{"id":215916,"date":"2020-11-02T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T09:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215916"},"modified":"2020-11-06T07:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T07:35:03","slug":"nigel-farage-to-relaunch-brexit-party-as-an-anti-lockdown-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215916","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage to Relaunch Brexit Party as an Anti-Lockdown Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Introduction \u2013 Nov 2, 2020<\/h1>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Farage-brexit-march-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-197382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Farage-brexit-march-14-768x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Farage-brexit-march-14-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Farage-brexit-march-14-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Farage-brexit-march-14.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>Despite what some may claim, Nigel Farage IS NOT false opposition. If he were the authorities would not have tried to kill him.<\/h5>\n<h5>While campaigning around the UK for Brexit the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2010\/may\/06\/ukip-nigel-farage-plane-crash\">light aircraft he was travelling in crashed<\/a><\/span> after a banner it was towing became entangled, or so an inquiry found. Three years later and the pilot of the plane, Justin Adams, were found dead.<\/h5>\n<h5>More recently in 2016 Farage nearly had a fatal car crash after one of the wheels of the car he was travelling came off. French police later found that the nuts on the vehicles\u2019 wheels had been <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=127058\">tampered with<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n<h5>That would not have happened if Nigel Farage were false opposition. Ed.<\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nigel Farage to relaunch Brexit Party as an anti-lockdown party and will rebrand it &#8216;Reform UK&#8217; to take on government&#8217;s &#8216;woeful&#8217; Covid response, &#8216;bloated quangoes&#8217; and House of Lords<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Nigel Farage&#8217;s Brexit Party has formally applied to change name to Reform UK\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Party will be led by Farage and favours lockdown of only elderly and vulnerable<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>\u00a0Mr Farage and Richard Tice, the Brexit Party chairman, wrote a joint article<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>\u00a0Said the party will\u00a0tackle &#8216;powerful vested interests&#8217; including &#8216;law and order&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>But most pertinent issue is &#8216;the Government&#8217;s woeful response to coronavirus&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Claire Ellicott \u2013 Daily Mail Nov 2, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Nigel Farage is seeking to relaunch his political career by rebranding the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/brexit\/index.html\"><strong>Brexit<\/strong><\/a> Party as an anti-lockdown party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The party has formally applied to the Electoral Commission to change its name to Reform UK and will campaign against <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\"><strong>coronavirus<\/strong><\/a> measures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Announcing the party&#8217;s new aims,\u00a0Mr Farage &#8211; who has led UKIP several times &#8211; and Richard Tice, the Brexit Party chairman, said it will tackle several &#8216;powerful vested interests&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">These include &#8216;the House of Lords, the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/bbc\/index.html\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a>, the way we vote, law and order, immigration&#8217;. The pair also claim &#8216;badly run, wasteful quangos are in abundance&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But the party &#8211; which hopes to capitalise on anti-lockdown sentiment &#8211; believes the most pertinent issue is &#8216;the Government&#8217;s woeful response to coronavirus&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It claims the Government tried to &#8216;terrify the nation into submission&#8217; while waiting for a vaccine which it says &#8216;is no way to tackle a disease that may be around for a long time&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The party &#8211; led by\u00a0Mr Farage &#8211; supports the\u00a0Great Barrington Declaration which was penned by three top scientists and is now backed by more than 44,000 medics and scientists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The letter calls for an isolation of only the elderly and vulnerable so the rest of the population can contract the virus with the hope of achieving herd immunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The declaration has been widely criticised, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock claiming it is &#8216;not true&#8217; that herd immunity can be achieved by enough people catching coronavirus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The announcement is set to make Boris Johnson\u2019s life more difficult as he seeks to calm his restive MPs who oppose the new measures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a joint article for <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/11\/01\/relaunching-brexit-party-fight-cruel-unnecessary-lockdown\/\"><strong>The Daily Telegraph<\/strong><\/a>, Mr Farage &#8211; who has led UKIP several times -and Mr Tice said: &#8216;Lockdowns don&#8217;t work: in fact, they cause more harm than good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8903871\/Nigel-Farage-announces-Brexit-Party-rebranded-anti-lockdown.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will it have the same impact as the Brexit Party?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215920,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215916\/revisions\/215920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}