There's so much going on at present that I could be doing 3 or 4 posts a day. Three will suffice today, but I've already had to cancel several due to events overtaking me. So......
Nigel Farage, newly installed MP for Clacton and already proving he has absolutely no interest in representing the people who actually voted for him, was in Parliament yesterday dispensing his usual brand of Kremlin-friendly drivel. His latest gem? Apparently, a minerals deal between the USA and Ukraine should be "enough" of a security guarantee. Yes, because when you’re being shelled daily by a revanchist lunatic who wants to wipe your country off the map, what you really need is a robust trade agreement. I’m sure that’ll stop the tanks. Perhaps Ukraine could throw in a loyalty card too – buy ten Javelin missiles, get the next one free.
This is the same Farage who only yesterday was on the radio defending his admiration for Putin as an "operator." You know, the kind of operator who annexes territory, has political opponents thrown out of windows, poisons people in the UK and runs a war machine built on mass murder and propaganda. It does make you wonder what kind of "operations" Farage himself admires or wants to implement. Or perhaps he's just a bit jealous. After all, Putin doesn’t have to bother with elections. Farage is fast becoming a liability to Reform - a bit like their election manifesto promises that are totally devoid of actual, workable solutions.
But of course, Farage isn’t pro-Putin – he’s just anti-NATO, anti-Ukraine and anti-anything that involves standing up to actual tyranny. The man who spent years bleating about British sovereignty now seems to think other countries should just roll over and accept their lot. Ukraine doesn’t need security guarantees, he reckons – just a few contracts signed and a firm handshake. That should stop the missile strikes.
Meanwhile, Clacton, the town that actually put him in Westminster, gets nothing. No talk of investment, no plans for jobs or infrastructure – just another round of grandstanding about how the UK should be less supportive of Ukraine and more understanding of Putin’s needs. Perhaps his next big idea will be to offer Russia a fishing licence in the North Sea as a goodwill gesture.
If Farage had been around in 1939, he’d have told Poland to accept a nice trade deal with Germany and stop causing trouble. Maybe he’d have suggested Churchill send Hitler some discounted coal and call it even. But that’s the thing about Nigel. He’s never met a dictator he doesn’t want to flatter. If they’re anti-West, anti-democracy and allergic to basic decency, he’s all ears.
He even tried to furiously row back on his support for Andrew Tate on LBC Radio yesterday, but Nick Ferrari, the morning presenter, was having none of it and quoted his words back to him. Farage has previously praised Tate for being an ‘important voice’ for the ’emasculated’ and giving boys ‘perhaps a bit of confidence at school’. Farage must be feeling rather lonely at present. What on earth persuades people to vote for his toxic brand of grievance with no solutions?
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