UK must ‘roll out the red carpet’ for Trump, Farage says
The UK needs to “roll out the red carpet” for Donald Trump following the US election, Nigel Farage has said.
The leader of Reform UK has said the British government needs to do everything it can to welcome Mr Trump and negotiate a trade deal, at the party’s conference in Newport, Wales on Friday.
Mr Farage was speaking after returning from a trip from the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he celebrated Mr Trump’s election win.
Speaking to the PA news agency at the Reform UK Welsh conference on Friday, he said: “Roll out the red carpet, that’s what they’ve got to do (to build bridges).
“I’m pleased to say that the speaker of the House of Commons has made a start by inviting Donald Trump to come and address both Houses of Parliament.
“It’s a big improvement on speaker Bercow before, who banned him from the premises.
“Whether you like Trump or not, this is the important point that in terms of intelligence sharing, in terms of defence, in terms of investment, in terms of trade, America is our most important relationship.”
GB News has reported that Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House of Commons, will not be blocking a visit by Mr Trump, but it is not clear if he has offered Mr Trump a visit.
Mendable
Mr Farage insisted the UK-US relationship was “mendable”.
“(The) most important thing will be the tariff regime,” he said.
“He’s talking about putting a 10% tariff on all goods that are being sent to America, and we’ve got to start negotiating fast to make sure we’re not part of that.”
The US election was a key talking point during the conference, with people wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ clothing, and many speakers raising it as an issue.
Matt Goodwin, a right-wing commentator and former university academic, told the conference the Reform movement represents the “forgotten majority” like Mr Trump does in America.
Mr Farage said he has offered to help Labour “mend some fences” between the UK Government and the president-elect.
‘Neo-nazi’
It follows David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, receiving criticism for his previous comments branding Mr Trump a “neo-nazi”.
But Mr Farage said the president-elect is a “far more forgiving figure than many people think,” with Mr Trump having chosen JD Vance – who previously criticised him – as his pick for vice president.
He also defended his trip to America and his presence in his Clacton constituency, saying: “I’m moving there, what more do you want?”
Mr Farage insisted he could not hold in-person surgeries in Clacton, calling it “too risky”.
“Other MPs aren’t Nigel Farage, other MPs don’t have constant death threats – it’s a different kettle of fish – and David Amess in Essex, just down the road, was murdered just a few short years ago,” he said.
The conference follows a Survation poll, which suggests the party is polling ahead of the Conservatives in Wales and just behind Plaid Cymru.
The survey of 2006 people showed 20% would back the party at the next Senedd elections, with Labour on 30%, Plaid on 21% and the Tories on 17%.
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His motives have never been to represent democracy, but a driving hatred of others wherever he’s permitted.
Indeed. If he’s back this side of the pond, he should get on with his now bulging postbag. I suspect he’ll only reply to those paying homage to his master Don who, we are told, got elected on bread and butter issues which tells Nige that he should do the same for his constituents instead of genuflecting to his ‘God’.
Long ago, back in the early 1980s, I once visited Clacton. Jaywick, one of Clacton’s peripheral areas, especially sticks in my mind. A dilapidated shanty town full of decaying single-story shacks. England’s equivalent of West Virginia – I’ve never seen a place even remotely like it anywhere else in Britain. Not to be forgotten.
Perhaps not that surprising that the voter psychology of Jaywick matches the voter psychology of West Virginia?
Hmm. This the farage that constantly bangs on about the criminals coming here in boats but is quite happy to invite a multiple felon (in a court) and guilty of sexual abuse (in a court) and self confessed sex pest (on tape) who also tried to pay off a porn star (court case) and stashed state secrets in his downstairs lav? What do we make of farages morals then, brushed under the carpet when his ego may get a stroke from the donald?
I miss Bercow. He could tell a wrong un apart from the crowd.
While you had good go at our Donald we are keeping a more sinister man in our very own Prince Andrew in luxury as he has no role to play in duties he free to what ever he likes at the tax payers expense
I will have a go at him as well. I see no need for any of them at any level in the UK today, Cornwall is basically Son No1 piggy bank and Lancaster is HRH swag bag (excluding the tax free swap of goodies when Queen Liz passed away and all the loot form holdings etc.). Pay them off, reclaim culturally important residences and items and ship Andy off to the US to face trial. But on the point of sinister, I would look at all the other cases that were lining up to crash into donny had he lost.… Read more »
Why don’t we roll out the red carpet for Putin and Kim Jong Un as well? Brexiteers harp on about Sovereignty and Self-determination but they want us to be subservient partners to America.
What happened the last time we listened to Farage – Brexit. Sadly, the problem is people still listen to this charlatan regardless, just as they do with the orange felon. What progressives need to do is create constructive, non divisive solutions to the populist fear mongering. When people start to feel safer and better off again – populists like Farage and Trump will be banished back to the side line of politics where they belong.
‘The UK needs to “roll out the red carpet” for Donald Trump following the US election, Nigel Farage has said.’
Recalling the late Mandy Rice-Davies from the early ’60s, ‘Well, he would, wouldn’t he?!’
Protectionist Don has Elon now so doesn’t need Globalist Nige anymore. Sad to watch him desperately trying to weasel back in.
Farage should in Clacton and represent his constituency. He c will never speak in my name.
Trump should be banned from the UK as he his a terrorist.
Instead of interfering in politics in the United States and Wales, maybe he should start interfering in politics in Clacton.
Maybe not the red carpet, but maybe refrain from members of the government calling him names!
We need to remember Dangerous Don’s objective which is to make the US independent of other countries. The ONS reports that the UK has a moderate trade surplus with the US so what he will be wanting is to see that disappear. He has behind him the US farm industry that wishes to sell chicken products from low welfare chicken operations, low welfare beef, vast amounts of the adictive high fructose corn syrup and particularly dangerous are the US medical/pharma industry who are keen to see the NHS dismantled and sold to them at knock down prices. Thus any trade… Read more »
Red carpet?
I don’t think so.
Declaring him persona non grata is more appropriate for the ethically and morally devoid disgraced present president-elect of the United States, former 45th president, insurrectionist, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual predator, business fraudster, congenital liar and golf cheat.