holywell farmer
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anyone think they be gone soon ?
Ukip
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Unless the current regime fail to get us out of the EU ,then yes UKIP is as good as finished. If the reverse happens then we are into a different ball game and UKIP could rise again with a vengeance.
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I see the current UKIP leader is on notice to quit for ditching his current Russian wife for a bimbo thirty years his junior.
wasted years
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That is all anyone needs to know isn't it, gets a sniff of the limelight and falls for the first young girl he meets.I see the current UKIP leader is on notice to quit for ditching his current Russian wife for a bimbo thirty years his junior.
No maturity, no loyalty,no morals, not fit to be in public life.
Unlike many of the us presidents oh and of course that recent french one who had some totty on the side and dont forget john major
wasted years
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What has that got to do with the price of fish?
you said he wasnt fit for public life, well if its ok for all the others I mentioned why cant he do the same ? Certainly not saying its ok to do but is what you do in private a reflection on how you act in public ? perhaps, perhaps not
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That pretty much sums it up.
But there are a few things about UKIP that must not get forgotten:
Go back to 2014 and the EU elections and UKIP swept the board here in the UK. I voted for them then.
Then in 2015, David Cameron stole their thunder (and my vote) back by offering an in/out EU referendum and to his surprise won an outright victory for the Tories at the election, no coalition needed. Had he not have offered the referendum, Ed Milliband might well be Prime Minister now, possibly in coalition with Nick Gleg's Liberals. Nobody would have heard of Jeramy Corbyn. But you could be sure UKIP would still be gaining very strong support!
2016 saw Leave win the referendum with Nigel Farage at the Helm of UKIP. He is a very charismatic chap and passionate about his role. But he never won a seat as an MP for Westminister. UKIP only ever had 2 MP's there.
OK, it wasn't just UKIP, but the official Leave campaign that won the Leave vote. But IMO Farage was a major influence on the outcome. And Leave winning must have been as a consequence of and progression from the 2014 EU election results.
I think it annoyed Douglas Carswell that he was the first official UKIP MP and yet Nigel Farage was the leader of the party. Neither Farage or any of UKIP's leaders have been Westminister type politicians. On top of which, as Leave won the referendum, UKIP are now in effect now a spent force.
That is unless there becomes a lot of backtracking and actually leaving the EU becomes doubtful. You can bet your bottom Dollar that UKIP would suddenly jump-start back into life and Farage would again take over as Leader. With my support, I might add!
You could also bet that a lot of MP's from both the Tories and Labour, would join him, (note "him", not just UKIP) too.
So the demise of UKIP is because of 2 reasons:
Leave won.
And Nigel Farage is taking a sabbatical, waiting to see if he might be needed again. There simply isn't anybody else within UKIP that could do it!
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- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Isn't that what the Russian translation for Sabbatical means?Sabbatical or just waiting for his Russian masters to "tell" him what to do next.
Or am I confusing it with the word for Sabotage? (It sounds too French for me!!)
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Oh, I missed "tell" out of the post. I must be starting to suffer from "Trumpy syndrome"
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- fakenham-norfolk
Excellent summary,my thoughts entirely.
holywell farmer
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Farage said his time at helm off UKIP is done
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As far as I can make out, having lost count of how many times he has resigned from the leadership of UKIP, I think he has been the leader of UKIP 5 times already!
See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage
So another couple of times might be on the cards, don't you think?
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- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
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- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I was just thinking: If we were to have yet another election in 2018, some poor bugger in our village will have to find another 50p coin to stuff in the Village Hall electric meter!
They call it the Old Village Parochial School Hall. We call it the Pokey old Hall!
They call it the Old Village Parochial School Hall. We call it the Pokey old Hall!
you in the same class at school as him then6.
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