{"id":860244,"date":"2026-03-30T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/860244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:30:21","slug":"kevin-maguire-nigel-farages-judgment-on-iran-war-was-as-bad-as-on-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/860244\/","title":{"rendered":"KEVIN MAGUIRE: &#8216;Nigel Farage&#8217;s judgment on Iran war was as bad as on Brexit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch initially supported Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s disastrous war on Iran, which has led to Trumpflation with petrol now up 17p and diesel 34p a litre<\/p>\n<p>21:00, 29 Mar 2026Updated 09:14, 30 Mar 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nigel Farage\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1_BRITAIN-POLITICS-REFORM.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Nigel Farage speaks during a local election campaign rally last week\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Nigel Farage speaks during a local election campaign rally last week(Image: AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/donald-trump\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Donald Trump<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Reform and Tory leaders who backed his and Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">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 \u00a3100billion-plus devastating black hole in the economy and petty hassles like travel delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Trump was their inspiration until recently. Farage and Badenoch wanting to set up British ICE squads until Trump\u2019s started killing Americans. Emulating madman Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE units was all the rage until he failed in the US and Reform blowhards hiking council tax discovered fortunes weren\u2019t wasted on rainbow flags and inclusion units. These days they pretend statements were never made.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"36938482\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/donald-trump-will-go-ballistic-36938482\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump &#8216;will go ballistic&#8217; if King Charles scraps visit &#8211; and he&#8217;ll blame one person<\/a>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"36938775\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/reform-uks-rally-quickly-derailed-36938775\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigel Farage&#8217;s Reform UK rally thrown into chaos as protesters shout &#8216;you&#8217;re not welcome&#8217;<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kemi Badenoch\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1_Local-elections-2026.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Kemi Badenoch initially backed the disastrous war on Iran\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Kemi Badenoch initially backed the disastrous war on Iran(Image: PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Keir Starmer locating his inner Harold Wilson, resisting pressure to directly attack Iran to echo Wilson\u2019s refusal to jump into Vietnam, is arguably this Prime Minister\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Labour strategists told me in the past the next election wouldn\u2019t 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 &#8211; unless he triggers a coup which I suppose isn\u2019t impossible &#8211; out of the White House in January 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Trump broadsides at whoever led Labour, the thinking went, would damage Starmer or a successor. Not any more. Such is Trump\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Politics isn\u2019t for the faint-hearted. Peacemakers must unleash the dogs of war against the war-mongers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch initially supported Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s disastrous war on Iran, which has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[6505,802,748,527,32,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,231977,384,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-860244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-conservative-party","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-middle-east-war","19":"tag-nigel-farage","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116317902262221314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860244","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=860244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}