Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch initially supported Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s disastrous war on Iran, which has led to Trumpflation with petrol now up 17p and diesel 34p a litre
21:00, 29 Mar 2026Updated 09:14, 30 Mar 2026
Nigel Farage speaks during a local election campaign rally last week(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Donald Trump will haunt British boy and girl fans Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch all the way to the next General Election should Labour finally get its act together.
The Reform and Tory leaders who backed his and Benjamin Netanyahu’s disastrous war on Iran until a smarter electorate forced the pair to retreat deserve to pay a high price for their worship of the unhinged US President.
And voters enduring Trumpflation, petrol up 17p and diesel 34p a litre since deranged Donald launched a bloody conflict the UK Right-wing duo initially wanted us to join, would be wise never to trust interchangeable Nigel Badenoch or Kemi Farage running two Conservative parties.
Their judgement on Iran was as bad as on Brexit, the duo conning the country eight years ago that quitting the European Union would create an El Dorado this side of the English Channel whereas the cost is a £100billion-plus devastating black hole in the economy and petty hassles like travel delays.
Trump was their inspiration until recently. Farage and Badenoch wanting to set up British ICE squads until Trump’s started killing Americans. Emulating madman Elon Musk’s DOGE units was all the rage until he failed in the US and Reform blowhards hiking council tax discovered fortunes weren’t wasted on rainbow flags and inclusion units. These days they pretend statements were never made.
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Kemi Badenoch initially backed the disastrous war on Iran(Image: PA)
Keir Starmer locating his inner Harold Wilson, resisting pressure to directly attack Iran to echo Wilson’s refusal to jump into Vietnam, is arguably this Prime Minister’s finest moment. Sometimes doing nothing requires more courage than taking the easy option of doing the wrong thing. Tony Blair sounds ludicrous still seeking to justify Iraq.
Labour strategists told me in the past the next election wouldn’t be until the first half of 2029. The UK Government needed five years to demonstrate it was improving lives, they argued with justification, and Labour Trump would be – unless he triggers a coup which I suppose isn’t impossible – out of the White House in January 2029.
Trump broadsides at whoever led Labour, the thinking went, would damage Starmer or a successor. Not any more. Such is Trump’s unpopularity as workers and families pick up the bills for his war, attacks bolster the target as they did in Canada and Australia and the cowering will be fossil fools Farage and Badenoch cringing at past fawning.
Starmer humiliatingly bit his tongue and prostituted the Royal Family when trying to do deals with the lunatic in the Oval Office but was never a true believer.
Which is why Labour should let rip and literally Trump the Reform and Tory acolytes who were mini-mes of a convicted felon increasing our cost of living and jeopardizing our security.
Politics isn’t for the faint-hearted. Peacemakers must unleash the dogs of war against the war-mongers.