Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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oh yes it is
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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So Farage wants Boris to join forces.
Heaven help us all, that will probably mean a hung parliament and more squabbling.
I do not like either of them but with the choice of no Brexit from the other parties I can see there is really no alternative.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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He's barely picked up the gun and he's already shot himself in the foot. Question: how to secure the votes of Tory-allergic Leavers? Answer: why, say you'll team up with the Tories; they'll vote TBP in their droves, of course! Farage needs to put away his Ladybird book of political strategy and do some serious thinking for once in his life.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Farage doesn't want Brexit. Farage doesn't want to be an MP. Farage wants to carry on exactly as he is now - freeloading on a tax payer funded salary, while all the while professionally moaning about it.
Think about it, how many of us get a six figure salary, can continually slag off our employer, barely turn up for work and be lauded a hero for it? He's got it made, the last thing he wants is for that to change....
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
jan, you can all ways vote for something you don't want. and see what you get.
Button- Location: Dover
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Please put a sock in it WGS; you spoil my fun and there'll be a McDonalds milkshake heading your way!
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 13,637
Brian Dixon wrote:jan, you can all ways vote for something you don't want. and see what you get.
I know I am old but that would be just completely daft as well as a waste of time, dementia has not set in thank goodness.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:Please put a sock in it WGS; you spoil my fun and there'll be a McDonalds milkshake heading your way!
I think you'll get your fun, B, what with the Goon Show being on daily for the next six weeks or so.
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Button- Location: Dover
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Sadly it appears that Mr Farage has taken on board the thrust of WGS' advice and nobly stood aside and given up his swagger stick (or bagpipes) for candidates more suited to the hurly-burly of UK political life. Remind me, with what colour is the Brexit Party associated?
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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As I predicted a few posts back, Farage is a monumental fraud. He doesn't want Brexit, never has and never will. He wants to carry on exactly as he is. He simply winds the likes of Kimmie up when really he is taking them for a ride. Hates the EU? Has spent a career working for/within it and will enjoy a large pension from it. Too many Foreigners in this country? Married a German, employed her here and then had an affair with a French national. As ALWAYS with Farage, it is do as I say, not as I do....
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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.....and would NEVER be able to commit to the ethical standards that an MP has to.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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And while I'm at it - he is trying to derail Brexit in plain sight. Trying to dilute the Tory vote. He knows it won't be successful, so is better placed to always be the eternal victim. If he can only stop it from happening, he can always claim it would have been the answer...
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Re #991. B, my 'advice' to Farage wasn't to deck himself out in a fetching yellow (which he nevertheless appears to have done), but to apply whatever brain cells he has left after his beer-swilling adventures to thinking tactically. By that I don't mean join in unholy matrimony with some tired and emotional blue-rinsed political party, but rather to seek out and guarantee redress to those non-party groups (e.g. WASPIs - over 3.5m votes, major parties uninterested in their case) who've been seriously shafted by successive Tory, Blairy-eyed Labour and Tory-Illiberal Tendency coalition policies. Add that to committed, genuine Leavers and TBP may be a force. But Farage's failure to go there shows TBP to be old-style like the rest of them.
Also, what's this with the 'Trump's a chum' stuff? He may think it bigs up his ego, like the weedy boy standing leeside of the bully, but it doesn't sign well for independence. Leave Johnson to be embarrassed by the Trump association. Last thing we need is out of the EU frying pan into the US fire.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
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DC on the phone to me
DC on the right
Here I am
Scared of a milkshake or two!
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Maybe, but someone stands to lose more than his ear when his wheel's stolen.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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We will know by the 14th.
I guess it all depends on who else from Boris's Conservative pals with a dodgy majority is going to want to stand here.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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My guess would be Charlie standing as an independent with the Tories not fielding anyone against him. That does carry risk, however, so imagine strategists are trying to weigh this up as we speak, so to speak.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Tories off to a rum start, what with big Welsh cheese Cairns caught up in a rape trial sabotage and muckamuck Mogg undergoing a foot-in-mouth operation.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,975
Usual tit for tat .
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