I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
“A new dawn has broken … ” Nice one
Tag: Nigel Farage
“Bring it on!” says Count Binface in his victory speech
Nigel Farage is scathing at the £250,000 cost to the taxpayer of his unnecessary and ridiculous Clacton-on-Sea election campaign that he caused to avoid scrutiny and acccountability for the £5MILLION ‘gift’ that he didn’t declare. Nigel Farage explains that he’s called another byelection in Clacton-on-Sea because he should be able to secretly enrich himself without scrutiny and accountabilty and that the rules shouldn’t apply to him. Morning Star Editorial: Heat strikes are a warning — we must change to adapt to a hotter world
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/heat-strikes-are-warning-we-must-change-adapt-hotter-world
HEAT strikes, like those due to begin this Friday by London bus drivers organised in the Unite union, will become more common as long as governments shut their eyes to the scale of climate adaptation needed.
This punishing summer, now entering its fifth heatwave, is extreme but not unexpected.
All 10 of the hottest years on record in Britain have been since 2002. The reality of a warming climate has been recognised for decades. The TUC has been urging a legal maximum workplace temperature since 2008.
Britain is bound by international treaties to seek to reduce the emissions that cause global warming, though serious action to do so has fallen well short of what’s required and open climate denialism is now fashionable again, thanks to an aggressive new right taking inspiration from the anti-science Donald Trump regime in the United States.
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Increased frequency of extreme weather, the see-saw between longer droughts and fiercer floods that are ruining harvests, has not interrupted British governments in their long push to debilitate the public sector, imposing deep cuts on the fire brigade as on every service that cannot be turned into a cash cow for private providers.
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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/heat-strikes-are-warning-we-must-change-adapt-hotter-world
Donald Trump urges you to be a Climate Science denier like him. He says that he makes millions and millions for destroying the planet, Burn, Baby, Burn and Flood, Baby, Flood. Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet. 
Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then. Nigel Farage Dubbed ‘MP for Washington’ for Parroting Trump in Parliament
Article by Adam Barnett republished from DeSmog
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: House of Commons (CC BY-3.0) Reform leader boosted the president’s attacks on UK Chagos Islands policy more often than raising the cost of living.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage used a quarter of his speeches in Parliament to boost U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on the UK’s Chagos Islands deal – three times more than he raised the cost of living.
DeSmog’s analysis of parliamentary records finds that the former Clacton MP – who resigned last month in response to a series of financial scandals – raised the UK’s proposed deal with Mauritius in 10 of the 40 times he spoke in the House of Commons.
Farage, who was first elected to Parliament in July 2024, mentioned Chagos more than any subject except immigration. This compares with only one speech about winter fuel payments, one on energy policy, and one about UK budget measures, all topics with a direct impact on the cost of living.
“Seeing how often Farage has voiced views that line up perfectly with Trump’s interests, you might think he was the MP for Washington DC, not Clacton-on-Sea,” said Graeme McGregor, campaign manager at the Good Law Project.
“He ought to spend more time focusing on issues that matter to people in Clacton, rather than his pastimes of grandstanding, jet-setting and schmoozing.”
A version of this article was published by The Mirror.
Most of Farage’s Chagos speeches also mentioned Trump, whose opposition to the deal saw it shelved in April. Negotiated by the previous Conservative government, it proposed giving Mauritius control of the islands, which are located in the Indian Ocean, with a 99-year lease for the UK to run the Diego Garcia military base, which is seen as a crucial asset by the U.S. government.
In December 2024, Farage told the Commons he had “just returned, hotfoot, from a very full Mar-a-Lago”, Trump’s resort in Florida, and that “several members” of the incoming administration had expressed “deep disquiet” about plans to “surrender the sovereignty of the islands”.
This was echoed in February 2025, when Farage claimed the agreement could destroy hopes of a UK-U.S. trade deal, claiming Britain’s chances of avoiding American tariffs would “evaporate”.
“The special relationship will be dangerously fractured if the government carry on with this,” he added.
The Reform leader also used the Commons to boast of his close relationship with Trump. “I think I am in a fortunate position. It is not just that for 10 years I have stood up and defended President Trump – I was very much on my own in those days – but that I know half his Cabinet,” he said in February 2025.
Farage has also campaigned against the Chagos deal in meetings with U.S. government officials, and tried to visit the Islands in February on a trip funded by Christopher Harborne, the donor at the centre of his resignation scandal.
DeSmog has previously reported that Farage mentioned his constituency just twice in Parliament in the past 12 months, and only six times since his 2024 election. Over the same period, he has received £2.3 million in non-parliamentary income.
He has also made a series of trips to the United States to speak at pro-Trump events, and has addressed Trump-aligned conferences in London, including the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), and CPAC Great Britain.
Reform, which has received more than £24 million from oil and gas interests, has vowed to emulate Trump’s policies – campaigning for the “mass deportations” of immigrants and dramatically increased fossil fuel extraction.
Chagos Lobbying
In an interview on his GB News show in January, Farage urged Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to build opposition to the Chagos deal in the United States. Farage has also reportedly raised the issue directly with the White House on several occasions.
In February, he attempted to visit the Chagos Islands via the nearby Maldives to support four Chagossians who are opposed to the deal. He has claimed he was blocked from entry by the UK government, which said it had no prior knowledge of Farage’s visit.
The £25,000 trip was paid for by Harborne, the crypto billionaire whose £5 million undeclared “gift” to Farage before the 2024 election was being investigated by parliament’s standards commissioner when the Reform leader resigned last month.
The investigation is expected to resume if he wins the by-election on 13 August, which all major parties have boycotted.
Like Trump, Harborne — who has given Reform more than £25 million to date — also appears to oppose the Chagos deal. As well as bankrolling Farage’s visit to the region, Harborne has pledged to fund the small group of Chagossians trying to halt the UK government’s plan.
Nick Dearden of the campaign group Global Justice Now, told DeSmog: “Farage made his name lecturing us about British sovereignty, but he clearly has no idea what this means, because whenever British interests are attacked by Donald Trump, Farage sides with the bully-boy in the White House.
“Trump has repeatedly interfered in British politics, slamming our energy policy, forcing changes in our regulation of Big Tech companies and even fleecing the NHS,” Dearden added. “His poodle, Farage, has not stood up to him on one occasion. Instead, he has used his position to support a man who is so clearly trying to weaken us.”
Nigel Farage and Reform UK have been contacted for comment.
Farage’s Chagos Chatter in Parliament
“…how confident is the foreign secretary that Donald Trump, if he becomes the 47th President of the USA, will approve of this deal, given the importance of our relationship with America?”
7 October, 2024“I assure the House, having been in America last week and knowing the incoming U.S. defence secretary very well, that there is outright hostility towards this deal. […] Diego Garcia was described to me by a senior Trump adviser as the most important island on the planet for America, so the minister will find outright hostility.”
13 November, 2024“I have just returned, hotfoot, from a very full Mar-a-Lago. I spoke to several members—senior administrators, especially—of the incoming administration, which will be in the White House in 32 days’ time. Let me assure you that there is very deep disquiet among them all as to what this deal may mean for the long-term future of Diego Garcia and whether such a deal will hold […] They also cannot understand why we would surrender the sovereignty of the islands on an advisory judgment from a pretty obscure court.”
18 December, 2024“Diego Garcia is probably the single most important thing that we give America right now. Without it, America does not have access to the middle east, India and much else.
[…] I genuinely fear that if this continues and the American administration wakes up to it – I could quote three members of the Cabinet I have spoken to personally about it – our chances of not just avoiding tariffs but moving on to a sectoral free trade deal will all but evaporate. The special relationship will be dangerously fractured if the Government carry on with this…”
4th February, 2025“The Americans, by the way, have been pretty busy with foreign policy just lately, so it is perhaps no wonder that Diego Garcia has not been high on their agenda, but when they wake up to the fact that this has been done – wholly unnecessarily – I would not be surprised if we find ourselves, together with the European Union, in their tariff regime.”
5 February, 2025“[Urgent question:] To ask His Majesty’s Government to give us an update on the situation with regard to the Diego Garcia American military base and the British Indian Ocean Territory, especially in light of the recent comments of the American President.”
25 February, 2026Article by Adam Barnett republished from DeSmog
Nigel Farage is scathing at the £250,000 cost to the taxpayer of his unnecessary and ridiculous Clacton-on-Sea election campaign that he caused to avoid scrutiny and acccountability for the £5MILLION ‘gift’ that he didn’t declare. 
Orcas discuss how Trump was re-elected and him being an obviously insane, xenophobic Fascist. Nigel Farage explains the politics of Reform UK: Racism, Fake anti-establishmentism, Deregulation, Corporatism, Climate Change Denial, Mysogyny and Transphobia. Racist thugs storm homes of refugees
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/racist-thugs-storm-homes-refugees
FAMILIES TARGETED: Damage caused to a house on Bracken Road following disorder in the village of Thetford in NorfolkA“RACIST pogrom” in Thetford has seen thugs storm homes they suspect of housing refugees and attack police, an anti-racist group warned on Friday.
Police bracing for further violence have warned that those taking part in the disorder will face “the full force of the law,” with two more people arrested on Thursday on a third consecutive night of unrest in the Norfolk market town.
People have attempted to storm homes linked to asylum-seekers following proposals to convert a former military base just over the border in Suffolk, RAF Barnham, into asylum-seeker accommodation for up to 3,750 people.
Officers were “subjected to significant aggression” on Wednesday, with one hit with a rock, one bitten and another spat at.
Two officers were taken to hospital.
Michael Bradley, of Stand up to Racism, told the Star: “The violence in Thetford amounts to a racist pogrom.
“A violent crowd has attacked homes and forced those they think to be asylum-seekers out of the area.
“This is the fruit of years of scapegoating and racism, by mainstream politicians and the media – stirred up and promoted by the far right.”
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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/racist-thugs-storm-homes-refugees
Climate science denier Nigel Farage explains that it’s simple to blame asylum-seekers or Muslims for everything. Back a Windfall Profits Tax, Say Campaigners, After Trump Admits Oil Giants ‘Making Too Much Money’
Article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
A protestor holds a ‘Polluters Pay Up’ sign outside the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery Wilmington Plant on November 28, 2022 in Wilmington, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) “If this is a genuine change of heart from a president whose budget bill included $18 billion in taxpayer handouts to Big Oil, we welcome it,” said one organizer. “But talk is cheap, here’s the real test.”
After President Donald Trump echoed climate campaigners’ longtime condemnation of fossil fuel giants’ massive profits—uttering “the only thing” the climate-denying president “has said about energy policy since taking office that makes any sense,” according to one advocate, organizers on Tuesday urged him to put his money where his mouth is by backing a windfall profits tax for companies like Chevron and Exxon Mobil.
In the Oval Office on Monday, Trump called on those corporations and others to slash prices and give some of their record-breaking profits—specifically those made since the president joined Israel in waging an unprovoked war against Iran on Feb. 28—“back to the public.”
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“They’re making too much money, based on a shortage,” said Trump, while noting that he is a “big free enterprise guy.”
“I don’t like it… Chevron, too much money. Exxon Mobil, too much money,” he said. “When you look at one company, they made 12 times what they made the year before? Give some of that back to the public, and they’d better cut the retail price.”
With oil and consumer gas prices skyrocketing since Trump and Israel started the war, resulting in Iran’s retaliatory measure of effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, which a fifth of the world’s oil supply ordinarily travels through, Exxon reported that its second-quarter profits more than doubled compared with last year. The company took in $14.5 billion, while Chevron reported profits of $12 billion compared with $2.5 billion in 2025—nearly a 400% increase.
BP also reported profits that were $2.35 billion higher than last year.
An analysis by the Guardian published Tuesday showed that eight of the world’s largest oil companies made nearly $93 billion in profits in the three months following the invasion.
The climate action group 350.org noted that the record profits of oil and gas giants come as “communities across the world endure record-breaking heatwaves, wildfires, and rising living costs”—and as governments from around the world prepare to resume negotiations on a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, where a “mandatory surtax on highly polluting industries is gaining support as part of that process.”
Two Democratic lawmakers in the US, Rep. Ro Khanna of California and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, introduced the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in March.
“From Bordeaux to Phoenix to Mumbai, families are living through the cost of climate delay, while the companies most responsible bank blockbuster bonanzas,” said Anna Jellema, executive director of 350.org. “That is not a coincidence; it is a business model. Governments meeting in New York this month have a genuine opportunity to change it. Calls are growing across the political spectrum for a proper global profits tax, so the industry that helped cause these disasters pays towards the recovery, the solutions and the protection people need. It’s simple fairness: Those who caused the damage and profited from it should pay to fix it.”
Candice Fortin, US campaign manager for 350.org, emphasized that the latest comments from Trump, whose Interior Department just moved to weaken restrictions on Arctic drilling, must be taken with a grain of salt.
In the same Oval Office statement on Monday, said Fortin, “Trump criticized countries championing wind energy and supported more oil extraction in the North Sea.”
“We don’t just need to tax fossil fuels’ windfall profits now, to be then forget about later,” said Fortin. “We need to end our dependence on oil, gas, and coal—and we need a permanent mechanism to make the fossil fuel industry pay its fair share and redirect those revenues towards protecting people and communities from the climate and cost-of-living crises.”
“If this is a genuine change of heart from a president whose budget bill included $18 billion in taxpayer handouts to Big Oil, we welcome it,” added Fortin. “But talk is cheap, here’s the real test: Will Trump throw his weight behind the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax bill, which his party has been stonewalling in Congress since March?”
Article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
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- $1.1 Trillion Big Oil Subsidies Spark Fresh Calls for Windfall Tax on Profits From Trump’s Iran War ›
- Big Oil Windfall Tax Would Return ‘Egregious’ Iran War Profits to Struggling US Families ›
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