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deminks

(11,015 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 06:34 AM Jun 2019

Nigel Farage - Russian asset?

Nige is the self-appointed Brexit liar in chief in GB. Corrupt to the bone. I have always suspected he was a courier for Pootey.
He met with el Trumpo while in England, and it was disclosed that one of the biggest deals on the Brexit table will be the privatization of the National Health Service. Chaos! which is Pootey's favorite weapon.

Mueller seeking more details on Nigel Farage, key Russia inquiry target says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/13/nigel-farage-mueller-russia-investigation-trump-latest-jerome-corsi-claim



Nigel Farage Faces Allegations Of Taking Russian Money

https://eutoday.net/news/politics/2019/nigel-farage-faces-allegations-of-taking-russian-money


Nigel Farage's Meetings With Donald Trump Funded by Brexit Campaign Millionaire Under Investigation Amid Russia Money Claims

https://www.newsweek.com/nigel-farage-trump-meeting-russia-money-1428859


How the 'Bad Boys of Brexit' forged ties with Russia and the Trump campaign and came under scrutiny

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-brexit-farage-russia-trump-campaign-20180628-story.html


Putin, Johnson and Farage will destroy us, warns EU chief

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/farage-and-russia-will-destroy-the-eu-says-brexit-negotiator-jwvhpk2p3

I could go on and on.

Anyone concerned that our Pretzeldente met with a suspected Russian Asset yesterday? Hmm? Crickets???

/rant off

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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
4. Course he is
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 07:16 AM
Jun 2019

On the bright side looks like he will not be able to take up his seat at the EU Parliament

malaise

(269,087 posts)
5. Never forget that during their first meeting the Con told Theresa
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 07:25 AM
Jun 2019

May that she should appoint him UK Ambassador to the US.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
6. tRump and FaRage are like-minded assets of...
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 07:35 AM
Jun 2019

an international cabal of virtually invisible divide-and-conquer plutocrats, for whom Putin is chairman of the board....

The job pays well and it gets you on TeeVee a lot, and cushy trips to dine with royalty.

OnDoutside

(19,962 posts)
7. I was just listening to James O'Brien and he made the valid point that Farage's big money backer,
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 07:45 AM
Jun 2019

Aaron Banks has made his millions out of Insurance, and Farage is VERY supportive of Trump's demand that the UK allow American Insurance companies to get into the UK, catering for the privatisation of the National Health Service in return for a UK-US Trade agreement. Banks would stand to make a fortune.

This is a dodgy one for Farage because the Brits are seriously attached to the NHS.

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
8. Putin's goal was / is to weaken the Western Alliance
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 07:50 AM
Jun 2019

He has succeeded with Farage and Trump as his handmaidens in that end. America will be paying for the Trump crime family for generations. Whether we resort to the Romanov solution remains to be seen. They said it couldn't happen here, but that was before the criminal Trump seized power with Putin's blessing.

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pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
12. Has there ever been any doubt?
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 08:37 AM
Jun 2019

I've thought Farage was a Russian Assent since he first hit our shores courting tRump. Now tRump is following in Farage's footsteps in Great Britain.

DFW

(54,414 posts)
13. German TV did a big expos on Farage's Russian financing a few months back
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 08:41 AM
Jun 2019

If it had been in English and shown on the BBC, I imagine the repercussions would have been greater.

The piece was thoroughly researched and in great detail, as I recall.

Historic NY

(37,451 posts)
14. How does the NHS land on the table?
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 09:04 AM
Jun 2019

And Jerome Corsi is the leading conspiracy theorist for Info Wars. It sounds like someone is trying to whip this up.

luvtheGWN

(1,336 posts)
16. It's on the table because
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 09:32 AM
Jun 2019

when asked yesterday at a press conference, Trump[ did not deny that it wasn't. He said "everything is on the table".

If whoever becomes the new PM ever, EVER even allows the NHS to be considered, the Conservative Party will definitely lose the next election.

luvtheGWN

(1,336 posts)
18. No, he didn't have a clue.
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 11:41 AM
Jun 2019

However, I just read this morning that he has since taken it back -- NHS is non-negotiable. I guess he heard from the saner Conservative MPs that they would lose BADLY (or BIGLY, your choice!) if they even considered allowing the beloved and revered National Health Service to be tampered with in any way, shape or form.

Some years ago, an orthopaedic doc with his own private clinics (for elective minor surgeries) in Vancouver mounted a media blitz to persuade the country that 2-tier healthcare should be instituted across Canada. IOW, there would be a mix of public and private hospitals, and doctors could choose where they wanted to practice. Of course the big fear was that all the excellent docs would choose private, and the supposed inferior docs (you know, the ones who graduate in the bottom half of their class..) would have to practice in the supposed inferior public hospitals. And if you wanted to be treated by a supposed excellent doc at a supposed superior private hospital, you would have to buy top of the line insurance.

Canadians were outraged by this idea with just under 90% of the population firmly against the idea in the polls conducted.

The UK does have a form of 2-tier. If you've heard of Harley Street docs, they are the ones (specialists) whose well-to-do patients do pay out of pocket. It's doubtful that these docs are actually any better than the ones whose patients are less than wealthy. But it's a class thing, as many things still are in the UK.

Lonestarblue

(10,024 posts)
15. I hope Brits truly understand what Trump's big trade deal actually means for them.
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 09:14 AM
Jun 2019

If the pro-Brexit folks get their way and GB crashes out of the EU, Trump will have them over a trade abyss. Trump has already complained that EU countries, including GB, refuse to import many US foods, including chickens that are fed antibiotics and washed in chemicals because they’re the nasty result of our factory farming system. Nor do many Europeans want our GMO foods full of Round-Up when they can buy clean, healthy products from smaller, well-regulated farms.

Allowing US insurance and drug companies access to the NHS offers huge profits and high drug/ medical costs for Brits, just as we pay here for lower quality healthcare.

Trump and Farage are both Putin’s puppets who care nothing about their countries. They are globalists who see making money as the sole purpose in life and the people who suffer as a result of their actions are just meaningless casualties in their quest for riches and power.

FakeNoose

(32,659 posts)
20. Why does Chump think he has anything to say about UK's health insurance?
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 11:49 AM
Jun 2019

This just astounds me that anyone would even listen to the orange asshole about ANYTHING!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
21. How many of those "private" phone calls are to Russian agents
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 11:50 AM
Jun 2019

or conduits to them and Putin? He often parrots messages from Russia, including some within hours of being first issued publicly.

Always concerned. And Russia is only one of several actively hostile enemy nations he traffics with.

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