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The UK's Farage is a phony
Posted on 4/4/26 at 11:04 pm
Posted on 4/4/26 at 11:04 pm
Check out this WSJ editorial. He is just exploiting the immigration onslaught and ignoring other real problems.
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If you’re wondering why the United Kingdom apparently can’t afford a navy anymore, ask Nigel Farage. The insurgent politician, who leads a party called Reform UK ostensibly committed to making Britain great again, on Thursday promised voters . . . more social welfare.
Mr. Farage pledged that if his party ever wins power, it will keep something called the “triple lock” on benefits as part of the British equivalent to America’s Social Security program for the elderly. Under this policy, a retiree’s “state pension” payout rises by the highest of average wage growth, inflation, or 2.5% every year. Introduced in 2011 when the Conservative Party was in power, the triple lock has caused a significant increase in benefits per retiree even as an aging population swells the ranks of claimants.
By one count, the triple lock costs about £12 billion more per year than if payouts had increased solely in line with average earnings. For comparison, annual defense spending is only some £66 billion. The triple lock creates a big but unpredictable ratchet for the government’s social-spending bill: No one can guess over time how fast old-age social spending will grow.
Mr. Farage, who at other times presents himself as something of a free-marketeer, presumably is smart enough to understand Britain can’t afford this. He claimed Thursday that his party will soon unveil a raft of welfare reforms to cut spending on other programs to free up resources for the old-age payout.
Good luck on that. The old-age giveaway is an attempt to woo voters away from the center-left Labour Party ahead of local elections across the country in May. Reform UK appears to be gambling that it can win over large parts of Labour’s old electoral base by combining immigration restrictionism with statist economics. But how Mr. Farage thinks this could translate into a political coalition in favor of broad welfare reforms is a mystery.
Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer last year briefly tried to reform a different disability welfare program to free up money for defense. He failed amid opposition from all sides. Now the party with “Reform” in its name also is taking major entitlement reform off the table.
This kind of welfare recklessness has consequences, and in Britain an embarrassing one is the decline of the military. London’s struggle to deploy the navy to the Mediterranean to defend British assets during the Iran war—let alone help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—exposes the national security price Britain is paying for social handouts. It’s a recipe for continuing British decline.
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Posted on 4/4/26 at 11:11 pm to prplhze2000
Never thought I’d say this, but I cannot be bothered by the UK anymore.
Seems like they cannot muster enough opposition by the majority to turn shite around.
Why do I feel like UK/Germany/France will be calling for someone to help them soon.
Seems like they cannot muster enough opposition by the majority to turn shite around.
Why do I feel like UK/Germany/France will be calling for someone to help them soon.
Posted on 4/4/26 at 11:11 pm to prplhze2000
Liz Truss never stood a chance in the rising rate environment. The UK's pension scheme is doomed to fail if rates are ever allowed to truly rise. Truss had nothing to do with that, but she took the blame, and it cost her the PM seat. Then Sunak came in - former Goldman Sachs guy - and lost in the following election. He's now back at Goldman.
Posted on 4/4/26 at 11:18 pm to TerryDawg03
If you remember, I posted a link to a loooooooong article she wrote about how screwed up the government is. Basically it was the leftist bureaucrats control the government so much it doesn't matter who the PM is.
Posted on 4/4/26 at 11:45 pm to dstone12
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Never thought I’d say this, but I cannot be bothered by the UK anymore.
I agree. Most of Western Europe is a shell of their former culture now. And they did it to themselves willingly. It’s crazy.
Posted on 4/4/26 at 11:53 pm to prplhze2000
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WSJ editorial
Look Farage is a single issue guy.
The UK can either keep going with the same clowns who sold them to the EU and mass immigration, or go full brexit and own their own destiny.
Of course people are attacking him, same as they attacked Trump in 2016.
Posted on 4/4/26 at 11:59 pm to Narax
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Of course the WSJ attacking him
The WSJ "news" side has been left wing forever, funny how people don't know that. (not you poster)
Posted on 4/5/26 at 12:05 am to Narax
quote:"If we alienate Islam, we will lose." -Nigel Farage
Of course people are attacking him, same as they attacked Trump in 2016.
There is no comparison between Farage and Trump. As the title says, Farage is a phony. He's fool's gold. He's too interested in being accepted by their version of our Beltway elite. The closest thing they have to a Trump is Rupert Lowe and his party Restore Britain. They're only a few weeks off the ground but already have over 125,000 members. Restore is their last hope.
Posted on 4/5/26 at 12:11 am to Narax
Farage will say anything to get elected. Rupert Lowe is the people's Champ!
Posted on 4/5/26 at 12:12 am to FluffyBunnyFeet
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The closest thing they have to a Trump is Rupert Lowe and his party Restore Britain.
Its a spoiler party designed to split the vote.
They are doomed, Restore and Reform are going to eat each other.
Thats the plan.
Posted on 4/5/26 at 12:34 am to Narax
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Its a spoiler party designed to split the vote.
It was not designed to split the vote. It was designed to save the country.
They're the only party that will do what needs to be done. Farage is littering Reform with refugees from Labour and Tory who know they're on their way out. He's giving the scum that destroyed their country a lifeboat. Reform is not the answer. Reform is the status quo.
This post was edited on 4/5/26 at 12:38 am
Posted on 4/5/26 at 6:37 am to prplhze2000
Farage is not a phony at all, I would call him the bravest Man in Europe, IMO. He took on the globalist before it was cool. He was able to get brexit to pass, against all odds and the globalist and breaucrats inside the UK will never let the full effect of Brexit take place if they can stop it. I'm surprised Farage is still alive, to be honest, he makes sense almost all the time.. Also you can't tell people you are going to take their SS away, how dumb is that, remember Romney and that other crackhead...
Posted on 4/5/26 at 7:45 am to FluffyBunnyFeet
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It was designed to save the country.
Better a pure party that loses badly as the country burns?
Posted on 4/5/26 at 7:50 am to dstone12
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Never thought I’d say this, but I cannot be bothered by the UK anymore.
Seems like they cannot muster enough opposition by the majority to turn shite around.
Why do I feel like UK/Germany/France will be calling for someone to help them soon.
While I completely agree with you and your sentiment, I can’t help but feel nervous because, while those idiots in Western Europe are turning over their country to the Muslims seemingly willingly, each of those countries has nuclear capabilities.
We could be dealing with several “Irans” in the future.
This post was edited on 4/5/26 at 7:52 am
Posted on 4/5/26 at 9:21 am to Narax
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Better a pure party that loses badly as the country burns?
Not once has the UK voted for migration. Labour got the ball rolling, so the people voted Labour out and the Tories in. Then the Tories fricked them over even harder with the Boris Wave. Meanwhile, Farage is packing Reform with the same slime that already fricked over the country twice. Reform is not the answer. They are, as Rubio put it, the "polite and orderly caretakers of the west's managed decline."
Better a party that wants to put out the fire than a party that will bring lawn chairs and marshmallows and watch it burn.
Posted on 4/5/26 at 9:36 am to prplhze2000
Just imagine the financial chaos in Western Europe if we withdrew from NATO and these countries had to fully fund their own defense. The masses would riot when the inevitable cuts to social welfare would begin. They will get what they deserve.
Posted on 4/5/26 at 9:55 am to bamalee
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Farage is not a phony at all, I would call him the bravest Man in Europe, IMO.
The Bravest Man in Europe is presently laying down for the Islamists before he's even taken power.
Posted on 4/5/26 at 9:56 am to dstone12
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Never thought I’d say this, but I cannot be bothered by the UK anymore. Seems like they cannot muster enough opposition by the majority to turn shite around.
We cant muster up enough ourselves.
This post was edited on 4/5/26 at 9:57 am
Posted on 4/5/26 at 9:56 am to FluffyBunnyFeet
The point of the editorial was Britain can't afford an actual defense if it is locked into funding a growing welfare state. Farage apparently is going to govern like the Tories and Labour in that regard.
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