The common ground between Farage supporters and detractors - Yorkshire Post Letters

Concerning the Farage Phenomenon, there is common ground between his supporters and those who are suspicious of his methods and values. We all agree on the issues that need attention now.

An end to the threat of bloodshed on our streets and to the intolerable amassing of wealth by the hyper-rich in our societies (the top CEOs in the UK earn around 100x more than their employee average).

Much improvement to our health and care services needed and, to restore real pride, an end to interference from Musk, Trump and Putin. And a refusal that the temperatures experienced recently should be considered ‘normal’ and that our kids should somehow have to ‘deal’ with record temperatures perhaps 5° hotter than this by 2050.

Does Nigel share these aims? When the police horrifically mishandled the murder of Henry Nowak he said that we should feel "pure cold rage" but against whom? The police because it took them eight minutes to recognise that Henry had been stabbed?

Against Nigel's conjured creation of ‘two tier policing’ (it's the reverse: Black kids are 8x more likely to be strip-searched than white kids)?

The perpetrator was Sikh; rage against religion (apart from the religion of wealth)? Against Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnic people many of whom have lived here for three generations? Against people from those groups who work in the NHS - 29 per cent of the total workforce and 40 per cent of doctors and nurses? How to improve the NHS!

Rage against the 21 per cent of care workers who are BAME? And the number of 65 year olds is set to nearly double in just 40 years. What kind of care service will exist then if we ‘rage’ against so many dedicated carers who professionally support our elderly now?

And the current English Football Team is 50 per cent+ BAME. Should we ‘rage’ against them? Will Mr Farage’s hatred of community mean never a football cup? Should we tolerate his hate-based policies so that he can win back support from his former bro Elon Musk (wealthier than 48 per cent of the global population combined) who announced recently that Nigel can't cope and that UK civil war is imminent. Really?

What is Nigel going to do about inequality? He proposes introducing insurance into the NHS: wealthy Brits will pay in advance and get the best of a two-tier system while the rest of us get health crumbs.

And he rejects Bank of England ideas about Britcoin, a possible national cryptocurrency to benefit all of us, while still claiming that he has not been ‘bought’ by the cryptocurrency billionaire C. Harborne. Stop the national version and help a friend to expand his own version of the currency - Man of the People?

And his other bromance? Nigel still craves Trump's support: he visited the US ten times in the 16 months after becoming an MP hoping to burnish the connection. And a little more than a decade ago Farage was announcing admiration for Putin and appearing regularly on Russian TV. Absolutely no remaining smarm towards Moscow now?

Best of all, he is totally uninterested in the heat. He encourages Reform led councils to scrap climate targets and as recently as 2024 his policy was based on the assertion that "climate change has happened for millions of years" i.e. there's nothing to be done; we just roll over every summer to help the Oil Companies make even more profit. In his air-conditioned cocoon he has no concern for what the rest of us are experiencing.