The Independent reports on Farage’s distinct lack of knowledge, or even curiosity, on show during last Sunday’s interview with Laura Kuenssberg.
The Reform UK leader was asked about Scarborough Town Council increasing its mayor’s allowance by 600 per cent, despite his party promising to cut costs for taxpayers.
Asked about the rise, from £500 to £3,500, Mr Farage said: “I have no idea… whether what you say is true or not, I have no idea.”
Asked whether it is the right thing to do, Mr Farage again said he has “no idea”, before saying he has “no idea” whether Thomas Murray, Reform’s mayor of Scarborough Town Council, does the role as a full-time job.
Here’s some of that, courtesy of PoliticsJOE’s Youtube channel:
Unfortunately this is not the only topic he has no idea about.
He went on to say he has “no idea” how much humans have contributed towards climate change.
Quite concerning for someone who at the end of the day wants to be the person setting policies regarding such matters.
Of course the mayor story is true, and there are no shortage of the top experts in the world available to tell you about serious human impact on climate change if you can just be bothered to spend 5 seconds searching.
Although I do not believe for one minute that he never heard of either of these topics given his pre-emptory “I’ve no idea” before Kuenssberg even finished the question, trying to laugh it off – it’s almost certainly just another Farage lie.
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