Must watch: Trades Union Congress roasts Nigel Farage ahead of Reform UK conference
Basit Mahmood
“Nigel Farage isn’t a friend of the working class, he’s a fraud. A public school educated, private equity loving, NHS privatising, Putin apologist fraud.”
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has torn Nigel Farage to shreds for being a ‘fraud’ and ‘no friend of the working class’.
In a clip posted on the TUC’s social media channels yesterday, ahead of the Reform UK conference taking place today, the TUC’s General Secretary, Paul Nowak is filmed explaining why Farage is a ‘fraud’ and ‘Putin apologist’.
Nowak says: “Nigel Farage isn’t a friend of the working class, he’s a fraud. A public school educated, private equity loving, NHS privatising, Putin apologist fraud.”
Ahead of Reform's conference tomorrow, just a reminder.
Nigel Farage is a fraud. pic.twitter.com/RCtD3yibhf— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) September 19, 2024
Nowak goes on to explain how his grandad came to Britain with the Polish RA.F. and played his part in the fight against fascism and how in May he visited Kyiv to meet sister trade unions.
He explained: “I visited a power station raised to the ground by Russian rockets. I saw city apartment blocks destroyed by missile strikes, and I visited the children’s hospital in Kyiv, and met some of those at the sharp and very human end of war.
“People like Katja, 14 years old, who was wounded by the Russian shelling that killed her mother. Six weeks after my visit, Putin bombed that same children’s hospital, operating theatres wrecked, kids with cancer traumatised, doctors and nurses hunting through the rubble for their colleagues, so when I see Farage making excuses for Putin’s illegal and indefensible invasion of Ukraine, it turns my stomach.
“Congress I’ll say it again, the far-right hatemongers are no friends of the working class, they’re not patriots, they are frauds.”
Public reveal what they really think of Reform UK and it’s not good news for Nigel FarageBasit Mahmood
Yesterday
Left Foot Forward
Left Foot Forward
“Nigel Farage isn’t a friend of the working class, he’s a fraud. A public school educated, private equity loving, NHS privatising, Putin apologist fraud.”
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has torn Nigel Farage to shreds for being a ‘fraud’ and ‘no friend of the working class’.
In a clip posted on the TUC’s social media channels yesterday, ahead of the Reform UK conference taking place today, the TUC’s General Secretary, Paul Nowak is filmed explaining why Farage is a ‘fraud’ and ‘Putin apologist’.
Nowak says: “Nigel Farage isn’t a friend of the working class, he’s a fraud. A public school educated, private equity loving, NHS privatising, Putin apologist fraud.”
Ahead of Reform's conference tomorrow, just a reminder.
Nigel Farage is a fraud. pic.twitter.com/RCtD3yibhf— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) September 19, 2024
Nowak goes on to explain how his grandad came to Britain with the Polish RA.F. and played his part in the fight against fascism and how in May he visited Kyiv to meet sister trade unions.
He explained: “I visited a power station raised to the ground by Russian rockets. I saw city apartment blocks destroyed by missile strikes, and I visited the children’s hospital in Kyiv, and met some of those at the sharp and very human end of war.
“People like Katja, 14 years old, who was wounded by the Russian shelling that killed her mother. Six weeks after my visit, Putin bombed that same children’s hospital, operating theatres wrecked, kids with cancer traumatised, doctors and nurses hunting through the rubble for their colleagues, so when I see Farage making excuses for Putin’s illegal and indefensible invasion of Ukraine, it turns my stomach.
“Congress I’ll say it again, the far-right hatemongers are no friends of the working class, they’re not patriots, they are frauds.”
Basit Mahmood
Yesterday
Left Foot Forward
Yet more bad news for Farage
Yet more bad news for Farage
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With Reform UK’s conference underway, the public were asked what terms they would use to best describe the party.
The poll carried out by YouGov, found that the most popular term Britons prefer to use to describe Reform UK are ‘extremist’ (39%) and ‘should not be near power’ (39%), with ‘nasty’ (33%) being the next most popular.
It comes as Reform UK begins its conference today, with Nigel Farage expected to issue a “clarion call” to win the next general election.
The party, which secured five seats at this year’s general election, will begin its two-day conference in Birmingham with speeches from party leader Nigel Farage, deputy leader Richard Tice, chairman Zia Yousuf and MPs Lee Anderson, Rupert Lowe and James McMurdock.
Farage has barely paid attention to his constituents since being elected, jetting off to the U.S and cashing in on lucrative speaking invitations.
During the general election, it was revealed that a number of Reform candidates held extremist views, which included one candidate with links to a British fascist leader to another Reform candidate suggesting the UK should have remained neutral in the fight against the Nazis.
And given Farage’s own views and close associations to the likes of Donald Trump, it shouldn’t surprise us that the public view Reform as extremists.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Forward
With Reform UK’s conference underway, the public were asked what terms they would use to best describe the party.
The poll carried out by YouGov, found that the most popular term Britons prefer to use to describe Reform UK are ‘extremist’ (39%) and ‘should not be near power’ (39%), with ‘nasty’ (33%) being the next most popular.
It comes as Reform UK begins its conference today, with Nigel Farage expected to issue a “clarion call” to win the next general election.
The party, which secured five seats at this year’s general election, will begin its two-day conference in Birmingham with speeches from party leader Nigel Farage, deputy leader Richard Tice, chairman Zia Yousuf and MPs Lee Anderson, Rupert Lowe and James McMurdock.
Farage has barely paid attention to his constituents since being elected, jetting off to the U.S and cashing in on lucrative speaking invitations.
During the general election, it was revealed that a number of Reform candidates held extremist views, which included one candidate with links to a British fascist leader to another Reform candidate suggesting the UK should have remained neutral in the fight against the Nazis.
And given Farage’s own views and close associations to the likes of Donald Trump, it shouldn’t surprise us that the public view Reform as extremists.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Forward
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