Corrupt xenophobes of the world unite!
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I am surprised he is so blatant but he might as well put his cards on the table. I suspected the only reason he changed his mind is because he saw his path to power open and it is likely his best shot - stand in the election, lead Reform on a mission to wreck the Tories, offer a merger if he leads the combined parties and then he runs against the damp squib Starmer in thr next election and barrels into power on the kind of populist vote that gave BoJo the top job. With Trump in the White House and the hard right rampant in Europe, they'll help usher in a very dark, undemocratic time. It will likely coincide with a worsening climate apocalypse leading to water wars, mass migration out of the south as it becomes uninhabitable and societal decay for they'll offer themselves as the solution. Hard men for a hard world. At least until we get further down the road of automation when they don't need the bulk of humanity and they'll solve the Malthusian dilemma with targeted viruses.
Hopefully, Starmer divines the oncoming storm.and steps aside for Andy "King of the North" Burnham to ride south to our salvation but things are going to get rough either way.
Or, you know, we might drown him in milkshake...
He's a populist. And he's trying to run a populist campaign in a country where that really doesn't work.
The vast majority of the public can't stand him.
I swear to tits if you guys elect this fucking guy, we're gonna bring the revolution war over there next time.
As per usual, if we elect orange guy again, kindly please recolonize us.
Love and kisses, America
That'd be great, actually. Save us, Nuclear Joe.
Make America Great Britain Again
The MAGBA CARTA
We will call it CONFORM
Shut up and fuck off, Nigel
The current crop of conservative hardliners would eat him for breakfast
He would be out on his ear as leader within a month of a merge
Aren't most of them about to lose their seats? I can see the remnant tory party begging for a deal if it goes as badly as some polls are predicting.
If this goes as badly as some polls are predicting merging the parties will mean still being second or even third fiddle. The only reason to merge would be if both the conservatives and reform do better than predicted, then merge to become a minority government, otherwise Reform have about as much chance on their own as they do with the conservatives.
It's highly unlikely reform will get any seats though in which case this will be a massive non-issue.
For once the First Past The Post system is actually in our favor.
Please merge them. Please lead them, farage. into the fucking sea. never to be seen again.
He added: “Something is happening out there. There is a rejection of the political class going on in this country in a way that has not been seen in modern times.”
I see, so what we need is a slimy career politician running the party which is full of privileged career politicians. That'll really shake things up!
Look, just because he's a public school educated, ex-stockbrocker, career politician with deep ties to the media doesnt make him a part of the elite he loves to rail against.
The 'something' was Brexit!
“The public hates slimy tory, self seeking politicians? This is the perfect time for I, the slimiest of all, to appear!”
Something between trolling and a wish fulfillment fantasy from Farage here, but the fact that this sort of story isn't even absurd is a prety damning situation for the old Tories.