Nigel Farage accused of fantasy promises with expensive policy pledges
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It’s like people haven’t watched his career … This is one of the things he does. Push fantasy as reality, then runs away when it bites him in the bum
How embarrassing. The labour party are being outflanked on the left wing by *checks notes* Nigel fucking farage.
>He added that he wanted more stringent controls on abortion as well.
>“I think it’s ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous, that we can allow abortion up to 24 weeks, and yet, if a child is born prematurely at 22 weeks, your local hospital will move heaven and earth and probably succeed in that child surviving and going on and living a normal life,” he said.
Also just thrown in at the end there …
It’s funny – working people have become so accustomed to becoming poorer every year by tax rises and fiscal drag – just pulling the tax brackets back to where they belong is considered populist.
Ultimately it’s about priorities. Government spending has been and is continuing to explode; now accounting for 45% of gdp with tax revenue topping over £1 trillion.
£50 – £80 billion (about 4% – 7% cut) in the size of the state would be a significant boon for living standards of working people – but would come with cuts to some public services and/or triple locked pensions. I think this is a debate we should be having instead of the uni-party politics of the past 14 years and the next 5.
We need to ask the question if the UK economy can really sustain itself long term as a care home with aircraft carriers.
He’s never been able to explain how he will pay for his fantasy pledges. And he’s now also setting out his agenda to roll back abortion rights in this country in line with his American extremist Christian allies. When the fuck will his admirers in this country wake up to what a wrecker this man is.
His entire play is relying on stirring up the same kind of cultish crowd as in America, through getting extreme reactions and causing divisiveness. I wonder whether the public will give in to this
Said it on another thread but it was a weird speech from what I saw. Like there wasn’t any actual passion behind it at all, he was just saying things.
Unfortunately Farage is sort of right here, although probably for the wrong reasons.
Research what’s going to happen to South Korea due to its record low birth rates and it paints a pretty terrible future, if the country even survives. If the government is interested in a long term, stable economy for the coming generations, it will incentivise increasing the birth rate. If it doesn’t, no matter what we do we will be screwed. There would be a point in the next 100 years when there are more retired people than working people, and that would be pretty much curtains for everyone.
It’s a shame Nigel Farage seems to be the only one bringing forward some kind of solution for this!
He’s gambling that many people aren’t capable of parsing reality with any accuracy, and therefore are more likely to embrace fantasy promises.
He might even be right.
Usual populism from Farage. However, since Labour are currently running scared and going back on some of their benefit cuts to try and shore up support, it could be a rare, fortuitous case of the working class actually getting something out of it. Make the most of it while you can cos it won’t last, certainly not if Reform ever actually got elected.
There is another Reform policy that It would be nice if Labour adopted, one that gets very little mention in the media. Making the BoE stop its current Quantitative Tightening program, whereby it is selling off the bonds it bought with QE money at a loss. And stopping the Treasury paying 10s of billions of £s a year to commercial banks on their reserves at the BoE. Could save a fortune, pain free to the workers. Surprisingly, not only is Farage in favour of this but so is the likes of John Redwood. Labour MPs should be all over this policy, urging it on Rachel Reeves –
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/why-nigel-farage-is-targeting-the-bank-of-england-to-raise-billions/ar-BB1njvXn
By Rebecca Perring
08:29, Mon, Apr 18, 2016 | UPDATED: 12:09, Mon, Apr 18, 2016
The Ukip leader claimed Brussels is currently thrashing out a deal with Turkey – which has a population of 77 million – which would give ALL Turks the option of living in Britain.
The same thing that happened with Trump is happening with Farage.
He is constantly in the media and in online forums.
Meanwhile Labour tax tax tax, spend spend spend and still haven’t got a clue what they are doing.
A man like Karl Pilkington would be good to sort this country out.
Where’s the 1,000 page costing bullshit Labour have to do?
Bit more than fantasy promises
There is no way in hell that they manage to push all of their spending and tax cutting pledges
Just the 20k tax threshold pledge alone would castrate government revenue.
And if they try the economy will go absolutely tits up and it’ll make the Truss bond yield shock look like a drop in the fucking ocean.
This party is a threat to every single British persons way of life.
My fucking word.
Well no shit.
All his promises are completely uncosted and all his explanations lack any actual detail about how he’d achieve them.
Genuinely surprised a newspaper is calling him on it though, even a broken clock is right twice a day I guess.
He’s absolutely full of it imo. I’ve read through Reform’s policy document and about 3/4 of people will be worse off under them when all things are considered. It’s effectively a mandate for UK Trumpism.
What do you mean? Like doing away with the winter fuel cap and the two child benefit cap? You know, those two things that Labour are considering doing away with.
Accused by who? 😉
Looks like we’ve got some propaganda!