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Nigel Farage to stand for election as leader of right-wing party in direct competition with Tories

The former member of the Conservative Party has taken over as leader of the right-wing Eurosceptic Reform UK party.

UK POLITICIAN NIGEL Farage has announced he will stand as a candidate in the country’s general election as the leader of the Reform UK party.

Posing a fresh threat to the Tories, the former member of the Conservative Party has taken over as leader of the right-wing Eurosceptic Reform UK party, formerly known as the Brexit Party.

Farage said he will stand as the Reform UK parliamentary candidate for Clacton, Essex, in the general election.

Announcing his candidacy, he said he had been left too little time to prepare when Rishi Sunak called a surprise election and had decided the “rational thing to do” was to “do my bit as I put it supporting the country around the party”.

He said that since then he had been talking to people on the streets and observed that “there is a rejection of the political class going on in this country in a way that has not been seen in modern times”.

Farage said he expects the Tories will be in opposition after the election.

He told a press conference: “They are split down the middle on policy, and frankly right now they don’t stand for a damn thing.

“So our aim in this election is to get many, many millions of votes. And I’m talking far more votes than Ukip can got back in 2015.”

He continued: “When people start to realise in the red wall, with Reform second to Labour, when they start to realise that actually in those seats, it’s a Conservative vote that’s a vote for Labour, it’s a Conservative vote that is a wasted vote, then I think we might just surprise everybody.”

He added: “We are appealing to Conservative voters, we are appealing to Labour voters.”

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    Mute Miley Byrne
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    Jun 3rd 2024, 4:56 PM

    I predict they will do well. The Conservatives have not tackled the immigration issue and Labour won’t either.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:02 PM

    @Miley Byrne: Not everyone is as obsessed with immigration as you are.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:08 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: The Brits are though. It’s how Brexit passed

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:11 PM

    @Shaun Gallagher: It wouldn’t pass today.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:26 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: It’s the number one issue in the country Einstein, along with housing which is the same issue in reality.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:32 PM

    @Miley Byrne: which country?

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:32 PM

    @Miley Byrne: “The cost of living tops the list, with 45% of Britons saying it is one of the most important issues in deciding their vote. Health comes in a distant second, on 34%, followed closely by ‘the economy in general’ on 32%, and then immigration in fourth on 26%.”

    https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49594-general-election-2024-what-are-the-most-important-issues-for-voters

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:37 PM

    @Miley Byrne:

    Will he promise to stop the boats too.
    It will be interesting to see if he will put his money where his mouth is.
    Can’t see it happening.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:53 PM

    @Miley Byrne: More likely not one elected and most lose the deposits.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:30 PM

    @Miley Byrne: it’s the no.1 issue as long as the media keep it the no.1 issue. Start reporting about measles being on the increase in the same way and the masses will become obsessed with that.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:40 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: I wouldn’t be one bit surprised if it passed again.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:50 PM

    @brian madden: I’ll give you a clue…you’re from there!

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:55 PM

    @Miley Byrne: seven attempts. Never won a seat. Polls suggest Reform won’t win a single seat.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 8:08 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: Just 2040 people took the poll. UK has a population of 67 million….. Can’t come to any conclusions from it really!

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 8:47 PM

    @Miley Byrne: no, not in the UK with its first past the post voting system.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 11:07 PM

    @Miley Byrne: Mainly because there is no issue to tackle. The migration “issue” is a daily mail concoction mainly designed to keep those in poverty angry at somebody other than the rich ruling classes, whilst they continue to get poorer. Economies grow during periods of high net migration and shrink when during periods of high emigration, so the best case scenario for Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, Conrad Black and Rupert Murdock is to ensure the masses are angry at migrants whilst simultaneously nothing is done to stop them arriving… because to do so would create a much bigger problem.

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    Jun 4th 2024, 12:19 AM

    Nigel is an absolute legend

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    Jun 4th 2024, 5:01 AM

    @Shaun Gallagher: I don’t think they are as much as the used to be.

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    Jun 5th 2024, 12:56 AM

    @John D Doe: an absolute legend who has never won a seat in an election before!

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 4:54 PM

    Ireland needs Political Reform

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 4:58 PM

    It appears the electorate disagrees. FG are topping opinion polls in all 3 eu constituencies. FFG are on 39% in the recent opinion poll. Where is the mass anger?

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 4:58 PM

    @David Murray: Which would consist of …?

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:04 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: You, George W. Bush and Dan Quayle– in a stupid contest who’d win

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:52 PM

    @David Murray: not that sort. Ireland does not need fascism again, there was enough in the 1930s.

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    @9QRixo8H: We’ve never really done mass anger hence ffg in power in some form or other since the foundation of our state.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:25 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: I mean this reply in a friendly way. Avoid using open ended questions with accounts like that. Even if they respond, they’ll just use it to further mis-frame the discussion, troll, or indulge in miscellaneous dis-information. They thrive on just waring down anyone’s stamina in dealing the them and then they’ll declare their trail of spewed wordage has won the day.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 8:00 PM

    @Numinous20111: Little bit of advice & you can take it anyway you want to. People are entitled to their opinions without being lectured too on how they express their opinions by a sanctimonious, patronising person like you. So afraid to question or challenge the status quo that any opinion other than your own and you get scared! Keep running with the crowd boy!

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 8:36 PM

    @David Murray: because it’s worked so well for the British and the Americans…. NOT…!!!

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 9:38 PM

    @David Murray: typical responce.straight to insults instead of any real insight.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 10:58 PM

    @damien leen:lol. Where is jeremy Beadle? You are one of the most agressive posters on here. Now lecturing others on respecting differing opinions. Some man.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 11:09 PM

    @David Murray: The irony of accidental irony

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 11:59 PM

    @David Murray: which means and how? A fascist dictatorship because the extreme right wing parties aren’t featuring in the polls?

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    Jun 4th 2024, 11:53 PM

    @9QRixo8H: fine Gael are topping nothing more lies and brain washing

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:31 PM

    Good luck nigel

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 6:08 PM

    @Sean Money:
    After 7 failed runs at election to Westminster on the trot id say he needs it.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 8:49 PM

    @Sean Money: clown.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 8:49 PM

    @Sean Money: Username checks out.

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    @James T.Kirk: what are these checks?

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    Jun 4th 2024, 11:55 PM

    @Ian: name calling very clever

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 4:55 PM

    Comments opened on this but not on the new Mexican leader!

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 4:58 PM

    @Clare Power: I’d say the crowds are rioting at Journal towers because the comments on a new Mexican leader are closed.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 6:04 PM

    @honey badger: just my observation as to why comments opened/closed on certain articles!

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:31 PM

    Poisonous yoke Mr Farage.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:13 PM

    Up the Ra!

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    Jun 4th 2024, 8:55 AM

    @Setanta O’Toole: why? Need some more defenceless civilians killed? Skumbag

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 6:49 PM

    Ranting, that’s all he does. Getting results? Never.
    He didn’t even take responsibility for the failed Brexit he pushed.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:31 PM

    Complete Tory wipe out coming. And it will be glorious

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:06 PM

    @FoxyBoiiYT: sunak has really fecked them up.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 4:56 PM

    The Right eating the Right, splitting the vote. Handed to Labour.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 10:55 PM

    @9QRixo8H: if he got it he’d probably only flounce off into the sunset like he did with brexit, the spineless big girls blouse he is.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:26 PM

    The ego has landed

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:03 PM

    He’s still not getting his Coutts account back.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:07 PM

    The snake oil salesman is back. Immigration as was easily predictable only got worse post his disastrous Brexit. But he’s back for more. Just a charlatan.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 4:57 PM

    I’d say that he’s probably a Russian mole!

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:13 PM

    Clacton, the home of the little Englander, pie and mash, jellied ells and kiss me quick hats.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 9:35 PM

    @Leonard Barry:
    And the only constituency ever to elect a UKIP MP in a general election. (2015, 2 sitting Tory MPs had switched to UKIP prior to the election but 1 lost his seat in the general election.)

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:40 PM

    Empty vessels make most noise a guy who milks publicity but will again fail to be elected.

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    Jun 4th 2024, 5:37 AM

    Let him at it. The UK has really gone down the pitts in recent years. The result of a combination of factors all stemming from the tories EU scepticism. Remember the turmoil they caused John Major. Then years in the wilderness. Then Cameron and his referendum pledge.

    Labour will likely win the election. Conservatives are finished for the foreseeable future. Reform and EU scepticism has seen to that.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 9:42 PM

    To think this effer will be in the Commons and given another platform…
    He only ever got in as an MEP as the vote was proportional representation. He’ll get in on first past the post now.
    Doesn’t matter about being in opposition, his candidacy is all about generating sounds bites and clips for social media from the Commons and for comments on YouTube and Gammon News.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 10:12 PM

    @Ronan Mc: Farage’s big mouth could eat turnips without chopping them up.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 7:48 PM

    He will do well. There is an abundance of gullible people.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 8:50 PM

    Anyone voting for that eejit and his side kicks deserves all the bullcrap that comes with them.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 9:55 PM

    @Ian: poorly educated people love him, same as Trump

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    Jun 4th 2024, 8:29 AM

    @Mad Worldman: Also I think he picks up a protest vote. People sick of the same bull from the main parties. Won’t be enough to get him elected (imo) but not just about poorly educated people.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:25 PM

    The word compassion is used here as a response, and I have no compassion whatsoever for people who choose to believe the Earth’s equatorial velocity is 1674.4 km/hr for a circumference of 40,075 km.

    https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/shadow-speed-and-earths-rotation

    It comes down to the fact that the Earth is both round and a sphere, and it turns once every 24 hours and a thousand times in a thousand 24-hour days.

    For all the fuss of climate change modelling, all scientific method modelling represents a misadventure with timekeeping and nobody, and I mean nobody, bothers to ask how the correct facts are established.

    The inability to answer the flat/round commenters (pizza earthers) in the other thread requires me to complete the response here.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:46 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: so how are the correct facts established Gerald? (See, you can’t say nobody bothers to ask)

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 5:48 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: It must be your full moon time!!

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 6:03 PM

    @Ollie Fitzpatrick:

    Isaac Newton, like a Brexiteer politician, was a bluffing voodoo merchant but far more dangerous. Unfortunate people here, when they encounter the bluffing, imagine it has some substance to it by allowing him to define time, space and motion for them as the ultimate insult to their own self-respect.

    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton-stm/scholium.html

    I offer to untangle astronomy and Earth sciences from the slavery of experimental theorists, including climate change modelling as a variant of all scientific method modelling.

    All based on the utterly stupid attempt to link the rotation of the Earth to the daily change in the position of the stars by misusing a clock , hence clockwork solar system modelling.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 6:36 PM

    @Fran Ken: I apologise. The answer I gave was removed by a pizza earther (Earth is round and flat).

    The Earth is round and a sphere. Therefore, its rotational facts are contained in a specific way through the longitude and 24-hour systems.

    Like Brexit, the academic community does not know how to respond to this disaster for humanity , and they will not accept one day is also one rotation.

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 9:18 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: creep

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    Jun 3rd 2024, 9:44 PM

    @Fran Ken: Every noon-to-noon cycle, as measured by a sand clock, is unequal, so different amounts of sand would result for each cycle.

    If forty samples are taken, forty different amounts will result. When those forty samples are combined into a single amount and then divided equally, an average amount for those forty cycles will be obtained. This is how the average 24-hour day and equal hours, minutes and seconds are derived and why the 24-hour AM/PM cycle is anchored to noon.

    As the terms ‘average’ and ‘constant’ are interchangeable, the longitude framework built around a round and spherical Earth serves the fact that the Earth turns once every day with an equatorial rotation of 1669.8 km/hr and not any other value.

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    Jun 4th 2024, 9:56 AM

    Good man nigel wish we had somebody like him in this media run kip

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    Jun 4th 2024, 8:46 AM

    He’s not the most endearing of politicians but he is sure a skilful debater..,,Fun times ahead

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    Jun 4th 2024, 9:19 AM

    @JP: Shouting your point with increasing volume and changing the subject when you get a question you can’t answer are absolutely not the credentials of a skilful debater

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    Jun 4th 2024, 7:50 AM

    You know what ? I think they will have a good score. These establishment of politicians in power and the opposition have totally lost touch with what is needed and logic. They laugh at you safe when it’s time for election. Voting differently is sending a message.

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    Jun 4th 2024, 8:35 AM

    Will he start a semi fascist far right cult like his personal friend Convict Trump?

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    Jun 4th 2024, 7:41 AM

    If he would run as an Irish mep, I’d love nothing more than to send him back to Europe, endless entertainment

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    Jun 4th 2024, 10:22 AM

    He recently gave up his ideas of going to the US to support Trump. No prizes as to why the change of heart. He’s an opportunist. Another Tory twit disguised as a clown.

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    Jun 4th 2024, 12:14 PM

    Is Nigel’s mouth ever closed?

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    Jun 4th 2024, 2:25 PM

    Quick! Someone WhatsApp Flipper.

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