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Farage still at it.

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Farage says he wants to be 'bridge' between UK and Trump and the UK 'Revolution' isn't over.
From the tone of his interview it seems he is expecting UKIP to do a 'Trump' at the next election.

The UKIP MEP was the first British politician to meet Mr Trump after his US presidential election victory in November.

He has since held two further meetings with the president-elect, who has said Mr Farage would make a good UK ambassador.

But he said the unwillingness of the UK government to use him as an intermediary with Mr Trump showed how "petty, small-minded and tribal" British politics was.

Mr Blunt, chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee, told*BBC Radio 5 Live's Sunday Breakfast programme*that if Mr Farage was serious, he would get in touch with British diplomats to be briefed instead of "striking a pose" for television.

"I know for a fact he's not sought advice from the British Embassy in the United States and put his connections at the disposal of the British government," he said.

"All he's done is communicated this through the media."

Mr Farage told the BBC Britain's "political revolution" was incomplete - and there would ultimately be a similar upheaval to Mr Trump's takeover of the Republican Party.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38355108
 
Farage -Asked about the rise in hate crime since the referendum, the former UKIP leader said he had endured four years of "endless" death threats - and that it was not just one side of the referendum argument who had behaved badly.

That makes it ok then Nigel ?
 
If he thought it was "ok", I doubt he would have described it as "behaving badly", yes?
 
Craig4 said:
Gee, nationalists in Europe, a nationalist government in Russia and now the US. What could possibly go wrong here?
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Chinese economy could stall and erupt in a debt crisis of unprecendented scale, triggering a worldwide economic depression.

Call me selfish, but I hope I'll be on the surviving side.

McHrozni
 
Is this the same Farage who resigned less than seven hours after the Brexit vote came in Yes and he suddenly realised the backlash and disaster that would follow would be sheeted home to him?
 
Norman Alexander said:
Is this the same Farage who resigned less than seven hours after the Brexit vote came in Yes and he suddenly realised the backlash and disaster that would follow would be sheeted home to him?
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You might be confusing him with David Cameron.
 
I thought he resigned, because he considered his job (ie. to get Britain out of the EU) done?

That it coincided with the farce that was the post-Brexit period, where none on the pro-Brexit side appeared to have any idea of what to do next, was a pretty decent stroke of good fortune for him.
 
It's a commonly repeated myth that no one on pro-Brexit side has any idea what to do next.

The pro-Brexit side have very clear ideas on what to do next - it's just that the pro-Remain side and their establishment media cronies keep saying that what they want is impossible.
 
There's a difference between knowing what they want and it being possible.
 
ceptimus said:
It's a commonly repeated myth that no one on pro-Brexit side has any idea what to do next.
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Really ?

I thought the major issue is that there is no consensus on the Brexit side.

Individual Brexiteers have very specific views on what to do next ranging from packing brown people off to the country they came from, through a hard Brexit and damn the consequences all the way to leave the EU but pay whatever is necessary (both financially and otherwise) to remain part of the EEA.

Of course that's just a strategic outline. The real glaring gaps were, and are, at a detailed level.

ceptimus said:
The pro-Brexit side have very clear ideas on what to do next - it's just that the pro-Remain side and their establishment media cronies keep saying that what they want is impossible.
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Assuming that you speak for all of Brexit (and you don't, there's a vast range of views on the Brexit side) and that the official Brexit position is that they want to continue to trade with the EU on the current basis without having freedom of movement and without having to make a significant contribution to EU funds whilst at the same time having equally advantageous trading arrangements with other major economies and trading blocs then yes, it is impossible but don't blame the messenger.

:rolleyes:
 
KDLarsen said:
I thought he resigned, because he considered his job (ie. to get Britain out of the EU) done?

That it coincided with the farce that was the post-Brexit period, where none on the pro-Brexit side appeared to have any idea of what to do next, was a pretty decent stroke of good fortune for him.
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He resigned from his position of UKIP leader but not from his position of European Parliament Member from where he gets a comfortable salary...
 
Degeneve said:
He resigned from his position of UKIP leader but not from his position of European Parliament Member from where he gets a comfortable salary...
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Showing us how the EU wastes taxpayers money, one paycheck at a time.
 
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