Posted on 08/13/2025 8:57:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
JD Vance, the vice president, sat down with Nigel Farage, a longtime supporter of President Trump whose party, Reform U.K., is leading in British polls.
Vice President JD Vance began his family vacation in England last Friday with a lightning round of carp fishing. He hasn’t slowed down since, taking part in conference calls about Ukraine, huddling with Britain’s foreign minister, David Lammy, and meeting fellow right-wing political figures.
On Wednesday morning, it was the turn of Nigel Farage, the leader of the insurgent, anti-immigrant party Reform U.K. He sat down with Mr. Vance, according to an official familiar with the vice president’s schedule, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he said this was a personal trip.
Mr. Farage confirmed the meeting, saying in a statement: “Good to catch up with my old friend JD Vance this morning. Everything we discussed remains confidential.”
Earlier, the official said, Mr. Vance met Robert Jenrick, a Conservative lawmaker who is viewed a rising force on the right flank of the Conservative Party. But he did not meet the party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, an omission that both sides chalked up to logistical hurdles.
“The vice president met with a number of people during his trip to the United Kingdom,” Mr. Vance’s press secretary, Taylor Van Kirk, said in a statement. “He specifically tried to see Kemi Badenoch — a friend of his — but a meeting was not possible due to their scheduling conflicts.”
The vice president’s office also declined to disclose what Mr. Vance and Mr. Farage talked about. But the two share common ground on issues like free-speech rights, which both have claimed are under threat in Britain. '
Mr. Jenrick, who endorsed President Trump before the American election, has likewise...
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“Populism” is just a scare word for “democracy.”
How often has the NYT called Democrats “far left” politicians.
The NYT uses the term “right-wing populist” with some kind of pejorative meaning or even as a bad thing altogether.
Hard to fit that mindset on any kind of equivalency with what I happen to believe is true, good and honest.
“The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
-Attributed to Ronald Reagan.
>>JD Vance, the vice president, sat down with Nigel Farage
It’s not often that the future POTUS and the future UK Prime Minister meet up. Hopefully, it was a productive meeting.
This breathless slander reads like the reporter never graduated fifth grade.
Oh my God, another right-wing populist. Their coming to get you, just like the invasion of the body snatchers.
You can just see Mark Landler, curled up in a fetal position, awaiting his fate from the right-wing take-over of the world.
PDJT is unquestionably popular.
He’s pretty far from right-wing, however.
“rightwing populism”
So the New York Times is admitting that the right wing is popular?
“Another Right-Wing Populist”
The NYT, the voice of the 12% crazies.
The rate that the nut uses left wing to describe politicians seems as if it should be measurab…
Measureable
Slimy headline from the NY Slimes.
That’s not attributed, that’s absolutely a Reagan quote. There’s plenty of video, it was said at a big event.
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