There’s little surprise that Ratcliffe and Farage harbour respect for each other. As well as both loathing immigration, Reform’s top donors use similar offshore arrangements, 75% of their funding comes from just three mega wealthy men with offshore ties.
“Environmental change doesn’t put us all in the same boat. It just worsens the storm you’re in.”
One thing is clear: Trump as Harvard material was always a stretch.
“Just beyond parody at this point.”
“Brexiter Tim Spoons wants to cut child benefits so someone can save £1 if they drink 20 pints in one of his pubs…”
Seguro’s victory was widely interpreted as a rebuke to the far right and a reaffirmation of Portugal’s democratic and constitutional traditions.
For a Union Jack-wrapping politician, who casts himself as the embodiment of national pride, being accused of admiring a tyrant who threatens European democracy, strikes at the heart of Farage’s brand.
The EU is not punishing the UK, it’s treating the UK as what it chose to become, a third country.
“WHAT FREEDOM? IT GAVE US NOTHING GAHHHHHHHH.”
The author argues the FT has shifted from a “candid elite forum” and the “best of the British free-thinking tradition,” to a “timid, risk-averse rag.”
