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Because our system values depth of local support for an individual over breadth of national support for his party. That's just the way it is, and I believe most of the time it works out for the best in our country.

However I do wish people would stop using Farage's failure to win depth of support in one town in the south of England as a spurious argument against his, or his party's, general popularity in the country. Given the millions of votes UKIP gained in 2015, such an argument is preposterous.

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I'm not saying that he's unpopular. I don't think the electoral system is fair to Ukip and I think it should be reformed.
However, in the context of the Daily Express article, I'm asking what Farage intends to do as he is threatening to return to British politics, he's no longer Ukip leader so what are his options bearing in mind his lack of success as an MP in Thanet. Would he do better in another seat?

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this chaps not happy either

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/742...-brexit-racist

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I think this is the first time ever that I can say I agree with him!

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My rule of thumb is to go with the opposite of what he says. :)

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More evidence that 2017 will be a crucial year for Brexit.

Urgent Brexit deal needed to avert banking job losses, peers to warn
Tens of thousands of banking jobs could be lost to continental Europe starting from next year if ministers do not agree a transitional deal with the EU, a Lords report on financial services after Brexit is expected to warn.

Peers on the committee, due to report on Thursday, have been struck by the urgent need for financial institutions make decisions on their location because they cannot wait until 2019 to find out if they can access the single market from London.

The committee has been given a range of estimates of the likely job losses across the financial services sector including a claim from Ernst and Young commissioned by the London Stock Exchange that 200,000 UK jobs are at stake.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-peers-to-warn

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now its the Russians :dunce:

Brexit supporters ridicule claim of Remoaner MP Ben Bradshaw that Russian hackers 'probably' swayed the EU referendum

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John Redwood was on the box today. He said he didn't know why Brexit was going to take so long to 'negotiate', after all, he said, Czechoslovakia split into 2 sovereign states in 1993 without too much hoo-ha.

If 2 Countries were created without procrastination, why will it take so long simply for us to leave a club?

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Because it's a club your not meant to leave and one that's very unhappy with anyone that doesn't share its objectives totally and utterly.

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Indeed. You know, thinking about it I'd say we're being fed a line to stretch it out for as long as is possible.

Here's a plan: commit our 'negotiation plan' to paper just as the remoaners want and invoke A 50 on March 1. On March 2 slap the prepared plan on the desk and tell the EU, that's not our negotiating position, its our requirement.

No buggering around. There's no need for it. We are being hoodwinked.

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Next time we have an election, the result of which is a small majority for one side or the other, I wonder if the remainers will demand that the resulting Govt. should pay heed to what those who didn't vote for them want and change their policies accordingly.

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I'm pretty confident that Gina and the Hairdressers will win X Factor in that year and release a cover of Alice Cooper's 'Elected' as a campaign protest :p:.

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wouldn't that be something -a green party government reopening coal mines and building coal fired power stations just to appease climate change deniers

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they have the xmas single out this year -Bloxit baby one more time - it sold 3 copies to their fans ;)

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Namely, Gina Miller, Deir Dos Santos and Grahame Pigney :p:

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we mustn't judge ;)