When do you think the people of Clacton will realise they’ve been used?

  • jonesy@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Speaking to the Mirror about the Arizona speech this weekend, Farage said he was honouring a longstanding commitment “because I am not the sort of person who lets people down, otherwise you get a terrible reputation”

    Oh yes, that’s how.

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      3 months ago

      What do you bet that Donald Trump doesn’t even know his name? I can’t imagine he’s really a great rallyer for Trump I mean the Americans aren’t going to know who he is.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    Excuse me you seem to have put nigel farges face on my feed.

    I’ll accept an apology whenever you can get around to it.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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      3 months ago

      We may need some automated trigger warning when his name is posted here.

      That said, the Garudian does seem to specialise in thumbnail photos of him that make him look like a smug toad. Or is that just his resting git face?

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        3 months ago

        By some horribly bad timing, I once saw him in real life, and yes, he’s every bit that gormless.

  • Baggins
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    3 months ago

    Nigel Farage is Donald Trump’s Grima Wormtongue.

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      3 months ago

      we shall milkshake him on the beaches, we shall milkshake him on the landing grounds, we shall milkshake him in the fields and in the streets, we shall milkshake him in the hills; we shall never surrender

    • JohnSmith
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      3 months ago

      Too many. And people of Clacton got what they deserved as they voted him in.

    • Echo Dot
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      He’s doing far more to damage Reform’s reputation than anyone else could have ever hoped to do. Tice was an idiot to let him on board, as it’s clear that he only cares about himself, but then again tice is an idiot.

  • lemmus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    His character and conduct should come as no surprise. Clacton knowingly voted for this.

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      That must be something in the water because every time the news interviews any of them they’re all as thick as bricks.

      “He’s a man of the people”, no he’s not, he’s a multi-millionaire.

      “He speaks truth to power”, again no he does not, he’s literally never done that because that would involve doing his job which he’s never done. He didn’t do it when he was in MEP why would he do it as an MP?

      There’s even some fat old guy saying he was a WASP which is an old '90s White supremacists phraseology. So not only is he out of date he’s also a racist great combo.

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        There’s even some fat old guy saying he was a WASP

        Farage is not an Anglo-Saxon surname, and he has non-English ancestors besides the alleged Huguenot. As for whether he’s Catholic or Protestant, it’s unlikely he attends any religious ceremony any more than he attends the European Parliament or the House of Commons. That would require effort.

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    3 months ago

    Conservative populism is going to fail in the states. It would have a direct effect on his megaphone.

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    The US has a lot to answer for, but there’s no way they’ve done anything so heinous as to have deserved this.