Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
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Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
Farage: "If I go back the last 25 years, I can't think of banning anybody. But I mean, maybe somebody else did." Ah, so the press office were acting without Farage's knowledge.
Under very tough questioning from Jamie Raskin, Nigel Farage says he does not think Reform has ever barred any journalists from its events. I *personally* know of some who have been.
Nearly two hours in, and the main lesson of this session has little to do with Farage. It's that the modern Republican party is utterly hollow. Democrats keep citing very real free speech issue under Trump and the Republican members make no mention of this at all.
Democrat member Hank Johnson is basically taking the piss out of Farage, asking how many seats he has in the Commons, and accusing him of trying to get money from Elon Musk. "You're trying to ingratiate yourself with the tech bros," Johnson says. Farage getting quite annoyed.
Farage: "You will be doing us and yourselves and all freedom-loving people a favour if your politicians and your businesses said to the British government, you've simply got this wrong." Not explicitly a call for sanctions, but certainly a call for some sort of action.
"There is not a free speech crisis in the UK. Keir Starmer has not shut down GB News," Ruskin says. Farage seems "most at home with the autocrats and dictators of this world", he adds. If he's serious about the Online Safety Act, he should be in parliament, he says, not here.
Jamie Raskin is also laying into censorship and suppression of the media under Trump. It's quite the opening statement.
Well, not entirely: senior Democrat committee member Jamie Raskin asks why they are hearing from Farage and not from people who have suffered real censorship in Russia or China. He also links Reform UK to the AfD and National Rally. Farage won't like that.
Opening the hearing, Republican chair Jim Jordan dismisses all attempts to limit misinformation on social media as “always used by the people in power to censor their critics”. This is the context and environment in which Farage will be speaking.
Speaking to Sky News ahead of his appearance before the US Houe Judiciary Committee, Nigel Farage talks about worries about the Online Safety Act and links it to the arrest of Graham Linehan. Linehan was arrested under the Public Order Act.
NB: This is literally what is happening to people arriving in Trump's America. And I understand that unlike the UK, you can count the US cases on more than 1 finger.
Yes, but reforming it to adapt it to this potentially massively different circumstance is far better than ‘leaving’ which appears to be what Zack would like to do.
I don’t think I would bother trying to influence a Party Leader interested in uniting with whatever ‘Magic Grandpa’ has in mind.
here's the clip. it's delicious.
Labour's weirdness over flags is deranged, not patriotic. It's like witnessing a nervous breakdown inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...
Jamie Raskin's speech (US Democrat) just before Farage appeared before US Congress was epic. Much more of this please. Preferably from British politicians.
You'll have to rewind a bit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyrN...
Jamie Raskin, who I’ve never heard of before but now has my regard. Talking about farage. Good words.
Jamie Raskin is a top bloke !
Jamie Raskin is a top bloke !
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For the second year in a row, Reform has banned me from attending its annual conference. So much for “free speech” etc. etc.
No reason offered. Called them, they asked to email. Emailed, they asked to call. Will continue tomorrow again. This is despicable. I have 27 events/meetings arranged at and around UNGA80.
Well, it's entirely pointless my talking to you then, isn't it. Anarchism is great, right until the moment you want 'anyone else' to pay attention to what you think. Ciao.
Don't know and don't know, and 'Not have bloody left beforehand'. If that Scumbag in the Whitehouse wants to leave NATO because Putin told him to do it, then make the Bastard do it himself, and make it as Painful and embarrassing for him as possible. And you DON'T do that by
Free Speech Loving Nigel Farage
Well you presumably Voted for him, so why don't you ? I would sincerely LOVE to Vote Green, but they're going to have to bloody well grow up a bit before I do.
Well he/she makes as little sense as one, then ? They literally used the exact same words as 'someone else' (?) a few seconds earlier ?
It does, in as much as the US Military swear an oath to uphold the constitution, and not simply and blindly obey their President.
So WHY does Zack want to go along with those Scumbags ?
No, but leaving now would be a bit like burning your house down so you don't have to renew your home insurance ? Yes, if Russia attacked, Trump might not help, but if we had left NATO already, then Russia attacking us would be ENTIRELY our own fault, - we couldn't even blame that Fat orange Slob !
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I put more faith in 'someone' in the US honouring Article 5 than I trust Putin not to attack us if we left NATO. Who do YOU trust more ? An American Military that is sworn to uphold their Constitution (NOT their President), or that short Russian Fucker who Bombs Schools ?
If Article 5 is a Sack of Shit, then WHY hasn't Putin attacked any NATO Countries ? What's stopping him ? Or is he just a lovely, lovely bloke, who has been sorely misunderstood, just because he's Murdered a few tens of thousands of Ukrainians, in his illegal War ?
Trump is Mortal.
Maybe you're just too predictable ?
No. And I don't trust either Zack or his mate 'Magic Grandpa' with our NATO membership, either. And really, you Bots should get a better scriptwriter.
commitment, you create opportunities for a scumbag like Putin to get around those T's&C's and so get away with it. No Thanks.
No I don't, and I don't trust Zack or his mate 'Magic Grandpa' with our NATO Membership. The point of NATO is that it's a rock solid commitment to defend each other against, let's face it, Russian attack, - so the moment you start adding 'Terms & Conditions' to that
mess of whatever Putin then tried to throw at us, with or without Donald 's help, on either side.
So what is the benefit of us leaving and making ourselves even more vulnerable ? Why give those Corrupt ignorant Fuckers in the Whitehouse (AND the Kremlin !) PRECISELY what they want ? At least if America left we'd still have the rest of Europe remaining, - and that would still make a big
Yes, and they probably want to leave NATO, - so let's not do them the favour of destroying NATO for them, lets make those Corrupt, ignorant Fuckwits do it themselves !
Brexit has been a nightmare for taxpayers. 🫣 ‘Wasted time, effort and money’: Britain’s £800M Brexit border debacle. https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-border-uk-taxes-labour-government/
Anyone who says that NATO is “past it” as an idea clearly hasn’t been paying attention for the last three Years and should probably ask Finland and Sweden why they just joined, after 80 Years of determined neutrality ? !
Mad me smile broadly ⬇️
Wait, what? You mean there isn't a simple explanation and it isn't all the government's fault? Surely not? @chrisgiles.ft.com on the UK's public finances www.ft.com/content/bd3d...
This is such a good piece, absolutely vital reading
This'll be very telling when he comes to speak. If Farage uses his appearance in front of that committee to encourage a foreign state to bully his own country, he'll have crossed a very specific line.
See through it.
Here’s a Clue: cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scale...
Asylum protests vs the local park run. @lgeraghty23.bsky.social runs the numbers for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
W.T.F ?
It’s why they wanted a ‘no deal’ Brexit …
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Bravo !
Bravo !
This is the hard-right 'National Conservatism' conference in the US that Farage was meant to speak at & missed his speaking slot. A gathering of demagogues, disinformation spinners, supremacists, xenophobes, bloviators & out & out con men & women. #NatCon
Nigel Farage was not present at the opening two days of the House of Commons missing a debate on asylum laws. He was absent as he was flying to the US to speak at a hard right 'National Conservatism' conference where he missed his speaking slot. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
62 yrs ago today, (Sep 3, 1963) Scotsman Ritchie-Calder says atmospheric CO2 up 10% in last century, will keep going up. "The ‘greenhouse effect’ [will] "radically affect the extent of glaciers and ice-caps with resultant rise in sea- and river-levels." allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/02/s...
Yes, his 'NATO is past it' position is going to switch off 'everyone' who has been paying attention for the last 3 Years, and his enthusiasm for 'Magic Grandpa', is going to switch off 'everyone else' ...
I’m struggling to see leaving NATO and co-operation with Corbyn as a popular platform.
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starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
The Bigots have found their new 'Brexit', haven't they ... If Starmer was smart, he'd just issue a low-key press release on Friday evening, saying we were going to rejoin, - and none of the knuckle-draggers would either notice or care ... 😉
Trump on moving Space Force base from Colorado: "The problem I have with Colorado -- they do mail in voting. They went to all mail in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections. And we can't have that."
Having listened to the first 40 minutes, it seems clear to me that he was expelled from Meta to avoid Trump taking revenge on them for his removal, and now he is desperate to keep his nose clean with them, so they re-hire him when Trump is gone.
If you watch the whole thing, when Kevin challenges Rylan and Susanna Reid on the myths and lies, Reid just repeats the same nonsense about migrants getting very good benefits. They get the absolute bare minimum. Far less than France.
GMB's Susannah Reid clearly furious with Kevin Maguire for telling the truth about asylum seekers. Maguire was right and correct to say that Reid's fellow ITV presenter Rylan Clark "regurgitated a load of myths and lies" about asylum seekers. Full item: youtu.be/PC7m5f_Ryp8?...
"Political Propaganda on Facebook doesn't work" - Said neither Donald Trump in 2016, or Dominic Cummings in 2016.
Oh yes, but with that sort of immaturity, they're just going to lose the votes of 'everyone' who has been paying attention over the last few Years ... I would personally LOVE to Vote Green, but there's still way too much tree-hugging stupidity with them (as well as blatant 'NIMBY'ism ...)
The Greens policy is apparently to stay in, but this article is what raised questions about Polanski for me ... bylinetimes.com/2025/05/08/g...
membership is a good thing, then the whole thing starts falling apart ...
That's okay, it's just that a big part of the strength of NATO comes from it being a 'no brainer', - that if any NATO Country were attacked, then the rest of NATO 'WOULD' come to its defence, no questions asked. So when you DO start asking 'questions' about whether our
No, us leaving NATO leaves the rest of NATO at Trump and Putin's mercy, and neither of them have ANY of that ... ! There's a reason that Sweden & Finland just joined NATO after Decades of determined neutrality ...
Put it this way, the Greens have been part of Governments in Germany for Years, if not decades, and it still took Putin's Invasion of Ukraine to persuade the German Government that taking $Billions of Putin's Gas was a 'bad' idea ...
No, there's a reason that Sweden and Finland just joined it, after 50+ Years of determined neutrality ... Don't give those Bastards Trump and Putin what they want, make them have to TAKE it !
He was suggesting so earlier this year, apparently ?
Look into my Eyes, look into my Eyes, - you DO want to leave NATO ...
If he still wants to leave NATO by the time the next Election is called, then he may well have just 'peaked'.
"unpleasant" ?
On the day it was made official that we just had the hottest summer since records began because of climate change…..
There were questions about jobs, whether it would cut bills, how much oil is left down there and whether it's competitive - all important issues. But unless I just blanked something, "should we be digging up more fossil fuels in an age of climate crisis?" didn't seem to feature.
Have I gone mad or did Today just do an entire interview with the Conservative energy spokesperson, on the Conservatives' plan to max out North Sea oil, without a single question about the environment? (There was a question on crowding out investment for alternative energy, but I think that was it)
They’ve been released from their bounds by the slavering coverage of their ‘Racist in Chief’, Fartage.
Reform have arguably had more coverage for a content-free press conference than the Govt has for a major policy development affecting millions of parents
You know what nevermind i think yvette cooper is a genius. This is the most sophisticated level of cringe comedy i ever seen. Shes associating the fascist behaviour with a type of second hand embarassment that makes it profoundly uncool and devoid of charm at the price of her own dignity. Brilliant
Anyone else way beyond the point of being concerned about this issue? It's a massive problem that the Govt needs to get a grip on. The industry is just cocking a snoot & continuing to take the money in whilst encouraging addiction at an earlier and earlier age www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The more I think about "Union Jack bunting on our garden shed" the funnier it gets. IT'S A GARDEN SHED. WHY DO YOU HAVE BUNTING ON A GARDEN SHED.
I think that Yvette’s Rictus smile should be donated to Medical Science when the time comes.
We did this to please the Racists, but they all ignored it, and all our Universities then went Bankrupt .... Still, worth a try, I suppose ... 😟 FFS.
This Government are driving themselves MAD !
This war memorial in Bodmin commemorates staff from St Lawrence's Hospital who were killed in WW1 and WW2. Unsurprisingly, the vandals who desecrated it have zero respect for those from #Cornwall who died fighting fascism. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
For over 25 years, science and discovery centres have been at the heart of inspiring millions of people to explore, question, and be part of UK science and technology. But they're seriously under threat… 1/3
