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Well that hasn’t taken long
Practicing for when he turns on Trump.
Is there any reason a South African ,Canadian, American can’t be PM?
I’m sure he could buy himself a seat.
He’s on telly this morning with Laura Kuensberg, hope my TV doesn’t melt
It’s the BBC. When is he NOT on it? I’m guessing he is the next host of Football Focus as well as being replacement for Greg Wallace.
Is there any reason a South African ,Canadian, American can’t be PM?
Not an American but south African or Canadian possibly - to stand for election as an MP (which you conventionally need to be to be PM although there have been exceptions prior to the 1900s) and to stand for election as an MP you need to be a citizen of the UK, Ireland, or be an 'eligible' commonwealth citizen. I'm not sure which commonwealth countries are or aren't eligible though . Seemingly you don't even need to be registered to vote in the Uk.... or even be resident in the UK!
That is ****ing hilarious! ( here’s the Guardian report )
Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform UK leader hours after Farage described the billionaire businessman as “a hero”, in what is likely to be a preview of how a chaotic Donald Trump presidency could affect British politics.
Farage, who is also the de facto ownerof Reform, “doesn’t have what it takes”, Musk said on X, the social media platform he owns, less than three weeks after the pair held seemingly warm talks at Trump’s Florida home. “The Reform party needs a new leader,” he wrote.
Uber grifter don't like mini grifter...
I have some concerns that he’s about to appear on the masked singer.
Not reading all the replies as I feel it's mostly just ****ing depressing, but, if I had the chance I would happily slap the prick, possibly even kick him in the goolies...... His missus is German so there's a slight bit delightful chance I might bump into him one day.
Same goes for Musk
His missus is German so there’s a slight bit delightful chance I might bump into him one day.
I don't think he spends any time with her. The matrimonial home, where I believe she still lives, is in Downe on the North Downs, and somewhere that I regularly cycle through on road rides. Farage I am told lives with his mistress in Westminster.
Some years back before he was quite as high profile as he is these days he actually got on the same bus as me. He got on at Bromley and got off at Biggin Hill which is next door to Downe. He was unaccompanied which to say the least surprised me. He went upstairs whilst I was downstairs, I regret not having a word with him but I was totally gobsmacked to see him.
No idea if was recognised by many others on the bus but no one else downstairs seemed to react. It was without doubt him and he was wearing a typical lairy multicoloured attention-seeking posh git stripey blazer
He was unaccompanied which to say the least surprised me. He went upstairs whilst I was downstairs, I regret not having a word with him but I was totally gobsmacked to see him.
Missed opportunity!
Add in a holiday home on the Kent Coast.....
Presumably he's got a place in his constituency as well....
The penis costume will be a giveaway
This is Farage's mistress btw, he is apparently very keen on the European sort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laure_Ferrari
Elonia really does enjoy shit stirring in other countries politics. Nothing I’d enjoy more than to smack him in the face with a chair, wipe that irritating smug smirk off his face. It’s an expression not unlike the one that Rowling has permanently glued to her face.
Im not convinced that the Musk comment is anything but a bit of cleverly put together propaganda.
Reform, to move away from their extremist roots and become more mainstream to appeal to a wider group of voters must show that their aims are not aligned with the likes of tommy robinson or musk.
Musk has basically said that reform are not extremist enough and by definition are more mainstream.
Annoyingly you might be right.
A bit like when Obama weighed in on Brexit just boosted support for it
Reverse psychology doesn't just work on toddlers
Nigel Farage has long been very publicly hostile to Yaxley-Lennon seeing him quite rightly as an electoral liability.
Nigel Farage calls Tommy Robinson a 'thug'
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/nigel-farage-calls-tommy-robinson-a-thug/37560049.html
The following year Yaxley-Lennon proved his lack of voter appeal :
Humiliated Tommy Robinson sneaks out of election count early
Farage has always been very quick to kick out of his various political parties anyone who doesn't strictly follow his subtle and covert form of racism.
If Farage is now distancing himself from Elon Musk it is because he has no other choice. To agree with Musk that Yaxley-Lennon is some sort of hero would be electoral madness, and he knows it.
Just seen Farridge described as having fallen for a 419 scam - as in an African business man offered to invest 100m in his company 😀
Rats in a sack. You couldn't make it up. I particularly like the description of Farage rnning his private company in an autocratic manner
A group of 10 councillors representing Reform UK have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership.
The resignations will add to pressure on the Reform leader after Elon Musk said he was “not up to the job”. They are timed to overshadow the party’s south-east conference this weekend.
The councillors alleged the party was being run in an “autocratic manner” and accused Farage of “disloyalty” to long-term members.
I think more or less the same criticism has been made of Farage's 'leadership' in UKIP as well wasn't it?
(from wiki)
A row subsequently developed within the party, in which MEP and campaign chief Patrick O'Flynn described Farage's public image as "snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive" and said he risked turning the party into a "personality cult". O'Flynn accused Farage of paying too much attention to advisors that "would like to take UKIP in the direction of some hard-right, ultra-aggressive American Tea Party-type movement
I wouldn't expect anything different. The UK far-right have a long history of division and bickering. I guess that if you have the mentality of an intolerant bigot it is naturally difficult to get on with other people.
Thanet council in Kent provides a good example of this. It was the only council that under Nigel Farage's leadership UKIP ever won control of. Within a few months they had lost control through resignations, then they regained control after a couple of by-elections only to lose control again a few months later with further resignations.
You would have thought having won control of their first ever council UKIP would have made as much effort as possible to provide it as a showcase to the wider electorate, and they probably did.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-37132927
If we do end up with a Tory-Reform government in four and a half years time I expect very similar levels of division, bickering, and lack of tolerance, within the government.
he risked turning the party into a “personality cult”.
Is that the correct spelling…?
I think more or less the same criticism has been made of Farage’s ‘leadership’ in UKIP as well wasn’t it?
Something I like about that is apparently the original leader of UKIP was basically forced out by Farage and a couple of others since they were concerned he was dictatorial and it was all about him.
Worked well that didnt it?
Is that the correct spelling…?
What - 'Kent'?
I see the little frog faced turd has washed up on the shore of his latest grift
****s.
Meanwhile the world melts, drowns or burns. Take your pick.
Wow! Utterly utterly morally bankrupt. What kind of dead black hearts must they have to be able to look at their own reflections in the mirror.
https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/PRG2413P/2000-ad-prog-2413-christmas-2024
In that issue of 2000 AD Farage gets arrested and accidentally executed by the Strontium Dogs.
This made me smile
I don't think they have reflections?
I think most of the UK population think climate change is real and that we need to do something about it, so Farage coming out all conspiracy theory about it might make them a lot less popular!?
Farage doesn't follow public opinion though. Or political consensus. He makes money out of trying to change it. Or rather, "break it".
so Farage coming out all conspiracy theory about it might make them a lot less popular!?
They don't need to be popular in general, they need to be popular to a smaller set who they can coax to the polls. With turnouts at UK elections being so crap, having a horde of rabid followers is super useful!
I think what that lot have seen over the past few years, especially in the US, is that the hard of thinking are very happy to hand over wads of cash to "the cause" if it gives a sense of being involved in the fight against the other side.
By aligning with the climate change deniers, Reform are positioning themselves to extract as much money as they can from our home-grown dimwits.They'd be all about Flat Earth if there were more of them to rinse.
rabid followers
Which is why, when you point out to them...
He has a great business model. He can say what he likes in the sure fire knowledge that he will never have to do anything. He has persuaded a lot of people to give him money to do this. It’s a hugely successful enterprise
They get all aggressive and start threatening you.
Because...
dimwits
It's a magnificent stitch-up he's got going.
Saw this today - it's just *chefs kiss
Oh that is, it makes me very happy indeed for all sorts of reasons. Happy post
He can say what he likes in the sure fire knowledge that he will never have to do anything.
Which on the flipside does present a problem if they get a decent number of MPs in future/start winning councils.
Currently they can just whine away but if they do get a good vote then they will start being expected to deliver.
Something they managed to avoid as UKIP in Europe since the press didnt pay much attention and they could blame johnny foreigner anyway.
Sounds like he wants to join the Labour party now so that he can be the ambassador to the US