Nigel Farage en route to meet his chum Trump tonight aiming to undermine KS and UK government

That must be why Reform are losing support then eazybee, that explains it.

Farage and Trump don't need to undermine Starmer's government.
He is making a perfectly good job of undermining it all on his own.

Finance Monthly praises Farage's ability to "Earn" money and outlines exactly how in his career.

Read and weep, anyone who actually cares about politicians representing their people and not in it for these levels of personal greed and gain.

www.finance-monthly.com/nigel-farage-net-worth/

First entry under google (not AI)

"Crypto Donations

Reform UK
www.reformparty.uk › crypto
"Why Cryptocurrency Matters. Reform UK is committed to upholding the values of Freedom, Choice, and Opportunity. Cryptocurrency represents these core values".

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in their own words.

I agree Graphite, it just doesn’t accord with their objectives of shrinking the state. I wonder if it’s just another populist move because it’s what the constituents in those areas would prefer rather than merged councils. If so though, there won’t be savings, as we know from their existing councils. All a muddle.

In reply to Casdon about Farage’s opposition to council reorganisation.

Reform councillors (mostly Tory defectors) have a small foothold on Tendring Council (but not control) while the two councils it will merge with to become a unitary authority, Colchester and Braintree are under LibDem/Lab and Tory control respectively. Braintree has one recently by-elected Reform councillor who appears to be about 18.

Of course, things could change in May but it will all have to be done again next year.

Of those Reform councillors elected around the country last year. 65 have gone. Mark Pack keeps a record:

www.markpack.org.uk/175342/how-many-councillors-has-reform-uk-lost-since-may/

We know about the mayhem in Kent and the shenanigans of juveniles like George Finch and Joseph Boam on other councils. The calibre is very poor.

The only Reform councillor on Essex CC was elected as a Tory but thrown out of the party after sending indecent images (of his genitals) and now sits for Reform. Bad behaviour seems to be the rule rather than the exception.

Farage must know (and has virtually admitted with Worcestershire CC) that Reform controlled councils have not been a resounding success. Their "flagship" Kent has been one disaster and scandal after another.

If they cannot hack the work of existing councils how would they manage the huge reorganisation needed to set up the new unitary councils?

Having made all the fuss about having local elections in May, it’s now been reported that Reform are so desperate to find candidates before the 9 April nomination deadline that they are cold-calling people begging them to stand as paper candidates. How will they to do the stringent vetting they claim they do in that timeframe?

We know from the GE which saw the controversial James McMurdock win (no longer Reform, of course, after one too many scandals) that unvetted paper candidates do get elected.

Farage asks the same question about small boats over and over. He's a stuck record.

It has been answered many times. The statistics about what inroads have already been made are there for anyone to see.

Farage was showboating as usual which is all he does do.

The walkout was staged as they new what was coming from Steve Reed; his announcement about the Rycroft review on foreign interference. Reform didn't want to be there for that so they manufactured a reason not to be there.

I was watching too and was aware they had left as they interrupted Dr Maria Tidball who was speaking about the Sheffield Crucible.

The interruption is recorded in Hansard:

hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-03-25/debates/D1BCA0D8-96C4-4BA9-A964-F356C3AFE2A3/Engagements

Dr Marie Tidball (Penistone and Stocksbridge)
(Lab)

Q5. May I thank the Prime Minister for the £35 million of funding, announced this week, to transform the Crucible theatre and keep the world—[Interruption.] (908555)

Mr Speaker

Order. I want to hear the hon. Member’s question, as do those who are interested in snooker.

Prime Minister

I see that Reform Members have walked out. They obviously realise that they are absolutely snookered. [Hon. Members: “More!”]

Mr Speaker

More? No, I don’t think so!

Dr Tidball

Thank you, Mr Speaker. May I thank the Prime Minister for the £35 million of funding ...

Business as usual.

Well, I get criticised for saying this, but I believe it to be true.
Reform is popular with people who have extreme views on race.
Not saying that every Reform fan is a racist.

I should have made it clear who I was talking about.

I didn't get to read it Maizie.

sundowngirl

Lemonjam -

Nigel Farage and his other MPs did not walk out because "he felt uncomfortable under scrutiny"

They walked out in protest that Keir Starmer did not answer the question (he never does) instead he just personally criticised Nigel and Reform.

What is the point of PMs question time, if he never answers a question, just always deflecting?

Stop making excuses. I was watching and didn't even know they had left so the protest clearly didn't work.
The problem is that they are a party of protest with no positive ideas about how to move the country forward.
The only people with any interest in seeing them succeed are billionaires and grifters, plenty of grifters around but billionaires? There aren't enough of them to make any difference except making secret donations to Reform with crypto currency.
Reform have finally been found out and personally I can't wait for the local elections...I hope this is the beginning of the end for a gang of hopeless losers who have tried to hold the country to ransom for too long...

Casdon

There’s somebody who didn’t watch it happen then. It was a petulant act, not the behaviour of a functioning party at PMQ, where barbs are the norm.

I wonder if the somebody has ever watched PMQs. Starmer's response wasn't unusual or exceptional for a Prime Minister's reply. Farage, as ever, tried to make himself appear maligned and the centre of attention. Toddler tantrums!

There’s somebody who didn’t watch it happen then. It was a petulant act, not the behaviour of a functioning party at PMQ, where barbs are the norm.

Lemonjam -

Nigel Farage and his other MPs did not walk out because "he felt uncomfortable under scrutiny"

They walked out in protest that Keir Starmer did not answer the question (he never does) instead he just personally criticised Nigel and Reform.

What is the point of PMs question time, if he never answers a question, just always deflecting?

OMG! I've got completely confused and thought Maremia's post was about Polanski, not Farage.

Please don't respond to it, I've asked Gnet to remove it...

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Cossy

Boz

Look to the future.

Not quite sure what you mean by this? What future? Trump won’t in POTUS forever and Farage has a long wait and a helluva lot of work to do to become PM! Which personally I think will only happen in Reforms imagination

Agree, I thought he was looking quite defensive & on the back foot this week, if Reform's going to have any chance he's got to be populist, but the war isn't popular.( I get the impression Farage is put out by this fact).
However with some of his core support, and Trump, listening he has no option but to support it.
I just hope that his popularity's peaked as I do think if there'd been a GE 6 months ago, with a following wind Reform may have won - & I am to old to emigrate.

He is a Performer, not a Politician.

Here’s another unsurprising outcome Reform won’t be happy about. No evidence of voter coercion in Gorton and Denton.
news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-starmer-labour-iran-trump-cobra-12593360

Nigel Farage has not had the easiest of weeks and is starting to feel the heat.

On Wednesday, he lead his total number of 8 MPS ( 5 of which were elected as Conservatives) to walk out of PMQs (to cheers) as he felt uncomfortable under scrutiny. If Farage and his 7 other MPS can't even stand the heat of PMQs how on earth can they be trusted to run a government?

Farage and his party intentionally seek to create chaos, spectacle and division but then resist scrutiny and challenge. Farage and his seven fellow MPs have so little to offer in the way of solutions to the challenges the country faces.

I’ve just read that Farage has vowed to fight the plans to merge councils. I’m confused, I know he wants to undermine the government and the Tory party but I don’t understand how fighting mergers fits with the small state agenda?

Note the we were told.

Farage blamed "staffing and other administrative issues" within his office after a parliamentary investigation found he breached the MPs' code of conduct 17 times by failing to register his financial interests on time.

Someone else will be blamed for his own cowardice.

It’s a weird thing to lie about, because it’s so easy to check out the facts.

He tweeted at 4:00pm I wasn’t able to take part in #BBCQT from Clacton tonight, as we were told MPs are not allowed to appear on the show in their own constituencies.

Who did? There is no such rule.

Lucy Powell (Manchester Central) was on the show in Manchester on 12 March 2026. Mike Tapp (Dover and Deal) was on the show in Dover on 4 December 2025.

I suspect he wants to dodge any question about foreign and crypto donations.

So Farage won't be appearing on Question Time tonight, even though it's in his constituency. Maybe he doesn't know his way there?