Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/27/paul-nowak-tuc-reform-nigel-farage-workers
Posted by I_love_running_89
Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/27/paul-nowak-tuc-reform-nigel-farage-workers
Posted by I_love_running_89
30 Comments
Farage has never worked at day in his life and has absolutely nothing in common with people who work for a living.
Working class heroes don’t have Coutts bank accounts.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense & media literacy knew this 10 years ago.
As much as that’s true, everyone else has brought us to the shit show of a country we have now, I imagine he’ll be voted for quite well in the next elections, and that’s embarrassing for the ‘real politicians’ to be done by a ‘cosplayer’.
Only in Britain would a private school educated former stockbroker be able to portray himself as a man of the people…
Farage is rubbish.
But it is funny how anyone who remotely threatens to take over government from the left starts to be attacked almost daily by the media and redditors
Is he talking about public school educated, millionaire commodities trader, career politician, and working class hero, Nigel Farage?
How well did this line of attack work on Donald Trump?
It seems that the centre left media has realised that silence isn’t really working with Farage.
Oh, yes Nigel Farage, the man who is responsible for Brexit. That alone should be enough to never hear his name again, but I guess people like being conned.
i only partially agree.
farage is a yob.
and being a ‘ telling it like it is’ yob, knows no class or ethnicity.
it is a worldview.
so working class yobs will feel a strong affinity with farage
Probably. But Reform are the only party that talks about dismantling the status quo of high crime, limitless immigration and exorbitant tax and energy prices. These are the issues that matter most to the majority of Brits. Reform won’t be able to deliver the solutions but they are the only ones with a clear and resonating narrative about the country right now.
All other parties are absolutely fine with the status quo, they embody it. Even the Greens – we are shutting down our oil and gas reserves whilst solar panelling over the countryside, what else could they actually ask for from Labour?
The major policy announcement by the Lib Dems last week shows it – to fine people for playing music loud on trains. Yep, game changing stuff to people’s lives…
He does connect with some voters. However in politics he is an outsider and in the commons his speeches do fall flat.
We have a problem in that fewer working class people are represented in politics and the cost of running is a block to most people who could never afford to even try to be an MP.
The man is a millionaire, is a private school oik (I suspect his kids are too), and has ten jobs, besides being an MP. He is about as in touch with the common man as Johnson, Sunak and Rees-Mogg. He does not relate to the common man, he exploits them to get a UK that works for him.
Farage dishonest , I am shocked /S
[Nigel Farage ‘has £35k pay docked by EU over misspending claim](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42669293.amp)
Farage is a champion for the working class , I mean he wants working from home banned for public sector employees, his MPS voted against the workers rights bill .
His contract has massive unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations plus deregulation, and austerity for public services surely that will benefit the working class /S
Anyone who can read knows this, unfortunately reform voters can’t.
Other than immigration, aren’t his policies quite good?
Could be worse he could sneer [at them](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30139832)
As a person I can’t stand Farage, bumptious man. But his anti EU, anti establishment ethos gets my vote, labour and the Tories abandoned UK citizens for decades.i would love to vote labour, but they hate me, my country and my ethics
Far left moan because there’s going to be a new PM come 2029 and they know the gravy train will be over .
And the sooner our electorate realise this, the better we will all be.
Of course the TUC would say that. Whoever said that someone had to be working class to represent the interests of said class?
In other news, next Pope will be a Roman Catholic and bears defecate in forest areas.
All politicians are performers. None actually care about the people they’re supposed to represent.
So Nigel started off saying thinks like”the funny thing about popularism is that is popular” basically saying that what he was doing
& now he is saying things like “I never said I was a populist” in attempt to move to the centre?
So the establishment, himself & corrupted political systems have started to water down the message & making just another uni party member!
This is obvious enough, what isn’t obvious to a lot of his detractors is why are people turning towards the likes of Farage and Trump? They must feel really marginalised and ignored, and charlatans like Farage and Trump have filled that void.
It’s as much a failure of the other so called more serious politicians.
Show me one manifesto from Labour or the Tories where they said they’d increase immigration. The only cosplayers are those that benefit from being the either or choice to rule us.
Farage is the racism champion and a lot of people are racist these days.
All parties are right wing nowadays so the alternatives are virtually nil. Reform UK are actually a company and not a party so they have an owner. Seems strange to me that we can be governed by a company and not a political party. Therefore lots of people cannot have a say as it is all down to one individual.
It’s unfortunate that it needs saying when it’s been obvious to many for years. Ship of fools.
I wouldn’t describe a conman as working class. He might be a grifter but he’s not a hard worker.
He’s the type of person that turns up to work and immediately goes to the toilets and then has a smoke break before standing around yapping at the vending machine then having a coffee then having his official break. The guy that literally does nothing but gets paid the same as everybody else.