Farage stands down as UKIP leader

[hornetrider]

Spectacularly ill advised from Mr Farage.

[Turquoise]

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

[Wobbegong]

hornetrider said:

Spectacularly ill advised from Mr Farage.

Maybe he enjoys media hatred

[alfie2244]

Turquoise said:

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

Agreed but a bit like a UK pop group - not really made it until you have success across the pond.

He got what I wanted, a referendum, as long as he sticks around just in case he's required he can do what he likes as far as I am concerned.

[schmunk]

Wobbegong said:

Maybe he enjoys media hatred public attention of any kind

... Is my opinion.

[Turquoise]

alfie2244 said:

Turquoise said:

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

Agreed but a bit like a UK pop group - not really made it until you have success across the pond.

He got what I wanted, a referendum, as long as he sticks around just in case he's required he can do what he likes as far as I am concerned.

I'll go along with that.

[Jinx]

Jimboka said:

I wonder if the Americans would fall for an extra 350 zillion a week to Healthcare & no immigration if Trump followed the Farage model..

That was Vote Leave's message - Boris and Gove. Farage wasn't part of Vote Leave - but thanks for taking part.......

[jjlynn27]

Turquoise said:

alfie2244 said:

Turquoise said:

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

Agreed but a bit like a UK pop group - not really made it until you have success across the pond.

He got what I wanted, a referendum, as long as he sticks around just in case he's required he can do what he likes as far as I am concerned.

I'll go along with that.

Aren't two of you too old to be groupies? Still fun to see religious devotion.

As for appearance on the Trumpanzee show; lonely attention we. Even brighter ones amongst leave dismissed him as irrelevance.

Funny and sad in equal measure.

[FN2TypeR]

jjlynn27 said:

Aren't two of you too old to be groupies? Still fun to see religious devotion.

As for appearance on the Trumpanzee show; lonely attention we. Even brighter ones amongst leave dismissed him as irrelevance.

Funny and sad in equal measure.

I wouldn't be surprised if his migration posters/billboards that were unveiled a fortnight or so before the referendum turned a few people off from voting leave tbh, those were a big ol' gaffe and a stupid, stupid idea.

[jjlynn27]

FN2TypeR said:

I wouldn't be surprised if his migration posters/billboards that were unveiled a fortnight or so before the referendum turned a few people off from voting leave tbh, those were a big ol' gaffe and a stupid, stupid idea.

I'd imagine that more people would vote leave because of them. This is what Banks had to say on the matter;

Banks said:

“It was taking an American-style media approach,” said Banks. “What they said early on was ‘facts don’t work’ and that’s it. The remain campaign featured fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. It just doesn’t work. You have got to connect with people emotionally. It’s the Trump success.”

One video on the Leave.EU Facebook page, viewed 1.6m times, begins: “Are you concerned about the amount of crime committed in the UK by foreign criminals?” before ending with the message: “Isn’t it time to take back control.”

“The Conservatives are now trying to rewrite the campaign that immigration wasn’t important, but boy was immigration important,” Banks said. “The first thing we did was poll everybody and we found that if immigration wasn’t the issue, the issue was schools or education, proxies for immigration. It was the number one issue by a country mile.”

For all the talk about 'project fear' those posters had one goal only; scare people into thinking that 'those' immigrants are coming to town/village close to you.

[Europa1]

Did anyone hear one of the UKIP leadership candidates on the Today programme this morning?

She was taking pride in not having attended any of the hustings, basically saying she was in direct touch with people - it was positively Corbyn-esque!

She then went on to say that she thinks Teresa May will call an early election. Her homework is to read the fixed term parliament legislation.

[Turquoise]

jjlynn27 said:

Turquoise said:

alfie2244 said:

Turquoise said:

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

Agreed but a bit like a UK pop group - not really made it until you have success across the pond.

He got what I wanted, a referendum, as long as he sticks around just in case he's required he can do what he likes as far as I am concerned.

I'll go along with that.

Aren't two of you too old to be groupies? Still fun to see religious devotion.

Aren't you old enough to know that sarcasm and insults rarely reflect well on those saying them...?

[alfie2244]

jjlynn27 said:

Turquoise said:

alfie2244 said:

Turquoise said:

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

Agreed but a bit like a UK pop group - not really made it until you have success across the pond.

He got what I wanted, a referendum, as long as he sticks around just in case he's required he can do what he likes as far as I am concerned.

I'll go along with that.

Aren't two of you too old to be groupies? Still fun to see religious devotion.

As for appearance on the Trumpanzee show; lonely attention we. Even brighter ones amongst leave dismissed him as irrelevance.

Funny and sad in equal measure.

I would assume he will be off on a European tour once finished in the USA

eta how old is too old to be a groupie? You really do have a fixation with age..is being an ageist acceptable on PH?

[Zod]

Turquoise said:

jjlynn27 said:

Turquoise said:

alfie2244 said:

Turquoise said:

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

Agreed but a bit like a UK pop group - not really made it until you have success across the pond.

He got what I wanted, a referendum, as long as he sticks around just in case he's required he can do what he likes as far as I am concerned.

I'll go along with that.

Aren't two of you too old to be groupies? Still fun to see religious devotion.

Aren't you old enough to know that sarcasm and insults rarely reflect well on those saying them...?

Farage clearly doesn't agree.

[turbobloke]

Zod said:

Turquoise said:

jjlynn27 said:

Turquoise said:

alfie2244 said:

Turquoise said:

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

Agreed but a bit like a UK pop group - not really made it until you have success across the pond.

He got what I wanted, a referendum, as long as he sticks around just in case he's required he can do what he likes as far as I am concerned.

I'll go along with that.

Aren't two of you too old to be groupies? Still fun to see religious devotion.

Aren't you old enough to know that sarcasm and insults rarely reflect well on those saying them...?

Farage clearly doesn't agree.

Understood in principle (knowing Farage's public persona) but in this case did he not say "I would not vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me" and then "I would not vote for Hillary Clinton if she paid me" which are statements of fact regardless of any other implication and - as he pointed out - he has no vote anyway. Was there something else that's going largely unreported?

[jjlynn27]

Turquoise said:

jjlynn27 said:

Turquoise said:

alfie2244 said:

Turquoise said:

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

Agreed but a bit like a UK pop group - not really made it until you have success across the pond.

He got what I wanted, a referendum, as long as he sticks around just in case he's required he can do what he likes as far as I am concerned.

I'll go along with that.

Aren't two of you too old to be groupies? Still fun to see religious devotion.

Aren't you old enough to know that sarcasm and insults rarely reflect well on those saying them...?

Where was the 'sarcasm and insults'? You are seeing things that are not there. I'll try to brake it down for you;

- Groupie = unquestioning adoration.

- Religious devotion = unquestioning adoration.

Nige is what he always was, attention we. Now that most of leavers are not interested, he's looking for new, equally bright audiences. Trump's supporters seem to fit perfectly.

[Sylvaforever]

Interestingly, despite what you may think of him, he has been100% correct over the issues that really matters. Libya, Ukraine, Putin, Syria, the EU manufactured migrant crisis and Brexit, he has been proven, time after time, to be totally accurate in his assesments of these issues.

Unpalitable for those who cannot or will not open their eyes.

[dandarez]

Sylvaforever said:

Interestingly, despite what you may think of him, he has been100% correct over the issues that really matters. Libya, Ukraine, Putin, Syria, the EU manufactured migrant crisis and Brexit, he has been proven, time after time, to be totally accurate in his assesments of these issues.

Unpalitable for those who cannot or will not open their eyes.

jjlynn can't open his eyes - he's too deep under water.

He's just an AGEIST GIT!

If you hadn't noticed, he really does seem to have a serious ongoing problem with people of a certain age. He brings it up all the time. He actually thinks it's funny.

I do wonder if he forgets that one day he too will be old? If he's lucky of course.

I'm hoping that the generation before him, are like him, but far worse. Quite likely too, when you remember my generation were taught to 'respect' their elders. That went by the wayside.

He won't find it funny then! Here, have one of your rollers you love to use, you ageist git!

[Derek Smith]

Jinx said:

Jimboka said:

I wonder if the Americans would fall for an extra 350 zillion a week to Healthcare & no immigration if Trump followed the Farage model..

That was Vote Leave's message - Boris and Gove. Farage wasn't part of Vote Leave - but thanks for taking part.......

Indeed Farage didn't lie by saying the EU costs the UK £350m per week. However, he did say that the EU costs us £55m per day. Now I'm not that good at maths but that seems to me to be a bigger lie.

Farage might not have been seen as an asset to Johnson and Gove, both of whom wanted to be leader of the tory party, but he also said that the £350/£385m a week would be spent on the NHS and that was, some have suggested, ifluential. Why anybody would believe Farage is difficult to say. What he said was a load of eyewash all the way through - he said 110% of our laws were made by the EU. It think that was his figure. I've just plucked it out of the air. Just like he did.

[dandarez]

jjlynn27 said:

Turquoise said:

jjlynn27 said:

Turquoise said:

alfie2244 said:

Turquoise said:

Not his wisest move.

Silly sod.

Agreed but a bit like a UK pop group - not really made it until you have success across the pond.

He got what I wanted, a referendum, as long as he sticks around just in case he's required he can do what he likes as far as I am concerned.

I'll go along with that.

Aren't two of you too old to be groupies? Still fun to see religious devotion.

Aren't you old enough to know that sarcasm and insults rarely reflect well on those saying them...?

Where was the 'sarcasm and insults'? You are seeing things that are not there. I'll try to brake it down for you;

- Groupie = unquestioning adoration.

- Religious devotion = unquestioning adoration.

Nige is what he always was, attention we. Now that most of leavers are not interested, he's looking for new, equally bright audiences. Trump's supporters seem to fit perfectly.

I agree, slow down, hit the brake Mr Ageist.
That's a real car crash error!



I note today's ONS states the influx of Romanians and Bulgarians has reached a record high.
Who'd have thought it? Who was it who mentioned something about large numbers coming here from those two particular countries and got ridiculed?