Posted on 11/06/2019 1:58:48 AM PST by Cronos
Nigel Farage’s Brexit election dream was at risk of being dashed on day one of his election campaign yesterday after three candidates quit and he lost support from a major financial backer.
The Brexit Party leader came out all guns blazing on Monday claiming he would be unleashing 600 election candidates across the UK.
But he was warned by senior Tories that he risked ‘splitting the Leave vote’ before two candidates withdrew over fears the Brexit Party could prevent Boris Johnson getting a majority.
A third dropped out for personal reasons. Paul Brothwood stood aside in the marginal Dudley South seat, in the West Midlands, and announced he’s now backing sitting Conservative MP Mike Wood.
Stephen Peddie, the party’s pick for Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, quit just hours later and publicly attacked the Brexit Party leader on Twitter, accusing him of pursuing a ‘fantastical and dangerous strategy’.
Their announcements came after the Brexit Party confirmed Jill Hughes stood down last week.
Mr Brothwood said: ‘I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s leaving. I’ve come round to supporting Boris’ deal because it’s better than Theresa’s one.
‘But what’s more important is defeating socialism. That’s the real risk of the Brexit Party.
‘I would not want to be responsible for letting the racist Labour Party in, which would cause havoc to our public services, to our economy and to community cohesion.’
..Mr Peddie said: ‘I resigned as a PPC because I worried the Brexit Party was evolving from a national asset to a national threat.
..At the same time, one of Mr Farage’s main donors switched his allegiance to the Tories and announced he would now be supporting Mr Johnson at the election.
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‘It is a shame if Nigel Farage wants to take him on across the country, I don’t think that is helpful for the Brexit Party, the Tory Party or the cause. ‘For the Brexit Party to field candidates across all seats seems a waste of resources and not the wisest move.’
If Farage sticks to his plan for fielding candidates everywhere, then he will split the votes from Boris and end up either cancelling Brexit (if by some miracle LibDems win) or worse, ushering in a communist Corbyn win
And even if there is a "form" of Brexit in name only, it will be a complete joke. There will be so many rules, stringers, "laws", conditions, compromises, and codicils that it won't matter anyway.
Brexit is going to happen - the deal has been approved by parliament.
Let me step back a bit and ask you what you mean by Brexit - specifically?
Brexit to me is the UK leaving the EU and no longer being either a member, or following the 4 freedoms. that’s what the Boris plan gives.
What does Brexit mean to you?
you still haven’t answered what do you mean by Brexit?
Is it just the UK leaves EU membership, customs unions and the 4 freedoms?
Or do you mean something else?
Boris’s Brexit is not Brexit. It’s a con on those 17 million who voted to
Leave. It’s May’s Treaty reheated with some minor changes. Why blame
Farage for pointing this out to the 17 million who voted leave?
The Tories and their media allies fear Farage, as they attack him personally
over and over again.
I guess we’re going to play word games.
But it doesn’t really matter. The watered down, slavery to the EU version of “brexit” with a small “B” is the slight-of-hand con job that you will get. If that.
No word games.
Simple question to you, which you just do not answer.
What does Brexit mean to you? Is it just the UK no longer a member of the EU and not in the customs union and not following the four freedoms? Or do you mean something else?
Farage in 2016 wanted a Norway style relationship with the EU. That meant Brexit.
Boris plan goes further than that and suddenly it’s not good enough?
Why?
Why? Ask the 17 million who voted to Leave and WON the referendum.
They voted to leave based on the campaign which promised a Norway style relationship.
Now Boris deal goes further than the Norway style relationship.
What is wrong with it, in your opinion? Considering that people voted leave to get a closer relationship than Boris is promising
If what you say is true, then Boris has nothing to worry about,
as the BP will only get 2-3% of the vote.
However, we shall soon seen how many of those 17 million who voted
Leave voted for a clean break Leave.
Apparently, the Tories don’t believe what u r saying as they have declared
war on Farage. Why would they do that if they don’t view him as a mortal threat?
I asked you, tennmountainman - What is wrong with the Boris plan, in your opinion?
I’m not a Brit. I did not vote in the referendum. I’ve already told u
go ask some Leave voters why they voted leave.
You sure seem concerned about Farage. If u really think most
of the 17 million who voted Leave were voting for Boris’s reheated
May’s deal then u and Boris should have no worries.
But you want them to have a Farage Brexit and I ask you why? Do you know what Brexit means to you?
Or don’t you know what Brexit means to YOU?
That is a position akin to women who murder their own children through abortion, and then tell fathers they have no say in the matter because they are not women.
Brexit (or its failure, which seems now very likely) will have an impact that will be felt worldwide, because this issue is directly tied to the speed of implementation of the impending world government.
Brexit was a basic and timeless notion: the desire to throw off the chains of evil men who sought to squash the freedom of others by enslaving them in their web of unjust laws, regulations, taxation, and denial of their basic rights. The EU is such an entity.
As the failure of Brexit emerges, the EU will become even more powerful. No nation will ever dare to escape from it again. If Britain could not do it, no nation can.
The kingdom of the Antichrist is coming, and I believe he will use the EU as his base of power.
Farage in 2016 wanted a Norway style relationship with the EU. That meant Brexit.Aren't you (incorrectly) mind-reading?
Boris plan goes further than that and suddenly it’s not good enough?
Why?
Why do YOU, skypilot, think that the Boris plan is not good enough?
you don't seem to answer that.
do you know why you think that it is not good enough? Or don't you know why you think that?
the taxation is run by the British government and goes directly to the British government?
If you didn't know that, why not check it first before making that and other incorrect statements?
Next - let's ask YOU, Skypilot - can you name any 2 unjust laws?
Can you name any ONE instance of "denial of their basic rights"?
I wonder if you will answer this
Britain isn't and has never been a nation - rather a union of 4 nations. Don't you know that???
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