• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf
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    28 days ago

    If he wins and Parliament suspends him he can be subject to a recall petition. At that point he’ll either have to walk away or fight a proper by-election, this time with him being a proven crook. Maybe the Clacton mouthbeathers will re-elect him regardless but it’s not going to do him any favors on a national level.

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      28 days ago

      Oh NO! How will he ruin britain without becoming prime minster???

      He had to be in power in parliment in order to make brexit happen, to keep britain out of the euro and enact the “Send those grimy brown people back to africa, I don’t care if they’re from the Philippines, it’s all the same rubbish” plan of international diplomacy.

      What, he gets kicked out of parliment and continues to enact more policies than sitting governnments? How does that work for everyone else in britain?

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        28 days ago

        I’m not sure why you’re being so hostile. Farage has sold himself as a “man of the people” fighting for the little (white) guy against the corrupt establishment.

        That narrative is now in tatters. It won’t cause every one of his supporters to ditch him, but it’s not going to help him, is it?

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          28 days ago

          Because it’s obvious that anyone thinking that anything that affects Farage in terms of being an MP or not does not make a blind bit of difference in the amount of damage that prick does to the UK. He wasn’t in charge of ANYTHING when he got all his tentpole ideas implemented by various governments, and if he isn’t in charge of ANYTHING when all this shit ends, it won’t limit him in the slightest.

          People need to wake up to this shit.

          • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf
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            28 days ago

            I disagree. You’re basing your argument on him continuing to have the same levels of support from the public and media. That’s hardly a given, is it? Even sections of the right wing media that have blown so much smoke up his cloaca for years are starting to turn on him.

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              28 days ago

              and are they likely to turn away from the stuff he wants to have happen, and will they revert the things he made happen?

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              I doubt if the billionaire media owners acquired their fortunes any more honestly than Farage got his much smaller one, and they’ll continue to amplify his every brain fart. And as long as Reform is targeting people hated by the vast herds of gammon and the hooligans, they’ll keep supporting Farage. They don’t care if he’s bent. They’d be a rich cunt like him if they could. He’s a crook, but they see him as their crook.