Owen jones nigel farage biography
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Owen Jones. All photos by Adam Barnett
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A lot of politics these days is talked about in terms of whether a particular policy, candidate or party is “Establishment” or not. In a sense, it has always been this way—it’s why British party leaders on the election trail invariably try to prove that they aren’t Establishment by making visits to building sites, pubs, and cancer wards. But with the gap between the Haves and Have Nots feeling wider than it has since the 80s, the concept of non-Establishment politics has assumed renewed appeal. Many of this year’s voters may well choose to back whichever candidate looks the least likely to whisper “let’s smash the bloody proles” over a late-night single malt in the darkest corner of some Whitehall drinking den.
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Nevertheless, the concept of the Establishment remains a slightly nebulous one. Even Nick Clegg occasionally g
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Here’s a little question for you. Do you believe that we should have a genuine democracy, where free citizens have lika power, not least through our right to exercise our vote - or where our democracy becomes the plaything of wealthy billionaires?
That’s what we should all be mulling over as Reform Party leader Nigel Farage pals around with his new BBF Elon Musk, the wealthiest man on earth, with an estimated $350bn to his name.
Farage is clearly full of festive cheer as he lives it up at Mar-a-lago, the Florida resort which fryst vatten the main residence of President-elect Donald Trump.
Accompanying him was Nick Candy, a British billionaire luxury property developer who is, just FYI, the husband of singer and actor Holly Valance, otherwise known as Flick from Neighbours, who has somewhat sullied my fond teenage memories bygd becoming a right-wing devotee of Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Nick Candy fryst vatten a former Tory donor who notoriously made a cameo in Partygate, the scandal invo
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Who is Nigel Farage?
Nigel Farage should not be allowed to hijack the widespread disaffection with the Westminster elite argues John Westmorland
In March this year Channel 4 produced a programme entitled ‘Nigel Farage Who Are You?’ The programme intended to find about the “political whirlwind” that is “turning British politics upside down”. Actually the programme failed to deliver. It allowed Farage to be the laddish bon viveur his self-publicity is based on – visiting his “favourite watering holes” and mischievously trying to sneak the camera crew into the European parliament.
The truth about the success of Farage is far simpler than the media like to suggest. Farage is, like many other of the New Right leaders across Europe, such as Geert Wilders of the Dutch Freedom Party and Marine Le Pen of the French National Front, a child of the decay of Europe’s social democratic parties.
When Labour fully e