Maybot was handed a ticking time bomb by Cowardly Cameron, who started the stupidity in the first place.
Where's he buggered off to, btw. ... exile on St. Helena?
Where's he buggered off to, btw. ... exile on St. Helena?
Farage vows to recruit major household names to the Brexit Party
- Thread starter Blackleaf
- Start date
The Brexit Party received 5,248,533 votes. The Liberal Democrats, who finished second, received 3,367,284 votes
The Brexit Party was the clear winner in the UK's European elections, with the pro-EU Lib Dems coming second.
The Conservatives and Labour suffered heavy losses, with the former expected to get less than 10% of the vote.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said he was ready to "take on" the Tories and Labour in a general election.
So far, Mr Farage's party has won 29 seats, the Lib Dems 16, Labour 10, Greens seven, the Tories four, the SNP three and Plaid Cymru one.
Mr Farage told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "With a big, simple message - which is we've been badly let down by two parties who have broken their promises - we have topped the poll in a fairly dramatic style.
"The two party system now serves nothing but itself. I think they are an obstruction to the modernising of politics... and we are going to take them on."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48417228
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Nigel Farage is an owned and operated zionist tool. That money trail is real.
Brexit is All About Making Israel Greater
By Gilad Atzmon on May 26, 2019
Gilad Atzmon – gilad.co.uk May 26, 2019
Britain is in a state of political turmoil. The government and the main opposition party have both lost their way and, together, they have completely lost the trust of the people. In the last few weeks we have witnessed a landslide exodus from both the Tory and Labour parties to the slightly more rational, principled and patriotic alternatives: the truly conservative wandered to the Brexit Party and the remainers, who previously voted Labour, migrated to the more humane Liberal Democrats.
Brits are critically divided over Brexit. It is fair to say that most do not fully grasp what Brexit is anymore. They were deliberately not informed of the political discussion over Brexit and what it would mean for the future. Brits feel betrayed by the political class and in truth, they have been subjected to gross and treacherous treatment by their politicians and media. Brits are not aware of the centrality of Israel and its interests that is at the core of the Brexit debate.
In February, I published a translation of a Ynet article which reported that Israel had located itself as post-Brexit Britain’s gateway to the world: “Once out of the EU, Britain will have to sign separate trade agreements with each state, and Israel will be the first,” Ynet wrote. Just to remove any confusion, it added “Israel has become Britain’s strategic ally.” And of course, “the British government totally disregard the boycott campaign against Israel. On a political level, they boycotted the boycott.” Britain under Theresa May has been reduced into a colony of Israel’s. Brits have become increasingly aware that 80% of their Tory MPs are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel, which is a foreign pressure group dedicated to the interests of another state.
Those who have been puzzled by the insane institutional Israel lobby campaign against Corbyn and the Labour party (BOD, Jewish Chronicle, CAA, etc.) can now figure out what the motivation behind it was: Corbyn in 10 Downing Street might well interfere with Israel’s plans for post-Brexit Britain.
Brexit is All About Making Israel Greater
By Gilad Atzmon on May 26, 2019
Gilad Atzmon – gilad.co.uk May 26, 2019
Brits are critically divided over Brexit. It is fair to say that most do not fully grasp what Brexit is anymore. They were deliberately not informed of the political discussion over Brexit and what it would mean for the future. Brits feel betrayed by the political class and in truth, they have been subjected to gross and treacherous treatment by their politicians and media. Brits are not aware of the centrality of Israel and its interests that is at the core of the Brexit debate.
In February, I published a translation of a Ynet article which reported that Israel had located itself as post-Brexit Britain’s gateway to the world: “Once out of the EU, Britain will have to sign separate trade agreements with each state, and Israel will be the first,” Ynet wrote. Just to remove any confusion, it added “Israel has become Britain’s strategic ally.” And of course, “the British government totally disregard the boycott campaign against Israel. On a political level, they boycotted the boycott.” Britain under Theresa May has been reduced into a colony of Israel’s. Brits have become increasingly aware that 80% of their Tory MPs are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel, which is a foreign pressure group dedicated to the interests of another state.
Those who have been puzzled by the insane institutional Israel lobby campaign against Corbyn and the Labour party (BOD, Jewish Chronicle, CAA, etc.) can now figure out what the motivation behind it was: Corbyn in 10 Downing Street might well interfere with Israel’s plans for post-Brexit Britain.
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Number and party of MEPs in each of the UK's EU constituencies:
East Midlands:
Brexit - 3
Liberal Democrats: 1
Labour: 1
East of England
Brexit - 3
Liberal Democrats - 2
Green - 1
Conservatives - 1
London
Liberal Democrats - 3
Labour - 2
Brexit - 2
Greens - 1
North East
Brexit - 2
Labour - 1
North West
Brexit - 3
Labour - 2
Liberal Democrats - 2
Greens - 1
Northern Ireland:
Alliance: 1
DUP: 1
Sinn Fein - 1
Scotland
SNP - 3
Brexit - 1
Liberal Democrats - 1
Conservatives - 1
South East
Brexit - 4
Liberal Democrats - 3
Greens - 1
Conservatives - 1
Labour - 1
South West and Gibraltar
Brexit - 3
Liberal Democrats - 2
Greens - 1
Wales
Brexit - 2
Plaid Cymru - 1
Labour - 1
West Midlands
Brexit - 3
Labour -1
Liberal Democrats - 1
Greens - 1
Conservatives - 1
Yorkshire and the Humber
Brexit - 3
Labour - 1
Liberal Democrats - 1
Greens - 1
East Midlands:
Brexit - 3
Liberal Democrats: 1
Labour: 1
East of England
Brexit - 3
Liberal Democrats - 2
Green - 1
Conservatives - 1
London
Liberal Democrats - 3
Labour - 2
Brexit - 2
Greens - 1
North East
Brexit - 2
Labour - 1
North West
Brexit - 3
Labour - 2
Liberal Democrats - 2
Greens - 1
Northern Ireland:
Alliance: 1
DUP: 1
Sinn Fein - 1
Scotland
SNP - 3
Brexit - 1
Liberal Democrats - 1
Conservatives - 1
South East
Brexit - 4
Liberal Democrats - 3
Greens - 1
Conservatives - 1
Labour - 1
South West and Gibraltar
Brexit - 3
Liberal Democrats - 2
Greens - 1
Wales
Brexit - 2
Plaid Cymru - 1
Labour - 1
West Midlands
Brexit - 3
Labour -1
Liberal Democrats - 1
Greens - 1
Conservatives - 1
Yorkshire and the Humber
Brexit - 3
Labour - 1
Liberal Democrats - 1
Greens - 1
More reports and analysis on a bad night for the Remainers. A night in which Remainiac Alistair Campbell - the man who wrote the "dodgy dossier" that took us into the Iraq War - told us, in the greatest piece of denial any human has ever uttered in history, that "the Brexit Party have lost"...
Coffee House Steerpike
The complete demise of Change UK
Steerpike
Heidi Allen
Steerpike
27 May 2019
The Spectator
Tonight was a vital night for the fledgling Remain party Change UK. After the resurgence of the Lib Dems in the local elections, Chuka Umunna and Heidi Allen’s party had to fight to justify its existence, and prove that it wasn’t simply another party which was splitting the Remain vote.
Alas, it appears that that party hasn’t even managed to meet its own low expectations tonight – it may be that it can’t even muster enough votes to justify going into a coalition with the Lib Dems at the next general election.
Here are five reasons that suggest tonight could mean the end of Change UK:
Number of seats: 0
As of writing, Change UK have failed to get a single seat across the entirety of the UK. Overall the party has received only 3.5 per cent of the vote nationwide, behind both the Lib Dems and Greens, who achieved 12.2 per cent of the vote.
London vote:
As the region with the most Remain support in England during the 2016 Brexit referendum, you would expect London to be fertile ground for Change UK. But not only did the party fail to get a single seat in the region, it only received 5 per cent of the total vote. By comparison, the Brexit party achieved 17 per cent.
Chuka’s constituency:
Even in Chuka Umunna’s constituency in Lambeth, the party seemed to implode, receiving 10,000 fewer votes than the Greens. If Change UK does want to broker an electoral pact with the other Remainer parties, it will have to prove that it can reach voters the other two parties can’t. If Change UK’s leaders can’t even win in London, on their home turf, they don’t have much of a chance anywhere else.
Celebrity appeal:
If Change UK was hoping that it’s ‘star’ candidates would win it favour with the electorate and boost its appeal, it will be disappointed tonight. In the South West of England, where Rachel Johnson was standing as the Change UK lead candidate, the party did even worse than its national average, receiving only 2.8 per cent of the region’s votes.
Heidi Allen:
As the results poured in this evening, BBC News asked Change UK’s interim leader Heidi Allen how she thought the night had gone. Remarkably, considering Change UK’s dire performance tonight, a bubbly Allen replied:
‘To be fair, it went really really well’. And went to point out that a ‘Remainer coalition’ had met her expectations.
With this lack of self-awareness, the party must be doomed….
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/the-complete-demise-of-change-uk/
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Pundit after pundit was wheeled out to rubbish the election result – it's as if you'd watched Man City win the Cup Final 6-0 only to be told the real winners were Watford
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
28 May 2019
You stupid people. You got it wrong again. You were supposed to vote for candidates determined to stop Brexit, or at least stay at home and leave Britain's future to the experts.
What the hell did you think you were doing voting for that dreadful fascist Farage person and his raggle-taggle gang of Trumpist racists, Russian stooges and rabid Little Englanders?
Sorry, but you needn't think this changes anything. Just because a third of you supported the Brexit Party, it doesn't mean you're going to get Brexit.
Nigel Farage (pictured on Good Morning Britain yesterday) countered Remainer claims that the combined pro-EU vote had outstripped demands for Brexit
Actually, we've done the sums and worked out that most people want to Remain.
Stands to reason. Add up the Greens, the Lib Dems and the Scotch Nuts and, er, the Tories and Labour, and there's a clear majority for staying in the EU.
Sort of.
Yeah, OK, so Labour and the Tories like to pretend they intend to honour the result of the 2016 referendum. But, be honest, they don't really mean it. Get real, they've spent the past three years trying to stop it ever happening.
Tell you what. Why don't we have another referendum? Let's call it 'confirmatory' or a 'People's Vote'. That sounds cosy.
Maybe we can have a General Election, then Brexit can get lost in the flood of drivel about austerity or climate change, or the NHS, or something.
You can keep on voting until you get it right. Or you get so bored that you forget all about Brexit. Then we can go back to fiddling our expenses and no one will be any the wiser.
Anyway, in the meantime we can stretch out the Tory leadership election for three or four months, while we work out how to stop Boris.
Is there much more of this?
Forgive me, but this is what most of the post EU-election commentary amounted to yesterday. Just because you're paranoid, and all that.
It was almost as if Thursday's vote had never happened. You wouldn't have thought that Farage's Brexit Party had gone from 0-32 per cent in six weeks from a standing start.
If this had been Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson would have hailed him as the best ever Star In A Reasonably Priced Car.
Instead, pundit after pundit was wheeled onto the BBC and Sky to rubbish the result.
It's as if you'd just watched Manchester City win the Cup Final 6-0, only to have Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer insist that although City managed to put the ball into the back of the net half a dozen times, the real winners were Watford.
Some Remainers have argued that the results show a combined pro-EU vote running ahead of the pro-Brexit vote
Mr Farage gave his own interpretation of the results as he tackled the claims that were being circulated by Remainers on social media today
Haughty snob Emily Wossname, Islington's own Lady Muck, managed to claim preposterously that the outcome of the election justified holding a second referendum, to give all those misguided, knuckle-dragging scumbags 'Oop North' the opportunity to change their minds. What makes her think that's going to happen any time soon?
In case she missed it, pro-Remain parties were monstered everywhere outside London and Scotland. Brexit topped the poll in Wales, once the most rock-solid Labour region of the kingdom.
Lovely, tidy, smashing.
Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell (pictured on Sunday) was among those who claimed the European elections were a victory for Remain. While appearing on the BBC's coverage, Mr Campbell also admitted he had voted for the Lib Dems, rather than Labour
Labour's pushmi-pullyu approach to Brexit even saw the corpse of the Lib Dems spring back to life in Corbyn's own backyard.
If it was a disastrous night for the Tories, it was just as bad for Labour. Worse, in many ways, since Labour is not in government.
So why was serial liar Alastair Campbell, the only man I know with a certificate to say he's sane, given unlimited airtime to rewrite the result?
Campbell, who brought you the criminally-deceptive Iraq war dodgy dossier, had free rein on the BBC to allege that the result of Thursday's election was an unbridled triumph for Remain.
Eh?
He reached this staggeringly dishonest conclusion after adding up every vote not garnered by the Brexit Party and sticking it in the Remain column.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry (pictured) used the results to demand a second referendum. The Remainer Labour MP is pictured on GMB last week
OK, Ally, old son, let's play that game for a minute. At the General Election in 2005, your glove-puppet Tony Blair got just 35.2 per cent of the popular vote.
Yet that was enough to give him a 66-seat majority over all the other parties.
I don't remember you conceding that because two-thirds of the country had voted for someone else, Blair should not be allowed to form a government.
What we really wanted was a Tory/Lib Dem/DUP/Ukip/Monster Raving Loony coalition.
Same story in Scotland. Wee Burney claimed yesterday that Jolly Jocko Land was a Remain country, even though just 38 per cent voted for the SNP on Thursday. What about the other 62 per cent, hen? Don't they count?
More to the point, why should we analyse the result of the EU elections through the prism of what it means to the traditional parties — including the SNP?
OK, so the Lib Dems were restored to their tried-and-tested role of respectable receptacle for protest. But why are we talking about what all this means to Labour and the Tories? Frankly, who cares?
They are both, in the words of the great Terry-Thomas, an absolute shower.
Instead of trying to resuscitate them, perhaps we should concentrate on what comes next.
If that means the Greens become the natural home of all those millennials obsessed with 'climate change', and by extension the official Opposition, or even the Government one day, so be it.
Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan parodied the Remainer claims with a football analogy
Why should the Tories automatically expect natural small-c conservatives to return obediently to the fold, once they cleanse themselves of the decaying stench of the disastrous Mother Theresa interlude?
Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. So it was inevitable that the Tories would fill the void between Thursday's vote and Sunday's count with a depressing festival of navel-gazing and grandstanding.
Surveying the runners and riders to succeed May, my heart sank to subterranean depths. Do they really believe the public is gagging for three months or more of Conservative showboating?
How many learned pieces about the various candidates will we have to endure between now and October, or whenever?
There was a story the other day revealing 'exclusively' that someone called Ellwood wouldn't be standing.
Who? I thought Ellwood was one of the Blues Brothers. Why tell us he's not standing? Still, everybody needs somebody to love.
From what I can gather — and I'm not that interested, to be honest — there's about a dozen of them throwing their rings into the hat, including one of the Diddy Men and some public schoolboy called Rory, whose only purpose is to shaft Boris.
Mr Farage held a photo call with the rest of the new Brexit Party MEPs in central London yesterday afternoon - including former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe (right)
For what it's worth, I wouldn't vote for anyone who stayed in the Cabinet and supported May's dismal, defeatist 'deal', former Brexiteer Gove included.
Can't we just cut to the chase and put them all on a ballot paper and then let the Tory faithful pick the bones out of it? Be honest, how long does it take to run a leadership election?
Saturday night TV talent shows manage to make votes happen in an instant, using the red button. Why not the Conservative Party?
Meanwhile, out here in the real world, there's something remarkable going on.
In the space of a few weeks, the Brexit Party has gone from nowhere to a third of the vote.
On Thursday, they fielded an impressive, eclectic slate of candidates, from diverse backgrounds, and were rewarded with millions of votes — unlike the entitled, professional malcontents who make up No Change UK.
Can they kick on from here and become a proper, rounded party, as opposed to a single-issue pressure group? They've certainly got the talent and, er, momentum.
The upcoming Peterborough by-election might be the acid test.
We may be about to see a long-overdue realignment in British politics. As Bob Hoskins, aka Harold Shand, remarks in The Long Good Friday: there's been an eruption.
Not before time. So well done everyone who backed the Brexit Party on Thursday.
Take a bow, Britain!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...LITTLEJOHN-stupid-people-got-wrong-again.html
Coffee House Steerpike
The complete demise of Change UK
Steerpike
Heidi Allen
Steerpike
27 May 2019
The Spectator
Tonight was a vital night for the fledgling Remain party Change UK. After the resurgence of the Lib Dems in the local elections, Chuka Umunna and Heidi Allen’s party had to fight to justify its existence, and prove that it wasn’t simply another party which was splitting the Remain vote.
Alas, it appears that that party hasn’t even managed to meet its own low expectations tonight – it may be that it can’t even muster enough votes to justify going into a coalition with the Lib Dems at the next general election.
Here are five reasons that suggest tonight could mean the end of Change UK:
Number of seats: 0
As of writing, Change UK have failed to get a single seat across the entirety of the UK. Overall the party has received only 3.5 per cent of the vote nationwide, behind both the Lib Dems and Greens, who achieved 12.2 per cent of the vote.
London vote:
As the region with the most Remain support in England during the 2016 Brexit referendum, you would expect London to be fertile ground for Change UK. But not only did the party fail to get a single seat in the region, it only received 5 per cent of the total vote. By comparison, the Brexit party achieved 17 per cent.
Chuka’s constituency:
Even in Chuka Umunna’s constituency in Lambeth, the party seemed to implode, receiving 10,000 fewer votes than the Greens. If Change UK does want to broker an electoral pact with the other Remainer parties, it will have to prove that it can reach voters the other two parties can’t. If Change UK’s leaders can’t even win in London, on their home turf, they don’t have much of a chance anywhere else.
Celebrity appeal:
If Change UK was hoping that it’s ‘star’ candidates would win it favour with the electorate and boost its appeal, it will be disappointed tonight. In the South West of England, where Rachel Johnson was standing as the Change UK lead candidate, the party did even worse than its national average, receiving only 2.8 per cent of the region’s votes.
Heidi Allen:
As the results poured in this evening, BBC News asked Change UK’s interim leader Heidi Allen how she thought the night had gone. Remarkably, considering Change UK’s dire performance tonight, a bubbly Allen replied:
‘To be fair, it went really really well’. And went to point out that a ‘Remainer coalition’ had met her expectations.
With this lack of self-awareness, the party must be doomed….
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/the-complete-demise-of-change-uk/
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Pundit after pundit was wheeled out to rubbish the election result – it's as if you'd watched Man City win the Cup Final 6-0 only to be told the real winners were Watford
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
28 May 2019
You stupid people. You got it wrong again. You were supposed to vote for candidates determined to stop Brexit, or at least stay at home and leave Britain's future to the experts.
What the hell did you think you were doing voting for that dreadful fascist Farage person and his raggle-taggle gang of Trumpist racists, Russian stooges and rabid Little Englanders?
Sorry, but you needn't think this changes anything. Just because a third of you supported the Brexit Party, it doesn't mean you're going to get Brexit.
Nigel Farage (pictured on Good Morning Britain yesterday) countered Remainer claims that the combined pro-EU vote had outstripped demands for Brexit
Actually, we've done the sums and worked out that most people want to Remain.
Stands to reason. Add up the Greens, the Lib Dems and the Scotch Nuts and, er, the Tories and Labour, and there's a clear majority for staying in the EU.
Sort of.
Yeah, OK, so Labour and the Tories like to pretend they intend to honour the result of the 2016 referendum. But, be honest, they don't really mean it. Get real, they've spent the past three years trying to stop it ever happening.
Tell you what. Why don't we have another referendum? Let's call it 'confirmatory' or a 'People's Vote'. That sounds cosy.
Maybe we can have a General Election, then Brexit can get lost in the flood of drivel about austerity or climate change, or the NHS, or something.
You can keep on voting until you get it right. Or you get so bored that you forget all about Brexit. Then we can go back to fiddling our expenses and no one will be any the wiser.
Anyway, in the meantime we can stretch out the Tory leadership election for three or four months, while we work out how to stop Boris.
Is there much more of this?
Forgive me, but this is what most of the post EU-election commentary amounted to yesterday. Just because you're paranoid, and all that.
It was almost as if Thursday's vote had never happened. You wouldn't have thought that Farage's Brexit Party had gone from 0-32 per cent in six weeks from a standing start.
If this had been Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson would have hailed him as the best ever Star In A Reasonably Priced Car.
Instead, pundit after pundit was wheeled onto the BBC and Sky to rubbish the result.
It's as if you'd just watched Manchester City win the Cup Final 6-0, only to have Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer insist that although City managed to put the ball into the back of the net half a dozen times, the real winners were Watford.
Some Remainers have argued that the results show a combined pro-EU vote running ahead of the pro-Brexit vote
Mr Farage gave his own interpretation of the results as he tackled the claims that were being circulated by Remainers on social media today
Haughty snob Emily Wossname, Islington's own Lady Muck, managed to claim preposterously that the outcome of the election justified holding a second referendum, to give all those misguided, knuckle-dragging scumbags 'Oop North' the opportunity to change their minds. What makes her think that's going to happen any time soon?
In case she missed it, pro-Remain parties were monstered everywhere outside London and Scotland. Brexit topped the poll in Wales, once the most rock-solid Labour region of the kingdom.
Lovely, tidy, smashing.
Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell (pictured on Sunday) was among those who claimed the European elections were a victory for Remain. While appearing on the BBC's coverage, Mr Campbell also admitted he had voted for the Lib Dems, rather than Labour
Labour's pushmi-pullyu approach to Brexit even saw the corpse of the Lib Dems spring back to life in Corbyn's own backyard.
If it was a disastrous night for the Tories, it was just as bad for Labour. Worse, in many ways, since Labour is not in government.
So why was serial liar Alastair Campbell, the only man I know with a certificate to say he's sane, given unlimited airtime to rewrite the result?
Campbell, who brought you the criminally-deceptive Iraq war dodgy dossier, had free rein on the BBC to allege that the result of Thursday's election was an unbridled triumph for Remain.
Eh?
He reached this staggeringly dishonest conclusion after adding up every vote not garnered by the Brexit Party and sticking it in the Remain column.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry (pictured) used the results to demand a second referendum. The Remainer Labour MP is pictured on GMB last week
OK, Ally, old son, let's play that game for a minute. At the General Election in 2005, your glove-puppet Tony Blair got just 35.2 per cent of the popular vote.
Yet that was enough to give him a 66-seat majority over all the other parties.
I don't remember you conceding that because two-thirds of the country had voted for someone else, Blair should not be allowed to form a government.
What we really wanted was a Tory/Lib Dem/DUP/Ukip/Monster Raving Loony coalition.
Same story in Scotland. Wee Burney claimed yesterday that Jolly Jocko Land was a Remain country, even though just 38 per cent voted for the SNP on Thursday. What about the other 62 per cent, hen? Don't they count?
More to the point, why should we analyse the result of the EU elections through the prism of what it means to the traditional parties — including the SNP?
OK, so the Lib Dems were restored to their tried-and-tested role of respectable receptacle for protest. But why are we talking about what all this means to Labour and the Tories? Frankly, who cares?
They are both, in the words of the great Terry-Thomas, an absolute shower.
Instead of trying to resuscitate them, perhaps we should concentrate on what comes next.
If that means the Greens become the natural home of all those millennials obsessed with 'climate change', and by extension the official Opposition, or even the Government one day, so be it.
Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan parodied the Remainer claims with a football analogy
Why should the Tories automatically expect natural small-c conservatives to return obediently to the fold, once they cleanse themselves of the decaying stench of the disastrous Mother Theresa interlude?
Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. So it was inevitable that the Tories would fill the void between Thursday's vote and Sunday's count with a depressing festival of navel-gazing and grandstanding.
Surveying the runners and riders to succeed May, my heart sank to subterranean depths. Do they really believe the public is gagging for three months or more of Conservative showboating?
How many learned pieces about the various candidates will we have to endure between now and October, or whenever?
There was a story the other day revealing 'exclusively' that someone called Ellwood wouldn't be standing.
Who? I thought Ellwood was one of the Blues Brothers. Why tell us he's not standing? Still, everybody needs somebody to love.
From what I can gather — and I'm not that interested, to be honest — there's about a dozen of them throwing their rings into the hat, including one of the Diddy Men and some public schoolboy called Rory, whose only purpose is to shaft Boris.
Mr Farage held a photo call with the rest of the new Brexit Party MEPs in central London yesterday afternoon - including former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe (right)
For what it's worth, I wouldn't vote for anyone who stayed in the Cabinet and supported May's dismal, defeatist 'deal', former Brexiteer Gove included.
Can't we just cut to the chase and put them all on a ballot paper and then let the Tory faithful pick the bones out of it? Be honest, how long does it take to run a leadership election?
Saturday night TV talent shows manage to make votes happen in an instant, using the red button. Why not the Conservative Party?
Meanwhile, out here in the real world, there's something remarkable going on.
In the space of a few weeks, the Brexit Party has gone from nowhere to a third of the vote.
On Thursday, they fielded an impressive, eclectic slate of candidates, from diverse backgrounds, and were rewarded with millions of votes — unlike the entitled, professional malcontents who make up No Change UK.
Can they kick on from here and become a proper, rounded party, as opposed to a single-issue pressure group? They've certainly got the talent and, er, momentum.
The upcoming Peterborough by-election might be the acid test.
We may be about to see a long-overdue realignment in British politics. As Bob Hoskins, aka Harold Shand, remarks in The Long Good Friday: there's been an eruption.
Not before time. So well done everyone who backed the Brexit Party on Thursday.
Take a bow, Britain!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...LITTLEJOHN-stupid-people-got-wrong-again.html
‘This is not a victory for the Brexit Party’
Here are some of the maddest Remoaner takes on the EU elections.
spiked
27th May 2019
Undemocratic: After they lost the referendum, the Remainers told us that it was "not binding" and "advisory." After their drubbing in the EU elections, they are telling us that it was they who, in fact, won
The Brexit Party won the EU elections last night, taking 31.6 per cent of the vote, more than 10 points clear of the Liberal Democrats in second place, and just six weeks after it was founded. It’s a huge victory by any measure. But some elite Remainers beg to differ.
All night and day we’ve been treated to increasingly hilarious attempts to spin this remarkable win for the Brexit Party – which will become the biggest single party in the European Parliament – into a win for Remain and a clear sign that the British people want a second Brexit referendum.
Green Party leader Sian Berry was straight out of the blocks last night, insisting that the Brexit Party hadn’t really won. Her argument, along with many other Remoaners, is that if you add up the vote share of the anti-Brexit Greens, Lib Dems and Change UK, you get more than the roughly 32 per cent the Brexit Party scored.
It’s a desperate argument at best. But if we are going to play that game, the combined vote share of the Brexit Party, the Tories and UKIP is still higher than that of the supposed Remain alliance. But who cares about facts? Certainly not Change UK MP Anna Soubry, who suggested today that her party’s zero-seat result was a great victory, because it polled ‘better than any genuinely new UK party’ – ‘genuinely new’ is presumably code for ‘excluding the Brexit Party’.
It isn’t just politicians who have been grasping at dubious statistical straws. Channel 4 News’s Matt Frei compared the vote share for the so-called Hard Brexit parties with the six million signatures on that e-petition calling for the revocation of Article 50, suggesting a kind of equivalence. The leading newsman doesn’t seem to appreciate the difference between a few clicks and an actual vote.
But the top delusional bullshitter of the past 24 hours has to be former New Labour spindoctor and leading Remoaner Alastair Campbell. Not only did he claim the Brexit Party didn’t really win in Wales because it didn’t get over 50 per cent of the vote – he also said, before the results were announced, that there would be no mandate for No Deal even if the pro-No Deal Brexit Party won ‘every bloody seat’.
Brexit Derangement Syndrome continues to take its toll. Elite Remainers are not just out of touch with the people – they are out of touch with reality.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/27/this-is-not-a-victory-for-the-brexit-party/
The Brexit Surge
The Euro elections confirm that millions of people want real, radical democratic change.
Brendan O'Neill
Editor
27th May 2019
Spiked
And still the establishment is in denial. Even following the stellar performance of a brand new party in the Euro elections, still the political establishment and its cheerleaders on social media are in a state of blinkered, fingers-in-ears denial about political feeling in the UK. How bad is their denial? Get this: the Brexit Party, barely six weeks old, soared to victory in the EU elections, decimated the Tories, conquered historic Labour-held territories like Bolsover and Hartlepool, and became the largest party in the entire European Parliament, and yet the No1 political trend on Twitter is… #RemainSurge.
Yes, these people, these inhabitants of the Brexitphobic echo chamber, have convinced themselves that this electoral revolt in which the Brexit Party steamrollered all the other parties is actually a victory for them. This takes self-delusion to giddy new heights.
‘This is a really strong night for Remain’, said Caroline Lucas, like a real-life version of that meme showing a dog saying ‘This is fine’ as his house burns down. ‘Tonight the Brexit Party wasn’t supported by around two-thirds of voters’, said Hilary Benn, perversely ignoring the millions of people who did vote for the Brexit Party, who vastly outnumber those who voted for his Labour Party. Alastair Campbell interpreted the election results as a mandate for a second referendum, which is almost as mad as saying Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that could be deployed within 45 minutes.
In the face of this colossal culture of denial among the political and media elites, let’s reiterate some basic facts. The Brexit Party battered Labour and the Tories. It won more than five million votes. It won 31.6 per cent of the vote, which is 8.4 per cent more than the Tories and Labour combined: the Tories got 9.1 per cent (fifth place) and Labour got 14.1 per cent (third place). The Brexit Party got 28 seats, making it the largest party in the European Parliament. It won in every single region in England apart from London, speaking profoundly to the massive political and moral divide separating the capital – the heart of the political establishment – from the rest of England. It also did spectacularly well in Wales, topping the poll and winning in 19 out of 22 council areas.
And yet myths are already taking hold, being feverishly promoted by pro-EU figures. The first is that the Brexit Party is ‘just’ – why just? – picking up the old UKIP vote and therefore its victory isn’t all that significant. Actually, the Brexit Party has got almost 32 per cent of the vote share, which is five percentage points higher than UKIP got at its high point in the Euro elections of 2014. The other myths – that the Brexit Party is only successful because it is a shadily funded, demagogic outfit, whose new MEPs probably have Russian roubles stuffed in their pockets – is the usual conspiratorial and anti-democratic rubbish we’ve come to expect from the rattled defenders of the status quo.
As for the ‘Remain surge’ idea. Get real. The two parties that are most explicitly anti-Brexit and have expressed their searingly anti-democratic intention to overthrow the mass vote of 2016 – the Lib Dems and the Greens – won a combined vote of 29.7 per cent. That’s two per cent less than the Brexit Party got. The most poisonously elitist anti-Brexit Party – Change UK – disappeared without a trace, winning 2.8 per cent of the vote. Remember how much Change UK was talked up by the liberal media? At one point the chattering classes really did see this party as the saviour of Britain from the horrors of Brexit and yet it won a pathetic, paltry level of electoral support – 600,000 votes to the Brexit Party’s five million.
Then there are Labour and the Tories, of course, whose votes some Remainer fanatics are including in their ‘Remain surge’ thesis. Now, it is my view, and many other people’s view, that both the Tories and Labour are pursuing a Brexit so ‘soft’ that it is not Brexit at all. But everyone knows it is also entirely feasible, and likely in fact, that these parties are still winning support from Leave people. To include all Labour votes in the Remain Surge idea is just naked intellectual dishonesty.
The Remain surge is a fantasy. The real, stirring story in this election is the Brexit Party surge; the surge of this youthful, renegade, pro-democracy party to the top of the polls. The broader story, of course, is one that many of us have seen coming for three years now: the reorganisation of British politics around Leave v Remain. The left v right feels increasingly like a relic. The Tory v Labour divide that defined British politics for so long moves very few people these days, except Momentum types who fantasise that they’re engaged in a far-left battle against evil Toryism. The divide now is between Leavers and Remainers; between those who have a strong sense of nationhood and those who see globalist institutions as the best means of organising political life; between those who value community and family and those who prefer to engage in the divisive cult of identity; between those who see democracy as their only means of expressing themselves and those who are suspicious of democracy for the same reasons – because it allows those people to express themselves.
So, ignore the bruised and increasingly unhinged establishment – these elections confirm how strong the desire for Brexit remains. However, at the same time, those of us who are pro-Brexit must be honest with ourselves, too. We cannot criticise the culture of denial among the establishment and then engage in denial in relation to our own side. And we have to confront the fact that the Brexit Party’s victory is not without its complications or problems. One thing about these elections that is depressing is the low turnout, especially in Leave areas. Turnout in general was just below 37 per cent, far lower than the continental average. In comparison with the 2014 Euro elections, turnout in the UK rose in Remain-voting areas but fell in Leave-voting areas. That should be of serious concern to everyone who views Brexit primarily as a brilliant, historic opportunity to tap into the hitherto unrecognised democratic energy of ordinary people.
In the mostly pro-Remain south east of England, turnout rose from 36 per cent to nearly 40 per cent. But in the West Midlands – very strong Brexit territory – it fell, to around 31 per cent. It also fell slightly in the Brexit territory of the North West (33.1 per cent). Most worryingly, turnout was lowest in precisely those areas that enjoyed a very high turnout and a very strong vote for Brexit in the 2016 referendum: in Stoke-on-Trent it was 26.5 per cent; in Sandwell, 28 per cent; and in Walsall, 28.7 per cent. Sadly, the lowest turnout was in one of the nation’s most pro-Brexit areas – Hull. Just 24 per cent of voters in Hull voted in these elections.
This tells us a very concerning and potentially even tragic story: that the elite’s relentless campaign of voter demoralisation over the past three years has reaped dividends. That the incessant demonisation of Brexit, and the establishment’s signalling that it will simply override those people who voted for it, seems to have convinced some people that it is futile to defend or restate their desire for Brexit. It also tells us that the Brexit Party, or some other force, has much work to do to tap into the democratic potential of the ‘left behind’.
Brexit is the best opportunity in our lifetimes to re-energise democracy by including previously ignored voices, by drawing into the decision-making process the people of Hull, Stoke, Walsall, Boston, South Wales and others across the UK who for decades have effectively been disenfranchised by a political class that isn’t interested in them and a technocratic political system that filters out their views and opinions. Can the Brexit Party do this? That remains to be seen.
For democrats, this election is a cause for celebration and for reflection. Let’s celebrate that the Brexit spirit and the thirst for greater democracy remains strong in many parts of the country. And let’s reflect on the fact that some people, especially in poorer areas of the country, seem to have arrived at the understandable conclusion that their democratic voice counts for nought. Engaging the ignored masses, tapping their democratic insights, genuinely drawing their convictions and concerns and beliefs into the heart of the political sphere – this is now the key task of everyone who is committed to the idea of Brexit, democracy and radical political change in this country.
Brendan O’Neill is editor of spiked and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show. Subscribe to the podcast here. And find Brendan on Instagram: @burntoakboy
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/27/the-brexit-surge/
Here are some of the maddest Remoaner takes on the EU elections.
spiked
27th May 2019
Undemocratic: After they lost the referendum, the Remainers told us that it was "not binding" and "advisory." After their drubbing in the EU elections, they are telling us that it was they who, in fact, won
The Brexit Party won the EU elections last night, taking 31.6 per cent of the vote, more than 10 points clear of the Liberal Democrats in second place, and just six weeks after it was founded. It’s a huge victory by any measure. But some elite Remainers beg to differ.
All night and day we’ve been treated to increasingly hilarious attempts to spin this remarkable win for the Brexit Party – which will become the biggest single party in the European Parliament – into a win for Remain and a clear sign that the British people want a second Brexit referendum.
Green Party leader Sian Berry was straight out of the blocks last night, insisting that the Brexit Party hadn’t really won. Her argument, along with many other Remoaners, is that if you add up the vote share of the anti-Brexit Greens, Lib Dems and Change UK, you get more than the roughly 32 per cent the Brexit Party scored.
It’s a desperate argument at best. But if we are going to play that game, the combined vote share of the Brexit Party, the Tories and UKIP is still higher than that of the supposed Remain alliance. But who cares about facts? Certainly not Change UK MP Anna Soubry, who suggested today that her party’s zero-seat result was a great victory, because it polled ‘better than any genuinely new UK party’ – ‘genuinely new’ is presumably code for ‘excluding the Brexit Party’.
It isn’t just politicians who have been grasping at dubious statistical straws. Channel 4 News’s Matt Frei compared the vote share for the so-called Hard Brexit parties with the six million signatures on that e-petition calling for the revocation of Article 50, suggesting a kind of equivalence. The leading newsman doesn’t seem to appreciate the difference between a few clicks and an actual vote.
But the top delusional bullshitter of the past 24 hours has to be former New Labour spindoctor and leading Remoaner Alastair Campbell. Not only did he claim the Brexit Party didn’t really win in Wales because it didn’t get over 50 per cent of the vote – he also said, before the results were announced, that there would be no mandate for No Deal even if the pro-No Deal Brexit Party won ‘every bloody seat’.
Brexit Derangement Syndrome continues to take its toll. Elite Remainers are not just out of touch with the people – they are out of touch with reality.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/27/this-is-not-a-victory-for-the-brexit-party/
The Brexit Surge
The Euro elections confirm that millions of people want real, radical democratic change.
Brendan O'Neill
Editor
27th May 2019
Spiked
And still the establishment is in denial. Even following the stellar performance of a brand new party in the Euro elections, still the political establishment and its cheerleaders on social media are in a state of blinkered, fingers-in-ears denial about political feeling in the UK. How bad is their denial? Get this: the Brexit Party, barely six weeks old, soared to victory in the EU elections, decimated the Tories, conquered historic Labour-held territories like Bolsover and Hartlepool, and became the largest party in the entire European Parliament, and yet the No1 political trend on Twitter is… #RemainSurge.
Yes, these people, these inhabitants of the Brexitphobic echo chamber, have convinced themselves that this electoral revolt in which the Brexit Party steamrollered all the other parties is actually a victory for them. This takes self-delusion to giddy new heights.
‘This is a really strong night for Remain’, said Caroline Lucas, like a real-life version of that meme showing a dog saying ‘This is fine’ as his house burns down. ‘Tonight the Brexit Party wasn’t supported by around two-thirds of voters’, said Hilary Benn, perversely ignoring the millions of people who did vote for the Brexit Party, who vastly outnumber those who voted for his Labour Party. Alastair Campbell interpreted the election results as a mandate for a second referendum, which is almost as mad as saying Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that could be deployed within 45 minutes.
In the face of this colossal culture of denial among the political and media elites, let’s reiterate some basic facts. The Brexit Party battered Labour and the Tories. It won more than five million votes. It won 31.6 per cent of the vote, which is 8.4 per cent more than the Tories and Labour combined: the Tories got 9.1 per cent (fifth place) and Labour got 14.1 per cent (third place). The Brexit Party got 28 seats, making it the largest party in the European Parliament. It won in every single region in England apart from London, speaking profoundly to the massive political and moral divide separating the capital – the heart of the political establishment – from the rest of England. It also did spectacularly well in Wales, topping the poll and winning in 19 out of 22 council areas.
And yet myths are already taking hold, being feverishly promoted by pro-EU figures. The first is that the Brexit Party is ‘just’ – why just? – picking up the old UKIP vote and therefore its victory isn’t all that significant. Actually, the Brexit Party has got almost 32 per cent of the vote share, which is five percentage points higher than UKIP got at its high point in the Euro elections of 2014. The other myths – that the Brexit Party is only successful because it is a shadily funded, demagogic outfit, whose new MEPs probably have Russian roubles stuffed in their pockets – is the usual conspiratorial and anti-democratic rubbish we’ve come to expect from the rattled defenders of the status quo.
As for the ‘Remain surge’ idea. Get real. The two parties that are most explicitly anti-Brexit and have expressed their searingly anti-democratic intention to overthrow the mass vote of 2016 – the Lib Dems and the Greens – won a combined vote of 29.7 per cent. That’s two per cent less than the Brexit Party got. The most poisonously elitist anti-Brexit Party – Change UK – disappeared without a trace, winning 2.8 per cent of the vote. Remember how much Change UK was talked up by the liberal media? At one point the chattering classes really did see this party as the saviour of Britain from the horrors of Brexit and yet it won a pathetic, paltry level of electoral support – 600,000 votes to the Brexit Party’s five million.
Then there are Labour and the Tories, of course, whose votes some Remainer fanatics are including in their ‘Remain surge’ thesis. Now, it is my view, and many other people’s view, that both the Tories and Labour are pursuing a Brexit so ‘soft’ that it is not Brexit at all. But everyone knows it is also entirely feasible, and likely in fact, that these parties are still winning support from Leave people. To include all Labour votes in the Remain Surge idea is just naked intellectual dishonesty.
The Remain surge is a fantasy. The real, stirring story in this election is the Brexit Party surge; the surge of this youthful, renegade, pro-democracy party to the top of the polls. The broader story, of course, is one that many of us have seen coming for three years now: the reorganisation of British politics around Leave v Remain. The left v right feels increasingly like a relic. The Tory v Labour divide that defined British politics for so long moves very few people these days, except Momentum types who fantasise that they’re engaged in a far-left battle against evil Toryism. The divide now is between Leavers and Remainers; between those who have a strong sense of nationhood and those who see globalist institutions as the best means of organising political life; between those who value community and family and those who prefer to engage in the divisive cult of identity; between those who see democracy as their only means of expressing themselves and those who are suspicious of democracy for the same reasons – because it allows those people to express themselves.
So, ignore the bruised and increasingly unhinged establishment – these elections confirm how strong the desire for Brexit remains. However, at the same time, those of us who are pro-Brexit must be honest with ourselves, too. We cannot criticise the culture of denial among the establishment and then engage in denial in relation to our own side. And we have to confront the fact that the Brexit Party’s victory is not without its complications or problems. One thing about these elections that is depressing is the low turnout, especially in Leave areas. Turnout in general was just below 37 per cent, far lower than the continental average. In comparison with the 2014 Euro elections, turnout in the UK rose in Remain-voting areas but fell in Leave-voting areas. That should be of serious concern to everyone who views Brexit primarily as a brilliant, historic opportunity to tap into the hitherto unrecognised democratic energy of ordinary people.
In the mostly pro-Remain south east of England, turnout rose from 36 per cent to nearly 40 per cent. But in the West Midlands – very strong Brexit territory – it fell, to around 31 per cent. It also fell slightly in the Brexit territory of the North West (33.1 per cent). Most worryingly, turnout was lowest in precisely those areas that enjoyed a very high turnout and a very strong vote for Brexit in the 2016 referendum: in Stoke-on-Trent it was 26.5 per cent; in Sandwell, 28 per cent; and in Walsall, 28.7 per cent. Sadly, the lowest turnout was in one of the nation’s most pro-Brexit areas – Hull. Just 24 per cent of voters in Hull voted in these elections.
This tells us a very concerning and potentially even tragic story: that the elite’s relentless campaign of voter demoralisation over the past three years has reaped dividends. That the incessant demonisation of Brexit, and the establishment’s signalling that it will simply override those people who voted for it, seems to have convinced some people that it is futile to defend or restate their desire for Brexit. It also tells us that the Brexit Party, or some other force, has much work to do to tap into the democratic potential of the ‘left behind’.
Brexit is the best opportunity in our lifetimes to re-energise democracy by including previously ignored voices, by drawing into the decision-making process the people of Hull, Stoke, Walsall, Boston, South Wales and others across the UK who for decades have effectively been disenfranchised by a political class that isn’t interested in them and a technocratic political system that filters out their views and opinions. Can the Brexit Party do this? That remains to be seen.
For democrats, this election is a cause for celebration and for reflection. Let’s celebrate that the Brexit spirit and the thirst for greater democracy remains strong in many parts of the country. And let’s reflect on the fact that some people, especially in poorer areas of the country, seem to have arrived at the understandable conclusion that their democratic voice counts for nought. Engaging the ignored masses, tapping their democratic insights, genuinely drawing their convictions and concerns and beliefs into the heart of the political sphere – this is now the key task of everyone who is committed to the idea of Brexit, democracy and radical political change in this country.
Brendan O’Neill is editor of spiked and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show. Subscribe to the podcast here. And find Brendan on Instagram: @burntoakboy
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/27/the-brexit-surge/
ABSOLUTE TOSH! How Nigel Farage was RIGHT to say that Leave beat Remain in EU election after TV spat with GMB’s Charlotte Hawkins
NIGEL Farage blasted Good Morning Britain's host Charlotte Hawkins over false claims that Remain parties won the majority in the European elections.
The Brexit Party leader hit out at the idea that pro-EU parties had done better than Leavers - saying it was "absolute tosh" based on dodgy arithmetic.
Parties which support leaving the EU won 44 per cent of votes in last week's European Parliament elections - with the firmly pro-Remain parties taking just over 40 per cent.
Leaving aside Labour, whose muddled position was designed to appeal to both sides, that suggests there's still a majority for Brexit across the country.
Ms Hawkins challenged Mr Farage about the argument, saying: "If you add up all the pro-Remain parties they did get a bigger percentage - 35.8 per cent versus the Brexit Party 31.6 per cent.
"So the pro-Remain parties altogether did get a bigger percentage."
But she left out the Tories and Ukip from her calculations - even though both parties are committed to quitting the EU.
Mr Farage was quick to fire back, saying: "I'm sorry this is absolute tosh. It is not a fact.
"Add up the Brexit vote, add up the Ukip vote, add the Conservative vote, who are still a party that says we are going to leave, and you will find that Leave beat Remain.
"In fact what you will find is that overall the country is 52-48 in favour of leaving.
"We are supposed to be a democracy. We were promised this would be implemented."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9164254/brexit-party-european-election-nigel-farage-gmb/
NIGEL Farage blasted Good Morning Britain's host Charlotte Hawkins over false claims that Remain parties won the majority in the European elections.
The Brexit Party leader hit out at the idea that pro-EU parties had done better than Leavers - saying it was "absolute tosh" based on dodgy arithmetic.
Parties which support leaving the EU won 44 per cent of votes in last week's European Parliament elections - with the firmly pro-Remain parties taking just over 40 per cent.
Leaving aside Labour, whose muddled position was designed to appeal to both sides, that suggests there's still a majority for Brexit across the country.
Ms Hawkins challenged Mr Farage about the argument, saying: "If you add up all the pro-Remain parties they did get a bigger percentage - 35.8 per cent versus the Brexit Party 31.6 per cent.
"So the pro-Remain parties altogether did get a bigger percentage."
But she left out the Tories and Ukip from her calculations - even though both parties are committed to quitting the EU.
Mr Farage was quick to fire back, saying: "I'm sorry this is absolute tosh. It is not a fact.
"Add up the Brexit vote, add up the Ukip vote, add the Conservative vote, who are still a party that says we are going to leave, and you will find that Leave beat Remain.
"In fact what you will find is that overall the country is 52-48 in favour of leaving.
"We are supposed to be a democracy. We were promised this would be implemented."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9164254/brexit-party-european-election-nigel-farage-gmb/
Why is it that these news items from Britain always read like a Month Python script as presented by a cheesy game show host?
Well if our newspaper journalism was as boring and staid as it is in other countries then less people would read our newspapers.
noun
broadcast material which is intended both to entertain and to inform.
So what's wrong with that?
You base important decisions on third rate crap churned out by third rate hacks for consumption by third rate intellects.
There'll always be an England.
Nice to discover that the Brexit Party has more seats in the EU parliament than any other party. It is the largest party in the EU Parliament.
Nigel Farage Has To Repeat His Post-Brexit Plan - The Media Keeps Asking About It - How many times has Nigel Farage told the media about his plan after Brexit is delivered?
Nigel Farage Has To Repeat His Post-Brexit Plan - The Media Keeps Asking About It - How many times has Nigel Farage told the media about his plan after Brexit is delivered?
You guessed wrong.
Maggie T. was correct. The UK should never have joined the EU in the first place.