Does Farrage have voter appeal in these elections, after the exposure of his lies on the benefits to flow from Brexit ?
( He wasn’t the only one promising to make Britain Great Again).
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She was a pop star? i thought she was on Neighbours or home and away?
Enjoy the playlist
that’s a hate crime
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The other Australian trending in UK politics wasn’t a pop star, wasn’t in Neighbours or Home and Away. And he was only briefly a PM
I don’t know of anyone he likes him over there
If it is who I think it is, does anyone like him here either?
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No-one but the Lib Dems, Greens and the SNP in Scotland are talking about BRexit Big Al. No large party wants to rip that band-aid off in short. Its been a failure and will never get better now new deferred UK/EU regulations on import/export have kicked in. Some might point directly to BRexit in time for when the EU began to splinter in anger, if that’s what transpires…
Farage calls himself (or his post BRexit Party known as Reform UK) the new official opposition to Labour,.lol, given they’ve now just overtaken the Tories in the polls. Well, it was one quick YouGov poll just before a seven-way leadership debate on Thursday night but that’s enough for Nige. Most still have Tories trailing Labour badly 42-21 with Farage and Reform back on 14%. But it won’t stay like that … anything can happen. Still think Labour will win well enough though.
But Farage is an effective speaker and surprisingly decided to run again in Clacton, a south east downtrodden Brexit voting constituency over here. It’s about his 7th time to have a crack at becoming a MP I think … he never gets elected. Something about being a loud-mouthed populist bulls##t artist attracts a crowd sipping on milkshakes who decide to voice their displeasure at the man and chuck 'em at him. He wears a teflon suit, one far more teflony that most politicians if you get my drift.
Truth is, he’s on a mission to overtake and consume the Tories, the party that’s constantly rejected him. As is the case still, a majority of Tories and Tory MP aren’t right wing enough to embrace his populism, extreme anti-immigration and well, anti everything. The worrying thing is his dog whistle style oratory which echoes the hard right of Europe nowadays. He loves Trump and any disruptor or leader that parrot harder right policies and infers dictatorship tendencies. But I was surprised he ran again … thinking he was lining himself up with a job for Trump if he gets in. He might still do both somehow if that’s the outcome.
‘Economically Brexit’s working’: Nigel Farage says but claims it has ‘not been properly implemented’
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I think his politics has voter appeal but won’t translate to anything as both major parties have moved is that direction. The voting parameters here make it difficult as you’d know
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English history that is. We have Bruce and Howard.
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Good follow-up to his predecessor who couldn’t outlast a lettuce.
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Different poll, almost same result.
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YouGov saying similar.
Nige and his merry Band of Gypsies are wreaking havoc amidst the Tory seats and voting levels.
I think the Lib Dems will take their highest no. of seats ever. Reckon north of this 67 which YouGov predict. They’ve campaigned well tbf.
Lets see if the polls are right this time 
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I know the Tories have been pretty average at governing and deserve to be ousted. But, do you think there is a portion of the conservative base that can’t get past Having an Indian (even though he was born there) ruling the country and are voting Labor or LD to punish them?
Short answer is no imho.
Longer answer though …
Sunak is smart, well educated and nowadays minted (courtesy largely due to his wife’s wealth). Boris appointed him Chancellor from left field although inside the HoC and the Tory ranks he was considered a clever, smooth and safe operator with the finances. There might be one or two old Tory MP headbangers who resent a British Asian in No.10 but they’re very much on the fringes. The base Conservative Party members? Well some passive concern maybe amongst a few, but they voted him in once Truss broke the economy. Problem with Rishi is he primarily lacks that common touch as a political leader and an understanding of how the other half of Britain live. He’s naive in that respect, a technocrat not a natural politician with streetwise judgement. Prone to stupid gaffes too. And he cannot control his misfit MPs anywhere near strongly enough.
In 70s to early 90s Britain, he might’ve suffered more blatant (or at least passive aggressive) racism within political circles, given the racism in many parts of the UK. He did say as a youngster he copped a fair bit. But not these days … certainly not in the MSM media, political circles and professional arenas. And in most parts of UK society today. Asians of all generations make up a huge % of the UK population.
If you talk about the old BNP and dare I say some prospective Reform UK (Farage’s lot) candidates who sit to the right of the Tories, then the answer might be different…Other fringe groups like the EDL too although they’re more so an anti-Islam bunch of activists.
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Truss comeback brewing?
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She does have the distinction of the only PM this Century to have served under two Monarchs.
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Why won’t Liz “Lettuce” Truss be making a comeback?
Cos.
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