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klang
One of his more attractive details.
The Reform UK Party (latest nigel farage vehicle) is it to be laughed at or not
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Nylock
I hate 'these days'...
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andysays
Love and solidarity
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
so, the racist party was a bit too racist for him, so he's going to join the slightly less racist party instead...
hmm
andysays
Love and solidarity
We've heard a bit recently about how the Reform party didn't manage to vet all its candidates in time for the election, but this appears to be a candidate not vetting the party properly
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Indeed.. what does he think they're about?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
“I was a member of the Tories for ten years, but in the end they became a right bunch of headbangers, so I joined Reform because they ‘better represented the values I wish to campaign on’, which was fine until they started actually saying the values out loud and on camera in the plain language we all meant”
Lurdan
old wave
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Conspiracies to the left of him
Conspiracies to the right
Here he is stuck in the middle with Farage.
Conspiracies to the right
Here he is stuck in the middle with Farage.
Ranbay
The same rules apply
Anyone think Farage will quit after he wins his seat?
i mean if they don't get a load of seats what's he going to do? will he do anything for the people?
will he just be happy with the £25 per member and fuck it all off?
Obvs he will blame the establishment and say he couldn't make any change everything is rigged against him etc etc
i mean if they don't get a load of seats what's he going to do? will he do anything for the people?
will he just be happy with the £25 per member and fuck it all off?
Obvs he will blame the establishment and say he couldn't make any change everything is rigged against him etc etc
tommers
Busta Rhymes is an unstoppable movement
Big fat old bald men rampaging through Whitehall by the end of the year, screaming about a rigged election.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
A saint he ain't
mojo pixy
...שלא נמצא בשמאל
If he loses, he'll just get on the sour-grapes train accusing everyone from labour to the tories to the morning star to the telegraph of ruining his special moment.
If he wins, he'll do more or less the same but with a smug smile.
Ranbay
The same rules apply
Nut will he stick it out, say they get 1-20 MP's what's that going to change? fuck all... so will he just think, ah fuck this im off.
or stick it out for years and actually have to work
King Biscuit Time
Well-Known Member
He will use the HoC as his own private tiktok studio.
He will make endless claims of being stitched up by the establishment/FPTP for trying to say what real people think. I think the more votes than the Tories ship has sailed but I guarantee he won't shut up about the Lib Dems having more seats than him if he beats them in the popular vote.
He will occasionally transgress the norms of parliament/MP behaviour to stay in the paper and keep the Bannon style strategy of flooding the zone with shit going. Expect bad behaviour.
He will be an irksome pub bore voice that the Gvmt will be forced to at least consider when trying to anything even remotely good or progressive. Unless Starmer tackles him head on
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Yeah he'll just be the same attention seeking blowhard gobshite as he's always been. Being an MP makes that easier rather than harder so not sure why he'd quit. Plus he gets paid and gets cheap drinks.
Ranbay
The same rules apply
But i mean it's like effort and stuff, he will have to do something, and i don't think he likes actual work,
mojo pixy
...שלא נמצא בשמאל
He's also of course got one eye on the trumpery across the sea, how that goes willl certainly define how much attention the people of Clacton get from him should he win. Should he and Trump both win their respective ballots, he's going to act like some transatlantic colossus isn't he? Clacton might get more out of him if he loses, because he'll need to start working towards the next GE (or at conniving some by-election...)
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I don't think he'll quit as an MP, he'll carry on taking the salary, while continuing to do his GB News show, which is worth about £350k pa to him, this whole shitshow is about building brand Farage, he's a grifter
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Why will he? Beyond sounding off which he's obviously happy to do. No-one can make him do any actual constituency work can they.
Ranbay
The same rules apply
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I don't understand why you think that, why would he walk away from the money, and chance to pop up every so often in the house for some ranting and raging, to generate content for his GB News show?
Ranbay
The same rules apply
just a hunch, that's all, lets see who's right in 6 months or so
maybe he gets a better job offer in the USA or Russia!
andysays
Love and solidarity
Apparently he will switch to the Tories and become their new leader, and then become PM after the next election, at least that's what at least one poster here reckons...
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
No
The strategy is 2029 and to reshape the right between now and then. Either Farage and Co have a decisive influence in a populist reconfiguration of the Tories or Reform attempt to displace it as the oppositon to centrism/elite liberal opinion.
No.
Regardless of the result (and I think Reform are going to a) poll extremely well but b) due to first past the post this won't translate into more than 4-6 seats) the conspiracy/hidden hand of the establishment stuff is here to stay. He's learnt from the US that this type of stuff has traction due to popular despair/hatred of the elite/political class. Regardless of the result we can expect his tik tok/social media to pump this stuff out and for it to be shared over and over again.
Farage packed out the NEC in Birmingham at the weekend. The biggest event of the GE by a distance and the sort of numbers that flaccid centrists like Starmer and Sunak can only dream of. In recent memory only Corbyn could connect in a similar way. He will win Clacton and poll millions of votes. On 5th July as the rump of the Tory Party surveys the scale of the defeat - and with a Labour Government probably 6 months away from crisis - don't expect anything but a gloating and empowered Farage to step forward with his 'contract' for 2029.
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