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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
What's Farage threatening to do? Stand for Westminster Parliament? Ironically, it's only the EU that's allowed him to become elected, his attempts at becoming an MP in Westminster have been unsuccessful.
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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.