• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    How can you say Russian plant, millionaire former commodities trader Nigel Farage isn’t a working class man of the people?

    He hates immigrants, drinks pints and has brown teeth! Just like a real working class!

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      3 days ago

      Why do people always have to wait until he fucks them before they realise he’s a fucker?

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        3 days ago

        I wish that was true. I live in the South Wales valleys, and a significant number of people here think that he’s a man of the people who’s standing up for them and their rights. Tommy Robinson too :(

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          All he has to do is put on wellies every now and then and attend the odd farmers protest and everyone thinks he’s some kind of saint.

          All this despite the fact that he never turns up to parliament and has still not converted reform into an actual political party despite saying he would do so “in the next few weeks” over a year ago. I despair of the human race.

          • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Don’t forget that when he ‘represented’ us in the EU parliament, he barely turned up to work, and let the UK fishing rights get taken away, then protested with the fishermen!

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          3 days ago

          Stephen Yaxley-Lennon or whatever posh name that guy has. Wasn’t he ordering riots on a pool deck in Cyprus or something?

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            How dare you dox poor old tiny Tommeh like that! He was working hard from his lilo before the loony left outed him!

            For anyone reading this who’s out of the loop, Tommy Robinson, aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, provoked and organised riots in the UK, but while the perpetrators were being arrested, he took his family away on a foreign holiday ‘for their safety’.

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              I thought he was already on holiday when it was all kicking off?

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                Ah, possibly, it’s been a while. Either way, he was one of the main organisers / agitators, and acted like a victim when it was pointed out that he was perfectly safe on holidays while the muppets who followed him were getting arrested.

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                  Then he got locked up for being a lying bag of shite. Well he was first proven in court to be a lying piece of shite, and then refused to stop being, you guessed it, a lying sack of shite, so they locked him up for contempt of court.

                  He’s currently crying that his mental health is suffering from being locked up in solitary during his time inside. They have to keep him in solitary because there are a lot of people inside that want to skullfuck his twitching corpse, apparently.

                  Personally, I’m good either way. Let the fucker suffer the consequences of his abhorrent actions.

                  Edit: Worth pointing out that during this whole time, he continues to spew the exact set of lies that got him where he is, as if he has the sway to make it reality. He’d be hilarious if he wasn’t such a dangerous influence on the truly fucking stupid amongst us.

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    3 days ago

    More people need to realise he’s private schooled finance manager posted tool of the elites he pretends to rail against

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    He added: “The fella who says he stands up for British industry is hanging on the coat tails of Donald Trump whose tariffs will put at risk thousands of good quality jobs in Britain’s manufacturing heartlands.

    “His driving through of Brexit did lasting harm to the UK economy, including those jobs in engineering and in manufacturing. He hasn’t got a coherent economic plan.”

    Oh that’s great to read that the trade unions are now pushing for the Labour to abandon Brexit and rejoin the EU and allow freedom of movement back into the UK.

    Wait… I think that’s what he’s saying? 🤔😅

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      In fairness they were saying the same thing before the referendum to all of the Nissan workers in Sunderland and they all voted to leave anyway because they’re ultimately self-destructive idiots.

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          Oh that’s great to read that the trade unions are now pushing for the Labour to abandon Brexit and rejoin the EU and allow freedom of movement back into the UK.

          Sorry if I’ve got it wrong but this implies you want to be out of the EU.

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            I think you’re reading too much into an internet comment 😊.

            It simply means that I am surprised the trade unions are now enthusiastic about the EU when they’ve been historically hyper critical of freedom of movement and cheap European labour. Trade unions, given they are the biggest donors of the Labour Party in the UK, could quite easily demand reintegration with the EU at the next Labour Party conference. “Reintegrate with the EU or lose Trade Union votes and money”. But they don’t… and won’t. Which is why I’m surprised at this comment in the article.

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              The EU rules on FoM include the ability of states to prevent the abuses the unions were concerned over.

              • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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                Yes but these were never used. Let’s not rehash the Brexit debates all over again, suffice to say that the Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn school of Labour / unions never liked mass immigration of cheap European workers diluting the bargaining power they have. No government was going to enact these rules (in fact the previous Labour government happily opened the border to a huge wave of new migrants) so the union MPs and members often expressed scepticism towards the EU and FOM. Corbyn was compleletly absent from the referendum debate because he ultimately doesn’t believe in FOM. Brexit provided them an opportunity to realise an end to this because the government wasn’t willing to help them.

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                No worries.

                I definitely think we should rejoin. Mistake to leave in the first place. I just don’t think this government has the balls to tell the electorate to shut up and take us back in.

  • Mr Poletski@feddit.uk
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    Ah, I see the ‘Truth Unconfortable for Cretins’ chief has uttered another uncomfortable truth.