Farage says he's for the people, but he's part of the elite. Just like Trump, he promises to drain the swamp while swimming in it. His Britannia Card looks like a billionaire con trick, not a patriotic plan.
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This is the transcript:
Nigel Farage, in his infinite foolishness, has proposed that the UK should have what he's calling a Britannia Card, which is a scheme to fast-track migration into the UK.
Yes, you heard me right.
Nigel Farage is promoting fast-track migration into the UK, even though everything he has said to date is all about the fact that people should not be allowed to come into this country.
So, why his change of heart?
Farage's Britannia Card is, in fact, based upon a scheme created by Donald Trump because Farage isn't good at coming up with ideas of his own. The Trump scheme is about fast-tracking migration into the USA, and Farage thought if Trump can do it, I can.
And the basic plot of the scheme is this. If somebody wants to buy a Britannia Card, they have to pay £250,000 upfront to buy a visa to come into the UK for a period of at least 10 years. And if they do so, as a consequence, they could keep as much money outside the UK as they liked and pay no tax at all upon the income earned upon that money whilst they're living in the UK. And they'd also escape UK inheritance tax whilst they were here.
His claim is that the money he will raise from this scheme will be so much that he'll be able to redistribute hundreds, if not thousands of pounds a year to the poorest people in the UK as a consequence of all the £250,000 that are going to be paid upfront by people coming into the UK buying a Britannia Card, and all of this is a straightforward lie.
He's importing billionaires under this scheme.
He might want to stop small boats, but what is very clear is that he's not going to plan to stop mega yachts. They are, in fact, precisely what he wants to be coming to the UK because the wealthy are the only people who matter to people like Nigel Farage, who are politicians who are in the game of politics simply to get rich.
He's not helping Britain. What he's promoting is a tax dodge. What he's promoting is a scheme commonplace in tax havens. And what he's promoting is a scheme that is bound to cost the UK money, and therefore there will be no cash at all for redistribution to those on lower incomes because nobody will pay £250,000 upfront for a Britannia Card, unless they are going to save significantly more than £250,000 in tax over the following 10 years, because to do otherwise would make absolutely no economic sense at all.
They'll only pay because they're going to save more money each year than they would've otherwise paid. That's the simple, straightforward fact of the matter.
So this is, in fact, a pro-migration policy that Nigel Farage is promoting here, but it's simply for the rich.
It helps to pretend, as Farage is doing, that this will somehow support those who he wants to encourage to vote for him, but that's absolute nonsense. It will do nothing for people on ordinary incomes in this country because they will, in fact, lose out because the only way in which Farage could make this scheme work is by cutting the benefits and the services on which those people on lower incomes in the UK are most dependent.
In the meantime, he will be attracting into this country all of those people who are normally attracted by tax havens. Let's call them cronies, tax dodgers, and the elite, who will only get richer as a result of the favours that he will provide to them.
And let's remember, Farage is not anti-elite. He is part of the elite, and this is exactly the same in his case as it is for Trump. Trump might have arrived in Washington saying he was going to drain the swamp, but in fact, he was part of the swamp. Farage claims that he's opposed to City abuse and everything else, but he was a City trader. His activities actually made the cost of living for people in the UK, whilst he was engaged with them, worse.
So, who's going to benefit from this scheme that Farage is promoting?
Anybody but you.
Where will the money really go as a result of this scheme? It's bound to go offshore because that's the whole basis of the arrangement. The money can't be in the UK, so it's going offshore as a consequence. It must do.
And this plan is, let's be blunt, all about billionaire boosterism and not putting Britain first.
Nigel Farage has laid out his priorities for us all to see. He's a charlatan. He's claiming that he's acting on behalf of the people of the UK, and he's doing nothing of that sort at all. He's acting on behalf of the world's financial elite, who don't want to pay tax, and offering them a get-rich-quick scheme in this country that will guarantee a win for them and a loss for me, you and the country as a whole.
This is madness. Let's call Farage out for what he is: a man selling con tricks.
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Part of the non dom changes in April 2025 mean it is already possible for a person to come to the UK for up to four years without paying UK tax on their foreign income and gains, even if these cash is brought to and used in the UK. This gets rid of one of the problematic feature of the non dom regime which actually discouraged spending and investment in the UK because you had to keep the cash offshore to avoid a taxable remittance. The “Brit card” would bring back this perverse disincentive.
And as things stand a person only becomes liable to UK inheritance tax on worldwide assets after being resident in the UK for ten years (in the last 20 tax years). So presumably the proposal here is to grant exemption from UK sited assets that are chargeable even if someone is not otherwise subject to inheritance tax because they’ve never lived here.
It is a really stupid idea.
The main advantage of this scheme is that it is so transparently not going to benefit the majority that hopefully a few more people will realise Farage and Reforms true colours.
Those arriving on small boats have no documentation allowing them to legally enter the country, those on the “super yachts” do. You should start there.
You should start with the fact that anyone claiming asylum does not need any documentation to enter the UK under international law.
What sort of bastard ignores that fact?
Yes you can enter the UK without documentation if you are fleeing a country where your life is in danger. What are they fleeing from in France?
There is no requirement that a person apply for asylum in the first country they reach
Only charlatans ignore that fact.
Start there by all means, as long as you end with who takes more from the country. But regardless, asylum seekers don’t need documentation, according to international laws this country helped write, back when people had gone through hell and everyone decided there must be another way to live.
I agree with everything you say but Farage is seen as credible by too many people not to take it seriously. And that to me is personal in nature too, I am in dispute with members of my own family because they favour Farage.
This is what anger and frustration delivers – vulnerability to bullshit.
And this is what happens when a political alternative fails to assert itself.
This is why Keir Starmer – the plastic politician – has to take the blame.
The video is a massive flop for us
People are not interested in whaat Farage actually says
The cult is what matters
PSR – same here I hear (normally) well meaning, educated and caring people buying to the bile and snake oil that Farage vomits up like they have had a lobotomy and totally forgotten all the lies he sold us about Brexit.
Every time he see his grinning mug I ask myself: would you buy a used car off this man? He reminds me of the man who flogged me an old Mini back in the early eighties. It turned out to be a pile of rusting junk. “Nigel Farage: a man who makes Arthur Daley appear a paragon of virtue”. I know references to Arthur Daley may be lost on Gen Z but it should not be on the age group that votes Reform.
My thought on Farage’s Brittania Card – beyond the general undesirability of it – is that it is far, far too cheap, at only £250,000, compared to the $5,000,000 (starting price) for a Trump Card. I don’t know what a reasonable price might be, but I would certainly be thinking in terms of millions, every year.