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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: jeremyp on December 04, 2018, 07:52:30 PM

Title: Beyond the pale
Post by: jeremyp on December 04, 2018, 07:52:30 PM
Looks like UKIP is now too obnoxious even for Nigel Farage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46448299
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: Gordon on December 04, 2018, 07:55:45 PM
Quote from: jeremyp on December 04, 2018, 07:52:30 PM
Looks like UKIP is now too obnoxious even for Nigel Farage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46448299

Rats and sinking ships come to mind.
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: Roses on December 05, 2018, 12:31:39 PM
Quote from: Gordon on December 04, 2018, 07:55:45 PM
Rats and sinking ships come to mind.

Spot on.
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: Steve H on December 05, 2018, 12:40:52 PM
The founder of the Anti-Federalist League, which later became UKIP, was Alan Sked, who was, and I think still is, centre-left politically. He left UKIP because it had been taken over by the hard right. Now Fartage has left because it has moved further right than even he is happy with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sked
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: jakswan on December 05, 2018, 01:28:46 PM
They had far right support struggling to think of far right policy though?
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: Rhiannon on December 05, 2018, 04:40:10 PM
Quote from: jakswan on December 05, 2018, 01:28:46 PM
They had far right support struggling to think of far right policy though?

Appointing Tommy Robinson as advisor will do for starters.
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: jakswan on December 05, 2018, 05:30:15 PM
Quote from: Rhiannon on December 05, 2018, 04:40:10 PM
Appointing Tommy Robinson as advisor will do for starters.

Is that a policy and besides I was talking past tense.
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: Sebastian Toe on December 05, 2018, 06:41:51 PM
I initially thought that the thread title was referring to the book
"Oor Wullie, what happened next?"
 :-\
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: Anchorman on December 05, 2018, 07:17:05 PM
Quote from: Sebastian Toe on December 05, 2018, 06:41:51 PM
I initially thought that the thread title was referring to the book
"Oor Wullie, what happened next?"
 :-\
   



Jings, crivvens, help ma boab...Nigel hasn't even reached the level of Jeemy yet.

OK, you non Scots, start googling......
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: Rhiannon on December 05, 2018, 09:54:09 PM
Quote from: jakswan on December 05, 2018, 05:30:15 PM
Is that a policy and besides I was talking past tense.

Of course it is a policy. It's a policy of wanting someone from the far right advising on, um, policy.

The Tories once look sane in the past tense ffs.
Title: Re: Beyond the pale
Post by: jakswan on December 05, 2018, 10:10:05 PM
Quote from: Rhiannon on December 05, 2018, 09:54:09 PM
Of course it is a policy. It's a policy of wanting someone from the far right advising on, um, policy.

A policy is something that would appear in their manifesto.

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The Tories once look sane in the past tense ffs.

Not really sure what that means, the Tories are not hard right if that is what you meant, ffs don't start crying wolf because when the actual wolf comes you will live to regret it.