Nigel Farage was due to appear on Laura Kuenssberg this morning, but when the show started he was nowhere to be seen. Quite why this happened is unclear, but people have their suspicions:
Did Farage duck out because he doesn’t want to stand up to his gaffer (i.e. Trump)?
Or is something else going on?
As we’ve reported, Trump has been threatening to annex Greenland — a Danish territory. This is especially problematic because Denmark is a member of NATO, which is itself a Mafia-like protection racket run by the US. Obviously you can’t have a protection racket in which the protector robs from the protectees, and the NATO members are very upset about this turn of events.
In response to all this, several NATO countries are sending troops to Greenland to discourage the US from invading. This hope is that the force won’t have to fight, obviously, which is presumably why Keir Starmer chose to send the most embarrassing number of soldiers possible — one soldier.
In response to all this, Trump has dropped another round of tariffs on the European countries who are standing up to him:
This is obviously a problem for politicians like Nigel Farage. As much he’s has crowed about ‘sovereignty’, he’s about as sovereign from the US as Emu was from Rod Hull.
While Farage has spoken out against the tariffs, he’s done so in the sort of lily-livered fashion that you expect from Starmer:
Speaking on behalf of his boss, deputy Richard Tice said in the video above:
The president is completely wrong. I think we’re all utterly united, both here in UK, in the UK political scene, but also actually across all of the other NATO allies.
The fact that Reform are saying this shows they understand how deranged Trump’s moves are. At the same time, they understand that Tice saying this live on air will cause far less of a stir than Farage voicing the same opinion.
Let’s not kid ourselves, though; Tice also did what he could to defend Trump’s completely unjustified and nonsensical move:
I think what the president is most concerned about is the risk of particularly China, but also Russia, gaining an extra presence in and around Greenland, in the same way that he’s concerned about the risk of China in Venezuela. And I think that’s what’s primarily on his mind. He’s correct on that, but the approach in terms of the way that you work with your closest allies, all of your NATO allies, is clearly completely wrong.
The political establishment spends a lot of time talking about the threat of China, but the reality is that China is far too busy getting shit done to invade Greenland:
The Yankee Doodle Dipshits at GB News are shrieking about Greenland’s plentiful ‘rare earths’, but the truth is ‘rare earths’ are not rare; what’s rare is the ability to process them. China has that capacity; the rest of the world does not.
Simply having more rare earths changes nothing without spending decades investing in the ability to do something with them.
There’s also very little risk that Russia will invade Greenland given that Denmark is a NATO member.
There’s another theory as to why Farage ducked the interviews:
As we reported, Farage has been ‘ducking’ a one-to-one debate with Polanski. It’s not hard to see why, given that Polanski has proven to be ahead of the curve:
