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To think that the Brexit Party is the most exciting thing to happen in British politics in years

258 replies

ChavvyOldBrexiteer · 12/04/2019 21:02

1000 candidates have applied for 73 seats, nearly a million pounds raised with small donations, buzz and brexitement on the ether and the sense that the 2 party system may be over for good....at last some good news for Brexiteers.

Viva la Revolucion!

OP posts:
bellinisurge · 14/04/2019 09:03

Please be careful with jokes about relocating people for laffs. I despise the DUP but I don't think you should make jokes out of moving them and their supporters anywhere.

Acis · 14/04/2019 09:07

One of their spiffy new candidates is someone I used to work with. He was stunningly inefficient and terrible in terms of relationships with his workmates. So yes, I'm quite excited to see just how much of an arsehole he makes of himself in public speaking and canvassing.

Acis · 14/04/2019 09:09

We'd didn't vote again a couple of years later after the 1975 vote because the result was very clear - two thirds of the votes were to stay.

Also because the 1975 vote wasn't riddled with fraud and electoral malpractice on one side in the way the recent one has been proved to be.

Acis · 14/04/2019 09:13

Of course the Brexit party haven't worked out how to leave becayse that's not their job

So far they are standing only as MEP.

It is the Westminster Parliament who are responsible for getting us out

Weakest excuse ever.

bellinisurge · 14/04/2019 09:16

And if the Westminster Parliament show how hard it is because they also take GFA into account, that makes them enemies of the people who should have the fear of God put in them? Childish bollocks.
www.thebrexitparty.com tells you plenty about Nigel Farage.

Abra1de · 14/04/2019 10:27

The DUP would move to the Home Counties and set up a new NI there.

Nope. They’re a bit roughly hewn. Does Arlene shop in Waitrose? I so don’t think so, darling. And I can’t see her organising open gardens. And I can’t imagine asking her to come for a skinny latte after Pilates either.

chocolateworshipper · 14/04/2019 10:37

A significant % of the 1000 people that applied to be candidates are Remainers - e.g. Artur Deetoo.

It will be very interesting to see the impact of splitting the far right vote between UKIP and this Brexit party.

LaurieMarlow · 14/04/2019 10:42

And I can’t imagine asking her to come for a skinny latte after Pilates either.

Yeah, but she’d make such a good traybake, you’d be won round Wink

TalkinPaece · 14/04/2019 10:46

As Led By Donkeys so excellently pointed out
Farage plans to move to a nicer country if Brexit does not work out

catx1606 · 14/04/2019 11:36

"UKIP won the last EU election and I’m sure UKIP v2 will do well in this election. But people have always used EU elections as a protest. It doesn’t translate to general elections at all. I mean, look at 2017. Both labour and the conservatives got a crazy high percentage of the vote, higher than for decades. We went even towards more of a two party system than we were in before"

As a UKIP supporter, I'll tell you why no one voted for UKIP in the last election. In the general election where 4 million people voted for UKIP and they got nowhere due to the way the general election voting system works (which people have said doesn't work) people realized that TM was their only option to get brexit through in the recent one so we all voted for her. That's why the support for UKIP didn't show. Never again, we're voting UKIP this time.

To the OP, you will never get support from MN on this as a majority of people on MN are remained. This shows through many of the brexit threads on here. The odd leave voter will speak up only to get ridiculed and I've seen it time and tine again on here.

Alsohuman · 14/04/2019 11:59

I’ve seen just as much ridicule from leavers. Just saying.

Windowsareforcheaters · 14/04/2019 12:05

The odd leave voter will speak up only to get ridiculed and I've seen it time and tine again on here

Leavers are not victims, you won the referendum. All the power is in the hands of leavers. Leave has been pushing the political agenda for the last 3 years. Leavers have been given every opportunity to enact what they believe in.

If leavers make ridiculous statements who is doing the ridiculing?

Windowsareforcheaters · 14/04/2019 12:06

@catx1606 do you have any issues about UKIP being too racist for Nigel Farage?

Where do you stand on Yaxley- Lennon?

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 14/04/2019 12:53

I’ve seen just as much ridicule from leavers. Just saying

Yep

Its just that its gone awfully quiet recently

PortiaCastis · 14/04/2019 13:02

Cometh the hour cometh what man oh maybe I should look at www.thebrexitparty.com

TheSandman · 14/04/2019 13:36

Where do you stand on Yaxley- Lennon?

Personally, I would stand on his balls - and jump up and down.

jasjas1973 · 14/04/2019 13:50

As a UKIP supporter, I'll tell you why no one voted for UKIP in the last election.......

.....Because you are all a bunch of xenophobes at best?

Your most charismatic and coherent leader stood for Parliament 7 times and failed every time.

Racist parties rarely get much support in the uk, the 3.8m who voted ukip in 2010 was a high water mark, you fell apart in 2015/17 GE's.

Face facts, you are a vocal minority , who have stirred the pot (with help from some in the msm and in particular the BBC) and people are seeing through Farage now as nothing more than a rabble rousing fascist.... his rallies and the march got little support.

safariboot · 14/04/2019 14:02

@catx1606 thing is the Conservatives lost votes, seats, and their majority in the last election. So is that really where all the UKIP votes were going? Doesn't really add up.

chocolateworshipper · 15/04/2019 19:23

I like to visit the Brexit Party website regularly portia - you know, to get it further up the search results Wink

SodaPoppins · 15/04/2019 19:32

The Brexit Party is definitely the best thing to happen to the Labour Party in a long time.

PortiaCastis · 15/04/2019 20:04

Ah yes www.thebrexitparty.com is the one to visit chocolate

chocolateworshipper · 15/04/2019 21:43

I'm a Remainer, but I feel inspired every time I visit www.thebrexitparty.com Portia

justarandomtricycle · 15/04/2019 22:50

I think when the government and all of these good people who are better than everyone else decided the core message of modern British democracy is "fuck you, we do what we like, what are you going to do about it filth?", they made stuff like "the Brexit party" academic.

Why bother voting? Just pick up the phone next time you need the germans fought against again, that's all the scum are good for after all.

Windowsareforcheaters · 15/04/2019 23:12

Just pick up the phone next time you need the germans fought against again

I think Remainers hope that the EU may mean we don't have to fight our friends, neighbours and allies in Germany.

We value them as trading partners as colleagues and as members of a community we all belong to.

I might be wrong but I think it's only (some) leavers who see the Germans as potential enemies.

jasjas1973 · 16/04/2019 08:06

Why bother voting? Just pick up the phone next time you need the germans fought against again, that's all the scum are good for after all

Your sacrifice in both WW's has been noted.

On serious note, your post does demonstrate why the brexit vote shouldn't have happened and certainly why it should be ignored, hopefully it will too.