What comes out of the mouth of Nigel Farage rarely accords with anything approaching reality.
He has been involved in a stunt for the Lincolnshire Mayoral Election on May 1st where he called for the Nationalisation of British Steel.
Both Farage and Tice were in the Commons for the emergency debate on British Steel on 12th April. Tice called for nationalisation. It might be reflected that both men certainly had other plans for Saturday lunch
In Europe parties that combine reactionary social policies with leftish economic ones are hardly unknown. The Farage owned political outfit Reform is not on that model.
Farage was condemned by the steel union Community whose out of date flyers he was posing with but it needs to be underlined that when Labour’s Employment Rights Bill was in the Commons a few weeks back the only MPs to oppose it were the Tories and Farage.
British Steel should be nationalised. Its both a principle and the pragmatic thing to do. Farage should not be anything to do with it and where his ideas gain an audience the left needs to be there opposing them
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