Nigel Farage criticised after laying wreath at Cenotaph amid school-era claims
"Not being in the European Union is saving us net £200million a week. That is a fact," Nigel Farage tells the BBC. This is a complete lie. Brexit has already cost the UK economy hundreds of billions of pounds
Buck Frexit136The old membership fee arguement, totally disregarding the benefits of that membership. Did he mention how much turning Kent into a carpark has cost? How much it’s cost to replace all the shared agencies we used to be part of? The trade barrier costs, loss of exports etc? Thought not.
Catio Miles92Any pushback from the BBC on the 6-8% GDP per year loss ie £3 billion per week?
PedroStephano53What’s your reference Nigel, says no one on the BBC ever.
Fionna O’Leary50I didn’t see this. I see that Farage wears his poppy selectively. Here on British TV he does. On Fox News he does not. Plastic “patriot” 🙃 that he is. 1/. Was he challenged on the spot @adambienkov.bsky.social ? 2/ If he was how robustly with ready prepared links to the actual data?
Risto 🇫🇮48There is no excuse for any journalist, talking head whatever you want to call them not to know basic facts and push back. Especially public service broadcaster like BBC. I'm tired of this, if some random "Joe" on the internet is better informed than people who does this for a living.
TensegrityFan🐝🍯38I see Nigel Farage’s Boycott of the BBC is holding up well, yet again
Sarah Murphy1361Farage wears that poppy, waves our flag and lies to our faces. He degrades public life with his corruption and bigotry. He wrecks our country’s cohesion and wellbeing. Brexit has his grubby little fingerprints all over it and it’s done nothing but harm. He must never be forgiven or given power.
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉353Farage opens his disgusting, gaping mouth to reveal his minding, yellow teeth and yet another lie is given birth I don’t dwell on it but I imagine the only thing his breath is good for, is stripping off old paint 🥴
John Springford252A simple calculation, using a 5-6% smaller economy, and the UK's tax-GDP ratio. The lost tax revenue is about £1 bn to £1.3 bn a week.
Jess O'Thomson208This is like someone who commutes by train every day claiming that they save £35 a year by no longer paying for a railcard.
Dr Stylite128The nice thing about this sort of false claim is that now virtually no one believes it. Times have changed!
Legal C52This is a bit like arguing that leaving my job is saving me £100 every week in travel costs.
Paul Singh 🇪🇺🇬🇧26It’s these kind of unchallenged lies that led to Brexit
Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴 🇮🇪17The BBC is one of the most active agents in propagating complete disinformation and undermining the UK's interests
Lost in History, OBC 🏴🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦15I saved hundred of pounds in car insurance by burning my car.
Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺8In the same way if I don't go to work, I save on petrol. That is a fact...
Left: Nigel Farage lays a wreath at the Cenotaph for Remembrance Day Right: Peter Ettedgui, "Farage repeatedly coming up to me and knowing that I am Jewish saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas them' which was frequently followed by a hissing sound of escaping gas"
Chris Smith91It's an gross insult to all the men from the allied forces like my Uncle, who were killed fighting fascists like Farage.
Catio Miles59Laura Kuenssberg could have asked a question about this this morning. She didn’t.
The frog faced traitor32The sound of fallen heroes spinning in their graves can be heard all over Europe
Anna24Is it possible that there are still people who don’t see through this utter fraud?
Mandeville 📎 🇺🇦19Is it wrong of me to hope that Farage goes to hell and burns for ever more?
Rick195517What is this man doing anywhere close to the Cenotaph..?
Glennyrodge78He’s laying a wreath for the other side. bsky.app/profile/impl...
Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺40"right wing" and "hypocrisy" are so often in the same sentence.
Tony Dexter5The only wreath we need for Fartrage is on his coffin
Nash0rn4Farage was invited to Kuennsberg "on a special day" (in her words) for another softball interview.
Dean Craddock4The Right are the elites of hypocrisy.
Bernie Banshee2Is it for the Afrika Korps or Waffen-SS?
Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈2The day we allow a fascist to lay a wreath on the cenotaph is the day we forgot them.
Mike Jay2Erm... Farage is an absolute cunt. Mind my Anglo Saxon. 🤣
Nigel Farage laying a wreath at the Cenotaph is quite possibly the most revolting thing I’ve seen today.
Somersetchris26Every UK political party that has six MPs is invited to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. Ironic that Nigel Farage has only reached the threshold and been invited to do so is because of traitors. Quite ironic when you think about it
John Johnston24They’re doing to the poppy what they did to the England and Union flags.
George Hotchkiss21My dad, who did WW2 North Africa and Italy was sceptical about the cenotaph thing. But he was very right about the fascists will be back, it’s only a matter of time.
Martin Mc16I actually turned my head from the screen for the duration: I saw him take not a single step. Farage is there for Farage's glory, not to commemorate the fallen. "You foreigners can die defending this country but your families and descendants are not welcome living here." My quotes, his sentiment.
James Brownsell16Which side was he commemorating?
TartanRock11At least the camera crew keep cutting him out of shot.
Nigel Farage really doesn't like being reminded of his close association with paedophile president losers, Russian spies, rapists and criminal billiionaire Reform UK funders ... meme via James Branch
carlosamammal.bsky.social7When you think about it. Who exactly is Farage associated with that isn't a scumbag?
🇬🇧💚🇺🇦 Katherine6Nigel Farage , friend to the rapist sexual criminal
kittotremor60.bsky.social5Birds of a feather flock together . Ask the question, why are they friends of the twat !!!
ANZAC2Liegel miRAGE MP-for-anywhere-but-Clacton is IN the Epstein Files!
Old Man Yao Guai2A fascist cry bully in a group chat I'm no longer a part of 😈 was trying to do laps on 11 year old Owen Jones Guardian articles praising Russell Brand. He got very upset when I pointed out that after the allegations came out, Brand lurched right. Apparently that's whataboutery.
Gerald Of Ryvita2Now the cigarette smoking makes sense He needs something to take away the taste of all the arses he kisses
for Nigel Farage, who sang Hitler Youth songs in his childhood and addressed a far-right rally in 2017, anywhere near tv on Remembrance Sunday is so insulting
Sarah Murphy39I despise Farage all the time. But on occasions like this, I always find a bit more loathing in the cupboard for him. The sheer nerve of the strutting little Nazi. Thinking he can tell us to remember… thinking he represents *anything* we fought for, rather than against.
SoCal3I can’t believe you haven’t jailed the son of a bitch.
UBF riccardo1This always reminds me of the joke that it's big of him to show up, given that his side lost.
Russell England 1And stood side by side with the Deputy Leader of the AfD
Suffolk Sue1I refused to watch the wreath laying at the Cenotaph. Grew up watching it with Mum who'd have tears streaming down her face remembering her 20 yr old brother shot dead by a German sniper. She's long gone so remember him for her. Refuse to have his memory sullied by the fascist POS 🤬
Nigel Farage did not utter one word of truth on #LauraK this morning - literally everything he said was a lie and a demonstrable lie to boot. Anyone believing a word he said is congenitally stupid.
GylesNaMopaleen18I'm old enough to remember what happened when farage was confronted with a well researched, professional journalist.
Ade17And of course no pushback from the “ partisan”interviewer
Posh Nigel8The failure here rests with #LauraK
Gautam Paul 4Repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth to some.
Mrs. G3Well, he wasn't challenged, so why not? He can use that footage, now, for vote-building purposes. Thanks again, BBC. Reform is on every week.
Mrl553And as usual she said nothing
It wasn't just British citizens. Many Germans gave everything too.(Research Sophie Scholl). Many other Europeans. Many commonwealth citizens, of all faiths and none. They died, too. That an insular British fascist should promote himself and his views this way is sickening... x.com/Nigel_Farage...
David Rhys Lewis ⚽️🏉🏏4Herr Farage disgusts me just by still being alive.
ala8.bsky.social2Exactly, fought 2 world wars not for that bigot to take over
lucygevy18.bsky.social1If you add a “b” to his name and switch the “f” for a “g”, you get Gar-bage 😱‼️
John Brailsford 1The more he speaks the deeper the pit he will be buried in when it all collapses
Bob of Bobington1Would be great if you didn’t post links to that fascist shithole, X.
David McCulloch1Why is the fag-ash führer still current on the BBC? He is a shit-stain on humanity and directly opposed to the values our forefathers fought for.
"Now Farage is the most unpopular politician in the country by a distance, which is saying something given the general sentiment towards the UK’s governing class" writes @samfr.bsky.social in an updated TLS review on Reform's Nigel Farage problem samf.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)8This was the "Farage paradox" of May 2014. The evidence that Farage was good for the base + a liability with swing voters became central to the Vote Leave strategy of trying to limit Farage's mainstream media profile during the June 2016 referendum campaign www.libdemvoice.org/the-nigel-fa...
Ellin Stein1A ray of sunshine on a dull grey day!
This morning we honoured the brave men & women who lost their lives fighting & defeating the fascism that Nigel Farage has long espoused. He should be nowhere near the Cenotaph today or any day, & this pic makes me sick to my stomach. #RemembranceSunday #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget
Warren2Yep, and he was only allowed to attend due to the party now having more than 6 MP's. We all know the reason for that as well.....
azraelthunderbolt.bsky.social1From your brothers and sisters in America.
Chris B1There aren’t many people I loathe and despise, he is one of them, what on earth was he doing there?
The frog faced Führer will lay a wreath at the Cenotaph this morning. What a travesty that this xenophobic piece of nationalist shit will be allowed to play his patriot games on national TV. The war dead would spin in their graves.
Huw Jelly4And this is how fascists are enabled
Peter Hutchinson2My father spent 4 years in the RAF in the Far East during WW2. He wouldn't spit on the Reform/Restore traitors. He was still marching with me against racists in 1970. I am incandescent with rage seeing Farage at the Cenotaph
Kid Charlemagne1Let's be fair, I'm sure he's genuinely sad at the tragic loss of these lives.
Nigel Farage, the firebrand who has spent his career ripping into immigrants and fraternising with some of the most polarising figures in world politics, now looks like he is attempting to put the genie back in the bottle.
Kid Charlemagne2It looks like you wrote "firebrand" instead of "racist cunt". Puzzled as to how that got past your proof-readers.
Alan Stanley1He is the “Far Right” 🙈
MrGrahamOh1Start a fire, fuel the fire, fan the fire, act concerned when the fire snowballs out of control... Scummy little man. He's not concerned about the Far Right, he's concerned about his imagine being tarnished by it.
Fionna O’Leary27“NIgel Farage admits he is worrying about himself”
Dr jwwr3Guy who was reported by his *high school teachers* for singing Nazi rally songs in the school yard. He’s been at it a long time, folks.
Gerard Cunningham2I never thought leopards would eat my face, says top face-eating leopard