Politics latest: Farage tells new Reform council’s climate and diversity staff to find new jobs

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1. Didn’t take long. Wonder how many other roles they’ll bin off. 

2. Said the creature that has never had an original idea in his life.

3. We shouldn’t be complacent in thinking what’s happened to America with the big Orange won’t happen here too.

4. Just a glimpse of our future if Labour don’t sort out their act. We are letting a mini-Trump have a chance at power, and he will ruin us.

5. And then he will discover employment law and find getting rid of people takes more effort than a tweet.

   Then in a few years the council will get sued for discrimination and they’ll realise it was cheaper to employ a diversity lead to head off such problems.

6. I’m surprised how many people want their own money being spent on this

7. I don’t understand how everyone went from taking the piss out of the Liz Truss debarcle to this in a couple of years.

   That Truss and Kwarteng budget is a fart in a hurricane compared to if these guys actually get in.

8. How the f, is the UK still giving this man a platform to speak off? Didn’t he help instigate brexit? I’m surprised he still had a British passport, i kid i kid..

9. Oh ,look, the contents of Donald Trumps colon says exactly what we expect it to say.

10. I genuinely don’t understand why so many people hate remote working, is it just a jealousy thing?

11. Oh great, the clown show has finally arrived in the UK. I’m sure this won’t be a complete fucking mess from start to finish.

12. Can you tell he is also following Putins guidebook on how to destroy a capitalist society? Trump did it, and now he can learn from trumpfs errors. Nice one England, handing it over to the Kremlin.

13. Sacking the climate staff for the county should be fine as long as climate change turns out to be a hoax and Durham is not a county that ever floods or anything

14. I love a Farage rant and speech, they are excellent viewings. But if anyone thinks he isn’t a Trump bottom bitch and therefore a russian asset you gotta get with the program.

    Voting reform is weakening UK, our support for our Ukraine friends and isolating us against the world.

    What has brexit given us, absolutely nothing positive and only covid hide the truth economic backlash.

15. Ultimately we get the government we deserve.  If enough people vote for him he’ll be the next PM, he’ll fuck the economy and everything else to line his own pockets then fuck off into the sunset saying nothing was his fault.  At this point I almost think we deserve it

16. They destroyed America with their conspiracies against democracy, now they’re running the same playbook in the UK. Have to manufacture fake conspiracies against scapegoats to fool idiots and justify the hierarchy. These people are the personification of evil and do not have souls. They destroyed my country and now they’re coming for yours. Protect your state and bureaucracy and institutions against them with your life – this is all that is standing in the way between you and being fed into a woodchipper for the benefit of nazis and psychopaths. They don’t hate the institutions, they hate **you**. The institutions are just in their way. That’s it.

    They want to replace all your teachers and doctors with AI, ie nothing (they have nothing, AI is not at all capable of replacing the jobs they are destroying *and they know this and do not care*, your children and parents are just waste to them), and redirect all of the profits to their bank accounts while you suffer and die on the vine. They want to destroy your entire nation like they destroyed mine. Defend your nation from these oligarchic vipers and parasitic traitors and animals. Farage is just a puppet. What he says in public are lies. The actual instructions he’s taking are from racist American and Russian oligarchs in group chats. He’s not a free actor.

17. Why exactly were these jobs to begin with within the local council?

18. Nothing says white oil backed power like farage.

    I’m going to lower your taxes, I’m going to stop immigration, I’m going to save the nhs.

    Useless idiot

19. Everyone who just voted for reform should take note of this. This is not something that it is within Farage’s power to dictate. It is for individual councils to decide. 
    He is is an authoritarian, and you get him in power by voting Reform at the next election he will rule as an authoritarian in the same schizophrenic incompetent way as Trump is doing right now. Using whatever power he can grab either legitimately or illegitimately to enrich himself and his corporate backers.

    Reform and Farage have already proven themselves traitors and liars. They are just waiting to lie down at the feet of foreign corporations and authoritarians, to be the quislings who help them bleed Britain dry and enforce their desires on us. Do not trust Farage. Do not give up your country to these traitors.

20. If liberals spent 0.0004% of the time they spent bashing the left on developing policy this wouldn’t happen.

21. LOL that’s nothing he is openly saying he wants to stop funding the NHS with taxes.

22. Lincs and Staffs are about to get what they voted for. I can’t wait, Americans have had a total monopoly on r/LeopardsAteMyFace for too long this year.

23. Once Farage has finished there, he’ll ensure that migrants in Lincolnshire live in tents and that council staff will sit on second hand office chairs. Then, he’ll embezzle the council pension fund.

24. The worst part is that a large portion of these voters will age out,die, and leave the rest of us to deal with the fallout.

25. Ah, a move straight out of the Trump playbook that’ll get the approval of his idiotic followers.

26. I dont think this Trump/Musk thing of gloating about firing people will go over as well as it does in the states. Glad he’s showing us what he is. My sympathies to all the council workers who will now have to work with their new moronic/oddball/lunatic Reform colleagues.

27. This man is a fascist russian puppet and belongs in a cell.

28. What next? Apply tariffs on goods into the council and ban paper straws in council buildings?

29. The irony of Farage calling for greater efficiency and an end to WFH when he’s done bugger all around Clacton since being elected…

30. “i don’t trust Labour or Tories so I’m gonna vote for the guy who forced through Brexit because that was such an honest campaign and went well”

31. We should absolutely be binning off the vast majority of diversity nonsense. By all means ensure that hiring is legal and people are respected in the workplace but I had to sit through hours of bollocks on the subject today. It just paints everyone as helpless victims.

    Like most things it started off with good intentions and has ended up becoming an industry in itself

32. As if any council in England has any jobs that could have already been cut in the last decade. 

33. I’m surprised he can speak, given how far down his throat the American Orange Cunt’s cock is down his throat.

34. We really need to look at how to do strategic voting to keep him from power

35. Politician: “I’ll keep things the same!”

    Other Politician: “I’ll change things!”

    Other politican wins votes. Immediately starts making haphazard changes tht damage the functions of the state. Things get worse.

36. What is happening to the world? Trump, Putin and now we get the lunatic Farage?! Did the Brits forget the ravages he initiated with the Brexit, plunging Britain in a dark hole? When he himself kept his post as a euro-parlement member and getting paid for it?! Do what I say, yet not what I do?! He is filling his pockets and laughing in your face, and you voted for this nutcase? He is dangerous for your country, your rights and freedom! He is a danger for Britain and will destroy everything you hold sacred.

37. “The state we’re in is fine”?!
    Economic Impact of Brexit on the UK

    GDP and Growth
    • The UK economy is estimated to be 2.5% smaller than it would have been if the UK had remained in the EU.
    • By 2023, the UK’s real Gross Value Added (GVA) was about £140 billion (6%) lower than it would have been without Brexit.
    • Projections suggest that by 2035, the UK’s real GVA could be 10% lower compared to a scenario where the UK stayed in the EU.

    Trade
    • UK goods exports are around 30% lower than they would have been if the UK had remained in the single market and customs union.
    • Trade in goods with the EU fell sharply after Brexit, while services trade has shown more resilience, but services like finance and transport have faced lasting negative effects.
    • Small and medium-sized enterprises have been hit hardest by new trade barriers and regulatory requirements.

    Investment
    • Business investment has stalled since 2016, remaining over 20% below the level it would have reached if pre-referendum trends had continued.
    • Brexit-induced uncertainty reduced investment by businesses by about 6 percentage points.

    Labour Market
    • Restrictions on EU nationals have reduced the labour supply, particularly affecting sectors reliant on European workers.
    • There are 1.8 million fewer jobs in the UK than there would have been without Brexit, including significant losses in construction and financial services.

    Cost of Living
    • The average Briton was nearly £2,000 worse off in 2023 due to Brexit, with Londoners nearly £3,400 worse off.
    • Brexit contributed to about 30% of the increase in food prices between December 2019 and March 2023, adding an average of £210 to household food bills over two years.

    But yes, you’re doing “just” fine… thanks to Farage!

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