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Donald Trump has started an illegal war on Iran and now the whole world is suffering
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Trump shouldn't worry us, we should worry about Britain. Pull my hair out
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Leave the US right now and you will find there is a lot of anger and upset over Donald Trump's foreign policy
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We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not. Nero's making a very foolish mistake
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Have you said thank you once? And we are seeing that anger and upset turn into votes
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votes against any candidate who is seen as backed by or even just not opposing the MAGA movement
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We saw it in Hungary with Viktor Orban losing after 16 years in power and we saw it in Canada too
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Mark Carney harnessed that anger, that betrayal that Canadians felt every time the president spoke
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about a 51st state or Governor Trudeau. So how might this play out the local elections here in
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Britain this week, where we have the leader of the Reform UK party, who is very linked
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to Donald Trump. Nigel Farage. And we have real anger on the streets, particularly here in Scotland, where we have seen protests
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breaking out, calling for the US military to be kicked out of Scottish airports
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So we've come to an area where Reform are putting a lot of resources into
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Inverclyde, this is where they've got their Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord, standing
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But are Nigel Farage's links with Donald Trump going to cost them support
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Trump's off his head. I mean, honestly, any idiot will go on social media and look at Donald Trump and say
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that guy's not, he's not with it. I mean, look at what he said about the service people
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You know, they'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that. And they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines
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Oh, we were just spectators. I mean, hello. So, I don't know
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Where are we going? Who knows? Any party linked to Donald Trump probably not going a very good direction in your mind
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Forget it. How do you feel about that? Does that put you off at all? No, Donald Trump's a businessman
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He's not a politician, so he knows how to run a business
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And the country's a business. So we just getting slammed into a grin basically So you maybe see that tie as quite a good thing though Definitely aye Completely negative because Donald Trump has started an illegal war on Iran
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and now the whole world is suffering because the oil prices are going right up
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And then, of course, he throws his toys out the pram as soon as people say
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no, we're no joining you, because you're wrong. So, agile for agile is just the same out
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I don't particularly care about his ties to Donald Trump. We have to have a relationship with Donald Trump, he's one of the world's leaders
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I don't particularly like Donald Trump, but we have to have a dialogue with him
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I don't mind Trump. At least he's doing something. That's what you get voted in to do
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I would rather have restoring, I mean, a strategist party reforming than have Labour
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I think it's time they really have to step down. I mean, no other government has got away with this much nonsense
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We don't really take too much interest on it. See how they put Britain back to the way it should be
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We're doing good. So on to our next stop, we have come to find another big target community for reform
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The rural voter farmers. Where better than the livestock auctioneers? I would say the last month or so I've definitely turned away from reform just from, as you say, that kind of closeness
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with Trump and taking Farage a bit less seriously because of that
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I do like some of the things he said and what they could do for the countryside, but at the same time, it's a bit frightening what's happened there in the last month
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I'm quite hearing Nigel Farage. Just because he likes Donald Trump doesn't mean he's a bad person
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He maybe is like the rest of them, I suppose. He's a politician. He'll be nearly a bad person
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Nigel Farage, what do you make of how close he is with Donald Trump? Well, I'll tell you the truth
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He is very close. He's a good pal he is. He's not as close as my wife was. She was a second
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cousin to Donald Trump. Really? I don't know him either. I was there in New York and I was going to go and they said
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you'll get a length of the 16th floor and that'll be all. No chance
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No, I don't know. It changes mind too much, Trump. For us, it might be the same
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I agree with what Donald Trump done maybe not the most recent thing in Iran but a lot of these ideas are very right in America They abolished inheritance tax for farms They every right there to support the farmers Can Donald Trump say it himself Backbone of the nation
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So it's actually almost a positive for you then that you see them as kind of being quite
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similar to what Trump's doing for America? Very much so, very much so
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I'd say probably what I'm hearing is every single haulier is now increasing fuel
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There's a fuel surcharge. Mind you, the fuel surcharge happened the minute the war started
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I mean, there was a bit of profiteering. But yes, I think just increased costs across the board
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Simple as that. A few people have mentioned it to us. They're not happy that Donald Trump obviously has kind of caused that with what's happened in Iran
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the foreign very linked to Donald Trump at the moment, would that put you off voting for them ahead of the parliamentary election
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Listen, see all the politicians at the moment. I've got no confidence in any of them
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It's all just rhetoric, it's words. You need action and you need good long-term strategic action
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And there's nobody out there, I think, giving me any confidence that that is what's happening, quite frankly
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It's all just firefighting and vote-gaining. and the Scottish, we'll get the Scottish Parliament getting voters in
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I pull my hair out. Well, I've not got much hair anyway
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Donald Trump, the way he's doing things right now, I wouldn't agree with it
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It's because of him, the diesel shortage happens, which is affecting everyone
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Transport, us delivering things, even customers coming to us is affecting them
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So hopefully that changes. We're just hoping for the best of that
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being seen as linked to Donald Trump. Maybe not the best. No, no, no, no, not the best
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OK, we're here in Glasgow now, where we've heard that Malcolm Offord, the Scottish leader
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of reform, is on the campaign trail. So we're going to try and find him, try and get a word
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with him, see if he thinks that these Trump links are going to cause a problem for him
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We've actually been out and about speaking to quite a lot of potential reform voters
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who are put off by the party's links with Donald Trump, Nigel Vrages' links with Donald
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Trump, how worried are you about that? No I mean Donald Trump whether you like him or not is the democratically elected president of the United States He also Scottish and he employs a lot of people in Scotland right So I don agree with everything Donald Trump says
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What I would say is that Donald Trump, you shouldn't necessarily take everything he says literally
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but you should take him seriously. What would you say then to people who, I mean, we spoke to one farmer, for example
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who said he really likes what a farmer has to say on farming, a lot of policies he likes
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but you say given what's happened with Donald Trump in the last month, what's happened in Iran, it really has put him off the party
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What would you say to him to reconvince him? I would say to him that we need, Britain needs the United States
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But the king's there right now for that reason. We can't defend ourselves of the United States
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Donald Trump's president is the 46th whatever president, and he will move on, there'll be another president
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Our relationship with America will endure, and I'd say don't let that influence you
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Let's focus on what's good for you and your family and your community. So there you go, Malcolm Offord's pretty confident that this Donald Trump link
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is not going to harm his party's chances in the elections. We are just going to nip into a pub nearby here as well
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This is where Nigel Farage was visiting very recently and see what people think there
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How do you feel about Nigel? I think hopefully it's all the truth he tells
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He promises what we want to hear. and when he gets voted in, he's got to deliver
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I think 90% of his policies he's right, aye. What do you make of how close he is with Donald Trump
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Do you think that's a good thing or a bad thing? Oh, come on, Donald Trump's Donald Trump
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Take him with a punch of salt. Whatever he says. I know, with a salt
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I actually like the fella that happens. Donald Trump too, and Nigel
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You wouldn't see that as an issue in terms of wanting to support Nigel Farage
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Some people we speak to they say, oh I do like his policies, but the fact that he's quite
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close with Donald Trump and what's going on with Iran, things like that, puts it off him
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Donald Trump shouldn't worry us, we should worry about Britain. I think him and Donald Trump are quite similar in that they say it how it is, and they don't
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sugarcoat it. they just go straight ahead and say this is what I'm going to do. Trump's doing it
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Benito-Steve Nigel gets the chance to do it and I hope he does
