It’s not the U-Turn that’s the problem! The U-Turn is good! The bad bit is ever thinking us entering another pointless war was a good idea!
Important_Ruin on
Nigel Farage has been accused of making a U-turn after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.
His comments on Tuesday contrasted with his previous assertion that the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran.
Anna Turley, chair of the Labour party, said: “Reform wanted the UK to go to war in Iran and are now trying to cover up the consequences for British families, including higher fuel prices.”
While Farage has insisted he does not heed public opinion, a YouGov poll showed Reform’s 2024 voters are split, with nearly a quarter (24%) wanting the UK to actively join the attack on Iran and 63% supporting either a retaliatory or defensive position.
The conflict has exposed existing fault lines among senior Reform figures over foreign policy and the extent to which the UK should take a more isolationist “Britain First” position – an echo of splits in Trump’s own conservative base in the US. Here is what key figures have said.
**Nigel Farage**
On Tuesday, Farage said: “There are differing opinions as to whether we should physically join the attacks. I, as leader, am saying to you, if we can’t even defend Cyprus, let’s not get ourselves involved in another foreign war.”
This contrasts with his first public comments after the start of the war, when he said that he was in favour of “regime change” in Iran and told a press conference in Westminster: “We should do all we can to support the operation.”
**Richard Tice**
Reform’s deputy leader has taken a gung-ho stance from the start. In recent years, he has split his time between his Lincolnshire constituency and Dubai, where his partner lives.
“We would be helping the Americans and the Israelis in any way they saw appropriate because this is a strategic, permanent threat to all of our safety and interest,” he has said. “If requests were made, we would have been saying: ‘Yes, we are pleased to help.’”
**Robert Jenrick**
The former Conservative minister and Reform Treasury spokesperson laid out an explicitly “hands off” position on Monday. Writing in the Telegraph, he said a prolonged conflict would send prices spiralling and hurt British consumers.
“We are a party for working people, not drawn-out wars in faraway places,” wrote Jenrick, lambasting “the liberal interventionists of the early 21st century. The British people have had enough of them. It’s time to be realists and put Britain first.”
**Andrea Jenkyns**
The mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, who holds Reform’s most powerful public post, went as far as floating the prospect that she could support British troops on the ground in Iran.
“Do I want to see British troops on the ground? Ideally not at this stage,” she said, when asked on Sky News on Monday. “You can’t rule anything out. It’s too hostile. We don’t know the direction it is going to go in. Should we be using more of our weapons? Most certainly.”
**Nadhim Zahawi**
The recently recruited Reform member and former Conservative chancellor told the Sun last month that Britain should support and join the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran.
On Sunday, he told Times Radio that the UK should at least have made its bases available to the US from the start for offensive and “make everything available to our greatest ally, the United States of America”.
Zahawi, who was born into a Kurdish-Iraqi family which fled Saddam Hussein, said Iran had to stay “coherent as a nation”, but he recognised that the US was determined to create an environment for the Iranian people “to rise up again”.
Gentle_Snail on
Farage is so weak. I’d rather have someone strong like Starmer who was prepared to have an open fight with Trump rather than being his lapdog.
We don’t need a PM for America, we need a PM for the UK.
HGHW2008 on
It doesn’t matter which side of the argument he’s on. We shouldn’t be paying attention to anything this cunt is saying
Codydoc4 on
Nige saw the poll numbers drop and changed his tune. Doesn’t change the fact he wanted Britain to support trumps folly, even after what trump said about British service men and women.
He’s spat his dummy out because donald wouldnt meet him after he went all the way to mar-a-lago to try and suck trumps little penis for favours.
AngryTudor1 on
Farage is the ultimate capitalist politician. Every single opinion is for sale
crumpetsandchai on
I’m expecting to see a u-turn in the comments too with how strangely pro-war some of the comments in this sub have been 🥴
ChampionshipComplex on
LOL So the obnoxious twat Farage, shouts his predictable opposition to Starmer to win some pundits,.goes off to the USA yesterday to see Trump – who refuses to see him.
Comes back to a news cycle which shows the UK in general across the board are supportive of Starmers position and so U turns like the little opportunistic weasel he is
Agreeable_Falcon1044 on
Can you imagine this muppet anywhere near power? Missing for months as he screams up the RA for a handful of coins.
Any question he looks towards trump or putin for instructions of what to say next, hoping it hasn’t changes by the time he says it.
Unfit for office and a charlatan
serena22 on
He’s been given his orders from uncle Vlad then, trump also changed his tune after speaking to the mother land yesterday.
Emperors-Peace on
So are the reform tards going to change their copy/paste rhetoric about Starmer? Given now Nigel has done a rather dramatic U turn.
iloovehugecock on
I’ve never seen anyone who hates this country more than him and his ilk. Any excuse to shit on the country he seems to take it. Why doesn’t he just leave if he hates it here so much?
Necessary-Product361 on
This man u-turns on policy more than Starmer, and he doesn’t even have to implement them!
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Jolly_Psychology_506 on
He cried all the way home on the private jet apparently, screaming how unfair it all was
MCMLIXXIX on
He must have been sitting there seething on that flight home from mara lago. All 14 odd hours of it 😅
PanakinMcSkywalker on
U turn or not at least he’s not going to encourage his devotees to push for war.
Guy is a knob but at least he backed off on this.
No-Bobcat-4737 on
The man is an utter Gobshite , Always was ,always will be . You can’t believe a word that comes out of his frog like gob .
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WasThatInappropriate on
Did anyone expect different? Its his standard play – complain the government is taking no action and the day the ships get underway complain that they’re taking action.
This is the same man who put lifting the child benefit cap as a flagship policy until the government did it, now he wants to reinstate the cap to pay for something else.
LyingFacts on
Daddy gets him a job and he has the cheek to act like a self made man.
How many attempts to be a MP?
Fraudster is going to kill the poor and disabled with his ‘policies’ and make the rest of us pay so he can give tax cuts to his pals all whilst AI by 2029 will have wiped out a lot of folks jobs!
Worrying times ahead with this charlatan looming.
Cute-Cat-2351 on
What an unscrupulous arsehole. I actually drove past the garage in newhaven (Peak District) where he was hanging out today (went for a walk a little further along) Saw something was going on and saw the name Farage on the petrol station price board. Had I known he was actually attending I’d have stopped and given him some stick.
Super_Plastic5069 on
Oh Flip Flop Farridge strikes again the useless prick!!
rwinh on
He’s irrelevant. A sycophant with loose morals and open hands for any loose change and cash he can make in this grift he’s got going.
As per usual, he’s flip flopping like a fish (which is the closest he’s got to fish, seeing as he couldn’t be bothered turning up to fisheries committee meetings when in the EU).
It’s just business as usual with this traitor, seeing as he’s also accused of a similarly disgraceful U-turn over claiming he’ll cut taxes in Kent and now saying he never said it (it’s on his leaflets), so he’s attempting his usual gaslighting to get out of it. Pathetic little man.
Luke_4686 on
Probably embarrassed he flew all the way to Florida for dinner with the Orange monster and he didn’t turn up.
Rae-o-Light on
It’s only an accusation. An empty, evidence-free accusation. Just because he’s saying the exact opposite from what he said a few days ago, it doesn’t mean he’s u-turned. He might have had new instructions.
Or it could be ‘Nigel Farage too indecisive about soldiers’ lives to be credible candidate for PM’. Last week we could afford to jump into the fray. This week or army is too shit. What happened to the army in the past few days, Nigel? Or were they just as shit a week ago and you would have ordered them to their demise, leaving us open to an invasion while we fight someone else’s wars for them?
GoodRabbitSoup on
Starmer the is week is the nearest we’ll get to Hugh Grant in Love Actually and I am all over it.
Efficient_Sky5173 on
When inflation hits people’s budgets, they will turn on Trump and his gang.
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It’s not the U-Turn that’s the problem! The U-Turn is good! The bad bit is ever thinking us entering another pointless war was a good idea!
Nigel Farage has been accused of making a U-turn after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.
His comments on Tuesday contrasted with his previous assertion that the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran.
Anna Turley, chair of the Labour party, said: “Reform wanted the UK to go to war in Iran and are now trying to cover up the consequences for British families, including higher fuel prices.”
While Farage has insisted he does not heed public opinion, a YouGov poll showed Reform’s 2024 voters are split, with nearly a quarter (24%) wanting the UK to actively join the attack on Iran and 63% supporting either a retaliatory or defensive position.
The conflict has exposed existing fault lines among senior Reform figures over foreign policy and the extent to which the UK should take a more isolationist “Britain First” position – an echo of splits in Trump’s own conservative base in the US. Here is what key figures have said.
**Nigel Farage**
On Tuesday, Farage said: “There are differing opinions as to whether we should physically join the attacks. I, as leader, am saying to you, if we can’t even defend Cyprus, let’s not get ourselves involved in another foreign war.”
This contrasts with his first public comments after the start of the war, when he said that he was in favour of “regime change” in Iran and told a press conference in Westminster: “We should do all we can to support the operation.”
**Richard Tice**
Reform’s deputy leader has taken a gung-ho stance from the start. In recent years, he has split his time between his Lincolnshire constituency and Dubai, where his partner lives.
“We would be helping the Americans and the Israelis in any way they saw appropriate because this is a strategic, permanent threat to all of our safety and interest,” he has said. “If requests were made, we would have been saying: ‘Yes, we are pleased to help.’”
**Robert Jenrick**
The former Conservative minister and Reform Treasury spokesperson laid out an explicitly “hands off” position on Monday. Writing in the Telegraph, he said a prolonged conflict would send prices spiralling and hurt British consumers.
“We are a party for working people, not drawn-out wars in faraway places,” wrote Jenrick, lambasting “the liberal interventionists of the early 21st century. The British people have had enough of them. It’s time to be realists and put Britain first.”
**Andrea Jenkyns**
The mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, who holds Reform’s most powerful public post, went as far as floating the prospect that she could support British troops on the ground in Iran.
“Do I want to see British troops on the ground? Ideally not at this stage,” she said, when asked on Sky News on Monday. “You can’t rule anything out. It’s too hostile. We don’t know the direction it is going to go in. Should we be using more of our weapons? Most certainly.”
**Nadhim Zahawi**
The recently recruited Reform member and former Conservative chancellor told the Sun last month that Britain should support and join the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran.
On Sunday, he told Times Radio that the UK should at least have made its bases available to the US from the start for offensive and “make everything available to our greatest ally, the United States of America”.
Zahawi, who was born into a Kurdish-Iraqi family which fled Saddam Hussein, said Iran had to stay “coherent as a nation”, but he recognised that the US was determined to create an environment for the Iranian people “to rise up again”.
Farage is so weak. I’d rather have someone strong like Starmer who was prepared to have an open fight with Trump rather than being his lapdog.
We don’t need a PM for America, we need a PM for the UK.
It doesn’t matter which side of the argument he’s on. We shouldn’t be paying attention to anything this cunt is saying
Nige saw the poll numbers drop and changed his tune. Doesn’t change the fact he wanted Britain to support trumps folly, even after what trump said about British service men and women.
Stick to the grift nige, it’s what your best at.
He’s sulking because he flew all the way to Mar-a-Lago and his orange crush [wouldn’t see him](https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nigel-farage-mar-a-lago-visit-donald-trump-chagos-islands-403835/). “Meh! Didn’t want to be part of your stupid war anyway.”
He’s spat his dummy out because donald wouldnt meet him after he went all the way to mar-a-lago to try and suck trumps little penis for favours.
Farage is the ultimate capitalist politician. Every single opinion is for sale
I’m expecting to see a u-turn in the comments too with how strangely pro-war some of the comments in this sub have been 🥴
LOL So the obnoxious twat Farage, shouts his predictable opposition to Starmer to win some pundits,.goes off to the USA yesterday to see Trump – who refuses to see him.
Comes back to a news cycle which shows the UK in general across the board are supportive of Starmers position and so U turns like the little opportunistic weasel he is
Can you imagine this muppet anywhere near power? Missing for months as he screams up the RA for a handful of coins.
Any question he looks towards trump or putin for instructions of what to say next, hoping it hasn’t changes by the time he says it.
Unfit for office and a charlatan
He’s been given his orders from uncle Vlad then, trump also changed his tune after speaking to the mother land yesterday.
So are the reform tards going to change their copy/paste rhetoric about Starmer? Given now Nigel has done a rather dramatic U turn.
I’ve never seen anyone who hates this country more than him and his ilk. Any excuse to shit on the country he seems to take it. Why doesn’t he just leave if he hates it here so much?
This man u-turns on policy more than Starmer, and he doesn’t even have to implement them!
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He cried all the way home on the private jet apparently, screaming how unfair it all was
He must have been sitting there seething on that flight home from mara lago. All 14 odd hours of it 😅
U turn or not at least he’s not going to encourage his devotees to push for war.
Guy is a knob but at least he backed off on this.
The man is an utter Gobshite , Always was ,always will be . You can’t believe a word that comes out of his frog like gob .
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Did anyone expect different? Its his standard play – complain the government is taking no action and the day the ships get underway complain that they’re taking action.
This is the same man who put lifting the child benefit cap as a flagship policy until the government did it, now he wants to reinstate the cap to pay for something else.
Daddy gets him a job and he has the cheek to act like a self made man.
How many attempts to be a MP?
Fraudster is going to kill the poor and disabled with his ‘policies’ and make the rest of us pay so he can give tax cuts to his pals all whilst AI by 2029 will have wiped out a lot of folks jobs!
Worrying times ahead with this charlatan looming.
What an unscrupulous arsehole. I actually drove past the garage in newhaven (Peak District) where he was hanging out today (went for a walk a little further along) Saw something was going on and saw the name Farage on the petrol station price board. Had I known he was actually attending I’d have stopped and given him some stick.
Oh Flip Flop Farridge strikes again the useless prick!!
He’s irrelevant. A sycophant with loose morals and open hands for any loose change and cash he can make in this grift he’s got going.
As per usual, he’s flip flopping like a fish (which is the closest he’s got to fish, seeing as he couldn’t be bothered turning up to fisheries committee meetings when in the EU).
It’s just business as usual with this traitor, seeing as he’s also accused of a similarly disgraceful U-turn over claiming he’ll cut taxes in Kent and now saying he never said it (it’s on his leaflets), so he’s attempting his usual gaslighting to get out of it. Pathetic little man.
Probably embarrassed he flew all the way to Florida for dinner with the Orange monster and he didn’t turn up.
It’s only an accusation. An empty, evidence-free accusation. Just because he’s saying the exact opposite from what he said a few days ago, it doesn’t mean he’s u-turned. He might have had new instructions.
Or it could be ‘Nigel Farage too indecisive about soldiers’ lives to be credible candidate for PM’. Last week we could afford to jump into the fray. This week or army is too shit. What happened to the army in the past few days, Nigel? Or were they just as shit a week ago and you would have ordered them to their demise, leaving us open to an invasion while we fight someone else’s wars for them?
Starmer the is week is the nearest we’ll get to Hugh Grant in Love Actually and I am all over it.
When inflation hits people’s budgets, they will turn on Trump and his gang.