Trump and Farage!
Together at last....
So Trump has called upon the saviour of Britain to campaign for him.
Nigel Farage was one of the key people in the Brexit movement. Up until a few weeks ago he was also the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). UKIP’s main goal was to get the UK out of the EU. They have succeeded.
The leave campaigns tactics were simple. Blame foreigners for clogging up and consuming domestic public services. Claim that expelling foreigners would bring back billions to the domestic economy and, of course, putting Britain first. They're entire campaign can be summed up in this poster.
P.S. Those people were refugees escaping the civil war in Syria.
His campaign ,Leave.eu,claimed that the EU was costing the UK nearly £16bn per year and that money could be spent on public service like "the NHS, education, or housing". Other campaigns went even further and claimed that the EU costs the UK £350 million a day. VoteLeave.eu put out a very controversial ad about the subject.
Both campaigns had the same, clear message; vote leave and the NHS would AUTOMATICALLY get hundreds of millions of pounds per day.
To promise £350 million per day was the same as promising a new hospital every day for a year.
In British politics there is only one sacred cow; the National Health Service. It provides free or, almost free, healthcare to every person in the UK. The health service is administered differently in the various nations of the UK.
Here's a picture of the NHS being honoured at the 2012 London Olympics.
As we all know, on the 23rd of June the UK voted to leave the EU. That vote was pushed over the line by voters in England. London, Scotland, and Northern Ireland all voted to remain.Immigration and a perception that English public services were under threat by immigrants won the day.
In the wake of the vote Nigel Farage was there gloating in victory as stock markets and currency prices plummeted. On the morning of the 24th he was asked one simple question, “Will the NHS get the £350 million that was promised?” His response? “I never promised that.”
Fun Fact 2
HE actually said something much worse.
On 9 June on BBC's Question Time, Mr Farage was debating against remain campaigners. He made the claim and went even further to say that, “Can we just get to the truth of this - £350 million a week is wrong, it’s higher than that,FACT – absolute fact – from the official statistics cross-checked from the EU: we pay £55 million a day as a contribution. Some of that is the rebate which doesn’t go but our gross contribution is £55 million a day.”
“We should spend that money here, in our own country, on our own people,”
HOWEVER, on the morning of the 24th of June he simply disowned the claim and just like that the great con was unveiled. The leave campaigns dropped the most incendiary and important claim that could be made and pretends like it never existed.
This is the person that Trump has allowed to have on stage with him. A race baiting, loud mouthed xenophobe who played the country for fools and now they are living with the consequences as he gallivants around the world basking in his victory.
Nigel Farage and the leave campaigns played to the base fears of the populous. Blaming a bogeyman that could not defend itself. Claiming that voting leave would score a victory for the ignored and unrepresented but,in reality he and his ilk have left this country in turmoil.
It's been 63 days since the referendum and we’ve still got no plan.
Nigel Farage was the person that was riling up the emotions of the people of Mississippi yesterday. Playing to their basest fears and whipping them into a frenzy or, what Trump is trying to do everyday.
Just remember that when Nigel got what he wanted. He left other to clean up the mess.
While Trump cannot simply leave after the election he can check out.
Trump is good a evoking the emotions of the people but does he really have what it takes to stay checked in mentally for four or, god forbid, eight years? Or will he just check out and wait for his next conquest?
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