Policies are often "popular" - until you ask people to consider their implications.
(Not something they were really asked to do in 2016, for example.)
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If you support a political party whose name starts with 'Re', I'm afraid there's nothing for you here.
![UKIP leader Nigel Farage has described US President Barack Obama as a "loathsome individual" and a "creature" who "couldn't stand our country".
He told Talk Radio he "couldn't be happier" about Donald Trump's US election victory and that he would work to further trade relations.
Mr Farage said he would advise him: "Come and schmooze Theresa [May], but don't touch her, for goodness' sake."
Mr Trump and Mr Farage campaigned alongside one another in August.
Asked about the Republican's unexpected election victory against Democrat Hillary Clinton, UKIP's interim leader - in place following the resignation of his successor, Diane James - said he "couldn't be happier".
He described the result as "Brexit times two", adding of his own role in events: "I'm the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites and all these dreadful people who, working hand-in-glove with Goldman Sachs and everybody else, have made themselves rich and ruined our countries."
He claimed Mr Trump, who will be inaugurated in January, "hates the EU even more than I do" and predicted an improvement in US-UK relations, saying: "That Obama creature, loathsome individual, couldn't stand our country. He said we'd be at the back of the queue [for trade deals], didn't he?
"What was interesting was that Trump said we'd be at the front of the queue."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tnzu7bjf2g2a7yavlt2zhvlq/bafkreig6n6qgygh5mz7w6jwpz2qw53x3besw7cfxqxc6ua4qatzl46xege)
