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So - what is Farage up to now ?!?

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jura2 Sun 21-Jan-18 17:12:31

any thoughts?

durhamjen Fri 16-Feb-18 09:38:37

GracesGran, did you hear the audience?
Farage and Diane Abbott. Should be a good programme.
Femi would be too much to ask for.

durhamjen Fri 16-Feb-18 09:35:02

This fits both places.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3QK2xC4OfE&list=RDj3QK2xC4OfE

jura2 Fri 16-Feb-18 09:32:46

Oh, and yes, he did. Wrote it in the Daily Telegraph:

'Mr Farage warned that the Government is betraying voters who supported Brexit because they are keen to stop mass migration.

He wrote in the Daily Telegraph: "The Brexit-voting public is not in denial over immigration. Many now want a total stop to it.

"For a nation to rise up against the establishment and secure a historic victory, only to have its hopes thwarted by an out-of-touch elite, is a recipe for dangerous division.

jura2 Fri 16-Feb-18 09:29:43

MawBroon: '“Twarthed” ? jura2?' -
thank you so much for furthering my education- now where is the outcry ?!?
Funny word, that - and as you may know- English is not my first language. I'd love to read some of you debating in French - mdr (mort de rire). Anyhow, will try harder in future, I promise ;).

GracesGranMK2 Fri 16-Feb-18 09:24:09

Grr. Is it whitewave who often calls it the Brexit Broadcasting Company - well the retched Farage is on Question Time AGAIN next week - why? If he has to be on I do hope they put Femi on with him and people from all the growing anti-Brexit movements.

MawBroon Fri 16-Feb-18 09:22:51

I mean, did Farage actually say that?
confused

durhamjen Fri 16-Feb-18 09:18:03

Yes, good, aren't they? In fact, the first one I watched I thought was about our government - the revolving doors one.
Can't find one on Farage, though.

MawBroon Fri 16-Feb-18 09:17:26

“Twarthed” ? jura2?
Is that like “twerking”?

Ginny42 Fri 16-Feb-18 04:50:04

Thank you for the link DJ. Never heard of them before, but I enjoyed it. I listened to one or two more of their videos and their comments are transferrable to our government.

durhamjen Wed 14-Feb-18 15:14:31

youtu.be/57jRBt4h6ks

About trump.
I hope they've done one on Farage and Boris.

durhamjen Wed 14-Feb-18 12:57:53

Is Banks still being investigated by the Electoral Commission? Haven't heard anything about that for a couple of months.

Ginny42 Wed 14-Feb-18 10:40:30

I see Richard Branson is supporting Soros.

jura2 Wed 14-Feb-18 10:04:17

So, again, Farage is threatening the country if 'Brexit is twarthed' by the 'elites' sad

durhamjen Fri 09-Feb-18 15:43:48

infacts.org/brexiters-treat-soros-hero-not-villain/

In a comparison of Soros and Banks, I know which one I'd want on my side.

durhamjen Fri 09-Feb-18 15:15:48

"Alarmingly, a number of less than credible Conservative MPs have mysteriously found themselves embroiled in allegedly violent protest events (Rees-Mogg and Davies), while another has publicly shown a purported threatening letter sent to a Brexit supporting constituent (Goldsmith). The events themselves do not stand up to any scrutiny and appear staged or suspicious, notably all of them claiming violence or aggression by parties wishing to remain in the EU. Right-wing news and disinformation outlets have been having a field day.

Disturbingly, genuine threats of violence and intimidation from the leader of Britain First, in support of Rees-Mogg, have been ignored, along with almost two years of extensively recorded and reported hate crime committed by racists and bigots. It has also transpired that right-wing groups have been training for civil war in secret groups."

From Maizie's link. It will not be believed, of course.

durhamjen Fri 09-Feb-18 15:11:06

And this.

infacts.org/may-finally-admits-benefit-eus-trade-deals/

What game do you think she is playing now?

MaizieD Fri 09-Feb-18 11:25:06

Ooh, this is fun...

www.byline.com/column/67/article/2040

"The Scenario:

Politics within an established, liberal democracy lurch suddenly to a conservative extreme and changes in the nation's direction occur at an alarming pace.

Within three years the political and social landscape is polarised and the checks and balances fail inside and outside of government. A leadership figure emerges who captures the more aggressive side of public sentiment and increasingly intimidating and violent acts suppress opposition, resulting in a shell democracy under which ever more draconian laws and controls and introduced to cement the power grab and crush any resistance."

Etc.

durhamjen Fri 09-Feb-18 10:51:41

Debate at Cambridge University.

"Rees-Mogg, a grassroots favorite, hankered after incandescent light bulbs now banned by the EU and for the freedom to use pesticides banned by the EU on environmental grounds, saying that any Brexit in which Britain doesn't take back control of its laws, borders and money would be a "betrayal." He dismissed fears over the future of Britain's food supply after Brexit.

But ultimately, for all his popularity among Tories, Rees-Mogg failed to win over the students at Cambridge. Speaking alongside Labour Party donor John Mills and businesswoman Helena Morrissey, he lost out to the Adonis team, which included former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan."

Nice to know he's in favour of polluting the environment, after all we have been doing to try and improve it.
Pleased he lost.

whitewave Fri 09-Feb-18 10:45:21

Saw that. She’s in hock up to her eyeballs.

durhamjen Fri 09-Feb-18 10:43:25

www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/revealed-these-70-tory-mps-support-the-hard-brexit-group?utm_term=.wkqb5PmMm

There are 70 members of the ERG. That's easily enough to get rid of May when Mogg is ready.

whitewave Fri 09-Feb-18 09:54:40

George Soros has been identified by the fascist groups in Hungary, Poland and Italy as the enemy they love to hate. Posters of Soros next to a dead pig have been posted in Hungary.
Soros is a philanthropist who has given billions to projects supporting human rights, the rule of law, education, public health, LGBT and Roma rights, a free press and transport networks across eastern and Central Europe. Other projects include supporting scholarships for Black South African children under apartheid.

Now the hard right in the U.K. has him in their sights, and the Torygraph headlines this week, sought to place Soros firmly as an enemy.

Soros is backing the remain side and is funding the “Best for Britain” campaign headed by Mark Malloch Brown, the former UN Deputy Secretary-general.

durhamjen Thu 08-Feb-18 23:02:18

Britain First supports the man that many people want to be the next PM when May finishes, and you think that's not powerful enough, lemon.
Yes, I think you'd be better off sticking your fingers in your ears and leaving us to it.

durhamjen Thu 08-Feb-18 22:59:33

Zoe Margolis was actually tweeting a paragraph from this article by Rafael Behr.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/08/brexit-antisemitic-dog-whistle-daily-telegraph-george-soros

MaizieD Thu 08-Feb-18 21:03:07

Still no comment on the fascist language, lemon?

enemies of the people
traitors
saboteurs
and even, the will of the people

It pervades the right wing media

MaizieD Thu 08-Feb-18 21:00:44

Congratulations, ww!