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they've been completely played, and instead of admitting it and saying sorry, they have doubled down. Terrible decision. 5 years of goodwill has gone up in smoke for many fans today.
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The club must have had 100s of emails if not 1000s on 17:28 - Mar 24 with 689 views
The press release is terrible, a shameful day in our clubs history on 17:23 - Mar 24 by phil1982
they've been completely played, and instead of admitting it and saying sorry, they have doubled down. Terrible decision. 5 years of goodwill has gone up in smoke for many fans today.
So the club enters self-preservation mode. No apology, instead doubling down and pretending we host other political leaders as a regular occurrence. No other political leader has ever visited Portman Road and none others plan to, and deciding that Nigel Farage should be the first and likely the last to do it is a very poor and contentious decision.
Statistically, allowing any political party to infer endorsement from the club is going to piss off the vast majority of fans. This should never have happened, and a more appropriate club statement would have outwardly stated the mistakes that took place in this instance and why it won't happen again moving forward. They could still do all of that in a measured and justified way without pissing off Reform voters too by the way.
At first, the silence felt like endorsement, and now, this statement feels like an insult to the intelligence of the fans.
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Pretty sure Sunak was there a couple of years ago. (n/t) on 17:30 - Mar 24 with 624 views
You’re letting your political beliefs get in the way of the statement.
Clearly says that the club is apolitical. With reform having a good chance of getting good results in May, we can’t alienate ourselves as there’s a good chance we’re going to have to work with a reform council.
Just because you’re offended by it, it doesn’t mean that everyone is.
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Pretty sure Sunak was there a couple of years ago. (n/t) on 17:40 - Mar 24 with 483 views
The press release is terrible, a shameful day in our clubs history on 17:39 - Mar 24 by IP1Blue
You’re letting your political beliefs get in the way of the statement.
Clearly says that the club is apolitical. With reform having a good chance of getting good results in May, we can’t alienate ourselves as there’s a good chance we’re going to have to work with a reform council.
Just because you’re offended by it, it doesn’t mean that everyone is.
…. Is given validity and promotion by our club. I pulled some quotes from Farage into another response and I’ve posted them below again.
Do you seriously want this character being promoted by our club? I get people support Reform and that’s their choice. But they are not a normal party. Ask the people of Tendring what he has done for them. Ask yourself where the Brexit ‘promise’ went.
Is this OK:
“The best world leader? As an operator, but not as a human being, I would say Putin".
“We ourselves in the European Union provoked the conflict through our territorial expansionism in the Ukraine”
“The RNLI is a taxi service for illegal people smugglers"
“If a woman... has a child and takes two or three years off work, she is worth far less to the employer when she comes back than when she goes away."
(On women breastfeeding) “I think that given that some people feel very embarrassed by it... perhaps sit in the corner."
"Men are prepared to sacrifice their family lives in order to pursue a career and be successful in a way that fewer women are."
"Basic principle was right": Farage said the "basic principle" of Enoch Powell’s 1968 "Rivers of Blood"
Challenged in late 2025 over allegations by 20 former classmates that he used extreme racist and antisemitic slurs at school (such as "Hitler was right"), he responded: "Have I said things 50 years ago that you could interpret as being banter in a playground... in the modern light of day? Yes."
While stating he was "unhappy" with a Reform UK MP who said seeing "black and Asian people" in TV adverts drove her mad, he defended the sentiment by saying: "adverts [are] now unrepresentative of British society as a whole."
Following Trump's return to the White House in early 2025, Farage hailed him as "the bravest man that I know,"
Farage argued that Trump's re-election was "absolutely vital" because he is "by instinct, a peace-maker" who understands that "peace comes through strength, not through weakness".
"I hope and believe that many things that will happen in America will serve as an inspiration to us".
Despite over a dozen women accusing Trump of sexual assault, Farage has maintained his loyalty, stating as recently as December 2025: "For 10 years I have stood up and defended President Trump... I have never wavered in my thoughts or my views for one minute".
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