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The kids love Nigel Farage
Starmer may think twice about extending the franchise. Credit: Getty
Happening today beneath the surface
Starmer may think twice about extending the franchise. Credit: Getty
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Subscribe“Veni, Vidi, Vichy”
Yep, a comment to be remembered alongside its forebear; though I never knew the Italians had such a historical memory relating to the Roman conquest of Grand Britannia.
It’s a brilliant headline.
And it works both ways – Marine le Pen is in some ways a spiritual successor of Vichy – in instincts very inward looking and protectionist.
The Communist parties of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and the rest all implemented Vichy style regimes after 1945, collaborating with a totalitarian foreign occupying power to pillage the resources of their countries, and oppress their people. The PCI in Italy hoped to do the same. When Petain collaborated with Germany in 1940, Stalin was also doing so, but in his case from choice rather than necessity. The hypocrisy of the Far Left is staggering.
Biden said in the debate that no servicemen died on his watch.
I remember the very watch in question,
When the servicemen’s bodies were being brought back from Afghanistan, Biden found his watch more interesting to look at than the coffins…..
If the polling figures for young male Reform support is accurate after a very short campaign there would seem to be a reasonable chance for such youths to be able to sing “Tomorrow belongs to me”. Fortunately Nigel has no plans for the “world” to belong to him.
Farage’s popularity among the young is very refreshing. Maybe the disinherited British youth are living with the pain of watching their country slip away and realise the need to act quickly. Perhaps this event more than any other, reveals the increasing impotence of the MSM to control the narrative. Just imagine the Overton window shift possible with Farage in Parliament.
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“The kids love Nigel Farage” Is it because he is so inherently loveable?
Nigel will do nothing for them so long as he still backs putting taxes into the NHS.
The money saved from dismantling this Soviet-era bureaucracy would certainly allow the state pension to be raised, as far as the older demographic goes, being that it’s the lowest in Europe by at least 50%.
That in turn would dampen property bubbles and allow young people to get on the private housing ladder.
Kids now -‘ That Farage chap, like him. Saw him eating pigs testicles on Get Me Out of Here. What a geezer’
Kids in couple of years time – ‘That Farage geezer surrounded by all those Racists and bigots in that Reform party thing ain’t he. Thought he was alright once. Not now’
Watch and wait.
Youf isn’t decamping to Reform in significant numbers anytime soon. There are always a few bigoted, testosterone fuelled young men – keen on simplistic answers to complex problems – who look right.
The rest were turned off by their teachers and by Brexit. Since Brexit will take decades to pay any dividends, or significant reductions in immigration, I don’t see Reform winning many over.