The Brexit Party

[Serge Forward]

But who will reform the reform party?

 

[SpineyNorman]

So basically they're going to morph into the lib dems?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'd like to think we could now start completely ignoring them, as should have happened years ago, but he'll still be on the news all the time won't he

 

[ska invita]

I'd like to think we could now start completely ignoring them, as should have happened years ago, but he'll still be on the news all the time won't he

Yes. So much Brexit still to happen and we all have to ask Nigel at every step whether its really happening or not yet

 

[steeplejack]

Open Democracy sheds some light today on dubious business dealings by Hartlepool PPC and Brexit Party "chairman" Richard Tice.

Meanwhile this evening Channel 4 reveals the Hartlepool Brexit franchise to be riddled with knuckle-dragging Islamophobes and budget Paul-Dodd-style hooligan fantasists.

The Brexit Party are reputedly chucking money at Tice's flatlining campaign. They'd be as well putting it on a low loader and setting it on fire whilst emitting a racist whine. Tice began the campaign with Swinsonesque pretensions of taking the seat, and now look at him.

LOL

 

[Badgers]

Racism in key Brexit Party campaign

 

[Poot]

There is a very real chance that Ann Widdecombe might drop round my gaff if she is canvassing. Does anyone have a message for her?

 

[moochedit]

So basically they're going to morph into the lib dems?

Does sound like it although i guess swinson/chukka's lot will want to rejoin the eu and farages lot won't.

 

[Supine]

There is a very real chance that Ann Widdecombe might drop round my gaff if she is canvassing. Does anyone have a message for her?

Pants down moon

 

[Poot]

Pants down moon

Ironically still a better message than the Brexit Party's.

 

[Pickman's model]

Pants down moon

now everyone knows my urban password

 

[Badgers]

Brexit Party councillors caught on hidden camera in racist tirade against Asian people

Bit more coverage

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

There is a very real chance that Ann Widdecombe might drop round my gaff if she is canvassing. Does anyone have a message for her?

I don’t think there’s a bucket big enough to hold the message I’d have for her.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don’t think there’s a bucket big enough to hold the message I’d have for her.

would it fit on the angel of the north?

 

[Poot]

I don’t think there’s a bucket big enough to hold the message I’d have for her.

I think she may have gone into hiding after her golliwog "gaffe" (read not-even-dog-whistle racism). Well, if she has any sense she has. The spiteful old bastard.

 

[The39thStep]

Hope Not Hate has picked up the James Buckley stuff that some of us contributed to on Twitter
EXPOSED: Brexit Party candidate James Edward Buckley is Far-Right Activist and Antisemite – HOPE not hate

 

[brogdale]

The Farage legacy?

There are 34 seats where the Brexit Party vote was larger than the margin of Conservative Party loss. In other words, 34 Labour MPs have survived thanks to Nigel Farage.

Those Labour MPs who should be grateful to Mr Farage include many committed Remainers such as Yvette Cooper and Ed Miliband, both of whom voted against Brexit. Without the Brexit Party, the Labour Party would have been reduced to 168 seats, rather than the 202 they have today. The Conservative Party has only now fully recovered from John Major’s disastrous 1997 defeat – 165 seats.

 

[Proper Tidy]

The Farage legacy?

Not sure it's as simple as that though. Suspect there are voters who could switch labour to brexit party but wouldn't have been able to switch straight from labour to tory, which a) makes the maths above suspect and b) cost labour seats elsewhere. Issue is that switching labour > brexit > tory could be easier.

 

[andysays]

The Farage legacy?

Whatever conclusions we might draw, there's an assumption there that everyone who voted for the Brexit Party would have voted Tory if Farage's mob hadn't stood. Clearly that doesn't stand up.

 

[brogdale]

Agree with both above.
Nonetheless, a potential wind-up for any BP types we may encounter over the next few weeks!