Farage resigns

[midivydale]

Go figure

[steveo]

Thanks for all your good work

[steveo]

Tosser

[midivydale]

He wanted his country back, now he wants his life back.

I am lost for words

[Seabag]

He's moving to Europe no doubt

[Jules-and-Boo]

well, he was MEP - role no longer required.

[Louisa]

Surely hr will need a work visa soon?

Louisa.

[Jules-and-Boo]

oh, from UKIP too? Interesting....

[Earl Aelfheah]

I hope this means he'll stop being invited on to every political TV show and debate. It would be nice if he were to disappear for public life properly

[Otta]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> I hope this means he'll stop being invited on to

> every political TV show and debate. It would be

> nice if he were to disappear for public life

> properly

Fat chance (unfortunately)

[Jenny1]

My fear is that it'll be just like the last time he 'resigned'.

[Louisa]

Disappears for a few months. Joins Conservative party. Stands for election in a safe Tory seat at next election. Wins, enters parliament, joins top team.

Louisa.

[Mick Mac]

Only last week he said he wanted a place on the "Brexit Government"....

[Jules-and-Boo]

There are likely undercurrents of secret plans - across all parties.

I'm waiting for the Iraq report to see how Blair slithers out of that!

[WorkingMummy]

It's not the person of Farage I have a problem with. It's the whole ideology and movement he stands for.

If they replace him with a less appealing (to your inner racist), beer guzzling, totally-faked-common-touch figure, then maybe I could care. Otherwise, meh.

[WorkingMummy]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Disappears for a few months. Joins Conservative

> party. Stands for election in a safe Tory seat at

> next election. Wins, enters parliament, joins top

> team.

>

F_<?!!!!

[Jules-and-Boo]

"totally-faked-common-touch figure".... oh the possibilities are endless! There's a few on the scrap heap as we speak - recently available - fitting that criteria...

[dirac]

well he said something like, "oh I'd love to help other countries wanting to leave the EU as well". Wonder how much ??? he will make consulting with them, a shed load no doubt.

The route into the Try cabinet is probably more likely though, given that he used to be involved with them before ukip.

[miga]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Disappears for a few months. Joins Conservative

> party. Stands for election in a safe Tory seat at

> next election. Wins, enters parliament, joins top

> team.

>

> Louisa.

That's what I thought too. Maybe less than a few months till the switch.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Farage was spotted hobnobbing with Murdoch over the weekend.

[miga]

And same guy that funded Leave.EU is funding Leadsom's campaign IIRC.

[tomdhu]

Give him his due. He started out 17 years ago with a virtually zero chance of success. He challenged the Brussels unelected elite.

He exposed the facts - like the Brussels budget has not been signed off by the auditors for the last 20 years. He exposed the corruption and gravy-training that goes on in the EU.

He achieved his stated aim.

Aside from whatever political leanings we each may have, we owe him some respect.

[uncleglen]

Yes- well done Nigel (Old Alleynian). He is now sort of redundant. As Nigel said he was never a career politician, and David Cameron can eat his words....

[miga]

tomdhu Wrote:

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> Give him his due. He started out 17 years ago with

> a virtually zero chance of success. He challenged

> the Brussels unelected elite.

Elite is such a relative word. For some Dulwich College educated ex-commodities traders represent an elite, for others it's Boris Johnson retreating to his country estate for the week-end following Brexit. For you it's politicians elected to Brussels via elections no one in this country could be bothered turning up to.

> He exposed the facts - like the Brussels budget

> has not been signed off by the auditors for the

> last 20 years.

That is not a fact, that is an interpretation. You can Google it if you don't believe me.

[uncleglen]

'the brussels unelected elite' to me represents the unaccountable faceless bureaucrats that have made many lives a misery- and I would compare them to the party faithful in the old Soviet regime