Not necessarily. He thinks that the only votes worth chasing are the right wing ones, because the Overton window has moved so much rightwards, that the elections are won in that space. Maybe also the media, fuelled by right wing money, are not going to stop supporting Farage's narrative, ever.
More like those who voted for them and their manifestoes ...
If the money was on the other side he'd talk accordingly...
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I'm hopeful. The libdems might be holding their cards until closer to the elections ...
Ops, ... Gove
This kind of article pays well. If defending the rights of Palestinians paid better, Government would write accordingly.
Being entertaining is a prerequisite. Speaking simpleton-ese is another, ...
... but they are still dangerous and sought after by both Labour and the Tories.
Just trying to put the feet in as many shoes as possible. Be right wing but also left wing, pro Brexit but negotiating as much as possible with the EU.
youtu.be/7AzimrAgWbA?...
Absolutely. Trump, Farage, Boris Johnson, Berlusconi, Milei, are all "entertaining" celebrities and pushing stunts all the time. The media love it, because it creates controversy and audience. When will the other (our) side understand that? Competence is not enough to win, ...
... but the reform voters are determined and will vote compact. The opposite front, not so much. The risk of Farage as PM, maybe with the support of the Conservatives, is real, given the FPTP system, ...
How does it feel being behind the iron curtain?
And Murdoch, and Rothermere, and the Heritage Foundation, and 55 Tufton Street, etc
... problem is, the right wing populists have a powerful amplification system, compared to ours
The Corporate Media Coup: How the Establishment is Engineering a Farage Premiership dorseteye.com/the-corporat...
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No, Newsom is brilliant in his own way, the others should use other creative ways ...
Do you have some interesting questions for Nigel that you would like were asked by real journalists? Mine would be "Which of the Trump's policies you would implement in the UK if you became PM?"
So much for Farage supporting his constituents of Clacton as he is set to skip Parliament's return to cosy up with Donald Trump's allies As Parliament returns from recess on 1 September, Nigel Farage will be in Washington DC speaking at a right-wing conference www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
And it inevitably clashes against other nationalisms
It's all about the Overton window moved right more and more since the 2008 crash. The liberal, "globalised" market has not delivered on its promises, therefore messages to the contrary (protectionistic nationalism) got more and more traction. Who is behind all of that?
If the war continues, on the other hand, Putin and the EU depend on Trump's whims, and Europe has to purchase huge amounts of US weaponry that can be "switched off" from Washington. Not to mention the purchase of LPG from the US, to replace the Russian gas.
... and Putin's successor might be not be friendly to Trump & MAGA. If the war ended in Russia's favour, Putin might reinforce the bond with China and the BRICS, and, coming out as a victor, attract arms purchases away from the US.
The war in Ukraine serves several of Trump's aims: first and foremost, decouple Russian energy from China and break up the BRICS, then weaken and subjugate the EU. If the Ukraine ended in Ukraine's favour, Russia would get even closer to China and the EU would gain territory and resources.
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Russia will not agree to a peace where all of the occupied territory will be handed back to Ukraine. That level of failure would be a death sentence on Putin.
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Migrants can't answer back. They have no voice. So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue. In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess. That is what is really going on here.
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He'll either rig the elections or suspend it because of a 'state of emergency'.
Do you really think that he and his cohort will give up power so easily?
In order to confront the dictatorship of the proletariat in China, first he's establishing the dictatorship of the billionaires. A necessary next step is to decouple China from the Russian energy; the piece of red meat for Putin is the Donbass & Donetsk regions. No minerals or territory to Europe.
I am afraid it will be for some time
Trump's prime enemy is China. Second is the EU. Russia provides gas and energy to China. Reward Putin with half of Ukraine and make sure that its minerals conveniently go to the US and certainly not the EU. Why would the Trump's USA neutralise the Russian menace, if it serves it so well?
Tey have in the past, ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Ti... and probably ready to do it again, if needed to save their red tinted oligarchy
Trump's USA has also joined the autocratic regimes (dictatorships in all respects) and is actively promoting right wing populists, with the tools of the social media and their oligarchs masters.
China is also a Russian and Indian ally, at the moment ... in factthe EU is more alone than ever, as China is anything but a democracy.
Yep
Trump is not an ally to the EU, if anything, he's an ally to Putin to the extent of breaking up or severely crippling the EU.
... while Putin sees Ukraine's accession to the EU, and eventually NATO, as the last nail in the coffin to his ambitions to be remembered as the leader who restored the Russian sphere of influence. This is where Trump's and Putin's interests overlap.
Why would Trump want the war in Ukraine to end on terms that are in Europe's advantage? His aim is, and always was, to weaken the EU and make it subservient to the US. A permanent peace and Ukrainian territorial integrity means the enlargement of the EU, with energy and a lot of land, ...
The way things are going, the next PM will be Farage, ...
He is provoking the blue cities with his ICE goons; as soon as one of these will be injured or, even worse, killed, he'll declare the martial law.
There is a wealthy network all over the world, ... see Balfour declaration
And piles of money
Any links to Cambridge Analytica?
And, given the fptp system, they are likely to win, if reform is the largest party in many constituencies. Rejoiners are fragmented between Libdems, Greens, SNP, Plaid. Labour is a leave party but we'll vote it, if necessary, to keep Farage out.
I don't know, I'm not an American, I can only guess that keeping firearms was useful in the 18th century
I thought that you kept so many firearms for that very reason ... 2nd amendment, etc.
The way things are at the moment, which party will put rejoin in their manifesto? In particular, the libdems might get a lot of traction: perhaps they're holding their cards to their chests until the last year before the next election...
After the referendum, there were three elections and every time a brexitist party won: "get brexit done", "make brexit work", plus, at the moment, not a single party is advocating rejoining. I despair.
Of course the left side of labour are ignored because their votes are taken for granted and, in the worst case scenario, greens and libdems would form a coalition with labour to stop the far right and, in any case, they are not seen as a threat, coming the time of the next elections.
I think that they are playing a very dangerous game. Letting Farage preach from all platforms and then mimicking his soundbites might push Reform and the Tories in a "who is more right wing" competition (e.g. "shoot'em on the beaches"). At that point the moderates will flock to Labour.
Please recover! We need your cleaning up work here ...
Is he competing with Ceauscescu or Kim Yong Un?
... rich people always find ways to cooperate in order to defend their wealth. Poor people never seem to agree on which way to fight poverty ...
He's an extreme right winger, he will find, together with the other similar minded billionaires, a less brutish alternative to Trump, who is making them lose money. These people are not friends, they use each other but their utilitarian approach works better than the 'principled' opposition.
How do you suggest to attack them on their strong positions? Trying to convince people that immigration is a good thing? They don't buy it. The major parties, currently, are trying to out-farage Reform but I can'tsee any form of frontal attack.
Well, their strong spot is immigration, basically, and it taps deep into people's lizard brain (different = enemy; poor = after my wealth).
Who's the owner of the Times?
Agreed. By letting him win the debate, though, they might actually open for him the door of n. 10. I think that not only the media value his presence in their space, they (e.g. Murdoch, Rothermere, ... ) also actually want him in power
The problem is that those who still want their hard brexit will compactly vote for Farage. Those who want a bland brexit, a tight alignment with the EU, rejoin with the old conditions or even rejoin with the € and Schengen are divided and fragmented.
The EU failed to fix the roof when the weather was fair, now it's raining from the east and from the west ...
Yes, I was exaggerating a bit, however, there is a serious chance that Farage will win the next election, the way things are going. Lots of people like Nigel and hate Brexit but they fail to make the connection
... on tv and the media in general (tiktok, youtube), please find somebody good ...
The pedantic magistrate is good when it comes to law-making (albeit after the online security bill I'm not too sure), also on the international stage and the h. of c. question time but, ...
The same happened with Boris. Labour needs to put forward people who cut through the screen.
I am afraid you are spot on ... they have the memory span of a goldfish. They also love Farage because he speaks 'simple'; the media fuel reform Ltd, in part because they are financed by far right billionaires, in part because Nigel is 'entertaining'.
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/06...
news.sky.com/story/reform...
In other polls, 2/3 would vote Reform, ... which polls are we supposed to believe?
There seem to be no appetite to challenge reform seriously. It shouldn't be at all difficult to poke reform in their weak spots (e.g. Brexit, Trump, Putin, economic plans ...). Associating Farage with Jimmy Savile, instead, is so inept that it looks like it's meant to boost Farage's popularity.
A left wing Farage ...
In the good old days, when men were men, wars culled the surplus
How many of these crop up, say, monthly?
I am not American, nor I live there, but, ... what are the chances of her winning the next elections (assuming they'll take place at all)?
Apart from the well known fact that logistics is as important as the weaponry, ... how about hardening the IT infrastructure and punishing the media and the politicians that peddle hostile propaganda?
The poacher turned game-keeper? He is not somebody who believes in what he writes. He writes what his masters want; he knows how the populist media work, maybe it's a good move to actually beat reform at their own game. Maybe instead Labour is morphing into something between reform and the tories.
Is your privacy valuable to you? If so, it's a commodity to be traded, like water, to be handed over to the fat cats. Privacy and citizens' ownership of it are an anomaly to be parted as soon as possible.
If I recollect well, internet / social media would have given us more freedom and would have kept the power in check... if only
I don't understand why he used the Epstein files so much while campaigning, knowing at the same time that he was implicated, too. I think that some powerful people have had enough of his antics and, despite being on the far right political spectrum, they have lost too much money, by now.
Also there is a wall of lawyers and even bodyguards, ...
... and hate also goes together well with greed and selfishness
Russia has nukes
A former poacher hired as gamekeeper?
I agree with you, but, in a competition between populists, who is more likely to win, at the moment? I fear it's Farage...
What I don't understand is why he pushed the Epstein conspiracy, if he knew that he was implicated, too.
... and who do you think is more likely to be that someone, at the next general election: Corbyn or Farage?
What is shocking is that such people, so often, are rich in power. Ok, one was born rich, but not the other. Maybe in order to climb so high, A) one has to be ruthless and selfish to the extreme (a sociopath), or B) the cohort of such individuals at the top help each other ... maybe both
Will he be given a shed in Mar a lago?
How many marxists, in history, have been killed, incarcerated, betrayed, prosecuted by other marxists?
Here is a pertinent link youtu.be/WboggjN_G-4?...
If we are to invest gazillions to re-arm against the external (mainly russian) threat, when is the government launching a deep and robust investigation into the foreign (not just russian) interference in the UK's democratic processes? I'd expect some screeching from the opposition benches, ...
They should also crackdown on corporate donations and cap private donations.
Conspiracies apart, Farage is entertaining and, with his presence, raises the audience of any program he participates in.
Conspiracies apart, Farage is entertaining and, with his presence, raises the audience of any program he participates in.