{"id":382205,"date":"2025-08-29T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382205\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:33:12","slug":"nigel-farages-brexit-grudge-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382205\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage&#8217;s Brexit grudge match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tFriday 29 August 2025 10:09 am<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tFriday 29 August 2025 10:23 am\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tShare<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFacebook\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on Facebook\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tX\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on Twitter\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tLinkedIn\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on LinkedIn\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWhatsApp\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on WhatsApp\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tEmail\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on Email\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-29-2025-09_33_57-AM.png\" class=\"media \" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"  \/>\t\tImage generated by Chat GPT\t<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage is capitalising on decades of failure to deliver on immigration, but there\u2019s a deeper question: what did Britain really mean by Brexit? Asks Alys Denby<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a high priest of Euroscepticism who thinks quoting large amounts of Shakespeare will help connect with people\u201d said Nigel Farage when vying with Daniel Hannan to head the Leave campaign during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/people-and-organizations\/brexit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brexit<\/a> referendum. \u201cThe posh boys are going to talk about trade when you\u2019ve got an open goal with immigration and should use that,\u201d the UKIP leader added, according to Michael Crick\u2019s superb biography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/One-Party-After-Another-Theha\/dp\/1471192296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One Party After Another.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade on, Farage is still kicking at the same target, and this week unveiled plans for mass deportations under a future Reform government. Just a couple of years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h9u2uuyZjQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I was on a panel discussing this topic with Daniel Finkelstein<\/a> \u2013 a serious moral thinker who, as the son of Holocaust survivors, knows something about refugees. He was unequivocal that to dehumanise asylum seekers and describe illegal migration as an \u201cinvasion\u201d was not acceptable and undermined our status as a welcoming country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unapologetic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Y9fDtPdGGE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This week Farage used that term unapologetically<\/a> while standing in front of the biggest union flag in Britain. Yet instead of hand-wringing about the ethics of his proposals, coverage has focused on their viability and impact on his prospects of being the next Prime Minister. The Overton window has undergone a migration of its own.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Overton window has undergone a migration of its own.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course a nation is not a nation if it can\u2019t control its own borders. The status quo is unjust both to those it incentivises to risk their lives in the Channel and to the communities burdened with asylum hotels. But foreigners, as Finkelstein\u2019s parents and their generation could attest, are always an easy scapegoat for broader weaknesses in a society. We should not let the vital work of fixing immigration become a distraction from harder conversations about low growth, low productivity, over regulation and global competitiveness.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A nation is not a nation if it can\u2019t control its own borders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On these, Farage has no answers. Perhaps he should have listened a little more to Hannan, whose loft oratory has always made a powerful case for free markets and international trade \u2013 policies that could have placed the UK in a stronger position outside the EU. Instead, Britain has pursued Brexit without a coherent strategy on immigration or growth, allowing the former to eclipse the latter in a discourse growing increasingly toxic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/comparing-nigel-farage-to-jimmy-savile-marks-a-new-low-in-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comparing Nigel Farage to Jimmy Savile marks a new low in politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilarly tagged content: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSections\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCategories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPeople &amp; Organisations\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday 29 August 2025 10:09 am \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Friday 29 August 2025 10:23 am Share Facebook Share on Facebook&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,51,132829,44345,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,40,132830,384,132831,391,34066,386,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-382205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-daniel-finkelstein","12":"tag-daniel-hannan","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-immigration","19":"tag-michael-crick","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-one-party-after-another","22":"tag-opinion","23":"tag-reform","24":"tag-reform-uk","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115111605315908883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}