Nigel Farage was due to appear on Laura Kuenssberg this morning, but when the show started he was nowhere to be seen. Quite why this happened is unclear, but people have their suspicions:

Its been reported that Nigel Farage was meant to go on #BBCLauraK this morning but he sent Richard Tice instead. Here’s Tice being asked about Trump & Greenland and being forced to say president Trump has got it wrong. Its a real mystery why Farage bottled it! pic.twitter.com/aHpuBDENTb

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 18, 2026

Did Farage duck out because he doesn’t want to stand up to his gaffer (i.e. Trump)?

Or is something else going on?

Trumpler

As we’ve reported, Trump has been threatening to annex Greenland — a Danish territory. This is especially problematic because Denmark is a member of NATO, which is itself a Mafia-like protection racket run by the US. Obviously you can’t have a protection racket in which the protector robs from the protectees, and the NATO members are very upset about this turn of events.

In response to all this, several NATO countries are sending troops to Greenland to discourage the US from invading. This hope is that the force won’t have to fight, obviously, which is presumably why Keir Starmer chose to send the most embarrassing number of soldiers possible — one soldier.

In response to all this, Trump has dropped another round of tariffs on the European countries who are standing up to him:

Trump is raising tariffs on 8 NATO allies because they rightly support Denmark’s sovereignty in Greenland.

Destroying our closest alliances to take Greenland — which Denmark lets us use freely already — is insane. Congress must say NO.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 17, 2026

This is obviously a problem for politicians like Nigel Farage. As much he’s has crowed about ‘sovereignty’, he’s about as sovereign from the US as Emu was from Rod Hull.

While Farage has spoken out against the tariffs, he’s done so in the sort of lily-livered fashion that you expect from Starmer:

We don’t always agree with the US government and in this case we certainly don’t. These tariffs will hurt us.

If Greenland is vulnerable to malign influences, then have another look at Diego Garcia. https://t.co/z0r0IUlD6I

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) January 17, 2026

Speaking on behalf of his boss, deputy Richard Tice said in the video above:

The president is completely wrong. I think we’re all utterly united, both here in UK, in the UK political scene, but also actually across all of the other NATO allies.

The fact that Reform are saying this shows they understand how deranged Trump’s moves are. At the same time, they understand that Tice saying this live on air will cause far less of a stir than Farage voicing the same opinion.

Let’s not kid ourselves, though; Tice also did what he could to defend Trump’s completely unjustified and nonsensical move:

I think what the president is most concerned about is the risk of particularly China, but also Russia, gaining an extra presence in and around Greenland, in the same way that he’s concerned about the risk of China in Venezuela. And I think that’s what’s primarily on his mind. He’s correct on that, but the approach in terms of the way that you work with your closest allies, all of your NATO allies, is clearly completely wrong.

The political establishment spends a lot of time talking about the threat of China, but the reality is that China is far too busy getting shit done to invade Greenland:

China opened 2,776 km of new high-speed rail lines in 2023 alone, which is the equivalent of Japan’s entire High Speed Rail system.

Its total High Speed Rail now stands at 45,000km or 2/3rds of the global total. It intends to reach 70,000 km of HSR by 2035. pic.twitter.com/eiX0qnnu29

— Orikron 骆培思 (@orikron) January 11, 2024

Reform says Trump is trying to protect us all from “malign Chinese influence in and around Greenland” but he’s going about it in the wrong way.

“Malign Chinese influence” has been made up by the US administration & by pushing this false narrative Reform are doing Trumps bidding pic.twitter.com/HQ61oCpouQ

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 18, 2026

The Yankee Doodle Dipshits at GB News are shrieking about Greenland’s plentiful ‘rare earths’, but the truth is ‘rare earths’ are not rare; what’s rare is the ability to process them. China has that capacity; the rest of the world does not.

Simply having more rare earths changes nothing without spending decades investing in the ability to do something with them.

Rare earths are not rare. But the processing of rare earths is owned and controlled by one country – China.

China produces 60% of rare earths and processes 90% of them. pic.twitter.com/TA3K4Nbr2G

— Michael Dunne (@dunne_insights) April 20, 2025

There’s also very little risk that Russia will invade Greenland given that Denmark is a NATO member.

Also, it’s Greenland; nobody needs Greenland.

Stop trying to make Greenland a thing.

Farage running scared

There’s another theory as to why Farage ducked the interviews:

Week by week – they are interviewing the party leaders.

When I agreed to come on the show, I was told Nigel Farage was also doing it.

He’s now pulled out – and they’ve sent the deputy instead.

The same Nigel Farage who’s refusing to debate me.

A pattern emerging… https://t.co/48t1ovQuGJ

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) January 18, 2026

As we reported, Farage has been ‘ducking’ a one-to-one debate with Polanski. It’s not hard to see why, given that Polanski has proven to be ahead of the curve:

When we said NATO wasn’t working we were derided.

When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid.

The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe.

It’s time for a rethink.

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) January 18, 2026

Farage called Polanski a “lunatic”; he calls Trump ‘friend‘.

Featured image via Owain Davies (Wikipedia)

By Willem Moore

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