Nigel Farage set to relaunch Brexit Party as anti-lockdown party

 

FILE PHOTO: British Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage speaks during a visit at Dover harbour, in Dover, Britain August 12, 2020. REUTERS/Matthew Childs/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage will relaunch the group as an anti-lockdown party called Reform UK in an attempt to fight anti-coronavirus measures imposed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.

 

The new party will back a policy of focused protection from the coronavirus for only the most vulnerable, and allow the rest of the population to develop herd immunity, Farage and party Chairman Richard Tice wrote in an opinion piece in The Telegraph on Sunday.

 

Papers seeking the name change have been submitted to the Electoral Commission, they added.

 

The Brexit Party was set up in early 2019 by Farage, whose years of campaigning against membership of the European Union played a major part in delivering the 2016 referendum in which the UK voted to leave the bloc.

 

"We are showing the courage needed to take on consensus thinking and vested interests on Covid. But there are so many areas of public life that can be improved to benefit ordinary people. That is why we will campaign for Reform", Farage and Tice wrote.

 

"We want to be known as the party of Reform. The name reflects the ambition: Reform UK", they added.

 

The prime minister on Saturday ordered England back into a lockdown after the UK passed the milestone of 1 million COVID-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service.

 

The UK has the world's fifth-largest official death toll, after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.

 

(Reporting by Rebekah Mathew in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Cooney)

 

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Farage desperate to remain relevant. 

It looks like Brexit is now like a hot potato! 

Forget about Brexit, it's time for Covexit! ????

I'd vote for him if I could.

Sometimes it's sad to see the same person, time after time trying so desperate to be of importance.

 

Before it was Brexit and now it's shifting focus to another protest about lockdown to control the spread of the ongoing pandemic.

 

This makes me wonder if this guy is ever happy with anything. Maybe he's just like my second wife. Happy when people agree or when she get like she want's, but totally unable to accept defeat or understanding it might be wrong with the self.

I take this as acknowledging he’s given up on his hopes of being Britain’s Ambassador to the US.

So many hate filled posts. Nigel Farage has his finger truly on the pulse of the British people.  He was bang on the money about the eu and has and still is fighting hard for it, he highlighted the lies being told about illegal immigration, coast guards picking them up and then the taking of them to 4* hotels that the government were quietly booking for 6 month to a year in advance and now the farce of Covid.  He is a voice that will hold the governments feet to the fire with their lies and smudged figures their twisting all. Thank god we have Nigel and others speaking up.

10 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Farage desperate to remain relevant. 

 

So he was relevant? When was that? Oh, I know. ????

 

Better clean yer boots.

10 hours ago, webfact said:

"We are showing the courage needed to take on consensus thinking and vested interests on Covid. But there are so many areas of public life that can be improved to benefit ordinary people. That is why we will campaign for Reform", Farage and Tice wrote.

Exactly what the country needs. With Farage at the helm we will get the Reform politics and policies need too. It make take a while but watch out at the next GE.

10 minutes ago, Loiner said:

Exactly what the country needs. With Farage at the helm we will get the Reform politics and policies need too. It make take a while but watch out at the next GE.

Remind me, how many times has he failed to get elected to Parliament?

10 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Farage desperate to remain relevant. 

 

I think you mean "desperate to remain in the news and milk as much money as he can from idiots"

 

Apart from European elections, in which only a tiny minority voted,  he and his various parties have always fared very badly at the polls; most of his candidates losing their deposits.

Hypocrisy may be the soul of politics, but I don't understand how applying for a German passport right after the brexit vote hasn't ruined his chances of... well, anything!

 

(Not least because waiting until after the vote meant winning it must have surprised him OR he planned to do apply all along, but feared it might leak and work against him...)

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Remind me, how many times has he failed to get elected to Parliament?

Where it matters, he went to the EU parliament with a whopping 30.52% of the votes. His Brexit party won 29 seats in the election, becoming the biggest single party in the 9th European Parliament.

1 hour ago, onebir said:

Hypocrisy may be the soul of politics, but I don't understand how applying for a German passport right after the brexit vote hasn't ruined his chances of... well, anything!

 

(Not least because waiting until after the vote meant winning it must have surprised him OR he planned to do apply all along, but feared it might leak and work against him...)

Applying for a German passport hasn't ruined his chances of... well, anything, because he hasn't applied for one. As his good friend Donald Trump would tell you: "Fake news."

If this doesn't work he can always launch the anti-vax party, or the anti immigrant party, maybe the "Friends of Trump" party.

I believe the poor fall guys and girls who stood as Brexit MPs in the 2019 election are still waiting for Farage to give them deposits back. Trouble was that Farage's masters (Murdoch et al) wanted him to give Boris a clear run. 

 

Farage sinking into nonentity in as graceless a manner as he possibly can. I expect the MEPs who have had to suffer his anal poposity for many years will be finding it hard to suppress a snigger. 

uk politics needs more variety as the partys are polarised so bring it on ,labour party is irelavant now and greens and libdems are the same...  not relavant ....farage has tons of mileage in him but the leftys dont like him as he can rob labour voters at GE

Patriots Party

Anti-Vaxxers Party

Anti-Immigration Party

Anti-foreigners Party

Right of the ERG Party

 

OMG he could be back every year....????

As if things weren't bad enough ????

28 minutes ago, Nigel Garvie said:

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I expect the MEPs who have had to suffer his anal poposity for many years will be finding it hard to suppress a snigger. 

 Maybe so; but remember that as he only ever turned up to collect his inflated MEP salary and expenses, they probably wont even notice he's gone!

Once stupid..... always stupid. ????

2 hours ago, Loiner said:

As his good friend Donald Trump would tell you: "Fake news."

I rest my case.

4 minutes ago, onebir said:

I rest my case.

You haven't even got a case mate.

1 hour ago, 3NUMBAS said:

uk politics needs more variety as the partys are polarised so bring it on ,labour party is irelavant now and greens and libdems are the same...  not relavant ....farage has tons of mileage in him but the leftys dont like him as he can rob labour voters at GE

Wait a second. Now think that through.

You say everyone who is not right wing is finished but you want an extra right wing party in order to add more variety? 

Seriously?

You just split the right wing vote and got a Labour government ????

4 minutes ago, Loiner said:

You haven't even got a case mate.

You can put your cases away Loiner.

Between corona, Brexit and all the other stupidity going on in the UK it will be a long time before you are ever going abroad ????

5 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

You can put your cases away Loiner.

Between corona, Brexit and all the other stupidity going on in the UK it will be a long time before you are ever going abroad ????

You have no idea of my travels, previous current or planned.

5 minutes ago, Loiner said:

You have no idea of my travels, previous current or planned.

You know what I do know?

HP sauce is made in Holland ????

All those truck loads of HP sauce stuck in customs and your going to be looking at your spider crab and chips thinking this could really do with some HP sauce.

Do you think HP sauce will be on your ration card?

Still I imagine people like Farage and Johnson will still have no problems getting their HP sauce.

But its a price worth paying just for that blue passport aye?

The colour of which the UK could have changed any time it wanted because there is no EU rule on the colour of passports ????

1 hour ago, Rookiescot said:

You know what I do know?

HP sauce is made in Holland ????

All those truck loads of HP sauce stuck in customs and your going to be looking at your spider crab and chips thinking this could really do with some HP sauce.

Do you think HP sauce will be on your ration card?

Still I imagine people like Farage and Johnson will still have no problems getting their HP sauce.

But its a price worth paying just for that blue passport aye?

The colour of which the UK could have changed any time it wanted because there is no EU rule on the colour of passports ????

Unlikely to be anywhere in Holland. 
I wouldn't be worried if another bottle of HP sauce ever made it into the UK again. As a classic example of EU industrial espionage and jobs theft, it's been on my boycott list for a long time.

Blue United Kingdom passports as opposed to EU puse were another bonus from our EU exit. Have you got your yet?

7 hours ago, Scot123 said:

So many hate filled posts. Nigel Farage has his finger truly on the pulse of the British people.  He was bang on the money about the eu and has and still is fighting hard for it, he highlighted the lies being told about illegal immigration, coast guards picking them up and then the taking of them to 4* hotels that the government were quietly booking for 6 month to a year in advance and now the farce of Covid.  He is a voice that will hold the governments feet to the fire with their lies and smudged figures their twisting all. Thank god we have Nigel and others speaking up.

British sarcasm is always the best. 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/nigel-farage-heaps-praise-on-donald-trump-at-arizona-rally

 

So no covfefexit! ????

4 hours ago, candide said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/nigel-farage-heaps-praise-on-donald-trump-at-arizona-rally

 

So no covfefexit! ????

 

Tissue?