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Brexiters turn their backs on Donald Trump after Iran chaos Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch distance themselves from the US president, having once celebrated his example
Financial times ^ | Apr 12 2026 | Lucy Fisher

Posted on 04/16/2026 3:53:43 AM PDT by Cronos

On Friday Nigel Farage sought to minimise his personal relationship with Trump. “I happen to know him, but that’s by the by,” said the Reform UK leader.

Farage told the FT the bilateral partnership was “our most important relationship in the world . . . whether it’s [Joe] Biden in the White House or Trump.” Last year he said he hoped to become prime minister “quickly while Donald Trump is still in office.”

Lord David Frost, the UK’s former Brexit negotiator, made an even more dramatic shift this week.

The Conservative peer, who once welcomed Trump’s re-election as the “first great victory” of national conservatism, admitted that he had harboured high hopes for the president’s political and economic strategy.

Yet Trump has shown himself “heedless” of the moral element of leadership and “undeserving of support”, Frost said in an article for The Daily Telegraph. “A moral line has to be drawn somewhere and this week Trump went beyond it.”

Others to distance themselves from Trump include the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who in recent weeks has hit out at Trump’s “childish” repeated criticisms of Sir Keir Starmer.

In February last year she hailed Trump’s return to the Oval Office as “showing that sometimes you need that first stint in government to spot the problems, but it’s the second time around when you really know how to fix them.”

(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: andtdscultistsin321; cartersfolly; carterslegacy; euroweenies; labourin4th; openborders; reformuk; untiedkingdom

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1 posted on 04/16/2026 3:53:43 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

1st it is the Finical Times so of course take it with a grain of salt, it is mostly going to be leftists’ propaganda

2nd it is the UK and nearly ALL politicians there, left and right are feckless limp-wristed wonders cowering to the religion of pieces masses, so ya, expect cowardly behavior.


2 posted on 04/16/2026 3:56:31 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: Cronos

As Elon Musk noted a while ago, Nigel is not the guy. He’s the Establishment’s last defender. He won’t rid Britain of the 3rd world scum and especially Muslims which is needed to save the country.

The man who would actually save Britain is Rupert Lowe.


3 posted on 04/16/2026 4:00:24 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Skwor

The UK has become irrelevant, hasn’t it?


4 posted on 04/16/2026 4:01:53 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Cronos

We’ve had 47 years of Iran Chaos. The Trump Administration is finally bringing it to heel.


5 posted on 04/16/2026 4:04:10 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Skwor

Good call...

https://www.ft.com/lucy-fisher


6 posted on 04/16/2026 4:05:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: Cronos

“Financial Times” == “British honeybucket”


7 posted on 04/16/2026 4:07:29 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Cronos

Good, maybe now they stand on their own two feet.


8 posted on 04/16/2026 4:07:41 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Theophilus

>> We’ve had 47 years of Iran Chaos. The Trump Administration is finally bringing it to heel.

^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^


9 posted on 04/16/2026 4:09:13 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Theophilus; All

Too hot in the kitchen? Well...better step away!


10 posted on 04/16/2026 4:15:00 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: FLT-bird

Correct. I’m following him on X.


11 posted on 04/16/2026 4:16:53 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est in )
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To: Cronos

Chaos? Ok.


12 posted on 04/16/2026 4:34:52 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: Cronos

“Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.”

Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., August 12, 1919

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/04/nato-head-coming-to-washington-dc-as-germany-passes-law-requiring-17-to-45-year-old-men-to-get-govt-permission-for-travel/#comments


13 posted on 04/16/2026 4:39:27 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The German ranter was serious, and so are the Iranian “death to America” ranters.

The time to have stopped Hitler wasn’t August 30th, 1939.

The time that matters is when the kicking the can down the road can no longer be tolerated.


14 posted on 04/16/2026 4:44:28 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Cronos

They also remember the complete lie we were sold in the last foray into the region.


15 posted on 04/16/2026 4:52:00 AM PDT by nonliberal (Pinochet did nothing wrong.)
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For almost 50 years we have had terrorist attacks, death threats, put up with their lies and nuclear weapons development, antisemitism, and actually gave them plane loads of cash thanks to idiots in control, and where did that get us? Peaceful nuclear development for energy does not require highly enriched uranium. They had other things in mind. So, finally we have a leader who says enough is enough and puts an end to their barbarism. Elitist cowards always show their colors. Europeans can suck on rotten eggs, and screw NATO.


16 posted on 04/16/2026 5:02:40 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: FLT-bird

“As Elon Musk noted a while ago, Nigel is not the guy. He’s the Establishment’s last defender. He won’t rid Britain of the 3rd world scum and especially Muslims which is needed to save the country. The man who would actually save Britain is Rupert Lowe.”

Absolutely correct.


17 posted on 04/16/2026 5:08:08 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: Omnivore-Dan

For almost 50 years we have had terrorist attacks, death threats, put up with their lies and nuclear weapons development, antisemitism, and actually gave them plane loads of cash thanks to idiots in control, and where did that get us? Peaceful nuclear development for energy does not require highly enriched uranium. They had other things in mind. So, finally we have a leader who says enough is enough and puts an end to their barbarism. Elitist cowards always show their colors. Europeans can suck on rotten eggs, and screw NATO.
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Yes.


18 posted on 04/16/2026 5:13:55 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: Cronos

England will be over and done in short order.
Just a northern territory of the new European Caliphate.

I don’t give a shiiite.


19 posted on 04/16/2026 5:25:00 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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Likely these brits are trying to position themselves to not have their heads lopped-off in moozlum britain. Best of luck with that.


20 posted on 04/16/2026 5:35:33 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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