{"id":15076,"date":"2025-01-19T09:24:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T09:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15076"},"modified":"2025-01-19T09:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T09:49:30","slug":"farage-escapes-essex-for-some-winter-scum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15076","title":{"rendered":"MP escapes Essex for some winter scum"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The dishonourable member for Clacton, one Nigel Paul Farage, has a reputation that stretches way back to his days as a member of the European Parliament of raking in his salary and not doing the work that supposedly comes with the job of being an assembly member in a representative democratic institution.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Indeed, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/apr\/09\/nigel-farage-fishermen-ignored-ukip-brexit\">The Guardian noted<\/a> over six years ago: &#8220;<em>His voting record while a member of the influential European parliament fisheries committee is utterly dire \u2013 over three years, he turned up to one of 42 meetings<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He is now treating the gullible burghers of Clacton with the same contempt. He has not so far organised a single surgery for constituents citing spurious &#8220;<em>security<\/em>&#8221; concerns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1l47e86r39o\">on which he later backtracked<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Furthermore, he seems to spend more time away from the House of Commons than actually in it, which might just be understandable given the frog-faced grifter earns far more money outside than his already generous MP&#8217;s salary of \u00a391,346, according to both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9wjgkr1750o\">press<\/a> and his <a href=\"https:\/\/members.parliament.uk\/member\/5091\/registeredinterests\">register of declared financial interests<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>We are all aware too that the western shore of the North Sea can be a dismal place in the heart of winter; and Nigel definitely thinks so too, as he&#8217;s just decided to put the whole of the Atlantic between himself and his constituency, as he has posted the photo below on his on-off pal Elon Musk&#8217;s apology for a social platform.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_15086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15086\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/clacton_night.png\" alt=\"A grinning Nigel Farage against the background of Washington DC at night\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/clacton_night.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/clacton_night-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toto, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re in Clacton anymore!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Farage is not the only right-wing British politician clogging the streets of Washington DC with their malign presence at the moment. The former MP for West Norfolk, one Mary Elizabeth Truss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/oct\/20\/iceberg-lettuce-in-blonde-wig-outlasts-liz-truss\">whose term of office as prime minister was shorter than the shelf life of a lettuce<\/a>, is also there, taking a break from <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/liz-truss-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-sir-keir-starmer-over-claims-she-crashed-the-economy-13285944\">sending cease and desist letters<\/a> to one Keir Rodney Starmer via her lawyers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_15087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15087\" style=\"width: 578px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/truss_dc-578x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Post reads In DC. The new @realDonaldTrump term can&#039;t come soon enough asbove a picture of Truss dressed in red, white and blue and wearing a MAGA baseball cap\" width=\"578\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/truss_dc-578x1024.jpg 578w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/truss_dc-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/truss_dc.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Make America Grate Again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The reason for this outflow of talentless right-wing (ex-)politicians? The inauguration in Washington tomorrow of the disgraced 47th president-elect of the United States, the disgraced former 45th president, insurrectionist, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual predator, business fraudster, congenital liar and golf cheat, one Donald John Trump.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The actions of both fake man of the people Farage and Lettuce Liz remind your &#8216;umble scribe of moths circling a lit candle&#8230; \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jan\/18\/reform-deputy-leader-richard-tice-splitting-time-between-skegness-and-dubai-after-partner-leaves-uk\">other news<\/a>, Farage&#8217;s party colleague, the perma-tanned Richard James Sunley Tice, the &#8216;<em>businessman<\/em>&#8216; whose smile would be gleaming as he stole your granny&#8217;s savings, is now splitting his time between his original <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_and_Skegness_(UK_Parliament_constituency)\">constituency of Boston and Skegness<\/a> and his new bailiwick of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dubai\">Dubai<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dishonourable member for Clacton, one Nigel Paul Farage, has a reputation that stretches way back to his days as a member of the European Parliament of raking in his salary and not doing the work that supposedly comes with the job of being an assembly member in a representative democratic institution. Indeed, as The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46,34],"tags":[36,20,47,35],"class_list":["post-15076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-politics-2","tag-security","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15091,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15076\/revisions\/15091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}