Labour steps up attacks on Farage and Reform over pro-Russia stance

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/01/labour-steps-up-attacks-on-farage-and-reform-over-pro-russia-stance

by JayR_97

28 comments

  1. They really need to up their marketing and communications. As at the moment, they suck. They don’t push what they’ve actually achieved and instead try to rely on soundbites that disappear fast in the news cycle.

  2. Good, they are so obviously compromised just like the AfD, LePen, etc

  3. Reform supporters were crowing that Trump would hate Starmer and Farage would really be able to leverage his ‘friendship’ with him. Still waiting on both.

  4. There’s non-zero evidence that Farage is a Russian asset. I think there were a few FBI investigations and sources that said he was involved more deeply than just being ‘prorussian’. This is on Wikipedia btw I’m not a conspiracy theorist.

  5. We don’t need another Oswald in this country, thank you very much.

  6. How Putin has even stayed in power after the Kursk sinking is beyond me, he should have been hung out to dry decades ago

    Guys just a dictator and always has been, Farage/Reform should just go live in Russia if they are such big fans

  7. Good. As someone that didn’t vote in the last election due to apathy I have been galvanised by the threat posed by reform to cast a ballot at the next election.

  8. This is how to play it.

    Farage and Reform like to portray themselves as “British” and stand for “British values”. He’s going after the mondeo man of the 90s, the Barry’s and the “God save the queen” types

    If there’s one thing historically that’s managed to bring both sides of the political spectrum together in the UK it’s a shared hatred of fascist dictators.

    Whether it’s Reform or anyone else, placating putin or russia will single handedly lose you an election

  9. *If you are unsure of a person’s character, just look to the friends they keep.*

    Confucious

  10. lol, not learning much from the cult of personality we see over in the states I see.

    You can try to cannibalise the voter base, but most of em are too far gone and will settle for the “this is just propaganda because I am a thorn” response.

    Populism is tough to deal with, only way are actions and policy that legitimately improve peoples lives. 4 years left, better make em count.

  11. Good, let’s keep at this please so we don’t end up all shocked Pikachu face when we gets voted in and starts selling off to Russia.

    We need to follow in the footsteps of Romania and start treating these politicians like the treasonous pricks they are.

  12. Good. They are Russian shills and it needs to be shouted about.

  14. > He made 17 appearances on Russian state-funded RT between 2010 and 2014 and while an MEP for Ukip and the Brexit party, his parties several times aligned with hard-right parties in the European parliament to vote against EU motions that were critical of Russia

    Against British state funded news, but apparently ok with Russian state funded news. Why might that be comrade Nigel?

  15. Farage is clearly an authoritarian. He pretends to hide it. But his supporters know.

  16. Farage is conspicuously quiet at the moment.

    I wonder why.

  17. A full exposé needs to occur. Farage’s links to Russian Media and funding needs to be laid bare.

    Farage is a different prong of the same fork wielded by Putin to destabilise the west and Europe.

    Trump has been activated. How long before we see Farage and his ilk within grasp of the UK govt machinery?

    The UK government need to declare a state of emergency after witnessing the fall of America.

  18. This is a very strong angle for Labour.

    Many of the potential Reform voters, the people sick of the mass immigration insanity who see Reform as the only party committed to solving the problem, will only be willing to vote Reform while holding their nose. And Russia comes with a huge stink to it.

    Farage is not only the most popular politician in Britain, but he’s also the most hated politician in Britain (or close enough to the top, it’s a hotly contested field). There are potential Reform voters who will vote *despite* Farage, alongside the many who vote *because* of him.

    Reform have to get their potential voters to focus solely on immigration. Which isn’t hard to do, with the slew of stories along the lines of: “Afghan paedophile can’t be deported because he’s really into Coronation Street and doesn’t want to miss what happens with Mickey and Sandra’s divorce.” A few more terrorist attacks, religious hate mobs outside schools or random acts of violence committed by “migrants” (or anyone sufficiently migranty-looking) and Reform will have the next election in the bag no matter what Labour do.

    Labour have to get the potential Reform voters to focus on the fact that it’s an empty shell of a party, a directionless, single-issue semi-personality cult with zero grown-up policy positions beyond its single-issue obsession, that is wholly unfit to govern, and has been hastily stuffed with dodgy unvetted candidates who you wouldn’t buy a used car from, each of whom clearly had a low-enough IQ to join a party without questioning it on fundamental aspects of governing a modern nation.

    The Russia connections work well for Labour (until one of Corbyns lot makes a speech on Putin’s birthday glorifying the expansion of Mother Russia or something) because you’re not going to see some MAGA-style shift towards Putin among the British Right (besides the odd America-obsessed podcaster here and there.) There’s just too much sympathy for Ukraine, and few people have forgotten Putin’s arrogant, reprehensible assassinations on British soil.

  19. Farage has the appearance of being a Russian asset.

    Parliament need to grow some balls and update treason laws or the CPS needs to grow some balls and start prosecuting foreign assets that are only destabilising the country.

    Stop being passive and letting it happen.

  20. All well and good but Labour completely miss the point as to why Reform are polling high and why they could lose Wales to Reform, most people who plan on voting Reform don’t care about Russian links, they only care that neither Tory or Labour are willing to do anything about mass migration, an issue which hasn’t gone away, this is has been known for years, did it stop Brexit? Did it stop Reform from getting the biggest new vote share in 2024? No it didn’t, deal with the issues that Reform platform themselves on and Reform would disappear, this tactic might’ve worked in the noughties but the twenties is a far angrier and apathetic decade

  21. Good. Currently the best time to keep giving them a good kicking, both for their incompetence and their Russia simping.

  22. A vote for Farage is a vote for Trump. A vote for ruZZia. A vote for AfD. A vote against Ukraine.

  23. Everyone should be aware of the contents of this book written in the 90’s:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

    ‘The book declares that “the battle for the world rule of Russians” has not ended and Russia remains “the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution”. The Eurasian Empire will be constructed “on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the U.S., and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us.”’

    ‘The United Kingdom, merely described as an “extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.”, should be cut off from the European Union.’

    We are seeing the strategy outlined in this book play out before our very eyes and Nigel Farage is, knowingly or unknowingly, an agent for Russian foreign policy. Reform are an existential threat to the UK and we need to reach into areas where they are popular and do everything we can to prevent them gaining more traction.

  24. What is our security services doing (and that of other countries) if we’re being infiltrated like this from Russia. Is there anything they can do? Otherwise what’s the point in having them.

  25. Corbyn got absolutely eviscerated by the right for not condemning Russia enough, but with Farage it’s apparently not an issue?

    The blatant lack of good faith in any arguments the right make is depressing.

  26. Keep doing that, keep calling them traitors, shaming them until they renounce foreign dictators for his majesty the sausage finger king. Call them papist too, one man can’t serve two lords, ask them if they are more loyal to Trump or Charles, if not the latter, they are literally traitor.

  27. I think / hope that Trump’s behaviour is going to ruin Reforms chances at the next election

  28. Good time to go for the jugular, try and stamp them out of the popular discourse with this

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