‘Scrounger’ Farage heckled in the Shetlands

For the second time in the past few weeks, a heckler has given Nigel Farage the business.

The latest incident took place on the Shetland Islands, and saw Farage labelled a “scrounger” for voicing the idea that the UK needs more rich people in politics:

Reform leader Nigel Farage has been met with protests in Lerwick today on his visit to Shetland.

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In the video above, Farage responds to the man heckling him:

Well, maybe we need some more people in politics to make money and then everybody will be richer. How about that?

What a groundbreaking idea – a party stacked full of rich people – have we tried that before?

Oh no – wait a minute – we just googled ‘party of the rich’, and apparently the UK has something called the ‘Conservative Party’.

According to the 5 seconds of research we just did, said party is stacked full of millionaires, landlords, and hereditary aristocrats. In fact, their last prime minister was worth £651m at the time of the last election.

Strangely, however, this wealthy party of government didn’t make UK citizens any richer. In fact, in-work poverty actually increased under the Tories – as did child poverty.

Odd, isn’t it?

It’s almost like the rich just make life easier for themselves.

Even more strangely, we can see that Farage previously sold Reform UK as an alternative to the Conservative Party. We’re not sure what’s so different about them, because Reform is literally stuffed to the gills with wealthy ex-Tories.

Back to the Shetlands, Farage’s heckler said:

More billionaires in politics? That’s your ideas, more successful billionaires, scroungers like yourself? Scroungers.

Farage looked surprised by the accusation, but he better get used to it.

More and more people are waking up to the fact that the rich are rinsing this country for everything we’ve got.

So yes, they are “scroungers”; and so are the politicians facilitating their money grubbing ways.

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The party of the rich

As we’ve reported, Reform are the new party of the rich in terms of donation money.

Like the Independent reported, donors are now abandoning the Tories for Reform:

The latest register of donations, released on Thursday, also showed that more Tory donors are giving money to Reform UK. This included construction equipment firm JCB, which has previously backed the Conservatives but this time gave £200,000 to both Reform and the Tories.

Isabel Goldsmith, the sister of former Tory minister Zak Goldsmith, also gave Reform £100,000.

Former Tory donor and high-profile Reform defector Nick Candy, a property developer, donated £240,000 to the party.

Do you think these wealthy people are donating out of the goodness of their hearts? Or do you think they expect something in return?

Our own Rose Cocker showed the figures for all the parties as of March this year:

£5.5m total puts Reform head and shoulders above any other party in terms of donations. For contrast, the Tories received £4.2m, the Lib Dems took almost £2.2m, and Labour were given £2m. Meanwhile, the Greens received just over £294k.

So why aren’t the rich donating to the Greens?

Almost certainly because they don’t think they’ll get a return on their money.

Writing for the Canary in April this year, James Wright pointed out:

the Green Party branded the Reform head a “performer, a con artist”. They pointed to DeSmog research that shows Farage’s party has accepted £2.3 million from fossil fuel interests, big polluters and climate deniers since 2019.

Harriet Williamson of Novara Media, meanwhile, described Reform as a “handful of oil execs in a trench coat“. In that same piece, she reported:

Reform’s treasurer and billionaire property developer Nick Candy has been busy wooing wealthy offshore donors in low-tax jurisdictions like Monaco, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. In fact, in 2024, more than half of the party’s donations – £2.5m – came from those with residences in low-tax countries or business interests in offshore jurisdictions.

This explains Reform’s stance on cheap, clean renewable energy, doesn’t it?

If the US and Israel’s war on Iran has taught us anything, it’s that we need to rapidly go electric to gain energy independence. Reform, meanwhile, want to shackle us to our expensive and dirty past.

Punching bag

Back to the Shetlands, the National carried comment from the Lib Dem candidate Emma Macdonald, who said:

Nigel Farage is welcome to visit Shetland the same as any tourist, but folk here will judge him on what he’s actually done for our islands.

Farage was on the fisheries committee in Brussels for years and barely made an appearance – then when there was a big debate on the fishing industry in the UK Parliament, led by our own MP, not one Reform MP bothered to show up to contribute. Photo calls are the easy part, but Farage has not done much more than that.

In Shetland, we need more than headline visits from party leaders. We need people who will stand up for fishing day in, day out.

Farage is visiting Shetland days after we learned that Russian submarines were taking a look at pipelines and cables in UK waters. Perhaps after Putin’s covert assets failed, he decided to send his most ‘overt’ asset?

Our communities need serious, consistent support, and a strong local voice that understands the reality here in Shetland – not more self-interested politicians who only turn up for the short term.

Farage is just getting bullied all over the place now, isn’t he?

Getting his heckles up

As noted, Farage was also heckled at a recent campaign launch. As far as we can tell, this was the last time they prominently used the ‘Reform Will Fix It’ slogan – a line which mirrors the catchphrase of dead paedophile Jimmy Saville.

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled at the launch of Reform UK's London local election campaign pic.twitter.com/QCshvLKvU0

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So yes, he probably should expect more heckling to come.

Farage has made a career out of division, after all.

He’s certainly got what he wanted, but he isn’t enjoying the results.

Featured image via Shetland News