I dunno.. I think Boris would be OK with a no deal Brexit... He's also going to need to be open to it to get the support of the Brexiteer wing of the party..
Boris will be ok with whatever benefits Boris. Be it no deal ro revoke A50, he has no shame and will support whatever view it takes to make him popular.
They basically have the UKIP vote from the last Euro elections (who were polling 34% shortly ahead of the actual vote). The major parties are a mess, but let's not pretend that Farage has nothing more than the racist vote that turnout whatever the occassion.
The point about the brexit party vote is they're bit dissimilar to the NRA who have effectively only ONE policy but they really, REALLY believe in it. The thing I found odd was the way the purely remain parties, (the liberals, greens and the new ChangeUK), can't get their act together which, when you think about it, should be the easiest bloody thing in the world. I mean, both labour and the tories have major elements in which voted different ways, (albeit up 'one end' of the country in our case), but that's not the case with the remain parties. I watched the green party launching their euro election manifesto and there was one bit where she says, almost in terms, 'We must ALL try and stick together... but don't vote for those bastards the Liberals'. I thought, hang on... what was that? We are doing exactly nothing for these elections. Literally, NOTHING!!! But I think, in general, the idea of voting for someone to be an MEP for maybe only a few weeks or months seems pretty odd, tbh. So my guess is that the brexiters will turn out in numbers but people who are either for remain... but not THAT much... or are sick and tired of the whole bloody thing, (AKA a fairly large number of people), won't bother. The other thing is that the brexiters will turn out for this, despite it being sod-all to do with whether we leave the EU or not, to 'send a message' but will then completely ignore the brexit/UKIP/whatever immediately afterwards. So I suspect that brexit will win the majority of the vote, which is being interpreted as another protest vote which will mean nothing almost immediately afterwards, but that it will mean almost nothing going forward.
The advantage Farage has is that it's far easier to oppose something when you're never going to be in a position to actually do something about it than it is to be Labour/Tories who would have to deal with Brexit.
Exactly - which was also the ERG scam until push came to shove them lots of them voted for May's deal.
What's surprised me is the lack of support for the purely remain parties... the libdems in particular. They never voted for the referendum, starting the A50 in the first place or ANY of this shit. I suppose after doing a complete about turn on the student fees issue, people still don't trust them and with the FPTP system they're still seen as a pure protest vote in many constituencies. During the last GE we lost some votes because the greens came to us and asked us to stand aside in some council areas where we weren't strong in exchange for them withdrawing their local green candidate in the parliamentary election. As they still wouldn't have got anywhere near we, (not unreasonably IMO), declined the offer. They stood and picked up about 1,000 votes. We lost by 720. Of course, you can't say we'd have got ALL of them but it would have made it a bit closer.
This is the problem with the euro votes over here... guys like Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, (AKA Tommy Robinson), have a chance to get elected. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...lection-tour-flags-fights-milkshake-far-right Robinson’s international supporters stand in stark contrast to the deprived estates of Manchester, Stockport, Bolton, Cumbria and Wigan where he has focused his campaign, drawing crowds of between 50 and 300. Political rivals are split on whether he has a genuine chance. If turnout is low, he may need just 8% of the vote to be the first MEP in Britain elected as an independent – a possibility keenly apparent to the main political parties, which recall the election of the BNP’s Nick Griffin in the north-west with just 8% of the vote in 2009.
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Well, they're very inventive, the old jocks so I'm sure something will come to hand But, tbh, I think arguing with people in public is more effective. Just stand there and have a slanging match with them can make them look bad and not be a victim which is how they try and present themselves. Singing offensive songs and even milkshakes is fine but the people that are impressed with violence as a response are people that already agree with us so all we're doing is putting off the ones that haven't been following these people and don't know what's going on.
The Geordies got him, and it wasn't a cheap McDonalds shake - banana and salted caramel. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...an-elections-newcastle-campaign-a8921931.html
I think that milkshake thing is pretty effective. Shows them, that they are not untouchable, and that they might have to pay for their deeds one day after all.
This might prove interesting... https://www.theguardian.com/politic...xit-party-offices-funding-gordon-brown-paypal The Electoral Commission has said it will attend the offices of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party to “review its systems” after Gordon Brown urged them to investigate concerns over the legality of the party’s funding. The former prime minister told a Labour rally in Glasgow the commission had the powers to carry out live investigations during elections, and issue interim statements on whether it believes there are unanswered legal questions about party funding. Brown said there were clear risks democracy was being damaged if the Brexit party was allowed to accept foreign and untraceable donations via the online payments service PayPal. Political gifts of under £500, whether made via PayPal or another route, do not have to be declared. Farage “is not going to be remembered, as he wants, as the man of the people. He’s going to be remembered as the man of the PayPal, because that is where the money is coming from,” Brown declared. Following the speech, the Electoral Commission issued a statement, saying it planned to attend the party’s offices on Tuesday. A spokesperson said: “The Brexit party, like all registered political parties, has to comply with laws that require any donation it accepts of over £500 to be from a permissible source. Up till now the electoral commission has been something of a paper tiger because it's been establishing what's happening after the event, the election, (or referendum as it was), but they're now looking at what's happening before it. So we'll see what happens.
Can't say as I've noticed them being a particularly sophisticated lot, the geordies but, OK... that'll work
A rabid Brexit nutter laying in to the Brexit campaigner David Davies MP for not being a Brexiter. Brexit supporting MP David Davies called a liar while giving TV interview https://t.co/gHL7MuDTTk pic.twitter.com/nJPD6dUFHX— BBC Wales News (@BBCWalesNews) May 21, 2019