Nigel Farage: Boris should accept Brexit delay

Scram news ^ | 15 October 2019 | Sam Bright

[Cronos]

Chief Brexiteer Nigel Farage has said that Boris Johnson should accept a delay to Brexit.

In a video on his YouTube channel, Farage addresses the Prime Minister directly – calling on him to accept the Brexit extension that’s been “forced” on him by MPs.

Indeed, if Johnson doesn’t come back from Brussels with a deal this week, he is mandated to ask the EU for a Brexit delay until 31st January 2020.

And now, after haranguing MPs for weeks for “betraying” Brexit, Farage is also in favour of a delay.

He says that Johnson should “sit out” this week’s EU summit, “accept the extension,” and go into the next election arguing for a no-deal Brexit – rather than spending any more time negotiating with the EU.

This is a pretty baffling change of heart from Farage, who organised a “Brexit betrayal” march earlier this year when MPs decided to delay our departure date. Under the same rules, he should surely now organise one against himself, right?

[SteveH]

Brexit deal ahead of EU summit

By Bianca Britton
CNN

Updated 4:28 p.m. ET, October 16, 2019

https://edition.cnn.com/uk/live-news/brexit-talks-oct-16-dle-intl-gbr/index.html

[SteveH]

> The NI/RoI divide is no longer seen as purely sectarian, due to the increasing secularisation of both states and also because the RoI has quite a few Protestants doing quite well.

I went to County Cork about 3 years ago and the Church of Ireland churches seemed at least to me nearly empty of congregation members, even during services. Inside were mostly staff and tourists. The Catholic attendance also seemed lower than I expected, but the Catholic church congregations there still seemed to be substantial. Maybe County Cork is an outlier?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Presumably he would be impeached by parliament.

[PapaBear3625]

Ah, but would impeachment be completed by Oct 31?

That’s the real question....

[SteveH]

thanks for the illuminating capsule summary of ni identity politics

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Well, Boris Johnson wants to be Prime Minister for the long haul, not just to get Brexit done. He won’t want to sacrifice the job he has aspired to from childhood over Brexit.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The republic a few years ago was so religious it was a defacto catholic theocracy. That the fact that Church congregations are still substantial is relative when you consider how much power they used to have but no longer have.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

“Nah, there’s about 1 % Muslims - less than the USA”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3654/ireland-mega-mosque

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irishvoice/ireland-and-its-muslim-population-in-a-post-charlie-hebdo-attack-world

“We now have a very sizable Muslim population in Ireland, estimated at around 65,000 and predicted to grow to over 100,000 in the next five years or so.” Based on those figures, the Muslim population is grown twice as fast as it is in the UK.

[PapaBear3625]

Well, Boris Johnson wants to be Prime Minister for the long haul, not just to get Brexit done. He won’t want to sacrifice the job he has aspired to from childhood over Brexit.

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it." -- Mark 8:35 King James Version (KJV)

If he gets BRexit done, he will win the next general election, regardless of what Parliament does.

[Cronos]

From a far lower base and those who are there are mostly with the IT companies. In Ireland as you point out, there are 65,000 Muslims. In the UK there are 2.5 million

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Closer to 100,000 now if that 2015 report is to be believed. That would be more that 1 in 50 vs 1 in every 26. Ireland will still be in the EU though, and subject to pressure from Merkel and co to accept more rapey reffos, not that that their half-indian progressive teosach needs much persuasion to virtue signal his ass off letting them flood in ever increasing numbers.