Nigel Farage has attended a Donald Trump rally in the US (HERE) and apparently told the audience that he wouldn't vote for Hilary Clinton if you paid him. I don't think that should surprise us.
He also said Obama's intervention in the Brexit campaign didn't help David Cameron. Let us hope Farage's intervention on behalf of Trump has the same effect on Trump's campaign.
Him and Trump look like two cranks together on the same platform.
An article in the Guardian by Lucia Graves (HERE) says they are both playing the same game using bigotry and nationalism. I think it also has more than a tinge of racism. Someone said recently that the UK was becoming like Germany in the thirties with all of the nation's problems blamed on ethnic minorities or now the EU. A UN report (HERE) blames UK politicians (Farage mainly I think) for a spike in hate crimes in the UK after the vote.
Farage is like Trump a demolisher, not a builder. It takes real intellectual strength to build something but just hate and anger to destroy it and that is all they have.
An article in the Guardian by Lucia Graves (HERE) says they are both playing the same game using bigotry and nationalism. I think it also has more than a tinge of racism. Someone said recently that the UK was becoming like Germany in the thirties with all of the nation's problems blamed on ethnic minorities or now the EU. A UN report (HERE) blames UK politicians (Farage mainly I think) for a spike in hate crimes in the UK after the vote.
Farage is like Trump a demolisher, not a builder. It takes real intellectual strength to build something but just hate and anger to destroy it and that is all they have.
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