What is Farage’s Problem?

what exactly is Nigel farage's problem because it seems that there is one consistent Factor amongst all of the problems that uh ukip have had the brexit party have had now reformer having that all seem to have one common denominator and that appears to be najo farage himself and it is not a secret that najo farage has uh killed off more right-wing careers than the left has it's not a secret by any stretch of the imagination before we begin Islander 3 is on sale go and get it now turning over there two weeks is the best

thing you'll read this year until the next issue of Islander obviously um so go and get that now so rup llo uh has apparently been banished uh he has been banished from the from the party for life after he crossed Niger foran by questioning his leadership uh The Daily Mail has report has learned from quote senior reformed people are privately saying that Mr low will never be allowed back one said ruper can complain all he likes but won't getting be getting the whip back he has crossed Nigel and the political world is littered with the

bodies who have done that and that's true that is a true statement uh remember when uh Elon Musk endorsed Rupert low and of course condemned Nigel farage uh he Elon Musk also retweeted various other things um well this this was I think when the target was put on loe's head and so the disgusting work of what I just I can only call mean girl politics is being done by farage and his team it's the politics of character assassination and this is disgusting and I loath it in every form I see it if someone has a

problem with someone else don't go poisoning the well address them directly be direct be a man is how I would respond uh so anyway ruper low tweeted I've been informed by a reliable source that senior reform figures have been briefing journalists that I have dementia in politics there Rough and Tumble I get that but this is sick what they're doing to me is disgusting yes that is exactly true they are deliberately now trying to create a narrative of smears and and again if you listen to Rupert learn interviews it's very clear that this is obvious

BS right I mean he he he has more clarity than all all the the others combined because one of problem actually he actually can formulate arguments yes good questions yes the philosophy of the issues because ruper low has a history of being a businessman you have to be a Communicator if you want people to understand what you want and to give you their money right so it's like Rupert does a great job giving his speeches in Parliament or wherever else at reform conferences and you can tell that someone feels upstaged exactly he's very specific and

detailed he has a knife for details he's not just throwing platitudes that's correct and so they come out with just various again in the telegraph so the the rightwing uh papers in Britain uh quote sources close to Mr farage claim that Mr low has drifted politically from the leader oh right that's interesting quote being captured by the online radical right with mirriad X posts about mass deportations and other preoccupations is that really the online radical right or is that actually the most popular position on the concept of immigration in the country right so I mean

this is a yugov survey only from last year would you support or opposer move to increase the number of deportations of illegal immigrants in the UK 2third of people like yeah I support or strongly report and only 20% of people say I oppose or tend to oppose like that's not Fringe online radical right-wing politics that's normal mainstream politics you weirdos like Fringe radical politics online like Kanye West stuff you know like that non that kind of nonsense this is totally mainstream British not I mean is even conservative I imagine like let's actually uh can we

go to the politics on this yeah so uh labor supporters that's 60% nearly 58% of Labor supporters support or strongly support like dep deporting illegals like even liberal Democrats and more than half agree even more than half of liberal Democrats agree like that we need to get rid of them so like oh this isn't online radical right no this is just normal politics it is normal politics to deport illegal immigrants and looks looks like the overwhelming majority of Reform the reform based yeah but it's it's not weird to want this I mean it's I love

the idea that 1% of Reform tend to oppose why are you supporting reform like what was no sorry 4% strongly opposed as well but anyway so gone no it's just funny yeah they strongly opposing yeah and so you may have seen this meme going around right now you might say hang a second I don't recognize those people well those people are all the people who not whose careers have been killed by njel farage basically the most recent one at the bottom there you can see is benhabib there are loads of frankly the realm I don't

even know this Godfrey Bloom top top right friend of the show and occasional guest Godfrey Bloom uh Douglas Carwell again another friend of the show um you know killroy silk and various others right look again people I don't even know because faras has been doing this for 30 years right and so they want he what he wants is for ruper Lo to join that Pantheon of people whose careers have been killed by him and I'm not sure that that's great right I mean we can just go through it so you remember G Toler G Towler

was the head of uh press Communications for well ukip and then bre's party and then reform he's been a farage loyalist for decades now known as the last great amateur in politics and he came out defending reform saying well if we push complaints under the carpet they will be held pay after the allegations of bullying in Rupert Low's offices again not by Rupert low everyone's keeping that very specific we're not saying that Rupert low has bullied just allegations in the offices the problem often the problem isn't the offense but the cover up well you've been

covering up for three weeks uh 3 months G why did we have to wait for 3 months why is this so politically convenient and why are you naming ruper low when he doesn't appear to be the guy at the end of the uh the actual allegations but why are you doing in the face of uh you getting canned by Zia YF because a couple of months ago uh back in October in fact it was uh G just got sliced out oh no we're professionalizing the party that means tower has go like he's got more experience

than Zia YF I mean he's probably got more experience than Zia YF is old right like G Tal's been doing this for such a long time he knows exactly what he's doing and yet he's still supinely supporting them because I guess you don't change the habit of a lifetime but benhabib got shoved out of reform because he criticized publicly the structure of the party when's the party going to democratize when's this happening and even now they're claiming they democratizing but I find it unlikely uh because there's a there's a weird sort of loophole that they've

in included um I don't want to get into that now but what happens after benhabib comes out with again reasonable criticism well nage acts like a child about it and like yeah this is a champagne moment hip HIIT paray the son has got his hat on it's like why are you acting like this like why you acting like benhabib has personally stolen your girlfriend or something you know like all he did is say look we should probably democratize the party and so far calls him bitter and twisted I know benhabib we had him on the

show after you kicked him out he's not he's not bitter and twisted like I'm friends with benhabib I see him a lot like you know bump into conferences hang out with him when he comes over like he's not bitter and twisted he's just like oh why have I just been screwed why are you dragging my name through the mud because I made a reasonable criticism of your party that's the question then you've got Katherine blakelock this is in 2019 the story has put out that I was fired by the brexit party she's like no couldn't

be fired I controlled everything from the shares to the bank accounts I was put under enormous pressure to give my shares and I did and for no money and then I was effectively barred from standing as an MP or even a parliamentary candidate by the party I'd founded and she was says I was not treated very well as in farage got her to hand everything over and then just kicked her out mercilessly I mean again Katherine blakelock someone I know I don't think she's lying I don't know why they would do this like what's the

what's the benefit to treating people this way back when I was in ukip Jared baton despised Nigel farage and I couldn't understand it because of course I was always coming from the outside of things and he was like no najja farage has basically abused us you know he was basically abusive to us calling him the help Jed baton was the leader of the party and Naj farage would refer to him as the help it's like wow that is insanely disrespectful and Jared baton is a lovely lovely man lovely man um anyway so a month ago

or in January sorry uh 10 counselors from the darbishire branch of Reform all decided to resign all at once and again this story didn't get that much coverage there are articles but it didn't you know blow up but it's crazy the way that they said that they were like no we're not we're not we're not doing this afteron mus said he's not up to the job the council has alleged that the party was being run in quote an autocratic manner an accused farage of disloyalty to long-term members yeah there's a long history of this there's

he will throw you under the bus apparently and the autocratic governance well yeah that seems to be the case uh all of from derish including Alex Stevenson who came second in Amber Valley with 28% of the vote so it's not like these people are bad candidates you know if you come 20 like this was like the first proper election reform for and he got 28% of the vote you would be looking at that guy and saying right okay next time with a bit of hard campaigning bam you're getting more than enough to kill the seat

so why would you why would you not treat this guy well why would you treat him as if he's disposable in a statement seen by the guardian let me carry on they said they could not in good conscience carry on under the leadership of Raj adding quote we believe that the current party management is either incompetent or malevolent and we have lost all confidence in the leadership and its structures and I'm just saying there's enough circumstantial evidence to S to make me believe that the leadership is malevolent and not incompetent I think character plays a

huge role here and uh the behavior of people across the years show reveals a lot about who they are and what their intentions are my my entirely outside of perspective here is that faraj is someone who is much more interested in in appearance and not at all interested in governing yes and when it comes to to ma to politics and you know how he handles his party and all the people you've said it looks like there is a long history of feeling threatened by some people 100% any so what do these people have in common

well the these people have in common the fact that they worked hard and started making a name for themselves and Nigel farage found that threatening and so he threw them under the bus I mean there are there are more we're not finished yet obviously uh you've got um uh what's his name Howard Cox who was the bre uh reform party's uh candidate for the London mayorality uh he didn't do well he only got 4% of the vote but uh he decided that he had to leave the party uh he quit the party because he was

told that if he was critical of the party because he'd been mildly critical of the party uh and he was sat down by Zia Yousef apparently and and others uh far's not being there at this time um and told look you either don't say anything about the party and about Tommy Robinson and things that or we're just going to kick you out and so he uh he said that he had to leave um how Cox spoke about quitting the party claiming that Nigel farage runs it like a dictatorship and does not allow people to think

these are people who have been in the party who have been directly exposed to Nigel farage and his governance style so if if this was like some random lefty or something i' be like well you just hate him you know you obviously them yeah exactly I'm not going to take anything a random Lefty is going to take say face value but when it's literally people who have worked for him for decades and they all just like yeah no he did this he did this he did this he did this he screwed me over here he

may they run it like a dictatorship and I'm not allowed to say anything yeah I'm so I'm going to take this seriously I think these people uh are being honest you know I don't see any reason to think that it's not him and if the only three words someone has in in mind is me myself and I most probably they're not going to govern the country well they're they're the least qualified people to to rule yeah that's another thing as well if he runs his own parties this way and constantly it just generates dozens and

dozens of people who loathe him with a passion well I don't really want him being the guy in charge of the entire country uh anyway um Howard Cox says well look I blame a lot of this on Z YF ever since he bought his way into the chairmanship there's been infighting yeah but the thing is Nigel chos him for a reason and this kind of behavior this pattern of behavior predates Zia yusf by decades by absolute decades Nigro has always been like this and like we see this kind of arbitrariness constantly so today the reform

UK Stafford Branch posted this on their Facebook page is with great regret I have to tell you the Stafford reform branch has been closed down by the regional manager for no apparent reason acting chairman and officers have all been removed and threatened with disciplinary action for trying to run the branch letters to Zia YF have gone unanswered uh four weeks of requesting assistance have been ignored and this is another thing that people and again there are just so many people I'm not even bringing up like just loads and loads of people like Douglas Carswell and

things like that people who just got frozen out of the process they get no you get sidelined you don't receive anything and that's what they're trying to do to ret L at the moment right um so these letters went ignored uh we've been told that a new chairman will be appointed from outside the branch and until this happens we have no access to the membership we've been trying to support candidates for the County council elections but this is no longer possible the growing evidence from around the country is that loyal active members of Reform are

being removed for no apparent reason and replaced by appointees from reform Central I have no idea what is happening Nigel seems to have lost control of the party he created see this is another thing it's not that Nigel was lost control this is what he wanted he appointed Zia yussef for a reason he is allowing this to happen for a reason and so anyway the they're going to close their page down because of course what else can they do and so what we see here is a pattern of reputation destruction and centralization of control we

have seen this from his days in ukip from the brexit party and now here and so this is a little uh it's a three-minute clip but I really want to play the whole thing I think it's absolutely eye opening by a man called Steven wolf now Steven wolf was a ukip me you may have seen pictures of him knocked out because he was arguing with Mike hookham over U well this whole process actually the things that Nigel does to other people and Mike hooken punched him in the jawer and knocked him out and gave him

a seizure right but Steven wolf was a really good chap from all accounts like so I joined ukip after Steven wolf left but lots of people knew him and they all said no he's a really good Chap and he's a rising star because he's a clear communic seemed like a decent Chap and suddenly forced out of the party and so he's going to explain exactly what happened to him cuz again tell me if this sounds like it's uh sounding familiar when you see all this does it all seem eerily familiar absolutely I saw this buildup

of the way that Nigel and Nigel's team whether it's using the chairman or using certain selected individuals who led different parts of the party to attack individuals that seem to rise uh through their talent or their skill to be able to be on a par with Nigel or seen as a threat to Nigel in my case I came in in 2014 by 2016 people wanted me to take over as the new leader of ukip and only then with like kind of the political uh Dogs of War Unleashed on me with false accusations I'd committed offenses

false accusations that I was with various people despite being married all of these were fed to the press to undermine me and that led unfortunately to the massive r that occurred in the European Parliament that led to the injuries that led me to leave the party but I wasn't the first you see what he's using against Rupert low at the moment saying that we've had allegations of him uh committing various I don't want to use the phrases against individuals well certainly there are bullying allegations there are allegations that uh rert Lou threaten physical violence against

a Yousef it should be made clear that rert L denies all those allegations in fact this morning he he has written for the telegraph as well and said there's no evidence no substantive evidence of any of that no absolutely let's look at the way that this particular methodology that's used by Nigel farage's team to undermine and get rid of them in killroy silk if you go back to the days of 2004 killroy Su very famous labor MP who was challenging Nigel for the leadership at that time they said that he was a threat to the

party Kilroy silk had said that the party was unskilled wasn't Democratic enough didn't have the organization words that seemingly are the same that Rupert low said what happened then is killroy silk was undermined and suddenly the chairman came out and said that we need to get rid of killroy silk because he was no longer a member of the party that could be trusted we couldn't work with him Kilroy silk gone David Campbell banman also an me at the time wanted to become leader of of ukip at the time same sort of allegations David can hanaman

defected to the conservative party Douglas Carwell big name that came in along from the conservative party he did not give the money that Nigel farage wanted out of the benefits of being an he defected from defected from the conservative conservative party yeah yeah and along that he had some very very good and talented people like Patrick olyn Susan Evans immensely articulate woman all Rising the Stars coming up Suddenly they too were undermining Nigel not part of the party and the same stick was used by political people in that time it was the leader of uh

people who were in charge of the party the chairman Steven Crowther that led sorts of Investigations into Carswell investigations that these people now you're seeing it with benhabib now roer low and I faced it myself so this is a standard methodology someone Rises someone looks as though they're as good as Nigel better better than Nigel in some ways the membership love him then they no longer a part of the party they're a threat they create division we can't have division in our party otherwise we'll lose the next so he goes on to then say uh

sorry I let that play on so long but I think that's really important to hear because again you it's just the same Playbook that they're using and it explains Isabelle Oak shots which is Richard Ty's girlfriend her dagger-like smile where she's like oh poor sweet rer he's so naive he's so silly he's like yeah because they knew exactly what they were going to do to him they knew exactly what they were going to do to him and Steven wolf goes on to point out that they um they use essentially uh coercion um the farage and

others around him would use the power of selection say look you're not going to get a job as an me so you're not going to get paid you're not going to make money if you don't do as we say which keeps a lot of people in line well if you're rut low and you're independently wealthy they can't use that threat on you it's really not your problem uh and so just to top this off there's one uh former ukip candidate for Westminster put it Paul Weston uh farage has revealed himself again people who know farage

right I'm not using people who don't know farage I'm using people who have worked with him for his entire career and have been in all of the parties with him and so like I said this is a former candidate for westmin uh back in 2010 right uh but this is a statement that Paul made today saying quote farage has revealed himself as a pathologically unpleasant man this would be hard to ignore even if he promised a Manifesto commitment saving Britain from a ratic third world future but he doesn't promise that and now we know he

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