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Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 56 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine being such a pathetic bottom feeder that your best move is to publicly deepthroat a dictator's boot for attention...

[–] rimu@piefed.social 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He's a Kremlin asset, no doubt about it.

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That wouldn't surprise me at all, but the sad reality is he could just as easily be a self promoting power hungry bigoted piece of shit capitalising on (and actively contributing to) the rise of fascism to get ahead all on his own. We really don't need the Kremlin to produce such turds, it's not like Westminster (E: and the establishment as a whole) isn't already full of exactly that type of person...

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 8 points 5 months ago

What else is a career politician going to do? Join the work force?

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Imagine after an invasion of England someone said to him "you should rethink your goal of trying to reclaim London and Yorkshire"

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago

Well yeah They can keep London

[+] ianovic69@feddit.uk 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] kingorgg@feddit.uk 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you use the voyager app, you can go to settings > filters and blocks, then add a keyword to filter out anything containing "Farage".

It should help with not seeing his mug and stories everywhere.

If you don't use it, try looking in your app's settings to see if there is something similar.

Hope that helps somewhat. 🙂

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

But then you might miss out on some joyous news when someone finally gives him more than just a milkshaking. We can live in hope.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

I this k expecting less politics around a snap election in discission forums is not going to happen. Yes, it can get tiring, but its also necessary that we discuss politics as part of normal life.

If we discussed it more honestly and openly with reference to history, wed all be better off whatever your political persuasion .

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Obvious russian agent, just like AfD politicians in Germany

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 13 points 5 months ago

A real follow the money situation

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 13 points 5 months ago

What a cretin.

[–] CritFail@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Twat is too nice a word for this malodorous leaky sack of fox shit.

[–] FatLegTed@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey! Why give the foxes a hard time?

[–] david@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

Well, the shit of foxes, but yeah, bit unfair that.

With fox shit, you can put it in the bin and never see it again, but Farage is more of a stinky, greasy, smearing, permanently unflushable turd that's been hanging about in the loo for decades. Every so often you think he's gone away, but it turns out he was just lurking the other side of the u bend and pops back again.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Fuck off and die

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 5 points 5 months ago

Either you get current looters or you got a Russian plant...

UK choices looking about as good as the US lol

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 5 points 5 months ago

In other news, Fred Bloggs from Bournemouth has been on the phone to the White House telling Joe Biden to stop using toilet paper.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Nigel Farage has urged the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to seek a peace deal with Russia, “otherwise there will be no young men left in Ukraine”.

The Reform UK leader, who has been criticised for suggesting the west provoked Russian aggression against Ukraine, said it was time for Zelenskiy to rethink his goal of reclaiming all territory lost to Vladimir Putin’s invasion, as he believes such a mission is going to be “incredibly difficult”.

Farage made his latest intervention on the Ukraine war while speaking to journalists from the Times and the Daily Mail on a trip to the Channel to highlight the number of small boat crossings.

“War is not about as it were punishing or in some way running over thousands of young men in tanks and blowing them up because one person takes points of view which you disagree with,” Malins told a local hustings in Salisbury on Sunday, before he was booed.

Skripal and his daughter survived the attack but at the end of June 2018 a Wiltshire woman, Dawn Sturgess, and her partner, Charlie Rowley, were poisoned in Amesbury, eight miles north of Salisbury.

“His Majesty’s Daily Mail, who have decided that I am one of the worst people that’s ever been born, not for the first time, just because I got up over 10 years ago and said that I felt the eastward expansion of Nato and the European Union would be used by a dangerous dictator as a reason to go to war.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

At least we can know Putin’s strategic goals by what his mouthpieces are reciting.