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Aside from its single issue purpose, don’t forget what the Brexit Party was really about. It was primarily a nice profitable sideline for Farage & his vulture capitalist sidekick, Richard Tice. There was no manifesto, no way of electing in a new party leader...
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Aside from its single issue purpose, don’t forget what the Brexit Party was really about. It was primarily a nice profitable sideline for Farage & his vulture capitalist sidekick, Richard Tice. There was no manifesto, no way of electing in a new party leader...
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..., mainly because there were no actual members to vote on policy or party structure - only “supporters”. Those supporters had to pay £25 for the “privilege” of belonging to a party they had no say in. Or of course you could buy a “VIP” Brexit Party package ...
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...which, for a whopping £100pm, gave you “access” to even more worthless bullsh*t. If this pyramid scheme-ish scammery wasn’t enough, 100s of Brexit Party parliamentary applicants were forced to hand over £100 simply in the hope of being accepted as a candidate...
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...Even as the party outlived its political purpose following Brexit, direct debits were still going out of “VIP” supporters accounts. As @Otto_English has been quick to question - what happened to all of that money https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/13/nigel-farages-end-of-the-pier-show/? I think...
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...we know the answer to that. Farage is the political equivalent of single use plastic. He has to be “recycled” again through the merciless machine of a new single “political” issue: immigration, Brexit, and now with his Reform U.K. Party, lockdown scepticism...
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This latest wheeze is broadly targeted at the same people who were already radicalised by Farage: Brexit voters and folks none too keen on migrants & foreigners. Farage’s simplistic, dishonest signalling appeals to a certain group of reactionary, unthinking people...
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