Is Farage Frit?

[sandyRoe]

There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Should Farage throw his hat into the ring and run for a seat in parliament?

He'll never have a better chance.

What say you?

[ToraToraTora]

Why would he? He's already the most successful politician in history without ever entering the house.

[naomi24]

He would need to stand as a Conservative and I can't see that happening.

[sandyRoe]

Even more successful than Winston or Maggie?

Really?

[davebro3]

No - I don't see him as a run-of-the-mill MP. Not his style.

[ToraToraTora]

09:08 If you measure success by achieving what you set out to do, and he did 100%, then yes. Until Farage it was said that all political careers end in failure. TGM and TGL achieved a lot more materially but I'm sure they would have liked to have done a lot more.

[saintpeter48]

Its just been announced on the BBC that Farage is not standing in the GE.

[New Judge]

As much as I admire both of them, I don't believe that either TGL or Sir Winston would have lobbied for the UK to leave the EU in the way Mr Farage did. He and we were fortunate in that he had virtually only one political goal and he was not troubled by the burden of having a country to run. In many respects that was his greatest advantage. 

[Khandro]

He's going to make an announcement at 11:00 am (your time)

I think he will take over from Tice as leader of The Reform UK Party.

The thinking being not for any power during the next Labour Government but to take control at the following election after Labour has failed - which is inevitable.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

If his goal is to get Labour into power, he's doing well so far.

[ToraToraTora]

Fun fact, in 1947 TGM wanted us to be part of the setting up of the original kernal of what was to become the EUSSR. He wanted to be in from the start and shape it etc. Sadly the Liberals and Labour voted it down. It may have turned out differently though probably not.

[Hymie]

Farage has stood in UK parliamentary elections seven times, winning zero times – some success.

 

The whole UK electorate should be thankful that his previous successful attempts at becoming an MP are likely to continue.

[ToraToraTora]

hymie: "Farage has stood in UK parliamentary elections seven times, winning zero times – some success." - yes success in politics is measured in achievements. NF showed that you can achieve what you want without anything as mundane as a seat in parliament.

[davebro3]

I thought Winston was in favour of a united Europe but didn't want Britain to be part of it. I may be wrong.

[Hymie]

Convincing the electorate to vote for something that would be a complete disaster for the UK, hardly counts as being a successful politician IMHO.

[gulliver1]

Think Farage is more of a stand up Comedian than a Politician.

[ToraToraTora]

You are wrong

https://european-union.europa.eu/system/files/2021-06/eu-pioneers-winston-churchill_en.pdf

 

[ichkeria]

I've said it before but the usual suspects are deaf to the reality that Nigel Farage was effectively a one-issue politician (whose lobbying was done without ever being elected to any body other than, ironically, the European parliament, where rightly or wrongly most of his fellow MEPs saw him as an eccentric and often impertinent nuisance. If political success is seeing the one thing you want finally happening, then yes he is a success. If you regard political success as being elected and seeing through that end result yourself then by that standard Farage is a complete failure. He was barred from the official Leave campaign as Cummings knew his association with it would most likely put undecided voters off.

If I spend the best part of my life supporting a particular football team and it finally wins the Premier League it doesn't make me a succesful footballer, only a happy fan.

[ToraToraTora]

hymie: "Convincing the electorate to vote for something that would be a complete disaster for the UK, hardly counts as being a successful politician IMHO." - gawd you are dim, it was HIS political aim and he achieved it 100%. What other politician can say that?

[ichkeria]

But in his defence, why would he stand in this election? To add to his list of failures to get into parliament, which he has more than once in any case since described in less than glowing terms?

[ToraToraTora]

ich: "If political success is seeing the one thing you want finally happening, then yes he is a success." - that's exactly what it is, getting done what you wanted done. No other politician in history has done that 100%. none.