Farage is wrong face the facts

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[@declanokeeffe84]

Maybe that person should ask Farage to apologize for the many many times that he has been wrong and told lies.

[@alfsmith4936]

Why would he? Being able to lie consistently is not a negative trait in his world. He's payed well to do it.

[@declanokeeffe84]

@@alfsmith4936 Beauty is in the eye of the bird-brain.

[@chrisstones1249]

@@alfsmith4936 Tyson furys heritage is from the travellers community not the Roma community,they originated from different parts of the world ,you really should do some detective work and stop embarrassing yourself and your family ,so yes I would talk to Mr fury , would you .🥴

[@alfsmith4936]

@@chrisstones1249 I was on a windup.. That said, I'm not too bothered if they're offended by a gorja chingering them. Don't be a Cory.

[@jasonc5413]

Farage is deliberately controversial. I don't think he believes a word he says. It's all about self promotion. He doesn't care about being right or wrong. It's all a jolly old game to him.

[@jillbrett7818]

@jasonc5413 just like his best buddy the orange moron!

[@woodencreatures]

You can be pretty much assured that Farage is always wrong

[@Issac_Hunt]

The more Farage is interviewed on TV the more we can see that he is totally out of his depth.

[@ljc1520]

Love the waistcoat Professor, nostalgic memories of Rupert the Bear!🧣👖 👏🏻

[@nathanreynolds4378]

Farage will quit before Christmas.

[@urbanimage]

And lose out on a few years salary and expenses as an MP? I doubt it.

[@nathanreynolds4378]

@@urbanimage In Westminster he will find out he is a very small fish surrounded by professional sharks. The establishment will black ball him. He will begin waving his docket trying to get the speakers attention, only to be kicked into touch and told his place. You don't get regular questions with 4 seats. After a few months of the people of Clacton complaining about bin collections he will spit his dummy and leave with a grandiose statement to the tune of leaving politics so he can affect politics. Frankly he doesn't stand a chance.

[@urbanimage]

@@nathanreynolds4378 I think you are correct. The opportunities for showboating will be limited. My guess is that he won't spend much time in the Commons that doesn't involve propping up a bar.

[@boota1979]

@@urbanimage He was manoeuvred into position, to split the vote as he did in 2019 and again in 2024, nothing more than an establishment stooge. And oh how the easily led fell for it...

[@jonzu217]

@@nathanreynolds4378 who needs Parliament, the Media Moguls will give him plenty of airtime and report his every comment.

[@swanchamp5136]

Farage doesn't really care if he's right, he just says these things knowing his faithful will hang on his every word and bend over backwards to believe it's true. Then the followers will repeat what he's said and anyone trying to correct them is just trying to put their Nige down and that they are the underdog fighting for 'truth' which it usually is far from.

[@alfsmith4936]

Bullseye

[@michelleneeds4165]

​@@alfsmith4936Straight out of the MAGA playbook

[@boota1979]

@@michelleneeds4165 What?

[@pip1723]

Yep he plays his addoring fan's like a fiddle .

[@gwalk67]

There were times when situations like these flare up, commonsense authorities seek to calm the unrest and restore the peace. Today, chancers will see it as a opportunity to stoke tribal differences.

[@elenara101]

Farage is the sideshow...lets focus on the main pantomime

[@davidmcintyre8145]

Farage like Trump is no doubt one who Auld Nick as we call him in Scotland recognises as one of his own and will grant him whatever he wants in return for his soul; something Farage no doubt regards as of little value

[@marktattersall9149]

😮😅😅😊😊😊😅😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@jonathanperry4189]

Farage had second worst attendance as MEP . 748 out of 751.(One is disregarded as they NEVER turned up!) He never once tabled a formal question. He had £35k clawed back as he'd used EU money to pay someone not involved in EU work. He gets a £71k pension from EU for that .. He never attended the fisheries group either. He just took the money and did nothing for the people he was meant to represent .

[@ProfessorTimWilson]

I think more people need to know this!

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I think Brits are technically paying for his pension, not us on the EU side. If I recall correctly, it was something negotiated in the Withdrawal Agreement.

[@jonathanperry4189]

@@octavianpopescu4776 it's painful to see whatever!

[@malcolm8564]

​@@octavianpopescu4776 How can you get a pension if you didn't turn up to do the job?

[@malcolm8564]

A 71k pension is insane.

[@Shahkam76]

The irony is that Farage would fit in perfectly with “subcontinental politics”.

[@epincion]

I would have time for Farage if he told the truth which he does not, plus his supposed commitment to free speech is non existent in that for him and indeed for Reform it’s either their way or nothing.

[@bowiefan6652]

You say that Farage's supposed commitment to free speech is non existent, yet there is an active movement from the left to suppress his voice, and destroy him. Which really begs the question: Are we truly a democratic nation?

[@paulalderson7329]

It’s summer in the city, minor disturbances go hand in hand with the summer weather.

[@stevepi1]

Riot police and bonfires in the street, national news coverage, just "minor" disturbances now ?

[@BarryWaterlow]

*Here in Canada we do not have this problem because our society is far less racist than Is Britain. And we have more immigrants/refugees/asylum seekers. The British need to seriously ask themselves why this is.*

[@robinhard111]

It doesn't make dubious comments any more true to put them in bold type.

[@paulinequinton1478]

Canada less racist than Britain? Have you asked the First Nations about this?

[@chrisstones1249]

Let's be honest ,Canada is without doubt the most uninspiring place in the western world ,as a very famous Brit comedian once said "Canada is so boring ,even it's transvestites are women " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@paulbrookes5365]

Canada is a lot bigger than the UK...

[@chrisstones1249]

​@@paulbrookes5365there's no fooling you is there ,who knew Canada was larger than the u.k. you learn something new everyday 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@seekthetruthfindit6879]

I agree with you on this. I didn't see Sikhs and Hindus at this "protest".

[@barryevans791]

You should have seen white people if you watched the videos

[@stonehengemaca]

But why is it relevant? 🤷‍♂

[@barryevans791]

@@stonehengemaca Why is it not relevant unless you believe everyone is some kind of tabula rasa? If riots broke out every time social workers were called, we would be France.

[@stonehengemaca]

@@barryevans791 How is race relevant here?

[@barryevans791]

@@stonehengemaca I didn't say it was, I was replying to the op

[@tombartram7384]

Sinn Fein MPs never turn up at Westminster, just for you all to know. Its not just Farage.

[@James-KL]

Well said Prof!

[@niriop]

It is amazing that Farage can continue to attack South Asians broadly while having a Pakistani Muslim as his chairman (and primary donor) and formerly having a Pakistani immigrant as his deputy. Why does nobody ever point these bizarre contradictions out? The nonsense and confusion has to be part of it somehow.

[@jessrabbit1877]

there's nothing contradictory about it. just because farage points out the obvious issues a large number of pakistani and bangladeshi people present, should mean that he's not allowed to employee or work closely with a person of the aformentioned heritage? such a stupid comment.

[@adblocker276]

No, Sri Lankan Muslim. Think you are thinking about Ben Habib from Pakistan who is no longer the chair.

[@niriop]

@@jessrabbit1877 It doesn’t make any sense: if they’re the problem, why have them in the party in public positions of power?

[@user-em3vl6li5w]

This appears to be power for the course. Any opportunity to blame Muslims. Facts not necessary. Farage is absolutely wrong. He knows nothing about Gipton and Harehills. It’s a diverse community, with good community cohesion. He knows nothing, but that is his preferred mindset. He closes ignorance over truth. Farage basically is a nasty piece of work.

[@thatfenderbloke]

That amusing Prof Say one thing today and another tomorrow ,Nigels been doing that for years.

[@rafd3593]

I agree - Farage is wrong, indeed, regularly wrong (and AWOL).

[@ijc9984]

Mr never right, at least the toad is consistent

[@MikA-db2]

The sadness in Leeds was made worse by social media, that imported vandals from other ares. But what would be interesting, are thier political or personnel leanings, Media can at times cause issues!

[@henryblunt8503]

I expect some Reform wag will come up with the idea that because the Roma came from the Punjab originally, they are subcontinental - so Nige was right after all. Well, maybe about subcontinental, but if they're part of "subcontinental politics" it's the politics of the 14th century - so he's as wrong as ever.

[@sphinx1017]

Will the commenter apologise and will Farage apologise?

[@michaelmcnally2331]

Farage and factors in the same sentence, really

[@alanadair4893]

Quite right prof he’s stirring itall the time

[@user-qu6mb2uk4q]

Prof, the world needs big minds in leadership, not big heads...keep the light's focus on that and more power to you.

[@WorldAnimalFriends-td5fx]

How ridiculous that people of non white ancestry rioting in Leeds is somehow Nigel Farage's fault. Farage is right , There were also problems in London caused by Bangladeshi's - all to do with an event in Bangladesh. Open your eyes. Perhaps you would like to check all the other MP's are staying in their constituencies 24/7. Of course you are not bothered by that.

[@martinradcliffe4798]

Possibly because we're not force fed what the other MPs are saying on some sort of 24 hour drip?

[@alana8863]

Farage wants to promote violence and hatred. You don't. Do you?

[@sallywinterbourn1780]

Totally agree about Farage!

[@alana8863]

Sorry to hear that - because he isn't telling the truth. So are you agreeing with his lying, or not aware that he's lying?

[@ShaunRobinsonCross2852]

All what farage does is pander to too a small minority of individuals who agree with him or more accurately anyone who won't fact check him

[@davidboult4143]

​@SilverbackMatt 4 million is hardly a small minority.

[@boota1979]

@SilverbackMatt And your point is?

[@nolslifegren]

Hes got no business opining on a situation he knows nothing about

[@jasonhawkins6186]

You're entitled to your opinion and shouldn't have to apologise just because someone else thinks you should.

[@simonevans8979]

`Frigger` thinks `trouble` and thinks only it can milk his personal opinions. So he has no opinion about gypsies? He does know there are gypsy encampments in Clacton?

[@Levenstone132]

1381.Was that 'subcontinental'?

[@Ian-mj4pt]

Who knew King gammon is wrong

[@davidboult4143]

Racist comment.

[@Ian-mj4pt]

@davidboult4143 how? Clown please explain how that is racist? Bet you can't. Write to temu Mosley Farage and tell him I'm so sure he will help you . Poor muppet

[@louisdisbury9759]

If Trump wins the Election Proff that will make Nigel the most influential politician in great Britain concerning our special relationship and Lammy will be ignored,Farage as he has proved time and again he's a brilliant political tactician.

[@bowiefan6652]

Well spotted, Louis! I've been saying the exact thing to my son. Farage aspires to become the leader of the opposition, and having the ear of the next POTUS can only prove useful to that end.

[@buntyjoy1800]

Farage just means brown people.

[@donstratton6343]

Apologize to a Farage apologetic defending a man who demands apologies? As for peace, yes, once Putin has Ukraine, Xi has Taiwan, and all Americans attend a Protestant church, American women can no longer file for divorce, etc. Is it possible that a newly-elected MP is looking to study a foreign master?

[@paulgibbons2320]

At this point, Farage is like Mystic Meg. He's told you all this was coming for years. He can read my tea leaves anytime.😂

[@M0UAW_IO83]

Yeah, he's definitely just like Mystic Meg, a purveyor of made up bullshit designed to give you a warm, happy feeling about your prejudices.

[@susanpettitt713]

Well said sir .

[@lifelike_45]

..... Napoleon said that the art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds except what is calculated and thought out

[@paulawakefield7869]

Ferret Farridge?🤮 Anything for self publicity. 🤬

[@normasarsby1350]

Why do you think he is interested in facts?

[@TonThonFraisdEau]

The "Sub-continent" ??? Doh .. the one colonized by the UK ??? If the Pakistanis or the Indians are so bad, why did the British colonize them ? Or did they become bad ? When you colonized them ? meaning that you messed up the colonization of the sub-continent by you the UK ? Anyway, you can only blame yourselves and therefore you MUST leave those people YOU colonized ... ALONE ...

[@davidboult4143]

The word is "colonised". It means somewhere being taken over by large numbers incomers. That never happened in the subcontinent. Hardly any Brits went there. Guess where fits that profile now?

[@boota1979]

@@davidboult4143 Dear oh dear...

[@davidboult4143]

@@boota1979 the population of the subcontinent rose from about 200 million in 1872, to nearly 320 million by 1921. The maximum number of Brits during the "Raj" was around 40 thousand civilians, and 80 thousand military. That is not being colonised. Read a dictionary.

[@boota1979]

@@davidboult4143 Read history!!! Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938.

[@davidboult4143]

@@boota1979 dear oh dear. The currency of Britain is pounds, the currency of India is rupees. Not dollars. You really need some basic education.

[@cmdrvex]

It is rather naïve to think that Farage was elected in Clacton to deal solely with local issues and that if he spends a day or two away, that that shows him to be letting his constituency down. Or is that really what you believe? Being located across the ocean does not prohibit him giving his opinion. Dozens and dozens of MPs do this frequently. Bear in mind that there was a riot by a sizable group of Bangladeshi immigrants in London over a political matter that took place thousands of miles away in Bangladesh at the VERY same time as the Harehills riot. Disorder of a subcontinental nature, one might say. You accused Farage of "inflaming tensions" in your previous post. I saw lots of tension and flames in those Harehills videos, none of them caused by Farage. I think over four million people have stood up and said that they are not going to just sit back like a lot of lily-livered wet lettuces and turn the other cheek, sing "Don't Look Back in Anger", or leave it up to inept politicians and the police to tread carefully so "not as to offend anyone". It's amazing how Farage lives rent free in so many people's heads, like those economic migrants we taxpayers are footing the bill for, also living rent free. I don't really like the guy and never voted for his party, but he's more likely to come up with a damn solution than these wets who just turn a blind eye, or refuse to discuss the subject with any meaningful intent or ACTION.

[@ijc9984]

What a lot of words to say you don't like people that aren't your ethnicity or think like you.

[@cmdrvex]

​@@ijc9984 Where exactly do I state that I don't like other ethnicities or people with different viewpoints? I mean, I like Prof Wilson, but I disagree with his opinion fairly often.

[@ijc9984]

@@cmdrvex being an fartarge opologist is a give away

[@cmdrvex]

@@ijc9984 I see. Not liking him and not voting for his party makes me an apologist for him. Got it. Do you struggle with TikToks as well?

[@alana8863]

@@cmdrvex No, he didn't say that 'not liking him and not voting for his party makes you an apologist for Farage.' You clearly are an apologist for him - whatever your views on him and his appalling party.

[@seyley2901]

Roma Gypsies are WHITE. I'm not sure what they have to do with the subcontinent apart from the historical origin of Gypsies

[@stonehengemaca]

Aren't they just ex-pats?

[@TheWhitehawker]

No they are not , as ex-pats are only temporary residents that plan to return home. These people plan to be here for future generations.

[@stonehengemaca]

@@TheWhitehawker If that's important to you then ok.. But I'm using it to describe groups of white people that form communities in foreign countries. The length of time an individual spends there is irrelevant to me. Most only come back in coffins, and the community they leave behind doesn't dissipate when they leave. An expatriate is still a migrant. More importantly, the white expatriate makes zero attempt to learn the language or culture or traditions of their host nation.

[@Andrew-rc3vh]

Farage is right and right. I looked it up just to check my mind was not playing tricks on me and sure enough from wiki The Romani, colloquially known as the Roma , are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. So they were from the subcontinent.

[@davidboult4143]

🎯

[@rafd3593]

Roumania is in Europe.

[@boota1979]

@@rafd3593 Roma people are from Northern India, nothing to do with Romania.

[@jessrabbit1877]

@@boota1979 roma gypsies are from eastern europe but they have subcontinental ancestry.

[@sadfrankie6139]

Using your logic he could have claimed they are Africans, after all we all originated from there. Bit desperate the Roma left India a thousand years ago, they been in Eastern Europe over 400 years.

[@shelleylyme6402]

Hey Prof, sorry to inconvenience you by not remaining docile and compliant as my birthright of living in a free independent democratic nation state is repeatedly raped, but . . . . . I want my country back 🙄

[@leaguefan7640]

Why, where has YOUR country gone? Mars?🤯🤯🤪🤪

[@ijc9984]

Get your wallet out then. Its been sold from under your feet for years

[@therepublicofcynica]

Of course Farage is wrong (he invariably is and has turned out to be), Wilson has nothing to apologise for and has indeed said so in the past when he's been wrong. But not often enough. That said, it's arguably as to whether or not Farage, by dint of being an MP, has a greater responsibility than Wilson when he comments and/or expresses an opinion. Anyone with a public forum (including Wilson) has a responsibility to present actual facts and not distort them using rhetoric, bias or bigotry. Farage knows that what he said, which is merely a soundbite, will be forgotten tomorrow however I'm convinced that the majority of the public see him for what he is. The worry is that 8m don't.

[@ozzmundo5095]

its was romanians and muslims rioting, and was it justified because it was believed or suspected the children or some may have suffered abuse and was it the first time

[@TonThonFraisdEau]

Yep, from people COLONIZED by the UK and are now STUCK with you ... What do the Brits complain about ? Blame your colonialist ancestors, not the victims of British colonialism ...

[@davidboult4143]

​@@TonThonFraisdEau do you even know what colonized means? There were hardly any Brits in India under the Empire. It was run by local people, paid by the Brits.

[@ozzmundo5095]

@@davidboult4143 nope , i dont think he or she does

[@boota1979]

@@davidboult4143 Me thinks you need a history lesson!

[@boota1979]

@@ozzmundo5095 You also need a history lesson.

[@YumYumStrudel]

😎

[@JohnC-nl5xs]

Sub continent is India, Pakistan and Bangladesh when I went to school ! Farage is right, along with Dr David Starkey who you may learn something from. You never spend a couple of days with friends ?

[@TonThonFraisdEau]

It's first of all places COLONIZED by the British ...Like the French who colonized North-Africa and have migration from there, YOU have migration from the places YOU colonized ... Don't complain about the presence of those people ...

[@williamwade641]

So what may be learnt from the Doctor, some grammar perhaps?

[@niriop]

Can you tolerate Reform being funded and chaired by someone from that subcontinent?

[@davidboult4143]

​@@williamwade641 it appears that riots started in Whitechapel, and Leeds, because of protests in Bangladesh, which were about the treatment of students, in Bangladesh. So, yes, indeed, politics of the subcontinent have indeed been imported here.

[@williamwade641]

@@davidboult4143 You actually believe that, do you? It sounds extremely far fetched, not to say nonsensical.

[@mihangelap-williams9871]

Farage is never right because he runs with feelings and emotions. Learnt along time ago, emotions are reactive and give you nothing but a candle that burns at both ends and ever quickly indeed

[@Jamie-uk2zh]

The Roma community are actually originally from India so Farage is correct again you are just in denial

[@jonathanperry4189]

The people involved aren't. The movement you mentioned started 1000 years ago! . It's like saying people in the north East are Scandinavian.

[@redscouse8568]

Another Wikipedia Genius

[@jonathanperry4189]

@@redscouse8568 or history

[@Jamie-uk2zh]

@@jonathanperry4189 Well they’re certainly not British and today we see more trouble in Whitechapel another enriched area.

[@seekthetruthfindit6879]

No, you are. Your forefathers were the Angles, a Germanic tribe...so you caused WWII. Your idiotic logic, not mine...

[@nigelwood4977]

Once again you have a fixation about Nigel Farage, have you nothing else to discuss? You must understand you will not cancel him with your nonsense, he’s faced worse many times before.A right wing wind is blowing through Europe and the USA, and now the UK. He is my MP in Clacton and does not worry anymore here that he is in America for a few days. For lords sake why don’t you grow up and hound someone else, a left wing loony for example. But no I guess not, that would be too close to home would it not.

[@hamiltonmackenzie3340]

Farage is wrong is like saying rape is bad.

[@-Astro--]

Another day and another Reform video by this guy. 🥱🥱🥱

[@hamiltonmackenzie3340]

Farage is wrong is like saying rape is bad.