Anybody see Nigel farage this afternoon

just seen it on news , rubbing it right in

tbf he was never just content to sit on the gravy train like most


thot it was a bit petty asking for flags to be removed tho was an unprecedented kind of day

A bit petty is been very kind hello it was pathetic.

Mind you Nigel loved the telling off

wealthy, arrogant, Brexit party mp,s celebrating losing 6 figure salaries and expense accounts tells you, all you need to no,when they stand as men of the people,we get it,you, etc, when standing for election in places like Hartlepool,etc

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Jan 29, 2020 -- 6:34PM, 1st time poster wrote:

wealthy, arrogant, Brexit party mp,s celebrating losing 6 figure salaries and expense accounts tells you, all you need to no,when they stand as men of the people,we get it,you, etc, when standing for election in places like Hartlepool,etc

Farage and his gang were probably my biggest money spinner in the general election thanks to place like Hartlepool. Thanks Nigel, my daughter says her new kitchen is lovely, thanks to you.

brilliant

https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1222562936771809280

He has achieved what he set out to do,not many of our political elite can say that. Well done Nigel.

.... Farage has a good presence (though full of his own contradictions - and without realising it he has been a saviour for the SNP) though it must be said the presence of the arch-lunatic Anne Widdecombe right beside me kind of takes away any kind of serious regard, it exposes the kind of nutjobs he surrounds himself with. Could he not hide the whack job somewhere?

Lets all hope that for political punters like me, serial loser Farage forms another party and another and another...

*right beside him*

the fact he told lie upon lie for 20 years and lived on peoples fears to achieve it is either he nor there,as is him been given the boot by uk electorate 7 /8 times the same electorate he now tells us are very good judges,

9 pm tonite theres a docu about him

prob watch it the mans quite colourful tbh , and tbf he did shake the establishment here and abroad , who seen that coming considering the sheer abuse when he first took the field years ago

If you add up all the seats that UKIP/ Brexit Party have lost in Westminster elections, it must be many thousands with zilch winners.

Though he was cut down rightly by that chairperson - "Sit down, put your flags away - you're leaving - & take them with you - goodbye".  Basically "now, would you ever just f*ck off, and give us all peace"

... they are a bit of a national embarrassment, but kind of funny

Quality from the Nige

Was the chairperson Irish by any chance ? sounded it.

brtexit mep,s are more representative of the modern day tory party than the 300 mp,s in commons,lord no,s what doris is doing leading them

Jan 29, 2020 -- 7:28PM, Wallflower wrote:

... they are a bit of a national embarrassment, but kind of funny

I'm not embarrassed by them, I love em!

oh be quiet billy liar, and stop going on about your bets, once is enough we heard you

Yes lfc.  Ex-sinnfein I thnk.

If you add up all the seats the Brexit Party won in Brussels elections, they're the biggest single party in the EU parliament.

ah, I see . Well some nice words from other Europeans anyway

European president Ursula Von Der Leyen 'we will always love you and we will never be far'

Looked it up, she is Irish.

Mairead McGuinness (born 13 June 1959) is an Irish politician who has served as the First Vice-President of the European Parliament since 2017. She has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the Midlands–North-West constituency since July 2004. She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party.[1]

That party Fine Gael is Varadkar's party - I think they are as far removed from Sinn Fein that you could get.

Regardless, she certainly made short work of Farage - cut off his mic, and told him to take his sandcastle flags with him

Ah yes Mairead. no surprise, probably the nice words made her squirm

Jan 29, 2020 -- 8:01PM, screaming from beneaththewaves wrote:

If you add up all the seats the Brexit Party won in Brussels elections, they're the biggest single party in the EU parliament.

Ah, those will be the ones for low turnout, single issue, protest parties.

Even Guy Verhofstadt made some nice comments, and took Nigels antics with good grace
well done

Sorry lfc, I should have said the Fine Gael party - not sinnfein.  They sound similar and she does share a surname with one of their old hands.

Yes, Gee was better than usual today.  Made some decent acknowledgements.  Still a complete coont tho

You can say whatever you want about NF but without his intervention we would be stuck in the EU for eternity. As lfc has said already..shut the fck up 1st time poster about your fictitious bets on the GE you boring ingenious to$$er.

No I,m not surprised , I was asking was she Irish, you confirmed it trilby thanks
that's leos party then, well we have heard him piping up lately also

Wee Leo really wants to wind his neck in calling other countries "small"

TWIZZLE I wasn't referring to ist time poster

he,s ok its that prat politicspunter

Actually it was politics punter who boasted about opposing the Brexit party but my comments still apply to 1stTP.

LFC...no he's not.

lol, well you might be right I don't know about that

Just read his comments.Both of them sing from the same "Red Flag" song sheet.

If you add up all the seats the Brexit Party won in Brussels elections, they're the biggest single party in the EU parliament.
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Ah, those will be the ones for low turnout, single issue, protest parties.

Surgical precision. Brexit was the target. So he formed the Brexit party to win the EU elections; he did so, May stepped down, the Brexit Party stepped down, and we leave for good on Friday.

And the Remainers? Well, I suppose they can console themselves that they won the argument.

Ah, but when will Nigel form another party so we can make our money betting against them for Westminster seats as always?

Popularism is n fact quite popular

twizzler right on cue confirming that Brexit has proved brexiteers are right thick coooooonts,

Jan 29, 2020 -- 8:29PM, twizzle22 wrote:

Just read his comments.Both of them sing from the same "Red Flag" song sheet.

Lol, twizzle22, here is some advice for you. Do not bet on anything, anything at all, because you are a guesser and a very poor one at that.

Yes, Nigel Farage's parties have never won a seat in parliament, but this is down to how elections are won. He clearly had, on numbers of votes won nationwide in the 2015 GE, the third biggest party in the UK.

And don't think it wise to call him by his initials on this thread.

Of course and I am a supporter of a proportional representation system which would have meant plenty of UKIP representation at Westminster. The current first past the post system is not fit for purpose.

Small parties are better served by the current, first-past-the-post system. They may not win any seats, but their votes, spread across many seats, can cost one of the major parties  plenty. Hence the major party has to accommodate the small party's policies in order not to lose votes to them.

Farage is the perfect example of this. UKIP wanted a referendum, and the Conservatives felt they had to offer one, to avoid splitting the right-wing vote.

Under proportional representation Cameron would have been able to carry on in coalition with the Lib Dems (who would also have done well under proportional representation) and ignored UKIP.

In the 2015 General election the tories gained 36.8% of the vote, the LibDems 7.9% so even in a coalition, under a PR system, they wouldn't have had a majority.

If Ursula had been President instead of Juncker we may have had a more sensible 3 years recently.Comes across as far more down to earth and realistic up to now.

ursula wants an army to quiet down the protesters and then invade eastwards

In the 2015 General election the tories gained 36.8% of the vote, the LibDems 7.9% so even in a coalition, under a PR system, they wouldn't have had a majority.

They still would have formed the government, if they wanted.

Cons 36.8% + LibDems 7.9% = 44.7%
Labour 30.4% + SNP 4.7% = 35.1%

UKIP's 12.6% would have become irrelevant, unless they fancied voting with Labour and the ScotNats.

In fact, if you really want evidence of first-past-the-post favouring the tiny, nutcase parties, the ScotNats are the best example. 4.7% of the votes, but 8.6% of the MPs.

With a bit of luck, Farage will now officially become a boring non entity.
Full time ' propping up the bar'  droning on and on about how wonderful he is.

You after a drinking partner?

Jan 31, 2020 -- 9:55AM, Crisp77 wrote:

You after a drinking partner?

I believe the British electorate do know how to vote in elections eg Brexit Party for MEPs (Brussels), and Tories (GE) to deliver Brexit.

I also believe Mr Juncker and Mr Tusk helped to deliver Brexit (both authoritarian and arrogant but un-elected by EU citizens) with their penchant for more of the same, and reluctance to reform.

I also think Farage was brilliant in his last speech in the European Debate at Brussels earlier in the week.

When we (UK Plc) are more successful and progressive than The EU more fragmentation could only follow esp from the German and French citizens. How much longer can the citizens of these two countries continually supporting the pariah economies and funding of The EU? 5 years perhaps at the most.

FARAGE:   "No more Guy Verhofstadt"

- and then the Chairwoman cut off Farage's microphone.

'They don't like it up 'em'.   

Jan 30, 2020 -- 11:46PM, screaming from beneaththewaves wrote:

In the 2015 General election the tories gained 36.8% of the vote, the LibDems 7.9% so even in a coalition, under a PR system, they wouldn't have had a majority.They still would have formed the government, if they wanted. Cons 36.8% + LibDems 7.9% = 44.7%Labour 30.4% + SNP 4.7% = 35.1%UKIP's 12.6% would have become irrelevant, unless they fancied voting with Labour and the ScotNats.In fact, if you really want evidence of first-past-the-post favouring the tiny, nutcase parties, the ScotNats are the best example. 4.7% of the votes, but 8.6% of the MPs.

How could they form a government without a majority? They would have been in the same boat as Boris found himself pre general election, the biggest "party" but couldn't pass any laws in Westminster.

I,d make him stand in a bus shelter near dover wearing a yellow vest waiting to count in 3  million turks

That may well have happened without UKIP challenging Cameron about his support for that well know democrat Erdogan getting into the EU.

The EU will never admit Turkey as a member despite their qualification on my fronts (apart from human rights) because Turkey will never allow any EU leader from minnow EU member state and economy to tell them what to do. Also, The EU will never accept any new member not conducive to their political strategy going forward ie their expansionism policy.

A DUP member described The EU as a "dank dungeon". How right!

I cannot believe how much negativity sky are dragging into the news in just 10 minutes
now a diatribe from campbell ' and act of terrible self harm'

Campbell = Blair = Free movement of EU people and jobs regardless when Germany and France were putting up immediate "barriers". An utter naivety from the Labour duo.