Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disaster: Three choices: fiscal implosion, deep austerity or a hasty U-turn

Unfortunately, virtually none of his supporters will be reading an outlet like the Economist. They are, like much of Trump’s base, ‘vibes based’ voters

[To quote prolific Tory MP Michael Gove in the run-up to the Brexit vote- “I think the people of this country have had enough of experts”](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39102840). Farage is just channeling the same energy introduced by the post brexit Conservatives

>Gove: I think the people in this country have had enough of experts, with organizations from acronyms, saying—

>Interviewer: They’ve had enough of experts? The people have had enough of experts? What do you mean by that?

>Gove: People from organizations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.

>Inteviewer: The people of this country have had enough of experts?

>Gove: Because these people are the same ones who got consistently wrong what was happening.

>Interviewer: This is proper Trump politics this, isn’t it?

>Gove: No it’s actually a faith in the—

>Inteviewer: It’s Oxbridge Trump.

>Gove: It’s a faith, Faisal, in the British people to make the right decision.

All of these populist parties are this. Reform ain’t special