Farage has now said very clearly he will remove judges he does not approve of and abolish UK citizens' human rights. No-one at the BBC, Sky or ITV - or inside the government - seems to think it is worth highlighting. This is exactly what sleepwalking towards autocracy looks like.
It used to we were 10yrs behind America. Now we are one election plus 2yrs. 😡
If only Laura Kuenssberg was on a Sunday morning to....oh no, wait😂
What the boss wants we do. The trans pogrom is an interesting study into mass manipulation that all came from the USA. 20 years ago no one really gave it much thought. Now we have toilet police. Pick a minority with no power and get people to hate it. We Imported that. Expect worse and Farage in 29
Welcome to our world. Sorry.
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They should be showing where his polices lead; masked men grabbing people off the street, arrests of opposition politicians, muzzling the courts etc. it’s all being played out in US now.
Unfortunately I fear this is what a significant proportion of the UK want.
Until they get it. A few tRump voters seem to be finding what they voted for isn’t what they expected!
Quite, until they realise it isn't only 'the others' that suffer. How anyone can look at Reform and consider them a serious alternative is beyond me; ignore the racism and all the rest of it, they're clearly lacking in basic experience and competence. So tired of this shit.
He’s a useful idiot for the Money. Same as Trump. Blame foreigners for the rampant inequality and then stand back as the flag shaggers leap up and down. Hopefully Starmer and Co will grow a pair and actually put some redistributive tax policies in place - energising the younger voters 🤞
We follow US politics, with an approx 10 year lag
I think that used to be true. Save the lag is likely to be much less now
So do we here in Canada. Hoping it bypasses us — well the authoritarian part.
Orange man and Frog Face.
25-30% of voters aren't sleepwalking. They see what Trump is doing in the US and actively want that over here. Electoral reform is necessary if we are not going to let that minority steal our nation from us.
They give him constant air time so he can spit his hate and gaslight the public and, more importantly LIE LIE LIE
One home, and we mustn't forsake the other. After the Post Office Horizon scandal, it should be obvious to everyone who gets the short straw when the shit should be rightly hitting the NHS fan.
She isn't a fat, thick fascist.
We are in the middle of an Information Blitzkrieg by the US. We need to call it what it is. State Interference in our democracy.
I wish it was because they don't think it's worth highlighting. It seems more likely that it's their policy to promote & never criticise the far right.
NO EVIDENCE suggests Farage wants to remove judges based on approval/disapproval. He does propose to weaken current human rights frameworks—specifically by repealing the Human Rights Act and leaving the ECHR—BUT NOT ABOLISH HUMAN RIGHTS WHOLESALE. Go to Twitter if you want to post misinformation.
Wake up. He said “you can do anything you like, unless there is a law against it” ask yourself who will make the laws. He went on to say, it’s the opposite of human rights which are statute given. Basically you can do what Farage will allow you to. He doesn’t like workers rights/unions for a start.
Farage’s gullible morons think the ECHR is an EU court. Someone should tell them you don’t take back control by giving up your human rights.
The Democrats did nothing to Trump proof America after January 6th. The Labour government will do nothing to Farage proof the UK. Our medieval constitution is a fascists paradise. The UK PM with a HoC majority is an elective dictator.
Only if he wants to be, which he doesn’t he believes in democracy and whether people agree with what Labour are doing or not, IMO it is clear he is working for the good of the country. If Farage gets in that will all change.
When I say the PM is an elective dictator I'm not talking about any individual. The fact is that our system gives a PM with an overall majority effectively unlimited power. The PM can only be constrained by members of his/her own party.
I am ever so fascinated whenever I hear the Dems did nothing. What should they have done apart from point out what would happen if you vote Trump and also ask people to vote for them instead?
Legislate/prosecute the Republicans out of existance. Biden should have stuffed the Supreme Court with new Democrat judges and made sure Trump and his fixers went to jail.
Democrats seem to be physically frightened of the MAGA. I guess in a country awash with guns it's not an unreasonable fear.
He could genuinely then have called out the National Guard, and remove MAGA permanently.
The BBC in particular have made Farage the power he is. They will support him all the way to No 10 and so will most of the rest of the media.
Poundland Trump.
I have the the impression that people gave up. A world in a climate catastrophy is very complex and difficult to handle. And lots of people gave up to develop and fight for solutions. And so give way for the sadistic clowns. That's why it is refreshening that Gavin Newsom picked up the fight in US
I've always said the UK is 3 to 5 years behind the US, probably 2 years atm. Fartrage is following tŘŮmps agenda line by line.
Saint Lucy is free! Can you not just be happy and rejoice for a few days?!?
Don't they SEE what's happening over here? Geezus.
Looks like the UK press is just as supine as the US press.
FFS. #TheTimes is actually,low-key, saying this is a Good Thing. It’s “ambitious” apparently
Long term I'm more worried about the UK than any other western European country, due to its lack of constitutional protections.
And a great preponderance of proudly thick people.
Every country has a great number of proudly thick people. The point of a written constitution is to limit the damage they can do to the rest of us.
But obviously the US one wasnt written well enough. The presidential Executive Order is obviously a major fault in the system. It cuts out the power of the other two houses and when like now you have a compliant scotus its a disaster.
You are right, our democracy is based on a gentleman’s agreement. We rely on our politicians to do the right thing for the good of the country. We saw with the Tories that we can’t rely on that anymore, Farage will be Tories on steroids and backed by a corrupt media we are very much at risk.
The gentlemens' agreement swiftly evaporates when the "Gentlemen" don't like the way things are going. The Sewell Convention was one of these.
If I can see the clear lines between what Farage is proposing and what’s actually happening now in the US you’d think a qualified investigative journalist would be able to.
The TV news people, particularly those on BBCNews, always get bubbly and excited when they are presenting Farage’s latest jape. It’s almost as if they are, er well, fascists? Or at best, rabid racists. Which is probably the case. That little pipsqueak chap on Newsnight being just one example.
I am now really curious as to who he is working for and for what purpose? He certainly doesn’t seem to be working for the rule of law and democracy
Not difficult to figure that out
If Farage and Reform and all the grifters and chavs gain office, I will deliberately ignore each and every thing they say, and if it gets too Poundshop America then I will simply move the family elsewhere. Fuck all of them and the horses they poured their white lightening on! Inbred t@ats!
First they break the spirit of the people. They convince them there is no hope, their country is broken. But surprise surprise. A hero appears. A chain smoking pint swilling, stiff right arm, sweaty grifter, who has no reference about normal life. He, he is the one. Another fascist clone. 🤯
Headlong and blind, we walk towards The Great Trumpian dystopia. Who is pulling the strings of the ‘independent and balanced’ BBC?
Fascism ... drip, drip, drip ... then outrage !!
Labour: Reform are right about migrants, but please vote for us. Labour: Tories are right about privatisation in the NHS, but please vote for us. I don’t know who’s side Labour are on, but I do know who’s poll numbers they’re helping and hurting.
He’s constantly reading from Trump’s playbook
And one of the first casualties of all this if he gets into power will be the BBC So why are they not calling him out at every opportunity, or are they like turkeys who vote for Christmas?
Tim Davie is surely the reason why... "Like a partner in an abusive relationship, the BBC is desperate to be loved by those who despise it and everything it stands for." bylinetimes.com/2023/10/27/t...
Davie's loyalty is to the right-wing, not the BBC. He would happily dismantle the BBC in furtherance of the right-wing agenda.
Labour need to fire him. Now.
If they did, he would be employed as Starmer’s private secretary
Oh, can he type? 🫢
It’s easy to believe Davie is actively trying to get the BBC privatised. Fits with his ideology plus a nice pile of cash awaits for the board….
The media is owned by the right wing and the BBC seems to be controlled by them.
Fartage obviously fails to understand how the English judiciary works. We are NOT America. Judges are not subject to political shenanigans.
That is very naive, sorry.
They have become very good at editing out anything they think people will disapprove of for definite but retaining the clickbait aspects.
You're accepting he's going into power. I'm not ready for that.
The uprising will be the media’s last show The uprising will be the final fight against the white supremecist the pagans will win
Scary stuff
Autocratic individuals are usually pretty hideous people, not farage, though. He's completely and thoroughly vile.
WHY? I really don’t get how most politicians and media can be so bloody complicit. The same when Farage was getting the most publicity during Brexit campaign. Labour didn’t have the courage to stand up to the lying shite then or now.
Oh no, they're not going to highlight this misery. It would scare off the Union Jack patriots 😊
He’s a twat
The western world is heading towards totalitarianism rule, with the support of the Media owned by the elite.
Ffs.....he needs de platforming....
Farage is deeply unoriginal as a human being. Aping Trump is the only idea he has had since 2016. Neither patriot nor democrat.
Another move by faridge towards what his nutjob buddy in the ‘states is doing! Thickhead.
Because a large cross section of the British population are both racist and fascist. There’s another, probably growing group that don’t care what happens to non-white people one way or another.
He wouldn't have the power to sack them. It requires an address from both Houses of Parliament to the Monarch and even then (technically) the Monarch can refuse. So Farage is talking nonsense; again!
Don't worry, emergency podcast incoming, that'll sort it. At some stage, we actually need to do something, we can't just moan and say the press didn't tell us not to put our hand in the fire, so it's their fault.
If the press isn’t on your side it’s very hard to make ground. We don’t have the press on our side.
That's very true, but Labour have never had the press. It is much worse now as they're actively trying to bring down the Government, but if you've got a Labour or Lib Dem MP, write to them, complain about specifics, like the Fartage Times article, ask them what they're going to do about it
Yes I was actively writing to my MP during Brexit etc. (Tory) You’re right Farage is another good reason to start writing again.
This time you don’t have Labour on your side either.
That's bollocks, but thanks for your input
Gone all Trump and Muskfascist ...
Well the good news is earlier this year Yusef said Reform would deport 1.4m people, now Farage says 200k. So by the next election they'll have got down to zero.
They are not ‘sleepwalking’. They are co-conspirators. If they weren’t they’d be mentioning these things and otherwise doing their jobs. They’ve decided autocracy works better to preserve the establishment’s interests at this point. There’s a handful still doing their jobs, like George Monbiot.
UK mainstream media is shite.
Exactly. It all sounds very Trumpian. Broadcasters who promote this type of talk should be ashamed. Farage is just another vile little man who wants to be a big fascist leader.
The irony is I know People who laugh at Trump yet will vote Reform. Farage is following the exact playbook that Trump did because he knows it’ll work.
Given that Reform UK has a real or likely chance of forming the next government, reporters need to take this seriously. Let’s not fall into the Democrat’s trap.
They want him as next PM and are actively working to make it happen.
It has worked for Trump, so Farage is following the playbook.
The moron thinks that what is happening in the US can be transferred to UK. It can't. It is not at the behest of the Government that judges can be removed. He would do well to remember that there has NEVER be fascism in power in UK for a reason.
Could you be more complacent if you tried?
This sentiment particularly after seeing the last many months reveal itself in US does resonate. However, I will also say this - sometimes it is best to not amplify idiocy. So I am not fully sure that ignoring it is a terrible move at this point. My $0.02 from across a large pond.
"I'll end the war on day one !" Words are so cheap that idiots can afford to buy them .
Germany 1930s - oh he won’t be as bad once he’s in power. If he tries,he’ll just fall on his face and we’ll kick him straight out…..Germany 1940s oh..
"Abolish UK citizens' human rights" That's a very bad idea for any cop that follows through. What would they have to lose?
As others have said. Straight out of the Trump playbook… be afraid.
Who runs the BBC? Who owns SKY? Who owns GBNews? Who owns STV?
How difficult is it to silence a moron that promoted the obviously disastrous Brexit? Where's the resistance?
You misspelt fascism as autocracy.
What is going on ? Is it a planned collaboration/collusion ? Conspiracy theorist I am not but this caper is decidedly dodgy.
