Nigel! Farage!

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/10/reform-uk-councillors-to-resign-over-nigel-farage-leadership

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.

Came to post the BBC link to the councillors quitting story. Doesn’t surprise me that my neighbouring town has a large number of Reform councillors, we were the heartland of the BNP 20 years ago and elected the first UKIP MEP.

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

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/15/farage-and-truss-attend-uk-launch-of-us-climate-denial-group-heartland

Richard Tyce is presently on Five Live saying that Reforms policy is that climate change is a hoax and all net zero targets should be scrapped

They really are just a crap MAGA tribute act

****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.

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

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

Nigel Farage took offence at this man’s British citizenship ceremony and of all the comebacks this one shouted loudest

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

The Mail on Sunday front page suggests Trumps team are backing Farage as revenge for Labour sending people over to support Harris.

No idea how that will be received by their readers. Maybe that’s the right kind of foreign interference.

Lord Far Far.

If Far Far does a visit to Scotland ,I really hope I get the chance to use my ( Jane Godley style) protest sign.

Speaking of “reform” patriots since Tice isnt worthy of his own thread.

I see Tice is showing his deep love of Skegness by his family moving there to really make sure they are embedded in their local community.

Ah, sorry, my mistake they have moved to Dubai.