We published this video on YouTube as long-form content this evening. It actually went out as short-form content this morning to support this morning's long-form video on the same topic, and it will be our policy to post in this way for the whole to see if this works.
Nigel Farage says he wants to abolish the UK Human Rights Act. But here's the truth: that means your rights go too. From freedom of speech, to free elections, to the right to a fair trial – all would be under threat. In this video, I explain what's really at stake if Farage gets his way.
This is the transcript:
Nigel Farage wants to suspend your human rights.
That's, of course, not what he's saying in public, but since when did Nigel Farage ever tell the truth?
What he is saying is he wants to abolish the UK Human Rights Act, which brought into UK law the European Convention on Human Rights, which was a British creation after the Second World War, inspired by Winston Churchill of all people.
And he wants to remove the rights of refugees, and he wants to do that so he can expel people from the UK, he says.
But the consequences are dire because he will take away your human rights as a result.
You won't have the right to a free trial.
You won't have the right to freedom of speech.
You won't have the right to own property.
You won't have the Right to Free Elections.
You won't have rights to a great many things that you have now, including the freedom from torture and discrimination and much more.
Do you want to give up all the rights that hold government at bay in this country that were designed to end tyranny of the sort that we saw in the 1940s, and which motivated the creation of these rights, just to be able to expel a tiny number of people who've arrived illegally in the UK?
Is that a sacrifice you really want to make?
Really?
You want to put Nigel Farage in charge of every aspect of your life without any legal protection from what his government might do?
If so, why?
You've been protected from the tyranny of government, and we know governments can be tyrannical. Why do you want to go back to tyranny again? is the question I have to ask.
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A lot of the people who support Farage either a) won’t have thought about the repercussions or b) don’t care as long as the foreigners are made to suffer.
It is I think a factor often overlooked that people will vote for a policy which damages their interests if they think that it will damage their perceived enemies more.
Thank you for spotlighting these deadly controlling dangers!
Might other questions be:
“Who might be among any “big” supporters/ big “willing helpers” of Mr. Farage?
Might the amount and types of publicity that Mr. Farage receives indicate tacit support/encouragement from some to all of the macro influential/powerful?
Who is supprting him?
1) Bitcoins
2) Gold
3) Tax havens
4) The fossil fuel lobby
5) Most likely tobacco and alcohol
The enemies of people, then
How exactly is gold helping Farage?
He is paid to promote buying it.
Let’s not forget the support from most mainstream media and from the algorithms that promote their propaganda on social media. Without this support (and notable lack of critical analysis to accompany it) I doubt Farage would be so popular.
I’ve had a thought. Farage and his supporters rhetoric is that asylum seekers shouldn’t be given any tax payers money, but are they already in effect tax payers themselves? Many of the countries they come from, for example South Sudan, have debt to the UK, so if they have paid tax in that country, in effect they are paying into our system. Does that make sense?
It’s pretty tenuous. I won’t be using it as an argument. And as matter of fact, if they are here they are not taxpayers where they came from anymore.
Thanks, it was just a thought that came to mind
Of course, if we allowed asylum seekers to work whilst their case is considered, some of them would begin to pay tax very soon, and many would go on to pay tax in the longer term. They would also be contributing to our need for more workers, and our existing citizens would have a chance to get to know them and understand them as people.
Good short version of video, I have watched both. Making the link to WWII and aftermath, using a few illustrations, is I think helpful for anyone wanting shorter footage, or wanting to share this.
I think it’s despicable that any UK politicians who want to be taken seriously are suggesting leaving ECHR. They will counter that many rights are enshrined in common law, which may be true, but citizens need recourse to a special court whose job is to enforce them. I wouldn’t trust any future gov to guarantee access to our courts to enforce such rights. Lo9k over the Atlantic and you’ll see a tyrant u trying to control the US legal system and it’s judiciary for his own benefit. We can’t have that. It’s simply not acceptable.
Both videos are excellent and v accessible. I dont usually watch the videos but listened to long one while doing the dishes.
I suspect many Reform voters imagine that they don’t NEED human rights (think they will never be arrested, will always be the “majority” – straight, white, British, in a home etc) but the “right to education” is v relevant to a lot of grandparents providing childcare for SEND grandchildren. That one could cut through with people I know. Plus the religious freedom argument – that has surfaced in politically contentious ways recently on the religious right, cases that could not have beeen brought if the HRA was repealed.
Fa***e said all this in 2021, so he’s recycling old but dangerous rants.
Much more on SEND to come…
Please don’t take Nigel Farage at his own estimation or his low opinion of the British electorate. If we want to argue for something better we need to engage people rather than talking down to them as so many comfortable liberals are wont to do.
I believe in people.
What else am I meant to do?
My aim is to talk people up, not down.
Perhaps I am being generous. TomC’s comment could be referring to everyone – not just you.
If so, I think he has a point.
I was someone who laughed at the outrageous claims being made about 2012/2013 (?) by UKIP and their paramilitary friends (Axley-lennon, etc).
I laughed along at the clever dismantling of their nonsense by Stewart Lee (“coming over here – we’re too full” … Bloody beaker folk … Etc). One reason that St George cross wavers, and Brexit voters, give for their grievances and need for change is resentment of a privileged metropolitan elite – while they have undoubtedly been left behind (as have nearly everyone else!).
We can argue that their “other” to blame for the state of things is wrong ….. But difficult to change anyone’s perception if they feel patronised (“as so many comfortable liberals are wont to do”).
Agreed
But I get a bit annoyed when I am told I speak to no one when have stuck m y bne k out to challebge that elite for decacdes – and have the scars to show for it
I am on the side of the angry
And yes, I know my Mum made sure I had a received English accent, but that was because she came from 1930s very deep poverty and had all the horror it left with her.
As Mr. Farage is so concerned about immigration, might the attached article be interesting/relevant?
It is entitled “They Voted for Brexit to Stop Immigration Only to Get More of It”. The graphs on immigration before and after Brexit may be thought provoking.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
Who needs Fa***e’s full-fat-fascism?
The LINO version of reduced-fat-fascism is quite disgusting enough already.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/29/minister-orders-immigration-centre-to-remove-balloon-craft-job-ads
Immigration Minister Seema Malhotra tells Mitie they don’t need to be so nice to the detainees inside the Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre.
The “Care” Minister Stephen Kinnock agrees.
A bucket of water, some straw on the floor and a bowl full of rice thrown in once a day. What more do they need?
Sorry about that, I got angry. The Nasty Party is back, and Yvette Cooper is one of its High Priestesses. We really have sunk low, haven’t we?
I wonder what these Labour Gov’t ministers tell their children?
I never thought I’d see Mitie criticised for caring too much.
I acted as an informal adviser to Seema Malhorta at one time. These people never fail to disappoint now.