Nigel Farage snaps at journalist and refuses to answer her question
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Nigel Farage snaps at journalist and refuses to answer her question
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25863291.nigel-farage-snaps-ft-journalist-refuses-answer-question/
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Nigel Farage clashed with Anna Gross of the Financial Times during a press conference announcing Reform UK’s new “shadow cabinet.”
Despite having only eight MPs, Farage positioned Reform as the main opposition to Labour. The frontbench includes former Conservative ministers Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, while Zia Yusuf was named home affairs spokesman, pledging to cut legal and illegal migration and potentially withdraw from international treaties to enable mass deportations. Farage and Yusuf have previously proposed deporting 600,000 asylum seekers.
Gross questioned Yusuf about comparisons to US immigration enforcement and asked Braverman about private schooling, challenging the party’s stance on state education. Farage interrupted, insulted Gross, and refused to answer, criticising the FT’s coverage instead. He dismissed further questioning and moved on to another journalist.
For someone who claims to be an ardent supporter of free speech, he sure does hate free speech
He’s recruiting all the people he criticised not long ago? What’s reform now if now a recycling factory of failed Tories?
Ah, a play straight out of the MAGA handbook. It’s going to be a shitty few years.
Oh lovely. More behaviour adopted from his orange role model in the US. If this man gets elected we’re all in serious trouble
Well, at least Rupert is out there splitting the vote for us.
He still blames his mother for forcing his father to leave the family home when he, Nigel, was just five years old. He hates women, although he knows it is politically expedient to smile at them.
If we vote these people in, we are dumb as fuck and deserve whatever happens.
Pathetic grifter charlatan that people will still vote for
This is where journalists have to work as a union, if he tries to move on the next journo needs to ask the same question or point him back to the previous reporter and push for an answer.
Otherwise you end up like the US.
He wants to be Trump so bad he’s probably started wearing nappies.
he is Trumps bestie – why would we expect him to be any different? You honestly think this guy will be for “the people” if he gets into power? Hell no.
It’s depressing how nakedly Trump/MAGA-lite all this shit is, and how everyone (their supporters at least) are just fine with that despite evidence to show that it’s all ineffective and self-serving.
I mean Americans are so much better off now than they were before, so it must be a blinding success, right? They even talk about a “UK DOGE” and “UK ICE” etc. Zero original ideas, zero actual policies that stand to make people’s lives better. Just wall-to-wall dog whistle garbage, with the feckless clamouring to vote for them purely for “give them a chance” etc.
I mean if the financial times are giving you problems and you are claiming they have an agenda against you then you are really going to struggle.
The Financial Times that well know left wing newspaper lmao.
He always does this, it is why he will fail, he folds under the slightest scrutiny, he has zero backbone or ability to stand up to a modicum of challenge. Unlike Trump I think he will find a less weak media willing to bend the knee, I mean they are not great no doubt but they are not Fox News and GBeebies is basically culturally irrelevant.
Refusing to answer isn’t the scary part.
>Farage interrupted and said: “Oh dear, you better emigrate I think clearly appalling, what a terrible human being.”
He is trump 2.0
Ever since he was hired to be an EU MP and then never turned up, it has been appararent to me that this man, is a text book example of a “con man”.
Somehow we keep employing him, and supporting him enough to be employed.
His party is now full of the very people he publically bashed and “railed against”, because it was *never* about doing the job but about getting paid to do as little as possible and be a little bit famous.
I genuinely do not understand how people like this man, just look at his EU attendence when we paid him to do a job, look at his current attendence as the representative he *isn’t*.
He. Never. Turns. Up.
On top of all of that he is constatly in support of foreign governments AGAINST our own government. Atleast when you’re doing as it an opposing party in this government it doesn’t feel treasonous. He just want’s lots of foreign trips.
Taken yet another cue from your idol the Mango Mussolini then Nige?
Love that he then took a question from the Guardian, wonder what that was, surely more uncomfortable than the Financial Times…
Hilarious that Farage would nominate a former Conservative as chancellor that he only recently he blamed for the UK’s current woes and basically called a massive ballend.
Even more hilarious that he gets tetchy when questioned about it.
Farage is supposed to be a master politician/communicator but he makes frequent awful decision and falls apart under pressure.
I think he’s only managed to get this far because the media has gone easy on him and he’s bypassed it where possible using social media.
Hey that sounds familiar, where have I seen someone do this before?
Polls suggest it’s already crumbling. Oh well. On to the next grift.
based on his recent behaviour it looks like Restore has him rattled. He really thought he was going to be the next PM.
thinks he’s his idol, the Tangerine Fascist, being rude to female journalists – edge lord
American in the UK here. Wake up. If you vote this clown in, you will officially have no room to talk shit about us in any capacity and will become a puppet state.
Trying to copy the man who’s arse hole he resides in.
I’ve heard a lot of Reform politicians refusing to answer questions to journalists and getting irate lately. It’s because they don’t have any answers, they have very unclear and ill thought out policies. Basically are an inexperienced one issue populist group that haven’t got a clue what they are doing.
Up until now haven’t really had to stand up to scrutiny because they were relatively fringe. Now things are changing, they are being scrutinised and they can’t handle it because they don’t know what they are doing.
Not sure why this popped up on my feed since I’m not English, but I implore you guys to not make the same mistake my fellow americans did.
He is slime, and his associations with shady trump characters is doing him no favours. Trump is hardly the example of what people want, looking at what he’s done.
Off he went with a Trumpity Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. (Trump all the way eh Nige? What you hiding?)
Make. Him. Resign.
Also, ban from any future political endeavours.
Grifter who doesn’t believe in anything other than his fame and money.
It’s the classic move of demanding a platform to speak freely, then refusing to engage with any scrutiny. Really shows what that version of “free speech” is actually about.
Farage is a thin-skinned self-promoter. Thankfully with the addition of more far-right parties, the greens picking up the protest (and genuinely progressive) voters, and the conservatives ejecting some of their worst, Farage is a spent force.
As per usual, master politician and the man the media is desperate to crown as the next PM, Nigel Farage, absolutely going to pieces so fast the audience is getting hit by the shrapnel when pressed in even the mildest way by a journalist for an extremely establishment paper.
Now where I have I seen this whole exact playbook before?
He really is trying to emulate trump. Whe do we think he’s going to start using the orange face paint?
Manchild getting upset because it’s a question pointed at how badly his hero is doing.
He is too weak to actually stand and take questions, if he ever did become PM I imagine he would just not show up or strop off when things got too heavy.
So embarrassing.
Like a child parroting the words and mannerisms of their idol without any understanding of it.
He’s heard Daddy Trump say it, so he says it.
Yesterday seemed like the end of the Reforms peak to me. Top cabinet jobs all gone to the ratline Tories who only recently joined, clearly no talent in their movement now also Restore to will be eating into their vote share. The guy is starting to look riled.
Lessons straight from the Trump handbook of handling journos who all awkward questions.