Posted on 05/28/2024 3:38:17 PM PDT by Twotone
~As you know, two weeks from today my suit against the media censor Ofcom comes to the High Court of England. I shall be landing at Heathrow just as the UK election campaign kicks into what commentators insist will be "high gear". And yet I can muster zero interest in its outcome now that Nigel Farage has - for the second time - whiffed his rendezvous with destiny. Cometh the hour, cometh Nigel's absurd contention that he's unfortunately needed in America to get Trump across the finish line. Patrick O'Flynn, a favourite Steyn Show guest from the GB News days, writes:
Nigel Farage has blown his chance to destroy the Conservatives
Nigel Farage has announced that he will not be standing or leading the Reform party in the general election, putting his non-combatant status down to a clash with his work on the US presidential election.
What "work" on the US presidential election? To listen to Farage's blather, you'd think he was Chairman of the RNC or Trump's campaign manager. If you can identify a single US citizen unwilling to vote Republican until a British subject or any other foreigner recommends it, do let me know.
Yet, if anything, an early summer contest in the UK should have cleared a potential diary clash on that score and allowed him to participate in both.
What is this "participation" whose demands cut into so much of Nigel's time? Right now, the actual presidential candidate is only permitted by corrupt hack Judge Merchan to "participate" in the election one day a week and he seems to be making it work for him.
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“Nigel Farage has blown his chance to destroy the Conservatives”
They can manage to self-destruct. It might be their only true talent.
Perhaps Nigel Farage and Mark Steyn should appear on Tucker Carlson’s show.
The UK Conservatives deserve Zero Seats. And so does Reform UK.
They are fake conservatives and containment and gatekeeping.
The first thing Reform Uk did was allow “Hope Not Hate” to have a veto over their candidates. All they had to do is criticize the moslem mayor of London, and they get turfed.
“ The UK Conservatives deserve Zero Seats.”
And so does the GOP. If voting means anything the GOP should vanish, like the Canadian Progressive Conservatives did in 1993 and the UK Tories are about to.
You can’t be a bit of this and a bit of that.
After the destruction of the GOP a hard right wing nationalist party can emerge.
British Conservatives are the original “Stupid Party.” They seem to be living up to their legacy.
bkmk
“Nigel Farage has blown his chance to destroy the Conservatives”
Mark Steyn is correct. Nigel Farage has made a historic mistake, and turned himself into a political eunuch. It’s now safe to predict that he will never become UK PM.
I can recall no time at which that was not a safe prediction.
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