Not as cute as when people who didn't have things go their way start suggesting that the people who didn't bother to vote actually agreed with them.
The next UKIP leader thread
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Not as cute as when people who didn't have things go their way start suggesting that the people who didn't bother to vote actually agreed with them.
I have. Pretty much the only viable option left after Paul Nuttal and Stephen Wolfe weren't in the running.
I think she's a much more even handed then the rest and could prove to be a modernising force within the party
I'm quite frankly sick of the whiners who can't accept the result. We don't re-run general elections if we don't get the answer you're looking for
You don't seem to have understood what I was actually saying. Well done.
Having the lowest voting attendence of any EU member?
Turning up to claim his expenses everyday but then not attending parliament?
ANy UK MP with his record would be quite rightly lambasted.
It is still way closer to the truth than the 34% comment above that i replied to, how come you didn't correct that poster, Jas72 above?
Also i think most people who read it knew what i meant.
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It's a pity you came back from whatever exile was imposed/self-imposed on you.
Firstly, who's actually whining? The only really annoying thing after the vote is that people clearly haven't yet got a clue how to sort this mess out. Other than that? Lets get on with it. But to say people can't want to work to change the result? Undemocratic in the extreme.
Secondly - people get to revote in the next general elections, so the party that lied through their teeth and didnt stick to the manifesto can get voted out. The same does not go for the leave campaign that lied through its teeth and won the vote. So trying to use a GE as an analogy to a referendum is pretty pointless.
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Or the small number of racist bigots who think that a very slim majority vote means that they now have a legitimised platform for their views?
I thought the facts, actual facts and not merely what the so-called experts think, haven't shown any statistical increase in racist incidents post-Brexit? Facts like the number of actual prosecutions for hate crimes for example.
Actually, we do - every 4-5 years.
Which is not actually that far off a timeframe for a second referendum, after a leave deal has actually been negotiated, but before signing it off.
They're both true.
34% of voters voted to Leave, against 31% or so who voted to stay, the rest didn't vote, and so 52% of people who voted voted to leave. I described it as an "annoyingly subtle" distinction because it's irritating language and because votes are decided by those who bother to turn up.
I know that "so-called" experts aren't fashionable because they get in the way of your rhetoric, but there's a reasonable amount of news about to say that there has been an increase.
I'm sorry I can't find you a Breitbart link to swallow blindly.
I'm sure we've been over this and it was reported crimes rather than actual proven crimes.
Ok but does the amount of reported crimes really mean anything?
By this logic nobody should be saying that the increase in reported crimes is clearly because of the referendum result, or that people who campaigned and voted for remain are responsible either.
*wades into thread just before things get interesting
*prepares to scatter a few trigger sentences
Anyone lost their job as a result of Brexit result yet? Nigel Farage has... Surely some of you are happy with that?
First remainers were like:
Now they are like:
*prepares to scatter a few trigger sentences
Anyone lost their job as a result of Brexit result yet? Nigel Farage has... Surely some of you are happy with that?
First remainers were like:
Now they are like:
Controversial MEP Diane 'Gravy Train' James has seized control of UKIP in a bloodless coup that left the party paralysed by internal divisions.
In scenes reminiscent of Stalin's purge, her first act as leader was to remove Neil Hamilton from the conference speaking list and reduce the amount of time allotted to Douglas Carswell.
In scenes reminiscent of Stalin's purge, her first act as leader was to remove Neil Hamilton from the conference speaking list and reduce the amount of time allotted to Douglas Carswell.