Nigel Farage to become leader of Reform UK

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/03/nigel-farage-election-announcement-reform/

by ShreckAndDonkey123

48 comments

  1. Aka become an MP and then take over as Tory leader when rishi steps down.

    What happened to him putting all his effort into trump?

  2. I hope whichever seat he has chosen to stand in, Labour, Lib Dems AND the conservatives all converse and withdraw so he doesn’t win.

  3. Oh Lordy lord! Just when I thought he’s about to bigger off to the US to lick Trump’s boots.

  4. He’s like Piers Morgan, he just never takes the hint and you can’t get rid of him for anything.

  5. Clacton is an extremely safe Tory seat, they won 74% of the vote last time.

  6. What a grifting fuck. We should put him on a little boat to France.

  8. Farage is a slimy Trumpist who truly went off on the deep end with US right wing politics after 2016. And that kind of politics isn’t as popular here in the UK. Look at Trump’s favorability here.

    I hope they hammer his utter lunacy home at the leadership debate because he’s way more extremist than the general public remembers him. 

  9. Bit late in the day but cool how the Peter Hitchens destroy the Tory party thing finally has impetus and actual direction among the conservative electorate now. Regardless of how much of a grifter Big Nige may be this is a good thing for everyone really.

  10. Whew for a second there I thought the BBC would have to pull Farage’s c*ck out their mouth to talk about somebody else.

  11. His schtick is that the election is done so you don’t need to worry about Labour getting in, they are in. Vote for him as a protest vote against the big two.

    The last two election Labour UKIP voters and Tory Brexit Party voters jumped to avoid a huge May majority then to stop Corby and “back Boris”, this time that dynamic is not there.

    This is the election when he convinces people of a guilt free protest vote.

    Id be better on 10-20% of the vote and they will take some off Labour but the ones they have gotten of the Tories will not be coming back as much as in previous elections.

  12. He’ll be an awful constituency politician, our current MP, Giles Watling is pretty non-existent but Nigel here will be to busy lording up the limelight to actually care about his constituents!

  13. >He told a conference: “I’ve decided I’ve changed my mind. It’s allowed you know. It’s not always a sign of weakness, **it could potentially be a sign of strength**”.

    He doesn’t sound very confident in this.

    Let’s hope for his sake that Flipper the Dolphin isn’t completing against him again. Flipper beat him by a significant margin the last time.

  14. The last line really applies to all politicians IMO.

  15. As the saying goes: if at first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh you don’t succeed…

  16. Saw his announcement live on youtube,

    Probably more an issue for after the election… that essentially now the Tory party and its future will be entwined with the Reform party, once the prospect of 10 years of opposition sets in.

    Curious whether they can offer anything that young people and non-homeowners can get behind. We’ll see.

  17. Farage after failing to win standing as an MP seven times: “I’ve got one more in me”

  18. Presumably they figured that Clacton had the highest proportion of ignorant racists in the country.

  19. He already was in all but name, Tice was just a place holder. 

    Here’s hoping Clacton makes it 8 in a row for the tedious arse.

  20. This is good news. He will split the conservative vote. Under our FPTP system, this will further boost Labour’s seat numbers.

  21. Worst nightmare for the tories, will split their vote further

  22. Yes this is fantastic news!

    This means he’s actually going all in on reform, so they’ll really pull votes away from the tories!

    Come on 66 seats!

  23. So founder of party and honorary president decides to lead party ?

    The guy really has a massive ego if he thinks this was worth some big press conference.

  24. Robert Mercer, Cambridge Analytica, Russian and Israeli intelligence, Brexit.

    The rancid shit demon that is Nigel Farage has his dirty little nose in the same trough that is sleep walking the western world into fascism. Only in America, they’re saying the quiet parts out loud and have been doing for a while.

    The Tories and Reform need utterly annihilating at the polls before we can move forward. It’s just a shame that we have to turn to Labour and Kier Starmer to get it done.

  25. Excellent news! Will split the Tory vote further and help consign them to electoral oblivion.

  26. This is just so he can participate in the debates isnt it.

  27. Poor Clacton. An area with some serious deprivation that could really do with a decent MP with a positive agenda for regeneration, but instead they might get Nige pedaling his division and hate.

  28. Now’s his chance why not? Given the current government are not likely to come back from their kerfuffle of a leadership, do the UK want to go full right? or come back to centre/left* Starmer. Now’s the time to vote, don’t sit back and become a silent majority, else you give way to the noisy minority. Whatever way you vote, this applies and isn’t weighted.

  29. Five minutes ago he was desperate to get over to the US to support the Convict in Chief. The grifting cunt.

  31. He’s not going to get elected anywhere. Stop giving this idiot media attention.

  32. This scumbag openly said he was going to campaign on behalf of a fascist tyrant who tried to coup the government of our single most important ally. He’s a traitor and any British person who supports him should be embarrassed.

  33. You mean Reform was just UKIP all along?
    * Surprised Pikachu Face *

  34. Just like how we laughed and laughed at GBnews when it started. Shitty studio, low budget, crap presenters, right wing talking points, tiny viewership and it was all completely wrong because we all misunderstand the British public. Let’s not do the same here.

    This is the start. Nigel is a grifting populist who says outrageous things and pretends to be one of us while being the elite. Do you know who loves voting for these type of people?

    Us!

    Oh it’s going to be so good. His grubby fingers are just not on Brexit enough that he can claim he will do it properly in 2028, that the people got lied to and how he would never have let it happen if he were in parliament. And as I’ve been repeating for a while, Brexit is a toxic issue that cant be run on a rejoin platform because the people in the know understand the British public – they will vote for Brexit again if the correct lie is told to them. This time no need for a bus, send it straight to your phone. Fun times

  35. Reform’s chances have slightly improved and he gets to grift even more.

    If he somehow worms his way into being PM via the tories somehow retaining power, sunak resigns and the tories put him in charge, we will be fucked over, big time.

  36. “I’ve changed my mind, it’s allowed you know” – Nigel Farage

    Expect to see this on a Lib Dem billboard soon.

  37. He gets the sort of TV exposure the smaller parties would dream off.

    But then so does Diane Abbot. Media loves a villain I guess

  38. Will broadcasting election rules be applied properly then? Give he has his own shows and all that. Needs to ditch them.

  39. Well, that’s me told – I was convinced he was all-in on the Trump train, possibly even angling for a White House job.

    Anyway, this is v bad news for the Tories and possibly worse for the country, but I imagine the average person’s reaction to this will be “wait, he wasn’t *already* the leader? Who the hell is Richard Tice?”

  40. How many times until this Oswald Mosely wannabe takes a hint?

  41. Zat the best idea any you boys can come up with? REEform?! Weepin’ Jesus on the cross! Eckard, you may as well start draftin’ my concession speech right now.

  42. This is amazing news.

    Almost 100% of the policy focus of the tories has been to winning over reform voters rather than anything that could be even remotely construed as to improving the country. This one announcement means all that was for nothing.

    I’m sure they were ~~praying every night~~ bribing Farage not to stand as the reform leader. Now the tories appeal to literally no one. Farage is the only charismatic leader in the race now and anyone on the fence between reform and the conservatives won’t even think twice about following him (not that it’ll even lead to reform getting any sort of power).

    I think there’s a much strong chance now that the tories won’t be the official opposition party after the election.

  43. Anyone stupid enough to vote for that guy deserves everything they get tbh, just a shame they have to drag the rest of us down with them.

  44. No surprise. After his antics on I’m a celebrity and last weeks question time I’m worried he’ll win.

  45. This could be the ultimate karma for the Tories. Im here for it!

  47. Thus completing the Conservative transformation into the NF.

  48. he’s a prime example of why “cancel culture” is a myth.

    tank the economy based on a pack of lies and uses US culture war talking points in the UK to shift the election focus from the economy to immigration.

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