Farage Plans Flop as No One Bites... | Trending Ep370

Nigel Farage resigns, triggering a by-election which other parties are refusing to take part in currently. Over 80 missiles rain down on Iran in the latest US escalation. NATO is plotting new ways to kill people ahead of its latest summit. The NHS goes full woke, punishing their own nurse who was only doing her job while being abused by her patient.

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Faraj resigns, the Iran war seems to be back on, more money for Ukraine, more missiles to kill more people, and the NHS even more woke than it was before. That plus more on this morning's show. Okay, good morning everybody, and welcome to Wednesday's episode of Trending. Well, Nigel Farage has been in relatively hot water in the last few days. There's been a lot of questions over funding that's gone to him, whether he uh should have declared it, whether he didn't declare it, whether it was a gift, whether it was lobbying, whatever it might be. We we covered that earlier in the week. Same kind of corruption, slash backhanders, slash secrets, and money given for whatever that all politicians seem to go through. So kind of diffuses the whole point that Farage is this alternative, which, as I said, I think on Monday, that more and more people seem now to be seeing, which is great news. More and more people have had the bubble burst that this man is anything other than another politician claiming to be something he's not. But yesterday in the afternoon, he resigned as MP for Clacton on C, which triggered a by-election. So the seat becomes vacant essentially, and everyone fights for it once again. We saw that in Makerfield, that's what allowed Andy Burnham to get the MP seat, and therefore the Labour leadership. We saw the same in Galston and Denton a few months ago as well, where Hannah Spencer took the seat for the Green Party. There's a difference though. He's resigned, but then said he wants the people of Clacton to be the judges of his actions as to whether they re-elect him. So he will stand in said by election. Now you have to say it's it's quite a clever decision to do because what it will do is it will put essentially the argument of what he's done back to the voters. And should he then be re-elected, he can go, well, the people that matter, the people whose judgment and opinion on me matter, they've chosen to put me back here, so that's the end of it. Well, it's not quite worked out as I think he thought it would. This morning, the Labour Party, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party, and Restore Britain have all ruled out contesting the by-election. They've all ruled out having other candidates from their parties stand against Farage. So what that will mean is that Farage will essentially stand for reform against probably a couple of independents potentially. So no one with any real chance of winning, you wouldn't have thought, which makes the by-election a bit of a sham, really. It makes it a bit of a circus if those other parties don't contest it, because he will inevitably win, but he won't necessarily win because he's actually won or done anything or been in a genuine fight to win. He'll just win by default, which will diffuse and diminish what he has tried to achieve with this resignation. What he's clearly tried to achieve is like a blank canvas of I'm gonna let these people judge me. And if they decide that I'm worthy of this position, that's the end of this conversation. I'll be judged by them, not Sky News. That was one of his lines in his resignation speech. But this has really diffused and taken that power away because he's not got to win this election now, really. He's just got to put his name on the ballot, and that's that's pretty much him back in power. So, what this will do, this election, is basically nothing. It won't achieve anything, it won't give any answers, it won't put forward any questions, it will just be essentially a waste of taxpayers' money to host an election, to do the count, to have all the coverage of it and all of that. The Liberal Democrats, um, the leader Ed Davy have urged the government to block Farage's resignation until the standards investigation has concluded, which you could argue that's right, because they say they want to um give the constituents of Clacton all the facts about this situation involving Farage before they go to vote. That's I think that's a fair argument. Obviously, probably not coming from a good position from the Liberal Democrats, it's probably coming from political point scoring, but the moral of that point I think is right. Um, Conservative leader Kemi Badenok has said her party will not continue with this fake election, which Farage is using to distract people from what really happened. I think that's probably right as well. Um, and the Labour Party have called this a circus and said that Farage is desperately trying to change the subject and said that the Labour Party is not going to indulge it. Farage should let the parliamentary investigations into his finances run its course and face the consequences. I think that's probably I think that's probably correct. Um and Restore Britain MP and leader Rupert Lowe has said that he will only stand, or a Rit Store candidate will only stand if there's a by-election triggered by the standards community rather than one being triggered by Farage himself in his resignation, which again I think there's there's something interesting to say there. Now, the Green Party have said that they won't be standing uh an MP or a candidate, which I think is irrelevant anyway. If Nigel Farage is the current MP, I don't see them going full swing to the other end of voting for a Green MP. So really, restore conservatives and and um reform are the three that you would expect if there was a by-election to battle out for Clacton. But I think this this kind of brings on onto the the main subject of this, which is that Farage is just like the rest of them. And we discussed it on Monday where we were talking about the fact that he was kind of lauded as this British Trump, this saviour, this godlike figure, anti-establishment, the man you could trust, the man who was going to stand up against the deep state, he was gonna change the status quo, things were gonna get better. Well, I think he's highlighted so many times over the years that he's on the wrong side of history. He's somebody that goes with the wind. He's somebody that will stand up for what is right when it's acceptable for him to do so, not when it's unpopular to do so, not when it's dangerous, not when it's bold to do so. And I don't want someone like that in a position of authority. Because what they'll do, like Trump's done, is they will caveat, they will bait and switch, and they will make it look like they've been on your side the whole time, when in truth they're very much against you when it really, really matters. And Farage has got a long string of offences, if you like, in that area where he has been on the wrong side of the debate when it's been pivotal for somebody with a voice to be on the right side of the debate, on humanity's side of the debate. So I'm very happy to see this bubble being burst. Now, is this going to change too much? There's still fake politicians, there's still owned politicians, and the two major parties are still well, I say one major party. Now the Conservatives aren't really a major partner anymore, are they? But the major party being the Labour Party, because people don't trust them, there's a skepticism, there's a suspicion about anything they do. And Burnham coming in completely unelected by the population of the country just again reaffirms this sham that we live in any form of democracy. That's another nail in the coffin for a lot of people when it comes to their opinions of politics. I see that as a positive thing. And also, as I've said, when people get a position of power on the basis that they're the saviour, on the basis that they're different, on the basis that they're working for the people. Like Farage's line yesterday was, if I win this, then you win. And if they win, you lose, basically. Well, who are they and who are you? You're both part of the same thing, mate. You're both establishment figures. You're both owned and controlled by the very same people in the background. You might change your rhetoric, you might change your delivery, you might change the uh audience you're appealing to, but ultimately you answer to the same masters, mate. So this whole concept that you're different, that you're going to stand up for the people, is just bollocks. It's complete lies. And it's very, very comforting to see that people have seen through that in this country significantly quicker than the majority of people saw through Donald Trump in the United States. Most people took forever to see that. A lot of people are still doubling and tripling down on the fact that that man is their savior. They're refusing to acknowledge what is right in front of their eyes. Well, over here, there is, of course, still people that will absolutely vehemently support reform and Farage because they see it as the only alternative, see it as the only outlet. But more and more and more people that would have supported him would have seen that as the anti-establishment vote, would have seen that as the protest vote, if you like. Now they've seen through it. Now they've seen through the facade that this man is anything other than another system-serving politician with a role, with a remit to carry out, which is to further an agenda not for the betterment or benefit of the people. Simple as that. And it's really refreshing to see the f the the response to what's happened in the last few days, or the last 24 hours in particular, where people who've said, you know what, I voted for him, or I voted for reform, and I've now seen through that this is complete. BS, it's the only time I voted in the last 20 years because it gave me what I thought was an opportunity to vote for somebody. I've seen so many comments like that. And people have very quickly gone, you know what, I got it wrong. And they've exposed themselves, which for me is really refreshing because admitting you're wrong is not weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength because we all want to believe that there's something coming to help us, make life a lot easier. We all want to believe that there's something positive, and we all want to believe in somebody and in something. Doubling down when it's clear that isn't working, or doubling down when it's clear what you were presented with isn't the reality of the situation. That's weak. Strength is going, you know what? Actually, I saw it this way, now I don't based on no information. So let's think a little bit differently. To me, that is ultimate strength. And it's great to see that in the UK people have reacted a bit differently to how they did in the US when it comes to this subject. Right, thank you very much for joining with me. If you're watching on YouTube or Twitter, if you head over to iconic.com for the remainder of the episode, we're going to talk about the stray of Hormuz, we're going to talk about NATO's next summit, and we're going to talk about the wokeness of the NHS, which I'm sure won't surprise you, but even this story baffles. See you there.

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