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Reform UK, Nigel Farage, and Elon Musk (E311)

2025/2/14
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#politics and government#social activism#social justice#political activism#political and social commentary#political analysis and commentary People
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Annie Kelly
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Jake Rakitansky
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Joe Mulhall
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Julian Fields
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Lee Anderson
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Nigel Farage
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Richard Tice
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Stephen Bush
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Tommy Robinson
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Travis View
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@Annie Kelly : 本期节目深入探讨了英国改革党及其与极右翼人物的关系,揭示了该党在移民、文化战争等问题上的立场,以及其领导人奈杰尔·法拉奇的政治策略。我分析了该党如何利用社会问题和公众情绪来扩大影响力,并探讨了其政策可能对英国社会产生的影响。同时,我也关注了埃隆·马斯克对英国政治的干预,以及他对极右翼人物汤米·罗宾逊的支持,这些都为英国政治带来了新的变数。 @Nigel Farage : 我一直致力于推动英国的独立和改革,并坚决反对极端主义。我领导的英国改革党欢迎同情我们理念的人,但不欢迎那些持有极端观点的人。我致力于维护英国的文化和价值观,并为英国人民争取更好的生活。我与埃隆·马斯克的合作是为了学习他的科技和选举策略,以便更好地为英国人民服务。虽然我与马斯克在某些问题上存在分歧,但我仍然尊重他,并愿意与他保持合作。 @Joe Mulhall : 英国改革党的支持者分为两类:富裕的和贫困的。法拉奇的经济政策实际上是自由主义的,这与许多贫困支持者的诉求相悖。法拉奇试图与汤米·罗宾逊划清界限,但这导致了改革党内部的分裂。马斯克对罗宾逊的支持对改革党造成了打击,但也为法拉奇提供了一个机会,让他强调自己是温和派。我们需要揭露改革党的真实面目,并推动政府解决社会问题,才能有效地对抗极右翼势力。 @Richard Tice : 太多人认为改革党的选票是浪费,但我们正在证明它不是。你必须在房间里才能参与交易,你必须在选票上才能产生影响。通过参与,你可以获得一些好处,自选举以来,我们的势头非常显著。我们正在成为主流,人们在经济上和生活质量上都感到更加贫困。 @Lee Anderson : 我想要回我的国家,我希望我的学校像以前一样,孩子们可以学习阅读、写作和数学。我希望能够早上给医生打电话,当天就能预约,我希望我的选民能够当天去看牙医,拔掉牙齿或接受治疗。我希望警察在街上巡逻,强奸犯和罪犯被关起来,杀人犯被判处终身监禁。

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This chapter introduces the Reform UK party and its leaders, Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson, highlighting their contrasting backgrounds and the concerns about their growing influence in UK politics.
  • Reform UK is a political party in the U.K.
  • Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are its prominent figures.
  • Their backgrounds are vastly different, but both are seen as far-right.

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Take a break from hearing about Elon Musk’s pernicious influence in U.S. politics to learn about Elon Musk’s pernicious influence in U.K. politics. Annie Kelly brings us an update on the state of the far right across the pond. Specifically, we learn about political party Reform UK, and its relationship to the UK’s two most prominent far-right figures. Those figures are: Nigel Farage - Mr Brexit himself and Reform’s leader, and Tommy Robinson, the perpetually re-imprisoned anti-Islamic agitator. Elon Musk spent weeks on X boosting the views of Tommy Robinson. This has caused some consternation for Farage, who has tried to distance himself from Robinson’s explicit ethnonationalism. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: http://www.patreon.com/QAA Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, Jake Rockatansky, and Corey Klotz. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast. SOURCES Web Worm: How Racist Agitator Tommy Robinson Found Support with the World’s Richest Men https://www.webworm.co/p/tommyrobinson Hope Not Hate https://hopenothate.org.uk/ Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance by Joe Mulhall https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rebel-Sounds/Joe-Mulhall/9781804441169