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[Frang]

Funny though how in Britain, the Party proposing a compromise solution between the two sides based on the negotiation of competing interests, and the balancing of different values, is considered the demagogic populist party, whereas the parties offering simple solutions (ie: Bollocks to Brexit) where there is complexity are depicted as the mature and responsible ones.

What steps to negotiate competing interests, or to balance different values, have you taken so far in your approach to Brexit, Bruce?

So far I just see a lot of 'the unquestioned righteousness of its own cause'

'Populism', in practice, is really just a self-serving term used to reinforce the identity politics of a class of people whose actual politics have consistently failed over the past fifteen years or so.

Or course, if we opt for a more precise and meaningful definition - Cas Mudde's, for instance - then we would have to concede that the most careful and sophisticated research demonstrates that the populists are essentially correct.

he copy and pastes lots of google mate trying the sway the balance.

 

[Frang]

now I don't agree with everything Farage says and does, but you have to admit he's right here, when it comes to the biased BBC , fair play to him.

 

[summerisle]

now I don't agree with everything Farage says and does, but you have to admit he's right here, when it comes to the biased BBC , fair play to him.

 

[Frang]

course its been edited... what im getting at is that I like the way he has actually given marr and his producers something to think about

 

[Bruce Wayne]

There are always gullible people who swallow things without doing any kind of research beforehand.

now I don't agree with everything Farage says and does, but you have to admit he's right here, when it comes to the biased BBC , fair play to him.

 

[Frang]

There are always gullible people who swallow things without doing any kind of research beforehand.

about 17.4 million isn't it bruce?

 

[Jebus_lives]

about 17.4 million isn't it bruce?

I think that's the number of appearances Farage has made on the BBC since 2015...

 

[Bruce Wayne]

about 17.4 million isn't it bruce?

There are 34 million working age adults in the UK, so about 17 million are below average intelligence, yes.

 

[Joey66]

I think that's the number of appearances Farage has made on the BBC since 2015...

Lets just see how his new party fare in the Euro elections first.......

 

[Jebus_lives]

Lets just see how his new party fare in the Euro elections first.......

Well with BBC daily advertisement, I'm sure he'll do well.

 

[Joey66]

Well with BBC daily advertisement, I'm sure he'll do well.

I have had one leaflet from the Brexit party.... The LiB dems B@lox to Brexit will go down well = NOT
Lets see what happens hey ho....

 

[Jebus_lives]

I have had one leaflet from the Brexit party.... The LiB dems B@lox to Brexit will go down well = NOT
Lets see what happens hey ho....

His track record trying to get elected as an MP is almost as barren as Liverpool's Premier League challenges

 

[JammyP]

I have had one leaflet from the Brexit party.... The LiB dems B@lox to Brexit will go down well = NOT
Lets see what happens hey ho....

Seems to be going down pretty well - neck and neck with Labour, far ahead of the tories and UKIP (tho Brexit doing better tbf)
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politic...ean-parliament-voting-intention-brex-34-lab-1 :

 

[peteblue]

May has screwed the Tories in a way that no one could ever have imagined. Yet she still sticks with her plan. She is so far removed from normal Tory and Brexit voters that she hasn’t a clue. This could be the end of the Conservative party........

 

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