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In other words…..no.
Sorry, forgot BBC is not on this platform 😡
Your headline should be “Free speech” Farage lied to congress.
‘He was almost urging the US government to impose worse trading relations on the UK.’ Iain Dale and Imran Ahmed react to Nigel Farage’s ‘treacherous’ comments in Congress, claiming free speech is under threat.
He should be arrested by men with guns when he lands back at Heathrow and charged with treason.
To tell the truth
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Is this for real?
I hope this man is a front runner for the Democrats because he is more than a match for our Trump (not very good) impersonator.
Jamie Raskin dubs Farage a "Putin loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant" m.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBA...
He swore an oath at the beginning of the session then lied about banning journalists at the party conference this weekend
He swore an oath at the beginning of the session
Didn’t he swear an oath to tell the truth at the beginning?
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Hope you show Mr Johnson’s questioning too
Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
You are entitled to your opinion just as I’m entitled to mine.
This is absolutely brilliant
The truth might never have been known but for Raynor asking for the injunction to be lifted showing admirable transparency. She has admitted a mistake. Are you going to follow the example of the Daily Mail hounding this women until we learn the judgement of the ethics commissioner?
What a load of rubbish
House prices are low and landlords are leasing 2 bedroomed terraced homes once rented and owned by young people to Serco. Local people are now competing with asylum seekers and refugees for these homes. Deprived areas are made poorer, there are more homeless and all you argue for is for more.
You cannot ignore what has happened in this country over the last years. Wigan Borough, which includes Leigh has a council house waiting list of 12000. In 2021 there were 107 HMOs and in 2025 there are over 285 with more than 30 in Leigh town centre. This is a deprived area.
Should no one fly the English flag because hooligans are trying to appropriate it? What’s your solution? Is everyone flying a flag racist? Will you ever fly an English flag even though you are English?
Isn’t that what they should be doing?
Nothing about leaving NATO in this. Another “mistake” or Green policy?
Can you be hypnotised via TV or video?
Will he leave NATO and scrap our nuclear deterrent leaving us defenceless?
What do people on this thread suggest that English people do? Have no flag at all? Let the hooligans define what an English flag means? Is it patriotic to mock the flag in your view? Are you saying that all people who fly the flag are racist?
What’s wrong with that?
Can anyone on this thread tell me what you would do to solve this problem. Where would you house asylum seekers - in hotels, HMOs, military camps? Where in the country? Where would you house refugees once given permission to remain? In deprived areas or affluent areas? Areas low employment vs high?
Miss you from the Guardian so cant read you as much now but what you are saying about local vs national government is so right
Sky News comes out with a brilliant report about right wing racism and who do you on this platform criticise? 🤔 Sky News 🤷♀️
My philosophy has always been “I’ve started so I’ll finish” until a couple of months ago when I abandoned a book after the first chapter. I feel so liberated!
The reason the government is putting a freeze on family reunions is that it is putting huge pressure on councils who have to accommodate them. This puts refugees in competition with local families who also require housing. The pressure is on low value/low rent houses - I wonder where they are 🤔
They are disrespectful of the values the flag represents.
I agree - it’s not their fault but it’s not the fault of local residents either. It is the fault of the last government who let this system get out of control but it is also the fault of this government who have pitted local councils against government contractors when bidding for accommodation.
How is it punching down on asylum seekers? It’s an explanation not an excuse for government policies.
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This Farage rent a yob are today’s equivalent of football hooligans. People who went to football matches were all viewed in the same light just as people who object to the existence of asylum hotels are all racists.
I put “flag” instead of country because I ran out of letters and couldn’t be bothered to add another comment. If that’s your only thing you can say then fair enough.
What’s wrong with displaying an England flag? Did you object when the women’s football won this summer? There were flags everywhere. It’s people disrespecting the flag that causes problems. The far right should not be allowed to appropriate it and you shouldn’t be called racist for loving your flag.
“Country “
The flag is a huge symbol of our county. Some people devalue the flag and bring shame to the country. Some countries put people in jail (or worse) for defacing the flag. I’m not advocating that but it is the abuse of the flag that should be condemned.
The list of media casualties in the guardian today is very moving. Allow international journalists into Gaza.
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It’s a horrible choice I agree - leave behind a child in a war zone, claim asylum in a safe county or try to cross the channel. It’s a choice I’m glad I don’t have to make.
I wouldn’t leave my child behind. I would try to get the child to safety. That is my point of view so don’t judge me just as I respect your different point of view.
Wealthy homeless people? Do you mean people who have been evicted from properties because they cannot afford the rent? Single parents? The council is competing with the government. Serco leases houses from landlords that normally would be rented or owned by young people. Ask Burnham what he thinks.
And leave a small child behind in a war zone?
Why would a parent leave a small child in a war zone to flea to safety here?
It’s not people punching themselves in the face it’s the slow realisation that all politicians are liars.
At the very minimum it should be on both.
In deprived areas where houses are cheap and rents are low. Asylum seekers offer no benefit economically and councils are pitted against the government for accommodation. Local homeless vs migrants, local renters/purchasers vs Serco. Levelling down not up.
Wigan and Leigh are former mining towns decimated by Thatcher. Things got worse under Labour and the Tories so people thought they had nothing to lose by believing change would come by voting for Brexit. Johnson promised levelling up and now asylum seekers are being placed disproportionately
Punishment then?
Introducing people who do not contribute to the local economy into deprived areas is not levelling up it is levelling down.
You cannot ignore the legitimate concerns of people in this country. In Wigan Borough in 2021 there were 107 HMOs, there are now more than 285 - a 265% increase. There are 12000 people on the council house waiting list. Wigan council is competing with Serco to house local homeless people.
Calling people stupid will really advance your cause
Where did you come from? What indigenous tribe?
Free speech and the right to offend. If you don’t like it suppress it. All newspapers should be up in arms about this, but they won’t.
Let international reporters into Gaza
Brave woman
Who’s paying for all these flags?
I have just finished reading his biography and I honestly don’t know what his values are. I don’t understand why he chose to leave a huge job to become an MP. What’s his vision for the country? He’s in the driving seat but won’t tell us where he’s going.
Tony Blair did a lot to help then.
Brilliant!
The government was told to spend billions after COVID to try to undo the damage caused by lockdown. They didn’t.
So to boycott a person who could trash our economy in an instance for the sake of him being “holier than thou” might be right for you but not the country.
So he shouldn’t go as well?
Please try to frame your argument in language people can understood. I consider myself quite literate but who are you trying to convince? What are you saying?
What a load of holier than thou nonsense, as if is going to make any difference to ending the genocide in Gaza.
Why and who are people paying for these polls? They are meaningless indicators of something that may or may not happen 3 years from now.
With who?
I don’t understand a word you have just said
I don’t understand why they don’t use both. By not posting on both platforms and importantly not listening to the commentary on Bluesky they are getting a skewed view of public opinion.
Accommodation is? In deprived areas and as Burnham says, it’s immigration policy on the cheap (my words). It takes local housing away from local people and sees a proliferation of HMOs. There is no economic benefit to the community and it is “levelling down” not up. Racism is not the only cause.
Left. Johnson came along promising “levelling up” which was a blatant lie but it at least gave people hope. The Conservatives then adopted policies to place asylum seekers in hotels and “dispersal” accommodation. This is also Labour policy although they vow to close hotels. Guess where the dispersal
I live in a former cotton mill and mining town where everyone in my youth voted labour. I suspect the majority voted for Brexit not because they believed all the racist propaganda but because they thought it couldn’t get any worse. They also railed against being patronised and called racist by the
What, by sanctioning another land grab, this time by Israel.
But I don’t think they will get to more than 30% in the polls. I think that the last election was “anyone but the Tories” I hope the next election will be “anyone but Reform”. I think there should be a coalition of the willing on this topic to stop this vile collection of individuals.
Why don’t you just stop giving these people the publicity they crave. British people are better than this. We have values and to listen to Farage today showing no respect for our troops who fought and died in Afghanistan to be told they will pay the Taliban for god knows what is beyond evil.
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A 52/48 split will not make him PM. The country rose up to kick the Tories out. It will be anyone but Reform at the next election. We are better than a lot of people think.
No
What reform government? I don’t want to be told anything. I’ve already been told that we are on the brink of the breakdown of civilisation if you listen to both the left and right wing commentariat. These plans will never be supported by any other political party so how can he be PM?
This from a TV station that showed his full “party political broadcast” without live fact checking his lies. That said you have now recognised what he was doing, so what, as a TV station are you going to do about it? Give Labour, Lib Dems, Conservatives equal screen time?
Why? Their policies aren’t serious. Who would form a coalition with Farage? I don’t think the conservatives would as I just said. At least print or comment on what this government is doing as a counterbalance and it is more than just “smashing the gangs”. We are all better than this.
Are you telling me that there is a majority of people in this country that will vote for this man at the next election? I don’t believe that even the Conservatives would vote for a man who disrespects the families of the military who fought and died for this country in Afghanistan.
I’m not seething. I am sick of the msm magnifying this man’s views. He is not in power, it is more than 3 years to an election and even if he were made PM at the next election it would take years to implement these vile policies. You are playing right into his playbook.
Work for who? The families of the armed forces who fought and died in Afghanistan? I don’t think that even the Conservatives would vote with Farage for that.
The last election was run with “anything but the conservatives”. I’m hoping the next election will be “anything but reform”. If not we are stuffed!
Why are journalists taking these lies so seriously? You are playing into Farage’s rulebook. There is no such thing as bad publicity and you are magnifying vile plans. They are not going to happen - British people are better than him.
Thank you Bulgaria
"Are asylum seekers the biggest political issue in Britain?" Asks radio 4. "We interview man who is determined to make it the biggest issue in Britain. And make it a headline every morning until it definitely is"
Why are you giving so much attention to something that is not going to happen? Unless he is building secret detention centres, negotiating return agreements and renegotiating the GFA now it would take years to implement these plans should he become PM more than 3 years from now.
I listened to you live on the radio and thought you really made some good points. I really wish I’d been able to watch as well - didn’t realise you couldn’t talk without moving your arms at the same time 😂
It’s not just him it’s Jenrick and the Conservative Party as well in collaboration with the BBC, Sky and GB News. Today’s output amounted to more than an hours worth political party broadcast. They are magnifying vile views. The BBC at least should put up real time corrections to the lies.
That may make matters worse 😂