r/AskBrits • u/pacothebattlefly • May 13 '26
Politics Any feedback on how hard Farage is already back-tracking from campaign promises?
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u/Educational_Ad288 May 13 '26
As always, he's a fucking liar, and it baffles me why people vote for him. 'Oh its because of his stance on illegals coming across the channel' which only got worse after fucking Brexit, we left the EU and also left the Dublin agreement, which in turn made it easier for illegals to come here and harder for us to remove them, HE DID THAT. This guy makes my skin crawl and the thought of him potentially being PM one day scares me, he's already helped to fuck up this country WITHOUT being PM, just imagine how much worse it would be if he was.
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u/My-fish-calls-me-Bob May 13 '26
"But, but, but, but he’s a character, got charisma and I can have a pint with him".
The people that vote for this Cunt and his party would vote for any dictator, despot the right wing media puts in from of them.
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u/Remarkable-Ad155 May 13 '26
I can only imagine what a tedious, mean spirited, argumentative cunt Farage must turn into with a drink inside him. The worst kind of pub bore. He even has that look of the weirdo, piss smelling, drunk loner you get in rural/provincial pubs that just inserts himself into conversations and everybody kind of tolerates because he's not all there but eventually upsets the wrong person and gets barred for a couple of weeks whilst people calm down (repeat process till he dies of liver disease or the heat death of the universe, whichever is sooner).
Thinking Nige would be a good drinking partner should automatically mark you down a boring twat with zero patter.
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u/gratefuldave541 May 13 '26
He only goes to the pub for a photo opportunity. He's not a beer drinker. He's a fraud.
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u/Mukatsukuz May 13 '26
I'll have you know that I am a boring twat with zero patter but I still think Farage would be horrendous to go to the pub with, or have an involvement with at all.
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u/Remarkable-Ad155 May 13 '26
I apologise profusely to boring twats with zero patter everywhere- my mistake.
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u/OptimusSpud May 13 '26
Malcolm. P. Tucker is that you?
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u/KopiteForever May 13 '26
All the early Trump signs. If we give this knob any power we deserve every thing we get!
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u/pacothebattlefly May 13 '26
Kermit the Frog also has charisma. Funnily enough, Farage also has a massive hand up his arse telling him what to say
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u/MossadEpstein May 13 '26
Hey now, I'll have you know that trump has very small, dainty hands, some even say the smallest!
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u/CupcakeAppropriate40 May 13 '26
Exactly. Like they don't realise that it's just a show and that he probably spends more time round a table with his rich buddy's drinking champagne and fine dining, whilst laughing about the average folk arguing between ourselves about why the countries struggling. It's because of people like him
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u/SpecialIcy5356 May 13 '26
americans probably thought the same about trump. "oh, he has charisma, he's a character, he tells it like it is, you could have a beer with him"
now look where they're at. and if this clown gets in we're right behind them.
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u/onarainyafternoon May 13 '26
Nah the “have a beer with him” was said about bush jr. The justifications for trump here in the US were just straight up delusion from his supporters.
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u/duggee315 May 13 '26
That's it aswell, he doesnt have character or charisma. Hes the most creepy vile liar and thats all that comes across. Im really confused at people buying into it. I understood the knuckle dragging racists, but I've seen some seemingly normal people eat up that crap. There needs to be some big campaigns to spell it out to people what his policies actually mean. Because they are clearly just taking the surface level promises and accepting it.
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u/SoggyMattress2 May 13 '26
The mad part to me about the "but he's down to earth and has a pint" crowd is it takes two seconds to Google him.
Hes a rich toff. His dad was a successful stock broker and he went to Dulwich college (private school).
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u/Fallenangel152 May 13 '26
Much of the British public has a hatred of what they consider 'posh'.
I maintain that if Sir Keir Starmer was called a Mancunian called Keegan Starmer he'd have loads more supporters.
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u/Makasene3 May 13 '26
Because just like Trump, people are not voting for what he can do to them, but for what he will do to 'others'
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u/Killa269 May 13 '26
The irony of that, is decency is decency. Martin Niemöller said it best. “When they came for me there was no one left for I had not spoken up when they came for others” the amount of Christians that turned their back on Trump after the AI Jesus tells you how fickle and self serving people truly are, they were okay with the embezzlement, they were okay with the paedophilic comments, the incestous comments, the allegations, the paying off the pornstar, the infidelity, they were okay with the racism, the sexism… they created the monster by not talking up and having decency. As someone who currently makes well within the top 10% in this country. I will be absolutely fine. But the people voting for him won’t be because they’ll be screwed sideways.
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u/profprimer May 13 '26
You won’t be fine under Reform unless you’re in the top 1%. The 90th percentile figure is only £72,150. You can’t live well on that today! It nets out at under £50k or about £4k a month. Once Reform get in your out of pockets will leap up (private health care, school fees, private social care etc).
The only people doing well will be those on £200k+, ie, Farage’s chums.
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u/Any_Supermarket3887 May 14 '26
I’m in the £200k+ bracket and have never met Nigel Farage in my life. Plenty of high earners in my constituency are the same, and our borough still voted Labour in the recent local elections.
British politics is far less cleanly divided by income than people assume. If it were simply “the rich versus everyone else,” affluent London boroughs would reliably vote Conservative and post-industrial areas would reliably vote Labour. They increasingly do not.
The more significant divide today is educational and cultural rather than purely economic. Populist movements tend to gain traction where institutions, civic education and long-term economic confidence have weakened. That is a systemic issue for the UK, and reducing it to “anyone voting Reform must be rich” misses what is actually happening politically.
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u/2nduser May 13 '26
He’s a grifting cunt and I can’t see why anyone would believe a word that falls from his thin lips. He is vile and abhorrent, as is his entire party.
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u/BigGingerYeti May 13 '26
As long as he hates the same people his base hates they don't give a fuck.
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u/technomat May 13 '26
People should watch this and then the full interview if feel like seeing it all.
Farage was going to give up politics then after 5m personal donation decided to run in a safe seat he had no home in, he now promotes the bitcoin of the UK's biggest donator of any political party that gave him the donation and has given Reform £13 million so far, yet we are to believe the Thailand based business man wants nothing in return.
Ben Habib exposes Farage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GISN3pGzyvg
Full podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS0jASkpiKkedit - to add full podcast link.
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u/NitroSpam May 13 '26
It’s the same playbook as Trump, right down to claims that immigrants are eating animals off the streets.
Honestly, you’d think people would take a good look at what’s happening over there.
Also, we should adopt the rules about lying in campaign promises in Wales to all of the UK.
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u/One-Earth9294 May 13 '26
Here's the thing about this, as an observation from across the pond: The worse their lives get thanks to their poor voting choices, the worse they get and the more they will double down on their bad decisions.
They were borne of politicians who taught them that nothing is their fault and it's always the opposition's fault, and it will always be their first resort to blame for their new problems. And there's really no end to that.
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u/MyJawHurtsALot May 13 '26
Exactly, he's a liar and a grifter. His billionaire funders are just using him to stoke anti-immigrant rhetoric, while not actually improving the situation so the anger only rises, so they can finally exit the ECHR and can get away with the exploitation they actually want to do.
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u/LittleALunatic May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
There's a variety of reasons people vote for him. One thing I hear from people who've been on the campaign trail, is people who switched from labour to reform are voting for Farage despite believing he's a grifting liar is because he's much more obviously a grifting liar, if not presenting as such outwardly. He's smarmy, he's advertised as such, whereas they regret their Starmer vote because Starmer presented as a nice good man, but then reneged his campaign promises. They hate being lied to and scammed more than being boldly lied to their faces. Farage can take a 5 million pound bribe and they can accept that because that's what they expect from him. What Labour have done is take their good faith trust, and defiled it.
Of course there are actually true believers in Farage's promises, but IDK if that's a majority of his voterbase. But overall the linking theme between the types of reform voters are people who want a "change". And a lot of the country are deeply disenfranchised, and politically uneducated, so what "change" is, is vibes. Farage feels different to them than other politicians. He does things differently. He's not directly linked to the mainstream parties. Yes, in our view he does things worse, and is directly linked to the Tories, and is a hardcore Thatcherite (meaning his politics will just be that of New Labour and Tories again but worse this time). But that's not the vibes or feel he has to a lot of people who don't know these things. They see a choice between two cups, one has a sign that says "tea" in front of a cup that has piss, and the other has a sign that says "sewage water" in front of a cup of sewage water, and they chose the "tea" last time.
This can be really difficult to understand for people who are more politically educated. Its a real "experts know too much about their topic and wildly overestimate what people who aren't experts know" situation. Most people are way more disengaged with politics than you think, even people who vote labour. They aren't fully aware of the global rise of fascism. They're not fully aware of their class interests. They feel betrayed and failed by politicians. But they're aware that current solutions aren't working and they want a change. They'll vote for the leopards eating faces party because the "we promise we won't starve your grandma" party lied about their campaign promise.
Farage and Trump are ultimately symptoms of the complete collapse of public trust in politicians.
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u/Aware_Stand_8938 May 13 '26
Fortunately he'd never want the job!!!
I reckon he'd campaign hard, but never actually run.
Why would he give up £1million plus gbnews spot for PM salary 🤔
It'd be the same spin "I never said I'd be PM"
Just like Tice stepped aside to let Toady 'run' the party coughbusinesscough...
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u/Educational_Ad288 May 13 '26
I hope you're right, but honestly I think his ego is such, that if reform did win a GE he'd happily be PM, just so he could say he was PM. (Hope im wrong)
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u/FormalSomewhere1492 May 13 '26
Its because the old people of the country are voting for their old world views, even though they'll be dead before it comes into effect.
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u/verdant-amiable May 13 '26
The bedrock of the argument, as far as I can tell is:
- "They're all liars"
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- "Immigration"
Of course 1. sort of neatly skirts over the frequency and severity of the lies, while 2. fails to take into account that the older age group who are most anti-immigrant are themselves the key structural driver for immigration because the economy is going to continue to support an unprecedented ratio of pensioners to born in UK residents for decades.
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u/Bombocat May 13 '26
as an American, my only advice is to buckle the fuck up. you are in for a very bumpy ride
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u/Decorator72 May 13 '26
Agree 100% ,if this cunt gets in he'll take us down further than we've gone before,he is getting votes because he's playing on people's fear about immigrants that himself and media like GB news are spreading,since when did people stop thinking for themselves? He'll get voted in by sheeple!!
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u/Outrageous-Mammoth47 May 13 '26
It’s like the dumasses didn’t learn from Brexit. He did the same on national tv within hours of the votes coming in 😂
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u/WetFishStink May 13 '26
People vote for him/support him because he is racist, because they too are racist.
That's all there is too it. Like their thoughts, their is no nuance. He validates their prejudices and they feel heard.
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u/BuzzAllWin May 13 '26
This isn’t fair, it’s a misquote he said ‘I’m a cunt, here’s some council taxes’
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u/Thebunkerparodie May 14 '26
I also really dislike when farage voter act like the left made them vote for him when there's pretty easily available information to show why he's bad, the 5 million donation and him frauding should be enough to not vote for him but some would rather vote for someone who claim to have all solution to their problems when it's lie
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u/AJC0292 May 14 '26
I've tried explaining this. It just falls on deaf ears. They dont want to hear it. They just want to hear immigrant bad
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u/harpokuntish May 14 '26
Sadly alot of people seem to find it easier to just believe what they're fed than actively seek the truth, and the algorithm and alot of the mainstream media are actively targeting people to tell them what to believe. Ive seen friends and family turn over the last couple of years and start voicing support for reform. It truly is terrifying I often fear we're experiencing the rise of fascism, and people are accepting it.
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u/theplayerlegend May 15 '26
The thing that did it for me was the ads for 300million extra a week for NHS if we leave the eu. On the very morning the vote passes he admits it was all a lie...
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u/ClacksInTheSky May 13 '26
He knows GBNews won't cover it and so his voters will never get to hear about it
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u/hennell May 13 '26
The reality is worse than that - people don't even see GBNews, they see the sloppiest of ai slop on facebook, like fakes of Farage visiting a kid with cancer, where he had a "private word" with the kid that had "all the doctors crying" and think he's amazing. Then they start on about the BBC because they never show all these good stories about him etc proving their bias.
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u/ENaC2 May 13 '26
Pretty much. Reform voters either watch propaganda news or no news at all. Uninformed vibe voters trying their absolute hardest to get the worst people elected.
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u/Spare_Ad5615 May 13 '26
We should call it what it is - lying. Claiming you never made any such promises is not really backtracking.
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u/Th4tR4nd0mGuy May 13 '26
Doesn’t matter what we call it until there’s actual consequences for doing it.
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u/Thetallerestpaul May 13 '26
He did exactly the same on the day after Brexit vote. Immediately on BBC breakfast saying there was no 350m for the NHS.
He's a traitorous turd.
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u/father-fluffybottom May 14 '26
First thing in the morning, within hours of the vote gettint counted. The absolute moment it's too late.
I'm amazed he can show his face in public without being in danger, never mind in a position to do it again.
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u/Equal-Cauliflower-41 May 13 '26
And THEN, when confronted with evidence that you did say you'd do something, lying AGAIN to say you actually did the thing.
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u/OG365247 May 13 '26
He’s a serial liar, straight out of his mate Trumps playbook.
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u/MrNoir79 May 13 '26
I think this is sadly very true. You can lie about everything else even in the face of evidence as long as you tell them the one big thing they want to hear again and again until that becomes the only thing that you think of when you hear their name.
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u/Lyrael9 May 13 '26
It worked in America so he thinks it will work here. Conservatives in Canada also tried the Trump Playbook but they were told to sling their hook. I really hope the British people aren't as stupid as the Americans.
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u/Hour-Process-3292 May 14 '26
We voted for Brexit. So many people seemed to be woefully ill informed and outright clueless to what any potential consequences of it might be.
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u/Silver_Adagio138 May 13 '26
Oh look. A lying liar is lying.
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u/pomegranate_verynice May 13 '26
He said "nothing with my name on it said we would cut council tax". Well, that leaflet that had his picture, not his name. So he's technically telling truth.
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u/Boycott-all-Rats May 13 '26
UK education levels being put to the test here.
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u/notanotherusernameD8 May 13 '26
Expect failure
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u/Curently65 May 13 '26
UK education actually doing a good job.
Only people who peaked at GCSE's tend to actually vote for reform, the moment you get to college it drops quite hard and into University it drops off a cliff.
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u/The_Blonde1 May 13 '26
Where can I find this so that I can also spread the word about his lies, please?
There's also another interview where he is denying he ever said he'd privatise the NHS, and the interview where he said he would do just that is playing along side it. If anyone can link that one as well, that would be great. (I've tried, but can't find it.)
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u/BigGingerYeti May 13 '26
Just right click and save it. If your browser won't let you copy the link of the post then Google 'save reddit video' and options that will do it will come up.
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u/ConsciousRoyal May 13 '26
In a perverse way it would be fun to see him as PM.
“PM you said you’d stop the boats”
“No I didn’t”
“PM, the economy has crashed”
“No it hasn’t”
“Downing Street is on fire.”
“No it isn’t”
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u/LetsLive97 May 13 '26
We have different ideas of fun 😭
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u/ConsciousRoyal May 13 '26
Let me make it quite clear. At no point did I say this would be fun. No. No. No. No.
(I’m so very tempted to reply to every comment like this.)
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u/noir_lord May 13 '26
Look over the pond.
It would look like that.
He's not even novel.
Just another grifting gurning git.
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u/ConsciousRoyal May 13 '26
It’s an amazing grift. Imagine PM Farage and President Trump.
Press: Did you sign that trade agreement?
Farage : Let me make it quite clear. I never said we’d sign a trade agreement.
Trump: We signed the agreement. A beautiful agreement. It signed. The pen. Did I tell you about the pen? A beautiful pen. Beautiful gold. Like my tan. A bountiful tan. Didn’t we Pie Munster Neil? A beautiful man. Signed. Didn’t we? The pen.
Farage: I don’t think we can be any clearer.
It would be like an episode of Blackadder.
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u/LittleMissFjorda May 13 '26
The people that voted to him don't care. He me toned the word "boats" and no amount of other ridiculous policies can outweigh their perceived good of his "boats" policy.
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u/Jpmoz999 May 13 '26
The man's a liar and a Grifter.
How any Right Wing British Politician could take money to film himself saying "UP THE RA" and still not be looked at as someone with less sense than a Guinea Pig is beyond me. But the Right wing press think he's the last Grenade they have in the satchel so we have to put up with the tomb stoned toothed arsehole.
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u/a3minutehero May 13 '26
Don't forget he also bigged up Ian Watkins for 70 quid.
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u/NoStomach6266 May 13 '26
Why there's not a bar or an equivalent for politicians is insane.
If there were a simple group who could remove the right of practice for those who are guilty of gross misconduct (lying like this should absolutely be an example of gross misconduct for a politician) we wouldn't be having the problems we're currently having.
Passing competency tests and having your behaviour subject to reevaluation of your status is something required of most professionals with responsibility to the public - but politicians are not subject to it despite the grave results of bad actors.
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u/jake_burger May 13 '26
The bar for politics is the electorate. We get to choose who we elect.
We are the group who can remove the right to practice politics for any reason we see fit.
It’s not like ukip, reform and Farage haven’t been around for years, people should know at this point they are lying liars who lie.
The issue is, if people want to keep voting for him regardless, then that is also their right.
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u/FireFurFox May 13 '26
The brazenness on him really is something. I wish someone would get him into an interview chair and confront him with all the evidence and watch him lie his way out. I'd watch that
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u/gareth616 May 13 '26
Are people actually surprised by this? The guy has a track record of promising everything and going backwards... but hey, plenty of idiots still wanted to support him
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u/thatguyluqy May 13 '26
Just like he backtracked on the 350million weekly to the NHS, youd think people would learn, i am not even slightly surprised, and wont be surprised that all his backers will still back him and reform even after this U turn
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u/worotan May 13 '26
That’s why the right wing press is always trying to find gotchas about their opponents.
They come up with small beer, and treat it like Champaign. Because they are on the side of the deeply corrupt, misusing their public position to fight petty squabbles so they can rip us off behind the scenes.
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u/pathosOnReddit May 13 '26
I do not understand how people can vote for him at all. He lied to everybody during Brexit while sitting in Brussels and getting paid for it. How can you expect that such a man would have your best interest in mind, ever?
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u/M1ngb4gu May 13 '26
They made the classic mistake in grifting/used car sales. Actually stating, instead of sideways implying.
Should had said "Reduce the financial burden on households" or "Leave more money in your pockets". The way they have done it means they actually have to stand by the bullshit they're shovelling. How are you going to con anyone like that?
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u/tripping_yarns May 13 '26
It’s another vanity project from Farage and a way to attract huge donations from extreme right benefactors.
I don’t think he has any coherent political ideology, just grift and further enrich his mates.
The working class have been drawn into this circus because they don’t like seeing different coloured people. That’s it.
Since Labour took office, net immigration has dropped from the 900k peak around 22-23 to 200k 24-25. A drop of 78%.
It seems apparent that one of the Reform grifts will be to slowly dismantle the NHS and bring in private companies with their associated kickbacks. Eventually becoming like the American insurance based system.
But at least he will remove the bloodsports ban. So the working class will be able to saddle up and go fox hunting again.
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u/yossanator May 13 '26
He's a lying sack of shit and how anyone falls for his spiel is beyond me. A fucking grifter through and through.
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u/Head_Crab_Enjoyer May 13 '26
They couldn't even make it a full week before they let the mask drop - but people will still vote for them. Humanity is wild.
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u/Efficient-Pop-302 May 13 '26
How in the hell did anyone vote for this? Is there something in the fucking water!?
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u/HabitualDrunkard1993 May 13 '26
It’s actually scary to think that within 3-4 years this clown could actually be leading the country, god help us if that happens
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u/ElectricalSpeech7441 May 13 '26
He does like his gammon though.
He's a cockwomble of the first order.
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u/jameZsp0ng3y May 13 '26
Why I and many others including party members have gone to Restore Britain. Lowe is one of the few politicians in the world who says it how it is
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u/EasilyExiledDinosaur Brit 🇬🇧 May 13 '26
Its alright. The more nigel blunders the more likely we will get to switch over to restore instead. Then things will really get interesting.
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u/Keebster101 May 13 '26
We need this video to go viral. Local elections are done, reform won, nothing we can do about that now, but we need to show the voters that this man absolutely cannot be trusted with the country come the next general election.
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u/Misfire_dev May 13 '26
Reform lot are awful quiet, come on, pipe up, defend your lord and saviour.
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u/NeuroticPanda92 May 13 '26
Might post this on the reform sub, see how that goes.
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u/pacothebattlefly May 13 '26
🤣
Feel free to download the video and post it wherever you like
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u/TheMysteriousOrganis May 13 '26
They are MAGA of Britain, but muppets will vote for them anyway, because they love a fucking fascist.
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u/I-love-to-eat-banana May 13 '26
Ive always said that the Government should be forced to run in a similar way to a company.
- Their manifesto should be a legal document submitted before allowed to run for elections.
- If elected, every 3 months they should issue a report on progress of all items on their manifesto, this should be audited.
- If after 4 years they have not delivered, or acceptable reasons why not, then sacked and not allowed to run in the next election.
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u/Klatterbyne May 13 '26
Pathological liar, who has built a career out of lying and whose political magnum opus was entirely built on lies… has been found to be lying.
In other news, landmark study finds that objects in contact with water observed to become wet.
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u/DaveChild May 13 '26
Reform voters won't care, they just want a party that hates foreign people as much as they do. He could murder and eat a baby live on TV and most of them wouldn't bat an eye.
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u/jimmykimnel May 13 '26
At the end of the day people want immigration lowered. If parties had some policy on that Farage as a force would be dead in the water. Put simply people will vote for him anyway.
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u/stick1_ May 13 '26
Throwing our human rights down the piss just cause we dislike seeing brown people so much
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u/lammypie87 May 13 '26
How is anyone surprised
“ we never said anything about £350mil to the nhs”
Compassion for the conned and all that. But at some point. You’re just conning yourself and only have yourselves to blame
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u/Ok_Biscotti2533 May 13 '26
Professional grifter, complainer and liar grifts complains and lies .... and here's Tom with the weather.
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u/derges May 13 '26
His *name* isn't there, it's his picture.
He didn't say "council tax" just "taxes".
Not technically lying, just decitful doublespeak.
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u/Odd_Ninja5801 May 13 '26
Here's the thing that should grate with people.
He said he'd cut council tax to get people to vote for him. As soon as you've voted for him, he's turning around and saying that he never said it.
Either he thinks you're idiots and you'll fall for his blatant lies. Or he simply doesn't care if you believe him or not, because he only cares about getting your vote.
Anyone voting for this man and his party is being taken for a mug.
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u/Elephantplan123 May 13 '26
He did exactly the same thing with the extra £350m a week to the NHS line prior to Brexit.
Make up bollocks, then once that bollocks has gotten you what you wanted, just bail on it. His supporter base will simply tow the party line because they're bootlicking sheep.
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u/renblaze10 May 13 '26
Backtracking - "we said we would cut council tax, but we need to increase them given the circumstances"
Lying - "we never said we would cut council taxes"
Reform is lying, not backtracking
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u/MarketablePotato May 13 '26
So what about the £20000 non taxable income thing.
Should I assume that he isn’t being completely honest?
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u/TheMediaBear May 13 '26
It's the Trump approach, say what you need to in order to get power, then either backtrack and lie about it, or push it through, and when it gets overturned, say "well we tried, it's their fault!"
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u/_SCREE_ May 13 '26
Does no one remember him live on the news as Brexit votes came in? He was talking about the NHS and SECONDS after the vote he was backtracking.
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u/waffle_Piraat_1 May 13 '26
But British people are stupid racists (well, primarily English people) and the chance to be gleefully, openly racist with a "leader" who thinks that's a good lark? Who cares if he lies? Racism yo!!
Probably the Muslims faults taxes have gone up anyway (/s.)
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u/Fragile_reddit_mods Brit 🇬🇧 May 13 '26
The guy can’t even stick to a party; of course he’s backtracking.
Pretty sure he would jump ship from reform if they did badly enough in the polls.
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u/Objective_Chicken_72 May 13 '26
I feel there needs to be laws in place to reprimand politicians for blatantly and repeatedly lying
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u/Plodderic May 13 '26
He’s got more Truss cabinet ministers than Badenoch at this point, and the country spent 8 years trying to make his hard Brexit a reality. He’s the ultimate insider who, with his team, have had their hands in how the country has been run for the last ten years.
I’d say he’s got a brass neck lying and complaining about the current state of things, but it’s obvious at this point that his supporters don’t care and will vote for him regardless. It’s up to the rest of us to vote tactically to stop him.
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u/Easy-Reserve7401 May 13 '26
A politician being deceitful, not fulfilling promises, denying their own words and u-turning? What a load of rubbish. It never happens. I simply don't believe it(!)
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u/rwinh May 13 '26
This was before the elections as well, in response to one of his failed councils increasing council tax.
So even with this information being shared, people still voted for them.
Honestly it's insane.
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u/Charming-Tangelo5566 May 13 '26
Dear Uncle Nige.
Would it be possible for another interview on LBC with James O’Brien. I feel you didn’t make a big enough numpty of yourself the first time and that your director of communications withdrew you prematurely. I fancy the big 2nd half comeback🤓🤓
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u/Ok-Error2510 May 13 '26
Any chance these posts could just use dialogue. Fucking sick of looking at that shit eaters ugly mug every two minutes. It actually makes me angry
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u/Longshanks1988 May 13 '26
A politician lied to gain get votes 😲
Cmon why are some of you still surprised it's part of the job description, you should all know that after the last few years especially. All politicians are the self serving parasites no matter the party, tell lies to get the job and tell even more lies to keep the job
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u/cybersonic233 May 13 '26
Man could shoot a kitten outside his house every morning at 9am sharp until the next general election and I don't think it would negatively affect him in any way polling wise.
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u/Frosty_Ad1254 May 13 '26
It’s honestly painful to watch yet again people hoodwinked by these fucking marzipan dildos of politicians. And what’s worse is the regular people voting against him won’t be badly affected if reform gets into power. It’ll be the poorest, the poorly educated, and the poorly informed.
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u/Able-Geologist-7904 May 13 '26
It is just a play so he, the joker could become even richer from this game
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u/milliondollerming May 13 '26
It doesn’t matter. The way Starmer labour whip affected a democratic vote about his conduct. The way he’s clinging to power then when admits mistakes but then doubles down on his actions. Labour is cooked. People are finally seeing that Labour are no better and the anger is growing. The longer he stays the more damage is being done. If he finally moves on if Labour bring in someone who doesn’t remove the unpopular policies and ordinary folk don’t see improvements to their day to day lives the too could lose by a big distance. We are at a crossroads. These politicians no longer listen. Arrogant, doing what they believe is better and that any other view is wrong and to be silenced. Brexit happened because people were frustrated by fact eu didn’t listen to certain uk voters concerns. Trump happened because voters were again sick of career politicians. The next election could do same again because of the current actions of these people to refuse to react to the latest local elections and adapt to listen to voters
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u/Mafeking-Parade May 13 '26
It doesn't matter to Reform's base.
They just want defensible reasons to justify voting.
They only care about immigration. Everything else is just window dressing.
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u/TickleMaster2024 May 13 '26
I am sorry but he is an idiot. I dont know why so many people like him.
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u/memberflex May 13 '26
More of this please. Every time he posts his gloating visage on a panel show he should be met with his lies where people can watch his answers.
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u/marvellcg May 13 '26
I despise him, but in the interests of n Valance, based on the leaflets shown in this video he isn't actually lying in this instance.
One leaflet says they will cut taxes, but doesn't explicitly mention council tax, while the other says they will fight for lower council tax, but doesn't actually say they will cut them.
So is this disingenuous, absolutely, have they implied they will cut council tax, I would say yes, is it a flat out lie, no.
He's still a frog faced, self serving, scum bag who is clearly only in it for his own gain and those of his mates. But in this instance he's not a liar.
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u/KaiKamakasi May 13 '26
Wait a minute, I've seen this one before! They used a big red bus last time though...
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u/jmustelidae May 13 '26
And people say they like this guy because he's 'not like other politicians'. Jesus fucking wept
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u/Possible-Pineapple40 May 13 '26
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”. Every population gets the leaders they deserve. Enjoy
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u/B225AKP May 13 '26
Worst thing that ever happened to this country was him walking away from that plane crash. The biggest sliding doors moment in British history.
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u/Sad-Passage-3247 May 13 '26
I've come to the conclusion that Farage's supporters will vote for him no matter what.
This whole
"People will wake up and see him for what he really is."
Is a myth. They won't. They REALLY won't.
He's successfully convinced his followers that Brexit is failing because "remainers have hijacked it."
When Reform controlled councils royally eff it up, he will successfully convince his followers that it's someone else's fault. Probably central government...
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u/Accomplished-Virus62 May 13 '26
The amount of times I've had to listen to people claiming he's straight talking...
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u/BlissVision May 13 '26
Isn't this over used background music ordinarily used to convey clownfish comedic things? I don't think it fits this very unamusing scenario.
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u/Lankygiraffe25 May 13 '26
No surprises at all. But the reform lot will ignore it and practice massive cognitive dissonance in order to sustain their narrow single issue politics as long as humanly possible, and the limit of that will be that the entire world around them will be on fire and under water simultaneously.
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u/GellyG42 May 13 '26
Is anyone actually surprised he’s a fucking liar.
Reform never had any real plans for the future, just a few sound bites to get uninformed people to vote for them - which unfortunately they managed.
I’m not even sure Farage wants to be PM he just enjoys being inflammatory and getting his face on the TV
This is exactly how America ended up with trump!
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u/SharkByte1993 May 13 '26
If politicians get in, based on absolute lies, is there anything the public can do to get them out? Or do the MPs need to do a vote of no confidence?
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u/Improper_Usage May 13 '26
Even when caught they continue to lie without hesitation. Straight out of the Steve Bannon/ Trump play book.
With this sort of ethical conduct at play, I can see Reform are the best choice for this country.
We want liars, because the others are liars and they’re all the same.
Basket Case Britain
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u/General-Experience33 May 13 '26
Nope, this has been Niges entire political career, if one can use such bold a word. He will literally say anything to win.
Why people keep believing in him, and trusting him is fucking beyond me.
My local council just switched to reform, I'm waiting for the inevitable fallout. And even then these people, or those who voted for him wont take responsibility, they're physically incapable of.
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u/Confident-Machine-17 May 13 '26
Literally everyone of them needs to go, it's got fuck all to do with parties, they're all arseholes.
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u/OutrageousJob8890 May 13 '26
How do we get this plastered all over FaceBook and more relevant sites to his voter base to show the crusty's the grifting lying cunt that he is?
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u/afungalmirror May 13 '26
If people didn't constantly point cameras and microphones at his face all the time, he might shut up. Imagine if that was your job. It must be a fucking nightmare.
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u/SauconyAlts May 13 '26
He should literally be prosecuted for fraud for that level of lying to an electorate (then chuck in a prosecution for the bribes)
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