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The voice of the working class!

I’ve watched again the bit where Farage potentially being PM is mentioned. The suggestion seems to be that the American donor has helped the (possible) future PM & that, as a result, he could be rewarded in due course. It’s a very large donation for nothing tangible. Some people have money to burn!

I have a very little knowledge of private members club. My sister is a member of Soho House which is very understated and ‘safe’ in its design. The other is a local social club, which took its inspiration from an early noughties BHS cafe…

This is a real shame. I like Rules for a special occasion and now won’t be going back just in case that lying shit is there.

Farage must really despise those people if he takes them to a Shepherd Neame pub. Their beers are all filthy tasting piss.

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yeah two bits of cod and scampi. proud to say I polished it off.

I once invited someone of this tribe to a party. He said after " I really enjoyed it, people were so varied, I usually only meet bankers and the like". I felt a little sad for that.

They have the advantage of keeping these nincompoops sequestered from the rest of us.

I will also say it was great fun in the 80s and 90s. And quite partial to dipping my toe in again. Someone well connected in the commodities market told me that Nigel was seem as a bit of a hapless joke there. I wonder if that is why he is so driven by money and prestige belatedly.

Feels like there is a piece for Bryce in this …

Whenever I hear FT journalists talk, I feel I have made an error by investigating things that don't require me to attend frequent fancy lunches.

...but..but...are they not the 'anti-elite' party? I'm shocked, I tell ya, shocked....

It's glorious!

Double-breasted blazers.

Men of the people, don’t you know. Let him without sin cast the first rouble

Yes 💯

The world’s your lobster as Arthur Daley says.

Man of the people innit.

Must admit that lunch at Rules is quite enjoyable from time to time… particularly treating my 82 y/o mother…

"Man of the PayPal"

Man of the people. King of the working class

Not the establishment by the way, absolutely not.

Their livers must be fucked. I like a drink but that is just crazy and day drinking is a once a year thing, if at all, not even on holiday.

youtu.be/3nJ_l5qMrdw?...

Wonder if any journalist will be brave enough to ask Nigel Farage if he enjoyed his “champagne breakfast” this morning?

who picked up the restaurant bills, do you think?

The thing I 'love' about this film is the chance of getting all these venal fuckers banged up.

Sadly, I am unfamiliar with these locations.

For a party that’s against the Establishment they couldn’t have picked better venues that literally scream the establishment. And they seemed so comfortable there too, totally at home. Because they are. Men of the people.

The average man in Clacton *loves* champers in their pint!

Although Jukes comes across like a used car salesman, it has to be said. With a Hitler Youth haircut.

Well we’ve seen what he promoted in the past & he’s happy to down oysters & quaff champagne while threatening to remove other people’s human rights & cut people’s benefits if he gains power, while he himself takes £5m ‘gifts’. Oh he’s doing really very nicely out of it all, isn’t he 🤷🏻‍♀️

God, yes 🫣🫣🫣🤬🤬🤬

Everything about this man makes him totally unacceptable to be pm

Not something really classy like a snakebite and black.

Gosh, I didn't know Sweetings was still going. I thought they closed?

Where is the Blastaway discourse please?

That's snakebite. Probably okay(ish) with a wimpy cider like Strongbow, but absolutely bloody lethal with a strong one. A lot of pubs used to refuse to serve it.

God that sounds horrible.

That was a gateway drug to full fat Guinness for a lot of people, including me. Had no idea salt of the earth folks like Farage mixed it with champagne.

Stout snakebite surely not black velvet ( I assumed you were a snakebite aficionado in your youth)

Very disappointed 5 Hertford Street didnt get a look in But Jukes is a bit too hoi polloi for it i expect

Expensive tastes but no class & someone is always paying

It’s fun watching him copy real gentlemen and always just missing the genuine look.

Discretion the utmost priority - in one of those meetings they were discussing sensitive info, while the waiter was serving at the table!

I wondered that but I think the key is Farage saying in the video that he’s an Americanophile. I think his reverence for the US is underpriced. And it’s also a dead end electorally. Indeed he’s so blinkered he’s ignoring the lessons from Reform’s very successful Italian counterpart.

Probably chose Wyoming as slightly off radar. If they'd made him a New Yorker, Reform may have easily googled him. OTH why the fuck didn't they do this anyway? Probably, as you say, 'he's come through with the money, who gives a fuck who he is?"

Exactly. Farage, too eager to play his two bob oneupmanship card than think, hmm, this very rich donor seems rather to be uncharacteristically prudent.

Yep, not convinced Reform's "Brains" have demonstrated they have the capacity to cope with geo-political players if £500k can buy a total suspension of disbelief

right I've done some guilt-tripping charity fundraising targeted at these people and they tend to be from the old south but I assume once you have 'proof' they will pay the bills you are happy to suspend disbelief

Not quite like for like but the American finance guy fascination in British elitism was explored quite well in Season 2 of Industry

Yes, I was interested in that too (the voice over did say he was supposed to have been gone to boarding school here and lives here). I always get the impression that Farage et al are wannabees cosplaying at poshos, so maybe he just came over like another of the same?

How can you tell? To me Yanks have two accents, North and South! They pretty much all sound the same to me.

I assumed they chose Wyoming because you can register an LLC in Wyoming and keep the beneficial ownership private

It's quite surprising what you'll overlook for half a mission pounds

You need a good lunch if you're about to take down the establishment.

That's what I hate about it.

Can't get much less Establishment than that.

Yes. All chums together.

This ‘posh’ food sounds disgusting.

Almost another Lunch with the FT column in the making?

Man of the rich people.

Allow a charlatan like Farage power & you rarely get it back,its like a cult & why Labour & the Tories will struggle to get Reform voters if they ever had them at all,Farage persaudes them their votes will count,laughing as he enjoys his oysters & black velvet More attention & cash is what's gained

I hope the old boys club is proper rattled, seems that let all sorts in these days.