Are British people happy that Nigel Farage is in Parliament after his 8th election attempt?

[WhiteBoyChill]

Lol! I love this headline “heckles his hecklers”

I seriously don’t get why so many British people seem to not like the guy though.

To me he seems very smart and articulate, and I’m not being sarcastic either.

[purplepoppy]

It'll delight a few gammons but his party only has 4 seats and every other party is keen to distance themselves from Reform. He's going to find it lonely there.

[AviatorTom]

@purplepoppy So how is the seating going to be in The Commons now? Labour has such a huge number of seats there' doesn't appear to be enough room on the left for everyone, and all the other parties sit on the right. Will the Tories, with their meagre showing, have the Shadow Cabinet, or will that be a coalition of the Conservatives and other parties.

[purplepoppy]

They sit opposite each other. The Conservatives will still be the main opposition and the other parties will side with either them or labour depending on what motion is being passed. Reality is the smaller parties only have any real power when a vote comes down to the wire.

[WhiteBoyChill]

You’re wrong. They actually have 5 seats and Nigel Farage has the support of 4 million British voters

[purplepoppy]

Ok they won another seat since I first wrote that but its still about 0.6 % of the total number of seats.

[purplepoppy]

When your entire elected party can fit in one car you know you have no power.

[WhiteBoyChill]

Its because the system is broken. There should be proportional representation

[purplepoppy]

I'd have to agree with you on that one. The number of seats each party gets doesn't reflected the number of people who voted for them. parties like sinn fein and the snp got a lower number of votes than reform but won more seats

[DryGermanGuy]

Nigel who? Please. That dork is yesteryear's news. And with him and his propagandist fantasies forever connected to this dumpster fire called Brexit, it will stay that way.

[WhiteBoyChill]

He loves his country though and hardly any politicians do these days. He is a very selfless man

[DryGermanGuy]

Kid, contrary to the ragebaiting rights‘ beliefs, most politicians do love their country. Who would otherwise do this job against the amount of hate they get?
And just by the way, the average American citizen profited more from Democratic administrations than from Republican administrations, constantly over the last 100 years.

[WhiteBoyChill]

That’s because Republicans in general suck and Trump is still trying to fix the party

[DryGermanGuy]

Oh, he fixed that party, alright!!! 🤬😂

[WhiteBoyChill]

He made it considerably better than it was before by flushing out establishment hacks like Romney and Liz Cheney. But there’s still absolute freaks like MTG and Boebert to get rid of but thankfully they hold less influence

[DryGermanGuy]

One of the major interviewer on, I believe CNN, said recently, his first question for every GOP guest is "who won the 2020 election?". If they then start the usual MAGA huffing, shuffling and puffing, he ends the interview. Because he says there is no reason in going on from there and dignify their talking points.

[WhiteBoyChill]

That is his opinion. Oh well

[DryGermanGuy]

I sincerely do hope that you don't consider an election result a "matter of opinion".

[WhiteBoyChill]

I have no reason to trust the integrity of the last election. I was observing the whole thing overnight while you were sleeping in your bed in Germany

[DryGermanGuy]

As you might imagine, understanding the existence or non-existence of free and fair elections is established over a longer term, not by "observing it overnight", right? F

[DryGermanGuy]

For example following all the recounts, audits and court cases over the following weeks and months and getting an understanding how a criminal enterprise run by corrupt lawyers tried to hoodwink a complete country into believing that for the first time since 1776 suddenly elections could by stolen by the dark forces of the "deep state" or whatever. You obviously did not observe that or otherwise you wouldn't still miss the forest for the trees, four years later.