Farage stands down as UKIP leader

[alfie2244]

georgeq said:

If only his dad pulled out this quickly

Is that really the best you got? Go on have another go.

[Smokehead]

Highest achieving politician. Time for a pint and a cigarette now.

[Oceanic]

I think what he has actually managed to achieve still remains very uncertain, it's going to be sometime before we can start writing any history books on him.

Personally I think he is a vile little man who has played on peoples fears.

[Axionknight]

Oceanic said:

I think what he has actually managed to achieve still remains very uncertain, it's going to be sometime before we can start writing any history books on him.

Personally I think he is a vile little man who has played on peoples fears.

Sounds just like David Cameron.

[anonymous-user]

Smokehead said:

Highest achieving politician. Time for a pint and a cigarette now.

I hate to point it out, however all that has happened so far is that a referendum has taken place.

[saaby93]

alfie2244 said:

I wonder if any new domain names relating to political parties have been registered recently?

You mean now that UKIP has done its job and achieved its aims assuming the article 50 thing goes ahead, there might be a need for a
UK 'IN' Party

There might just be a domain name becoming available

[Sylvaforever]

lostkiwi said:

Successful?
He rarely attended the EU votes. He didn't represent his constituency (South East) who elected him to look after their interests in Europe (SE were largely pro-remain).
He pursued his own political agenda irrespective of what he was paid to do. He spectacularly failed to follow democracy in respecting his constituency's wishes.
That's not successful - that's ego.

Edited by lostkiwi on Monday 4th July 11:15

Haters will always a Hate

Losers will always be Losers.

[alfie2244]

Sylvaforever said:

lostkiwi said:

Successful?
He rarely attended the EU votes. He didn't represent his constituency (South East) who elected him to look after their interests in Europe (SE were largely pro-remain).
He pursued his own political agenda irrespective of what he was paid to do. He spectacularly failed to follow democracy in respecting his constituency's wishes.
That's not successful - that's ego.

Edited by lostkiwi on Monday 4th July 11:15

Haters will always a Hate

Losers will always be Losers.

Ah yes but will lost Kiwis always be lost?

[Collectingbrass]

Smokehead said:

Highest achieving politician. Time for a pint and a cigarette now.

Really? Since when? I'd say Cromwell, Disraeli, Wellington, Wilberforce, Lloyd George, Churchill, Nye Bevan and Maggie might have something to say about that. Even Cameron kept the kingdom together (in 2014 I grant you), Blair won us the Olympics and he & Major delivered the millennium celebrations.

All I am saying is keep the hero worship in proportion until Article 50 is served and we know what the new world order looks like. For now yes he has achieved his party's goal but at what cost - a question we won't know the answer to for a generation at least.

Edited by Collectingbrass on Monday 4th July 13:10

[fido]

lostkiwi said:

He rarely attended the EU votes.

His aim was to get the UK out of the EU - not to collect his daily MEP allowance. I know it might be diffcult to get your head around.

[sirtyro]

To be fair to him, in his resignation speech, he was correct with everything he said about the future negotiations and whilst I don't agree with everything he says or does, his description of the EU and the single market is spot on and his vision of the future is spot on

[lostkiwi]

fido said:

lostkiwi said:

He rarely attended the EU votes.

His aim was to get the UK out of the EU - not to collect his daily MEP allowance. I know it might be diffcult to get your head around.

My aim is to mess with cars. Not to go to work. Do you think my employers would see it that way?
He didn't do what he was paid to do. Simples.

[Piersman2]

lostkiwi said:

fido said:

lostkiwi said:

He rarely attended the EU votes.

His aim was to get the UK out of the EU - not to collect his daily MEP allowance. I know it might be diffcult to get your head around.

My aim is to mess with cars. Not to go to work. Do you think my employers would see it that way?
He didn't do what he was paid to do. Simples.

He was paid to represent his voters. He kept getting voted back in whilst making no bones of his views and aims. He did exactly what he was paid to do! Even simplers.

[Thorodin]

On the assumption that World Famous Law Firms do nothing if not for money, who is paying them for the latest three ring circus trying to overthrow democracy?

[Sam All]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Axionknight said:

Oceanic said:

I think what he has actually managed to achieve still remains very uncertain, it's going to be sometime before we can start writing any history books on him.

Personally I think he is a vile little man who has played on peoples fears.

Sounds just like David Cameron.

I would say more like Tony "45 Minutes from Attack" Blair.







(or was that Alistair Campbell who said that ? I can never remember )

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[Axionknight]

Thorodin said:

On the assumption that World Famous Law Firms do nothing if not for money, who is paying them for the latest three ring circus trying to overthrow democracy?

Zooplas CEO is one of them I believe.

[colonel c]

So much hate.

Personally I think he deserves a knighthood.

[RC82]

Oceanic said:

Personally I think he is a vile little man who has played on peoples fears.

Far from it. He's the only politician with the balls to talk about what the others shy away from.

[Trabi601]

Hosenbugler said:

I agree. He has to be one of the most important and successfull politicians since the war. As for UKIP, will it realign itself to represent the working class, because the Labour party does not, we shall see. All I'm really interested in, is the initiation of article 50.

Nationalist Socialists. Like that never went badly wrong in the past.

His fear and hate filled politics appeal to the hard of thinking, those who'd prefer to blame foreigners for their own failings.

UKIP have been chasing the racist working class vote for a long time now, becoming increasingly successful. This will not end well.

[Europa1]

Thorodin said:

On the assumption that World Famous Law Firms do nothing if not for money, who is paying them for the latest three ring circus trying to overthrow democracy?

A collection of "businessmen and academics", according to the Today programme this morning.