Chris

🏳️‍🌈 Welshman, living in Gloucester.
Trying hard not to like peoples alt accounts.🙈

[Chris @Beardedwelsh]

Trying to make sure I don't see porn whilst i'm at work on this Twitter account so sorry if I don't follow some of you back.🙈😇

[Just me @TomSoede]

This morning I asked myself, not for the first time, who is Nigel and I made some notes.

And it does add up.

Here is a man who sells himself as the ordinary bloke with a pint, the man of the people, the great outsider standing up against the establishment.

And yet somehow this ordinary bloke always seems to arrive with a camera crew, a donor network, a friendly broadcaster, and now a parliamentary investigation into a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire.

Very normal.

Very grassroots.

Very ���just one of the lads”.

The peoples revolt, apparently, now comes with lighting, branding, fundraising dinners, professional outrage, and a small question about whether millions should have been declared properly.

Everything is a betrayal when Labour does it.

Everything is “nothing to see here” when Nigel does it.

Housing? Blame Labour.
The NHS? Blame Labour.
The economy? Blame Labour.
Boats? Blame Labour.
A £5 million gift? Suddenly everybody must calm down and respect the process.

And then came Tuesday.

A young man died. A family was grieving. A country was trying to understand something horrific.

And Farage stepped forward.

Not with calm.
Not with care.
Not with responsibilty.

But with his announcement of “pure cold rage”.

That phrase matters.

Because anger is human.
Anger can be moral.
Anger can demand answers, justice, accountability and truth.

I understand anger.
A lot of people are angry.
They have every right to ask serious questions.

But rage is different.

Rage does not ask careful questions.
Rage does not wait for investigations.
Rage does not protect grieving families from becoming political props.

Rage looks for a target.

And that is where Farage always seems most comfertable.

Not solving the pain.
Not calming the country.
Not asking how institutions failed and how they can be fixed.

But standing beside the pain with a microphone, turning the temprature up, and calling it leadership.

Warm enough to repost.
Warm enough to donate.
Warm enough to vote.
But never calm enough to ask:

“Hang on, who benefits from keeping us this angry?”

That is the trick.

He does not need Britain to feel hopeful.
He does not even need Britain to feel informed.

He needs Britain permanently one headline away from rage.

Because rage is usefull.

It fills rallies.
It drives clicks.
It turns grief into theatre.
It makes slogans feel like solutions.

And while everyone is shouting, nobody asks the boring questions.

Where is the plan?
Where is the funding?
Where are the costings?
Where is the responsibilty?

Maybe that is who Nigel Farage is.

Not the man of the people.

But the man who knows exactly how to turn peoples pain into his own political stage.

The Reform & Tory Sitcom continues.

Same chaos. Different rosette.

Anger can demand answers.
Rage just sells tickets.

If this speaks to you, please add your comments, repost it, and maybe follow me — not for me, but because politics needs fewer slogans and more people asking proper questions.

#Farage #ReformUK

[Chris @Beardedwelsh]

@DPJHodges I think it should be more of a concern that people are easily able to get hold of WhatsApp messages that are encrypted and have the disappearing message setting on, and shouldn't be available for anybody to see.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Zack Polanski criticised the police for being heavy handed with a RT and he got a formal rebuke from the police and got grilled by the media.

Farage incites riots and condemns the police causing them of murder and nothing.

Two tier media more like.

[Inevitable_GB_News (TWAT ACCOUNT) @GBNews23653867]

🚨This has fuck all to do with Henry Novak, more to do with Farage, Yaxley Lemon and Musk trying to set Britain on fire!!! Either they get the Britain they want or they'll destroy it for everyone else!

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Farage has achieved his goal — to return from his hiding place with such outrageous statements that he hopes the questions about his £5m donation are now forgotten.

The media are duly obliging by focusing on his racist dog whistles instead of his corruption.

Trumpian.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I remember when Zack Polanski RT'd a person criticising the Police's excessive use of force.

He was publicly condemned by the MET Chief as if he had committed a serious crime.

Nigel Farage incites riots, AGAIN, and we have complete silence.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence.

It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.

A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all.

At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.

Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.

On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

No, of course not.

Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

Yes, of course he was.

He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.

His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm.

Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.

This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again.

And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man.

END RANT.

[MeesheeisLost 🤍🖤🏴‍☠️ @Mishhell20]

Thank you so much Russell T Davies.
This is exactly it. It's taken me 40 years to figure it out. Working out my gender identity has been the most liberating experience.
#Happypridemonth
#TipToe

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

It seems Farage didn't bother to attend the Commons debate today on the death of Henry Nowak. He would rather commit online hate crime instead.

[Chris @Beardedwelsh]

When you're running late and don't have time to get changed before going into the dentists but know your dentist is a woman so your safe 🙈🫣.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

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[Not Match of the Day @NOT_MOTD]

F*ck me this is fantastic.

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

It’s not just a rainbow, it’s a symbol of pride, hope and security. Happy pride🏳️‍🌈

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Mate, this is embarrassing.

You are literally not the shadow Home Secretary.

You’re not even an elected politician.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Liverpool FC can confirm Arne Slot is to depart his role as head coach with immediate effect and that the process to appoint a successor is under way.

He leaves with a Premier League title to his name and our deepest gratitude and appreciation.

[Mark 🗺️🇺🇦🇲🇲 @markofbattersea]

#c4news
And in today's Reform UK Ltd fraud news: Sarah Pochin MP has been caught using a paid crisis actor in a propaganda video.
The actor was once dubbed 'Britain's biggest benefits cheat.'
She has since deleted the video, but an LBC reporter recorded it, much to her chagrin.

[Dave Firth @fuse7777]

😂😂😂

[Chris @Beardedwelsh]

Any other gays cuddle all year around regardless of heat or cold. Or is it just me🤷🏻‍♂️

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

1/ Nigel Farage took £50,000 in speaking fees from two crypto firms in Oct 2025 — then told Reuters he was “not aware” of crypto businesses funding Reform UK. But I found his Parliamentary records show
• £30k from Blockworks Inc
• £20k from Zebu Group

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

@LeeAndersonMP_ You don’t need to argue with me, Lee.

You need to listen to Gemma, the person who runs The Hamlet, and then decide whether as a Party you are prepared to do the decent thing.