Nigel Farage and Reform’s judgement is questionable - Yorkshire Post Letters

I wonder if Richard Tice MP, of the Reform Party, is still spending up to four days in some weeks visiting his girlfriend in Dubai. Air conditioning is essential there but will he find the Gulf States still attractive as they move towards sustainable electricity?

Would Reform's energy policy (Net Stupid Zero) be accepted there once sustainability becomes essential globally? Given the changes in climate that we are now all aware of we must soon start thinking of how to help our grandchildren. Or are many of us the generation that will be labelled the ‘Bombers’ rather than the Boomers?

Are we still unable to resist Reform's falsifications? Anne Widdecombe, a Reform stalwart, said "there's no such thing as climate change - just look out of the window". Tell that to our farmers whose crops suffer drought, flood and heatwave.

And to the many many thousands of UK open air workers who now face intolerable summer heat in part because of Reform's insistence that science is for the fairies. I've just tried a week of light work outdoors in France at around 34°c, soon to be a regular summer crisis in the UK. Wouldn't it be good to see the Reform frontbench try the same?

They use their energy ‘policy’, like so many other propositions, not to outline detailed changes but to sharpen anger and division in this country. That's in fact their major principle: divide and rule over sections of UK society.

Farage recently scored well on the 'Who cares about Truth' Monitor. Two tier policing? In fact Nigel is right, but in his George Orwell world he knowingly takes us for easy-to-manipulate fools. His ‘truth’ is upside down. Stats from the Children's Commission and the Government tell us that black kids are 8x more likely to be strip-searched than white kids, black adults are 3.8x more likely to be stopped in the street and although non-whites are 16 per cent of the population they make up 27 per cent of the prison population with longer than average sentences.

And on the Hatred Monitor he scored well with his insistence that we should all feel "pure cold rage" over the death of Henry Nowak.

Why not go full tilt and dig up the "rivers of blood" madness from Enoch Powell MP. Like Enoch, it's Elon Musk's idea that we face a civil war here shortly. Why doesn't Farage have the courage to put Elon in his place especially as Musk interfered in our politics in January '25 insisting that Nigel "doesn't have what it takes" to lead the UK.

This might be the only time when we agree with would-be dictator Musk.

Farage's adoration of all things American remains a full-blooded example of his lack of real patriotism. The President's achievements? Stealing from his poorer voters anything resembling medical support, destroying up to 14 million world citizens (Figure from the Lancet) by ending US Foreign Aid and ‘successfully’ bringing war chaos to the international oil and fertiliser trade while killing American soldiers and Gulf State civilians.

The motive for the war - to improve upon the international agreement that meant impressive limitations on Iranian nuclear plans. It had to be destroyed simply because it was the work of the US's only black President, Barack Obama. Is it impressive that Farage respects Donald Trump as "the bravest person I have ever met"? Nigel's other respected influencer is Vladimir Putin who now faces a stalling Russian economy as his "special military operation" in the Ukraine has come to a halt.

Given all of the above, is it the fag and the beer or the self-adulation that will finally make Farage the most suitable person to enter Number 10?