Why has Nigel Farage gone to America to slag off Britain?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The morning after Nigel Farage appeared in Washington DC to berate his own country before Congress, the News Agents decamped to a Farage-free zone; his own constituency of Clacton-on-Sea.
On Capitol Hill, Farage warned that the UK was turning into "North Korea" due to the restrictions on free speech laws. He urged the US not to follow Britain down this path - even urging Donald Trump to slap sanctions on his own country if it forces big tech companies to follow UK law rather than America's.
We’ve been asking people here how they feel about their MP slagging of his - and their - country in America? Does they think he has a point? Or is Reform's leader simply being deeply unpatriotic?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | Nigel Farage is in Washington again. The Reform Party leader has gone before Congress to talk |
| 0:20.1 | Britain down, to talk about the lack of free speech, |
| 0:23.5 | to talk about how maybe the US ought to impose sanctions on us. |
| 0:29.3 | So we've come somewhere that you're much less likely to bump into Nigel Farage, his own constituency, Clacton-Sea. |
| 0:36.3 | We're going to be asking what he's doing in Washington |
| 0:38.7 | and why he's gone there to slag off Britain. |
| 0:42.0 | I feel let down. |
| 0:43.6 | I fly Union Jack from my property. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Patriot, I love England. |
| 0:48.0 | He's an Englishman. |
| 0:48.9 | Why does he not feel the same? |
| 0:50.4 | Why is he putting his country down? |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to the news agents. |
| 0:58.0 | Music Why is he putting his country down? Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:00.0 | It's John. |
| 1:01.0 | It's Emily. |
| 1:02.0 | And we're in Pyongyang in North Korea. No, we're not. |
| 1:04.0 | No, we're not. Nigel Farage just compared Britain to North Korea. |
| 1:08.0 | We're actually by Clacton Pier on a blustery day. The sun at the moment is shining. |
| 1:13.3 | The seagulls are overhead. The sea is lapping against the sandy beach. |
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