Making Plans For Nigel
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Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Home of Common Sense. This is Talk. |
| 0:05.2 | Well, let's talk to one of Najeefar's colleagues in the Reform Party. |
| 0:10.6 | It is, of course, the one and only Mr. Ben Habib, who's a deputy leader. |
| 0:13.6 | Ben, you're the only senior member of Reform yesterday who didn't get a new title. |
| 0:17.5 | Very good morning to you. |
| 0:22.7 | I mean, you know, you've got a new chairman, you've got a new leader. Very good morning to you. I mean, you know, you've got a new chairman, |
| 0:26.5 | you've got a new leader. You've managed to continue with your position. Obviously, you are the strong and stable version of the Reform Party. Yeah, well, I mean, deputy leader, leader position's |
| 0:34.7 | taken. Where do you go, right? Yeah, exactly right. |
| 0:37.8 | I mean, it can be no doubt that whatever was the reason that Nigel Farage decided to change his mind. |
| 0:43.6 | It certainly kick-started the election, as the front pages of the papers have all attested to this morning. |
| 0:49.7 | Well, I think it's fantastic. |
| 0:51.5 | You know, Nigel really should have thrown his hat in the ring 10 days ago. |
| 0:55.1 | I was very disappointed when Nigel said that Thursday morning that he wouldn't be standing |
| 0:59.8 | and he'd be fighting the American elections. |
| 1:02.5 | But I'm delighted that he's gone around the country, he's listened to people, and he can feel |
| 1:07.7 | a groundswell. |
| 1:08.5 | I can feel it, you know, in my own constituency, I won't mention the name for fear of electoral commission consequences for talk. But, you know, when you walk around the streets, people are saying they're not going to vote Tory and they're going to vote me. And that's a remarkable thing. People just coming up to me and saying, I'm voting for you. And Nigel can |
| 1:28.2 | feel that. Richard can feel it. And it's not showing up in the polls. Remember, the polls only, |
| 1:33.6 | the only results the poll give you are the ones based on people who say they are going to vote. |
| 1:41.1 | What they don't say, you know, what they don't reflect, the people who |
| 1:44.8 | are at the moment disenfranchise. |
| 1:46.9 | As we head towards the actual polling day, you know, if we can get our message across and |
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