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Khandro | 09:12 Sat 23rd Sep 2017 | News
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It really looks like "thinking hard" is a euphemism for "I shall".
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/857687/brexit-news-theresa-may-speech-eu-nigel-farage-ukip

With the polls showing that UKIP is already on the rise again under the excellent interim leadership of Steve Crowther, which can only continue with Nigel at the helm, what will be the consequences of a strong third party?
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An upturn in bus advertising revenues? Little else I would imagine.
I don't think that UKIP has enough support to form a party that could be classed as strong..
Yesterdays man Khandro. But so what if he does return ?

The Party has no MPs and precious few Councillors.

Not only yesterdays but yesterdays Party as well.
Mikey, //The Party has no MPs and precious few Councillors. //

But Farage managed to achieve a referendum nonetheless. I agree with danny. I don't think UKIP will ever be a strong party. Farage on the other hand is not yesterday's man, as you like to think. He won't go away any time soon.
The basic premise of the question; that ukip will form a strong party, is like assuming the chuckle brothers would win an oscar.
Farage's only hope of continuing in British politics is for him to beg to be allowed to rejoin the Tory Party, and one can only imagine the howls of laughter and disbelief in Tory Central if he ever dared.

At the moment, he is just a radio presenter, and a part-time attendee in Brussels.
Zacs....lol !

My worst fear, years ago, was to be trapped in a broken down lift with the Chuckle Brothers, but the notion of replacing them with Farage doesn't even bear thinking about.
I don't think UKIP is anywhere near 'third party' status and never likely will be at this rate... But that's what was thought of the SNP many moons ago wasn't it?

UKIP can but bloody the noses of those that refuse to listen to the democrat vote to leave though and that can only be a goodnight thing.

All the yabbering and wailing about he was never an MP in Westminster and UKIP only had one MP and all the panic over UKIP is because they were successful in the party aims of OUT and they did all that with so little it FRIGHTENS people.

Just think how he and UKIP would trounce Labour into the ground and probably give the Conservatives a black eye to boot if they got off their backsides and actually got an opposition together.

I'm not too sure but it seems to me that it is Labourites that are more frightened by UKIP and Nigel Farage. Hmmm that can only mean he has his finger on the pulse, for a while at least.
//At the moment, he is just a radio presenter, and a part-time attendee in Brussels. //

And still in the public eye. ;o)
Meanwhile.....BACK ON PLANET EARTH.
Yeah - the Nige is here forever ! Hooray !
Cassa...Farage would be nowhere without a Party to belong to, and maybe to lead. Without an official position, he is just a noisy voice.

Even if UKIP would have him back, to what would he be the Leader ? Effectively UKIP now ceases to exist in the bigger picture. If you don't have representation at Westminster, you count for nothing.

UKIP succeeded in its aim, to get a Referendum on leaving the EU. Farage always said that once he had achieved that, UKIP would cease to have any purpose.

He recognised that UKIP was never a mainstream Party, but just a pressure group.
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As the UK has no centre party at all at the moment anything of real substance would be, if not "strong" but stronger and badly needed, with both main parties appearing to the public as dithering about what they want.

I get sent an occasional newsletter from UKIP and Steve Crowther starts the one I received this week with an attack on the biased BBC, it starts;

"The BBC is now acting as a fully co-opted member of the Remain rearguard. This week’s scare story on supposed post-Brexit food prices and shortages was an extraordinary piece of distortion.

A series of people were recorded saying that under certain circumstances there might be an adverse effect on their area of work or business following Brexit. One was a man who imports chickens, who said their “could” be higher prices. This was followed by an interview with Owen Paterson MP in which John Humphrys plumbed new depths, even by his standards.

The whole confected premise was to create the required headline, scaring people into believing that food prices would rocket and there would be shortages and empty shelves in the shops after Brexit. The fact that food prices are likely to fall, and the UK economy could receive a huge boost from import substitution, was mentioned in the report but entirely ignored by the news headline and the Humphrys interview.

John Humphrys’ interviews increasingly resemble Monty Python’s ‘Mouse Organ’ sketch, in which a deranged man thumps a line of mice with mallets to make them squeak, until he is dragged off the stage."

This is the kind of critism which UKIP excels in, you will not hear from the two main parties and what IMO Britain needs. If UKIP is "of yesterday" you have nothing to fear, but I say,
Bring it on Nige!


It's easy for a party who have no chance of gaining power to criticise things. Cheap words.
I can always tell when people have run out of meaningful things to say, and that is when they start attacking the BBC !
'Farage Comeback' goes in the same box as 'World End This Weekend'.

I may be true one day but mostly it shows a shortage of things to report on. Kinda like why we have sexy royals getting pregnant.
Claims predicting the return of Farage are rather like those spurious claims that Jehovah Witnesses make about the end of the world !

It isn't going to happen.
"With the polls showing that UKIP is already on the rise again" - the most recent poll (from Ipsos MORI, 15-18 September) shows support for UKIP at 2% compared to the 1.9% at the election.
lol Corby ....every little helps I suppose !
2% is more than 1.9%.

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