Nigel Farage is a DISGRACE TO THE HUMAN RACE AND SHOULD BE DETAINED AT CUSTOMS

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What the hell was that debacle in the European Parliament yesterday when he had the audacity to stand there grinning like the Cheshire Cat, basically telling them all good riddance, and then this was followed by the horror of his cronies such as Anne Widdicombe and other half-wits taking it upon themselves to rise to their feet to wave their silly little Union Jacks and sing something? Was it Rule Britannia? They were told to sit down or get out like a pack of show-off fools in a classroom.
Why is this man allowed over there? Can’t someone detain him at customs or something? Grinning like the Cheshire Cat and making us look like bigoted fools everywhere he sets foot. I don’t think I’ve ever disliked a politician this much - and that’s saying something. Vile, pathetic little man who needs to crawl back under his rock for good.

Ok, we'll have to agree to disagree.

Personally I think the man deserves a knighthood and I'm extremely thankful to him, he might have an annoying face but he can't really help that.

I’m glad of the opportunity to do a trade deal with the US, either hopefully lower tariffs

So what if it doesn't involve lower tariffs, and it involves selling off yet more chunks of the NHS to them and the acceptance of their highly dubious food safety methodology: should we accept the deal because it's the only thing on the table and it's not the EU?

had we stayed in the EU and never had this opportunity, then for sure I would not have seen any benefit

Why on earth do you think we've been prevented from doing trade deals with the US over the last 40 years? It's just a myth. OK, we couldn't do a deal which involved accepting chlorinated chicken. Was that a bad thing?

Your heading for this thread demonstrate perfectly your instincts for authoritarianism, OP. It’s something you share with many hardcore Remainers who seem both fundamentally opposed to genuine democracy and STILL, three years on, completely incapable of understanding why people voted for Brexit, who continue to trot out the incredibly patronising “they didn’t know what they were voting for” line about their fellow countrymen. And yet these same people think of themselves as accepting, tolerant and open-minded. It’s a conundrum, all right.

The point is that there’s an opportunity for ME, hence my personal decision to vote this way. I’m sorry if that doesn’t suit you.

Yuck. My line of work means that I, too, am likely to benefit financially from Brexit. Nevertheless, I am against it because it is a huge mistake for the country as a whole, has enabled the racists, and was based on an illegally conducted referendum... and therefore is (in my very humble opinion) almost impossible to justify.

@Sallysaved “... a high level of living for all its citizens”

Are you aware of the concept of food banks?

Op...yes, the man is an embarrassment.

I didn't vote remain for me, I voted for my DCs future, my community, my country and - not to put too fine a point on it - for continuing peace.

Seeing that self-satisfied image of Farage and Trump in front of the golden doors told me everything I needed to know.

@BonnesVacances Although I abhor and detest your reason for voting Leave i.e. not wanting to help poorer countries , and not wanting people from poorer countries to come here, I admire your honesty in admitting it. Likewise @DBML for admitting to an equally selfish reason.
As@BBinSleepsCounting and @DeDoRonRon say, I,and all my fellow Remain voters, voted for our DC's future, to help poorer people (regardless of race)and build a more tolerant, selfless society.
I guess life is full of Givers and Takers though.
Tragedy that the Givers lost, and we are left with the Takers at the helm of this country.

Meadow I didn't vote leave and I abhor those reasons too. But we do need to understand that while we're looking for tangible benefits, the truth is that leavers aren't. They just want to feel better, not be better. Once you realise that, their posts make more sense.

Sorry@BonnesVacances, I realise you were expressing exactly my feelings. I read your post too quickly !

Did he get his German passport? Still got the french girlfriend?

Ok, I'm leaving this thread now. I've waited over 3 years and asked hundreds of Leave voters in RL and on this thread.
But in the absence of any of them being able to give a single tangible example of how their life is going to be better after Brexit(apart from @DBML who can now do trade with the US instead of the EU, at whatever cost to the environment), then by default the only reasons left that I can offer are not very nice ones, along the lines of BonnesVacances post.

You won’t get an actual solid fact because it was sold on emotion and the Blighty Spirit - ironic, since those who actually lived through WW2 wanted to stay.

This is it, i dont think a lot of brexiters realise that we dont hate them, just find them deeply, deeply embarassing.

in the absence of any of them being able to give a single tangible example of how their life is going to be better after Brexit

I would say that the people in the North of England have had their voices heard for a start - Boris Johnson held a cabinet meeting in Sunderland last week.

A lot of people think their wages have been suppressed by immigration - e.g. construction workers and pharmacists.

trade with the US instead of the EU, at whatever cost to the environment

The Dover-Calais problem has prompted many companies to rethink their supply routes - importing goods by ship to ports around the country should be better for the environment than trucks driving up and down the motorway.

The cost of food should come down - e.g. we can buy cheaper virgin olive oil from Morocco. Also, for example - Eswatini/Swaziland has a well established canning industry supplying Europe with tinned fruit. Eswatini also grows peaches which they can't sell to the EU because of EU tariffs - it is cheaper for Eswatini to import peaches from the EU, can them and then export them back to the EU.That's not good for the environment.

Voters like me don't want to be part of a Federal Europe - several of our prominent politicians do want this;

"The European Movement UK is an independent all-party pressure group in the United Kingdom which campaigns in support of greater European integration and for reform of the European Union.It is part of the European Movement International which pushes for a "democratic, federal, enlarged European Union".

"The President was Lord Paddy Ashdown until his death in December 2018. Former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine Former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine was appointed as President in May 2019 and the current chairman (since December 2016) is Stephen Dorrell."

@Clavinova. Admittedly I'm no environmental expert, but surely it is more environmentally friendly to import goods from France than America ???!!
Please don't blame immigrants for suppressing wages.
@Lordfrontpaw So so sad that they put that emotion before the future of their children.
@Patroclus. Agree, and difficult not to be deeply angry too.