The best thing Farage can do is go back to being a TV personality. He wasn’t too bad then. Now he’s basically rocking the boat and will just give Starmer another term in office. Worryingly this might be a Lib/Lab coalition which will probably see the UK returning to the EU. It’d be Ironic if the so called ‘Mr Brexit’ ended up causing us to go back in the EU.
You criticise Farage, and talk about us rejoining the EU, but the Conservatives were in favour of remaining in the EU until 5 minutes after they lost the referendum. Without Farage, there wouldn't be a question of whether we join the EU or not, because we never would have left. The Conservative members and MPs voted for the federalist David Cameron, and then did nothing as he failed to deliver his promise to undo Lisbon, and did nothing to criticise him as he called UKIP members racists, fruitcakes and loonies, and later, offered a pathetic renegotiation while continuing to support remaining.
Everything that has been delivered that could be described as against the prevailing establishment pro-Guardian orthodoxy in politics for the past 20 years is down to Farage.
The problem is the people still voting for the Conservatives out of the naive belief that even after 20 years of this, that they're somehow the robust pro-family, pro-individual party of the 1980s rather than socialists in nicer suits.
So it was Nigel Farage who won Brexit? I agree that without him, there would have been no referendum in the first place. But during the referendum itself, some senior figures associated with the Leave campaign came to view Farage as a liability rather than an asset.
IMO It was Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson, Matthew Eliott, Daniel Hannan and Kate Hoey who really won the argument (apart from some useless Remain campaigning).
I am not saying I want us to rejoin the EU – I was and still am a Brexiteer. I am saying that it’d be ironic if the end result of Reform’s unintelligent campaigning is to leave us with a Lib/Lab coalition that would take us back in. The only way to ensure we stay out is to vote Conservative.
I don't trust my Conservative candidate, because days before, he was waving a "Stronger In" flag. 5 minutes after the vote, he was a leaver. Either his reassessement of the benefits and disadvantages coincided perfectly, or he lacks conviction in his position. Why should I trust someone like that to continue to hold the position of wanting to leave the EU?
The best thing Farage can do is go back to being a TV personality. He wasn’t too bad then. Now he’s basically rocking the boat and will just give Starmer another term in office. Worryingly this might be a Lib/Lab coalition which will probably see the UK returning to the EU. It’d be Ironic if the so called ‘Mr Brexit’ ended up causing us to go back in the EU.
It would certainly be the funniest outcome possible
You criticise Farage, and talk about us rejoining the EU, but the Conservatives were in favour of remaining in the EU until 5 minutes after they lost the referendum. Without Farage, there wouldn't be a question of whether we join the EU or not, because we never would have left. The Conservative members and MPs voted for the federalist David Cameron, and then did nothing as he failed to deliver his promise to undo Lisbon, and did nothing to criticise him as he called UKIP members racists, fruitcakes and loonies, and later, offered a pathetic renegotiation while continuing to support remaining.
Everything that has been delivered that could be described as against the prevailing establishment pro-Guardian orthodoxy in politics for the past 20 years is down to Farage.
The problem is the people still voting for the Conservatives out of the naive belief that even after 20 years of this, that they're somehow the robust pro-family, pro-individual party of the 1980s rather than socialists in nicer suits.
So it was Nigel Farage who won Brexit? I agree that without him, there would have been no referendum in the first place. But during the referendum itself, some senior figures associated with the Leave campaign came to view Farage as a liability rather than an asset.
IMO It was Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson, Matthew Eliott, Daniel Hannan and Kate Hoey who really won the argument (apart from some useless Remain campaigning).
I am not saying I want us to rejoin the EU – I was and still am a Brexiteer. I am saying that it’d be ironic if the end result of Reform’s unintelligent campaigning is to leave us with a Lib/Lab coalition that would take us back in. The only way to ensure we stay out is to vote Conservative.
I don't trust my Conservative candidate, because days before, he was waving a "Stronger In" flag. 5 minutes after the vote, he was a leaver. Either his reassessement of the benefits and disadvantages coincided perfectly, or he lacks conviction in his position. Why should I trust someone like that to continue to hold the position of wanting to leave the EU?