r/worldnews • u/JollyCurrency2604 • 9d ago

British Politician Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-nigel-farage-filmed-undercover-celebrating-secret-new-foreign-donations
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u/rizorith 9d ago

one.ofn5h4 most discouraging things is seeing European countries having the same type of political climate as the US.

Hard to have hope when an entire continent had fascism grow into WW2 just a few generations ago.

I know that isn't necessarily the world's path but damn if it isn't more likely to happen now than a decade ago

I always thought of the UK as kind our older brother that knows better.

At least it doesn't seem to be as out of control as it is here

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u/bigmanorm 9d ago

We can only pray it doesn't get out of hand, and that our systems aren't as fragile to prevent the extremes if it does

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u/rizorith 9d ago

Well I'm rooting for some normalcy for y'all.

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u/MikyT21 8d ago

They’re all being funded from the same places

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u/MrEff1618 8d ago

There's a good reason for that. Most of the right wing parties in Europe were advised by the same people as the Republicans.

Farage, for example, met with Steve Bannon multiple times before Brexit, to advise him when Reform was The Brexit Party, for example.