Reply to: What position do you think we'll be in on March 29?

[Mordac]

The Postillon: Easier than Brexit: all countries except Great Britain are leaving the EU to form a new alliance

As usual one can't improve on great satire. Although if you change "alliance" to "nation" it stops being satire, and becomes a pretty accurate prediction.

[darmstadt]

The Postillon: Easier than Brexit: all countries except Great Britain are leaving the EU to form a new alliance

[Yorkie62]

Someone will be along shortly with another poll...

A 2nd referendum? Wohoooo!

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[Zigenare]

Seems like we have a majority for a No deal.

Someone will be along shortly with another poll...

[Yorkie62]

Seems like we have a majority for a No deal.

[Zigenare]

Where's the "In the pub celebrating!" option?

[vetran]

Split the UKIP vote? What UKIP vote? UKIP ceased to be relevant when some idiot decided they should become the Peoples Front of Judea (alright, the Popular Front).

Indeed the UKIP vote became the Ucu*t vote, unfortunately they didn't decide to challenge the bollox they decided to encourage the hate.

[Mordac]

I’m not so sure about that. A new party on his own? Not much time to get a full party PR bandwagon behind him, but I don’t doubt that he’d get a bit of a push from some friendly “businessmen” to pay for it.

Even if he does get a new party going, there’s a fair chance he would split the UKIP vote anyway.

And if it’s a one-man party (and even with other candidates in the party, let’s be honest, the others would all be anonymous nobodies) we can’t forget the 7-attempts-7-failures that he’s had to become an MP.

Whatever happens, it will be interesting to watch :-)

Split the UKIP vote? What UKIP vote? UKIP ceased to be relevant when some idiot decided they should become the Peoples Front of Judea (alright, the Popular Front).

[vetran]

I don’t necessarily disagree, however:





These two statements are incomprehensible to me & my fellow remoaners.

FTFY.

[meridian]

Well spotted. If he stands on behalf of another party (albeit one yet to be created) he'll still win enough % to get in. So the idea that he might still be an MEP, and him being a UKIP MEP are not necessarily compatible. And at no point did I say they were so.

I’m not so sure about that. A new party on his own? Not much time to get a full party PR bandwagon behind him, but I don’t doubt that he’d get a bit of a push from some friendly “businessmen” to pay for it.

Even if he does get a new party going, there’s a fair chance he would split the UKIP vote anyway.

And if it’s a one-man party (and even with other candidates in the party, let’s be honest, the others would all be anonymous nobodies) we can’t forget the 7-attempts-7-failures that he’s had to become an MP.

Whatever happens, it will be interesting to watch :-)

[Mordac]

I don’t necessarily disagree, however:





These two statements are mutually incompatible.

Well spotted. If he stands on behalf of another party (albeit one yet to be created) he'll still win enough % to get in. So the idea that he might still be an MEP, and him being a UKIP MEP are not necessarily compatible. And at no point did I say they were so.

[meridian]

I don’t necessarily disagree, however:

Thanks to PR he'll be perfectly safe

He's actually left UKIP, in case you weren't paying attention, so the likelihood of him being re-elected as a UKIP MEP is fairly close to zero.

These two statements are mutually incompatible.

[Old Greg]

The fetal position?

Hog tied.

[Mordac]

Only if he gets back in.

If it does go all the way to EP elections, the election battle of UKIP vs pro-Remain candidates could be a proxy for a second referendum anyway.

Thanks to PR he'll be perfectly safe (should he choose to stand). He now has a lucrative media career to fall back on, so the MEP salary and generous expense account will be a bonus, and that's assuming he'll stand as a candidate anyway. He's actually left UKIP, in case you weren't paying attention, so the likelihood of him being re-elected as a UKIP MEP is fairly close to zero. There might be a new Party formed, however, which does genuinely think they can organise a pissup in a brewery, so you never know...

[SimonMac]

The fetal position?