Even if he does quit he’ll be back in a couple of years just before the next election as head of the Gammons for change party.
Nigel Farage - Reform leader
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This just screams of something dark and disturbing going on in the background. The next election probably offers Farage the best chance he’ll ever get of winning an election. Why would he give that up? Why would his supporters give that up?
I may be totally wrong, but it wouldn’t surprise me if, in the next couple of weeks something profoundly disturbing comes out about historic things he’s done.
I may be totally wrong, but it wouldn’t surprise me if, in the next couple of weeks something profoundly disturbing comes out about historic things he’s done.
Waiting for the 'It's a witch-hunt comments.'. He will use this as a threat against the media. Hopefully they will double down, the issue isn't going away that easily.
Will be a letdown if he's just bleating apart a bit of scrutiny and it's not something bigger.
Is it going to be shown live anywhere?
All will take it, Sky, BBC etc.
He's not resigning otherwise it would have leaked by now but also seems Reform MPs are promoting the statement time
He is going to make it us vs them and basically say he is being targeted for 'speaking the truth' and it's all impacting his family. He will again lie about Sky News approaching his family. His fans will lap it up
BUT he is setting up the option to resign if needed
He is going to make it us vs them and basically say he is being targeted for 'speaking the truth' and it's all impacting his family. He will again lie about Sky News approaching his family. His fans will lap it up
BUT he is setting up the option to resign if needed
I think the best explanation on why he would walk away is that he never intended/wants to be PM. It's much more lucrative (as these allegations show) for him to take money from bungs/side hussles/"donations" than from an actual parliamentary job. Grifting and being a professional
If he's getting this worked up over relatively minor scrutiny, he knows it would be 10x worse in actual government. That and more stressful.
I don't think he'll walk at this stage, but deep down I don't think he wants all that entails with the job.
He’s probably smart enough to know that if he actually tried to apply any of his Trump-esque rhetoric as PM he’d crash and burn quicker than Liz Truss, the last person who tried it. And the subsequent reputational damage would hurt his ability to con little old ladies out of their life savings, which is his real life’s work.
Please god let this be true
Yep - similar to the Boris brexit play.
Back the underdog, shit yourself when you fall backwards into power.
Ugh, the talk he's expected to 'come out fighting' is a letdown.
if he's standing down I might have a glass of wine
I've put some champagne in the fridge just in case
Where is the unpunctual prick? The BBC padding is tedious.
The address is being broadcast directly by Reform UK on its YouTube channel and will be carried by the BBC. Members of the media, including from the BBC, will not be present to put questions to Farage.
What statesmanship.
What statesmanship.
I don't really get this situation - surely someone can simply verify if he has or has not broken the law/rules?
He is under investigation by a Commons committee, so they will be able to do the latter.
...skip to the end...
He;s not quitting is he?
Needs bigger flags.
Nope. His fans will lap this up
Nothing of substance just him playing the victim and saying how great he is and how much money he’s made.
I had two tier policing on my bingo card
Is there a point to this Trumpian rant?
The most amplified and media-coddled politician in modern times claims to be victimised just because he's facing the tiniest bit of scrutiny for the first time in his career
The Times thing with publishing the location of his daughter's house is pretty vile to be fair to him. Still a cnut, but that is awful.
The real point of this is now - the Labour bash
"... and as always, England prevails!"
I wore my watch to work this morning... what the F is he on about?
He resigned as MP but will run in by-election
He blamed Sky News for that but they haven't done anything of the sort. He's also had press pictures outside the house before.
Quitting in order to win his seat back.
He thinks that's going to save him, deary me.
Performative nonsense.
A vanity by-election. Maybe Farage can get one of his mystery donors to pay for it instead of the taxpayer
Except the Standards investigation can restart when he is reelected and then force him into a recall election.
How much faith do we have in the Clacton electorate doing the right thing?
Complete stunt. With standing down there is no standards investigation as he is no longer an MP
Another Reform politician quits for a by-election. We've had Reform Councillors do the same. Thousands of pounds pissed down the drain.
He's just hitting all the points his fans get hard one for. Boats, London's a warzone etc...