Farage

Maybe he doesn’t want to resign as an MEP and the money he’s getting. All the Brexit candidates had to pay Farage £100 to stand ,so thats more money in his coffers. Who knows who the candidates are, just self serving acolytes.

Farage is a flea on the rump of the political horse. He isn't interested in the hard grind of day to day political work, He just enjoys nipping the horse and making it squirm.

He founded UKIP, which only functioned while he was in charge. Every time he got bored and tried to move on, it collapsed. In the end he got terminally bored with it and left it to decline into the rather nasty rightwing deflated balloon it is now and founded a new party. Which left him in a dilemma.

There is a chance that the Brexit party could win a seat in the coming election and he would be expected to stand for a seat where he could end up an MP and that is the last thing he wants.

Its the being in the public eye and being considered important and fawned on by the likes of Trump that matters to him, the last thing he wants to do is become an MP and be judged on his -in-capacity to get down to the hard work, and it is hard work, no matter what people say, of being a constituency MP.

What I would like to know is where are all those on this forum who so praised Farage up when he launched the Brexit Organisation in January. At that time in the eyes of those members, Farage was Britains arch saviour who was about to rescue us all from the dreadful locking embrace of the European Union.

Some even made "boast" of the fact that they had paid a subscription to his organisation. However, it now states little for their judgment, and yet they expect others to believe that judgment when they tell us remain adherents how wonderful it will be when this nation has left the EU.

What a load of horse dug.

Hi Grandad I was one of the NF supporters! I think in answer to your question is that, at the time, he DID seem to be our saviour as he was the only politician who seemed able to promise Brexit - compared to Theresa May’s supplicant deal.

As ever in politics, events can change rapidly. Boris has come up with an improved deal (the Remainers say it’s worse therfore it must be a better Brexit!)

NIgel is probably correct - what’s on offer ‘isn’t Brexit’ but pragmatism will win out now with most Leavers. It’s the nearest we’ve come to a decent deal (or treaty) in 3+ years. The EU seem more than happy with it (so it probably isnt Brexit!) but I suppose it’s a compromise.

I’m happy to go for that as, with much more of this, I fear we will end up with no Brexit at all.

grandad if they don’t realise they have been fooled then there is no hope.

The man is a fascist.

Monica I love your description of Farage - "a flea on the rump of the political horse." Brilliant.

I wonder if he'll disappear off to the US.

As a matter of interest, do you know what's actually in the "deal" Urmstongran, and how Johnson's and May's deals differ?

It seems to me that your opinion of a deal depends on who likes it, not what's actually in it.

I really don't understand the logic of claiming that it's "not a deal" just because the EU "likes" it.

In your opinion, what does Farage actually want?

MOnica I think you've just about summed up the man. I suspect he's worked out that there's a captive audience for his kind of rhetoric in the US and he'll be able to make more money when his "services" as an MEP are no longer required.

Is there any other job that you could fail to turn up for and still keep it? twitter.com/i/status/1191288029761220609

As far as the 'pact' goes, it might not be official but I'm willing to bet that it is going on unofficially as I have already read of one of the Brexit company standing down in favour of a Tory.

The Brexit Party are going to field 600 candidates today - reported in the news just now.

Have they published a manifesto I wonder?

No idea. Not bothered now as I shan’t be voting for them anyway. I’m backing Boris and his compromise Brexit.

So what's in Johnson's version of Brexit which is better in your opinion than May's version?

600 candidates?
Where have they appeared from?

That’s what I thought Callistemon ?Did they come as a job lot?

You buy one, you get one free
Like double glazing

some of them have the weirdest of backgrounds, for sure.

One of them is Australian, lived in USA and arrived in UK last year???

One of them is Australian


although none of the Australians I encountered could understand why anyone would vote to leave

but didn't Farage get a rapturous reception in Sydney from a limited audience?

Didn't someone say they'd given the Brexit party thousands of pounds a while back?

??? one candidate they won’t be fielding

A former general election candidate for the Brexit Party has stood down after it emerged that she believes she comes from the star Sirius and that aliens are already working with world governments.

Jill Hughes, who was the party's prospective candidate for Batley and Spen, also believes in "elves/fairies/mermaids/unicorns and all things elemental and otherworldly", and that her horse was reincarnated as another horse.

The Australian has only been in the U.K. since 2018, so he won’t be a U.K. citizen for the whole of the next parliament

I can’t think that the candidates have been properly vetted.

Urmstongran Mon 04-Nov-19 09:29:23 although I am on a different side to you in this discussion I appreciate you admitting to a change of heart. That is quite rare.

Can a non-UK citizen be elected to parliament?

2 Labour candidates have been found to have written online or said things that are egregiously anti-semitic.

An non Uk citizen can become an MP if they are a citizen of a commonwealth country who does not require leave to enter or remain in the UK, or has indefinite leave to remain in the UK www.parliament.uk/get-involved/elections/standing/

she comes from the star Sirius etc

But surely that-s true - don't we all?

can a non-UK citizen be elected to parliament
Interesting question
I'm thinking of Peter Haig, Wera Hobhouse and wondering what their status was/is.

Didn't the Greens have an Australian leader (but not elected) at one time?