Spin can be put on any argument & funding prosecutions that smear then get dropped or fizzle out, the tool used to discredit opponents, all part of modern day politics. "Ask Trump"
Now did you know, Nigel is training to become " Cabinet Maker " wood you believe it.
As for Dobi asking me to cover while away .........well I shouldn't be here really ..... but with 17.5 million and promise of a Medal. Hey! How could I refuse.
My last day then back in the wood work you will be pleased to hear.
Pages & Pages of put downs some funny others obscene, nice you decided to choose clean one this time. Cartoon probably accurate both men been meddling, no surprise Blair "Weapons of mass Destruction" involved . Why on earth with his track record they even listened to him let alone take his advice.
Without a general election, the Brexit Party is just an angry mob of protesters
“A vote for the Brexit Party is a vote for a WTO Brexit – no ifs, no buts” calls out Richard Tice, the Brexit party chair. He was referring to the upcoming European elections in the UK. This is an interesting position. The “WTO Brexit” aka “no-deal Brexit” is the one that has consistently been rejected by the UK parliament. It rather looks as though the intention of the Brexit party in the EU elections is to install a group of wrecker MPs. To drive their objectives effectively, a general election will be required, bringing to power a party that can either solely, or with coalition, force this outcome, mandated through a clear manifesto. No existing mainstream party is likely to offer a manifesto of this nature, so this would require the Brexit party to win a general election. Let’s assume that this is currently unlikely. So, instead of having MEPs trying to drive the very improvement within the EU that many see necessary, we have a group with a futile function, adding to Nigel Farage’s existing bickering from the back of the classroom. If this new party wishes to achieve something real, tangible, long-lasting and with the likely backing of the electorate, it needs to wipe away the intention to install its wreckers in Brussels and put in place people who aim to drive change from within, to work collaboratively rather than destructively and to contribute to the process. They will not be alone. It appears that there will be a great many Eurosceptic MEPs from a number of countries. Now is the opportunity to work progressively to drive the change within the EU that so many recognise is needed, yet the EU leadership is unable to accept.
Only in this way can the Brexit party become one of progressive function rather than an angry mob of protesters without policy. They might want to rethink the name of the party, however.
Nigel Farage is betraying his own voters A vote for the ‘Brexit Party’ is now a vote for a no-deal Brexit, which no one in the country has ever voted for before
Credit where it’s due. It had not yet been 24 hours since Nigel Farage had been on the Sunday politics shows, warning of the “final betrayal” that was coming. And here he was, not even waiting for it to come, but delivering it himself. The Brexit Party, the party Farage set up himself to contest the European elections he so desperately does not want to be contesting, was holding a press conference to announce it was betraying its own voters.
Farage was introduced by the Brexit Party chairman, a man called Richard Tice, who is best known, though nevertheless unknown, for appearing at political events in a white open-topped bus with “Leave Means Leave” painted down the side.
When it turned up at Tory party conference last year, he promised free non-EU booze to anyone who could spare five minutes to talk to him.
Two people turned up, and one of them, I must reveal, was your humble sketch writer, there exclusively to take the **** out of the whole thing. It did not prove hard.
Anyway, I digress. Tice had a message, and that message was that a vote for the Brexit Party in the European elections was a vote for “a WTO Brexit”, which is better known as a “no-deal Brexit” and best understood as a Place-Sanctions-On-Yourself Brexit.
Quite the volte face then. When Farage and co were going round the country three years ago, armed with slightly different lies, no one whispered a word about no-deal Brexit. Asked about it at the time, Farage’s view was that Angela Merkel simply wouldn’t allow it. She would be running for president again in 2017, and the German car makers would be so angry about it, “she would throw the election”. And yet, here we are, three years on, and, wouldn’t you know, Farage is betraying himself. Betraying everyone he talked round to his cause three years ago, betraying everything he’s ever said, just for the sake of standing in an election, which, just to be absolutely clear, he absolutely definitely doesn’t want to be standing in. Oh no.
This was nevertheless, the less startling of the two big announcements. For we also learn that as well as a vote for the Brexit Party being a vote for “WTO Brexit”, it is also a vote for the Brexit Party’s MEPs to be involved in the Brexit negotiations. It is a vote to simultaneously sit down at the negotiating table and turn it over and walk away.
And who would be doing the negotiating? “The highest quality candidates,” claimed Tice, which are currently not limited to Ann Widdecombe and former Loaded mag editor Martin Daubney, who not so long ago was proud to organise a “straight pride” march through London, fearlessly sticking it to gay pride, standing up for downtrodden straight men everywhere.
The betrayal Farage had been warning about still hasn’t come, by the way. That “betrayal” is a May/Corbyn deal on a temporary customs union, which we are led to believe is imminent but has not yet happened.
If it does, Farage will have every right to be angry. He warned about this at the time, if you remember. He warned and no one listened. You’ll recall the “Breaking Point” poster, where he stood in front of a non-existent queue of lorries stretching no distance whatsoever up the M20, warning that the British people had had enough of frictionless trade with the European Union. That just-in-time supply chain had to be smashed up. It was never about free movement, ended under Theresa May’s deal. Never about payments to the EU, also ended. It was always, always, about the customs union. And if that’s not how you remember it, then maybe, just maybe, the betrayers aren’t who Farage says they are.
Have you got OLD news for us with misleading images ...... you should stand in EU election for Remain you would do better job for them than that chap ....... I think.!
My views are not representative of dobi she can answer for herself on her return..... for the moment covering only and giving my point of view......... I'm not the all seeing all knowing eye by any means, so take or leave what I say with pinch / salt. The voting public are now wise to the smear tactics and fake news so the remain camp do themselves more harm by putting posters up like that. Always be dirty Politics we follow America in that, but the Truth will prevail .......
I was asking you your opinion, not waiting for you to discuss with do
Your first point re; Why is Nigel standing again........ to gain support for leaving.
Second point obscene pictures posted several times. Hardly S e x education Pictures are they........ find them disrespectful put on anyone's thread let alone female thread.......just a laugh .... no ..... Facebook mentality. Let the OP decide if she is offended or not when she returns no challenge so far from Sky so must be OK for certain people to post that sort of thing.!
We are leaving...like I said, putting my personal views aside...he did his dirty deed and now should blend gracefully into a beer and schapps haze and let the chaos(he partly caused) follow through its natural path
IF, big IF the govt decided to revoke A50..I agree there would be anarchy and there might then be a need for a Brexit initiative(not a party) to hold the democratic decision of 3 years ago to account..THAT's why a second referendum is the best way forward...NOW we have SOME idea of whta we might actually be voting for - apart from repatriating peeps and
Hi As I said I didn't go back thru the posts so surprised that anyone(Haysie?) would post those sorts of images....
Sky seem to let lots(not certain) people post inappropriate comments..dobiesdraws being one of them-comments I have formally complained about.. but yes, it seems sky lets a lot go thru
It Was, May who brought him back from retirement and offered Bronze Statue.
It Was, EU laughing at him spurred him to work magic.
It Was, the British Voters that put him in the driving seat. brrrrrrmmmm
Cameron writing his Memoirs in hide away is suffering mental block after page one heading.............. "I called the Referendum it seemed good Idea at the time" eeerrrrrr
Swastika painted on building of Jewish Brexit party candidate
Swastika painted on building of Jewish Brexit party candidate Police investigate antisemitic mural daubed on firm’s HQ near Olympic Park in east London
Police are investigating after a Jewish candidate standing for the Brexit party at the European elections had a 10 metre (30ft) swastika painted on his company’s building in east London.
Lance Forman, a businessman who owns the H Forman & Son smoked salmon company, found his headquarters and restaurant near the Olympic Park had been daubed with an antisemitic mural.
Forman’s business is the UK’s oldest salmon curer, which was set up by his great-grandfather in 1905.
A Met police spokesman said officers were investigating a suspected incident of race-related criminal damage. It is thought to have occurred shortly before midnight on Tuesday.
Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent direct to you Read more Forman told the Jewish Chronicle: “My dad fled the **** in Poland and is a Holocaust survivor who spent the war years as a child in a Siberian prison camp.
“He has worked with HET (the Holocaust Educational Trust) to teach children about the horrors of antisemitism. So the fact that we have been targeted in this antisemitic way is quite horrific and sick.
“The police have images of the culprits on CCTV and I sincerely hope they are tracked down.”
The incident comes at a time of heightened tensions in political campaigning with some candidates subject to abuse.
Police are also investigating a rape threat against Jess Phillips, the Labour MP, by Carl Benjamin, a candidate for Ukip.
Security for politicians has been stepped up after the murder of the Labour backbencher Jo Cox in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum.
Farage RIDICULES Verhofstadt as crowd JEERS europhile's democratic rights plea
NIGEL FARAGE took a brutal swipe at European Commission hopeful Guy Verhofstadt after he condemned the decision of Turkish officials to re-run the Istanbul election, despite previously calling for Britain to have another vote on Brexit. It was revealed on Tuesday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political party have been allowed to hold a re-run of the Istanbul election after the AK party lost by a slim margin. The European Union responded to the election re-run with outrage, despite welcoming a second Brexit referendum.
Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian MEP and the ALDE group's leader in the European Parliament, said the decision to dismiss the result of the first election would ultimately lead the country towards a dictatorship.
Speaking from the Brexit Party rally in Peterborough on Tuesday, Mr Farage ridiculed Mr Verhofstadt’s comments and said: “This morning we learnt that the mayoral election in Istanbul a couple of weeks ago in which Erdoğan, the Turkish leader’s candidate, did not win.
“Guess what they are going to do? They are going to rerun the election. Guess what everyone is saying? The Brexit Party leader was disrupted by an echo of boos from the audience. Mr Farage continued: “Juncker says it’s an outrage. Guy Verhofstadt says its an outrage.”
Disrupted once again by a series of boos from the audience following the mention of Europhile Guy Verhofstadt’s name, Mr Farage added: “Yet, they are all happy because they did it with the Danes over the Maastricht Treaty, they told them to vote again.
“They did it twice with the Irish and told them to vote again. And they all think that we should vote again.
“Let me tell you something. It would be an outrage to have a second referendum on the same question if we hadn’t first implemented the result.” The High Election Board (YSK) ruled that a fresh Istanbul mayoral contest will be held on June 23.
Turkey’s opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has accused the move being a “plain dictatorship”.
Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, said the decision “ends the credibility of democratic transition of power through elections” in the country.
The AKP had appealed for an election re-run after initial results and a series of recounts showed it had lost control of Istanbul for the first time in 25 years.
Justifying his party's move, Erdogan said in a speech on Monday: "We see this decision as the best step that will strengthen our will to solve problems within the framework of democracy and law."
But the EU’s Guy Verhofstadt ridiculed the move and said: “This outrageous decision highlights how Erdoğan’s Turkey is drifting towards a dictatorship.
“Under such leadership, accession talks are impossible. Full support to the Turkish people protesting for their democratic rights and for a free and open Turkey!"
The Brexit Party is ‘like Burger King - it’s home of the Whopper', Rachel Johnson tells Chopper's Brexit Podcast
The Brexit Party is “like Burger King - it’s home of the Whopper. It’s lie after lie after lie”, one of the leading MEP candidates for the rival Change UK party has said. Rachel Johnson, who is standing for the party in the south west of England, said: “I’ve had lunch with Nigel Farage, he’s very good company. She told Chopper's Brexit Podcast, which you can listen to easily by logging in or subscribing below: “I regard the Brexit Party like Burger King: it’s home of the Whopper. It’s lie after lie after lie, and also they have a very simple message - it’s ‘You were lied to, you were betrayed’. “And I think that’s a very dangerous message to tell the people and the Parliamentarians are letting...
The real – and sinister – reason Nigel Farage is spouting conspiracy theories He and others like him seek to exploit voters’ deepest fears about the ruling order and take power for themselves
‘Arch-conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a man who has claimed that the Pentagon has used a mysterious “gay bomb” to stop people having children.’
Language, we all know, matters in politics. And in a series of interviews over a number of years, Nigel Farage has been trying on a rhetorical outfit. He spoke about the Bilderberg group, discussed how “globalists” are seeking a “new world order”; how international banking systems are working to disband nation states; that the EU, effectively, is the product of a hidden plot. The interviews were with the arch-conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a man, let’s remember, who has claimed that the Pentagon has used a mysterious “gay bomb” to stop people having children, and that the US government inflicts weather weapons on the American public. And in screaming tirades, he has claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting – which left 26 people dead – was “completely fake”. He’s currently fighting a legal case over that last claim. It is tempting to see this as a pivot towards the lunatic right, of a politician losing the plot or dropping their mask. But it is the opposite of this. Far from turning his back on mainstream respectability, Farage’s use of the language of conspiracy theories is – in his calculation – the best path to it. A seismic cultural shift is under way in who we trust and how politics works. It is sweeping conspiracy theorists into power – and, Farage might hope, also Nigel Farage. Before Farage, Donald Trump was on Alex Jones’s show. Easily America’s leading conspiracy theorist, Trump questioned throughout Barack Obama’s entire presidency whether he was born in the United States. He has suggested that vaccines cause autism, and that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of JFK. Joining him are other world leaders. Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, is a conspiracy theorist. So, on occasion, is the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte. It is easy to see that conspiracy theories are a peculiarly modern problem of our “post-truth” age. After all, most people – 60% of us in the UK – believe at least one of them. They’ve been around, and popular, for a very long time. But something has been changing: more and more conspiracy theorists are winning power.
Swastika painted on building of Jewish Brexit party candidate
Swastika painted on building of Jewish Brexit party candidate Police investigate antisemitic mural daubed on firm’s HQ near Olympic Park in east London
Police are investigating after a Jewish candidate standing for the Brexit party at the European elections had a 10 metre (30ft) swastika painted on his company’s building in east London.
Lance Forman, a businessman who owns the H Forman & Son smoked salmon company, found his headquarters and restaurant near the Olympic Park had been daubed with an antisemitic mural.
Forman’s business is the UK’s oldest salmon curer, which was set up by his great-grandfather in 1905.
A Met police spokesman said officers were investigating a suspected incident of race-related criminal damage. It is thought to have occurred shortly before midnight on Tuesday.
Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent direct to you Read more Forman told the Jewish Chronicle: “My dad fled the **** in Poland and is a Holocaust survivor who spent the war years as a child in a Siberian prison camp.
“He has worked with HET (the Holocaust Educational Trust) to teach children about the horrors of antisemitism. So the fact that we have been targeted in this antisemitic way is quite horrific and sick.
“The police have images of the culprits on CCTV and I sincerely hope they are tracked down.”
The incident comes at a time of heightened tensions in political campaigning with some candidates subject to abuse.
Police are also investigating a rape threat against Jess Phillips, the Labour MP, by Carl Benjamin, a candidate for Ukip.
Security for politicians has been stepped up after the murder of the Labour backbencher Jo Cox in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum.
Brexit Party candidate claimed Tory Islamophobia was 'made up by the left' EXCLUSIVE: Lance Forman, who is standing for Nigel Farage's party in London, was criticised by the Muslim Council of Britain
Gutter Posting show's the level some will go to when losing the argument. Not the way to treat female posters and the reason so few have threads on here now. My Mumsie would have made you wash your Camera out with soap & water.
Thanks for being the voice of reason during my unavoidable absence. It beggars belief that anyone would think it's appropriate or even remotely funny to post stuff like that and then to argue that because it's from one of the newspapers , it's ok. It's not , it's offensive and many people who view this thread but don't contribute will also be of the same mind .
Gutter Posting show's the level some will go to when losing the argument. Not the way to treat female posters and the reason so few have threads on here now. My Mumsie would have made you wash your Camera out with soap & water.
Thanks for being the voice of reason during my unavoidable absence. It beggars belief that anyone would think it's appropriate or even remotely funny to post stuff like that and then to argue that because it's from one of the newspapers , it's ok. It's not , it's offensive and many people who view this thread but don't contribute will also be of the same mind .
There will be thousands of them, and they will all be going to all the Brexit Party rallies.
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Pages & Pages of put downs some funny others obscene, nice you decided to choose clean one this time.
Cartoon probably accurate both men been meddling, no surprise Blair "Weapons of mass Destruction" involved . Why on earth with his track record they even listened to him let alone take his advice.
“A vote for the Brexit Party is a vote for a WTO Brexit – no ifs, no buts” calls out Richard Tice, the Brexit party chair. He was referring to the upcoming European elections in the UK. This is an interesting position.
The “WTO Brexit” aka “no-deal Brexit” is the one that has consistently been rejected by the UK parliament. It rather looks as though the intention of the Brexit party in the EU elections is to install a group of wrecker MPs. To drive their objectives effectively, a general election will be required, bringing to power a party that can either solely, or with coalition, force this outcome, mandated through a clear manifesto. No existing mainstream party is likely to offer a manifesto of this nature, so this would require the Brexit party to win a general election. Let’s assume that this is currently unlikely.
So, instead of having MEPs trying to drive the very improvement within the EU that many see necessary, we have a group with a futile function, adding to Nigel Farage’s existing bickering from the back of the classroom. If this new party wishes to achieve something real, tangible, long-lasting and with the likely backing of the electorate, it needs to wipe away the intention to install its wreckers in Brussels and put in place people who aim to drive change from within, to work collaboratively rather than destructively and to contribute to the process. They will not be alone. It appears that there will be a great many Eurosceptic MEPs from a number of countries. Now is the opportunity to work progressively to drive the change within the EU that so many recognise is needed, yet the EU leadership is unable to accept.
Only in this way can the Brexit party become one of progressive function rather than an angry mob of protesters without policy. They might want to rethink the name of the party, however.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-party-general-elections-eu-snp-scottish-independence-margaret-thatcher-a8903446.html
A vote for the ‘Brexit Party’ is now a vote for a no-deal Brexit, which no one in the country has ever voted for before
Credit where it’s due. It had not yet been 24 hours since Nigel Farage had been on the Sunday politics shows, warning of the “final betrayal” that was coming. And here he was, not even waiting for it to come, but delivering it himself.
The Brexit Party, the party Farage set up himself to contest the European elections he so desperately does not want to be contesting, was holding a press conference to announce it was betraying its own voters.
Farage was introduced by the Brexit Party chairman, a man called Richard Tice, who is best known, though nevertheless unknown, for appearing at political events in a white open-topped bus with “Leave Means Leave” painted down the side.
When it turned up at Tory party conference last year, he promised free non-EU booze to anyone who could spare five minutes to talk to him.
Two people turned up, and one of them, I must reveal, was your humble sketch writer, there exclusively to take the **** out of the whole thing. It did not prove hard.
Anyway, I digress. Tice had a message, and that message was that a vote for the Brexit Party in the European elections was a vote for “a WTO Brexit”, which is better known as a “no-deal Brexit” and best understood as a Place-Sanctions-On-Yourself Brexit.
Quite the volte face then. When Farage and co were going round the country three years ago, armed with slightly different lies, no one whispered a word about no-deal Brexit. Asked about it at the time, Farage’s view was that Angela Merkel simply wouldn’t allow it. She would be running for president again in 2017, and the German car makers would be so angry about it, “she would throw the election”.
And yet, here we are, three years on, and, wouldn’t you know, Farage is betraying himself. Betraying everyone he talked round to his cause three years ago, betraying everything he’s ever said, just for the sake of standing in an election, which, just to be absolutely clear, he absolutely definitely doesn’t want to be standing in. Oh no.
This was nevertheless, the less startling of the two big announcements. For we also learn that as well as a vote for the Brexit Party being a vote for “WTO Brexit”, it is also a vote for the Brexit Party’s MEPs to be involved in the Brexit negotiations. It is a vote to simultaneously sit down at the negotiating table and turn it over and walk away.
And who would be doing the negotiating? “The highest quality candidates,” claimed Tice, which are currently not limited to Ann Widdecombe and former Loaded mag editor Martin Daubney, who not so long ago was proud to organise a “straight pride” march through London, fearlessly sticking it to gay pride, standing up for downtrodden straight men everywhere.
The betrayal Farage had been warning about still hasn’t come, by the way. That “betrayal” is a May/Corbyn deal on a temporary customs union, which we are led to believe is imminent but has not yet happened.
If it does, Farage will have every right to be angry. He warned about this at the time, if you remember. He warned and no one listened. You’ll recall the “Breaking Point” poster, where he stood in front of a non-existent queue of lorries stretching no distance whatsoever up the M20, warning that the British people had had enough of frictionless trade with the European Union.
That just-in-time supply chain had to be smashed up. It was never about free movement, ended under Theresa May’s deal. Never about payments to the EU, also ended. It was always, always, about the customs union.
And if that’s not how you remember it, then maybe, just maybe, the betrayers aren’t who Farage says they are.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-brexit-party-richard-tice-theresa-may-latest-a8903581.html
IF, big IF the govt decided to revoke A50..I agree there would be anarchy and there might then be a need for a Brexit initiative(not a party) to hold the democratic decision of 3 years ago to account..THAT's why a second referendum is the best way forward...NOW we have SOME idea of whta we might actually be voting for - apart from repatriating peeps and
Hi As I said I didn't go back thru the posts so surprised that anyone(Haysie?) would post those sorts of images....
Sky seem to let lots(not certain) people post inappropriate comments..dobiesdraws being one of them-comments I have formally complained about.. but yes, it seems sky lets a lot go thru I agree...Nige does need a concrete form of himself...either in the form of boots or a whole body suit
It Was, EU laughing at him spurred him to work magic.
It Was, the British Voters that put him in the driving seat. brrrrrrmmmm
Cameron writing his Memoirs in hide away is suffering mental block after page one heading.............. "I called the Referendum it seemed good Idea at the time" eeerrrrrr
Swastika painted on building of Jewish Brexit party candidate
Police investigate antisemitic mural daubed on firm’s HQ near Olympic Park in east London
Police are investigating after a Jewish candidate standing for the Brexit party at the European elections had a 10 metre (30ft) swastika painted on his company’s building in east London.
Lance Forman, a businessman who owns the H Forman & Son smoked salmon company, found his headquarters and restaurant near the Olympic Park had been daubed with an antisemitic mural.
Forman’s business is the UK’s oldest salmon curer, which was set up by his great-grandfather in 1905.
A Met police spokesman said officers were investigating a suspected incident of race-related criminal damage. It is thought to have occurred shortly before midnight on Tuesday.
Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent direct to you
Read more
Forman told the Jewish Chronicle: “My dad fled the **** in Poland and is a Holocaust survivor who spent the war years as a child in a Siberian prison camp.
“He has worked with HET (the Holocaust Educational Trust) to teach children about the horrors of antisemitism. So the fact that we have been targeted in this antisemitic way is quite horrific and sick.
“The police have images of the culprits on CCTV and I sincerely hope they are tracked down.”
The incident comes at a time of heightened tensions in political campaigning with some candidates subject to abuse.
Police are also investigating a rape threat against Jess Phillips, the Labour MP, by Carl Benjamin, a candidate for Ukip.
Security for politicians has been stepped up after the murder of the Labour backbencher Jo Cox in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum.
Date And Time
Fri, 10 May 2019
19:00 – 20:00 BST
Location
The Epic Centre
Epic Centre, Lincolnshire showground
Grange-de-lings
Lincoln
LN2 2NA
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-brexit-party-lincoln-tickets-61247173946
NIGEL FARAGE took a brutal swipe at European Commission hopeful Guy Verhofstadt after he condemned the decision of Turkish officials to re-run the Istanbul election, despite previously calling for Britain to have another vote on Brexit.
It was revealed on Tuesday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political party have been allowed to hold a re-run of the Istanbul election after the AK party lost by a slim margin. The European Union responded to the election re-run with outrage, despite welcoming a second Brexit referendum.
Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian MEP and the ALDE group's leader in the European Parliament, said the decision to dismiss the result of the first election would ultimately lead the country towards a dictatorship.
Speaking from the Brexit Party rally in Peterborough on Tuesday, Mr Farage ridiculed Mr Verhofstadt’s comments and said: “This morning we learnt that the mayoral election in Istanbul a couple of weeks ago in which Erdoğan, the Turkish leader’s candidate, did not win.
“Guess what they are going to do? They are going to rerun the election. Guess what everyone is saying?
The Brexit Party leader was disrupted by an echo of boos from the audience. Mr Farage continued: “Juncker says it’s an outrage. Guy Verhofstadt says its an outrage.”
Disrupted once again by a series of boos from the audience following the mention of Europhile Guy Verhofstadt’s name, Mr Farage added: “Yet, they are all happy because they did it with the Danes over the Maastricht Treaty, they told them to vote again.
“They did it twice with the Irish and told them to vote again. And they all think that we should vote again.
“Let me tell you something. It would be an outrage to have a second referendum on the same question if we hadn’t first implemented the result.”
The High Election Board (YSK) ruled that a fresh Istanbul mayoral contest will be held on June 23.
Turkey’s opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has accused the move being a “plain dictatorship”.
Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, said the decision “ends the credibility of democratic transition of power through elections” in the country.
The AKP had appealed for an election re-run after initial results and a series of recounts showed it had lost control of Istanbul for the first time in 25 years.
Justifying his party's move, Erdogan said in a speech on Monday: "We see this decision as the best step that will strengthen our will to solve problems within the framework of democracy and law."
But the EU’s Guy Verhofstadt ridiculed the move and said: “This outrageous decision highlights how Erdoğan’s Turkey is drifting towards a dictatorship.
“Under such leadership, accession talks are impossible. Full support to the Turkish people protesting for their democratic rights and for a free and open Turkey!"
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1124212/Brexit-news-Nigel-Farage-Brexit-Party-latest-UK-candidates-EU-Guy-Verhofstadt-Turkey
The Brexit Party is “like Burger King - it’s home of the Whopper. It’s lie after lie after lie”, one of the leading MEP candidates for the rival Change UK party has said.
Rachel Johnson, who is standing for the party in the south west of England, said: “I’ve had lunch with Nigel Farage, he’s very good company.
She told Chopper's Brexit Podcast, which you can listen to easily by logging in or subscribing below: “I regard the Brexit Party like Burger King: it’s home of the Whopper. It’s lie after lie after lie, and also they have a very simple message - it’s ‘You were lied to, you were betrayed’.
“And I think that’s a very dangerous message to tell the people and the Parliamentarians are letting...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/05/09/brexit-party-like-burger-king-home-whopper-rachel-johnson/
He and others like him seek to exploit voters’ deepest fears about the ruling order and take power for themselves
‘Arch-conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a man who has claimed that the Pentagon has used a mysterious “gay bomb” to stop people having children.’
Language, we all know, matters in politics. And in a series of interviews over a number of years, Nigel Farage has been trying on a rhetorical outfit. He spoke about the Bilderberg group, discussed how “globalists” are seeking a “new world order”; how international banking systems are working to disband nation states; that the EU, effectively, is the product of a hidden plot.
The interviews were with the arch-conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a man, let’s remember, who has claimed that the Pentagon has used a mysterious “gay bomb” to stop people having children, and that the US government inflicts weather weapons on the American public. And in screaming tirades, he has claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting – which left 26 people dead – was “completely fake”. He’s currently fighting a legal case over that last claim.
It is tempting to see this as a pivot towards the lunatic right, of a politician losing the plot or dropping their mask. But it is the opposite of this. Far from turning his back on mainstream respectability, Farage’s use of the language of conspiracy theories is – in his calculation – the best path to it. A seismic cultural shift is under way in who we trust and how politics works. It is sweeping conspiracy theorists into power – and, Farage might hope, also Nigel Farage.
Before Farage, Donald Trump was on Alex Jones’s show. Easily America’s leading conspiracy theorist, Trump questioned throughout Barack Obama’s entire presidency whether he was born in the United States. He has suggested that vaccines cause autism, and that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of JFK. Joining him are other world leaders. Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, is a conspiracy theorist. So, on occasion, is the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte.
It is easy to see that conspiracy theories are a peculiarly modern problem of our “post-truth” age. After all, most people – 60% of us in the UK – believe at least one of them. They’ve been around, and popular, for a very long time. But something has been changing: more and more conspiracy theorists are winning power.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/08/nigel-farage-conspiracy-theories-politics-language
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It beggars belief that anyone would think it's appropriate or even remotely funny to post stuff like that and then to argue that because it's from one of the newspapers , it's ok.
It's not , it's offensive and many people who view this thread but don't contribute will also be of the same mind .