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To hope this could be the end for UKIP?

130 replies

Miscible · 23/11/2018 14:22

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/23/nigel-farage-appalled-by-tommy-robinson-joining-ukip-as-adviser

Basically that idiot Batten has invited Yaxley-Lennon, notorious jailbird, as an adviser on grooming gangs and, of all things, prisons. If it's not the end, I guess it will just morph into EDL-lite and disappear up its own backside.

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NotACleverName · 23/11/2018 20:07

Tommy Robinson not a liar? God, that's the funniest thing I've read all day.

ilovesooty · 23/11/2018 20:08

The sad thing is I think sonlypuppyfat believes it.

sonlypuppyfat · 23/11/2018 20:19

My prime minister said we'd leave the EU that's a lie. So don't tell me Tommy Robinson is a liar

ilovesooty · 23/11/2018 20:29

Why does what Theresa May said about the EU (and the outcome isn't even clear yet) have any relevance to the fact that Tommy Robinson is a criminal and a liar?

BlancheM · 23/11/2018 20:30

Well, he's a convicted liar.

ilovesooty · 23/11/2018 21:20

Of course he is, but as this thread demonstrates some people are prepared to support thugs and liars like him.

sonlypuppyfat · 23/11/2018 21:37

Yes you tell yourself that

InspectorIkmen · 23/11/2018 21:40

I have a policy to not spend too much time arguing with the congenitally stupid so you crack on sonly - your people at the Daily Mail comments are waiting for you!

nancy75 · 23/11/2018 21:46

sonlypuppyfat Robinson lied about his cousin/ second cousin/ some member of his family being groomed by a gang & used that as an excuse for his campaign against Islam. He is a convicted fraudster ( that means he lied) he doesn’t even use his real name fgs.

ilovesooty · 23/11/2018 21:46

I see posts on Facebook calling for Tommy Robinson for PM. sonlypuppyfat would presumably find like minded people on there.

BlancheM · 23/11/2018 21:47

I know, sooty, I was replying to the 'don't tell me he's a liar' but.
Unfortunately I know just the type who fawn of the man, the same who share videos of him on FB captioned, 'just a normal honest working class man standing up for all of us' pfft.

BlancheM · 23/11/2018 21:48

Bit* not but

nancy75 · 23/11/2018 21:49

Anyone thinking this will harm UKIP are wrong, sadly for many many people the whole EU debate is based in racism. The people that support them don’t know or care about fishing rights, farming subsidies or trade tariffs they just want less foreigners, let’s not pretend it’s anything other than that.

BlancheM · 23/11/2018 21:49

Over* not of...time for an early night for me 😂

ilovesooty · 23/11/2018 21:51

nancy75 spot on I think,sadly.

ImpendingDisaster · 23/11/2018 22:00

The people that support them don’t know or care about fishing rights, farming subsidies or trade tariffs they just want less foreigners, let’s not pretend it’s anything other than that.

I know, they can't even read!

BonnieF · 23/11/2018 22:01

I disagree profoundly with Farage on almost everything, but I always grudgingly respected him for refusing to play the race card. Whether this was because he genuinely isn’t a racist, or it was a canny tactical ploy to keep the kippers in the respectale political mainstream and on Question Time, only he knows.

Clearly, the people now running UKIP are either more racist, less smart, less cynical or some combination of those.

sonlypuppyfat · 23/11/2018 22:34

Yes people are clearly stupid who support UKIP and Tommy Robinson because all other political parties care so much don't they

ilovesooty · 23/11/2018 22:37

I'm still curious to find out why Theresa May and Brexit is relevant.

ImpendingDisaster · 23/11/2018 22:40

I'm still curious to find out why Theresa May and Brexit is relevant.

To the fate of UKIP? Really? You're curious about the connection?

nancy75 · 23/11/2018 22:40

sonlypuppyfat no comment about Robinson’s story about his family member being groomed? An event that upset Robinson so much he can’t remember who it happened to?
To clarify my position yes, everyone that supports Tommy Robinson is clearly stupid.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 23/11/2018 22:41

Stupid and racist . Been in close proximity to Robinson for a few days and it was most unpleasant .

ilovesooty · 23/11/2018 22:41

No Impending I'm referring to what sonly said earlier to argue that Tommy Robinson isn't a liar.

surferjet · 23/11/2018 22:47

Lol - how many MP’s have been jailed for lying & fraud?
Plenty.
And TM isn’t even a politician ( yet )

surferjet · 23/11/2018 22:48

TR even!