Reform owner & leader Nigel Farage – key architect of Brexit and despiser of Europe – decided to skip a key House of Commons debate on the forthcoming UK-EU summit to go to his supposedly-hated Europe for a holiday.
Rather than skip his elected duties, he could have just waited a few days until Parliament was in recess before vacationing. But no, his priority was to get a tan under the French sun rather than actually doing his job – and this was the bit of it he pretends he cares about the most.
A Labour spokeperson sums Farage’s laziness and seemingly inability to take his job seriously nicely:
Nigel Farage has one of the poorest attendances of all MPs, turning up for only a third of votes. He already earns hundreds of thousands doing everything other than what he was elected to do – and now he’s off sunbathing instead of representing us in Clacton.
You’d think the one issue he’d want to make a song and dance about in the chamber is the EU. But maybe he’s gone quiet to avoid the embarrassment – because while he shouted from the sidelines and failed to deliver anything of substance…
Obviously he still feels compelled to shout about Starmer “surrendering” to the EU. But when it comes to actually taking some action to shape the British relationship with EU, well, that’s too much like hard work.
[…] not very surprising that Nigel Farage doesn’t take the time to actually do the job he was elected to do when we learn that he has 9 other paid gigs on the go. […]