Farage skips UK election to work for Trump

[Fight for Trump]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/world/europe/nigel-farage-donald-trump-uk-election.html

Nigel Farage, the broadcaster and populist politician who championed Brexit, said on Thursday that he would not run for a seat in the British Parliament in a general election on July 4, preferring to focus on helping former President Donald J. Trump recapture the White House in November.

No surprise. Grifting off Trump is more lucrative than running for Parliament.

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Sorry america!

[OSR stands with Israel]

Well in that cause , I will be rooting for Labour in this election. Reform is completely unserious and aren’t actually interested in becoming a governing force like Canadian reform was in 1993.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

I see his gig of recording Cameos in a dumpster in Bristol isn't paying off

[MasterJedi]

I thought Trump was all about stopping dangerous people from coming over the boarder? He helped make Britain poorer and now he wants to do the same here.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I thought Trump was all about stopping dangerous people from coming over the boarder? He helped make Britain poorer and now he wants to do the same here.

They gave us Piers Morgan too. The United Kingdom isn't sending their best! We need to build a wall around the Atlantic ocean!

[Joe Republic]

I thought Trump was all about stopping dangerous people from coming over the boarder? He helped make Britain poorer and now he wants to do the same here.

They gave us Piers Morgan too. The United Kingdom isn't sending their best! We need to build a wall around the Atlantic ocean!

Or start sending them to Rwanda.

[Vice President Christian Man]

They can’t recover when they lost the OSR vote. The question now is how big their landslide is going to be.

[Sir Mohamed]

Well in that cause , I will be rooting for Labour in this election. Reform is completely unserious and aren’t actually interested in becoming a governing force like Canadian reform was in 1993.

So you believe Brexit was a huge mistake? I think that's pretty obvious at this point. The Tories for sure have earned their upcoming election loss, I just don't expect them to get any better with Sunak gone. Ergo, could become even more radical under Braverman.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Well in that cause , I will be rooting for Labour in this election. Reform is completely unserious and aren’t actually interested in becoming a governing force like Canadian reform was in 1993.

So you believe Brexit was a huge mistake? I think that's pretty obvious at this point. The Tories for sure have earned their upcoming election loss, I just don't expect them to get any better with Sunak gone. Ergo, could become even more radical under Braverman.

I think it’s a lot of things but I will say this is definitely more of an anti Tory Sentiment than anti Sunak . In fact If the UK has our system I would vote for Sunak for President over Starmer and Labour for congress over the Tories . These are the reasons why I have turned on the Tories though

- Just pure incompetence to a level I have not seen before. They won such a massive majority but still seem unable to do anything and the UK unlike the US gives leadership actual whip powers so it should not be like this

- thanks to their incompetence they have been unable to do anything to address issues like the economy, immigration, energy etc

- Starmer has moved Labour quite back to the middle . He’s purged the Corbyn wing from the party and moved the party to the right on issues like taxes , energy , immigration and has embraced Blairism has a whole . Due to this starmer is my favorite left of center leader in the world right now

[Fight for Trump]

Well, that U-turn didn't take long.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Well, that U-turn didn't take long.

I wonder if Trump's conviction in NY made Farage decide Trump wasn't likely to win.

[Fight for Trump]

Well, that U-turn didn't take long.

I wonder if Trump's conviction in NY made Farage decide Trump wasn't likely to win.

I don't think the timing is a coincidence.

[7,052,770]

The man built his whole career in how the UK should be for British people only, not for foreigners, and now he's coming to America to tell us what to do.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Well, that U-turn didn't take long.

I wonder if Trump's conviction in NY made Farage decide Trump wasn't likely to win.

Then that's bad news because clearly Farage's political instincts are bad.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well, that U-turn didn't take long.

I wonder if Trump's conviction in NY made Farage decide Trump wasn't likely to win.

I don't think the timing is a coincidence.

Maybe he was reminded of the fact that Trump is known for not paying his bills, and is unlikely to be in a better spot to do so after this.

[Agafin]

Well, that U-turn didn't take long.

I mean the Repunlocan convention is after the UK election and campaigning will mostly begin in earnest around labor day so Garage can still campaign with Trump.

[TheTide]

Well, that U-turn didn't take long.

I wonder if Trump's conviction in NY made Farage decide Trump wasn't likely to win.

Then that's bad news because clearly Farage's political instincts are bad.

I'm not a fan, but I think the entire political year of 2019 disproves that. He effectively overthrew a Prime Minister and paved the way for another to win a landslide general election victory, all of which allowed his pet project to be enacted.