Most of us disagree with almost anything Nigel Farage says. As a Paddy, I am totally pro-Europe.
But despite this, people like him are an essential part of the democratic process.
They are ‘disrupters’ who upset the cosy establishment. And it’s never been cosier.
Nigel gets things done. (Go on shoot me). Like Brexit and shaking up the far-too cosy banking system.
Johnson, Gove and the short-sighted Cummings claim the credit for Brexit.
But it was Nigel who got the ball rolling and, like pushing a car when it’s moving, it’s easy to keep it going. (I have personal knowledge of this as my early bangers all needed jump starts and I always parked on a hill.)
I was and am totally anti-Brexit and if Starmer his team had any policies, or even one solid policy, he would be brave enough to call a fresh referendum on rejoining.
Brexit – led by Farage – brought about the biggest economic upheaval of the century. Stopping small boats doesn’t count.
Although Nigel is on that case too.
Then we, as tax payers, decide to suspend his Coutts bank account. (The government still owns 43 percent of NatWest who own Coutts. Remember we, the people, are still government. Nobody showed me a draft of this document to suspend him.
Then the Dame Rose, CEO of NatWest goes to a dinner and sits beside a journalist from the Daily Telegraph. Over the rubber chicken, it slips out that Nigel is being de-banked.
Lady Rose is off to spend more time with her family and the head of Coutts is pursuing other interests. And the PR person who did the seating plan and essentially gave a three-hour open interview to a senior journalist should be looking in the Appointments Pages too.
But you may say that we have regulators. Like the FCA (stop laughing) who never seem to get anything done except make the lawyers richer.
It’s not regulators but disrupters we need. Revolutionaries who are not afraid of the establishment and not part of it. (Although I have trouble imagining Nigel in a Lenin hat.)
We may not like some of what they say but someone needs to risk the two-party state we’re living in.
Both Labour and the Conservatives’ 5-point plans (coincidence!) are almost ‘cut and paste’ of each other.
It’s all too cosy.
Bring on the revolution brothers and sisters.
Have a good weekend
Tom
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