Posted on 09/16/2019 2:05:49 AM PDT by Cronos
Senior Tories rebuff Brexit party leader’s offer of no-deal election pact
The Brexit party’s leader, Nigel Farage, has been heavily criticised by Boris Johnson’s team as “not fit and proper” in an outright rejection of his offer of a pre-election, no-deal Brexit pact.
Farage offered to help the embattled prime minister secure a majority at a snap general election, on the proviso he dropped plans to renegotiate the Brexit withdrawal agreement and the backstop arrangement on the Northern Irish border.
He said the prime minister should accept he needed the Brexit party’s help to take out key Labour seats but vowed to be his “deadliest enemy” if he renegotiated with Brussels and abandoned what he called a “clean” no-deal departure from the EU. Sign up to our Brexit weekly briefing Read more
A bitter war of words quickly escalated between the two camps, with No 10 curtly rebuffing his proposal.
A spokesperson said: “The PM will not be doing a deal with Nigel Farage.”
A senior Tory source added: “Neither Nigel Farage nor Arron Banks are fit and proper persons and they should never be allowed anywhere near government.”
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I’ll laugh the day he becomes prime minister.
There’s no more sensible a Briton than Nigel Farage.
On a Trump scale, he’s at least a “9”.
I think he is a great guy but generally not a PM material. He is a perfect troll but you need to be more constructive for executive position.
The Tories should instead adopt a “united front” strategy of welcoming all as allies who in good faith support Brexit in October and leave it to the voters to judge suitability for office.
The same kind of people didn’t think Trump was POTUS “material” either.
The difference is huge. Trump indeed has managing experience.
Farage has business experience too, working for brokerage firms from the 1980s till the 2000s.
Trading commodities is not exactly that.
I liken Nigel Farage more to Trey Gowdy than Donald Trump. Like Trey he talks a big game then he bails when the going gets tough.
Boris is a goon being played by his own party. He shouldn’t be tossing offers of help out the porthole willy nilly. It gives far too much leverage to the opposition by swearing not to use a specific chess piece.
Big time rule by crisis populist in the first place.
More precise would be to say that Farage knows everything on what and why is wrong and little to none on how to do right.
Bad mistake on Johnson’s part.
well yes, he did that with the Brexit referendum. But it would be good for him to be in governance and then to see if he can actually do what he promised
Johnson also originally didn’t want anything to do with Trump. Maybe he’s just not as smart as people think.
Bozo is an embodiment of idiocracy.
It could be that Boris is playing a game where he gives the Establishment a choice: you can deal with me -- or if I'm swept away, you can deal with Nigel.
Martin Luther King used Malcolm X as a similar alternative.
This is a very bad strategy by Johnson. I think his ego may be dictating the decision that he will not work with Farage. If the goal is to exit the EU without being a serf to the EU, then Johnson should accept Farage’s offer of cooperation.
Who is King and who is X is not that clear in this case.
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