Tory candidates abandon the Conservatives for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party - with up to FORTY MEPs plotting to defect amid fears of a 'disaster' in May's EU elections Former Ukip leader's new party could cause an exodus of Tory party members Twenty-six MPs have reportedly told Farage in private they'll vote from his party Even more said to be switching from Tory candidates to stand for Brexit Party TV star and politicians from mainstream parties said to be among the joiners
The Conservatives are facing an exodus as up to 40 EU election candidates are believed to be defecting to the Brexit Party.
Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage has reportedly received word from 26 MPs that privately said they will vote for his new group.
And even more are said to be ditching their Tory MEP campaigns in favour of standing for the Brexit Party.
A TV star, high-profile charity figures and politicians from mainstream parties are among possible joiners, The Sun reports.
The news comes amid speculation surrounding Mark Francois, vice-chairman of the eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG), who openly encouraged a 'eurosceptic onslaught' in the upcoming elections when speaking to France 24 As many as 56 per cent of people who voted to leave the EU in 2016 say they would vote for Ukip or the Brexit Party, with only 18 per cent saying they would back the Conservatives
Mr Farage told the paper: 'After the last three years, many Conservative MPs, councillors and, indeed members, are asking what is the point of their party.'
He has laid a £1,000 bet on his party taking more seats in next month's elections than any other party.
Among those to announce their candidacy for the Brexit Party already are Annunziata Rees-Mogg, who is the sister of ERG chairman Jacob.
The Tories have also faced defections from MPs who believe that the UK should stay in the EU.
Anna Soubry is among three Conservatives who have quit the party to form Change UK, formerly known as The Independent Group.
Speculation about who might join the Brexit Party comes as support for the Conservatives is at a six-year low.
Only two thirds of Tory voters from the 2017 general election said they would support the party again, and a little more than one third said they would vote for the Tories in European elections, a You Gov poll for The Times claimed.
The Brexit Party is tipped to hold 15 per cent of EU Election voting intention share just days after its formation.
Electoral Calculus polling says Nigel Farage's newly formed Brexit Party would have the third largest share of the vote, with Labour ahead of the Tories if a general election was called today.
Why I'm standing for the Brexit Party John Longworth
The establishment's shameless suppression of Brexit demands a revolution in British politics
A Trojan group of MPs are fighting stoically to deliver the will of the British people. Unfortunately the vast majority of our Parliamentarians have done everything possible to frustrate, delay and undermine the democratic process. They are playing a dangerous game, which strikes at the heart of the social contract. These same individuals voted to have a referendum, pledged to abide by its result, triggered Article 50 and set in law the date of leaving. MPs from the two main parties committed to leave the EU, the jurisdiction of the ECJ, the single market and the customs union, in the manifestos on which they were elected. They have obfuscated and dissembled ever since.
Arrogant Remainer MPs like Hammond, Rudd, Letwin, supported by multinationals in the business groups and institutions like the IMF and the BBC, have tried to convince the people of Britain that they were stupid and wrong to have voted for liberty and a brighter economic future, a future which would see those same established groups lose their advantage. Some members of the establishment have even colluded with foreign powers in the hope of maintaining the status quo.
During the March to Leave, which I helped organise, I met patriotic people from all backgrounds and walks of life, who were beside themselves with fury. And no wonder. It is time for a revolution in politics, a revolution which has historical precedent and is as much a part of the culture of Britain’s body politic as Parliament itself.
Our representatives are political pygmies compared with those of past times. I wrote as much back in 2011 when I was appointed Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce. Career politicians, policy wonks who make a career of becoming politicians, having done little else in life, make feeble representatives. You could fire a thousand party poppers in the House of Commons and not hit anyone who has created jobs or done business. You could pop a thousand champagne corks in the European Parliament (which they do regularly) and get the same result.
No business would enter a negotiation unless prepared to walk away from the table, giving away this right is the surest way of ensuring a bad deal. This is just proof positive that the establishment and the PM never wanted anything other than membership of the Customs Union and to keep Britain so close to the EU and so miserable in our serfdom that we should want to go back in. They must either be fools or knaves, to paraphrase Shakespeare. My money is on the latter.
I have worked in business throughout my life, as an entrepreneur and at the board level, and have been involved in government. I have done business on every continent save Antarctica and worked closely with international trade and standards. And my experiences have led me to conclude that trade bodies, particularly the CBI, are either ignorant or deliberate promote the narrow vested interests of their controlling members at the expense of our country. Put together, they represent less than one in five businesses. Yet as ever, the wounded shout loudest. For the vast majority, however, leaving the EU will produce a major fillip to UK growth and reduce the cost of living as tariffs are removed. Most of our trade is already conducted under WTO rules. It may not suit protected German manufacturers and French farmers but it will be great for Britain. Most of all, just leaving, as we should have aimed to do in the first place, will give business and investors the certainty they so desperately need.
That is why I have decided to join the Brexit Party's revolution as a candidate for the European Parliament. To allow people to send a clear message to our political establishment that we will not stand for their eyewash any longer and guard our national interest in Brussels while we remain in the EU’s orbit.
The enemies of a free and independent Britain should not rejoice yet. To true patriots I say, it will be alright in the end, and if it is not alright, it is not the end.
Gerard Batten LASHES OUT at Nigel Farage's Brexit Party speech - 'Complete SMEAR' NIGEL Farage’s speech on his decision to launch the Brexit Party and leave UKIP is a “complete smear” and a “device”, claimed UKIP leader Gerard Batten.
Nigel Farage has strayed from the facts repeatedly. Click the InFact for the lowdown on the dirtiest dozen. Farage Fiction: “We are paying over £50 million a day in a membership fee” to the EU. InFact: Britain’s real net contribution is £17 million a day. What’s more, if we left the EU, the economy would be damaged. So we wouldn’t even save our net contribution. We’d have less money to spend, not more. Farage Fiction: Britain would be better off outside the single market. InFact: British exporters would face new trade barriers and hence, not surprisingly, would export less. Farage Fiction: The EU’s trade negotiations with the United States could undermine the National Health Service, leading it to be “privatised by the back door.” InFact: The EU trade commission and her US counterpart have both denied this, and Boris Johnson has stated that the EU-US trade deal “will certainly not mean the privatisation of the NHS.” Farage Fiction: “Tuberculosis is costing the National Health Service a great deal of money, and much of that is coming from southern and eastern Europe.” InFact: Migrants strengthen the NHS.
Farage Fiction: Women could be at risk of Cologne-style mass sex attacks if Britain stays in the EU. InFact: Migrants with criminal records will not get citizenship in Germany, so could not come to the UK. Farage Fiction: Europe “wants Turkey to be a member within five years.” InFact: Turkey is a long way from joining the EU, and Britain could veto its accession.
Farage Fiction: “Studies show that the impact of EU migration has made hard lives harder” InFact: Quitting the EU would hurt, not help, the low paid. Farage Fiction: EU rules allow “the free movement of terrorists, of criminal gangs and of Kalashnikovs.” InFact: The UK retains the right to deny entry to foreigners who pose a security risk. Farage Fiction: If Britain leaves the EU single market, it will have the bargaining power to cut new trade deals superior to those of Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, because “the EU needs us more than we need them.” InFact: Britain would be more desperate for a deal than the EU would be. Our exports to the EU represent 13% of our GDP. The rest of the EU’s exports to Britain represent just 3% of its GDP.
Farage Fiction: Brexit would not affect the Irish border. InFact: The border would have to be controlled if Brexiteers want to limit EU migration to the UK. Farage Fiction: “What we are seeing is an increasingly authoritarian European Union that crushes democratic rights and then actually crows about it.” InFact: The EU has flaws but it isn’t anti-democratic. Farage Fiction: Boris Johnson was not wrong in comparing the EU to Hitler. InFact: Hitler tried to unify Europe by murdering millions. The EU cannot be accused of that.
Nigel Farage's furious complaint to the BBC backfires thanks to a very basic error The former Ukip leader threatened to stop paying the licence fee over an interview broadcast more than a year ago
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Former Ukip leader's new party could cause an exodus of Tory party members
Twenty-six MPs have reportedly told Farage in private they'll vote from his party
Even more said to be switching from Tory candidates to stand for Brexit Party
TV star and politicians from mainstream parties said to be among the joiners
The Conservatives are facing an exodus as up to 40 EU election candidates are believed to be defecting to the Brexit Party.
Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage has reportedly received word from 26 MPs that privately said they will vote for his new group.
And even more are said to be ditching their Tory MEP campaigns in favour of standing for the Brexit Party.
A TV star, high-profile charity figures and politicians from mainstream parties are among possible joiners, The Sun reports.
The news comes amid speculation surrounding Mark Francois, vice-chairman of the eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG), who openly encouraged a 'eurosceptic onslaught' in the upcoming elections when speaking to France 24
As many as 56 per cent of people who voted to leave the EU in 2016 say they would vote for Ukip or the Brexit Party, with only 18 per cent saying they would back the Conservatives
Mr Farage told the paper: 'After the last three years, many Conservative MPs, councillors and, indeed members, are asking what is the point of their party.'
He has laid a £1,000 bet on his party taking more seats in next month's elections than any other party.
Among those to announce their candidacy for the Brexit Party already are Annunziata Rees-Mogg, who is the sister of ERG chairman Jacob.
The Tories have also faced defections from MPs who believe that the UK should stay in the EU.
Anna Soubry is among three Conservatives who have quit the party to form Change UK, formerly known as The Independent Group.
Speculation about who might join the Brexit Party comes as support for the Conservatives is at a six-year low.
Only two thirds of Tory voters from the 2017 general election said they would support the party again, and a little more than one third said they would vote for the Tories in European elections, a You Gov poll for The Times claimed.
The Brexit Party is tipped to hold 15 per cent of EU Election voting intention share just days after its formation.
Electoral Calculus polling says Nigel Farage's newly formed Brexit Party would have the third largest share of the vote, with Labour ahead of the Tories if a general election was called today.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6921149/Nigel-Farages-Brexit-Party-set-drain-Tory-candidates-EU-elections-month.html
John Longworth
The establishment's shameless suppression of Brexit demands a revolution in British politics
A Trojan group of MPs are fighting stoically to deliver the will of the British people. Unfortunately the vast majority of our Parliamentarians have done everything possible to frustrate, delay and undermine the democratic process. They are playing a dangerous game, which strikes at the heart of the social contract. These same individuals voted to have a referendum, pledged to abide by its result, triggered Article 50 and set in law the date of leaving. MPs from the two main parties committed to leave the EU, the jurisdiction of the ECJ, the single market and the customs union, in the manifestos on which they were elected. They have obfuscated and dissembled ever since.
Arrogant Remainer MPs like Hammond, Rudd, Letwin, supported by multinationals in the business groups and institutions like the IMF and the BBC, have tried to convince the people of Britain that they were stupid and wrong to have voted for liberty and a brighter economic future, a future which would see those same established groups lose their advantage. Some members of the establishment have even colluded with foreign powers in the hope of maintaining the status quo.
During the March to Leave, which I helped organise, I met patriotic people from all backgrounds and walks of life, who were beside themselves with fury. And no wonder. It is time for a revolution in politics, a revolution which has historical precedent and is as much a part of the culture of Britain’s body politic as Parliament itself.
Our representatives are political pygmies compared with those of past times. I wrote as much back in 2011 when I was appointed Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce. Career politicians, policy wonks who make a career of becoming politicians, having done little else in life, make feeble representatives. You could fire a thousand party poppers in the House of Commons and not hit anyone who has created jobs or done business. You could pop a thousand champagne corks in the European Parliament (which they do regularly) and get the same result.
No business would enter a negotiation unless prepared to walk away from the table, giving away this right is the surest way of ensuring a bad deal. This is just proof positive that the establishment and the PM never wanted anything other than membership of the Customs Union and to keep Britain so close to the EU and so miserable in our serfdom that we should want to go back in. They must either be fools or knaves, to paraphrase Shakespeare. My money is on the latter.
I have worked in business throughout my life, as an entrepreneur and at the board level, and have been involved in government. I have done business on every continent save Antarctica and worked closely with international trade and standards. And my experiences have led me to conclude that trade bodies, particularly the CBI, are either ignorant or deliberate promote the narrow vested interests of their controlling members at the expense of our country. Put together, they represent less than one in five businesses. Yet as ever, the wounded shout loudest.
For the vast majority, however, leaving the EU will produce a major fillip to UK growth and reduce the cost of living as tariffs are removed. Most of our trade is already conducted under WTO rules. It may not suit protected German manufacturers and French farmers but it will be great for Britain. Most of all, just leaving, as we should have aimed to do in the first place, will give business and investors the certainty they so desperately need.
That is why I have decided to join the Brexit Party's revolution as a candidate for the European Parliament. To allow people to send a clear message to our political establishment that we will not stand for their eyewash any longer and guard our national interest in Brussels while we remain in the EU’s orbit.
The enemies of a free and independent Britain should not rejoice yet. To true patriots I say, it will be alright in the end, and if it is not alright, it is not the end.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/14/standing-brexit-party/
NIGEL Farage’s speech on his decision to launch the Brexit Party and leave UKIP is a “complete smear” and a “device”, claimed UKIP leader Gerard Batten.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1114052/brexit-news-latest-nigel-farage-party-gerard-batten-annunziata-rees-mogg-today-speech-uk
Nigel Farage managed to make no fewer than three factual errors in an 11-minute interview on the Andrew Marr programme on 21 Feb.
https://infacts.org/farage-makes-hat-trick-of-errors-in-marr-interview/
Nigel Farage has strayed from the facts repeatedly. Click the InFact for the lowdown on the dirtiest dozen.
Farage Fiction: “We are paying over £50 million a day in a membership fee” to the EU.
InFact: Britain’s real net contribution is £17 million a day. What’s more, if we left the EU, the economy would be damaged. So we wouldn’t even save our net contribution. We’d have less money to spend, not more.
Farage Fiction: Britain would be better off outside the single market.
InFact: British exporters would face new trade barriers and hence, not surprisingly, would export less.
Farage Fiction: The EU’s trade negotiations with the United States could undermine the National Health Service, leading it to be “privatised by the back door.”
InFact: The EU trade commission and her US counterpart have both denied this, and Boris Johnson has stated that the EU-US trade deal “will certainly not mean the privatisation of the NHS.”
Farage Fiction: “Tuberculosis is costing the National Health Service a great deal of money, and much of that is coming from southern and eastern Europe.”
InFact: Migrants strengthen the NHS.
Farage Fiction: Women could be at risk of Cologne-style mass sex attacks if Britain stays in the EU.
InFact: Migrants with criminal records will not get citizenship in Germany, so could not come to the UK.
Farage Fiction: Europe “wants Turkey to be a member within five years.”
InFact: Turkey is a long way from joining the EU, and Britain could veto its accession.
Farage Fiction: “Studies show that the impact of EU migration has made hard lives harder”
InFact: Quitting the EU would hurt, not help, the low paid.
Farage Fiction: EU rules allow “the free movement of terrorists, of criminal gangs and of Kalashnikovs.”
InFact: The UK retains the right to deny entry to foreigners who pose a security risk.
Farage Fiction: If Britain leaves the EU single market, it will have the bargaining power to cut new trade deals superior to those of Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, because “the EU needs us more than we need them.”
InFact: Britain would be more desperate for a deal than the EU would be. Our exports to the EU represent 13% of our GDP. The rest of the EU’s exports to Britain represent just 3% of its GDP.
Farage Fiction: Brexit would not affect the Irish border.
InFact: The border would have to be controlled if Brexiteers want to limit EU migration to the UK.
Farage Fiction: “What we are seeing is an increasingly authoritarian European Union that crushes democratic rights and then actually crows about it.”
InFact: The EU has flaws but it isn’t anti-democratic.
Farage Fiction: Boris Johnson was not wrong in comparing the EU to Hitler.
InFact: Hitler tried to unify Europe by murdering millions. The EU cannot be accused of that.
https://infacts.org/farages-top-twelve-errors/
https://infacts.org/farages-catalogue-errors/
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2018/03/16/nigel-farage-made-schoolboy-error-twitter-favourite-11-responses-updated/
The former Ukip leader threatened to stop paying the licence fee over an interview broadcast more than a year ago
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farages-furious-complaint-bbc-11208248
Cher mistakes Tony Abbot for Nigel Farage in heated tweet...……….
Ex-UKIP councillor Stephen Searle guilty of murdering wife
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-44861508