Announces that he will no longer attend Prime Minister's question time and sat in the press gallery to protest against the "most unrepresentative parliament ever".
The cause of his complaint? Despite his funny little sidekick Richard Tice bobbing up and down to catch the Speaker's attention, Reform UK are rarely called upon to ask a question. The reason being that they hold just 5 seats in the House of Commons. Out of 650.
But they do have a very popular TikTok account, which in Farage's eyes counts for more than parliamentary representation.
It's a good job that he announced he was going on strike on national TV as his Clacton-on-Sea constituents probably would not have noticed the difference otherwise.
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He's an embarrassment to the UK. He promised to leave the country if Brexit failed but, thus far, he hasn't even kept that promise. He has Belgian citizenship (so he could keep an EU passport), they're wlcome to keep him there.
@Sharon He spends a lot of his time in Dubai (with his money) and in America (trying to get noticed by Trump). More time than he spends in his own constituency. I would love for him to get held up for 8 hours by border officials next time he enters the UK, just to remind him of what the rest of us have to put up with.
@Sharon Brexit hasn't "failed". By definition it has succeeded, because we are no longer part of the EU. Successive governments have failed to take advantage of the fact that Brexit has happened.
@MartinII Brext gave nothing to take advantage of. It was a disaster from day one but it suited Fartage and his rich mates.
Some Brexiters even claim we haven't left the EU because we haven't torn up the ECHR and all the other international treaties we're party to. Given half a chance, they and Fartage will turn the UK into a rogue state, totally alone in the world at the mercy of the US and Russia.
@Sharon Sorry Sharon, but that's absolute nonsense. For one thing, you and your relatives, like everyone else, benefited from Brexit if you had an early covid vaccination. It's also insulting. The people who voted for Brexit and who could have benefited from it, may still do so, are not rich but predominantly poor. It's rich remainers who constantly bang on about it, and tell lies about their opponents.. And of course no remainer ever has anything to say about the EU.
@MartinII The only concrete promise made by the Brexit campaign (as opposed to the many abstract "benefits" hinted at) was £350m a week redirected from Brussels to the NHS. This was implausible (the UK's net contribution to the EU was just £230m per week) and later admitted by Boris Johnson to be a complete fabrication. Yet it was probably this promise above all else that swung a highly marginal vote. Greater control over our borders is obviously much more difficult after ripping up treaties with our allies.
The only people "banging on" about Brexit are Farage and co whose political careers are based on continually doing the UK down and dividing one social group against another.
@MartinII No, they just strongly implied everything would be perfect if we just left the EU. Maybe that's true for the super rich like Fartage and co.
For one thing, you and your relatives, like everyone else, benefited from Brexit if you had an early covid vaccination.
LOL! Not much of a benefit when we were really the guinea pigs. The rest of Europe waited while it was tested on us to see if it were safe.
The people who voted for Brexit and who could have benefited from it, may still do so, are not rich but predominantly poor.
Yes, poor suckers who were easily duped by Fartage et al. who wants to keep them poor. That's why the Brexiters keep trying to blame the Brexit disaster on those of us who voted to stay in the EU, falsely claiming we sabotaged Brexit but never being able to show how.
@Sharon Most of this doesn't deserve a reply, but your comment about the covid vaccine is disgraceful.Vulnerable people in the EU carried on dying for longer than was necessary.
