Nigel Farage Blasts Tories for Lockdown and Opening the Immigration Floodgates
Nigel Farage has hinted that he could join the Conservatives if there was a change of leader and said he would “have a chat” if Boris Johnson called him as he blasted the party for imposing the third lockdown and for overseeing record tax levels and immigration figures. The Telegraph has the story.
The former UKIP leader said there was “not a cat’s chance in hell” of joining the Tories under Rishi Sunak, but left the door open to a possible return to the party he left in 1992.
He said he had not yet decided whether to stand as a candidate at the next General Election but claimed his current party, Reform U.K., is almost neck and neck with the Tories in some areas.
Mr. Farage, who came third on the ITV reality show I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! said the Conservatives are “headed for electoral catastrophe” and “haven’t got a clue what is about to befall them”.
Speaking to the Telegraph from Australia after leaving the jungle, he said: “Would I stand for the Conservative Party at the next election? Under this leadership, not a cat’s chance in hell.
“Would I stand for a party that’s put the tax burden up to the highest level since 1951, whose new legal net migration figures stand at 745,000, which never believed in Brexit but used it purely opportunely to win an election, that locked us down for a third lockdown completely unnecessarily and caused calamitous harm to the mental health of our young, the physical health of our old, and damaged the NHS?”
He did not say under whose leadership he might be prepared to rejoin the Tories, but added: “I’ve got 6,000 messages. If there is one from Boris I’ll find it in a minute and I might give him a ring.
“I don’t know whether Boris has reached out. If Boris has reached out and we really believed that the role of Government was to get out of the way and let men and women set up their businesses and create wealth and do well, then I’ll have a chat with him.
“I think the whole axis of Government has moved towards state controls… but when it comes to politics, never say never.
“I’ve never ever wanted in politics to have a job for a title or a rank or a position. I only joined politics all those years ago to make change. Brexit was a fundamental constitutional change – if I’m going to do it again I would have to believe that I could be the instigator of real change in a country that I think is in some ways almost becoming sclerotic.
“And I don’t see at the minute how I would do that between now and the next General Election.”
If he had a chat with Boris, perhaps he could raise the point that it was Boris who locked down the country (for the third time, and the first two) and it was Boris who opened the floodgates to post-pandemic immigration by loosening the entry requirements. Rejecting the Conservatives under the current leadership and instead looking to Boris would seem to forget who’s been in charge in recent years.
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Dear Mr Farage, the first and second “lockdowns” were completely unnecessary too.
I could vote for Nigel Farage but not if he is affiliated in any way with Boris Johnson who when real leadership was needed was found sadly lacking. Having been a conservative voter all my life I’m afraid that in relation to the current issues of the day they have shown themselves to be totally out of touch with the majority of the voting public.
Also Boris is one of those young global leaders from the WEF. Anyone that spouts Build Back Better is not to be trusted, but detested by anyone that wants to “conserve” Western civilisation!
Nigel would be a huge asset, so more power to his elbow, that’s what I say. I’ve warmed to him over the years, especially considering what an epic a-hole and disaster Johnson turned out to be. More analysis here; ”The country didn’t want him, his party members didn’t want him, and now, an increasing number of parliamentarians within the U.K.’s governing Conservative Party are growing disillusioned with Rishi Sunak’s predictably hopeless tenure in Downing Street. With reports of donors, political strategists, and lawmakers plotting how to oust the unelected prime minister over bowls of Tortellini and a bottle or three of Chianti in Covent Garden this weekend, it’s safe to say his days are numbered. These crisis talks, I’m told, have been taking place for some time, but are now gathering momentum in light of recent developments, not least the sacking of former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, the resignation of Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, and the botched asylum deal with Rwanda. With each newly published poll predicting even greater electoral oblivion for the party than the last, the Conservatives are on the precipice and face a long stint in the political wilderness with no guarantee of a return to power. And many… Read more »
Carbon Zero anyone? Wokism? Ukraine?
Don’t forget that. What would Mrs Boris say?
Take a lesson from the Dutch farmers. Start again from the ground up.
It’s the only way to beat the establishment.
Absolutely spot on.I would support Farage again but not if he associates with the useless lazy Fat pig dictator whose wife has her arm firmly up his rear .Never again ! He was an absolute disgrace .
We need a massive clear out of people , departments and policies ..A Uniparty result will not do that .
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0eUfEsHhYph63doDCUNrvoddZZWz2dr97vHnoL4yKWAYaU6NPzPN8q2gGgCasHopYl&id=133737666673845
Let us hope that Pfizer are right about their vaccine. If not then more lockdowns.
Nigel Farage, November 9th 2020.
Enough said.
I don’t think he was saying there should be more lockdowns, I think he was saying there will be more lockdowns, if Pfizer aren’t right about their vaccine. And there were more lockdowns (because Pfizer weren’t right about their vaccine).
He was vaccinated twice
Here he backs Tony Blair to be “vaccine tsar” and vaccinate as many people as possible
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news-westminster-news-nigel-farage-covid-lockdown-video-twitter-6882932/
You have just reminded me of that inconvenient truth. He was a dumb fool to say that.
Yes it’s pretty astonishing given that the Bliar creature was responsible for terrible harms
It will be crunch time tomorrow with the Rwanda vote. I do not think any Tory will bring down the Party and lose nearly 12 mths more of pay and perks.
NF can wait and take his time and pick up the pieces from left and right for his Reform UK Party.
Farage: your next system-approved ‘conservative’ leader. Set up beautifully.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Don’t do it Nigel – let the Tories die!
Well it looks like Poland’s demographic ( amongst other things ) is destined to change in the future now that globalist, pro-immigration, EU fanboy Tusk is PM;
”The Polish parliament has given former prime minister Donald Tusk a mandate to form a new coalition government.
The incoming administration will be sworn in at the presidential palace by President Andrzei Duda on Wednesday.
It will put an end to the eight-year rule of the populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, which repeatedly clashed with EU authorities in Brussels.
Mr Tusk’s coalition won the elections in October, but had been unable to take office until now.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67681940
Outgoing PM speaking about immigration ( <2min );
https://twitter.com/jj_talking/status/1734314546276553192
I don’t trust Farage; wishy washy on lockdowns, steers clear of vaccine issues, doesn’t confront the Islamic invasion directly. The idea that a partnership with the coward Johnson is the way forward is ludicrous.
He would be a less bad PM than the plausible alternative candidates, but it’s a low bar.
I suppose you could argue that in a partnership with Johnson he would keep the ex-PM a bit more honest as Farage seems to mind pissing people off less than Johnson does.
But yes, I agree with you.
And the fact that he favours JRM over the principled Mark Steyn speaks volumes. I bought his book to help fight Ofcom, I think I will order his liberty stick.
Will Farage make a difference to immigration if he joins the tories? Eh, well according to Farage himself, we would need to leave the ECHR in order to control our own borders so Farage joining the Tories alone would not stop the boats or the high immigration levels. There would also have to be the political will in the rest of the tory party and in Parliament itself to free ourselves from being dictated to by other courts. ——I do not think that political will exists, and Farage would maybe help in the polls with conservative voters but would likely end up sitting up beside Braverman as another outcast
He’s just gas lighting the Not-a-Conservative-Party.
Hinting that he might do a deal with Johnson just destabilises Sunak and the LibCONs even more than they’ve already destabilised the Party.
He might do a deal with Braverman and Frost though …. post election.
I prefer Reclaim but they are not strong enough. Reform are willing to push the boats back in the sea according to Tice.
I don’t believe Nigel is thinking of joining the Tories. If he simply joined them, let alone applied to stand as a candidate for them, every single one of his quite large fan base would turn their backs on him.
The Tories know this, which is why they keep trying to tempt him to do it. They are trying to neuter him because he is a threat to them.
Conversely, Nigel doesn’t really like Boris. He is just trying to drive a wedge into the Tory Party, to undermine support for the Tory leadership by tempting them to imagine that everything would be different if they swapped leader.
This is all just ordinary elementary politics, on both sides.
When the election comes, Nigel will be campaigning alongside Richard Tice and Reform UK, and the hope must be that they take enough Tory votes to destroy the Conservative Party.