Pblakeney
Senior Member
Oh, I give Farage full credit for managing to get what he wants, however much that I disagreed with it.
He's probably been more successful on that front than any PM in the last 10 years. All while mostly not even being an MP.
Reform, and the death of the Tory Party
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Oh, I give Farage full credit for managing to get what he wants, however much that I disagreed with it.
He's probably been more successful on that front than any PM in the last 10 years. All while mostly not even being an MP.
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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This exactly.
As I have said before, in the area in which I live, Conservative voters are a scarce breed, but, Reform is rampant, it is not Conservative voters they are winning over.
Locally, Labour are in panic mode.
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
I don't think he panicked at all. He was high on his own hubris, he'd just 'won' the Scottish independence referendum, the AV referendum and a majority in the Commons and he - like pretty much everyone else, including Johnson & Gove - thought that Remain winning was a foregone conclusion. Doubtless also including the almost 30% of voters who stayed at home.
He assumed it would shut the whining Tory Eurosceptics up and put them back in their box, at least for the remainder of his term. I doubt if Farage & UKIP were more than a peripheral concern to him at the time.
Pblakeney
Senior Member
If he was confident then there would have been no need to put the noisy rabble in their box. Put up or shut up. He was concerned.
That's my opinion. YMMV.
After Reform's successes in last Council Elections, at Leicestershire county council
And Charles Pugsley, 19, has been made the cabinet member for children and family services.
Meanwhile in George Finch, 18, who has become the interim leader of the neighbouring Warwickshire county council (though apparently he has recently completed his A-levels).
Does experience matter when managing such crucial important services that impact so many in such significant ways?
Ian
And Charles Pugsley, 19, has been made the cabinet member for children and family services.
Meanwhile in George Finch, 18, who has become the interim leader of the neighbouring Warwickshire county council (though apparently he has recently completed his A-levels).
Does experience matter when managing such crucial important services that impact so many in such significant ways?
Ian
icowden
Shaman
Good question. Another good question is "is the thought of politics now so poisoned that the only people willing to run for the council are youngsters?"
I ask this because in the last council elections the Conservative Candidate for our area was an 18 year old girl (she didn't win).
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briantrumpet
Veteran
It's all going so terribly well.
Ian H
Squire
I thought these right-wing types enjoyed a touch of the lash.
Pross
Active Member
Well at least he didn’t need to go to A&E to get it removed.
CXRAndy
Legendary Member
He declared £98,700 in gifts in the last year.
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briantrumpet
Veteran
How long before the Tory Party propose a UK version of ICE, I wonder.
https://bsky.app/profile/bestforbritain.org/post/3ltegxisqqc22
It's rather ironic that this is the party that opened the borders to immigration (aka 'foreigners') from anywhere in the world to plug the gaps left by the closing of FoM as a result of Brexit.
https://bsky.app/profile/bestforbritain.org/post/3ltegxisqqc22
It's rather ironic that this is the party that opened the borders to immigration (aka 'foreigners') from anywhere in the world to plug the gaps left by the closing of FoM as a result of Brexit.
CXRAndy
Legendary Member
This country desperately needs one
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