Nigel Farage - Reform leader

TheGame said:
The racist cnut was absolutely rattled on interviews this morning when asked about his £5m. The tiniest bits of scrutiny and he collapes.



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Ferrari seeming almost embarrassed to be having to ask the old boy about it.
 
TheGame said:
The racist cnut was absolutely rattled on interviews this morning when asked about his £5m. The tiniest bits of scrutiny and he collapes.



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Just saw this, absolutely brilliant. What an utter odious toad. I can't imagine he's very pleasant to work with either, I wonder if we'll start seeing members of the reform party leaving.
 
Farage - "I have been physically the most attacked and endagered politician"

It's not the ugly gammon fascism but the crybully snowflakism that'll kill ya.
 
TheGame said:
Thought he’d sneak in behind the Starmer story and doesn’t realise he can fob this off like his other issues.

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Yes I had the pleasure of listening to Farage being held to account and he very quickly got rattled. So you can be given £5m by one of his awfully rich mates who has a vested interest in crypto currency and it is nothing to do with anyone.
I bet some people here are interested in crypto currency but no one has given them £5m.

Farage has a good chance of becoming PM. But we are not allowed to ask him embarrassing questions.
 
Mike Smalling said:
Yeah, it was Jo Cox I thought about, but had forgotten the name. Crazy state of affairs that two MPs have been murdered in a decade or so, and then you have this balloon claiming to be the most physically attacked.
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It's just more trumpism. Trump himself said he was the most attacked and persecuted president in US history whilst sat in front of a statue of the famously assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
 
TheGame said:
Thought he’d sneak in behind the Starmer story and doesn’t realise he can fob this off like his other issues.

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His attempted comebacks were pathetic. Like suggesting the interviewer should give up his salary because that's exactly the same as a mystery £5m donation. And saying that the same donor gave money to Jonnson - aka the most cluelessly corrupt PM this country has ever had - as if that somehow makes it better?
 
TheGame said:
You, can you look over there and stop looking at the £5m.

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Everything is deliberate.

Complaints about 'family voting' and now left wing pressure groups 'illegally spending'. There is a massive victim narrative being built, which will focus on elites robbing ordinary people of their voice. Their voice of course is Farage.
 
Buster15 said:
Yes I had the pleasure of listening to Farage being held to account and he very quickly got rattled. So you can be given £5m by one of his awfully rich mates who has a vested interest in crypto currency and it is nothing to do with anyone.
I bet some people here are interested in crypto currency but no one has given them £5m.

Farage has a good chance of becoming PM. But we are not allowed to ask him embarrassing questions.
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The lack of transparency with funding and politicians in general is of paramount importance to the public. For years we know Tory/Labour have been getting/giving hand outs, now Reform are in the ascendancy they will be benefiting in the same way from people who want to further their own individual goals.

Part of it is inevitable - Harborne wants more favourable crypto laws as it will benefit him but, despite the fact he is British, he is not a tax resident from what I can see and so should be barred from any kind of political donation or gift. I think that is the easiest way around this kind of thing - as we need rich people to donate to all parties and all will have vested interests - but we have to ensure people giving money over a certain threshold actually reside and pay tax in the UK. Then at least we have some kind of oversight of their finances and there's less murkiness.
 
TheGame said:
When you've lost Julia Hateful B***ard, just give it up.

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In fairness to JHB, she has her moments. Few and far between, but still.

Was listening to Ferrari this morning and you had the typical Reform dolts calling in to say it doesn't matter, that it's none of our business that prospective PMs are receiving hidden £5m donations. Completely vacuous.

Love seeing Farage getting repeatedly wound up over this though. It's a story that won't go away.
 
A tough few weeks for Reform. First Pochin and her incredibly stupid remarks about the England football team and violence against women. Then the snake Farage reared his ugly head again from hiding when Starmer resigned, hoping to jump on that bandwagon, only to be completely annihilated by the media about this 5m bung. What glorious viewing that was!

Then we found out on Question Time that self appointed 'shadow home secretary' Zia Yusuf wasnt picked by his own party to stand in a by-election. Oh how I chucked.

I've been listening to a few political podcasts and they've mentioned the possibility of Farage stepping down. Personally I cant see it as without him, Reform doesnt exist. What do we think? Is this the beginning of the end of Reform or just a blip?
 
Ayoba said:
A tough few weeks for Reform. First Pochin and her incredibly stupid remarks about the England football team and violence against women. Then the snake Farage reared his ugly head again from hiding when Starmer resigned, hoping to jump on that bandwagon, only to be completely annihilated by the media about this 5m bung. What glorious viewing that was!

Then we found out on Question Time that self appointed 'shadow home secretary' Zia Yusuf wasnt picked by his own party to stand in a by-election. Oh how I chucked.

I've been listening to a few political podcasts and they've mentioned the possibility of Farage stepping down. Personally I cant see it as without him, Reform doesnt exist. What do we think? Is this the beginning of the end of Reform or just a blip?
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A little from column a and a little from column b.

I think they're inevitably going to lose some slightly more normal supporters to Tories or even the odd one to Labour and some of the mad ones to Restore.

I've always said that the polls that seemed to suggest they were gonna win the next General Election were way off the mark. I think they'll inevitably drop off a fair bit but will maintain a decent level of support and get to a similar number of MPs as the Lib Dems with maybe a higher level of "wins" at a local level (councillors/mayoral races etc).
 
Reform will eventually eat itself because the councillors and a lot of their would be MPs are just stupid people who will fall out with each other rather than compromise on things they don't quite see the same.

They can rile people up with the immigration blame game, but of course once you're in power, even at a local level, you have to start confronting and making decisions on the full spectrum of governance and facing the scrutiny that comes with it. Farage struggled with it so you can imagine how some of the half brains they've put in councillor seats will be coping.
 
For anyone who voted to leave the EU based on what Farage was promising, which parts of it has come to fruition
 
Buster15 said:
For anyone who voted to leave the EU based on what Farage was promising, which parts of it has come to fruition
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Isn't this like asking Trump voters how he has improved their lives? I would imagine that the majority of people that voted to leave will not ever critically evaluate their vote based on facts. It's more about leaving itself that the actual implications of leaving. Feelings over facts, so to say.
 
Ayoba said:
A tough few weeks for Reform. First Pochin and her incredibly stupid remarks about the England football team and violence against women. Then the snake Farage reared his ugly head again from hiding when Starmer resigned, hoping to jump on that bandwagon, only to be completely annihilated by the media about this 5m bung. What glorious viewing that was!

Then we found out on Question Time that self appointed 'shadow home secretary' Zia Yusuf wasnt picked by his own party to stand in a by-election. Oh how I chucked.

I've been listening to a few political podcasts and they've mentioned the possibility of Farage stepping down. Personally I cant see it as without him, Reform doesnt exist. What do we think? Is this the beginning of the end of Reform or just a blip?
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Reform will never run the country, but could well be around a long time to make it impossible for anyone else to do so effectively.

It's the 'elephant in the room' that arguably became bolstered within Brexit (but didn't end with it) that drew many 'red wall' areas into Reforms grasp.

Andy Burnham (if he is able) to bring back a large majority of 'red wallers' (in or out of actual red wall constituencies ) which of course Labour is now claiming he did in Makerfield, then that could be the beginning of the end for Reform, on its own; but could also be the move towards a Tory/Reform/Respect coalition of the Right, further down the road possibly for 2029, that is unless Labour under Burnham is returned for another 5 years, which is what the new PM seems to be asking for!

I suspect a lot will be determined how many Greens/Lib-Dems will 'fall on their swords' in 2029 (as they did in Makerfield) to help Andy out?
 
i think it’s quite clear why his account at Coutts was closed at the time. The Times investigation shows some very strong alleged links to money launderers. It’s nothing unsurprising, just all the same things Carole Cadwalladr has been saying for some time.
 
About time journalists did their job.
 
There have been multiple incidents before but this just feels different this time.

Previously, these things just bounced off Farage, he reacted confidently and came out unscathed and more popular than before. This time he's clearly rattled. I think he's going to step down.
 
He is not dealing with this one bit well, great to see and hope the pressure continues to build.
 
No chance he's going imo. Surely far more likely he doubles down given that seems to be in the populist playbook ever more in recent years.
 
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