đš NEW: Donald Trump says Nigel Farage, who is in attendance at one of his rallies in Pennsylvania tonight, was the ‘big winner’ in the UK general election pic.twitter.com/zetYUKtS6N
â Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) November 4, 2024 Nigel Farageâs latest stateside visit has everyone on social media asking the same question: what is he doing there, and not in his constituency?
The Reform party leader and MP for Clacton is in the US, again, supporting Donald Trump as Americans head to the polls today.
The neck and neck race between the Republican nominee and his Democrat rival, vice-president Kamala Harris, is almost over after a long and turbulent campaign from both sides.
However, Farage is not a US citizen nor is he on Trumpâs team (even though he briefly considered supporting it in the summer).
In the end, he actually decided to run as the Reform candidate in Clacton-on-Sea â and won.
That was a major victory for both his party, which only had one Tory defector in parliament during the last term, and for Farage personally, considering his seven previous unsuccessful attempts to get a seat in the Commons.
But the Clacton MP â who initially refused to hold face-to-face surgeries in his constituency, claiming he would be targeted â has just made his third trip to the States in four months.
So, naturally, his critics were quick to call him out.
In fact so many people started to comment on Farageâs trip, they soon got the word âClactonâ trending on X…
It’s just been announced Nigel Farage is once again in the USA on another jolly. The good people of Clacton however are still waiting for their MP to set up a constituency office, to agree times and places for a surgery or even establish an email address or phone number. pic.twitter.com/W7pb4cfjEQ
â RS Archer (@archer_rs) November 4, 2024Nigel, doing his bit for Clacton by hanging out with a group of demented lunatics who from tomorrow will never wield much influence over anything of consequence, ever again. pic.twitter.com/6tY96kPYbu
â Brendan May (@bmay) November 4, 2024Farage: apparently too risky to meet constituents but drinking in his local pub and flying to America is completely fine â
Anything but actual work
â skye (@skyera1n) November 4, 2024But some accounts instead recalled how Farage had been quick to dub Labour activists âvery stupidâ for door-knocking for Kamala Harris….
Are you, a foreign politician, interfering in the US election?
â Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) November 4, 2024Iâm old enough to remember last month, when the Hon. Member for Clacton was attacking Labour staffers for landing in America. https://t.co/NhyYb5VUh8
â Jake Swinburne đŹđ§đč (@jake_swinburne) November 4, 2024Farage also attended the Republican National Convention in an effort to see Trump after the failed assassination attempt on the ex-president in July, and again in August to speak at an event called Keep Arizona Free Summit.
This latest trip saw Farage attend Trumpâs last campaign rally before the polls closed.
He even got a shoutout from Trump as the âbig winnerâ of the UK general election, despite his party only taking five MPs.
Unlike in 2016 and 2020, Farage did not get to speak at the rally, though.
Itâs not known why he was relegated to just waving from the crowds this time â and described simply as a âman from Europeâ by Trump.
It came hours after Farage told the press that, if the Republican were to lose this election, Trump should accept the loss and âgo and play golfâ.