St Nige Ahead In The Polls.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/nigel-farages-brexit-party-could-win-european-elections-poll-11696217

[tonyav]

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[douglas9401]

Well I for one look forward to a rosy future where control passes to entitled serial topers who can see no further than the bottom lines of their bank statements or the last dregs in their pint glasses who like nothing more of an evening than to indulge in a spot of backstabbing.

It's not going to happen.

[retrocop]

I don't think that anyone who takes this suggestion seriously should be consulted about how democracy works, frankly.

Of course not jim. Because you and your mates are like spoilt kids who didn't get what they wanted for Christmas.

[Peter Pedant]

hmm retro
the Nige - he will do well - yes?

o god we are all dooooomed!

[jim360]

No democracy deliberately excludes from a future ballot all the people who voted "the wrong way" in the last ballot. It's got nothing to do with being spoilt.

[archibaldy]

I thought he didn't want anything to do with Europe. Confused.

[naomi24]

That was before democracy had been blatantly stitched up. ;o)

[Peter Pedant]

// That was before democracy had been blatantly stitched up. ;o)//

I dont follow that : actually I DO follow that
democracy is only democracy when Nigh says it is - otherwise it is something else

with thx to salman rushdies midnight children

[naomi24]

Poor PP. He tries ... constantly. :o)

[Kromovaracun]

//We understand that debates get heated, but personal attacks and abusive language will not be tolerated.//

[naomi24]

Nigel’s opponents try hard to erect a smokescreen by making jokes about him and giving every indication that they dismiss him as a nonentity but clearly he is a very real threat to their plans and that scares the pants off them. I think he has a huge amount of support.

[Kromovaracun]

Re: The OP, it isn't surprising. Even without all the surrounding issues, Farage is a popular politician on his own terms and has had no trouble getting elected as an MEP before (although he has had considerably more trouble getting into the UK parliament primarily because of how the UK electoral system works).

He seems (somehow) to have deftly disassociated himself from what UKIP is at the moment and is doing what he does best - riding the populist wave.

Of course, Farage and his party have always done well from the fact that before the referendum was announced it was pretty much only hardcore eurosceptics who cared about Euro elections. Whether or not that is still the case is obviously unknowable at this stage, but I do wonder if BP will have stiffer competition from Pro-European parties this time than UKIP did previously.

[Old_Geezer]

riding the democracy supporting wave

[naomi24]

//He seems (somehow) to have deftly disassociated himself from what UKIP is at the moment and is doing what he does best //

I wouldn't be surprised if UKIP collapses.

[Khandro]

naomi; //I wouldn't be surprised if UKIP collapses.// It is already seriously losing voters in favour of the Brexit Party. I feel sorry for Gerard Batten because he's a good bloke really. It was though, an error of judgement to be so forthright in allowing his views on Islamic extremism (not Muslims) to show. Nigel's views are of course exactly similar, but he is the cannier of the two by never entering that political minefield of a subject.

[Kromovaracun]

//Nigel's views are of course exactly similar, but he is the cannier of the two by never entering that political minefield of a subject.//

How do you know?

[Khandro]

jim; A chance to vote for your Tiggers logo;
https://order-order.com/2019/04/17/vote-new-change-uk-tig-logo/

I particularly like; 'Change UK, let's keep the status quo'. :0)

[Peter Pedant]

even the Times says The Nige will do well

[Peter Pedant]

// It is already seriously losing voters in favour of the Brexit Party.//

the Nige said the Brexit party was not only about Brexit .....
but didnt tell us what else ....

Didnt Abe Lincoln say - the British electorate are stupidest set of people I had ever met if I hadnt met their representatives ?
or somethng

[Peter Pedant]

am I right (yes) ? can I follow the thread

all the UKIP crazies of 2018 who shouted "Ny-jool!, ny jool ! UKIP la-la-la!"
are now shouting : "Ny-jool!, ny jool ! UKIP la-la-la!"

same crazies, same Nigel..... different party

As Ni admits - - I try ....