Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Nigel Farage: 'We'd deserve a seat at Brexit negotiating table if we win EU elections'" video.

Those 17.5M voters still have to vote for The Brexit Party to make it legit.
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@laurejon I expect The Brexit Party to do well in the European elections, but general elections are another matter altogether. Voters are unlikely to put their trust in a single-issue protest party when it comes to actually governing a country. Moreover, your outdated electoral system is unkind to new entrants. It took the Labour Party 24 years to form their first government. The feat has never been repeated by another party.
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Didn't you get the memo that the UK is to elect another batch of MEPs, but they're not to take their seats in the European Parliament? If May reneges on that promise, it will be up to the EU-27 to remove them forcibly by not granting the UK yet another Brexit extension. Unruly children need to be put in their place -- outside, that is.
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@elguapo1507 You don't seem to understand that the last Brexit extension was deliberately timed such that the newly-elected MEPs won't actually convene before Britain gets auto-kicked from the EU. The general elections don't bode well for The Brexit Party. Why would they succeed where UKIP has consistently failed? Even if Farage finally makes MP, he'll just be an insignificant backbencher. His track record in the EP suggests he'll be a lazy one, too.
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Farage and the Brexit Party aren't going to deliver. The last new entrant to make it into government is... wait for it... the Labour Party. It took them 24 years to form their first government, and that was a minority government that survived for only nine months. Good luck changing the system. You're going to need it.
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@GEOFF0906 Nonetheless, it's an agreement that May negotiated with the other EU members in good faith. Should the EU-27 have negotiated with someone else then, someone who didn't have a mandate to represent the UK? Mr. Bean perhaps?
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