Farage. Many politicians accept gifts we ar not happy with, and som pilloried for pairs of glasses, but you, Farage, kept company with a Russian spy.
Farage is facing calls to investigate and root out links between Reform UK and Russia after one of his party’s former senior politicians was jailed for 10 years for accepting bribes from a pro-Kremlin agent.
Not a good week for Farage: he faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
read here:
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/deeply-shocking-nigel-farage-faces-fresh-claims-of-racism-and-antisemitism-at-school
"It is the hectoring tone, the “jeering quality”, in Nigel Farage’s voice today that brings it all back for Peter Ettedgui.
He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers,” Ettedgui says of his experience of being in a class with Farage at Dulwich college in south London
"My grandparents had escaped from Nazi Germany, and had always talked with deep gratitude about how they felt welcome in the UK,” he says.
*I’d never experienced antisemitism growing up, so the first time that this vicious verbal abuse came out of Farage’s mouth was deeply shocking.
But I wasn’t his only target.
I’d hear him calling other students ‘Paki’ or ‘Wog’, and urging them to ‘go home’.
I tried to ignore him, but it was humiliating. It was shaming. This kind of abuse cuts through to the core of your identity*
He had nothing to say about the budget. I wonder how long he reckons he needs to keep his rascist head down before he feels safe to reappear?
Well I'm not sure he has really ever revealed full policy alternatives on the budget and economic measures. Reorm really hasn't ever laid out a comprehensive policy just vague headlines.
Recently he backtracked on tax cuts,
since the amount he was promising -*90 billion* - would basically take out the NHS and much social care and he twigged that might not go down well with some voters.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/03/nigel-farage-backtracks-reform-uk-promise-cut-90bn-taxes
A barrage of Farage. Getting boring really and just gives him more and more traction and things to talk about. And he is a damn good talker.
For people who excuse Farage's schoolboy racism by saying he was only a teenager, didn't the same Farage say that Shamima Begum, at age 15, was old enough to know what she was doing when she became an ISIS bride?
I know this Thread has dropped, but here's a wee update on the company Farage has kept.
Ex-BREXIT Party and UKIP politician denies taking pro-Russian payments. He was also Scotland's UKIP leader.
His name is David Coburn. I think he lives in France just now. Such a patriot.
He has been named in a series of WhatsApp messages between an alleged 'pawn' of Russia's main security agency and disgraced former MEP Nathan Gill.
Keep digging!
Facebook is punting a petition to investigate the Russian links, and it has reached 900,000 signatures.
Another post on Facebook, but nothing else to support it, claims that GB News is losing support because of their undiluted support of Farage.
I don't know if GB news had many viewers who were Jewish, but surely Farage's frequent appearances will be seen in a different light?
I just do not understand why people are surprised by anything when it comes to this man. The 'nice bloke you meet down the pub' image has never fooled me. Yet, there seems to be plenty that support him and his ilk. It seems Russia was also much busier than we thought behind the scenes. Mind you, we are in for a shock up here in Scotland, as all I see is posters in various comments sections saying 'vote Reform' and I think they will gain seats because people feel betrayed by the SNP and the scenes filmed at a council meeting in Glasgow don't bode well.
Maremia
Facebook is punting a petition to investigate the Russian links, and it has reached 900,000 signatures.
It’s ironic that a social media site who’s owner is Jewish is supporting a petition to investigate a racist when said owner is so far up a racists arse ( Trump) that it’s a wonder he ever saw daylight again.
Watch and weep.
www.google.com/search?q=mark+zuckerberg+supports+trump&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:78f13026,vid:Cw8UE5Z9zP4,st:0
Have never understood that petra. Perhaps money is more important.
Actually, for the sake of accuracy, Facebook 'posters' are promoting the petition. But Facebook has not yet taken it down.
The heat does not appear to be diminishing. This is headline news on CNN today.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/europe/nigel-farage-racism-allegations-reform-intl-cmd
Casdon
The heat does not appear to be diminishing. This is headline news on CNN today.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/europe/nigel-farage-racism-allegations-reform-intl-cmd
He’s struggling to keep up his jokey blokey pubic facade. And when he said well the BBC were showing programmes like the Alf Garnett one it was pointed out that no one ever made jokes about the holocaust.
Wyllow3
I don't know if GB news had many viewers who were Jewish, but surely Farage's frequent appearances will be seen in a different light?
Well, I often watch GB News and find Farage entertaining but I wouldn’t vote for Reform.
I make allowances for anyone who’s accused of racist chat, banter call it what you will while they were a teenager.
Even a few Labour MP’s have had to apologise ( no real point) for antisemitic tweets and emails from when they were younger.
If anyone indulges in it past the age of their 20’s that’s when they need calling out for it.
Farage a racist? Really? Who’d have thought it?
Maremia
Would be interesting to explore the notion that 'Farage is doing well'. What exactly has he ever done well?
Topping the polls isn't actually doing anything.
Well, Starmer would love to have the same polling figures am sure!
Farage’s Party is doing well, and without him Reform wouldn’t be anywhere, so like him or loathe him, he can def be said to be doing well.
Oreo
Wyllow3
I don't know if GB news had many viewers who were Jewish, but surely Farage's frequent appearances will be seen in a different light?
Well, I often watch GB News and find Farage entertaining but I wouldn’t vote for Reform.
I make allowances for anyone who’s accused of racist chat, banter call it what you will while they were a teenager.
Even a few Labour MP’s have had to apologise ( no real point) for antisemitic tweets and emails from when they were younger.
If anyone indulges in it past the age of their 20’s that’s when they need calling out for it.
Quite honestly Oreo I don’t know how you, as a Labour voter can stomach watching him.
One has all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it’.
Maybee70 he is oddly fascinating to watch and listen to, a real snake oil merchant 🙈
He was rattled in his press conference today. Another former pupil has come forward, there are now 12 of them. It really does sound as though it was targeted abuse.
www.itv.com/news/2025-12-04/former-classmate-alleges-he-witnessed-nigel-farage-racially-abuse-his-friend
It’s worth watching the clip.
All Farage needs to do is to say that he has grown up now and no longer behaves as he did when he was a silly teenager, and apologise for any offence given.
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