Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "MEP Verhofstadt claims Farage aims to 'destroy the European Union from within' | Raw Politics" video.

  1. Mr Verhofstadt is correct and if the UK is forced back into the EU, he can expect the UK people to vote for many more MEPs like Mr Farage, all with the same ambition.
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  2.  @ilincuta  we did, we lost our freedom, now we want it back.
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  3.  @bca-biciclindcuaxel7527  you have been watching too much EU propaganda. You can't really believe that. Do they play that to you in your sleep? I assume you can not smell of the burning car tyres coming from France. Your not living near any of the migrant centers.
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  4.  2Crassus Crassus  you are a fool, why would the UK population vote for europhile MEPs. After the insults the UK has received from the EU, you can be sure we will vote for the most Eurosceptic we can find. I am surprised that you can find a bucket in the EU, aren't they all being used to put out the fires in the streets?
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  5.  @6thi874  it does seem my earlier post was correct, unfortunately the numbers are still not sufficient to destroy the EU project, though it will slow it down. Even if our MEPs get to serve in the EU parliament, which will require the UK to be forced to remain in the EU, the parliament is nothing more than a rubber stamp institution for the EU with very little real power. The EU parliament controls the accelerator, the steering wheel is controlled by the eurocrates, the commissioners. Increasingly the council of ministers function as fare paying passengers.
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  6.  @6thi874  I suspect that the most likely outcome of the deadlock in the UK parliament and the EU election results, is a second referendum. Neither Labour or the Tories will want to risk a general election at the moment, since they are likely to share 3rd and 4th place, in any case a general election lacks the democratic mandate of a referendum, which is required to overturn Brexit. I think the parties that support remaining in the EU realise that they are hopelessly divided on almost everything except wanting to reverse Brexit. The only way the can come together nondestructively is by supporting a second referendum with a simple leave/remain question. It is ironic that the EU will be unhappy if a second referendum resulted in article 50 being revoked and the UK rejoining as a full member. They wanted the UK to be punished by forcing it to become a vassal state. The Brexit party has done well, but its victory in the EU elections with be pyrrhic if its new MEPs end up taking their seats, because it will mean that the UK has been forced to remain in the EU. The Brexit party is a long way from being prepared to fight either a general election or a second referendum and will need to come up with a new strategy to win. It cannot simply rely on promising to leave the EU, it must now both explain why remaining is bad and have a full set of well formed policies for post Brexit Britain that offer a better future.
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  7.  @6thi874  I am an ardent leave supporter, but it is necessary to make a realistic assessment of the current situation inorder to prepare for what is to come. The Brexit party cannot be allowed to become complacent, even the parties name suggests a lack of foresight. If you they want representation in the UK parliament, they must be seen as more than a one horse wonder. The SNP were sufficiently bright as to not call themselves the Scottish Independence Party, even if that is really their only policy and ambition.
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  8.  @scarface999100  did you not far my last post? I am leave supporter. I voted not to join the common market in the first place because I could see what was going to happen. You do not win wars by ignoring what the opposition is planning or by disregarding your own weaknesses. It was clear as soon as the EU election result was announced what he remain campaign would do next, it is going to pursue the only option open to it and push for a second referendum. He logic is inescapable: The uk parliament cannot vote to revoke article 50 unilaterally as that would be undemocratic, and even the EU would not accept that outcome. Parliament is hopelessly deadlocked and cannot agree on anything. The EU election result implied that while the Brexit party had the largest vote of all parties, the remain supporting parties could have had a larger majority of they united, however the parties are hopelessly divided on other issues. What they can do is unite behind a single issue second referendum vote and hat is what they are going to do. With regard to the Brexit party manifesto, or rather the lack of it, this time round they cannot simply campaign to leave the EU without further explaination. The UK public are far more sophisticated,better educated, and a lot more suspicious. The case must be made why EU membership is bad and what the future in the EU probably holds. Likewise the case for life in a post Brexit Britain must be made with clear policies about how the UK can be made profitable again. Nigel Farage has made some public comments in the past that will no doubt be brought up by the remain side, most notable the wish to privatise the NHS. That alone, if not countered, is sufficient to swing the second referendum vote towards remain. The idea that a post Brexit Britain will be opened up to exploitation by American big business will also terrify the UK people,it does me. There is already a TV program planned to show how the post Brexit UK will be forced to import bad food in the form of chlorinated chicken. It must b made clear that far from lowering our standards we will raise them. There are a whole of such issues, all of which can be countered by having a philosophy of making the UK more self sufficient and protecting UK manufactures and producers from unfair foreign competition and in some cases fair foreign competition. I am concerned that Mr Farage is a free trade globalist. If the UK is to recover, he last thing it needs is to be further exploited by the globalist elite, that is what got us into this mess in the first place. I really like the idea of doing away with the unelected, feudal, house of lords and reforming parliament, but a party that associates itself with a single policy by calling itself the "Brexit party" is never going to get anywhere the UK parliament to carry out any reforms, let alone have a majority to do so.
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