Would You Vote For Them?

[Kromovaracun]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-new-brexit-party-european-union-delayed-ukip-a8770711.html

A new 'Brexit Party' has been registered with the Electoral Commission, with hope of appealing to disgruntled Tories who are displeased with May's Brexit policy.

Nigel Farage, who is supporting the party, says it has political donors and plans to mobilize after March 29th if Brexit is delayed or (in their view) compromised.

As there's a fair few disgruntled Tories on AB, would you consider voting Brexit party in an election or would you fear splitting the Tory vote and letting Corbyn in?

[woofgang]

no, this may come as a shock but brexit is not the only issue.

[Zacs-Master]

It’s the only issue which is pertinent to the OP.

[Khandro]

//But said new party will be made up of the same self centred politicians. //
How do you know who will put themselves forward as candidates?
They will not necessarily be existing politicians.

And which present politicians, of any party, do you know who aren't "self-centred"?

[ichkeria]

When leader of UKIP Farage said he was passing on the baton to someone else. However what UKIP got was a Batten so Farage decided to pass on :-)
These parties attract the hardcore Brexit vote which despite claims is not of course a majority of the electorate. I think it’s a good thing if they siphon off those votes for themselves.

[Togo]

The newly-registered Brexit Party backed by Nigel Farage could run 200 candidates including “QCs, directors, business people, all sorts of highly professional people” if the Tories deliver “Brexit In Name Only”, or BRINO. Organiser Catherine Blaiklock, a former City of London trader, told Telegraph political correspondent Christopher Hope that “If we get BRINO – Brexit In Name Only – then there becomes an issue about whether that is a satisfactory result and how bad that result is.” Ms Blaiklock said the party had piqued the interest of an “amazing number of people who have never been in the political process” before, and secured “seven-figure pledges” for a possible campaign war chest – “a lot of people are very very unhappy about what is going on in the political process,” she added. Former UKIP supremo told The Sun on Sunday the enterprise had his endorsement in January, warning: “There is huge demand for a party that’s got real clarity on [Brexit]. You can see and hear the frustration welling up out there. It’s clear the political elite want to stop Brexit in its tracks… Now we are putting them on notice that if Brexit doesn’t happen on March 29 we are not prepared to stand by and do nothing.”
“If we did go for the European Parliament elections and we would be looking for 70 candidates, I think we would triple that already,” said Blaiklock, referring to the possibility of Britain participating in EU elections scheduled for May 2019, should Brexit be delayed beyond that date.
The Government has insisted it will honour the people’s vote to Leave the European Union in 2016 and that the United Kingdom will therefore not be participating in the European Parliament elections — but, curiously, the Electoral Commission has already set aside hundreds of thousands of pounds for them, with the backing of the Remain-supporting Speaker of the House of Commons.

Jack Montgomery

[Old_Geezer]

"And you think that was down to UKIP?"

Of course; it is blatantly obvious it was down to UKIP. A thorn in the side of the government at the time, Cameron decided to 'lance the boil' and get rid of the issue 'for good'; thus the referendum and the subsequent evidence that the government (and parliament) had failed to find out what those they were supposed to be representing, actually thought/wanted, and so were out of touch and acting undemocratically.

[Old_Geezer]

"And look where that got us"

Indeed. Evidence that many only support democracy when the vote goes their way, and otherwise plot and act to thwart it; and by doing so, causing problems for the nation.

[BANANASPLITS]

Yes

[ichkeria]

I know the Tories lead labour in the polls at the moment but I’m not sure I’d set a lot of store by that.
If younger people (by which I mean up to mid forties) vote in sufficient numbers the Tory party will struggle.
It’s the party’s blessed good fortune at the moment that labour is cursed with Jeremy Corbyn. Otherwise they’d be dead in the water.

[Baldric]

No, I don't think I would vote for them but I would be interested in who is involved and what's in their Manifesto.

[ichkeria]

One wonders where they’d get enough candidates from if there was an election. Even for a Euro election should it be needed. The comparatively well established UKIP was plainly scraping the barrel for quality at any rate in some cases even at the height of its powers. And if Brexit is going ahead anyway, what’s the point?

[Togo]

//One wonders where they’d get enough candidates from if there was an election. Even for a Euro election should it be needed.//

??See @11.27

[ichkeria]

Added to which they’d also be up against ... UKIP ;-)

[Togo]

It is about time the 2 party seesaw was disabled. Millions of people who cannot support UKIP, from both the left and the right, will gravitate towards the Brexit party should the referendum not be honoured.

[Zacs-Master]

Why would anyone who voted leave vote for a Brexit party? This would further weaken the Conservative party meaning they could never push the deal thru parliament and we’d end up staying in all but name. It might be 15 years (or much longer)before they establish themselves as a credible party with credible policies.

[Togo]

// will gravitate towards the Brexit party should the referendum not be honoured. //

Feel free to read what is written first time.

[Zacs-Master]

Feel free to think someone is replying to you rather than reinforcing their original point.

[Togo]

I did. You asked why would "anyone"...……..

[Togo]

I can even stretch to thinking that there may be about 17million who would.

[Zacs-Master]

My point. 09:38.