2025: Kemi Badenoch, "I'll ban migrants who claim benefits from becoming UK citizens"
2017: Kemi Badenoch, "To all extents and purposes I'm a first generation immigrant.. Born in Wimbledon yes, but I grew up in Nigeria.. This is a land where a girl from Nigeria can move here aged 16, be accepted as British"
Badenoch's mother flew to the UK from Nigeria so she could be born her, get British citizenship, then flew back to Nigeria
Personally, I don't have an issue with that. What I do have an issue with is the leader of one of our political parties exploiting migrants as a cheap way to try and raise her profile, despite, in her own words, being a migrant herself
BREAKING NEWS‼️
Last night, 4 Swale Borough Councillors have defected to Reform UK! Let’s all welcome Cllr Richard Palmer, Cllr Christine Palmer, Cllr Lloyd Chapman, and Cllr Peter MacDonald.
Reform UK now has 5 councillors on Swale Borough Council! @ZiaYusufUK
Welcome Cathy.
Cllr Cathy Mason who represents the Carsic ward on Ashfield District Council has joined Reform UK this week to make the third Reform Councillor on the authority.
Cathy is actually the first Labour Councillor in the whole country to defect to Reform UK, although I suspect she will be the first of many. Like many others all over the country, Cathy has been let down by the Labour Party with their policies that are not helping people at all.
There are no longer any elected Labour representatives anywhere in Ashfield. In the last few months we've had local defections from Labour, the Tories, and the Ashfield Independents, which is proof that Reform UK has all the momentum in Ashfield.
Welcome to the People's Army, Cathy.
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@implausibleblog The manipulator of misinformation tries it on again! How you ask the question is simple.... who wants the UK to have a better trading deal with the EU.....YES or NO? This grifter is the one who said on 28 March 2017 if Brexit failed he would go abroad...Go on then....GO!
Emma Barnett, "More people in every constituency in England, Scotland and Wales back a closer relationship with the EU, rather than more transatlantic trade with the US"
Nigel Farage, "Depends how you ask the question"
Emma Barnett, "Well, you're quite a fan of opinion polls if they put Reform ahead of Conservatives and Labour"
Nigel Farage laughs and smirks
Emma Barnett, "I'm trying to understand from you how you will accept there are a lot of people in this country who want closer ties with the European Union, and it doesn't seem you can outline how you will accept that ideologically"
Nigel Farage, "We voted for Brexit, we voted to leave, that was very very clear. We can be friendly, we can be cooperative"
Emma Barnett, "What does that mean?"
Nigel Farage, "The deal negotiated by the Boris Johnson Conservative government was not a very good one, we can improve on that.. But the most important part is that we don't tie ourselves to.."
Emma Barnett, "You keep saying what we shouldn't do, but what is your vision Nigel Farage specifically?"
Nigel Farage, "We are a global trading nation, the European Union is diminishing every single year. And I keep hearing this stuff of what an important trading market it is"
"Every single year that goes by, it becomes smaller and smaller"
Emma Barnett, "What does being friendly mean? We're not mate sin a pub. What does being friendly mean, can you commit to something?"
Nigel Farage, "We can improve the deal"
Emma Barnett, "How?"
Nigel Farage, "By saying to them, we can make this easier for both of us, we can go back through, and we're up for a renegotiation anyway"
"My fear is that we tie ourselves to EU law, that we start to accept Single Market regulations"
Emma Barnett, "You're still not saying what.. You keep outlining your fears and what you don't like, but you're now an MP, you're the leader of a party, don't you need to say what we can do? What can that fisherman hear from you?"
Nigel Farage, "I'll tell you what we can do, we can do a free trade deal with the USA, we can look across the rest of the world, and we can also recognise that if we want to turn the economy around, the biggest problem isn't our overseas trade, it's the desperate lack of productivity in the UK"
"Yes of course the EU is an important market, no one's denying that for a moment. But with every year that goes by it becomes less important, let's think bigger"
Your reminder that staying outside the EU Single Market costs the UK over £100 billion every year in trade, trade that would benefit the UK and the EU
Or in easier to relate to terms, each person in the UK is currently about £2,000 worse off outside the EU, than we would be if we were in the EU
And it's a sad day for British politics, and our economy, when Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage are calling for the same thing, closer ties to the EU, but not being in the EU Single Market; which is the one thing that would supercharge growth for the UK economy
Labour lose major £450 million manufacturing investment by British firm AstraZeneca
No idea how to promote growth
Only @reformparty_uk will get Britain growing again
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@andreajenkyns People like you are like football managers who get sacked for being shit and immediately get another role which they are also shit at.
People of Lincolnshire beware
The British people are charitable but want fairness. They should not be at the back of the queue. At the heart of my manifesto, I will be prioritising the needs of local #Lincolnshire people, including our veterans.