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    23 minutes ago

    The world would be a better place if Nigel Farage would fuck off back to swindling investors out of their money instead of swindling the entire British nation out of its humanity and democracy. Lying git.

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    This guy just supports any notion that can destabilise the EU and weaken the west. If he’s not a russian plant, he’s fucking excellent at hiding it.

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    Nigel Farage be like:

    “Русске есть, my fellow comrades? I mean fellow British people!”

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      It doesn’t help that Labour seem determined to fuck things up. They have such a big majority that they could do so much to actually speak to the problems that regular people are experiencing that drives people to vote Reform.

      I live in a pretty shitty area that has a high proportion of Reform voters. Our MP is Labour, but on the track we’re on, we might have a Reform MP next time. Some of the Reform voters round here are racist arseholes, but most of them just feel so demoralised and unrepresented by the mainstream political parties that they are desperate for something — anything different.

      Some of them actively acknowledge that if Reform won enough seats that Farage became MP, that they would almost certainly fuck up the country significantly, but they don’t care anymore. They’re so desperate for change that the idea of burning the established order down feels appealing, because even if things will get very shit, very fast, that feels like the only path where there’s the possibility of hope for something good springing from the ashes.

      It’s simultaneously an irrational and entirely reasonable thing to crave. I can’t say I don’t sympathise.

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      Because there is no independent press in the UK. His masters will just amplify his message in one of the news outlets they own when it suits them.

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        The BBC gave him more air time on Question Time than any other politician by a huge, huge factor, and this was when he’d failed seven or so times to get elected as an MP.

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      He gets in the news constantly by issuing the most reactionary takes. He’s got tons of friends in the corporate sector, because he knows exactly which assholes to lick. And his opposition is physically incapable of turning left, so he can periodically outflank Starmer on real bread-and-butter issues by saying “I’ll expand the NHS! I’ll be tough on the Bad Businesses! I’ll fight for the working class [white people]!” while Labour just stutters and tuts and replies “That wouldn’t be sensible.”

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    N**el Farage is responsible for Brexit. UK would be better place if he withdrew from politics.

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      Farage is responsible? I heard it was a national referendum and the vast majority of votes were for Brexit. British are as bad as “I have no idea who voted Trump” Americans.

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        the vast majority of votes were for Brexit

        It was 52% to 48 on low turnout. Real fucking landslide. And much of the funding came from Arron Banks, who went to Russia as a young man and came back with a fortune, the origin of which he has never convincingly explained.

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        Where would the blame lie? The idiots who believed the lies or the cunt with the megaphone spreading them?

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        British are as bad as “I have no idea who voted Trump” Americans.

        Hard truths. New Labour only ever knows how to run to the right of the opposition and the old Conservatives can’t campaign their way out of a paper bag. So it’s Reform UK in the next election, strictly due to liberal incompetence.

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        vast majority of votes

        Pfffttt… 51.8% and as if it wasnt a bunch of old assholes who saw a bus and didnt think it would impact their holiday to complain about not being able to retire to Spain immediately after.

        We don’t all have to talk like we know everything all the time.