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Post by kcartlidge »

Barbing wrote: post #124
logifail wrote: post #119

Neither Binface nor Farage have any answers for the problems the UK appears to be facing; this election feels like something specifically designed to create material for viewers of Have I Got News For You[0] to laugh at. From The Atlantic: "The [UK's] output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi, America’s poorest state - and that slight lead is only achieved thanks to London. Outside the capital, in…

>Outside the [UK’s] capital, in places where tourists do not visit, living standards fall well below Mississippi’s That is so sad and even somewhat shocking.

> That is so sad and even somewhat shocking.

It would be if it were a meaningful comparison, but it isn't. The comparison shouldn't be about the GDP per capita etc, but the life that gets you in the country you live - and there it fails.

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Post by fakedang »

nephihaha wrote: post #310
fakedang wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean better Oxbridge than being just a high-school graduate like Farage is, who got his first job as a trader thanks to daddy's connections in the City.

Entry to Oxford and Cambridge Universities is by interview, which is the part people forget. Yes, some bright people do go there, but they take a disproportionate amount of private school children. I wouldn't be surprised if Binface went to boarding school like Farage did. Oxbridge is as much a part of the establishment as Eton and Westminster School. Very few people go to these places yet they are overrepresented in…

But you have to pass the interview! Doubt poncey Farage could've done that, else he would have. Or maybe the interviewer was confused on how to pronounce his surname - is it pronounced "Faraajh" like a pretentious Frenchman, or "Farridge".

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Post by glaucon »

dofm wrote: post #121
unfitted2545 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's so interesting he was a scriptwriter for "The Thick of It", a satirical comedy about British politics

FWIW I don’t at all think it’s wrong for people to pick up on whether this would make him a good representative of Clacton were he to win (which isn’t going to happen and he surely thinks it is not). Part of Clacton is relatively well off; part of the wider constituency (Jaywick) is genuinely deprived on a national scale, and they really do need an MP that bothers to understand them and that they can relate to. Farag…

|which isn’t going to happen

I do wonder if Farage will decide to drop out before the vote.

Farage, more than most people, seems to strongly dislike ridicule and to lose a good deal of his vote to a comedy candidate would significantly damage his long term political prospects. If the polls look really bad for him it might be better to cut and run.

If that happened it would be difficult for the Count as I assume he would win the seat, but having to be a reasonably behaved MP is an onerous task and one that he might prefer not to take on.

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Post by glaucon »

squidbeak wrote: post #248

I see from the comments here many Americans especially are confused by this situation. Some background might make help. Farage seems to have broken Parliamentary Rules (laid down after the cash for questions scandal in the 1990s) by accepting large sums of money as gifts - but without declaring them, something all MPs are required to do for any gift. But worse, one of these gifts came from a convicted crypto felon. T…

|suspend him or order a recall by-election as a result.

I believe that while the Parliamentary Standards Committee can order a suspension, the prospect of a recall election is not due to the committee ordering it but rather sufficient electors in the Member's constituency petitioning for it.

The recall election only becomes a possibility if any suspension is greater than ten days in length.

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glaucon wrote: post #314
squidbeak wrote: post #248

I see from the comments here many Americans especially are confused by this situation. Some background might make help. Farage seems to have broken Parliamentary Rules (laid down after the cash for questions scandal in the 1990s) by accepting large sums of money as gifts - but without declaring them, something all MPs are required to do for any gift. But worse, one of these gifts came from a convicted crypto felon. T…

|suspend him or order a recall by-election as a result. I believe that while the Parliamentary Standards Committee can order a suspension, the prospect of a recall election is not due to the committee ordering it but rather sufficient electors in the Member's constituency petitioning for it. The recall election only becomes a possibility if any suspension is greater than ten days in length.

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Post by glaucon »

glaucon wrote: post #313
dofm wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW I don’t at all think it’s wrong for people to pick up on whether this would make him a good representative of Clacton were he to win (which isn’t going to happen and he surely thinks it is not). Part of Clacton is relatively well off; part of the wider constituency (Jaywick) is genuinely deprived on a national scale, and they really do need an MP that bothers to understand them and that they can relate to. Farag…

|which isn’t going to happen I do wonder if Farage will decide to drop out before the vote. Farage, more than most people, seems to strongly dislike ridicule and to lose a good deal of his vote to a comedy candidate would significantly damage his long term political prospects. If the polls look really bad for him it might be better to cut and run. If that happened it would be difficult for the Count as I assume he wo…

I've just looked up the regulations. If he plans to withdraw he only has until 4pm Monday 20th July. After that he's on the ballot regardless.

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Post by glaucon »

dofm wrote: post #203
Twey wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But we are importing this model now in Boris Johnson and Farage. As far as I can see Farage is doing exactly (a British spin on) the GWB strategy: despite having a pretty classical private-school upbringing he's created a ‘bloke from the pub’ character that is much more relatable to the lower classes, and it seems to be working pretty well. It was really interesting to me to see BoJo's take on it, which was similar b…

I don't know if Boris ever faked being unintelligent or faked being a man of the people. Or being a bloke from the pub, actually. He did fake being a buffoon , of course, but he was doing that long, long, long before Trump. He is terrifically intelligent and obviously absurdly well-educated, he's just a liar and a sociopath. Indeed his chosen buffoonish, winging-it character hints at that, because buffoon is the easi…

| terrifically intelligent and obviously absurdly well-educated, he's just a liar and a sociopath.

No idea how intelligent he is, I wouldn't say I've seen any obvious signs of outstanding cerebral capabilities.

As to his education, he got a 2.1, quite respectable but given the resources employed (Eton and Oxford) in his education anything less would have been shameful.

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