UKIP
The Times claims Nigel is about to launch a new party.
Nigel Farage is poised to launch a new party if the anti-Muslim activist Anne Marie Waters becomes Ukip’s new leader this week.
The MEP could create the new movement within days of the result of Ukip’s latest leadership ballot being announced on Friday at the party conference in Torquay.
According to sources, the former Ukip leader has booked a room in Strasbourg for the following Monday when he is expected to announce the formal launch of his new breakaway party.
Almost all Ukip’s 20 MEPs, who have threatened to quit if Waters is victorious, are likely to line up behind him. According to insiders, Waters, 40, who has close links to the far right, looks on course for victory.
The Express has picked up the story.
BREXIT champion Nigel Farage is planning to announce a new political party to oppose Theresa May if an anti-Islam campaigner wins the Ukip leadership this week, it has been reported.
It comes as Mr Farage blasted Theresa May’s Florence speech, claiming the two-year delay was a Tory plot to win the next General Election.
The former Ukip leader, who stepped down following last year’s EU referendum, has reportedly told his friends that he will form a breakaway party if favourite Anne Marie Waters wins the party leadership election.
Mr Farage reportedly warned friends that Ukip would be “finished” if it became anti-Islam.
Earlier Ms Waters had claimed “millions” of Britons agreed with her view that Islam was “evil”.
It is understood the MEP could create the new movement within days of Ukip’s latest leadership contest at the party conference in Torquay on Friday.
According to sources the former Ukip leader has booked a room in Strasbourg for the following Monday when he is expected to announce the formal launch of his new breakaway party.
And one of our MEP has called for the election of a new leader to be scrapped, reports the Express.
A UKIP leadership candidate has echoed calls for the race to be stopped and Nigel Farage to return as leader.
Yorkshire MEP Jane Collins, who is the lead candidate for UKIP United, said the plan to bring back Farage was a “no brainer” in light of Mrs May’s “Brexit Bretrayal”.
Ms Collins said: “What we saw in Florence yesterday was evidence that Mrs May has just wasted the last fifteen months since the historic vote to regain our independence and she is either unwilling or unable to deliver the will of the British people.
“The fall-out from Florence has been immediate with people seeing the Tories will keep us as members of the EU in all but name until the next General Election when they will then ask voters to reelect them to deliver the next stage of this bogus Brexit.”
Brexit
In other Brexit news, UKIP’s own website has slammed the Prime Minister’s speech on Friday.
“After fifteen months of doing nothing she has revealed her desired outcome”, Gerard Batten, the UKIP Brexit spokesman has condemned the Prime Minister’s Florence speech, but issued a call to arms for all those who voted for the UK to regain it’s independence.
“Her intention is for us to leave the EU in name but not in reality.
“Her ‘vision’ is for Britain to be an EU satellite state: such as Poland was to the old Soviet Union. She has made concession after concession and has received nothing in return.
“These include continuing freedom of movement, continuing jurisdiction by European courts over the UK, continuing payment of billions a year to the EU, continuing capitulation to the demands of an EU which does not want a mutually advantageous deal with the UK.
“The idea of a new Treaty on Security and Defence signals that she wishes us to become part of a future EU Army, something that is clearly against the wishes of the British public. Not only that but it is clear from her own position whilst Home Secretary that we will be keeping all the police and criminal justice measures including the invidious European Arrest Warrant.
The Mirror claims the cabinet is considering the possibility of waling away from the talks.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is bracing Britain’s war machine for a no-deal Brexit.
That puts him at odds with Brexit Secretary David Davis , who insists there will be an agreement.
MoD minister Mark Lancaster said: “Given the long lead-in times to implement some of our contingency measures we can’t wait until we see the final outcome to begin our preparations.”
He added the MoD now had to take action to cope with “any eventuality” including one “in which no mutually satisfactory agreement” is reached.
The MoD is in the same position as many UK companies.
It is drawing up plans now that extend beyond Brexit in 2019 and must gear up for talks failing.
It seems the foreign secretary is still making demands, says the Telegraph.
Boris Johnson has demanded a series of Brexit assurances as the fragile Cabinet truce over Theresa May’s transition plan begins to fracture.
The Foreign Secretary wants Britain not to adopt any new EU rules and regulations after it formally leaves in March 2019, the Telegraph has learnt.
He believes it is wrong for rulings from Brussels to apply in the UK during the two-year transition because Britain will no longer be involved in the decision-making process.
The stance goes further than the Prime Minister – who declined to make the promise on Friday – and puts him on a collision course with the Treasury, which wants a “status quo” transition.
And the Guardian also reports the cabinet truce is weakening.
The fragile cabinet truce over Europe was already fracturing on Saturday night as allies of Boris Johnson declared that the foreign secretary had forced the prime minister to alter her crucial Brexit speech.
In claims that infuriated Downing Street, supporters of Johnson were claiming that he had successfully stopped Theresa May backing the so-called “Norway option”, under which Britain would continue to have access to the EU’s single market in return for payment and adherence to its rules and regulations.
They also claimed that he had stopped the prime minister from adopting a far longer transitional period of up to five years, and accused Philip Hammond of attempting to push May into adopting a four-year transition period. Treasury attempts to impose such a measure had been frustrated with Johnson’s help, his supporters claimed.
‘The Mogg’ is leading the fight against Mrs May’s speech, says the Independent.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has led a backlash from Brexit-backing Tory MPs against Theresa May’s plan to slam the brakes on full EU withdrawal, calling it “disappointing”.
The new right wing Conservative champion criticised the proposal for a two-year transition because it would delay the end of free movement and continue to hand billions of pounds to Brussels.
Mr Rees-Mogg also urged the Prime Minister to come clean over whether Britain would remain under the remit of the European Court of Justice – which should be ruled out as a “red line”.
Meanwhile, the former Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith warned the transition was “controversial”, calling for guarantees that ECJ jurisdiction and single market membership would end in 2019.
And Owen Paterson, another former Cabinet minister, protested that the transition period “puts off the time when we can really take advantage of having left”.
His words are quoted by Breitbart.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, normally a stalwart defender of Theresa May, has slammed the prime minister’s Florence speech, drawing a red line over the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) during the two-year ‘implementation’ period, and has demanded that Free Movement ends in 2019.
Brexit campaigner and MP tipped to be the future leader of the Conservative Party Rees-Mogg told the BBC’s Newsnight programme on Friday he had “three concerns” about May’s Brexit speech, notably that there would be “considerable dissatisfaction” in the country “if we are not outside the ECJ’s jurisdiction on the date of leaving”.
In her Florence speech, Mrs. May signed the UK up to a two-year transition period on membership terms until 2021, including ongoing supremacy for the ECJ in judgements and a considerable divorce bill.
The Independent also reports that one of Mrs May’s suggestions is unacceptable to the EU negotiators.
The chief Brexit coordinator for the European Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, has said Theresa May‘s plan for a EU migrant registration scheme is “out of question”.
Mr Verhofstadt, who has frequently criticised the UK’s approach to the Brexit negotiations, praised the Prime Minister for “finally” conceding that the UK will need a transition period after it officially withdraws from the EU in March 2019 but said in order for it to work the UK could not “cherry pick” which parts of EU membership they wanted to keep.
He said this means “a new registration mechanism for EU citizens going to live and/or work in the UK is out of the question”.
His comments followed a speech given by Ms May in Florence, Italy where she fleshed out the UK’s negotiating position on Brexit.
She said the UK would have to agree to a transition deal with the rest of the EU will it hashes out the details of its exit.
Conservative Party
The Tories’ problems are highlighted in the Times.
The fragility of Theresa May’s grip on power was laid bare last night as it was revealed that four of her senior ministers had made plans to replace her after the general election.
With the prime minister already presiding over growing cabinet divisions after her big speech on Brexit, she faces a fresh blow today with the news that Boris Johnson, Philip Hammond, David Davis and Amber Rudd were embroiled in leadership plots after she surrendered the Tory majority.
In a move that could have brought down May, the chancellor texted the foreign secretary at about four o’clock in the morning after the election signalling that he was prepared to back Johnson if he ran for the leadership.
The Sun claims there were plans for a coup following the last General Election.
FOUR senior ministers were embroiled in plots to topple Theresa May following her election shambles, a book claims.
Boris Johnson, Philip Hammond, David Davis and Amber Rudd drew up plans to replace the PM hours after her majority was slashed, it says.
Chancellor Mr Hammond texted BoJo on election morning, signalling he would back him in a leadership bid.
He said Mr Davis “could run Brexit, he could run the economy and Boris could run the shop”.
Plotting continued even after ministers told the PM they’d back her, says Tim Shipman’s book, Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem.
And the Independent quotes a former Tory grandee.
Theresa May is too weak to take the “right decision” of sacking Boris Johnson for his Brexit disloyalty, Lord Heseltine has said.
The Prime Minister’s failure to fire the Foreign Secretary showed that she is leading a government “in office but not in power”, the former Conservative cabinet minister added.
Lord Heseltine also predicted the May Government would fall long before 2022, triggering another early general election dominated by the EU controversy.
The peer spoke out after Ms May stepped back from dismissing her Leave-backing Foreign Secretary, despite his personal 4,200-word “vision for Brexit” – seen by most as a blatant leadership bid.
Mr Johnson suggested Britain should not pay into EU coffers during a transition phase, just days before the Prime Minister’s Florence speech in which she made that very concession.
Labour Party
With Labour’s conference about to start, the Times reports a radical suggestion.
Labour has offered to join forces with the government to slash university tuition fees, interest rates on loans and student debts.
In an interview with The Sunday Times before Labour’s annual conference, John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, vows to back any “significant step” that cuts fees and raises the £21,000 salary threshold at which graduates start repaying their loans.
Labour pledged in the general election manifesto to abolish tuition fees. But in a move that piles pressure on the chancellor, Philip Hammond, to act in the budget this November, McDonnell made it clear that Labour would vote with the Tories for a halfway house that offered some hope to students.
But the Express claims the party leadership is in disarray over Brexit.
THE Tories have accused Jeremy Corbyn of hiding his true Eurosceptic feelings as thousands of Remainers gather for Labour’s annual conference in Brighton this week.
They say Mr Corbyn has performed an “astonishing EU-turn” to become an advocate of the bloc.
Labour is split over its attitude to Brexit, with some pro-EU members accusing the Labour leader of selling out by accepting Brexit.
The Tories accused the veteran socialist, who campaigned for a Remain vote, of “flip flopping in his internal battle to keep his true Brexit-backing self under wraps”.
Sky News claims a rebellion is on the cards.
Labour’s conference opens in Brighton with Jeremy Corbyn attempting to turn up the heat on the Tories but facing a Brexit rebellion from pro-Remain Labour MPs.
The Labour leader and his closest ally John McDonnell are throwing down a challenge to the Government on tuition fees, offering to back the Tories if they cut them in the Budget.
But while Mr Corbyn accuses the Government of “floundering” on Brexit, he is being urged by Labour rebels to back the UK staying in the single market and the customs union.
Labour’s offer to join forces with the Government to cut university tuition fees, pledging to vote with the Tories to reduce course charges, interest rates and debts comes in an interview with Mr McDonnell in The Sunday Times.
BBC News says the party will plump for a ‘soft Brexit’.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is being pressed to commit to remaining in the European single market and customs union after the UK leaves the EU.
More than 40 senior Labour figures, including 30 MPs, have signed an open letter published in the Observer.
They say the party must offer a clear alternative to the Conservatives’ “destructive Brexit”.
The first full day of the Labour party conference will begin in Brighton later.
Although Labour did not win the general election, Mr Corbyn will tell delegates to the party’s biggest-ever conference that they have set the political agenda after making gains in it.
He will unveil, or reiterate, policies that will have wide approval across his party, from recruiting more police officers to lifting the public sector pay cap and alleviating student debt.
ITV News has the same story.
Jeremy Corbyn is facing renewed calls to commit Labour to keeping the UK in the EU single market and customs union after Brexit, ahead of the annual conference in Brighton.
Thirty senior figures, including a close Corbyn ally, have written an open letter to the party leader saying the party needs to go further to protect jobs and workers’ rights after the UK leaves the EU.
The signatories to the letter published in The Observer include former shadow cabinet members Chuka Umunna and Heidi Alexander, as well as one of Mr Corbyn’s closest allies in his early days as leader, Clive Lewis.
The letter, which was also signed by the TSSA union’s general secretary, Manuel Cortes, former Northern Ireland secretary Lord Hain and Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson, said Labour needed to present an alternative to the Tories’ “destructive Brexit”.
NHS
Elsewhere in the media, the Times reports a hike in numbers waiting in A&E.
The number of patients left waiting in A&E for more than 12 hours during the coldest months has increased by more than 10,000% in five years, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has warned.
Between January and March this year, the number of patients forced to wait in A&E for more than 12 hours before being admitted to a ward was 1,597.
During the same period in 2012 the number was 15, which means that the number has jumped by 10,546% in only five years.
The figures emerge as A&E doctors warn that the NHS has “consistently failed to do enough” to reduce overcrowding in casualty units and that “conditions will be even more difficult this winter”.
The Koudon-Hove-Kalergi plan is in full blossom.
In all Western Europe and they are trying very hard to bully Eastern Europe too.
Leaders are chosen on their willingness to destroy European culture and people.
The EU communists give out a prize every year to the leader who best has furthered this agenda.
Passed winners Blair,Merkel,Van Rumpy,and of course this pope.
This is a diabolical agenda, which everyone can see is being carried out. Our wishes are trampled on sneered at and viciously attacked by politician’s and media whores. European nations of the future will be of coffee-coloured people,similar in appearance to the ancient Egyptians.Ruled over by a one world government(NWO),border less nations. The left is communism, we live in a DE-facto-communist state,where no dissenters are allowed.
German election report at about 2 hours after voting ended:
CDU/CSU — 32.9 percent <— sort of conservative DOWN 9%
SPD — 20.8 percent <—socialists DOWN 5%
AfD — 13.1 percent <—anti Islam UP 3%
FDP — 10.5 percent <—sort of libertarian UP 5%
In Germany anti-Islam seems to be more popular than libertarian. The anti Islam party now 3rd biggest vote – and the "Nazis Out" chants have already begun in street demonstrations.
The main parties had said they would never ally with AfD.
in politics, the succession is natural thing.
it was Farage, UKIP and Brexit in the past, – OK, we got it.
if then it will be AMW leading new West-oriented party with essential agenda of de-Islamization, – that will be very desired change.
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The AfD are demonstrating what a massive vote winner a strong stance against Islam has become. Exit polls have the AfD currently over 13% of the vote and 3rd largest party after Merkel’s union. In the old East-German lander, they have the 2nd largest vote and are 1st among only male voters.
Merkel’s union is well down and Schultz’s SPD has been hammered. A brilliant performance by the AfD who will enter the German Parliament for the first time.
selebrate with caution – this is “Putin versteher” party.
threats to free world aren’t only from jihadism.
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errr, weren’t UKIP on 14% in the GE15?
Sadly, it did us no good because of First past the Post. Whatever its drawbacks, we must adopt Proportional Representation in the UK and allow ALL voters to have some representation.
Should anyone be interested, this is the interview Nigel Farage presented today with Beatrix von Storch of the German AfD. Islam is discussed. The German election is today and polls close at 5pm BST. Results will follow quite quickly (perhaps they use an electronic system?).
https://youtu.be/iXiF8Zg7LJo
Nigel Farage on LBC this morning has stated very clearly, that contrary to various MSM claims, he will not be returning to lead UKIP, will not be forming a splinter party if AMW is elected and he has not given his backing to any particular candidate. Once again this exposes the MSM as the purveyors of propaganda…
He also said that UKIP as a party will fail, if the party makes a shift to the far-right. He didn’t say as much, but I think Nigel believes that being anti-Islam (ie. anti an aggressive fascist, racist ideology) is the same as being on the far-right. Ho Hmmmm…
Nigel then did a live interview with an AfD (Germany) spokesperson and has raised the question of Islam. The spokesperson responded with pretty much exactly what AMW would have said. Once again, Ho Hmmmm…
It is all a bit puzzling. I cannot see why criticising Islam should be labeled “far right”. It should not even be a left vs right issue, every civilised person should oppose it, irrespective of their other views on the economy, social care, housing, etc.
Where are all the feminist? Why are they not protesting outside mosques about the institutional misogyny within Islam rather than complaining about a comment by Trump?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0A9T8bS-vg
Labour is becoming increasingly reliant on the Muslim vote. It will destroy their party – the internal contradictions cannot be resolved, ever. It is a huge opportunity for UKIP, but only if it does not repeat the mistake of the “special” appeasement leaflet in Stoke.
Postmodernist-Marixsm is why feminists rarely tackle Islam (plus fear, of course).
Dark skinned persons & minority in our society persons are automatically classified as persecuted and therefore cannot be criticised.
There being no such thing as better or worse when dealing with societies, beliefs or arguments, feminists have nothing to criticise.
This is standard postmodernist-Marxist ideology. (Also known as brainwashing)
Leaf, I absolutely agree, ho double hmmm is what I say! I’m afraid that Nigel has succumbed to the ‘facing both way’ syndrome so beloved of everyone who has a media presence. Not quite the ostrich syndrome, but the unwilling to grasp the nettle and tell the truth syndrome.
We can be quite sure that one candidate for UKIP Leader will always tell the truth.
It is Arron Banks who caused all this with his tweet about halting the UKIP Leadership election so that Nigel could come back. Arron is not stupid. He knew what a media storm,this would cause. He did so intentionally, make no mistake.
Gerard Batten has tweeted that while he doesn’t support AMW for Leader, if she is elected he will stay with UKIP – he is aware that members put him where he is, and any MEP who leaves should resign their seat. He is a rare UKIP star.
Gerard is a star indeed.
Hugo,
Gerard is one of the best in UKIP, a pity he never stood for leader, he would have walked it IMO.
He did stand for leader in 2010 against Pearson…..
I’ll think you’ll find that Gerard was years ahead of AMW on this issue!
NF is clearly out of touch with what is happening to our country if he will not oppose its islamification.
I appreciate what he did to get us the referendum but cannot support him except perhaps on a temporary basis to confront May.
I don’t think you can call the Daily Express the MSM particularly as the owner has been one of the biggest UKIP donors and provided a huge amount of free publicity and column space over last 5 years or so.
So, if UKIP do not elect a candidate who Farage approves of then HE will try to destroy the party,very Democratic? He and Banks have been mooting this other party for months,they are using events to justify their actions I did not think he would sink this low. He has ruled out all the front runners he should have waited.
Farage is not out to destroy the party; the party has had its chance and has been in the process of destroying itself. Farage’s assessment is right and if UKIP had any sense it would have been focusing on the issue of being “the guard dog of Brexit” – it is failing in this objective. The future of democracy at large is at stake if the “establishment” is allowed to overturn the Referendum result. I will be backing Farage; he has a track record, is charismatic and he understands the importance of getting the UK out of the EU.
Is that independent Cllr Len Laws? Someone who does not stand up for the UK and UKIP? Let me be as polite as I can, but what has it got to do with you? I know there was a great falling out in Lincolnshire, but it should have been kept within the Party and not allowed to blow up into a PR disaster.
Farage has stated that if Miss Waters wins then UKIP will die. Are you suggesting that he does not have the right to try to rescue something from the wreck?
JF
(However, kudos for actually putting your name to your opinion — too many are scared to do that.)
Julian – Nigel Farage is entitled to an opinion, but not to state something that he cannot know as fact.
A democrat would wait and see what any outcome is, and how the new Leader performs.
Nigel Farage is the man who said Theresa May would deliver, Jeremy Corbin would deliver, and further back that Paul Nuttall would grow into a great UKIP Leader. He hasn’t much of a track record with predictions, has he?
So let me be as polite as I can, and say that Nigel only discovered he was wrong about Mrs. May on Friday, when many of us could see it from the beginning. He is a hopeless judge of character – if he had wanted to oppose Anne Marie he could and should have done it democratically by standing against her. Instead he chose to do damage to her and UKIP by briefing against her, with the willing assistance of other sycophants in UKIP who are happy to take a salary that members bequeathed to them by their hard work and dedication. Those same members now cannot be allowed to make up their own minds – he feels it necessary to make his mind up on their behalf.
Neither Nigel nor Arron own the members, even if they both have more money than we do.
So even if this latest debacle is down to his side-kick Banks – he hasn’t been backward in cementing a particular image of Anne Marie in,the minds of the members, MSM and the public. That’s Party Loyalty? Not in my book!
I do not recognise your narrative, nor your attribution of blame. One thing Nigel Farage understands better than almost anyone is the partial political agenda pursued by the media, their methods, and how they would rip UKIP to shreds should we elect Miss Waters. Loyalty does not have to be blind, quite the opposite. A major danger to the continuous existence of the most successful new political party in 100 years must not be ignored just because some members wish to take us in a totally new direction.
I’m curious to know what will happen if Miss Waters fails in her takeover. Will her followers march away?
The ‘Farage will form a new party/won’t’ looks like someone is playing politics. That may be a good or bad thing depending on who wins, who does well and who walks.
JF
Exactly.
Well Julian, explain this. If Nigel had even faint doubts about Mrs. May’s ability to deliver Brexit, why did he not stand for the Leadership? Indeed, I believe many people asked him to – and it would have been pretty much of a walk-over.
But suddenly we get a mass assault, not just on one candidate but on her supporters, all over the mainstream press. Which will mean that should Anne Marie win, those like Gerard Batten as well as us members, are already helpfully tarred with the brush of neo-Nazi and alt-right. Incidentally has any of those people concentrated on calling out the real Nazis – those who close down free speech with violence and get away with it scot-free? Did you know that Hope not Hate photograph and identify people who go on anti-terrorism Marches and subject their employers to email campaigns so that they lose their jobs? And yet we are called the Nazis – by those supposed to be on our side! It beggars belief.
I don’t want UKIP to go in a totally different direction! UKIP was born to call out the threat to Britain, to be the Party of Britain for Britain. The EU is only part of the threat to Britain, there is another threat which must be faced down, and which I believe is as great a threat to our children and grandchildren. That most people are afraid to name it and face it has been deliberately orchestrated, but the longer it is left, the harder it will be to do so.
For the next few years we are stuck with Tories – or God forbid Labour arranging a Brexit to suit themselves, whether Nigel is UKIP Leader or not, meanwhile, the failed multi-cultural experiment gathers pace. How long has it taken London? And which City will be next?
Leaving the EU won’t save us – waking people up and giving those that have woken a Party to vote for just might. But all of those in UKIP who have behaved so disgracefully haven’t helped that happen, not in the slightest.
I an an independent councillor in Shepway Kent I Left UKIP because of the abuses of the branch–two meetings in twelve months –ignored the regional officers yes I am He. If Ukip weeds out the carpet baggers I would return I am UKIP minded and who is elected is my business. You have obviously listened to the HB supporters who high-jacked Ukip Folkestone
Sorry, misread the internet. I was thinking of the big Lincolnshire bust-up.
JF
Muslims are the victims of brainwashing by the anti-human death cult called Islam.
Even Times journalists appear to misunderstand this point. Whether that misunderstanding is deliberate or not is not clear.
I gave up counting the number of occasions that a remainer accused me of being anti-Europe. Just not true. I am not anti-Europe, I am anti-EU. I very much enjoy visiting Europe. The same deceit accuses critics of Islam of being anti-Muslim. We should be helping Muslims to cast off the brainwashing. We would be doing them a huge favour.
What do you mean “even Times journalists”? With two or three honourable exceptions, they don’t try to understand; they have a Blairite Remoaner agenda to push. Reptiles through and through.
The Times used to be reliable. Unfortunately no longer so.
As McLoughlin & Robinson say in their book, ‘Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill For Islam’, in an exploration of 20th C Western shutdown on information that would expose previously well known and well documented facts,
“It cannot be an accident that even The Times, a newspaper with one of the greatest reputations for quality journalism in the world, makes not one attempt in twenty years to seriously discuss the key ideological division the religion of war has toward Western civilisation.”
This newspaper did not print one review of a book by an ex Muslim.
That is how the masses have been kept in the dark by the elite. No one is going to feed you information from the mainstream anything.
It is incumbent upon all to wake up and smell the coffee!
Bear in mind too that many are of very low intelligence so, even if they could be weaned off Islam, they will not be able to make any useful contribution especially as low grade manual work is automated.
There is a huge opportunity to take Labour seats, given the direction of travel of Labour:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/858049/eu-brexit-european-union-jeremy-corbyn-labour-conference-millennials-tony-benn
Jane Collins’ position is ridiculous. What is the point of having the leadership contest, if she would just step aside for someone who was not even on the ballot? It is anti-democratic Lib Dem mentality.
If Nigel wishes to form a new party with a handful of MEPs, then so be it. Some MEPs have been inaudible since the referendum so it is no great loss. I can understand that he does not want the hassle of opposing Islam, so if he wants to focus purely on the EU that is still a really helpful thing to do. But don’t get in the way of those who do want to tackle it (AMW, HB, JRE, DK, possibly PW too, but I never did get to the bottom of the pro-Halal leaflet, he must have at the least known about it.)
I too wonder what his game is. I’ve never heard his reason for avoiding AMW’s specialist subject. I’ve never heard him expose the roots of the EU and the treachery of people that support it. And it’s not as if he hasn’t had his chances.
Sometimes wonder if opening the electorate’s eyes would generate enough anger to bring the uk political establishment down. I fancy AMW might do that rather better than Nigel, certainly in the labour ranks.
I have a huge respect for Nigel and his dedication to getting us out of the EU. I will always be grateful for this.
I can understand the need to focus. I was not at all happy with him making the policy U turn on non-stun religious abattoirs in April 2015. However the first task was to get the referendum, and win it. I put my efforts into that, with leafleting every weekend for months, and also helping with street stalls etc.
I kept largely quiet about Islam until after Article 50 was triggered. Now we cannot be quiet any longer regarding Islam and its evil treatment of people and animals.