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Old 01-01-2017, 21:23
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Bored of Farage now. He's so 2016. Time to move on.
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Old 01-01-2017, 21:38
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If the electorate of Europe have a genuine problem with the EU, they can vote in Eurosceptic national governments to change the policies or direction the union is going. The British public could have elected a UKIP government in 2015 if they felt that energised by the subject, just as the French have the power to vote in Marine le Pen this summer - nobody is stopping them.
Which is exactly what happened here. The Tories took the election on a platform that the EU was not working for Britain, they said they would renegotiate and the electorate would be asked to leave or stay based on the new deal. The electorate were asked and said we should leave. So the British electorate have voted in the Eurosceptic party and that party being unable to change the EU to the satisfaction of the British electorate are taking us out of the EU. In the end we did not need a UKIP government or even more than one UKIP MP.
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Old 01-01-2017, 21:58
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Bored of Farage now. He's so 2016. Time to move on.
Hahaha. Good one!
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Old 01-01-2017, 22:16
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Love him or loathe him people can't stop talking about him.

Churchill of course was hated by half the country in the mid 1930s - but he turned out to be right too.
Yes he did.
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Old 01-01-2017, 22:33
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Fantastic, happy new year Nigel and down with the EU.
Well said !
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Old 01-01-2017, 22:52
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Which is exactly what happened here. The Tories took the election on a platform that the EU was not working for Britain, they said they would renegotiate and the electorate would be asked to leave or stay based on the new deal. The electorate were asked and said we should leave. So the British electorate have voted in the Eurosceptic party and that party being unable to change the EU to the satisfaction of the British electorate are taking us out of the EU. In the end we did not need a UKIP government or even more than one UKIP MP.
All of which proves the EU is not a dictatorship. Any one of the 28 countries is free to announce a Leave referendum at any point they like and if the result is to leave, they can trigger Article 50 the following morning.
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Old 01-01-2017, 23:05
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Agreed. Great message from the main man of 2016 and likely to dominate 2017 too, fabulous. Nigel is on LBC tomorrow from 10 am, marvellous.
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Old 01-01-2017, 23:11
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All Farage will be doing in is 2017 is shwoing so much love for Britain and its people he'll be in America brown-nosing Trump. He certainly won't be doing anything to help this country or the "little guy" (not that he ever did, but he's fooled a lot of people into thinking it). All he cares about is helping himself and inflating his ego more than it already is. While spouting the occasional bit of bigoted rabble rousing bile to keep his supporters energised and on side.

Of course he'll also still be taking taxpayer's money from the EU to not turn up and do the job he was elected for. As well as not turning up to the fishereies comittee to represent the fishermen he pretended to show so much concern for during the referendum campaign.
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Old 01-01-2017, 23:24
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All Farage will be doing in is 2017 is shwoing so much love for Britain and its people he'll be in America brown-nosing Trump. He certainly won't be doing anything to help this country or the "little guy" (not that he ever did, but he's fooled a lot of people into thinking it). All he cares about is helping himself and inflating his ego more than it already is. While spouting the occasional bit of bigoted rabble rousing bile to keep his supporters energised and on side.

Of course he'll also still be taking taxpayer's money from the EU to not turn up and do the job he was elected for. As well as not turning up to the fishereies comittee to represent the fishermen he pretended to show so much concern for during the referendum campaign.
One thing that goes virtually unnoticed is that Farage is not really a "politician" in the truest sense of the word. He's more of a media personality and campaigner and doesn't seem entirely interested in the world of day to day politics. He probably would make a useless MP or government minister and would spend most of his time giving TV interviews and appearing on Question Time.
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Old 01-01-2017, 23:31
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Well we know how useful he is in his job as an elected MEP... Though the rest of his party are just the same.

Of course George Galloway was the same when he was an MP- putting licking milk out of Rula Lenska's hands on Big Brother, hosting radio shows and making propaganda broadcasts for Russsia Today and Press TV more important than representing his constituents. No wonder he failed to be re-elected for a second term in either of his constituencies.
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Old 01-01-2017, 23:41
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Well we know how useful he is in his job as an elected MEP... Though the rest of his party are just the same.

Of course George Galloway was the same when he was an MP- putting licking milk out of Rula Lenska's hands on Big Brother, hosting radio shows and making propaganda broadcasts for Russsia Today and Press TV more important than representing his constituents. No wonder he failed to be re-elected for a second term in either of his constituencies.
It does illustrate though that people are attracted to the idea of a "TV personality" spouting soundbites what with him plus Trump getting elected in the US.....maybe this is the new politics.
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Old 01-01-2017, 23:52
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It does illustrate though that people are attracted to the idea of a "TV personality" spouting soundbites what with him plus Trump getting elected in the US.....maybe this is the new politics.
People are thinking elections are like The X Factor. Reality TV as cloused people's judgement.

Thankfully Farage, unlike Trump, stands no chance of getting near power. FPTP, for all its flaws, stops UKIP getting a foothold anyway, and Farage, despite his devoted following, is deeply unpopular and disliked and has failed to be elected as an MP several times. So he has no chance of getting near downing street, or even the cabine toffice. All he can manage is being an MEP (that never turns up).
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Old 02-01-2017, 00:16
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Well we know how useful he is in his job as an elected MEP... Though the rest of his party are just the same.

Of course George Galloway was the same when he was an MP- putting licking milk out of Rula Lenska's hands on Big Brother, hosting radio shows and making propaganda broadcasts for Russsia Today and Press TV more important than representing his constituents. No wonder he failed to be re-elected for a second term in either of his constituencies.
Obviously you haven't watched any of his speeches in the European Parliament.

He wasn't sent there to spend time in pointless committees discussing regulations we don't want - but to undermine it. And he has some that quite well.
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Old 02-01-2017, 00:30
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Obviously you haven't watched any of his speeches in the European Parliament.

He wasn't sent there to spend time in pointless committees discussing regulations we don't want - but to undermine it. And he has some that quite well.
Well thank God not all MEP's are there to undermine it. How would it be expected to function efficiently with a bunch of rabble rousers spouting their puerile, xenophobic nonsense?

Farage has no plan. no ideas he is just hell bent on causing mayhem and disruption. He's an attention seeking, self centred, egotistical fool.
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Old 02-01-2017, 00:44
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Obviously you haven't watched any of his speeches in the European Parliament.

He wasn't sent there to spend time in pointless committees discussing regulations we don't want - but to undermine it. And he has some that quite well.
He is regarded in the European Parliament as being more far right than either Marine le Pen or Geert Wilders (that's something you'll never hear in the British media oddly). His speeches there are considered quite toxic and rabble rousing. Having said that, he is a skillful orator which is perhaps where much of his appeal lies.
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Old 02-01-2017, 01:28
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He wasn't sent there to spend time in pointless committees discussing regulations we don't want - but to undermine it. And he has some that quite well.
So Europe is rubbish and we have to leave it because of morons like Farage intentionally sabotaging it in order to make it rubbish so we have to leave it. Pathetic.
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Old 02-01-2017, 01:36
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I doubt Farage (and the rest of his Kipper mates) being arses has much of an effect on the day to day running of the EU. Apart from of course taking taxpayer's money for doing nothing. There's enough MEPs who actually want to do their job who are than outdo any of the UKIP rabble rousing. All they really do is embarrass our country in the eyes of the world.
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Old 02-01-2017, 09:26
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Farage is the very worst example of an Englishman and his views are irrelevant.
Good example of the elite Englishman, the Pied Piper he is. He did have one redeeming feature and that was his very strong critique of American extradition laws on British citizens, oddly he has gone very quite on this subject
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Old 02-01-2017, 09:39
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Agreed. Great message from the main man of 2016 and likely to dominate 2017 too, fabulous. Nigel is on LBC tomorrow from 10 am, marvellous.
For such a dominant man, you don't seem to see him very often here in the real world. He only seems to pop up on the news when he makes another ill-thought out remark about a process he has no control over. He thinks he's a government official. How quaint.

The rest of the country would rather he went back into his hole. But LBC seem to like paying professional trolls, given that they've got him and that awful Hopkins woman
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Old 02-01-2017, 09:56
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Obviously you haven't watched any of his speeches in the European Parliament.

He wasn't sent there to spend time in pointless committees discussing regulations we don't want - but to undermine it. And he has some that quite well.
When the likes of Farage and yourself have destroyed your world who is going to lighten your darkness? Negativism feeds on itself and is destructive. You are welcome to it.
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Old 02-01-2017, 10:15
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Obviously you haven't watched any of his speeches in the European Parliament.

He wasn't sent there to spend time in pointless committees discussing regulations we don't want - but to undermine it.
This is something always glossed over by those who now purport to be diehard EU fans. Anti-EU voters kept sending him, and more and more UKIP MEPs, to do exactly that - undermine what they see as a phoney, gravy train 'parliament' to give the EU fatcats a cloak of democracy in action.
And yet, at any time, all those people appalled by UKIP's two fingers to the EU approach, all those horrified or embarrassed that these were our GB representatives in the treasured talking shop, could have gone out at EU elections and voted for Europhile candidates.
Where were you "48%"? At the last EU election turnout here was just 35.6%, the UKIP vote went up 10.6% to make them the largest party from here, and the LibDems were slaughtered, left with just one seat.. in the SE of England.
So this current johnny-come-lately over the EU and vociferous slagging of UKIP is fascinating.
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Old 02-01-2017, 10:19
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T**t'

'Live life as if it's your last day' - what the Hell is he on about?

A rabble rouser pure and simple..
It is a well known saying meaning make the most of each day.
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Old 02-01-2017, 10:53
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This is something always glossed over by those who now purport to be diehard EU fans. Anti-EU voters kept sending him, and more and more UKIP MEPs, to do exactly that - undermine what they see as a phoney, gravy train 'parliament' to give the EU fatcats a cloak of democracy in action.
And yet, at any time, all those people appalled by UKIP's two fingers to the EU approach, all those horrified or embarrassed that these were our GB representatives in the treasured talking shop, could have gone out at EU elections and voted for Europhile candidates.
Where were you "48%"? At the last EU election turnout here was just 35.6%, the UKIP vote went up 10.6% to make them the largest party from here, and the LibDems were slaughtered, left with just one seat.. in the SE of England.
So this current johnny-come-lately over the EU and vociferous slagging of UKIP is fascinating.

I don't think there are many (if any) on here who purport to be 'diegard EU fans' as you put it. Personally it was something that I just took for granted in my life. It always just seemed like common sense - I never said or thought of it as perfect but in my mind it was 'fit for purpose'.

All this 'gravy train' - 'snouts in the trough' 'fat cats' nonsense was just that to me - NONSENSE.

We were/are the fifth largest economy - we acheived that by being part of the EU - how that money was spent/distributed amongst regions/citizens in this country is down to the governments past and present and we have been sorely let down

Turning everything upside down and inside out won't change anything on the 'home front'. I have always voted in local and general elections - I'll put my hands up and say that I never paid much attention to EU elections.

Never have been a 'diehard EU fan' - but I now see how easily people/things can be manipulated and how the political outlook in this country can be threatened by an egotistical. opportunist wide boy and his ilk. People like Farage prey on peoples fears and prejudices - there is more to Herr Farage than wanting out of the EU - he is a dangerous individual and now that Trump has pulled the same stunt in the US with the disillusioned electorate I am worried for the future of this country and beyond.

This is all NOTHING to do with leaving the EU - this is a threat to the world order as we know it.
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Old 02-01-2017, 17:06
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All of which proves the EU is not a dictatorship. Any one of the 28 countries is free to announce a Leave referendum at any point they like and if the result is to leave, they can trigger Article 50 the following morning.
I have not said the EU is a dictatorship, I have said that its methods and its structure removes it too far from accountability to the electorates over whom it is acquiring more and more power. Its ultimate destination is an unaccountable bureaucracy. Which is not democratic freedom.
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Old 02-01-2017, 17:21
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I have not said the EU is a dictatorship, I have said that its methods and its structure removes it too far from accountability to the electorates over whom it is acquiring more and more power. Its ultimate destination is an unaccountable bureaucracy. Which is not democratic freedom.
And people accuse me of being overly dramatic LOL
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