Tag: Nigel Farage

Stalemate Here and Over There

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Nigel Farage has been the voice of British nationalism for a couple of decades.  Fourteen years ago, he drove the movement that successfully forced the United Kingdom to exit the European Union; “Brexit.”  And he helped the Conservative Party (the Tories) regain their majority and sweep back into power on the basis of his Brexit campaign.

And then these Tories ruled for a decade as the Leftists they truly were.  And this allowed the Left (Labor, The Green Party and the Liberal Democrats) to regain control of Parliament and wreak further havoc on the English in their own country.  Basically, the Tories and the Left have gone all in on turning Britain into a land of third world immigrants.

In the last few years Farage has spearheaded a new party called the Reform.

Well, the chickens have come home to roost.  Current polls show voters have the following preferences:

  • Reform – 28%
  • Labour – 19%
  • Tories – 18%
  • Greens – 15%
  • Liberal Democrats – 13%

Interestingly, this new party now leads both traditional parties; Labour and the Tories by about ten percentage points.  This just shows how hated both parties have become.  But note that neither the Left nor the Right have a solid majority on which to base a coalition.  Reform and the Tories together have 46% of the electorate.  The three leftist parties; Labour, the Greens and the Liberal Democrats control 47%.  So, the remaining seven percent must be made up of people so apathetic they still can’t figure out which side to vote for.  Basically, the electoral situation is on the razor’s edge.  Now doesn’t that sound familiar?

So just as in the United States control of the government oscillates back and forth between the Left and the Right.  And each oscillation enrages the partisans out of power and eggs them on to greater and greater revenge when they do return.

Just as in Britain, so too here eventually something has got to give.  My guess is that it will eventually cause some large-scale violence and after that there will be a political solution involving a permanent division, either complete or else some constitutional change to give greater autonomy to both sides within the states where majorities for the Left or the Right have firm control.  And probably the “purple” states will have to choose which side they want to get in bed with.

Now, this idea isn’t something I enjoy.  The United States is the only home I have ever known.  And so many things about it are wonderful.  But there is no longer one people living here.  There are two.  And they believe in diametrically opposed visions of how this country should work.  And since the Left is the group trying to change “the deal,” they are going to have to be the ones excluded from the areas where the Right wants to live.  They’re using unlimited third world immigration to drown out their opponents at the polls.  So citizenship in the blue states will not be automatically transferrable to the red states.  And you can imagine how this will end up becoming very ugly after the initial breakup of the country.  Families may end up stuck on both sides of a divided America.  But that’s what seems to be coming.

I Envy the Brits

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Nigel Farage is about to gut the Tories.  His Reform UK party is currently stealing away so many votes from the Conservative Party that with just a little luck he may finish it off as the opposition to the Labor Party in Parliament.

And this is huge.  That would be as if Donald Trump started his own party; the Big Beautiful Trump Party, and it reduced the Republicans to less than half of the seats they currently hold in the House and Senate.  It would be explosive.  It would throw Washington into a panic.  Business as usual would cease to exist.  All those Republican power brokers would in one stroke become powerless.  Of course the Democrats would run roughshod over everything.  The country would overnight become like a continent sized version of California.  Fossil fuels would be banned and the only religion would be some kind of LGBTQ cult.  It would become a hell on Earth but we’d never have to hear Mitch McConnell lie to us about why he allowed some Democrat initiative to pass in the Senate.  And we’d never have to listen to what a noble democracy Ukraine is.  And within four years the Republicans would be extinct.  Now wouldn’t that be splendiferous?

So, yeah, I’m envious of the Brits.  The Tories screwed the pooch so hard that no one on the Right will believe them ever again and that provided the opportunity to replace them.

I know, I know.  Allowing the Left a supermajority in the government is suicide.  They’ll do things so horrible that life as we know it will cease to exist.  But that’s already happening.  All that differs is they currently do it one drop at a time instead of just pouring out the whole bucket at once.  As far as I’m concerned, the accelerationist strategy is the way to go.  Let them do their worst and then let the country react to that.  Sure, they’ll approve slavery reparations, aircraft carriers with 6,000 mile extension cords, transgender surgeries in the womb and any number of other horrible policies.  But at least we’ll kill the Uniparty.  That game will end once and for all.  And then we can finally have representatives that actually want to represent us.

Bottom line is I’m ready for the next step.  And that is what the Brits seem to be doing.  In the words of Winston Churchill, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

I’m thoroughly sick of the make believe government that the Republicans represent.  With respect to being betrayed it’s never if but always when.  And that when will always be when they could do the most good or the most harm.  So hail to you Nigel Farage.  Perform the end of the beginning and lay the Tories in their well-deserved grave.  And may we follow your example and do the same to the Stupid Party.  They wildly deserve it and it will warm my soul to see them out on their butts.

Reform UK Has Overtaken Tories in Polls for First Time

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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party is narrowly ahead of the Conservative Party (Tories) in polling.  I suppose this makes Reform the official Opposition to the Labor Party that is miles ahead of both these “right wing” parties.  I put that in scare quotes because the Tories have proven themselves to be progressives.  And now it is Farage’s difficult job to recreate a conservative party out of the ashes of the disaster that the Tories concocted in their eight years in power.  God speed Nigel.  All the best luck.

 

Nigel Farage Will Run for Seat in Parliament

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Now that the Tories have used their time in power to prove themselves clowns and enemies of freedom Nigel Farage has decided to give the normal people of England a better choice than the almost equally awful Labor Party.  He’ll be running as a candidate of the Reform UK party.  Farage is the father of the Brexit movement and a businessman.  And he wants to replace the Tories with something better.

It will take a while for the Reform party to gather up the disgusted former Tory voters so Labor will be in charge for the foreseeable future.  But just as with the RINOs in America you can’t make any progress until you eliminate the wolves in sheep’s clothing.  Kudos to Farage for beginning the long project that needs to happen.

Is Boris Johnson Ruling Out a Deal with Nigel Farage?

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I watched this interview that Boris gave to the BBC and I’ll have to say I think he’s making an enormous blunder.  https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50264395

Claiming that working with the Brexit Party risks throwing the election to Labour strikes me as completely wrong-headed.  There are areas of the country where voters would never vote for the Tories.  It’s a multi-generational family tradition.  But they’ll vote for Farage.  He’s one of them whereas Boris is not.

This looks like a case of Boris appeasing his allies and losing sight of the big picture.  If he allows enough seats to escape back to Labour then the new Parliament will be just as bad as the present one.  This is his chance to think more clearly about what the nation needs than what he wants.  He can divide up the districts into those that vote Tory and those that don’t.  Any Labour districts that voted strongly Brexit are a natural fit for a Brexit Party candidate and the Tories should leave these districts to the Brexit Party and support that candidate against Labour.  And even the overwhelmingly Labour districts should be left to the Brexit Party to challenge.  The Tories can replace the ejected Remainer Tories with reliably Brexit friendly Tory candidates.

Boris should be aware that coalitions are standard operating procedure in the British Parliament.  Attempting to squash the Brexit Party now will lead to disaster.  Sharing space on the Right with the Brexit Party will strengthen the Tories and weaken Labour immeasurably.

Wake up Boris.  Time is running out.

Remainers Allow General Election.  It May be the Last thing They Ever Do in Parliament.

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After forcing Boris Johnson to extend the Brexit waiting period yet again to January 31st, the Remainers may have just signed their own political death warrants.  The Tories, with the cooperation of the Labor Party were able to pass a bill calling for a General Election on December 12th.

Currently Boris Johnson’s personal popularity is extremely high.  And the popularity of the Tories is also strong.  They currently lead Labor 37% to 25% as the two largest parties.  Add in the 10% that Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party controls and it’s practically a majority without the necessity of coalition building.  Add to this the anger by even Laborites at the dirty tricks that the Remainers have used to block Brexit and we have the makings of a popular revolt.

I imagine that Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage will need to coordinate their efforts to ensure that the Tories who have remained faithful to the Brexit promise are spared any Brexit Party competition and only Remainers and Labor districts are targeted for replacement.  I imagine Farage will start by selecting all the districts that were represented by Tories that were thrown out of the party for voting against the Hard Brexit last month.  But he may have an even larger prize with the districts that voted for Brexit in 2016 but have a Labor MP that voted against Brexit this year.  That could turn a small electoral majority into a landslide for the Pro-Brexit parties.

I have to confess I’m shocked that the Labor Party agreed to this election.  It seems like an unforced error.  I know there is an element of risk for the Tories.  Electorates can be fickle but I think the upside for them is immense.  With a well-orchestrated campaign attacking the shenanigans that the Remainers committed and playing to the British national pride I believe this will be the chance to have a Pro-Brexit majority in Parliament and provide the right environment to make the Conservative Party actually conservative again.  It will also allow them to shed their image as globalists and steal the populist mantle from Labor.

It is sad that Boris wasn’t able to fulfill his promise to leave the EU by Halloween but he has redeemed himself by ensuring that the British voters will get to have the final say on Brexit.  And based on the date of the election it looks like it could be considered an early Christmas present for the Britons and a good start for 2020.

If you look back to 2016 it was the Brexit victory in the UK that preceded and almost announced the way for the even more astonishing Trump electoral victory over the Wicked Witch and the Republican Dwarfs.

It would seem almost poetic justice if achieving Brexit with a truly conservative Parliamentary majority is the opening act for President Trump to crush the Resistance under the heel of William Barr and achieve re-election by a landslide.  If only we could imitate that venerable old English custom of installing traitors like Comey and Clapper and Brennan in the Tower of London and provide them with the just desserts they truly deserve.

Have the English People Had Enough?

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In Britain, Boris Johnson has done everything legally possible to push Brexit over the line to completion, but a large contingent his own party has shown its true colors and figuratively and literally crossed over to the enemy camp to defeat the effort.  Will the Remainers be able to forestall a General Election?  Maybe they can.  And maybe they’ll even find a way to cancel Brexit.  But the real question is, have the English had enough?  Has the open and shameless flouting of the people’s will reached the point where the English will do something about it?  You may ask what?  After all, Britain is a Constitutional Monarchy where the elected representatives of the people in Parliament are the ultimate legal authority.  Is there anything the citizens can do if the various parties conspire to defy the will of the people and refuse to allow a General Election?

There surely is.  Any Pro-Brexit voter whose MP voted against Boris Johnson this week can write and e-mail and let his MP know that when the next election finally rolls around the MP will be out on his ear and Nigel Farage will be providing a replacement under his Brexit Party banner.  And he can add that this unfortunate MP shouldn’t expect to be elected for anything higher than dog catcher for the rest of his natural life.   And he should ask his friends to send the same.   In fact, Farage should already be publishing the names of all MPs who voted against Brexit and represent districts that voted for it.  I’ll bet that should be an interesting list.  There’s nothing an elected official likes less than the prospect of having to work for a living.

And that’s just the beginning.  Call up Farage’s office and volunteer time and give money to help get publicity and public opinion rolling.  Farage can use the money to buy advertising space in the papers and news sites.  He can use the money to do research on these Remainers and identify their links to globalist interests that benefit from Brussels’ hegemony over Britain.  There’s plenty that can be done if you’re angry enough.

A good example of how this can work occurred during the US 2018 Senate Elections.  Despite the supposed mid-term doldrums that swept the Democrats into the majority in the House, the Senate races were predominantly in red states and there were at least four democrats who were incumbents in very red states.  These were targeted by the Republican Senate Campaign Committee to showcase how these senators had voted against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court based on the lunatic charges and outright libel of a partisan hack.  And all four of these senators were ousted easily.

It’s easy to get angry and spout off about politicians.  But doing something, even something as easy as sending an e-mail, takes some willpower.  So that’s the question.  Are the English fed up with their disloyal government?  Are they ready to get up off their butts and do something?  I think they are.  And I expect they will hear from Farage very soon.  Hopefully Farage and Johnson can begin to coordinate how the coming election can be arranged between the Loyal Tories and the Brexit Party.  If they are smart, as soon as the date of the election is nailed down, they should begin a campaign to wake up the country and lay out their platform.  Let Brexit be just the beginning of reclaiming the country for its citizens.  Many Labour MPs are from districts that went heavily for Brexit.  Adding their seats to a Brexit Party constituency would begin an important realignment that is long overdue.  It would be similar to how Rust Belt Democrats crossed over to vote for Donald Trump.

I am encouraged by the determination that the English people showed in making the Brexit vote a success.  I am sure that they have the stamina to see this process through to a successful close.  It will be necessary to throw the globalists out of Parliament to finish the job but it will provide the added benefit of producing a working majority in Parliament that knows it is accountable to the voters.

 

Conrad Black Cheerleads for Boris Johnson

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Conrad had been of the opinion that Theresa May would get Brexit done.  Well that wasn’t the case.  Hopefully Boris will have much more successful career as PM.

Conrad Black: The Europeans now know they need to take Boris Johnson seriously

For Boris, outflanking the Remainers is a tricky game of brinksmanship that pits the MPs love of power versus their hatred for the Brexit.  If they attempt to sabotage the Brexit, Boris can attempt to block their ability to sit for re-election or even more drastically, trigger a General Election that can have disastrous results for these MPs who have gone against the wishes of their constituents.  What Johnson risks is triggering a bloodbath as the public supports the Brexit Party at the expense of Labour and the Tories.  Sharing power with Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party wouldn’t please Boris all that much either so it’s a bold threat to use.