Nigel Farage to become new leader of Reform party for UK election and will be standing as an MP in Clacton - Reform is the successor to UKIP and the largest party in the polls after Labour and Conservatives

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Richard Tice has announced that Nigel Farage has become the new leader of Reform UK.
He told a press conference in London: “How do we turn on the rocket boosters, the turbo chargers, to this campaign?”
He added: “As people know, I wanted Nigel to be able to give as much energy and effort, commitment to this campaign, as he felt able to do.”
He then said: “I thought well actually, what I really want to do is to invite Nigel Farage to become leader of Reform UK.”

Nigel Farage speaks as leader of Reform UK​

Nigel Farage has told the conference: “Now we put our operations’ notice today other title emergency election announcement. We did that because we think this election needs a bit of gingering up. Thus far, it was the dullest, boring electoral campaign we have ever seen.”
The new leader of Reform UK said: “We know that taxes will stay high. We know that mass immigration will continue regardless of which party wins power.
“We know that people will get poorer. We also know that crime or fear of crime will get worse.”
He added: “We’re doing better than our former partners in the European Union, but we’re massively behind America and many other parts of the world. We’re in social decline and we’re actually in a form of moral decline. We’ve forgotten who we are as a country.

Nigel Farage has announced he will stand as an MP for Reform UK.
He told a conference in London: “Now I stood here, a week ago, and I said look, hands up. I’ve been nonplussed by Rishi calling a short term election, it doesn’t give me the time to find a constituency doesn’t give me the time to build up data.”
“I thought the rational thing to do was not to stand but to do my bit as supporting the country, around the party, and for the last week, that is what I’ve been doing. I’ve been traveling all around the country. I’ve had the honour of appearing with Piers Morgan on Question Time amongst other things.”
He then announced: “I’ve decided I’ve changed my mind. It’s allowed you know. It’s not always a sign of weakness, it could potentially be a sign of strength.”
 
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As he launched his campaign in Clacton, Farage promised to be ‘a bloody nuisance’ – before having a milkshake thrown over him (EPA)
 
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Tims said:
he's one of the few political figures that the average man on the street doesn't actively hate.
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Farage currently polls at 24% favourable/64% unfavourable. That means comes out worst than Starmer (35/53) but better than Rishi (21/81).

In politicians as a whole he's pretty much the same as Corbyn (24/65) and as favourable as Boris Johnson (24/70). He beats Diane Abbot (19/55) only on favourability, but Diane has a lower unfavourable score. Even Mr "part and parcel, you will walk everywhere and like it, now get culturally enriched" (24/56) is less unfavourable than Farage.

There may be some shy tory effect in the polling but he's not some icon who people get together in secret to worship, he's very devisive and not having him would have been better than having him in my opinion.

Don't fall for the "everyone I speak to wants x to win", or you'll be left like the Remain capaign and Corbynites after losing their votes wondering how that happened because everyone they know agrees with them.

Clacton is currently polling 42% Con, 27% Lab, 20% Ref. Going to be uphill to take that, they're the 28th most likely to go Reform in the GE so odd choice for him to insert himself there.

Reform as a whole are polling 2nd in 27 constituencies. All of which require a decent jump to actually turn.

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Moments like this are when the philosophy ‘never hit a woman’ should become null and void with immediate effect.

If Farage had managed to get hold of this shitcunt, and stomped her skull repeatedly until she reached vegetative status, he’d sure as hell get my fucking vote.
 
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Farage currently polls at 24% favourable/64% unfavourable. That means comes out worst than Starmer (35/53) but better than Rishi (21/81).

In politicians as a whole he's pretty much the same as Corbyn (24/65) and as favourable as Boris Johnson (24/70). He beats Diane Abbot (19/55) only on favourability, but Diane has a lower unfavourable score. Even Mr "part and parcel, you will walk everywhere and like it, now get culturally enriched" (24/56) is less unfavourable than Farage.

There may be some shy tory effect in the polling but he's not some icon who people get together in secret to worship, he's very devisive and not having him would have been better than having him in my opinion.

Don't fall for the "everyone I speak to wants x to win", or you'll be left like the Remain capaign and Corbynites after losing their votes wondering how that happened because everyone they know agrees with them.

Clacton is currently polling 42% Con, 27% Lab, 20% Ref. Going to be uphill to take that, they're the 28th most likely to go Reform in the GE so odd choice for him to insert himself there.

Reform as a whole are polling 2nd in 27 constituencies. All of which require a decent jump to actually turn.

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The problem with poll's is that the sort of people who would vote for a Farage "shy tory" as you put it generally despise politics and only really engage with it when a general election is on. Actually gauging their vote is quite difficult.
 
Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer said:
If you want to be altruistic. Then you could simply state that the our ability to give only extends for as much as we can realistically afford to give
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altruism is the only reason you'd do it in the first place. as for what is realistic, that's subjective.
you can realistically live in an hmo with a govt issue phone on some kind of ubi while working below min wage in a freeport, living on root veg and plant based proteins subsidised by brit.gov. some live with considerably less and these are the people trying to get into the country.
whichever migrants you allow in will be in favour of reunification with their families, often extended, and at least a vocal minority will advocate on behalf of other migrants. its more sensible not to bother at all.
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I believe you can give help without completely falling into "never being able to say no".
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whether it helps is unclear imo. if you mean in the broader sense then the populations of their countries are still increasing, there will only be more further down the line and a precedent established for their settlement. if we look at it in individual cases, then the question is why help some but not others? once you have accepted the obligation, then there is no principled place to say 'enough,' not to mention whether it is just at all to help the ones who get here, rather than the least capable and most at risk(cripples, raped women, bloat-bellied niglets).
 
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I wonder who paid her for the stunt and how much - I cannot imagine anyone looking like a run-off-the-mill bimbo ever being politically active. The smirk on her face says quite a lot, too.
 
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Spruce Supremacist said:
I cannot imagine anyone looking like a run-off-the-mill bimbo ever being politically active. The smirk on her face says quite a lot, too.
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Being politically informed is not a prequisite to being politically active unfortunately. So while I wouldn't be surprised if she was paid off, I also wouldn't be surprised if she's not.

A vast majority of people get their political beliefs either from "going with the flow", social media clips, or out of a sense of tribalism (whether it be tribalism for a specific party, or against one).

In a lot of cases, the most opinionated ones that apply black-and-white morality are so uninformed that 5 minutes of discussion and you just go "yeah, you genuinely don't know anything past surface level details". I personally think that's an example of the dunning-kruger effect (they basically don't know enough to know how limited their own knowledge is).
 
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Dr J said:
I'm English, and I have friends who went to Dulwich. It's just a regular private school
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Bong here as well and "private school" is the same thing. In Bongland, "Public school" means one funded by members of the public, as opposed to a state school. Hence "public school boy". If it's fee-paying then in Bong terms it's a Public School.
 
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whether it helps is unclear imo. if you mean in the broader sense then the populations of their countries are still increasing, there will only be more further down the line and a precedent established for their settlement. if we look at it in individual cases, then the question is why help some but not others? once you have accepted the obligation, then there is no principled place to say 'enough,' not to mention whether it is just at all to help the ones who get here, rather than the least capable and most at risk(cripples, raped women, bloat-bellied niglets).
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It is often more effective to help people in their own countries. I don't recall the precise figures but after Libya collapsed, which happened coincidentally around the same time the USA, UK and France bombed the crap out of it, I saw figures showing that for the cost of housing and feeding one Libyan refugee in Italy, you could house and feed around 50 if they just stayed in Libya.

Even as an argument for helping people, immigration often just doesn't make sense.
 
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Overly Serious said:
Bong here as well and "private school" is the same thing. In Bongland, "Public school" means one funded by members of the public, as opposed to a state school. Hence "public school boy". If it's fee-paying then in Bong terms it's a Public School.
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Trust me, as somebody who went to a Private School, 'Private School' and 'Public School' are not the same thing. There are plenty of 'Private Schools' but only a handful of 'Public Schools'

As for Dulwich, like I said, I had friends who went there and I've never heard it referred to as a 'Public School'. Its classification as such is, from what I'm hearing, debatable
clipartfan92 said:
Apparently, she's an Onlyfans thot.
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Yeah but who isn't these days?
Coccxys said:
There may be some shy tory effect in the polling but he's not some icon who people get together in secret to worship, he's very devisive and not having him would have been better than having him in my opinion.
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Based on my personal experience, the kind of people likely to like/support Farage are also unlikely to admit to liking him. Also, favourability is a bit misleading. Those polled might dislike him personally but agree with him on a lot of policy positions
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Clacton is currently polling 42% Con, 27% Lab, 20% Ref. Going to be uphill to take that, they're the 28th most likely to go Reform in the GE so odd choice for him to insert himself there.
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Was this before or after Farage announced?
 
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Dr J said:
Trust me, as somebody who went to a Private School, 'Private School' and 'Public School' are not the same thing. There are plenty of 'Private Schools' but only a handful of 'Public Schools'

As for Dulwich, like I said, I had friends who went there and I've never heard it referred to as a 'Public School'. Its classification as such is, from what I'm hearing, debatable
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Sorry, but I grew up in Bongland and I have never heard the distinction you are making. To me, "Public school" is a private, fee-paying one and the term is an antonym to State school.

EDIT: Wikipedia would appear to somewhat agree with you that there is a distinction and there is apparently a "Public Schhols Act of 1868" though I'm unclear on if that excludes other fee-paying schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)

But it seems that the etymology and origins are Public School vs Private tutors and no clear distinction. Certainly I wasn't aware of one and obviously at least one other Bong poster has never heard it. I think perhaps it's an old distinction that has lost meaning.

EDIT EDIT: Okay, seems you are correct and it does mean a particular and very prestigious subset of private schools: https://stpetersprep.co.uk/news/what-difference-state-public-private-schools/

I guess I'm betraying my lowly origins! I stand corrected.
 
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Public school is the posh one, mainly attended by gays and kids whose parents didn't want to parent.
Any other mention of school, like "what school did you go to" is the state one that all the chavs, dregs and unfortunates get forced to attend.
 
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Public school is the posh one, mainly attended by gays and kids whose parents didn't want to parent.
Any other mention of school, like "what school did you go to" is the state one that all the chavs, dregs and unfortunates get forced to attend.
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There are plenty of private institutions that are in between Eton and, I dunno, George Floyd Comprehensive. There are even some state schools that have actual standards, like St Olave's
 
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