Top Brexit Party candidate condemned for past defence of IRA bombing Father of schoolboy murdered in Warrington says voters will be 'absolutely disgusted'
The father of a schoolboy killed in an IRA bombing has condemned a Brexit Party candidate for "absolutely disgraceful" comments made in the days after the attack. Claire Fox, who is standing for Nigel Farage's new outfit in the European elections, was previously a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP,) which defended the Warrington bombing on 20 March 1993.
The party's newsletter, published in April 1993, defended "the right of the Irish people to take whatever measures necessary in their struggle for freedom".
Ms Fox is a lead candidate for the new Brexit party in the North West of England, meaning she could represent Warrington, in Cheshire, if the party performs well at the ballot boxes.
Colin Parry, whose son Tim, 12, died following the bombing which left 56 people injured, said voters would be "absolutely disgusted" and urged Ms Fox to disavow her comments.
Asked how voters would view the remarks, Mr Parry added: "I would hope they would be absolutely disgusted by these comments."
Warrington councillor Dan Price said Ms Fox was "totally unfit for office".
Mr Price, one of Change UK's candidates for the European elections, said: "Claire Fox should not be hiding away in London, she should come to Warrington and explain to the Parry family her views on the IRA atrocity that devastated our town.
"Nigel Farage has made a big mistake in making her his priority candidate for Warrington and he is treating us with contempt." Ms Fox has been approached for comment.
A Brexit Party spokesman said Ms Fox does not deny she did hold those views in the past,
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The Brexit Party is popular because it only stands for one thing – and that's a big problem Will the party whip its members, or will it be a free for all? What if some candidates believe in the safeguarding the NHS in its current form, while others believe in privatisation of the health service?
Single issue parties are nothing new, from the Greens to the SNP to Ukip, but all have, in the past, at least had some formal policies on issues away from their main area of interest. The Brexit Party, however, has not published a manifesto and nor does it plan to ahead of the European ballot.
The Brexit Party is doing Eurosceptics a noble service by standing up for their views on leaving the EU. It does us all a disservice, though, for as long as it stays silent elsewhere.
Ann Widdecombe and the Brexit Party was bad enough – then Ant and Dec went and ruined my whole week So many abominations to discuss, as people put spikes in trees to discourage birds and ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ invades the self-service tills
So much of what is going on at the moment seems unfathomable to me. Take the terrifying rise of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party with its sideshow return of the faux-cuddly Ann Widdecombe, who is threatening to rise once more from the political ashes whilst also performing her one woman show, Strictly Ann, across the country. Personally I reckon there is a fresh circle of **** which comprises simply of the interval-bar clientele for any one of these performances. Imagine being stuck with that crowd. Imagine the whiff of sauvignon blanc and smugness, the heady mix of polyester blouses combined with a hint of vitriol. I tell you – that’s one lavatory queue that would have me running for the hills.
But the Brexit Party is just one of many abominations I’m struggling to get my head around this week; another is the hideous practice of putting spikes in residential trees to discourage birds from crapping on cars.
The Brexit Party is holding a rally in Newton Abbott. Join the Brexiteer fightback! About this Event Join us at 7:00pm on Wednesday 1st May. This will be an outside event with no seating.
From Ann Widdecombe to Sargon of Akkad, the EU elections are starting to look like a dinner party from **** As Change UK candidates drop like flies, the remaining am-dram troupe of European parliament hopefuls look like a sorry bunch
They are an intriguing bunch. In a sense, it is a joy to see Ann Widdecombe back on the public stage. As an older woman in politics she suffers the same kind of routine discrimination that older actresses face in Hollywood. When she was in the Commons, her Tory colleagues called her “Doris Karloff”, which was unkind.
She was his prisons minister, during which tenure she declared herself quite content that female prisoners should be shackled while giving birth, in case they tried to escape, something that tarnished her feminist credentials.
An ideal candidate, then, for Nigel Farage’s am-dram troupe in the European parliament. The big time still awaits.
Far from encouraging people not to vote this is the time to make it count.
This Election is not about forming new Government or Candidates to represent Brexit Party it's about saving our Country & Democracy. Nigel would take anyone who will fight for that warts & all.
If all the "Remainers" want to remain in the EU under "MAY TREATY" then vote for Conservative or Labour in EU Election, simple. If you want Democracy ( alive and kicking ) be out of the EU then vote Brexit Party, simple. Can't say voters don't know what their voting for now.
Far from encouraging people not to vote this is the time to make it count.
This Election is not about forming new Government or Candidates to represent Brexit Party it's about saving our Country & Democracy. Nigel would take anyone who will fight for that warts & all.
If all the "Remainers" want to remain in the EU under "MAY TREATY" then vote for Conservative or Labour in EU Election, simple. If you want Democracy ( alive and kicking ) be out of the EU then vote Brexit Party, simple. Can't say voters don't know what their voting for now.
THE Brexit figurehead held rallies across Gwent yesterday to drum up support for his newly founded political party.
The first stop in Nigel Farage’s tour to the region was Caerphilly, where he launched the Brexit Party’s European election campaign.
But it was during the next stop in Newport where Brexit Party officials were greeted by more than 500 people in The Neon to listen to their pro-Brexit messages.
Richard Tice, chairman of the party, was the first to take to the stage and introduced each of the four speakers.
Mr Farage was greeted by a rapturous applause and vowed to not “give up the battle”. “After the referendum there was a general election the following year,” he said.
“Both main parties said ‘vote for us and we will honour the promise and leave the EU’. And nearly 85 per cent voted for this.
“Parliamentarians voted for Article 50. “I thought we had won. But I cannot believe the extent to which our political class have openly betrayed the biggest democratic exercise in this nation.
“We knew what we were voting for.
“I set up this party to fight back and vowed that if I had to come back into public life this time there would be no more Mr nice guy. We need to continue until we win.”
Former Conservative minister Anne Widdecombe was also greeted by a standing ovation and loud cheers.
She began: “For those who said we did not know what we were voting for actually revealed their own ignorance.
“Because by voting to remain they voted for Britain to stay helpless.
“However, we gave them a different answer in 2016. Both major parties at Westminster stood on manifestos saying they would implement the will of the people.”
She added: “[The government has] spent the best part of three years asking the EU for their gracious permission to leave.”
And former leader of UKIP Wales, Nathan Gill, who was another speaker, added: “They said this was the referendum to end all referenda—well what happened to it?
“We are here to say that Wales voted to leave the EU.
“The Yes campaign for devolution won by a small margin in 1997 and yet no one said you need to spend three years to contemplate this.”
A list of submitted questions were then read out to the panel, including one which asked if those who traditionally vote UKIP would split the vote for the Brexit Party.
Mr Farage said: “The remain vote is already split.
“THere are two parties standing advocating leaving. The one I was a founding member of and leader of for 10 years. The party has taken the wrong direction and are becoming an irrelevance. “There will not be a split vote.”
Other speakers included James Wells and Gethin James.
The Brexit Party was formed earlier this year with the specific goal of fulfilling the result of the 2016 referendum. Its membership is largely made up of former Ukip members, including Mr Farage, who left following concerns the party was moving to the far right.
The party's four candidates for the EU election are Nathan Gill, who is already one of Wales' four MEPs, having first been elected for Ukip, James Wells, Gethin James and Julie Price.
Ann Widdecombe makes crowd LAUGH with astonishing Brexit speech – 'Nincompoop Remainers'
BREXITEER Ann Widdecombe received the loud support of the crowd at a Brexit Party rally in Wales as she delivered an astonishing Brexit speech in which she blasted "nincompoops" Remain supporters. The former Conservative MP now Brexit Party candidate told Brexit supporters in Wales that Remain voters would like to see Britain left "helpless" in the European Union. In an enthralling speech, she referred to Remainers as "nincompoops" as she accused MPs in Westminster of wasting three years of the Brexit negotiations to beg Brussels eurocrats for their permission to leave. She said: “The patronising nincompoops who say that we didn’t know what we were voting for actually reveal their own ignorance because by voting to Remain, they voted for Britain to stay helpless.
“However, we gave them a different answer in 2016.
“We said we wanted to leave and lo and behold both major parties at Westminster stood on a manifesto saying that they would implement the will of the people.
“And have they been implementing the will of the people? “They have actually spent the best part of three years asking the EU for their gracious permission to leave.”
The veteran politician will be running as an MEP candidate for the Brexit Party at the EU elections at the end of this month.
Ms Widdicombe joined Nigel Farage's newly formed party in April, joined by former communist Claire Fox and Jacob Rees-Mogg's sister, Annunziata.
Mr Farage's party is set to cause havoc at the elections, sparking fears it will steal leave votes on both sides of the Commons leaving Conservative MEPs most at risk of losing their seats in Strasbourg. Launching the party last month, Mr Farage controversially vowed to “put the fear of God” into MPs who he said are obstructing Brexit and betraying the 17.4 million people who voted to leave the EU.
The party is expected to focus on a single message that the UK must leave the EU straight away.
Detailed policies will be left until after the EU elections, Mr Farage indicated.
After initially storming into third place in the polls with 15 percent of the vote before they had even officially launched, the Brexit Party is now in first place with 27 percent in YouGov polling.
At least this thread is a welcome distraction from the self backslapping " How good a poker player am i " glux of diary threads emerging...egos are strong on here ..lmao
And back to the important stuff .....
Nigel Farage Brexit Party a clear winner in Cornwall Live's EU election poll
Half of all people who took part in an online poll by Cornwall Live said they would support Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party in the upcoming European Elections.
We posted a story on Tuesday to gauge reaction from the public in Cornwall. While the results are hardly representative of Cornwall, they do give a flavour of current thinking.
Way ahead of any other parties was the newly-formed Brexit Party, which is pushing to ensure that the UK will leave the EU. Of the 677 people who took part in the vote, 342 or 51% said they favoured the party.
As it stands, the UK will leave on October 31 anyway, although the future is far from certain giving the political crisis around Brexit. We asked if you be voting in the EU elections. Of the 777 people who answered the question, 721 or 89% said they would take part while 56, 7% said they would no. There were also 29 people, 4% who were undecided.
Also new to the political landscape is Change UK, which as a party was formed by pro-European politicians who defected from the Conservatives and Labour. This party fared poorly in our poll, coming behind the Greens and Liberal Democrats.
By contrast, the Conservatives and Labour did even worse. Here are the results:
How ultra-remainers could score a spectacular own goal on Brexit In three weeks’ time, it is entirely plausible that Nigel Farage’s Brexit party will triumph in the European parliamentary elections. It will be the greatest victory for bigotry in politics since the EU referendum campaign; it will be a shot in the arm for the Tory hard Brexiteers, emboldening them and providing them with renewed legitimacy; it will damage the chances of a soft Brexit; and it will inflict probably terminal harm on any prospect of a second referendum. Preventing this completely and utterly inarguable outcome should – you would think – preoccupy every single remainer and every single self-declared opponent of Tory rule. It doesn’t, because for the “stop Brexit or bust” brigade, punishing Labour for failing to repudiate a referendum that it lost less than three years ago is all that apparently matters in politics – and if the country burns as a consequence, then so be it. Yesterday, Labour’s national executive committee reaffirmed the party’s position on Brexit: that is, it would prioritise a general election to remove the Tories from power, and if that wasn’t possible, it would “support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote”. This isn’t controversial, you would think: it would be odd for the NEC to usurp the decision of the party’s sovereign body, and – until now – the conference policy has been lauded by advocates of a second referendum. Yet for the monomaniacal ultra-remainers – who treat those of us who campaigned and voted for remain but are willing to accept compromise as bitter enemies, on a par with Nigel Farage or Jacob Rees-Mogg – this is a great betrayal that makes voting Labour a disgrace. What exactly are they asking of Labour? This isn’t a rhetorical question. In 2017, Labour whipped its MPs to trigger article 50, and campaigned in the general election to accept the referendum result. This, it was said, would lead to electoral doom as enraged remainers fled elsewhere. Instead, it helped Labour secure the same vote share as Tony Blair did 16 years earlier, depriving the Tories of their majority. If Labour had campaigned against the referendum result in an election Theresa May wanted to run solely on Brexit, she would have won her majority and rammed her deal through parliament long ago. But since then, Labour has not only softened its Brexit position but also whipped its MPs twice to vote for a second referendum. In other words, Labour has left itself exposed to claims it has gone back on its general election commitments, as well as risking its chances of winning an election – 41 of the 54 Tory-held target seats Labour needs to win to form a government voted leave. The reason a second referendum hasn’t been approved isn’t because Labour failed to back it – it has, twice – but because most MPs in a Tory-DUP parliament are strongly opposed to one happening.
The chasm that exists between the ultra-remainers and political reality is so vast, it nearly contains enough room for their arrogance and entitlement. Does the Tories’ relentless attempt to portray Labour as the Stop Brexit party not bother them? “The biggest thing you could do to help the Tories in the next election is to make Labour a party of remain,” says Spectator editor Fraser Nelson in his podcast. You are far more likely to encounter someone on the doorstep angrily denouncing Labour for trying to stop Brexit than failing to do so.
Perhaps, miraculously, if a majority of MPs opt for a second referendum, those of us who campaigned for remain will do it all over again. We will probably lose, again, because of those who are likely to lead the next remain campaign. Senior ultra-remainers privately tell me that, oh well, another defeat will leave us in the same position as now. Can I gently ask, are they serious? Losing a far more bitter and divisive campaign than even the last will lead to a form of Brexit triumphalism that will make the current leavers look humble; our politics will be disfigured for a generation or more. Some of the “stop Brexit or bust” brigade will vote Liberal Democrat, a party that backed and implemented some of the cruellest policy measures in peacetime Britain and helped plunge the country into this mess; some will vote Change UK, a party whose soon-to-be leader opposed a second referendum until it became a convenient wedge issue with which to beat the Labour leadership, and which has been embroiled in multiple racism and bigotry scandals within weeks of forming. And when Farage triumphs in three weeks’ time, they will sink into despair, and, with their arms outstretched, ask “Why?”
Labour’s left was once bitterly denounced for putting purity ahead of power. With Farageism on the brink of winning a national poll, and with Labour having already jeopardised the coalition of remainers and leavers it needs to win, the same people who once angrily made this argument are themselves most guilty of it. Imagine being a second referendum supporter who is so furious with a party that has twice voted for their objective that you’d allow your supposed mortal enemy to win an election and destroy your own cause. Well, you don’t have to imagine it: because in three weeks’ time, that is what will happen.
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Father of schoolboy murdered in Warrington says voters will be 'absolutely disgusted'
The father of a schoolboy killed in an IRA bombing has condemned a Brexit Party candidate for "absolutely disgraceful" comments made in the days after the attack.
Claire Fox, who is standing for Nigel Farage's new outfit in the European elections, was previously a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP,) which defended the Warrington bombing on 20 March 1993.
The party's newsletter, published in April 1993, defended "the right of the Irish people to take whatever measures necessary in their struggle for freedom".
Ms Fox is a lead candidate for the new Brexit party in the North West of England, meaning she could represent Warrington, in Cheshire, if the party performs well at the ballot boxes.
Colin Parry, whose son Tim, 12, died following the bombing which left 56 people injured, said voters would be "absolutely disgusted" and urged Ms Fox to disavow her comments.
Asked how voters would view the remarks, Mr Parry added: "I would hope they would be absolutely disgusted by these comments."
Warrington councillor Dan Price said Ms Fox was "totally unfit for office".
Mr Price, one of Change UK's candidates for the European elections, said: "Claire Fox should not be hiding away in London, she should come to Warrington and explain to the Parry family her views on the IRA atrocity that devastated our town.
"Nigel Farage has made a big mistake in making her his priority candidate for Warrington and he is treating us with contempt."
Ms Fox has been approached for comment.
A Brexit Party spokesman said Ms Fox does not deny she did hold those views in the past,
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-party-candidate-claire-fox-ira-bombing-rcp-warrington-a8893081.html
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Will the party whip its members, or will it be a free for all? What if some candidates believe in the safeguarding the NHS in its current form, while others believe in privatisation of the health service?
Single issue parties are nothing new, from the Greens to the SNP to Ukip, but all have, in the past, at least had some formal policies on issues away from their main area of interest. The Brexit Party, however, has not published a manifesto and nor does it plan to ahead of the European ballot.
The Brexit Party is doing Eurosceptics a noble service by standing up for their views on leaving the EU. It does us all a disservice, though, for as long as it stays silent elsewhere.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-party-nigel-farage-european-elections-opinion-poll-latest-a8892821.html
So many abominations to discuss, as people put spikes in trees to discourage birds and ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ invades the self-service tills
So much of what is going on at the moment seems unfathomable to me. Take the terrifying rise of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party with its sideshow return of the faux-cuddly Ann Widdecombe, who is threatening to rise once more from the political ashes whilst also performing her one woman show, Strictly Ann, across the country.
Personally I reckon there is a fresh circle of **** which comprises simply of the interval-bar clientele for any one of these performances. Imagine being stuck with that crowd. Imagine the whiff of sauvignon blanc and smugness, the heady mix of polyester blouses combined with a hint of vitriol. I tell you – that’s one lavatory queue that would have me running for the hills.
But the Brexit Party is just one of many abominations I’m struggling to get my head around this week; another is the hideous practice of putting spikes in residential trees to discourage birds from crapping on cars.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-party-ann-widdecombe-ant-dec-britains-got-talent-itv-a8890796.html
As Change UK candidates drop like flies, the remaining am-dram troupe of European parliament hopefuls look like a sorry bunch
They are an intriguing bunch. In a sense, it is a joy to see Ann Widdecombe back on the public stage. As an older woman in politics she suffers the same kind of routine discrimination that older actresses face in Hollywood. When she was in the Commons, her Tory colleagues called her “Doris Karloff”, which was unkind.
She was his prisons minister, during which tenure she declared herself quite content that female prisoners should be shackled while giving birth, in case they tried to escape, something that tarnished her feminist credentials.
An ideal candidate, then, for Nigel Farage’s am-dram troupe in the European parliament. The big time still awaits.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-party-ann-widdecombe-nigel-farage-change-uk-ukip-eu-elections-a8884336.html
" This is the True Brexit Thread. "
Far from encouraging people not to vote this is the time to make it count.
This Election is not about forming new Government or Candidates to represent Brexit Party it's about saving our Country & Democracy. Nigel would take anyone who will fight for that warts & all.
If all the "Remainers" want to remain in the EU under "MAY TREATY" then vote for Conservative or Labour in EU Election, simple.
If you want Democracy ( alive and kicking ) be out of the EU then vote Brexit Party, simple.
Can't say voters don't know what their voting for now.
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vOxwqzpAkLGB?t=5
THE Brexit figurehead held rallies across Gwent yesterday to drum up support for his newly founded political party.
The first stop in Nigel Farage’s tour to the region was Caerphilly, where he launched the Brexit Party’s European election campaign.
But it was during the next stop in Newport where Brexit Party officials were greeted by more than 500 people in The Neon to listen to their pro-Brexit messages.
Richard Tice, chairman of the party, was the first to take to the stage and introduced each of the four speakers.
Mr Farage was greeted by a rapturous applause and vowed to not “give up the battle”.
“After the referendum there was a general election the following year,” he said.
“Both main parties said ‘vote for us and we will honour the promise and leave the EU’. And nearly 85 per cent voted for this.
“Parliamentarians voted for Article 50.
“I thought we had won. But I cannot believe the extent to which our political class have openly betrayed the biggest democratic exercise in this nation.
“We knew what we were voting for.
“I set up this party to fight back and vowed that if I had to come back into public life this time there would be no more Mr nice guy. We need to continue until we win.”
Former Conservative minister Anne Widdecombe was also greeted by a standing ovation and loud cheers.
She began: “For those who said we did not know what we were voting for actually revealed their own ignorance.
“Because by voting to remain they voted for Britain to stay helpless.
“However, we gave them a different answer in 2016. Both major parties at Westminster stood on manifestos saying they would implement the will of the people.”
She added: “[The government has] spent the best part of three years asking the EU for their gracious permission to leave.”
And former leader of UKIP Wales, Nathan Gill, who was another speaker, added: “They said this was the referendum to end all referenda—well what happened to it?
“We are here to say that Wales voted to leave the EU.
“The Yes campaign for devolution won by a small margin in 1997 and yet no one said you need to spend three years to contemplate this.”
A list of submitted questions were then read out to the panel, including one which asked if those who traditionally vote UKIP would split the vote for the Brexit Party.
Mr Farage said: “The remain vote is already split.
“THere are two parties standing advocating leaving. The one I was a founding member of and leader of for 10 years. The party has taken the wrong direction and are becoming an irrelevance.
“There will not be a split vote.”
Other speakers included James Wells and Gethin James.
The Brexit Party was formed earlier this year with the specific goal of fulfilling the result of the 2016 referendum. Its membership is largely made up of former Ukip members, including Mr Farage, who left following concerns the party was moving to the far right.
The party's four candidates for the EU election are Nathan Gill, who is already one of Wales' four MEPs, having first been elected for Ukip, James Wells, Gethin James and Julie Price.
Monmouthshire was the only constituency in Gwent to vote remain during the EU referendum.
https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/17609661.nigel-farage-brexit-party-rally-in-newport/
BREXITEER Ann Widdecombe received the loud support of the crowd at a Brexit Party rally in Wales as she delivered an astonishing Brexit speech in which she blasted "nincompoops" Remain supporters.
The former Conservative MP now Brexit Party candidate told Brexit supporters in Wales that Remain voters would like to see Britain left "helpless" in the European Union. In an enthralling speech, she referred to Remainers as "nincompoops" as she accused MPs in Westminster of wasting three years of the Brexit negotiations to beg Brussels eurocrats for their permission to leave.
She said: “The patronising nincompoops who say that we didn’t know what we were voting for actually reveal their own ignorance because by voting to Remain, they voted for Britain to stay helpless.
“However, we gave them a different answer in 2016.
“We said we wanted to leave and lo and behold both major parties at Westminster stood on a manifesto saying that they would implement the will of the people.
“And have they been implementing the will of the people?
“They have actually spent the best part of three years asking the EU for their gracious permission to leave.”
The veteran politician will be running as an MEP candidate for the Brexit Party at the EU elections at the end of this month.
Ms Widdicombe joined Nigel Farage's newly formed party in April, joined by former communist Claire Fox and Jacob Rees-Mogg's sister, Annunziata.
Mr Farage's party is set to cause havoc at the elections, sparking fears it will steal leave votes on both sides of the Commons leaving Conservative MEPs most at risk of losing their seats in Strasbourg.
Launching the party last month, Mr Farage controversially vowed to “put the fear of God” into MPs who he said are obstructing Brexit and betraying the 17.4 million people who voted to leave the EU.
The party is expected to focus on a single message that the UK must leave the EU straight away.
Detailed policies will be left until after the EU elections, Mr Farage indicated.
After initially storming into third place in the polls with 15 percent of the vote before they had even officially launched, the Brexit Party is now in first place with 27 percent in YouGov polling.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1121324/Brexit-news-Ann-Widdecombe-Brexit-Party-European-elections-Nigel-Farage
And back to the important stuff .....
Nigel Farage Brexit Party a clear winner in Cornwall Live's EU election poll
Half of all people who took part in an online poll by Cornwall Live said they would support Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party in the upcoming European Elections.
We posted a story on Tuesday to gauge reaction from the public in Cornwall. While the results are hardly representative of Cornwall, they do give a flavour of current thinking.
Way ahead of any other parties was the newly-formed Brexit Party, which is pushing to ensure that the UK will leave the EU. Of the 677 people who took part in the vote, 342 or 51% said they favoured the party.
As it stands, the UK will leave on October 31 anyway, although the future is far from certain giving the political crisis around Brexit.
We asked if you be voting in the EU elections. Of the 777 people who answered the question, 721 or 89% said they would take part while 56, 7% said they would no. There were also 29 people, 4% who were undecided.
Also new to the political landscape is Change UK, which as a party was formed by pro-European politicians who defected from the Conservatives and Labour. This party fared poorly in our poll, coming behind the Greens and Liberal Democrats.
By contrast, the Conservatives and Labour did even worse.
Here are the results:
Who would you vote for?
Brexit Party : 342, 51%
Change UK : 58, 9%
Conservative : 7, 1%
English Democrat : 1, 0%
Green : 105, 16%
Labour : 39, 6%
Liberal Democrat : 101, 15%
Independent candidates : 2, 0%
UKIP : 22, 3%
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/nigel-farage-brexit-party-clear-2820259
In three weeks’ time, it is entirely plausible that Nigel Farage’s Brexit party will triumph in the European parliamentary elections. It will be the greatest victory for bigotry in politics since the EU referendum campaign; it will be a shot in the arm for the Tory hard Brexiteers, emboldening them and providing them with renewed legitimacy; it will damage the chances of a soft Brexit; and it will inflict probably terminal harm on any prospect of a second referendum. Preventing this completely and utterly inarguable outcome should – you would think – preoccupy every single remainer and every single self-declared opponent of Tory rule. It doesn’t, because for the “stop Brexit or bust” brigade, punishing Labour for failing to repudiate a referendum that it lost less than three years ago is all that apparently matters in politics – and if the country burns as a consequence, then so be it.
Yesterday, Labour’s national executive committee reaffirmed the party’s position on Brexit: that is, it would prioritise a general election to remove the Tories from power, and if that wasn’t possible, it would “support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote”. This isn’t controversial, you would think: it would be odd for the NEC to usurp the decision of the party’s sovereign body, and – until now – the conference policy has been lauded by advocates of a second referendum. Yet for the monomaniacal ultra-remainers – who treat those of us who campaigned and voted for remain but are willing to accept compromise as bitter enemies, on a par with Nigel Farage or Jacob Rees-Mogg – this is a great betrayal that makes voting Labour a disgrace.
What exactly are they asking of Labour? This isn’t a rhetorical question. In 2017, Labour whipped its MPs to trigger article 50, and campaigned in the general election to accept the referendum result. This, it was said, would lead to electoral doom as enraged remainers fled elsewhere. Instead, it helped Labour secure the same vote share as Tony Blair did 16 years earlier, depriving the Tories of their majority. If Labour had campaigned against the referendum result in an election Theresa May wanted to run solely on Brexit, she would have won her majority and rammed her deal through parliament long ago. But since then, Labour has not only softened its Brexit position but also whipped its MPs twice to vote for a second referendum. In other words, Labour has left itself exposed to claims it has gone back on its general election commitments, as well as risking its chances of winning an election – 41 of the 54 Tory-held target seats Labour needs to win to form a government voted leave. The reason a second referendum hasn’t been approved isn’t because Labour failed to back it – it has, twice – but because most MPs in a Tory-DUP parliament are strongly opposed to one happening.
The chasm that exists between the ultra-remainers and political reality is so vast, it nearly contains enough room for their arrogance and entitlement. Does the Tories’ relentless attempt to portray Labour as the Stop Brexit party not bother them? “The biggest thing you could do to help the Tories in the next election is to make Labour a party of remain,” says Spectator editor Fraser Nelson in his podcast. You are far more likely to encounter someone on the doorstep angrily denouncing Labour for trying to stop Brexit than failing to do so.
Perhaps, miraculously, if a majority of MPs opt for a second referendum, those of us who campaigned for remain will do it all over again. We will probably lose, again, because of those who are likely to lead the next remain campaign. Senior ultra-remainers privately tell me that, oh well, another defeat will leave us in the same position as now. Can I gently ask, are they serious? Losing a far more bitter and divisive campaign than even the last will lead to a form of Brexit triumphalism that will make the current leavers look humble; our politics will be disfigured for a generation or more.
Some of the “stop Brexit or bust” brigade will vote Liberal Democrat, a party that backed and implemented some of the cruellest policy measures in peacetime Britain and helped plunge the country into this mess; some will vote Change UK, a party whose soon-to-be leader opposed a second referendum until it became a convenient wedge issue with which to beat the Labour leadership, and which has been embroiled in multiple racism and bigotry scandals within weeks of forming. And when Farage triumphs in three weeks’ time, they will sink into despair, and, with their arms outstretched, ask “Why?”
Labour’s left was once bitterly denounced for putting purity ahead of power. With Farageism on the brink of winning a national poll, and with Labour having already jeopardised the coalition of remainers and leavers it needs to win, the same people who once angrily made this argument are themselves most guilty of it. Imagine being a second referendum supporter who is so furious with a party that has twice voted for their objective that you’d allow your supposed mortal enemy to win an election and destroy your own cause. Well, you don’t have to imagine it: because in three weeks’ time, that is what will happen.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/01/remainers-own-goal-brexit-nigel-farage-brexit-party-second-referendum-labour
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1zqKVagrqRPxB?t=1947