http://heatst.com/world/steven-bannon-is-the-link-between-donald-trump-and-nigel-farage/By Louise Mensch | 4:53 pm, August 30, 2016
Unsuccessful Nigel Farage has very little to do with Brexit, but Americans don’t know this. Farage fought and lost a bitter battle to run the Vote Leave side of the Brexit Campaign. Sidelined, he produced divisive ads that nearly lost the referendum. His own monetary backers poured scorn on him when, apparently drunk, he instantly conceded Brexit as lost on the night of the vote when polls closed.
Farage has a unique record of failure in British politics. Despite gerrymandering his party UKIP to make himself the leader without ever putting it to a vote, and thus guaranteeing himself plum seat selection, Farage has failed to be elected to the UK’s Parliament a record eight times in a row.
He’s an alcoholic with rotten brown teeth and a figure of fun and contempt in Britain. Pro-Remain media like the BBC were forever inviting Farage to argue for Brexit because voters dislike him so much. His well-funded UKIP party only ever did well at European elections.
And yet last week we saw Farage and Trump, the fat US equivalent, at rallies together, as the unpleasant and obese Republican nominee tried to pin himself to Brexit.
Why?
Simple. Because Steve Bannon has taken over Trump’s Walter Mondale style disaster of a campaign, not improving it one iota, and Steven Bannon has been running Farage from abroad as his puppet for quite a while.
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Breitbart flew him to CPAC and helped him get an able chief of staff, Raheem Kassam, a talented journalist at the site. He was on Bannon’s radio show as far back as 2014.
A 2015 Spectator article described the history:
Steve Bannon already knew Matthew Richardson, Ukip’s general secretary, and he saw in Ukip a British Tea Party….
A spokesman for Breitbart insisted that the London office was not established to support any political party. Nevertheless, it didn’t take long for Breitbart London to become a Ukip cheerleader.
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And does this sound familiar? Bannon forced an embarrassed Breitbart London into becoming Farage shills, causing staff fallouts, and then the head of the site left to run Farage’s flop of a campaign. This is the exact progression of Breitbart America and Trump, even including useless Valkyrie harridan Laura Ingraham and Trump supporting Jeff Sessions of Alabama. It’s the exact same playbook with the exact same people.
Breitbart staff were alarmed at the lack of editorial independence. ‘We effectively became the Ukip comms office,’ says one employee. ‘Any criticism of the sainted Farage was completely banned,’ says another. It’s understood that Delingpole and Kassam fell out over the site’s pro-Ukip line.
At some point (it’s not exactly clear when), Kassam started working directly for Farage….
And the Republican staffers quitting over Trump? Tiny and insignificant though UKIP was under Nigel Farage, the Steve Bannon playbook got the exact same results:
Back home, Ukip staff quickly got fed up with what they called the ‘Tea Party tendency’ and Farage’s ‘mad love affair’ with the American right. In February, Farage annoyed his followers by missing the first day of Ukip’s spring conference in Margate because he was giving a speech to a half-empty room at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. ‘The party was seething and baffled,’ says one insider. ‘It was a major moment for Ukip and the leader wasn’t there.’
And what about Trump’s outrageous statements on Muslims and people of colour? The Spectator’s piece, read in retrospect and applied to the USA, seems to indicate that actually they are not Trump’s own words and views but merely those of Bannon. Bannon got Nigel Farage to say shocking things to grab news cycles, the same way the long-time Democrat and employer, marrier of immigrants, Donald Trump, also did. Bannon writes the incredibly unsuccessful anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-free trade, and antisemitic playbook, using “Goldman Sachs” as a modern euphemism for “Jewish money”. Steve Bannon is himself, of course, a former Goldman Sachs banker.
There were also growing concerns about a change in Ukip’s ‘messaging’. Farage is said to have developed a ‘shock and awe’ strategy, which involved making deliberately outrageous statements to arouse the ire of the despised political and media class. For instance, in a television debate, Farage suggested that the NHS should not treat foreigners with Aids. That prompted fury from politically correct commentators, as expected, but it also disturbed quite a few natural conservatives. ‘Shock and awful,’ said a senior Ukip source.
In an interview with Trevor Phillips, Farage also referred to a ‘fifth column’ of Muslims in this country — which led to rumours that, rather than running an election campaign, he was aiming for a well-paid gig on Fox News.
In February, 2014, Steve Bannon made clear to the New York Times what Breitbart London was denying: the sole purpose of starting Breitbart London was to push Farage and UKIP to spread Bannon’s nasty world order. Perhaps the most important thing in the Trump/Farage Bannon playbook is two really stupid men, who will say just what Bannon wants them to, how and when he wants them to.
The expansion is being financed by a large pool of capital that Mr. Breitbart raised from private investors, Mr. Bannon said. Although it was always the company’s plan to add staff members and offices overseas, he said the timing had been accelerated because of a desire to influence two important political battles.
In London, Breitbart News Network hopes to support a nascent EuropeanTea Party before parliamentary elections in May. In Texas, it is eager to combat an emerging “Turn Texas Blue” movement intended to improve the standing of the Democratic Party. “We look at London and Texas as two fronts in our current cultural and political war,” Mr. Bannon said.
The link in the Times story describes UKIP. The fact the language used in the story is ‘nascent European Tea Party’ means Google did not store either UKIP or Farage here, and so journalists have not thus far made the connection.
Just as we see in the U.S., Steven Bannon’s attempt to “influence” with “shock and awful” was galactically unsuccessful in the UK. Nigel Farage lost the seat he was contesting, his eighth loss in a row. All the TV appearances and column inches – and before May, 2015, the general election, when nobody anticipated a Brexit ref, Mr. Farage was important, as voters thought UKIP might ‘break through’ – translated into a halving of the party’s parliamentary seats from two MPs, both originally elected as Conservatives, both from the ‘Never Trump’, non-racist, pro-immigrant, side of UKIP, to just one.
Farage lost.
He did not gain even one MP; and he lost one of the two he had.
The remaining MP, Douglas Carswell, beat Mr. Farage soundly to establish Vote Leave as the official Brexit campaign group, and then when Farage attempted to expel him from the party after his group’s victory in Brexit (not Farage’s), Carswell was able to get the party’s ruling NEC Committee to push Farage out instead.
Farage announced his ‘retirement’ after this unceremonious sacking and was picked back up by Bannon to come to America and try to reflect some Brexit success on Trump, relying on the US media being unaware of how totally he had failed and been frozen out of the Brexit campaign, whose official leaders were pro-immigrant and pro-free trade; who stood and still stand for as much globalism as possible.
Farage and Trump also mouth Bannon’s support for Vladimir Putin, the mass-murdering homophobic tyrant of Russia:
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Breitbart has gone the same way. Who is funding Breitbart, who fund UKIP and run Trump and Farage’s playbook? “Private investors”, said the NYT. Breitbart has run such gems as ‘Vladimir Putin Supports Texas Secession Movement‘ and ‘Vladimir Putin Says Donald Trump is Talented’ along with ‘Trump: Always Felt Fine About Putin, US Does Plenty of Killing Also’ and Farage / Putin in an article which Breitbart have deleted, from 2014, with only the headline remaining: ‘
FT confirms: Farage was Right, Putin is a ‘Brilliant Operator’
It is clear then that Stephen Bannon must support the anti-American tyrant Putin; funding connections between Putin and Breitbart/Bannon should be looked into. But with Bannon’s exact same ‘gang’ of Jeff Sessions and Laura Ingraham, and using the exact same ‘shock and awful’ language to own the news cycle, and planting pro-Putin messaging in both candidates’ mouths, and turning Breitbart US and UK into nothing more than a pathetic, embarrassing Trump/ Farage / Putin shill, that while there is no Brexit connection with Trump, there is a Bannon connection between Trump and Farage. Bannon wrote the fail playbook that saw Farage lose his seat and halve his MPs in June 2015, then be frozen out of Brexit; he is re-running the identical fail playbook beat for beat in America with Donald Trump, who, like Farage, is a media darling we love to hate and who, like Farage, will flop spectacularly in November, taking the hate Tea Party /antisemite / Russian nexus with him.
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And I will have a very English tea party to celebrate the demise of Mr. Bannon and his commie messaging at the same time, while licking my lips over what the first woman President of the United States, Hillary Clinton, will do to the Breitbart darling and America’s enemy, Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Bannon thinks he has influence and is subtle. He doesn’t, and he isn’t. Vae Victis.
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