European Union<\/a> is understandably regretted by most of the United Kingdom, who would vote to go back if we had another referendum.<\/p>\nAt the weekend, one good friend of mine on Tyneside added his voice to the hordes sickened at being conned in 2016. Farage is as guilty as fellow Leaver Boris Johnson for the latest travel red tape and all the other costs, burdens and inconveniences of quitting the European Union that have been put upon us, without meaningful gains.<\/p>\n
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OPINION<\/p>\n
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Kevin Maguire![\"Nigel](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3_Labour-Party-conference-2025.jpg\")
Farage reacting to Keir Starmer’s speech at the Labour Party conference(Image: PA)<\/p>\n
As is David Cameron, the Tory numbskull who, for backfiring tactical reasons, conceded a referendum that most people didn\u2019t want. No Brexit champion, particularly Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why he and Reform these days rarely talk about Brexit. Migration is their new drum to bang with a focus on small boats, although increasingly the line between people holding visas is blurred with desperate folk risking their lives in the Channel.<\/p>\n
Multiculturalism itself is the wider Reform target, the vibrancy and diversity of Britain disliked by a grey, miserable party selling nostalgia in lionising a bygone monochrome era when life really wasn\u2019t better. Vowing to slash the state Thatcher-style, the party pretends it would reduce tax, raise benefits and nationalise water and steel.<\/p>\n
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Farage and Reform these days rarely talk about Brexit<\/p>\n
But the fundamental innumeracy and contradictions will become clearer as Reform no longer enjoys an easy free ride. Winning council contests last May might be part of Reform\u2019s undoing now that banning Rainbow flags ceases to be cover for councillors who are finding that armies of diversity officers never existed so cannot be sacked.<\/p>\n
Behind the Farage propaganda, the reality for people living in Reform-run areas is grim. In Kent, Reform could put up council tax by the maximum 5%.<\/p>\n
Reform in Lancashire is threatening to shut care homes for the elderly. In Durham a Reform councillor had to be expelled over drunken behaviour at, get this, a supposedly patriotic Armed Forces Day event.<\/p>\n
Fingerprinting and mugshots hammer home Farage\u2019s guilt. Quite simply, he cannot be trusted when empty promises are paid for by people he dupes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,527,162785,23522,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,211,384,285,9891,34336,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-494418","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-conservative-party","11":"tag-daily-mirror","12":"tag-david-cameron","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-nhs","19":"tag-nigel-farage","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-referendum","22":"tag-reform-party","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115363083190917325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494418","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=494418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference in Westminster on June 10(Image: Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n