"Twas the fortnight before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Apart from a few exceptions. Labour backbencher Matt Western had managed to secure an urgent question on President Trump's new national security strategy and the Commons itself was remarkable for its absences. A roll-call of dishonour. Take Nigel Farage. You would have thought he would have had a lot to say on the subject."
"After all, when Barack Obama had intervened in the Brexit referendum campaign to say that the UK would be at the back of the queue for any trade deal with the US, Nige had been outraged. How dare the president try to interfere with the democratic processes of another sovereign country? So now that Donald Trump was threatening to do much the same thing in countries all across Europe, surely this was the time for Nige to make a stand."
"The Ukrainians should never have expressed a desire to join Nato. I never meant to say that, he sobbed. The words had just come out wrong. And as for Nathan Gill, the former Reform leader in Wales, getting a 10-year stretch for taking money from the Russians, Nige had been shocked SHOCKED that a close associate could have done such a thing."
Labour backbencher Matt Western secured an urgent question on President Trump's new national security strategy amid a notably sparse Commons attendance. Nigel Farage was conspicuously absent despite previous outrage when Barack Obama commented on Brexit and earlier dismissive remarks about Ukraine and Russia. That silence signals hypocrisy regarding Trump's pro-Russia orientation, a potential sell-out of Ukraine, and associates taking Russian money. The strategy's explicitly racist rhetoric and talk of civilisational replacement are presented as alarming. Farage's recent disavowals of racism contrast with his prior statements and continued silence on these issues.
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