Nigel Farage is correct about one thing.
It’s the people vs the establishment.
Reform are literally the establishment.
And it’s the Greens on the side of the people.
Wealth tax. Rent controls. Now.
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So what's my take on Count Binface standing in Clacton?
Well, seven years ago the world all laughed when Ukraine elected a comedian as president.
We're not laughing now.
Very cool, entertaining and with high production values: if I were @Nigel_Farage, I’d consider dipping into that £5 million to try to get out a video that can compare to it.
@KevinASchofield the anti-establishment bullshit finally getting some challenge from MSM. Reform is packed with establishment, be it ex-Tory Ministers, wealthy businessmen or private school chaps
Nick Robinson to Zia Yusuf: "You say this is all about standing up to the establishment.
"You're a multi-millionaire. You made your money selling luxury helicopter charters and rare wines to the super-wealthy.
"Nigel Farage is a public schoolboy, a former commodities trader who gets £5m gifts from his friends and lives in a 5-storey house next to Buckingham Palace courtesy of a man convicted of fraud.
"Do you really think you are in a position at Reform UK to claim not to be part of the super-wealthy, self-serving establishment?"
🚨 Michael Crick asks the obvious question:
If Nigel Farage believes MPs should seek a fresh mandate whenever circumstances change, why haven’t Conservative MPs who defected to Reform fought by-elections?
Crick also points out the irony that while Farage presents himself as a champion of democracy, Reform has “very little internal democracy” - it’s a limited company dictatorship controlled by Farage!!!
Ben Habib on Nigel Farage's resignation,
"You don't resign if you are innocent"
"You resign when you're guilty"
"He's repeatedly said in the last few days that he wasn't politically active"
"Nigel Farage has been politically active non-stop since 2019 as majority shareholder and director of Reform UK"
"Every single thing he's done, he's done with that in the background"
"This isn't a legitimate by-election, it's one that been called in order to short circuit parliamentary standards"
@jonsopel@kimj100 is she f***ing nut? Braverman is ultra-establishment herself. ex-Conservative Home Secretary and Attorney General, Cambridge Univ, Paris Sorbonne. If that's not establishment I'm literally the King of Scotland.
I will accept Nigel Farage’s request to be appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.
It is a farce and a desperate distraction, and the people of Clacton deserve better.
But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him.
Jenrick was the last Tory cabinet minister for immigration. Farage savages that Tory government yet accepts Jenrick as one of his team. Laughable really.
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage’s convicted criminal ally George Cottrell handed out business cards with Farage’s email address despite having no official role in Reform UK
It contradicts Robert Jenrick's claim that Cottrell is a simply a personal friend of Farage
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@RhonddaBryant If Britain had lost WWII, the US likely would have become an isolated, heavily militarized fortress. Lacking a forward base to project power and defeat a Nazi-dominated Europe or an expanded Japanese Empire. US intervention wasnt for us.
Here I am slagging off Keir Starmer for accepting some free glasses. Because that is so much worse than accepting £5 million from a crypto billionaire or using the house of a convicted fraudster while he pays for my staff, security and social media.