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MLC @mlchr.bsky.social · Nov 11
Literally all you need to know about the guy.
(6.30am, 24/06/2016, less than 2hrs after the outcome)
Nigel Farage admits £350 million a week for the NHS was a mistake on Good Morning Britain Low, 360p
YouTube video by Occupy The BBC
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petefrasermusic.bsky.social
This has popped up on my feed again so your occasional reminder that, if your business cannot turn a profit when acting within the law, you don’t have a legitimate business
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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centralbylines.co.uk
Farage’s Reform UK attack on the young: austerity revisited

Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social
Farage’s Reform UK attack on the young: austerity revisited
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support
centralbylines.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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ianrobo.bsky.social
Jeez how on earth within a decade did the US go from Obama to this ??
December 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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timobetcke.me
We are more and more in a war for the future of democracy in this country. Outlets such as the Telegraph and the Spectator have already picked sides, namely the one that pays in Russian Rubles.
December 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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“If this is the level of shamelessness [Farage’s] media supporters are willing to stoop to when he is a mere fourth party opposition politician, just imagine the levels they will descend to should he ever get a real whiff of power”

It just *must* not happen.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
The Farage Apologists
The same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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jacquep.bsky.social
This was on the Sun website.

BOOTED OUT
That's what they hoped would happen to all of us EU citizens

The article is still in the archive but the it now says "powerless to remove"
Sün 97% AA UK Border in 2019 EU RIGHTS ROW Only 600,000 EU citizens may be at risk if we leave the EU IF BRITAIN LEAVES EU IN 2019 WE WON'T BE ABLE TO BOOT OUT 3M BY LYNN DAVIDSON 2 August 2016 BRITAIN will be powerless to remove more than 3million EU Descriptive alt text Alt text A
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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edwinhayward.com
On 24 June 2016, the day after the referendum, the Daily Mail warned that Brexit would lead to huge numbers of Poles leaving the UK.

Yesterday, the Daily Mail posted a piece moaning about the number of Poles who've left the UK.

In between, they published hundreds of articles attacking immigrants.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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bearlypolitics.co.uk
A winter flu surge.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.

This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.

A Saturday long read.
Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
A system shaved to the bone, a winter crisis already unfolding, and a government furious because the arithmetic no longer works.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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bearlypolitics.co.uk
Yup - and he’s doing this exactly because he has nowhere left to run after disastrous policy decisions.

Yes, the Conservatives caused the NHS to be where it is today, but unfortunately Labour has done precious little to actually fix any of the fundamental issues in the system.
December 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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joniaskola.bsky.social
Elon Musk is a dangerous and unstable hypocrite with way too much power who lies every single time he opens his mouth and who overestimates how smart he is.

On political questions, he is an absolute idiot
December 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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timobetcke.me
That’s what Keir Starmer means when he says the UK should follow the US in AI regulation.

My only question is whether it is incompetence or whether he seats deep in the pockets of Palantir.
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
Trump has signed an Executive Order attempting to ban states and localities from regulating AI.

It comes after Big Tech announced a $100 million lobbying blitz.

Always follow the money. https://youtu.be/imtkNL4v2ks?si=LHG-GWoIO87c1Tyi
Big Tech's AI Power-Grab
Robert Reich
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December 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Tommy Robinson's Christmas Carol service featured two arrests - one for assault and another of a man suspected of homophobic abuse.

And loads of union flags and massive crosses... because that's traditional at the events where we celebrate Christ's BIRTH, isn't it. Crosses and flags.
Blokes with massive cross
December 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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militarynewsua.bsky.social
❗️Mass protests took place in 🇭🇺Budapest tonight after it became known that the Orbán government had concealed an official report on crimes against children in state care.
December 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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nulasuchet.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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prospectmagazine.co.uk
Those opposed to the ECHR will never be satisfied by tinkering, just as Brexiters were never satisfied by the many opt-outs and rebates the UK received, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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snig.bsky.social
Nigel Farage was plainly trying to pretend that Laura Ann Jones' racist statement was made a long time ago, under the further pretence such racism was acceptable in 2005. But, it happened in August 2023, as was the finding of the Senedd Standards Commissioner.
nation.cymru/news/reform-...
Reform MS suspended from Senedd for racial slur and misconduct breaches
Reform UK’s only Member of the Senedd, Laura Anne Jones, has been suspended from the Welsh Parliament for 14 days without pay after being found to have breached multiple elements of the Senedd’s code ...
nation.cymru
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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snig.bsky.social
Nigel Farage, interviewed in 2014 about the contents of Chloe Deakin's 1981 letter setting out his racism and racist behaviour, offered this denial that he ever sang Hitler Youth songs. 20 people have now confirmed what Deakin wrote.
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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snig.bsky.social
29 people have come forward to confirm Nigel Farage's racist past. They confirm his antisemitic harassment, racist comments, and known reputation as a schoolboy racist. Of course Farage has therefore turned on broadcasters rather than admit he was wrong.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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snig.bsky.social
Nigel Farage's open homophobia as he jokes at his brother's wedding: "The good news for us who are smokers is that we are far better off here than if we had been at Michael Barrymore’s house. Because there they removed all the ashtrays on the basis that now they chuck all the fags in the pool."
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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snig.bsky.social
While in the 6th form, Nigel Farage would smoke on the "Belsen Bus", when a black person appeared on screen, would loudly exclaim, "Are you English?", repeated chants of the National Front: "The National Front is the white man's front", and "There ain't no black in the union jack".
THE OBSERVER Saturday, 13 December 2025 On Dulwich school trips, Nigel Farage and the other smokers took the 'Belsen Bus' The Reform leader was performatively racist at Dulwich College, recalls a contemporary who claims to have heard him sing a song celebrating the Holocaust Graham Noble In the 1970s and 1980s, many boys passed through Dulwich College in south London fairly anonymously. Outside their own Graham Noble In the 1970s and 1980s, many boys passed through Dulwich College in south London fairly anonymously. Outside their own classes and circles of close friends, only the particularly brilliant, sporty or musical were well known, but, from an early age, Nigel Farage bucked this trend. Everyone had heard of Nigel. He was a scruffy non-academic with a minor talent for cricket, but he had one quality that set him apart: a gift for getting into trouble, and he clearly relished the notoriety that it brought him. His attention-seeking continued into the sixth form, between September 1980 and July 1982, which is when I got to know him well. We did exactly the same A-levels - history, geography and economics and were in the same tutor group: our tutor was the former English Test cricketer John Dewes. By this time, Nigel had transformed himself into something of a dandy. His obsessively maintained mirror-shine shoes, rolled umbrella, smart blazer and military strut set him apart from the rest of us. In most schools, a model railway society would not have attracted the attention of such an image-conscious student, but Nigel was a regular attendee. Every lunchtime he would descend into the basement of the Barry Buildings, past the model trains, and creep into a network of pitch-black tunnels, where he and a few others would sit and smoke. Nigel had little time for academic work and was utterly dismissive of university education. His imagined future lay in the stock exchange, which he referred to, for a reason I did not follow, as the "cancer exchange". He looked forward to a lifetime of making easy money, drinking and smoking. Nigel Farage in his cadet uniform It's hard to judge how far Nigel's racism was part of this pose, or whether it represented his real views. Much of what he said was clearly performative. Whenever a black person appeared on a video shown to our geography class, he would loudly exclaim, "Are you English?" He enjoyed repeating the racist chants of the National Front: "The National Front is the white man's front", and "There ain't no black in the union jack". I heard him sing the "gas 'em all" song on more than one occasion, which celebrates the Holocaust and suggests other racial groups that might also be gassed. On an A-level field trip to Exeter, geography students occupied two minibuses, one for smokers and the other for non-smokers. Smoking was clearly against the school rules but, outside term time, it was deemed OK for some reason. Farage was part of the smokers' bus, of course, and I remember hearing him joke about being in a gas chamber. I saw the words "Belsen Bus" written with a finger on the grimy bus window, in joking reference to the concentration camp where tens of thousands of Nazi victims were killed. Poisoned gas was never used there but the meaning of the comment was clear enough. Although I never saw who wrote the words, many of us at the time had our suspicions. In a statement to The Observer, Farage said he did not recall writing those words on the window or seeing the words. I was never a direct target of Nigel's invective and, much of the time, I wasn't aware that individuals were being victimised at all. Despite the forebodings expressed by an English teacher, Chloe Deakin, Nigel was made a prefect in his final year and he evidently used this position of authority to direct his attention to younger pupils with an African, Asian or Jewish background. The stories, published in the Guardian, of the racially motivated bullying of boys seven or eight years younger than himself are appalling. The Reform party has dismissed stories such as mine a…
December 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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snig.bsky.social
Nigel Farage in January 2025 saying the quiet part out loud. He only cares about sexual exploitation when the offenders are Pakistani and the victims are white. His call for a public enquiry into grooming gangs is both opportunistic and racist.
Many of us have doubted the idea that any public inquiry could be "quick, as promised by Badenoch. It fell to Farage to explain how this could be achieved. He said the inquiry Reform wants is one "that looks specifically at to what extent were gangs of Pakistani men raping young white girls". (Did he mean to include men whose parents or grandparents were from Pakistan, and indeed people of Bangladeshi and Indian heritage? Perhaps he felt it went without saying.) It would certainly save time for the inquiry to ignore the rape and torture of brown and black-skinned girls and boys, and grooming by white men. WHAT about the demands for a public inquiry? Much of Musk's rage was directed at victims minister Jess Phillips, who has rejected calls from councillors in Oldham for a nationwide inquiry, saying the town should hold a local one instead. This earned her the title of "rape genocide apologist". Phillips worked in women's shelters before entering politics. Leading figures on the right were quick to weigh in behind Musk. Current Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, former Tory leader Liz Truss, would-be Tory leader Robert Jenrick and real Tory leader Nigel Farage have all endorsed the idea of a full national inquiry - a touching display of faith in the system, given that Alexis Jay, who led a national inquiry into child sexual abuse that reported in 2022, has protested that it might be an idea to implement her recommendations first.
October 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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snig.bsky.social
Here is Nigel Farage in June 2024 saying British born and British educated former PM Rishi Sunak doesn't understand "our history" and "our culture". He's an out and out racist. It was possible to criticise Sunak's early leaving of the D-Day celebrations without being racist.
October 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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snig.bsky.social
July 2024 and we have this example of straight up racism from Nigel Farage as he says he "cannot see the Democrat Party getting rid of a black African woman." Kamala Harris was born in America. She's American.
October 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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snig.bsky.social
In 2023 it was reported that in 2021 Nigel Farage, in exchange for payment, recorded a Christmas greeting which included a homophobic, a racial, and a mental health slur. Amazing how he can fit in so much bigotry in so little time. bylinetimes.com/2023/11/29/w...
October 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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snig.bsky.social
In 2014 Nigel Farage said people wouldn’t want Romanian neighbours. Confronted by James O’Brien about whether the same applies to German children, he says “you know what the difference is”. This and his comment about the “quality” of immigrants, are clearly racist.
www.youtube.com/shorts/a2Mkp...
James O'Brien's only interview with Nigel Farage ever | LBC from the Vault
YouTube video by LBC
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October 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM