It’s only Monday morning and I am already hopping mad! There’s a despicable ruse by Johnson to take advantage of Armistice Day, and there are today’s reports of the latest attempts to betray Brexit which have me fuming and which make me think that the MSM and politicians have become totally deluded in their anti-TBP election campaign.It’s as if there never was a Remain coalition, as if there is only one Arch Remainer and his name is Nigel Farage.
These are the three prongs in the MSM’s attack on Farage and TBP: ‘advice’ from such leading lights like Daniel Hannan and Nick Timothy, a former aide to Ms May, blackmail attempts by “a friend”, that friend being Arron Banks, and reassurances from Boris Johnson. Let’s look at that one first, because this is the main argument used in the demands that TBP go back home and let the Big Boy do his job. The DM reports:
“Boris Johnson has offered an olive branch to Nigel Farage by ruling out extending the Brexit transition period beyond 2020. In the Prime Minister’s Sunday evening Twitter video he stressed that his agreement with the EU allowed him to pursue a Canada-style free trade deal with the Bloc and would be free of any political alignment.” (link)
What sort of ‘olive branch’ is that? Does Johnson think we don’t know who will sit at the other side of that negotiating table? Does he think we have never heard of M Michel Barnier, who has already warned that these negotiations will be very difficult and will take at least three years? Does Johnson really think we’ll trust him now, after he has sold NI and the DUP down the drain? That this is but a cheap election ploy and nothing else becomes clear in this next quote:
“But Mr Farage is facing calls to back down amid fears he could dash Brexit altogether if the Tories haemorrhage too many seats to the Brexit Party and allow Labour and the Liberal Democrats to succeed.” (link)
This is pathetic, especially as LabCon are trying to out-spend each other in a GE campaign which is nothing to do with Brexit, as John Curtice observes in The Times:
“One of the striking features of the campaign to date is that both the Conservatives and Labour are proposing to spend more and borrow more. It all seems a far cry from a few years ago when the emphasis was on how the deficit in the government’s finances could and should be reduced.We should not be surprised. Politicians are responding to a change in the priorities of an electorate that has gradually grown tired of austerity.” (link, paywalled)
So – not Brexit then, is it! Meanwhile, Mr Arron Banks (also here, non-paywalled) who craves being in the MSM and who has joined the Tory Party (not that the various reporters mention that little fact) makes this threat:
“In a warning shot, Arron Banks […] told residents of three constituencies in Stoke-on-Trent to vote Tory. Unless the Brexit Party leader stands down in most constituencies before Friday, Mr Banks’s Leave.EU group will release a tactical voting app showing Brexiteers who they should back in every seat. A spokesman for Leave.EU, which accuses Mr Farage of risking Brexit by splitting the Leave vote, said: “This app is ‘back Brexit, back Boris’. We will tell Brexiteers the right candidates to back for Brexit. If that is against the Brexit Party then so be it. We have to get Boris a majority so we can get Brexit done.” (link, paywalled)
An App telling people to ‘vote Tory’ … so transparent! It couldn’t be more obvious: this is Party Political propaganda for the Tories, it’s not about Brexit. Else why isn’t there an App by Banks and others about how best to vote against Remain candidates?
Moreover, there’s the unprecedented campaign in the DM – their report isn’t paywalled, do take a look – where they’ve published the email addresses of confirmed Brexit Party PPCs, exhorting their readers to write to them to stand down. I am not aware of similar DM campaigns to exhort MPs not to vote for e.g. the Benn Surrender act …
Meanwhile the Tory Brexit Judas Goat Daniel Hannan is using the slur which has been spread on social Media, namely that TBP is ‘preventing Brexit’ so Farage and their MEPs can stay in Brussels earning shedloads of money:
“Why, at the moment when Brexit is about to be delivered, is something called “the Brexit Party” fighting an election at all? That party cannot deliver Brexit, but could yet prevent it. While that might suit some Brexit Party MEPs, who are enjoying the attention and the expenses, it surely can’t be what most Eurosceptics want.” (paywalled link)
Never mind that ‘something called TBP’ won the EU elections, thus getting Ms May to resign! Never mind that Johnson saying his deal will deliver Brexit doesn’t make it so. Then Hannan states that TBP can’t win and why rejecting an alliance is the proper way forward:
“On current numbers, according to Electoral Calculus, if the Brexit Party contests every constituency, it will fail to win any MPs, but it will forestall a Conservative majority […] The Brexit Party is not in a position to win seats, and the sorts of constituency where it is keenest to stand are precisely those which the Conservatives might take from Labour.” (paywalled link)
Ah – so these are seats the Tories ‘might’ take from Labour – not will, ‘might’! Would Hannan and ‘friends’ rather see a Remain Labour win, should TBP stand down, than see TBP elected into the hallowed HoC? Finally, Hannan has the audacity to write:
“I had hoped that the Brexit Party would, to borrow Farage’s favourite phrase, “put country before party”. But it looks as though he would rather lose Brexit than see it delivered by someone else. Like the Remainers, he is now paradoxically depending on Leavers being too dim to see their own interests. I suspect that, like the Remainers, he is wrong.” (paywalled link)
What about Tories putting country before party? Furthermore, given our past experiences with Ms May and Johnson, why would Leavers suddenly think it’s in our interest to vote Tory?
No, Mr Hannan – we’re not dim, we can see where you are coming from! Nick Timothy – a failed PPC whose candidacy was rejected by a Tory constituency – comes up with the same old cr*p: Leavers must believe Johnson because he’s no Remainer … because he lead the Leave campaign. Also, his cabinet and the ERG support his wonderful Deal so it must be good and Farage is wrong:
“Examine Farage’s arguments, and it becomes quickly apparent that they are fatuous.The Brexit Party claims the new Withdrawal Agreement means “Britain remains under EU rules, but with no vote, no voice [and] no veto.” But this is true only during the transition period, which is due to end in December 2020. From that point, a new trade agreement will govern the relationship between Britain and the EU.” (paywalled link)
He trusts the EU to negotiate in good faith? How … naive! As I mentioned above: it is not in Johnson’s power to determine how long that transition period will last. M Barnier has already made warning noises, warnings which, given our experience these past years, we certainly ought to take seriously!
Finally, for Armistice Day Johnson is going to announce ‘measures’ about ending the persecution of Veterans – see non-paywalled reports here and here. We all know what ‘manifesto pledges’ are worth. Worse – those mighty Tory minds seem to think that this is possible while we’re still in the Transition Period.
Do they not know that we will still be under the jurisdiction of the ECJ? This is another and quite disgusting party political trick. The Tories could have stopped these trials a long time ago using the argument they now propose, that this legislation should not be applied retroactively. Why didn’t they? Something to do with the ECJ, perhaps?
To campaign on this day of all days by dangling such manifesto promise in front of our veterans is sickening, but it’s all part of the same ruse: vote BoJo for the oven-ready “Deal” and prevent Farage’s Brexit Party getting into the HoC. Are the Tories scared of TBP by any chance?
Now you know why I’m fuming, first thing on this Monday morning – and now you know why we simply have to
KBO!
As I have stated on this site numerous times, the only party that can be trusted to deliver a clean break no deal Brexist ifor which 17.4 million, is not the Farage quisling corporation but UKIP.
What a kick in the teeth. This morning, first thing, I had bought two tickets to an event nearby. TBP GE Tour with Nigel Farage and other key speakers. My one thrill was that people had someone to vote for, someone who was not in support of the EU or a member of the LibLabCon Party.
By late afternoon my hopes were dashed.
Instead of having the guts to stand his ground and stick his flag in the ground he has capitulated. It wouldn’t have mattered if he made a mess of the status quo in British Politics it wouldn’t have mattered if there had been a hung parliament. It would have given people hope, a focus and a purpose. But more importantly it would have sent an almighty message to our MP’s that they had to listen to the voters.
Would Labour have got in? Never in a million years. They have already been blown away in Scotland and faith is being lost in Wales. They have failed the ‘working class’, their spending policies frighten even the most robust souls, the Semitism problem and internal friction make their image decidedly dodgy.
The Liberal Democrats do not present a credible alternative. Nobody seems to know exactly what they stand for other than being total Europhiles and hence anti UK.
The Conservatives are probably the least trustworthy of all the political parties. The ‘Deal’ has been exposed by various barristers and one wonders whether Johnson was always there in the background in case May fell. Ready to pick up the ball and run the final hundred yards and score a try, FOR THE EU!
Now most of us are left with no one to vote for.
Disenfranchised, disillusioned and disappointed. Oh yes and disgusted.
To top it all China are buying British Steel. I didn’t say the company name because we all know China is run by the Chinese Communist Party as a Totalitarian state so it doesn’t really matter which company it is. Nicely timed after being allowed to dump their steel some years ago.
I will never vote for any from the LibLabCon Party ever again. Now where are those Independent PPCs?
I don’t know why you are all getting so upset about Nigel’s capitulation just now, because he has been trimming his sails all along.
If anybody cares to remember the original reason such a vast number voted to leave was because the penny had finally dropped that parliament and the “elite” of all shades had for years conspired to deceive us peasants.
All trust was gone between them and us and the only remedy was to clear the lot (apart from a few goodies) POUT lock stock and barrel. I thought this was Nigel’s PRIME PURPOSE along with seeing Brexit was feted. He’s been back pedalling ever since.
Oh by the way Bojo is also going to do a Canada type deal – that is what is supposed to have cracked it for Nigel we’ll have to see,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ha ha ha!
All of you doubting Thomases – Nigel has limited resources. Why should Nigel act the part of Lord Cardigan? Remember him?
(Titled Pratt!)
This coming Election is tantamount to The Charge of The Light Brigade.
“Into the valley of death,
rode the six hundred + …..”
If Nigel had been the C.O. on that fateful day?
That total disaster would never have happened.
(By the way, certain records suggest cowardice on behalf of the TURKS on whom we had relied……….(Know what ‘a mean ‘Arry?)
Why send 600+ cavalry into the Valley of Death?
Because of his limited resources, Nigel needs to be a Commando.
Oh, you of little faith!
This is not a suicide mission lads and lasses –
This is The Great Escape…….D.Day……The Battle of Agincourt……(but does this not seem more than a Hundred Year War!)
But with a difference……
This time we do indeed have a “tactical victory within our grasp”…..
This move by Farage is by way of ‘guerills warfare’…….don’t you see?
He will no doubt ask ‘the pick of the crop’ to stand in those seats we have good to excellent chances of winning.
If he can but command a group of MP’s equal to the DUP……..what advances could he make…?
I have intimated before……”Softly, softly, catchee monkey……..”.
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread…..
Yes…..Lose battles, but win the war, and discretion is the better part of valour.
He hasn’t done badly so far, has he?
STAND FIRM LADS AND LASSES!
You started with:- It’s only Monday morning and I am already hopping mad!
Monday p.m. and I guess most of us are hopping mad too. Sold out.
There is still time to stand as a candidate – 500 quid and something like 40 supporters. Sure as hell considering it.
It’s all over now – Farage has announced that the Brexit Party will not be standing in the 317 seats held by the Tories.
What a climb down – he’s more or less admitting that the Brexit Party is merely a wing of the Tory Party and that Johnson’s Surrender Treaty is all right after all.
Apparently he has accepted Johnson’s word that he will not extend the transition period beyond 2020 and that he will seek further divergence from EU rules in a post-Brexit trade deal. Yes, that’s right HE HAS ACCEPTED JOHNSON’S WORD!.
And all the other things that were wrong with Johnson’s deal can be put to one side now.
Well, I for one, won’t be voting at all now. I feel totally let down.
Nigel, Nigel, Nigel! What a toe rag. UKIP anyone!!!!
Agree. I had hoped that he had changed since saying “job done” after the referendum and walking away. Clearly he has not. Maybe some o those TBP prospective candidates affected could somehow find the funding to stand as anti-EU independents.
Failing their getting selected is our only way out to be a revolution?
UKIP anyone you cry? Well I for one had enormous admiration for the calm, assured, studied approach of both Gerard Batten and Braine. What was done to them? One might have easily arrived at the opinion that there IS a fifth column acting within this Party whose sole purpose and intent in life Is the de-throning of anyone with competence and political abilities.
But then I am a great believer in the existence of money-assisted political vandals, whose sole purpose and employment is to destroy the few of us who believe we can see the wood for the trees.
You who describe Nigel as a ‘turncoat’ ………..what then are YOU?
If you sincerely believe in leave, stop messing around and bemoaning the strategy of Nigel, just follow your beliefs and vote TBP.
Otherwise – just who are the turncoats?
Was he not the one who spoke up for our beliefs and dreams and aspirations when all the world was against him?
“What cause withholds you then to vote for him? Oh! conscience thou art fled to brutish beasts ,,,,,,,,and men have lost their reason:
Bear with me, for my heart is in the coffin there with Nigel…..and I must pause ’til it come back to me……
I have just been on the phone to the Brexit Party. Freephone 0800 414 8525
They have confirmed that they will not be contesting any seats held by a Conservative.
I asked:- with an arch remainer conservative mp, and three other parties – all pro remain, who on Earth can I vote for?
And this on Armistice Day. If I had have known, I would have sent a white feather to their Party Headquarters.
The Brexit Party, 83 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0HW
Instead I shall content myself by sending 30 five pence pieces.
Hannan is a very nasty piece of work; always has been. As you observe he has recently picked up the Left’s habit of projection; accusing others, especially Nigel, of his and the Tories’ own faults. Also playing the man, which the entire establishment is now doing, rather than trying to counter his facts from the treaty tells you everything.
What’s all this about a ‘transition period’? It was a term that had slipped into our vernacular, but we’ve already HAD a transition period – it lasted two years from when Theresa May sent the letter under Article 50 in March 2017 and ended in March 2019, the original date of withdrawal FOLLOWING THE TRANSITION PERIOD. This, of course, was extended again and again.
Now we find we’re heading for another transition period and this one, according to Barnier, could again be extended again and again ad nauseum (that’s Latin for ‘until we’re sick of it’). The EU have us by the short and curlies – the only answer is a clean and complete Brexit and trade under WTO rules.
Debbie we should repeal article 50 which was added by brussels and tell them as we should have after the referendum we are out the end of the week and with no money been paid as you have informed us that you will not be giving us a penny back of our trillions that we have in assets and billions in the eu bank. The week after we will do all our trade with the eu as they do with most of the world WTO
Yes, Stuart, that’s what we SHOULD do but which of our lily-livered MPs is prepared to do that?
“If you can keep your head whilst all around are losing theirs”
Quite! and
“if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs,
And blaming it on you”
JAKE, CHERRY PICKER……..!
… Boris Johnson has offered an olive branch to Nigel Farage by ruling out extending the Brexit transition period beyond 2020 …
“Boris, old son, according to you you’d be dead in ditch by now, sometime before Christmas as I seem to recall, but you’re not!
Boris: “I was only joking. Surely you can’t take that seriously?”
“So, Boris, you’re a bit of a joker then. Indeed, you might even be a real-life version of THE joker. And yes, you’ve given us good reason not to believe anything you say.”
“As for taking you seriously, yes, we do take you VERY seriously.”
“But not in a good way.”
We have a goon running our country. (British WW2 usage.)
Vote Brexit Party. There’s no other way.
Martin Howe QC, author of the “40 horrors” in May’s deal, recently wrote to claim Boris’ version was now “tolerable” . This was influential with many leavers I know who had gone back to supporting the Tories. What Howe failed to disclose in his recent Telegraph and Spectator articles was that he had applied to stand as a Tory Candidate in Beaconsfield.
He was not selected. His brown nosing was not enough it seems. Instead, local Councillor Joy Morrissey, attendee at a Trump protest and signatory to the petition to ban Trump from visiting the UK, was selected to be the candidate for Beaconsfield. She wants the Calais `refugees’ and their families let in. Morrissey was parachuted into Beaconsfield after she failed to be selected in Putney. Karma of sorts for Howe’s self-interested treachery.
The Tories have not changed under Boris. They are still members of an open borders, remain parliament just with a different snake oil salesman as PM.
My gast is flabbered at this news. First, Farage takes away my Brexit Party candidate and then the Conservatives offer up ‘cold sick’. I’ll have to leave it to others to fight this out and kick out Grieve. I’ve had my fill of politics – I’ve a life to live.
Farage and TBP should not stand down candidates in the GE. They are the only party offering what the LEAVE majority voted for in the Referendum. Amazing isn’t it that all the current parliamentary parties are offering is either, Revoke, Remain, Second Referendum, or at best, BRINO. Looks like Leave has been taken off the table, by our unRepresentatives.
What a cringeworthy sight to see our cowardly and hypocritical politicians at the Cenotaph honouring those who fought and died to defend the sovereignty and independence of this country, whilst at the same time working to give away what they fought for and attempt to keep us subjugated to a Foreign power for ever.
“Farage Feels The Heat”
https://youtu.be/IH7w4Wk-kOM
Fully agree. Farage has everything to play for.
Oops! Apparently not – the sod has just done a runner.
So lets not talk about the ‘oven ready turkey’ far better to put Farage back in his box. The flak gets worse when your over the target. Keep going Nigel the Remain Alliance is rattled!
Too right they are Matt, and the comments columns of many online sources seem to confirm it.
Nigel obviously not reading my posts!