Farage is someone who changes his political views like a chameleon, Martin Jay writes.
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This is a question that British journalists have yet to ask. But they will soon begin to dig deep into the Reform leader’s past. Will they ever find out who he really is and who is behind him?
For Russia, Nigel Farage MP, the leader of the Reform party in the UK, which currently has only 5 members, is an odd individual. Initially, a fan of Putin and someone who even worked for Russia Today as a presenter but who turned on the Russian leader when he saw that it was not in his interests to be seen supporting him in the UK, Farage is someone who changes his political views like a chameleon, changing the colour of his own political identity to suit what the mood is and how to profit from it.
Although one of the few people in British politics who has gone on the record as saying that the West provoked Russia in Ukraine, hence the invasion, Farage for the moment is keeping a distance from Putin.
And this might be a smart move for him as in recent days, he started what seemed to be a smear campaign against a fellow member in his own party which, it would appear, has changed the course of his own destiny. While just two weeks ago some were tipping Farage to be the next PM on 2029, now for the first time people in Britain rather than media are asking three key questions. Who really is Nigel Farage? Can we trust him to run the country? And lastly who or what is behind him?
These three simple questions now are going to be like three nails for his own cross.
Within political circles, there was really nothing new about the spat with Rupert Lowe and the smear campaign which followed given that Farage has a well-known track record of falling out with people from his own party and then setting the dogs on them with smear campaigns which make it to the press these days, but in earlier days were circulated on social media. It’s what Nigel does. When he comes across someone who challenges his strategy or views, they become a marked man. Farage is what he is largely due to him being a narcissist and creating a cult around himself. Farage, since the very early days of UKIP has always been a dictator within his own party which he created, never interested in any kind of shared responsibility or leadership. In the UKIP days, this led to him clashing and destroying at least 50 people during just one EU parliamentary term, according to Godfrey Bloom who was a dear friend who also pushed out of the party.
The pattern is always the same. Once the individual has shown some character and some media skills, the knife is drawn. Then once they get the coverage, stealing his limelight, it is thrust, until finally when the adversary shows the courage to possibly even be a contender to party leader, the thrusting becomes frenzied but calculated.
My own estimation is that the victims amount to closer to a hundred, yet the recent smear campaign conducted against Rupert Lowe — who is respected by Elon Musk — has damaged Farage so much as, until now, most of his members had no idea about how he routs out and destroys anyone with real talent who might question him or tackle him on party strategy.
The cat is out of the bag and now, particularly on social media, the podcasters who he has crossed and who have respectable followings, are all now doing the stabbing back. Revenge in its ugliest form, served cold and very effective.
Whilst this raises obvious questions as to how so many dead bodies that Farage has climbed up over can now be a real problem for him, supporters are asking how can someone who goes about running a party based on such megalomaniac ideas be fit to run the country? The answer is of course that they’re not which is driving many Reform supporters, with nowhere to go outside of their party, into the arms of Lowe himself who many argue should run Reform. What Farage and his cabal of pathetic sycophants haven’t realized though is that even if they can survive the Lowe row — and probably when it comes to local elections on May 1st, they can — on a bigger scale, the scandal might be devastating for Farage and his bid to win seats in 2029.
National elections are a whole new league compared to local elections or EU ones. Given that the UK no longer has EU elections, this protest vote has now taken more significance. But it is still a protest vote. In other words, it’s a throw away vote for people to show how disappointed they are with their incumbent parties.
Farage will revel in local elections and the victory they will bring and will not see a few details in the Rowe low which are important.
Firstly, for the first time ever the subject of Farage’s character as a man and his integrity as a politician are starting to become regular questions now in the podcast sphere, which will almost certainly make it to mainstream hacks in the coming months. Given that Farage has softened considerably on mass deportations, which Lowe still calls for, many Reform voters sense that he is using one voting demographic — far-right, anti-immigration voters — as a building block or columns to then support a broader, larger group above it, the centrists. Farage believes wrongly that mass deportation policy has its limitations at the polls. In fact well over 60 percent of the entire country believes it’s the only way forward for the UK to even remain a G7 country given that Britain is now paying benefits out to over 1.2m fake asylum seekers whose annual bill is around 15bn pounds in total to house, heat, feed and nourish with consumer goods. Can Farage be trusted as a future PM when he can’t even stick to his own political principles which got him and his 4 fellow members their seats in the first place? Treachery is central to the Farage cult as well as lying. On the subjects which we are led to believe important to him, like free speech for example, we see no evidence to back it up. Quite the contrary. In my own experiences as owner of a free speech/investigative magazine in Brussels, it was Farage who dealt it a body blow ultimately leading it to be shut down in 2006. Farage actually hates free speech but it’s a lie which UK journalists don’t call him out on, like also claiming that he “warned” the West how bad Putin was — hilarious given that Farage worked for Russia Today and was happy to be handsomely paid for the buffoonery.
This question of whether he can be trusted to run the country is not being asked yet of mainstream journalists, who, until now, Farage has had a very good relationship with – on both sides of the aisle. It’s that relationship, in fact, for almost 25 years which has in part led to him rising to the giddy heights today where nearly all of his media interaction is largely complimentary, even to the point of Piers Morgan being Farage’s own sphincter boy. The 2017 interview, where Farage claims he’s not bothered what people think of him — a grotesque lie — allows him to paint a picture of him being a recalcitrant hero in Brussels destroying the European parliament, where in reality he was its court jester and very much part of the euro elite establishment. Farage is an elitist to the extreme and while Farage talks affectionately to Morgan about his school years, he fails to mention that he didn’t do sport nor did he leave to go to university or become an officer in the army — two items which Godfrey Bloom reckons is his downfall in that it led him to becoming a leader with no leadership qualities.
The special relationship with media, which leads to these endearing interviews, has served him well. But it is coming to an end as, when Reform gains more local seats and the Lowe row blows over, he conservatives will start to strategize how they can push the knives in — and it will be a young, internet savvy media advisor who will suggest using the 100 victims and their social media presence as a tool to feed Westminster village hacks. It’s inevitable.
One of the areas which journalists will want to probe is not only how Farage destroys all his competitors within his own party, but who really is the man? And what or who is behind him. While some might speculate Israel could be a patron, my bet would be that two distinctive supporters are pulling his strings. The globalists in the Bilderberg Group, whose plans for the UK are to crash the economy with illegal immigrants and then clean up with big profits later on, no doubt asset stripping the country’s private sector; and then of course the deep state itself. How much longer can we ignore Farage’s extraordinary élan, if not swagger, when he manipulates the judiciary system almost as though something much more powerful is protecting him? The question of whether MI5 are using Farage as an asset is no longer valid. The real question is how far will they go and what are their long term objectives with a guy who when I met him in 2002, was just a chain-smoking guy from the south of England with a caravan. Farage has come a long way. But who really is he?