Nigel Farage refuses to stand at election - James O'Brien reacts | LBC
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- Nigel Farage has said that he will not stand at the UK's general election in July, with his sights set on supporting Donald Trump's campaign to be re-elected as US president.
Mr Farage, who has previously stood for election to the House of Commons several times, has faced several calls to stand for right-wing party Reform UK, which he co-founded.
Mr Farage said that although the UK's general election was "important", US voters' choice between Mr Trump and Joe Biden in November has "huge global significance".
James O'Brien analyses what he thinks this means and why Farage is doing this...
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The most damaging Daily Mail headline was "At last a real Tory Budget!" Which was the utter disaster under Truss.
@roy Then don't read the daily mail.
@@chatham43 Know thy enemy.
@@bakedbean37 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
If I remember clearly, Farage promised to leave the U.K. if Brexit was a failure
That would be the easy and coward way out for him. He MUST stay and suffer the consequences, like everyone else.
I thought Brexit was a success?
Yep...yet he said himself Brexit has failed.
He's a bullshitter of the highest order.
Like all sociopaths, he continually rewrites History.
@stephan And psychopaths comment on it.
Nigel Farage, the man who at one point in his political career, said he was leaving politics to spend more time with his family, and then his wife & kids left him. Says everything you need to know about his character, doesn't it?
Farage was huge fan boy of Oswald Mosley , man who made a deal with Adolf to be leader of Britain for him .
SHOWS HOW LITTLE YOU KNOW ABOUT DIVORCE .
He has no character
@david Not really. You obviously have had a busy day.😊
OP thinks everyone who suffers a family breakdown is of poor character....I think this says more about OP than those people
I hope the man completely dissappears from politics.
Just politics?
I think JB will hang on for ages .
Me too. Also starmer
@@jake751🫠
@ThomasKing Get in early for the likes. Gets you through another day?
I blame the electorate for the current mess in the UK, because they gave an astonishing display of gullibility.
True… “ fool me once….”
Not this time. I definitely won't be voting Labour or conservative.
So you're a Tory. Got it. @@jake751
The word that sums up the UK(well, English) electorate is Laodicean. ie. unthinking. I thought that ASB was 'another silly book', the new prayerbook that drove me away from my 1662 CofE masses. ah well, I suppose it is a bank or anti-social behaviour...could be anything.
@@jake751🫠
I don’t think he has any such loyalty, he is just sick of the little grifts he can do in the UK, if you want real immoral earnings you need to go Stateside!
Farage always pushes for huge changes then clears off. He did the same after brexit.
Follow the money... First he was Bankrolled by Arron Banks, probably still is (and others). Banks is a private insurance company owning £billionaire. So it is no surprise that Farage was pushing for an, "American type insurance based health system" to replace the NHS & Nat Insurance model. (Tories also want this now and are gaslighting the public into thinking getting rid of Nat Ins is a benefit to the country)
PS, J O'B asked, "Who started the decline of the UK?" For me it has to be, Thatcher and the US Neoliberal economics of, Milton Friedman/Greenspan etc, known as, ''Reaganomics'' (trickledown neoliberal economics).
Since then it has been a downhill slide for the poorest and working classes of the hoi polloi public and a sharp upward curve for the banksters, owners and wealthy shareholders etc etc. Thatcher deregulated the financial services & banks etc, with her, "Big Bang" of 1986. This allowed big bonuses for bankers and shareholders etc. The Big Bang was the result of an agreement made in 1983 by Thatcher & Co and the London Stock Exchange.
And so to speak, "the rest is history".
Follow the money... First he was Bankrolled by Arron Banks, probably still is (and others). Banks is a private insurance company owning £billionaire. So it is no surprise that Farage was pushing for an, "American type insurance based health system" to replace the NHS & Nat Insurance model. (Tories also want this now and are gaslighting the public into thinking getting rid of Nat Ins is a benefit to the country)
PS, J O'B asked, "Who started the decline of the UK?" For me it has to be, Thatcher and the US Neoliberal economics of, Milton Friedman/Greenspan etc, known as, ''Reaganomics'' (trickledown neoliberal economics).
Since then it has been a downhill slide for the poorest and working classes of the hoi polloi public and a sharp upward curve for the banksters, owners and wealthy shareholders etc etc. Thatcher deregulated the financial services & banks etc, with her, "Big Bang" of 1986. This allowed big bonuses for bankers and shareholders etc. The Big Bang was the result of an agreement made in 1983 by Thatcher & Co and the London Stock Exchange.
And so to speak, "the rest is history".
He was not able to do anything but influence the vote. He was not an MP.
EXACTLY!
who is to blame? The people who voted for Brexit in 2016 and Boris Johnson in 2019
I'd put it another way - it's a majority of the English electorate who are to blame.
As a nation, Scotland voted 62% to remain in the EU and we haven't voted for a Tory government at Westminster since 1955. Despite this we have been dragged out of the EU against our will and of the 16 GEs since 1959 England got the govt it voted for 16 times (100%) but Scotland got the govt it voted for only 6 times (37%).
This is what Scots mean by democratic deficit. Is it any wonder that around 50% of us want to dissolve this "Voluntary" UK union?
James being 1 of them who voted for boris johnson.
Cameron opened Pandora's box and let the current freak show out.
Shame Farage ? Impossible. The man has NO shame.
The Sunak warehouse photo op in Derbyshire today was staged with two Tory councillors posing as workers to ask softball questions.
Yep, very true. They've been outed now, but unfortunately the lie is already half way around the world before the truth had got it's shoes on. They know you can't un-ring a bell, by the time a lie is called out as a lie the world has moved on to the next set of lies. The Truth is always playing catch up to their lies.
What a pity we won’t see Farage failing to win a seat for the eight time.
Historically, The Daily Mail has always had quite a soft spot for the Nazis
Who's to blame? Cameron for me, closely followed by the Tory press, Murdoch and Dacre.
Don't you think the electorate should have been given a democratic vote?...are you an autocrat?
@@nihilistlivesmatter
Absolutely. But surely that vote should have been based on data...not lies down the side of a bus?
@@danjames4086
What lies on what bus?
You think the remain side were 100% honest 100% of the time
@@nihilistlivesmatter Whataboutism! Sheesh! 🙄
They supported the British Union of Fascists in the 1930's.
7 times a loser Fartridge has bottled it.
He didn't want the embarrassment of losing for an 8th time. It's probably for the best for all concerned.
🐝
Both parties are about as appealing as each other
@@youubik🫠
@@youubik nurse, he's off his meds again
Fake warehouse staff, straight out of the Trump playbook 😂
Conservative councilor in the McVities warehouse posing as a member of the public?? That really takes the biscuit.
Crumbs…
If we must pick one....then its David Cameron because his stupidity led to people like BoJo being PM
You don't like democracy huh?
@nihilistlivesmatter What democracy? The FPTP voting system which gave the tories dictatorial powers with 43% of the vote. Or the brexit referendum campagin financed with black money of dubious pedigree and the offer of sunlit uplands that could never be. That's not democracy.
@@nihilistlivesmatter say wot you dont even have a clue what democracy is.
Who started the decline of the UK? Thatcher and US Neoliberal economics of, Milton Friedman/Greenspan etc known as, Reaganomics (trickledown neoliberal economics).
Since then it has been a downhill slide for the hoi polloi public and a sharp upward curve for the banksters and wealthy shareholders etc. Thatcher deregulated the financial services & banks etc, with her, "Big Bang" of 1986. This allowed big bonuses for bankers and shareholders etc. The Big Bang was the result of an agreement made in 1983 by Thatcher and the London Stock Exchange.
Follow the money... First Farage was funded by Arron Banks. Banks is a private insurance company owning £billionaire. So it is no surprise that Farage was pushing for an, "American type insurance based health system" to replace the NHS & Nat Insurance model. (Tories also want this now and are gaslighting the public into thinking getting rid of Nat Ins is a benefit to the country)
PS, J O'B asked, "Who started the decline of the UK?" For me it has to be, Thatcher and the US Neoliberal economics of, Milton Friedman/Greenspan etc, known as, ''Reaganomics'' (trickledown neoliberal economics).
Since then it has been a downhill slide for the poorest and working classes of the hoi polloi public and a sharp upward curve for the banksters, owners and wealthy shareholders etc etc. Thatcher deregulated the financial services & banks etc, with her, "Big Bang" of 1986. This allowed big bonuses for bankers and shareholders etc. The Big Bang was the result of an agreement made in 1983 by Thatcher & Co and the London Stock Exchange.
And so to speak, "the rest is history"
I knew he would never stand , it’s so obvious ! He knows he would be completely humiliated whereas standing back he can claim to have not been defeated !
Forage waiting 4 a peera😂😂😂😂😮😢
@@jonathangumra1661 He ain’t gonna get 1 now , maybe in 30 years time !
Sunack only talks about COVID and furlough but not about partygate and being fined for parties
James Goldsmith deserves a footnote for not only his asset stripping of the 1960s and 70s but for in his dotage, suddenly deciding to come back to England from South America and disrupt the country and kick start the anti-EU movement with his reform party which in turn gave birth to UKIP
I remember that video
I remember Goldsmith clapping and capering like a loon when Portillo was ousted.
Will be remembered with contempt
I BLAME THE PARTY in power for 14 years!!!
@jcanyiam8309 I blame the major f*ck-ups just before them.
@@SmokeroftheFuture take your head out of the sand.
@@Formakiwi What do you call a bunch of Labour voters buried up to their necks in sand?
Not enough sand.
@@SmokeroftheFuture 🐦🧠🫠
@@SmokeroftheFuture
Yeah, John Major's government had a lot to answer for.
Farage bravely ran away...
Then he came back!
@@Bob-el3iw To the safest seat he could possibly pick.. Brave Nigel!
If hypocrisy had a face that would have been Nigel Farage's.
Both of them, in fact.
But he's got Homer Simpson's face
We have a counterpart here in the US for Hypocrisy named Lindsey Graham 🙄
Follow the money... First he was Bankrolled by Arron Banks, probably still is (and others). Banks is a private insurance company owning £billionaire. So it is no surprise that Farage was pushing for an, "American type insurance based health system" to replace the NHS & Nat Insurance model. (Tories also want this now and are gaslighting the public into thinking getting rid of Nat Ins is a benefit to the country)
PS, J O'B asked, "Who started the decline of the UK?" For me it has to be, Thatcher and the US Neoliberal economics of, Milton Friedman/Greenspan etc, known as, ''Reaganomics'' (trickledown neoliberal economics).
Since then it has been a downhill slide for the poorest and working classes of the hoi polloi public and a sharp upward curve for the banksters, owners and wealthy shareholders etc etc. Thatcher deregulated the financial services & banks etc, with her, "Big Bang" of 1986. This allowed big bonuses for bankers and shareholders etc. The Big Bang was the result of an agreement made in 1983 by Thatcher & Co and the London Stock Exchange.
And so to speak, "the rest is history"
Maybe Farage will end up in an American court, that’s the norm for Trumps buddies.
I didn't know Farage was close friends with Hunter Biden.
He might be! He was not de-banked for nothing
Or prison
@@martinvickers7349 Exactly who knows what other skeletons reside in his closet. You can bet your life he'll be the only one better off as a result of Brexit.
With any luck he'll end up bankrupt like all of Trumpty's mates. Rudy Guiliani's bankrupt now because of him.
When one goes to Nigel Farage hoping for moral consistency, one should expect to be disappointed.
@daniel We'd be disappointed if we weren't disappointed!
He can bring trump his burger king delivery to prison
Make sure he pays up front lol.
Cameron, he caused Brexit
And now he's a Lord! 🤬🤬🤬
No...he gave the electorate access to a democratic vote...you believe in democracy right?
@@nihilistlivesmatter Brexit definitely harmed my faith in it
@@tomherbert2361 Your faith in it going your way?
@@nihilistlivesmatter which he had no business doing when he knew the possible damage that could be caused , unfortunately he underestimated the stupidity of the average voter
After seven defeats, Farage has finally realised that nobody wants him in Parliament.
We should send Farage to Rwanda along with the rest of his lousy Brexit conmen. There's a nice 2* hotel waiting for them
@russian What have you got against Rwanda I wonder?
Rwanda is a beautiful country and a tourist destination.
What about the BBC? And Question Time? Look up the stats - NF on like 11 times vs a single appearance once of an MEP.
Stay off the hard stuff...that goes for your three mates too!😊
Who is most to blame? Well.. any misinformed brittain who voted leave.
So far the most reasonable comment.
He gets humiliated every time he stands. This way he gets to tell himself he's electable
Farage is the prime instigator. Cameron fell for the grift. Johnson destroyed the toyshop in typical bullish fashion. But there is one person at the back of all of this who you have not mentioned, Vladimir Putin.
😂😂😂
Yeeeah forgot about the bogeyman!
Don't forget Corbyn!
You named my top two..... and in the correct order👍
If you're looking for foreign influences behind Brexit then it might be worth noting where the prime instigator is shortly heading off to.
Who is most to blame for the chaos of the UK? The voting public.
& you hate them for it huh?
And the Tory parties LIES
Not really. Cameron got 37% of the vote which gave the Tories a majority of seats in parliament. He then set us up for Brexit. The Brexit campaign was based on 100% lies, financed with black money and many voters for it were tricked into getting off their arses to vote for the first time in their lives, thanks to the barrage of lies from the right wing press etc.
@juliet There should be a blanket ban on them voting!
@@chatham43 I think you would be the exact kind to advocate Jim Crow style voting tests
I have started calling going for a dump, going for a "Farage". I just had my morning Farage. Try it sometime.
Funny, I call it an O 'Brien !
the intersection of Brexit and Trumpism
Draw a line to Putin & you complete the circle.
@@user-ol6rd7pl5tthat would actually make a triangle but the point is relatively sound.
The longer The Cornish Gin grifter remains in the U.S the better.
@stephen But you remain here in the UK?
@@chatham43Don't think op was talking about themselves.
I’d like a chapter on the gammons who all voted Leave
To be fair we were all lied to by Johnson, Cameron should've negotiated harder with the EU for a better deal. People were really fed up at this point and unfortunately voted for Brexit. If people knew that it meant coming out of trading to and from Europe and all the trouble it's caused, they wouldn't of voted for it 😊
I still pass little villages and industrial fencing where I recall seeing that little flag 'vote leave'.
@sel There'll be some knocking on doors when Labour get in!
@@caroleball7715To be fair, you were told and chose to listen to liars and conmen
Farage is a coward, always all talk and no business. As if Trump would employ him😂😂😂😂😂
No he’s just a grifter. He can make more money not standing. He also doesn’t like losing and knows he will.
T will employ anyone who ##### his #### & pays his legal bills
Trump loves to employ flatterers, so you can't completely count out Farage. That said, Farage will have to aim a couple feet higher than boots to apply his tongue - and these days Trump is apparently wearing diapers. But I have every confidence that Farage will leave the relevant area of Trump's anatomy spotless if that's what's required.
That is exactly who trump would employ. Fits Trump to a T.
@there And there's you bravely hiding behind an anonymous post. Couldn't make it up.😊
You are so right, James. Farage, who claims he is a British patriot, prioritises campaigning in the USA rather than spending his time in the UK. Follow the money!
David Cameron deserves 80% of the blame. He called for a referendum (with a simple majority) to allow idiots to commit an act of economic sabotage against their own country. Murdoch and Garage are a distant tie for second.
David Cameron = Pontius Pilate. At least Pilate disappeared from the political record.
The anti democracy autoritarians are out in force today
@trent And people call you a sore loser. Just don't get it!
It was a non-binding referendum, wasn't it? And given a (fairly standard) margin of error (+/- 3%), surely the result wasn't large enough for either camp to claim victory. Ergo status quo should have been the order of the day, at least until a clearer result was obtained - the same could be said for the Scottish independence referendum.
It's about the marks... he realized the US has the richer marks, bigger market.
The people who helped destroy Corbyn should be on your list James, eg you.
The only person who destroyed Corbyn was Corbyn.
Will you be voting Labour come the election then?
@@tomherbert2361 nope!
@@tonycowin you’re clearly woefully uninformed!
@@lynnevenables7193 sorry mate, did you say something?
Thatcher amd Friedman should be on the list
Plastic Patriot deserting his position to work for a foreign power. How embarrasing for those that thought he cared about the UK.
My Vote goes to Geert Wilders.
I got banned for life from commenting on the Daily Mail website. I consider it an honour at least the equivalent of an OBE.
100% its Cameron's fault.
david cameron.. none of this chaos would of existed if it wasnt for the brexit vote
On the contrary, you would still have all the ERG and their supporters agitating about how bad the EU is. There's plenty of blame to go round, but Cameron only gets a small slice. Smaller than anyone who voted leave.
@@OrcusMaximus 'Have' is a verb. 'Would've is short for 'would have'.
Yes how dare Dave give the electorate a choice on anything
@@nihilistlivesmatter
It was a major and nigh on irreversible constitutional upheaval.
The problem wasn't giving people a say, it was allowing the same lies and secret campaigns of disinfection that has rotted our political system from the inside out.
The Swiss hold fairly frequent referendums, but they have rules in place to ensure a fair and honest case is put to the people.
The referendum could have been a more complex one with options remain in the SM etc, which would have guaranteed a remain win, but they didn't even do that properly
It all started with David Camron opening Pandora Box, in allowing the Brexit Vote
OH DEAR how will GREAT BRITAIN POSSIBLY CARRY ON ??
Only with Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Bernard Breslaw et al.
We will carry on regardless.
Nigel trumpagè the gift to right wing politics
He's a leffftyyy🙄
@@richardgallagher4880🤡
@@richardgallagher4880grow up
Sadiq Kahn, the gift to Sheffield Steel, that's knife crime for you..
@@Vegansharks bell end
There are a lot of people who will not forgive Farage for what he has just done.
Where's the trade deal !!?
The Brexit voting farmers better hope its years away.
Hes a bullet maker……he’s the general in the background with the sword egging the troops on while Hes far far far away…….sad really
Sunak is a typical immigrant he sends all our money back to his parents in India
Better explained is impossible. 🕊🙏🏻✝️
Thanks for keeping it real, James 🎉
Reform U.K. is a new party not yet sufficiently organised to win seats this time round- But will be by next. When do people change their (voting) behaviour? They do so when they’ve suffered enough. And under Five years of Labour they WILL have suffered enough.
BTW. What’s the odds of Starmer lasting out one year as PM? Shades of GLC 1981 here I’d say.
Is it correct that Farage when a MEP never voted on anything, so we paid him all those years and he did no work???
You can't have racism without hypocrisy.
Who do i blame the most? James O'Brien, whose intervention helped bring down a way out in 2019
he lost to a dolphin last time he ran in politics didnt he?
The sooner that Farage disappears from the media and politics the better for everyone, but James is being disingenuous when he says that wokeness / being overly PC are the same as decency. They are not always and he is conflating one with the other to suit his point.
Who's the biggest liar? Farage or Trump?
Does Dominic Cummings deserve a mention?
Of course, he does !!
If anybody really needs a Hi-Viz jacket it's Rishi Sunak. People might tend not to trip over him so much or fear that he may run up their trouser leg and bite something bigger and more vital to their lives than he is.
When it comes to Lord Rothermere, Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail, one infamous banner headline from the 30s may shake the tree of memory:
"HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS!"
How far would you have to dig to find the Farage connection with Moscow.
Seeing as he was a regular on Russia Today, not far at all.
@@philiptaylor7902 Top shelf of the bookcase he always hides behind.
Brave Sir Nigel ran away - again.
@mustrum Least you only ran away once.
No that is not the case, if the USA does not get Trump back in - we will all be in peril. WAKE UP.
Where are the callers?
The year is 2068 and James Ocryin is still going on about Brexit... what happens next?
I do blame Corbyn to a certain extent. I feel like, if Andy Burnham had become Labour leader in 2015, he’d already be Prime Minister.
Job. Never does anything in self interest. Selfless.
What about the people? They voted for it! Right?😔🤦♀️
You asked for a name from the last eight yrs, sorry got to go further back, how about Nick Clegg?
Let’s not forget that O’Brien is the man who spends most of his time crying about how biased everyone else is…incredible
Corbyn does get the blame for flip flopping around brexit rather than maintaining his pro remain stance, showing showing labour was the party of integrity and a trustworthy protest vote. He's also to blame for folding in 2019, giving them the election they desperately wanted...
Why is obrian so obsessed with Jeremy corbyn 🙄 it's embarrassing
@@jake751someone with your command of spelling and grammar has far more reason to be embarrassed.
As thick as thieves, literally & figuratively.
Dunno about that, some thieves are rather intelligent.
Never trust a Prime Minister who is obsessed with exposing his skinny ankles.
Comedian Rich Hall once appeared on Room 101, attempting to banish short people.
His argument was "You can't trust short people."
How little did he know the trouble little Rishi and the poison dwarf Putin would cause...
Come on James, you've made your living off the back of Farage and Reece Mog for years. You can't kid a kidder.😉
Jeremy Corbyn could’ve made a great difference for England. That’s why the establishment brought him down with outright lies.
You took full part in that James. Your biggest black mark
Nah, Corbyn was unelectable, the UK will never have a far left pm for so many reasons, you should know that.
Absolutely spot on
The UK will never have a hard left pm, very naive to think Corbyn would get anywhere near No10. "The establishment".. c'mon.
@@soulcrewblue8629 says the sad Tory
Rolling your sleeves up is just imitating Tony Blain, taking your jacket off as if ready to take the shovel and digging a hole.
A book about those who broke Britain? I hope it doesn’t just blame Brexit and Trump. Those of us who aren’t earning extortionate amounts of money and have had their lives shattered by neoliberalism remember when Britain was first broken. And don’t say people who voted for Trump and Brexit have just made their lives worse, because they couldn’t be worse. The more you sound like Marie Antoinette the nearer we get to the Bastille.
Why aren’t any Blarites on the list, o’Brien?
Farage has not revealed his duties in the U.S. Maybe he will after his dedication to the U.K. campaign.
This O'Brian bloke needs to cheer up a bit.
Surprised Obrien dont blame climate change
Licking the boots? Now that's a euphemism.😋
Don’t know how Dominic Cummings didn’t get a chapter.
He did, he mentioned it later
@@robo3715 I must have missed that bit.
@@user-Roy.h This video cuts off just before he remembered
Unashamed promotion of your book! I am not Tory or Farage supporter but I despise your support for Starmer whose contradictory statements and lies are also despicable. Jezza is not to blame for any chaos that has engulfed this country.
I think the distinction that should be observed here is that Obama was, at the time of his 'Brexit engagement', a holder of political office. Farage is not, nor does he have any immediate intent to be, a holder of political office. Their respective statements (and the ensuing possibility of some sort of hypocrisy) of O and F aren't comparable because of this distinction.
Who do I blame most?
The British public!
They gave these people the power to do what they did. The buck ultimately stops with them.
Hi James. I don't know why your programme has not been on CZcams for a number of weeks, so I welcome its return for the big campaign and listening to your honest and invariably accurate character references for worthy and dodgy candidates.
...and what do you aspire to JOB? Another tired diatribe.
When are people going to stand up and say this his is enough.
All you need to know about Farage is that he is big admirer of Von Schitzenpants
Boris 0.0000002 .... Lol 🤣😆
James wrote a Bestiary
Is there any way to get the extra chapter for free? I've read the hardback edition.
I will be listening to 4th of July by Soundgarden. "I heard it in the wind and I saw it in the sky and I thought it was the end, I thought it was the fourth of July" Brilliant song check it out.
The entire Superunknown album is great!
You are right james