Farage emulating ‘his hero Trump’ in deriding byelection results, says new Green MP

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/02/nigel-farage-emulating-his-hero-trump-gorton-and-denton-byelection-hannah-spencer

Posted by 1-randomonium

10 Comments

  1. 1-randomonium on

    From anti-abortion nonsense to supporting Trump’s case for annexing Greenland, Farage really has copied almost every one of his policies from the Trump administration. This isn’t just a meme.

  2. One group observes 16 couples going into booths together. They’re observing for half an hour, and nobody else noticed this issue.

    The Farage side of the media immediately assumes they’re Muslims, that they’re voting for the Green Party, and that the party is encouraging this.

    They lost by 4,000 votes, in a constituency with an overwhelming left wing majority, where he only had a shot because the left wing vote was split.

    Anything I’ve missed? No?

    Then yeah, the only part of trumps playbook he’s not emulating is that Trump was successful.

  3. Politician X says something bad about the opposition Politician Y. As true this may be. this is just dribble.

  4. Two things can be true at once.

    Farage is crying because they lost the By-election and saying what he can to deflect.

    The reported instances of Family voting are a problem and need to be rigorously investigated and, if found to have been true, more robust guidance given to polling staff.

    Farage can have a point, and still be whinging for the wrong reasons. We cannot allow our election standards to drop at all.

  5. Hellstorm901 on

    My concern is if this is how Farage is going to react when he loses a seat he knows he probably wasn’t going to win to begin with given the local community what will his reaction be if he loses a place he thought was guaranteed

    Because Farage is clearly emulating Trump and we all know exactly what Trump did when he lost the election

  6. RaymondBumcheese on

    We/they need to link Farage to Trump at every opportunity. Every dumb thing he uncritically regurgitates, link it back to Trump.

  7. RubberDucky882 on

    Green are crazy insane people, remember this. They want unlimited immigration, nothing would be more damaging than more Green MPs.