GMB: Nigel Farage faces questions on Reform’s links to fascists
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GMB: Nigel Farage faces questions on Reform’s links to fascists
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24394432.gmb-nigel-farage-faces-questions-reforms-links-fascists/
Posted by Kenobi_High_Ground
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That Raikes guy looks a bit like a Poundland fascist. Hugo Boss definitely didn’t make his get up.
Something tells me he’ll find it a boring question.
We should bring back stocks for people like Farage, for the public’s pleasure.
Farage is not just lying. He doesn’t care that he lies and he doesn’t care that I believe that he lies. Farage abandoning facts again.
I imagine dozens of Labour MPs are Facebook friends with known communists
It doesn’t matter. None of the reporting in Farage does. The people who will vote reform see all hate to him as either the establishment trying to bring him down or people indoctrinated by the state trying to bring him down
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41 of Reform’s parliamentary candidates are friends with Gary Raikes.
Raikes, a former organiser for the British National Party, founded the New British Union in the image of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, with activists who call themselves “blackshirts”.
Raikes has shared promotional material for the party on his Facebook account, including photos of himself next to NBU insignia and images of Mosley, the face of British fascism. Rikes has shared images of men performing Nazi salutes, and slogans such as “the future is fascism”.
The New British Union has called for a “fascist revolution” and sees parliamentary democracy as an “obstruction” to be replaced with a dictatorship.
When Farage was questioned on this he said “Look, most of our candidates are not political sophisticates. Alright? “So, yes, we’ve got one or two problems, but people liking each other on Facebook, I’m sorry but I don’t take that seriously.”
Raikes’s Facebook profile is topped by a large banner showing former British fascist leader Oswald Mosley with the words “forward with fascism”.
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Anonther Reform UK candidate defended calling Hitler ‘brilliant’
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Reform candidate Ian Gribbin, in 2022 claimed “Britain would be in a far better state today had we taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality … but oh no Britain’s warped mindset values weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people.”
The same month he wrote that the UK should “exorcise the cult of Churchill and recognize that in both policy and military strategy, he was abysmal”.
He also said “Square inequality by depriving women of healthcare’ Men pay 80% of tax – women spend 80% of tax revenue, Women only take from society. Less complaining please from the ‘sponging gender’.
In 2021, he wrote female soldiers “almost made me wretch” and were a “total liability”.
Farage defended him sayin its “Pub Banter”
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Farage was accused in college of singing nazi youth songs including a song about gassing jew. he was also accused of telling Jews in his school that Hitler was right.
Farage when questioned on this’ said his comments weren’t racist.
While we’re at it, ask him about his (alleged) links to Russia.
Guys we all need to relax. We’ve all got that one friend who is a little bit racist and who thinks Hitler had some ‘good ideas’.
It’s just unfortunate for these people that their friend is Nigel Farage.
pound shop trumps supporters wont care….they like this in fact.
I see Reforms bot farm is now finally targeting Reddit after news like this spread. Farage in full damage control.
“Those facist sympathizers were just resting in my party”
I would love to know from a Reform leaning member of this sub if stuff like this sways their decision to vote in any way.
They smelled of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs and too many right-wing meetings … skinheads in suits 🤢
It’s really no different form the days of Labour and communists, Trotskyists, Maoists, Stalinists, IRA, Libya and now Islamists. There are always fringes or people who take it just that bit further
Luckily the term “fascist” has been drained of any and all meaning. Thanks to redditors.
Hysterically labelling all opposition as fascist for decades will cause it to lose its bite.
You should be scared 😉
You must remember that candidates were vetted by an agency for Regorm. If they didn’t raise the red=flags how were Reform to know? Reform are now suing that agency for failing to spot the obvious. Perhaps the agency were left-wing and though ‘we can do a job on Farage here’
Further more, Labour has suspended a candidate for a pro-Russia post. How is that different? It isn’t. And let us not forget the anti-Jewish investigation and its outcome.
“THE majority of Reform UK’s General Election candidates are “not political sophisticates”, Nigel Farage has insisted”
in other words they say the bit you are supposed to keep quiet out loud…
Could it be because… and bear with me here. Theyre facists themselves? Novel concept i know 🙄
I imagine the question is simple:
“Mr Garage, are you aware that everyone knows about your party’s links to fascists?”
Farage’s reform is a business — that’s all you need to say about how he is approaching this. He stands for nothing than getting as much as he can out of the country
I really hope labour has an effective strategy to limit the effectiveness of this mind virus.
Farage is a treasonous weasel suckling on the tit of international fascism.
The poll numbers are very worrying for our future.
[Who is Nigel Farage?](https://youtu.be/mfyiSk8Rjc8)
At a College cadet camp he used to walk upto Jewish classmates shouting “Hitler was right”, “gas them” and sung Hitler youth songs.
When confronted by a reporter about the allegations years later, he defends those comments saying “they’re not neccessarily racist”.
In 2014 he advocated for the dismantling of the NHS in favour of an insurance based system. [source](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/12/film-nigel-farage-insurance-based-nhs-private-companies).
In 2017 he attended a far right afD rally in Germany, hosted by the granddaughter of Adolf Hitler’s finance Minister. [source](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/07/nigel-farage-to-address-far-right-rally-in-germany).
Coutts bank, whom closed his account said he “is at best seen as xenophobic and pandering to racists” and considered a “disingenuous grifter”.[source](https://www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-disingenuous-grifter-uk-coutts-natwest-bank-europe-brexit/).
He has appeared on Russian state RT TV over 17 times and has publically endorsed Vladimir Putin. [source](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/31/nigel-farage-relationship-russian-media-scrutiny).
Farage backed the “basic principle” of Enoch Powell’s notoriously racist ‘River’s of Blood Speech’. [source](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-leader-nigel-farage-provokes-anger-after-agreeing-with-basic-principle-of-enoch-powell-s-rivers-of-blood-speech-9040044.html).
The former leader of the KKK, David Duke, backed Farage as UK Prime Minister in 2017. [source](https://www.businessinsider.com/former-ku-clux-clan-chief-david-duke-backs-nigel-farage-for-pm-2017-2).
Nigel attended a rally and campaigned for Donald Trump in 2016. [source](https://www.reuters.com/article/world/nigel-farage-addresses-trump-rally-bashes-clinton-idUSKCN10Z059/).
May 2024 – Farage reportedly gets a job offer to help boost Trumps re-election campaign. [source](https://www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-gets-donald-trump-job-offer-us-election-campaign/).
What is it about a company run by a guy with a history of fascism that’s attracting so many fascists?