Nigel Farage Returns

[Khandro]

https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/18/im-back-farage-returns-to-frontline-to-fight-establishments-brexit-sell-out/

Do you welcome this news?

[ichkeria]

Having Nigel prancing around the country doing his thing might well be the death knell for Brexit. Rallying the hardliners isn’t really going to do his cause any good: what does he imagine is going to happen? That all this is magically going to change the course of the negotiations? Farage Banks and co might have helped get the bandwagon rolling but their idea of Brexit and Britain is very much a minority one.
I notice he seems not to talking about reviving his old party though: very wise

[ichkeria]

It is the conceit of so called populist politicians that they’re somehow ‘not the elite’ and have an almost mystical hotline to ‘the people’ . It is a con alright

[Old_Geezer]

Bully for Nige. But to make a difference he'd likely need to be on the PM's Brexit negotiating team, whoever the PM is at the time. That said, he's achieved much from the sidelines.

[ichkeria]

Yes it’s hard to see exactly what influence he thinks he has: his big weapon is opinion polls : every time there’s what looks like a move to ‘soft Brexit’ then a few people swap out from the Tories to UKIP: but there’s no election on the cards (ironically of course the next European elections follow after the closing date)

[New Judge]

"Oh yes, a rich ex-merchant banker .."

A metal trader (on the London Metal Exchange, not Steptoe & Son), actually, but let's not quibble.

[david small]

I welcome Nigel Farage back into the political arena.
Watch the discredited false news accumulating, listen to the disparaging venomous misinformation, read about how he eats babies without sauce. The man is one of the hopes for a better Brexit. Good fortune Nigel, your about to enter a positive ***-storm.

[tonyav]

Do you welcome this news?

Yes I do.

[gulliver1]

TGT 14.52 " He got us out of the E/U", When was that then?.

[naomi24]

Yes, I do welcome this news. I'd rather one of him than all of the rest put together.

[Kromovaracun]

I'm not quite sure why Farage has a reputation for integrity. He's done nothing to deserve it. He is, however, an excellent orator and self-publicist. He's also highly adept at using chaos to do well for himself. I don't particularly delight in this news no, but it might strip him of this "elder statesman" aura he's been trying to cultivate on his radio show for the past two years.

[naomi24]

//I'm not quite sure why Farage has a reputation for integrity. //

He doesn't ... well, at least among people to whom the truth is an anathema.

[Jackdaw33]

He has actively campaigned to put himself out of a cushy, well-paid job. I call that integrity.

[sandyRoe]

I wonder does he see himself as a latter day Drake?

Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore,
Strike et when your powder's runnin' low;
If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven,
An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago."

[jim360]

A job he barely turned up for anyway: out of 750 MEPs he's the 748th worst in terms of votes participated in (since 2014) -- and the other two are someone too ill to ever attend, and another who only took over from a previous incumbent earlier this year.

[Khandro]

I ask you remoaners to tell us what is wrong, inaccurate or deceitful with this;

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1005206/Brexit-News-Nigel-Farage-Theresa-May-Leave-Means-Leave-No-Deal

and ask why you are prepared to trust T. May and her deceitful band of liars, why you fear the World Trade Organisation, the continued loss of British sovereignty, the control of UK borders and fishing rights, and the ability to control its own laws.

[jim360]

"...why you are prepared to trust T. May and her deceitful band of liars..."

We're not -- but that doesn't mean Farage is the solution.

[naomi24]

Oooo, how interesting. Jim's hoarding statistics. Is that the sound of knees knocking? ;o)

[jim360]

What are you going on about now?

[naomi24]

Jim, you ought to know. You're doing the counting and posting the figures.