Farage: Lockdowns were Britain’s biggest ever peacetime mistake

Farage: Lockdowns were Britain’s biggest ever peacetime mistake | General Election

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The second and third Covid lockdowns were the biggest ever mistake made by a British government in peacetime, Nigel Farage has said.
Mr Farage spoke in front of a crowd of around 1,000 Reform UK supporters in Sunderland, the port city that gave significant backing to Brexit in 2016 and has benefited from Nissan ramping up production in the following years.
Mr Farage told the rally: “The Tories say we’re in economic trouble because of the pandemic. But hang on, you didn’t need to lock us down for a second and a third time.
“You didn’t need to take away our freedoms in a way that weren’t even done during World War Two and all of it with Labour support.
“I actually believe the long-term economic and psychological damage from lockdowns two and three perhaps represents the biggest mistake any British government, supported by the opposition, has ever made in peacetime.”
He went on to say he treated the second and third lockdowns with “contempt”.
Mr Farage will campaign on Thursday alongside Richard Tice, his predecessor and now the chairman of Reform, in Boston and Skegness, where Mr Tice hopes to unseat Tory incumbent Matt Warman.
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@MadelineMcneill 3 ай бұрын

Sitting at home saying “I am not going to vote” solves nothing. Get out there and vote Reform to get your Country back.

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

Where has it been?

@professorplums722 3 ай бұрын

@@Kath-nd6pjlost to woke bs.

@ScandalUK 3 ай бұрын

I'm not a millionaire so if they get in power then I'm screwed. We need someone who supports people who aren't posh too - that is not Reform Ltd.

@JayJay-ki4mi 2 ай бұрын

I won't be voting. I do not play this game. They may have different color ties, but the outcome will be the same.

@Caws_a_Bara 2 ай бұрын

@@professorplums722 Define woke

@Apprentice_life 3 ай бұрын

Every Britain has had enough

@arthurmee 3 ай бұрын

How many Britains are there?

@frankshailes3205 3 ай бұрын

@@arthurmee Two. Brittanny and Great Britain.

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

@batcollins3714 3 ай бұрын

Explains why Reform UK Ltd loves the uneducated. They can't think for themselves

@Caws_a_Bara 3 ай бұрын

This Briton has had enough of the Tories and Reform

@danielmcleanfisher 3 ай бұрын

Honest folk in Sunderland, don’t forget to vote to stop the rot

@ajs41 2 ай бұрын

Most people who voted Tory in Sunderland last time will vote Reform this time, but unfortunately Labour will still win.

@yvonnesimpson4584 3 ай бұрын

Reform for me

@threecheers4obama 3 ай бұрын

If I could make it back to the UK in time, I'll vote for Nigel Farage's Reform. The man is electrifying. Sunack was a failure from the get go.

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

Unfortunately as a now Profi speech maker, that is all he is. He does not have the resolve, stamina or interest in seeing any of it through himself. “A disrupter” his name for himself.

@LeftAndProud 3 ай бұрын

U are a foregner where u r.

@christinalayzelle832 3 ай бұрын

@@Kath-nd6pj Nonsense.

@sanchoodell6789 3 ай бұрын

Go Go *Farage!* ☑️ Vote *REFORM UK* Put the *Great* back into Britain 🇬🇧

@vaydendar 3 ай бұрын

My Granddaughter is voting for the first time now she's 18, she told me today that she voting for Reform, lump in throat time.

@poplarboydavid 3 ай бұрын

The truth can hurt, can’t it! Nigel Farage is saying many things here, that many who are either delusional or in denial, don’t find palatable. But, I’m sick and tired and demoralised the way the Tories and Labour have behaved these past years. I will be voting for REFORM. It’s time for reform. It’s time for change before it’s too late!

@aledhopkins38 3 ай бұрын

Vote Reform UK 🇬🇧

@keithlowton308 3 ай бұрын

I'M ALWAYS GOING TO VOTE REFORM.😊👌👍

@LukVik 3 ай бұрын

Good luck 🥹😅😂🤣🥲!!!!

@goharikjones7387 3 ай бұрын

Me too, Reform all the WAY!

@Sc25515 3 ай бұрын

They won't exist at the next election. Or Farage will come up with yet another name.

@frankshailes3205 3 ай бұрын

@@goharikjones7387 Until they change their name yet again.

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

@keithlowton308 the one term Wonder? Like how long he stayed loyal to his last incarnation and did not see it through? That is a very short “always”. Farage does not plan to stick around longer than that. Cause disruption, then move on before anyone expects him to actually work at his promises.

@Hipnosis65 3 ай бұрын

Something big is coming on election day. Vote Reform! All the best from Calgary.

@sjm6963 3 ай бұрын

Returned my postal vote back to Newcastle City Council last week. My X by Reform Party. My only regret is that I can only vote for them once!

@francisjbrennan3358 3 ай бұрын

@@sjm6963 Sleepy Joe Biden got lots of dead people to vote in the last election, anyone know how sleepy Joe talks to the dead 💀 😳🤣

@alien4422 3 ай бұрын

The problem with postal votes is that they can void your votes using various excuses. I voted Ukip twice by postal vote and both times my vote was void one time they said that my signature did not match which was a lie. Previously I voted Labour without any problems. So now I always vote in person.

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

My condolences.

@christinalayzelle832 3 ай бұрын

@@Kath-nd6pj Silly comment.

@professorplums722 3 ай бұрын

@@Kath-nd6pjanother leftard with zero contribution but the usual bile. Keep voting for grooming gang enablers.

@johngurung5471 3 ай бұрын

I Like Nigel Farage , He Must Be Elected To Be PM Of United Kingdom 🎉

@Debbie-vo3yg 3 ай бұрын

Speaking facts 💯

@DAZ28111 3 ай бұрын

Make Britain great again MBGA

@redredlulu1 3 ай бұрын

Makes my heart sing to see my fellow Mackems standing for Nigel. Well done Sunderland I’m am now living in South Yorkshire but my home will always be Sunderland🙂

@longyx321 3 ай бұрын

What a speaker!!

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

Gas bag

@kenedwards9242 3 ай бұрын

@@Kath-nd6pjMendacious gas-bag!

@tomHannah-o8m 3 ай бұрын

and remember the loss of green spaces, that's the worst aspect of immigration.

@tomHannah-o8m 3 ай бұрын

especially in the south East.

@LukVik 3 ай бұрын

Blame your stupidity on the immigrants 😂😂😂😂😂!!!!

@Caws_a_Bara 3 ай бұрын

What utter garbage

@LukVik 3 ай бұрын

@@Caws_a_Bara 👍🙌👊

@normanchristie4524 3 ай бұрын

Idiotic conflation.

@CarolDarbyshire-cr7ve 3 ай бұрын

Amazing Speech! The Support shown is quite electrifying! Yes! A Positive Vision is what our Country Needs and Deserves!

@Tan-qr7gt 3 ай бұрын

Sick and tired of the incompetent Labour and Tory...vote Reform to right the damage inflicted by those two appalling aforementioned parties

@LukVik 3 ай бұрын

More incompetent than the failed Brexit party 🤔????

@SomethingBlonde-oc7sc 3 ай бұрын

Reform is not competent.

@LukVik 3 ай бұрын

@@SomethingBlonde-oc7sc This comment is from Farage bot 🤖. Your message will be deleted in a few seconds!!!! Mine was ☹️!!!

@martinobrien7110 3 ай бұрын

Greetings from Moscow . Nigel is our Favourite Useless Idiot .

@rogerbennett9641 3 ай бұрын

So much damage so little time, got to start soon.

@ebenezer1690 3 ай бұрын

GOD BLESS ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿♥️🇺🇸

@syryder3236 3 ай бұрын

Thanks 🇬🇧 ace vid with your daughter 🔥

@paulhealey2984 3 ай бұрын

We need Nigel as the leader of this country.

@LukVik 3 ай бұрын

Sooooo cringe 😬!!!!

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

But he does not want the job. Said so himself in an interview. His role is as a disrupter. Same as the role he took when he “worked” as a European parliamentarian in Brussels 1999. He did nothing to argue for change of policies in the interest of the U.K. he made it clear he was only there as a disrupter. So only to complain. Not to come up with solutions, like the one where others gained us the right to NOT join the EURO monetary system. We had rights within the EU to offer alternatives to other EU rulings while we were in the EU. Only our representatives (especially the disrupter Farage). were too lazy to do any actual work, while living at ease, eating, drinking in Europe at EU expense.

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

@andromeda yes the music is good, but that is all. Ironically musicians are one of the groups of Brits that suffer the most through Brexit. Especially the many smaller bands that used to travelling through Europe in the summer months attending concerts and putting on shows. The Roadies etc. permits, paperwork. Loss of a good supplement income.

@professorplums722 3 ай бұрын

@@Kath-nd6pjDid nobody travel abroad before the EU?

@jbradbury2 3 ай бұрын

1.2b unused ppe rotting away, shows what a scam it was

@outoftownr3906 3 ай бұрын

Hopefully Reform will put in the framework to bring back the Great in Britain.

@CampingNE 3 ай бұрын

I was there . Reform for me

@Jack-pu4rf 3 ай бұрын

We will be more respected under the reform UK party, we can not house the world especially not our known enemies or people coming to change and disrupt our way of life

@dianeziarko3679 3 ай бұрын

Nigel will deliver he tells the truth and nothing but the truth...

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

Oh, my. So how many thousands was leaving the EU going to save us annually? He does not intend to stick around to implement any plans he puts forwards, just like before, he will run off the the USA to join Trump with bigger fish to fry. Weaken the EU, disarray in the U.K., riots in the USA. Putin and Trump want the democracies worldwide to fail for themselves to keep hold of power and Farage is just a tool.

@grantthomasson6879 3 ай бұрын

He’s turned his reputation around. I hope he gets a seat in parliament, we should be proud to be British and of British History, he is definitely right about that

@ronkeepfit2 3 ай бұрын

let us help farage and get this man some votes

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

Let’s not.

@BenJ2020 3 ай бұрын

Come on get out and vote reform!

@ajuc005 3 ай бұрын

Somebody forgot brexit exists :)

@Tan-qr7gt 3 ай бұрын

Only Reform can secure a better future for UK

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

How? Who do they have fior all the important roles in government? Who is their proposed chancellor? Who for Primeminister? Farage has already said he does not want THAT job. Too much like hard work and, God forbid, it would make him unpopular considering he would need to actually work and fail in all he promised.

@1milliondogs 3 ай бұрын

@@Kath-nd6pj That's the worrying part is it not, that our 2 main parties have become so comfortable in the knowledge that no one else is equipped for the job, that they can actively hurt the UK and still feel secure in their position.

@teddiver-gf6dj 3 ай бұрын

Sunderland,the new illegal immigrant capitol of Britain.

@111kenni 3 ай бұрын

wonerful. please send me the t-shirt i will wear it with pride

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

NOTHING WILL CHANGE UNDER LABOUR.

@HaythamSharaf_Aldin 3 ай бұрын

Vote Reform. Zero Waiting lists. Make Work Pay.

@Joewalter-x1k 3 ай бұрын

Im voting reform. Im 27. At first i thought Labour would save this country but now ive changed my mind reform is going to save this country. Im with them all the way now.

@TonyFarrugiaStrongman 3 ай бұрын

NIGEL FARAGE FOR PM

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

PEOPLE OF BRITAIN..RAISE UP....ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

@longyx321 3 ай бұрын

Drill baby, Drill👍

@LukVik 3 ай бұрын

MAGA crazy 😜🤔????

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

JOIN THE MOVEMENT .VOTE RE FORM UK.

@phillipwilcox6377 3 ай бұрын

Cheers!! From the Free State of Florida, USA!!

@terrymoore861 3 ай бұрын

And giving companies friends of MP's contracts to build hospitals and schools which we now rent at excessive annual costs, which were badly built costing tax-payers excessive rents.

@mrechelon7051 3 ай бұрын

Vote for Reform, they are the only choice. Lie Bore, and the CONS, need I say more?

@cliveclerkenville2637 3 ай бұрын

He is absolutely correct.

@terrymoore861 3 ай бұрын

And the small print in the EU BREXIT agreement which was not 'oven ready' but Boris still signed it.

@tara1941 3 ай бұрын

Should have been NO SMALL PRINT on the Ballot paper it was either IN or OUT

@JimRogers-oc2jd 3 ай бұрын

If Starmar and Sunak have been watching this rally they must sick up with envy😊

@terrymoore861 3 ай бұрын

And the government's support of Ukraine and Israel without the House of Commons discussion and agreement to use tax payers money to destroy Ukraine and Gaza and their citizens which added to the cost of living rise. Spending money on Ukraine and Gaza instead of the NHS, pot holes, education etc for what?

@peterbeckett9730 2 ай бұрын

Great speech !

@rafd3593 3 ай бұрын

Poor misguided souls.

@hannahrose7372 3 ай бұрын

Goog God I love this man

@kevinfisherman01 3 ай бұрын

Wow, hope for England at last👍👍

@BunyipToldMe 3 ай бұрын

ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FFS

@japfourme381 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Worse of all they were totally unnecessary!!

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

COMMON SENCE....VOTE RE FORM UK.❤❤❤❤

@MichealHarris-il6zi 3 ай бұрын

It looks like a looney Tunes cartoon . Starring Farage as Speedy Gonzalez

@sandybottom6623 3 ай бұрын

Establishment and Medical Authorities: Not open, honest and upfront, resorted to totalitarian tactics - censorship, police state actions, didn't practice what they preached. Result: Massive loss of credibility (obviously).

@Michealst1 2 ай бұрын

Reform.

@Westexec 3 ай бұрын

The Chanel invasion is now bigger than D Day

@bastait 2 ай бұрын

no disarmament was dont take my word for it youll see soon enough.

@tipofthespear7182 3 ай бұрын

Far right , too right. It's a badge of honour these days. Nigel may not always be right but he's never wrong.

@TheCAPTAINDESTROYER 3 ай бұрын

Where is that good old blitz spirit?

@vincentjappi456 3 ай бұрын

It wasn't a "mistake", it was a coup.

@TheCAPTAINDESTROYER 3 ай бұрын

Make Great Britain great again. Remember we used to have the greatest empire on earth. What are we now?

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

Washing our own dishes and proud to do so. Empires and slavery a thing of the past.

@John-kj7tv 3 ай бұрын

@@Kath-nd6pjthanks, primarily, to us.

@RoseSharon7777 3 ай бұрын

Colonialism is a bad idea of the past. They will all fail.

@tara1941 3 ай бұрын

YES and lets not FORGET that BORIS and his cronies in No 10 held booze parties while we were under house arrest, VOTE REFORM

@TonyFarrugiaStrongman 3 ай бұрын

NIGEL FOR PM

@tobylynch 3 ай бұрын

Remember he was Mr Brexit. And the benefits are higher prices and more crap.

@AUTO2420 2 ай бұрын

Go Go Farage! Vote REFORM UK Put the Great back into Britain 🇬🇧

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

IM WHITE....I CANNOT GET A JOB..OR A COUNCIL FLAT.

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

MAKE BRITAIN...GREAT AGAIN.

@tonyblighe5696 2 ай бұрын

23:30 Farage talks about lockdowns two and three.

@hlansbergen2294 2 ай бұрын

Brexit are the biggest mistake Farage!

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

TORY PARTY PUT UP TAXE S.

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

Sick of curupt police.

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

FLY THE ENGLISH FLAG.

@WilliamBell-t8k 3 ай бұрын

Actually, Brexit was Britain's greatest mistake. Bill

@frank834skinner3 3 ай бұрын

He has no plan, and he has no solutions to the problems he created. We got brexi How did that solve anything?

@professorplums722 3 ай бұрын

We didn't get Brexit due to woke EU luvies in Westminster who were entrusted to do the wishes of the people as instructed in the Ref result. If the EU was so great why do they have to threaten their members? Merkel caused Brexit, she opened the floodgates and then refused and compromise with Cameron. But hey, keep those blue star sunglasses on.

@ianrichardmorrissey6082 3 ай бұрын

I didn’t realize Farage spoke Swahili, waste of time talking to the unwashed mob.

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 ай бұрын

SICK OF WOKE.

@MariaLeonard-i4o 3 ай бұрын

I wish i could vote reform but unfortunately its not on our ballot paper , im gutted ,so i won't be voting for anybody i will void it first

@MichealHarris-il6zi 3 ай бұрын

Whaaaaat 😂 ?

@gdwlaw5549 3 ай бұрын

Vote LibDems !

@professorplums722 3 ай бұрын

Yes, I want vat reduced on toothpaste.

@djw8133 3 ай бұрын

Hi de Hi!

@keith8609 3 ай бұрын

It is easy to say that in hindsight

@trevaudio 3 ай бұрын

I believe this grifter is charging for his little rallies !!!

@professorplums722 3 ай бұрын

Well at least at his rallies there is no graffiti, damage, call for genocide or intimidation

@tipofthespear7182 3 ай бұрын

Another moronic Leftie losing it. Get used to it.

@andreafischer2026 3 ай бұрын

Nigel and Putler follow the Money

@eveeggleston7611 3 ай бұрын

Putler??????

@danielmcleanfisher 3 ай бұрын

So does your mum

@andreafischer2026 3 ай бұрын

@@danielmcleanfisher yes is clear Ivan

@Charlieb6308 3 ай бұрын

Starmer and the WEF

@professorplums722 3 ай бұрын

Starmer and Sharia, follow the burkhas

@ziko-freeman 3 ай бұрын

Good salesman , sold misery to the brits

@FatMonkeyUK 3 ай бұрын

Sold truth more like. We're all already miserable.

@ziko-freeman 3 ай бұрын

@@FatMonkeyUK was the brexit worth it?

@jeffhopson61 3 ай бұрын

Ziko spot on

@andrewcooper7340 3 ай бұрын

#ZEROSEATS

@user-sq7nk9us6f 3 ай бұрын

Farage has always been a dog whistle character. He thrives on it so attracts the like-minded, less subtle, but the similar. The last thing any decent country needs.

@EdWood2006 3 ай бұрын

Populist chancer!

@djdoolittle1315 3 ай бұрын

Just an ordinary fascist. Bless him 😊

@John-kj7tv 3 ай бұрын

What is fascism?

@Charlieb6308 3 ай бұрын

How is he a fascist? AHH I know he actually loves this country and wants to drain the swamp.

@professorplums722 3 ай бұрын

Leftards and their meaningless buzzwords. Bless them.

@julieclonan2427 3 ай бұрын

😂

@alst4817 3 ай бұрын

He’s right about lockdowns, but he’s still a grifter

@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 3 ай бұрын

I won't forget how Nigel was pro vax in unison with Blair. So opposing lockdowns is not convincing enough.

@jordanmcpartland897 3 ай бұрын

I love farage but the stop and search thing.... I carry cannabis daily not sure about that search mr farage

@ednammansfield8553 3 ай бұрын

I think that he was referring to the ever increasing knife crime and firearms more than drugs.

@tara1941 3 ай бұрын

As long as your not dealing then nothing to worry about, its part of my friends legal medication

@roberthudson3386 3 ай бұрын

The lockdowns saved lives - I don't agree with Farage on this one. The problem was we waited too long to lock down, meaning we missed the chance to contain COVID like some countries did.

@RoseSharon7777 3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@professorplums722 3 ай бұрын

Which countries contained Covid, China?

@Kath-nd6pj 3 ай бұрын

Does he think he can repeat his last performance. Come in with a bombastic speech. Create chaos then bugger off to his pal Trump in the USA and do bugger all towards implicating the political quandrum he has created. Sunderland can have him.. Leave Clacton alone.