Posted on 08/23/2025 10:58:37 AM PDT by RandFan
Mass deportations. Prison camps. Quitting the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention on Torture.
A shrug of the shoulders at the idea of the UK sending asylum seekers back to places like Afghanistan or Eritrea, where they could be tortured or executed.
"I'm really sorry, but we can't be responsible for everything that happens in the whole of the world," says Nigel Farage.
"Who is our priority?"
The Reform UK leader has been setting out his party's new plans to address illegal migration in an interview with The Times newspaper - a set of policies, and a use of language, which would surely have been seen as extreme just a few years ago.
Only last autumn the Reform leader repeatedly shied away from the concept of "mass deportations", describing the idea as "a political impossibility".
But now he's embraced Trump-style immigration rhetoric.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
So would of Trump’s before 2015. It takes time to build a political consensus but it seems the Brit voters are moving in that direction
> Is he on the right track? <
It sure looks that way.
But if he doesn’t really mean it, Britain is lost. And if he does really mean it, the British Deep State will do all it can to keep Reform out of power.
Either way, it’s gonna be ugly.
Trump has helped but events in the UK themselves speak loud and clear.
Farage is also more like Tommy Robinson every day although Farage would probably deny it.
Farage knows he will not last long trying to thwart what Reform members want. The MPs who will be entering Parliament will be idealists who want mass deportations and all the rest and if Nigel Flakes, he will be no-confidenced out of power and replaced by someone who will, because unlike a US president who has an absolute mandate to stay in power for a whole term, a British Prime Minister must have the support of the majority in the House of Commons or they are gone that very day.
Some really good ideas.
They may need Tommy Robinson to be their PM.
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