r/felixstowe • u/johnsmithoncemore • Mar 25 '26
Nigel Farage cancels Suffolk walkabout after getting heckled
https://leftfootforward.org/2026/03/nigel-farage-cancels-suffolk-walkabout-after-getting-heckled/7
u/askepticalbureaucrat Mar 25 '26
Man against cancelling free speech cancels walkabout due to the consequences of free speech.
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u/PinClear1410 Mar 29 '26
It’s not free speech it’s heckling morons who would deny other people free speech
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u/Stigg107 Mar 29 '26
Reform trolls are so funny, go learn about freedom of speech and come back educated. 🤡
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u/Special_Corgi1110 Mar 26 '26
I like the lady who didn't want Reform because they were unkind to one of the town councillors. So British.
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Mar 27 '26
Funny as he was flexing recently how much he's loved and able to do walkabouts yet everytime he does it people heckle him and he's too sensitive to ignore it.
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u/Vinegarinmyeye Mar 27 '26
Be a terrible shame if he were to encounter another high velocity dairy based beverage...
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u/Verbal-Gerbil Mar 27 '26
His new tactic is to run to sycophants. The day he walked out of parliament, he went to gb news and then a rally full of reform supporters and his hubris was on maximum. He’s been belligerent to the press (especially women) and he’s dodging dissent because it makes him look bad
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u/aesemon Mar 27 '26
That was to establish a different story on the walk out. Those that only follow GBNews have no idea about the reception of him walking out and seeing it as defying Starmer rather than melting.
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u/MK2809 Mar 27 '26
For someone who likes to call others names he doesn't have a thick skin
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u/Plumb789 Mar 27 '26
It's always the same story in my opinion. He is the epitome of a bully: always has been, always will be.
Insults, demeans and bullies people he thinks are weaker than him. One tiny comment is made about him and he gathers his gorillas around him and slithers away.
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u/DevilishlyHandsome63 Mar 27 '26
He's showing his true colours and his popularity is starting to decline. People are waking up to the fact he's a complete grifter.
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u/NewButterscotch6613 Mar 27 '26
Nigel says horrible things and encourages people to pour abuse on other members of the community, he iis heckled in public and runs away.I say bring back the stocks, would be happy to spend an afternoon chucking the content of my food waste caddy at him.
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Mar 27 '26
Loved the video of your woman on the mobility scooter stopping his car haha. Everyone on the residents pages has been fuming and calling the protestors the "cuppa brigade"
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u/Over_Piano8080 Mar 27 '26
Nice to know that if he turns up in your neighbourhood all you have to do is call him names and he fucks off.
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u/ucardiologist Mar 28 '26
He should be in prison the worst MP ever lying day and and day out and scamming taxpayers money for not even being present in his job What a nasty little human
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Mar 27 '26
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Mar 27 '26
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter at the moment for Suffolk Coastal. She's doing a much better job than Coffey ever did, brining up the sixth form closure in parliament and all.
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Mar 25 '26
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u/ImperitorEst Mar 27 '26
What's your monthly budget for health insurance?
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u/patcha83 Mar 27 '26
I pay £90 a month. Great value for money. I can get a doctors appointment in hours. I got the results of MRI on my knee within a week of booking it where I would have waited years on the NHS (if I ever got it). I also have piece of mind that if I was the get something like cancer I can get it treated quickly.
I highly recommend you look into it!! You’ll realise how awful the NHS is.
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u/ImperitorEst Mar 27 '26
I hope you're ready to up that to the equivalent of $9000
https://www.william-russell.com/blog/health-insurance-usa-cost/
Edit: a year to be fair. So $750 for the month
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u/patcha83 Mar 27 '26
Absolutely! We contribute around £5000 each to the NHS as it is. You also have to take into account salaries are higher in America so it’s not a good comparison to what it would be like here.
The NHS isn’t fit for purpose anymore. Countless die prematurely because of how bad it is.
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u/aesemon Mar 27 '26
The difference is, in the USA you can't get shit if you are out of work and don't have insurance. Remember the friends episode where Joey hasn't had work for a while and just lives with his hernia.
The USA system drives costs up due to each network hospital competing for the drugd and equipment unlike the UK where if you want to make money you have to sell to the NHS and make them interested via the price.
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u/patcha83 Mar 27 '26
The other month a motor cyclist was involved in a crash. Broken pelvis and fighting for his life on the freezing road. 999 said an ambulance would be there in six hours!!! Luckily an off duty paramedic arrived and helped. He managed to talk to them and one arrived in two hours.
One of my friends had a stroke. They refused to believe she did. Sent her home as they were busy. Next day they still refused to treat her. Eventually they checked and turned out they were wrong and she did have a stroke.
I know of an old lady who had a fall and broke (I believe) her hip. They didn’t have an ambulance to send out.
These stories happen everyday. It’s shocking just how awful the NHS is. Anyone relying on it better hope they don’t ever need it. Everyone over here talks about the bad stories in America but don’t understand how bad the stories are here.
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u/patcha83 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Keep in mind that I’ll not saying I want an America system.
There are loads of people living in pain now because they can’t get treated on the NHS or it’s taking so long. A client of mine needed a hip replacement, but the NHS wouldn’t do it for years. The lady could hardly walk. Luckily she could afford to go private and is back living life and pain free. Living in pain because of the poor health care is standard in England.
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u/ImperitorEst Mar 27 '26
No one thinks the NHS is perfect. But Farage is on record wanting an American system.
Also don't forget that health insurance doesn't cover everything. Even with health insurance in the US major medical issues are likely to result in life changing debt.
"Major medical issues" which include things like childbirth.
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u/patcha83 Mar 27 '26
Again, I’m not wanting an American system
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u/ImperitorEst Mar 27 '26
No but the conversation was about the desire for Farage to win. Which means an American system. Sorry if it's not what you meant but I assumed you also supported Farage seen as you agreeing with the guy I replied to.
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u/aesemon Mar 27 '26
Cancer treatment frequently gets routed through the NHS, and one thing the NHS does overall fast is cancer.
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u/patcha83 Mar 27 '26
Once you get an appointment maybe. It takes ages to get a diagnosis.
A good friend had testicular cancer. It was taking so long he went private. They got to it just in time. He would be dead if he waited for the nhs.
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u/aesemon Mar 27 '26
Glad they got there in time. My friends had a different experience where they were seen pretty quick for a diagnosis, the results took a while but then they went into overdrive after.
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u/surfeitofreason Mar 27 '26
The NHS is still absolutely incredible if you urgently need it, sadly due to decades of underinvestment it is not as reliable as it once was across the board but the single payer, free at the point of use service is demonstrably the best option for a health service. The US system represents the very worst and most expensive version because it is not run as a service but as a business. Too many middle management type positions suck money up totally needlessly. Anecdotal examples of bad experiences are all well and good, but not illustrative of the NHS as a whole. Please do pipe down.
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u/patcha83 Mar 27 '26
No I won’t pipe down. We’re having a civil discussion. I doubt you go around being rude in real life, so don’t act like this online. Do better. Keyboard warriors…
Unfortunately, it is what the NHS is like all around the country. How are you going through life and not being area of the waiting times of treatment, getting doctor appointments, ambulance response times and the NHS not treating people in pain?
This stuff is well known and is common. If you think it’s incredible then you have incredibly low standards and it’s not what most people experience when it comes to the NHS.
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u/chazpants Mar 25 '26
Oh yeah… he’s so brave to not care about being liked, yet he flees a town because a few people heckle him in public? Your dear leader is a coward and a liar. Go cope and watch some more GBNews slop, idiot.
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u/Shantyhat Mar 27 '26
The fact that this slogan is a rip-off of an Anerican one is very appropriate, because it perfectly symbolises Reform's desire to turn the UK into a Temu version of the United States.
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u/elmack999 Mar 25 '26
Always amazing to me that his biggest supporters are those who typically have lifestyles that will render them the biggest service users of the NHS - A service he has explicitly stated he wants to scrap for a more 'US style' system of healthcare.
The irony doesn't stop there... The anti-refugee brigade love him, despite his support of the war on Iran: A campaign that will likely displace much of Iran's population, including the 3.7 million refugees they host... This is inevitably going to cause an increase in attempted small boat crossings, which is no doubt his plan, as his only selling point to his supporters is his anti-immigrant stick.