The Reform UK leader uses migrants and refugees as scapegoats for wider problems confronting our country in his fight for fame and power
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Opinion: Farage is selling his poisonous brand of populism to a seething electorate
The Reform UK leader uses migrants and refugees as scapegoats for wider problems confronting our country in his fight for fame and power
It is remarkable that less than a decade after he inflicted the Brexit disaster on our country – an act of national self-harm that is now bitterly regretted by a sizeable majority of Britons –
Nigel Farage is again
dominating political debate.
As ever, this egotistical character uses migrants and refugees as scapegoats for wider problems confronting our country in his fight for fame and power, stirring up public fury in sordid collusion with some of the most sinister forces in society.
He says a
Reform UK government would deport 600,000 asylum seekers over the course of its parliamentary term, including sending women and children back to conflict zones and into the arms of the planet’s most brutal dictatorships.
Never mind that he is the person stoking much of this anger with his stunts, videos and words – aided by the
far right, which exploits the
migration crisis and inadequate social media controls to spread hatred.
Nor indeed, that just one year ago Farage said it was such impossibility to remove all illegal immigrants that this could not even be an ambition for Reform UK. ‘‘It’s pointless even going there,” he said firmly. “We simply can’t do it.”
But of course, this slippery shape-shifter who poses as a straight-talking man of the people has performed more somersaults than a circus trapeze artist over course of his career as he flits around parties and slides across the political spectrum.
It is not hard to pick apart these threadbare policies. Like most Reform UK policies, they look like they were dreamed up over a few pints in the pub and then jotted down on back of a fag packet.