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they say that a week is a long time in
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politics and never has that been more
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true than right now over the past 5 days
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things have gone kind of wild with the
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Reform Party in Britain and a lot of
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scales have fallen from a lot of
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people's eyes because it seems there's
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been a repeated pattern of really bad
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behavior on the part of the leadership
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of the reformed party so for anyone who
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doesn't know Rupert low the good reform
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MP or at least he was came out and did
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an interview with the daily mail and
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just explained that look maybe the
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reform party needs to have something
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akin to a sort of hypothetical front
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bench so there are spokespersons for
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each kind of thing that the government
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is expected to do so reform will look
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like a government in Waiting rather than
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looking like a party built around a
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messiah in Nigel farage and then things
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went South Isabelle oot Richard Ty's
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girlfriend decided to go on talk TV and
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smirk about how naive rup it was
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thinking that he would dare be able to
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criticize Nigel farage in public without
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any consequences and my God there's
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daggers in their smiles isn't there
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really sweet isn't it PA rer he's quite
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new at politics he's really new in the
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House of Commons and you know this is
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what happens to um people who are amatur
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at politics and they become MPS and
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suddenly they think yay look at me I
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think I could be prime minister they all
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do it bless him the next day we found
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out that Rupert L had been reported to
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the police by his own party on charges
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of bullying people in his office ZF and
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apparently some labor MP three months
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ago why the labor MP had sat it for
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three months is anyone's guess but we
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can pretty much assume that the reason
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that reform itself sat on these
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allegations for three months is because
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Elon Musk didn't think Nigel frange was
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the guy who should be leading reform and
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in fact supported rert low and from that
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point onward it seems that ruper L Was A
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Marked Man then the smear machine began
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but ruper L got ahead of all of this and
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said look there are people inside reform
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who are briefing the Press let to let
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them know that I have early onet
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dementia or that I have behavioral
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problems that I attack people randomly
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or something and Nigel farage came out
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and said yeah well it's been a real
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problem and he's been really attacking
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everyone around us we've been trying to
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keep it from the public but you know how
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it is and that seemed like a massive
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Croc of s and then it turned out that
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the very allegations against ruper Lo
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themselves started evaporating into the
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air like total wind it turns out that
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the bullying allegations were actually
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not against Rupert himself but his
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office so why are we suspending him why
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are we blaming him and then reform said
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no even if there turns out to be nothing
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we're not having him back so clearly
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this was just a politically motivated
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hit job and character assassination and
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in response to this people who have
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known ruper low for decades including
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his own staff that was supposed to be
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the ones leveling the allegations
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against his office came out and said no
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rert has done nothing wrong he's a
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really good guy he's a complete teddy
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bear he's been a gentleman and has acted
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honorably with everyone around him and
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we all like working for him and suddenly
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you can see how this looks like a rake
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that the farage party and reform have
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stepped on and it's smacked in their own
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face because suddenly people started
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coming out of the woodwork and saying
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yeah no Nigel frage did this to me too
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and me and me and it turns out there's
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more than a dozen people that Nigel
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frage has stepped on in his career to
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get further and further ahead without
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any kind of remorse and so so he's left
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a trail of broken political careers in
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his wake to get to where he is and he
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thought he'd just be able to do the same
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thing again with rert low in my case I
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came in in 2014 by 2016 people wanted me
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to take over as the new leader of ukip
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and only then were like kind of the
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political uh Dogs of War Unleashed on me
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with false accusations i' committed
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offenses false accusations that I was
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with various people despite being
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married all of these were fed to the
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press to undermine me and that led
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unfortunately to the massive r that
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occurred in the European Parliament that
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led to the injuries that led me to leave
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the party but I wasn't the first you see
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what he's using against ruper low at the
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moment but his problem is ruper low is
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the person in reform who is diligent who
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is well-liked who has done the hard work
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who is telling the truth and who frankly
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seems to be honestly and this was Dan's
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formulation Boomer Jesus ruper Lo gives
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his salary to charity when the BBC went
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and investigated in Great Yarmouth they
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found nothing but people saying glowing
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praise saying oh yeah he's the one MP
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who's actually got something done for me
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around here and so this seems like a
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really bad mistake doesn't it your
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political biography is strewn with
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roadside political corpses people you've
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fallen out with I don't fall out with
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anybody I just get on and do what I do
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they fall out with me so after all of
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the people who came out and gave
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testimonials about rert came out in
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support of him and all of the people
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Nigel far has hurt over the years came
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out and gave their testimonials about
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their experiences with Nigel it's not a
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surprise that you get post like this
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from Lani who say oh right I was wrong
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about Nigel I was wrong I didn't
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understand why he was so difficult to
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deal with I didn't understand why he
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kept throwing people I like under the
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bus I didn't understand why he would
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never spend any amount of time with
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alternative media he would never talk to
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any activist he would never go outside
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of his very tightly knit circle of siop
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fans and now you know it turns out Nigel
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was not the man that we thought he was
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and after this Nigel did an interview
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with Channel 4 a little mini documentary
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and man did he say some strange things
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I'm not a populist I've heard you call
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yourself a populist I've realized I'm
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not I've realized it was last week you
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called yourself a populist I am not I am
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not a populist so yeah it seems that we
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were all wrong about Nigel farage and
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niga farage seems to be the one telling
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us that we were all wrong he's not the
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populist right-winger we thought that he
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was he's not actually interested in
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helping the people of Britain what it
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seems to be is that he's interested in
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creating a kind of political f for
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himself in which he is the absolute Lord
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and Sovereign and everyone else can shut
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their mouths or get thrown under the bus
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but alas everyone says if it wasn't for
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Nigel farage reform would be nowhere and
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the thing is benhabib rightly pointed
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out the other day that's not true it was
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because reform was doing well that Nigel
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came back you might not remember but in
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June last year before Nigel fr rejoined
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reform was up to 177% in the polls
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because everyone hated Kia starma and
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his labor party and they hated the
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conservative party and they wanted a
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third option and Richard Ty's reform was
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pretty much the only game in town at
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that point and it was only when the
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polls came out of clack showing it on
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about 35% as in it was going to be a
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reform win for the candidate who was
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going to stand in Clapton that Nigel
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farage parachuted himself back in took
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Clapton as the constituency he was going
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to run in throw out under the bus
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whoever that guy was I can't even
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remember I'm really sorry for that chap
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for not being able to remember remember
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your name off top of my head and
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installed himself because it was a
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guaranteed win Nigel didn't do the
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canvasing in there he didn't go down
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down to Clon and say right come on guys
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we can do this he didn't flip that
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constituency he parachuted himself in
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because he knew it was going to be
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successful and it was so when everyone
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says oh well if it wasn't fraj they
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wouldn't have any MPS no it's the other
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way around they were going to have MPS
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which is why farage was back which is
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why ruper low won where he won as well
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that's not the farage effect that's the
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we hate the main parties and we want an
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alternative effect and so when people
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say well reform is just the Nigel farage
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party well have you asked reform members
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about that because they don't think so
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there was a ugv poll that came out today
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that showed that actually only about
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onethird of Reform voters of members are
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actually Nigel farage Die hards Another
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third don't think it really makes that
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much of a difference who's in charge of
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the party and another third think the
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party would be doing even better if they
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didn't have Nigel farage as the leader
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and to be honest with you they might be
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right why hasn't reform cracked more
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than 25% in the polls on average now
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it's actually hard to say considering
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how unpopular labor and the
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conservatives are it could be that
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farage himself is acting as a hard cap
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not only due to the fact that okay only
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one one man's personal brand can only go
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so far but his absolute refusal to build
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a coalition and bring in those other
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people in the same way that Trump
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brought in RFK Tulsi cash Patel and
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others to bring in people who wouldn't
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naturally be with Trump but because that
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guy is with him and we like that guy
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we're going over to him reform could be
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much higher if nja FR was actually able
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to build the Coalition and it might be
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he's the thing that's holding it back
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and it's important to note as well that
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90% of Reform members did not want
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Rupert low kicked out this is not a
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popular decision and you can see by just
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looking at any of their Twitter feeds at
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the moment they are as far as they're
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concerned battling down the hatches and
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trying to weather the storm but people
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are really pissed off about this this
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seems to have actually kicked off a
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proper Firestorm and so now Nigel farage
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is out in the media trying to defend
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himself saying well I didn't want this
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this wasn't something I was looking for
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it's like okay but why did you why did
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you make it happen you're the ones who
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made this happen you sat on the
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allegations until it was conveni
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to then try and Bam shoot ruper low out
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behind the shed but it turns out that
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actually his record is actually
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completely unblemished there was nothing
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that you could do character-wise to
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destroy him which is the worst meanest
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girl Ty type of way of dealing with
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something if you just said look we just
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don't want you here get out that would
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have at least been more understandable
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but being a total about it come on
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man but then that didn't work and so now
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he like oh I just want to get past it I
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just want to move on this is a
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distraction that I don't need will you
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created this for yourself you did this
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no one else did this to you and so now
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we're in a position where ruper low is
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going to fight this to The Bitter End
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because it's his it's his name it's his
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good name that's on the line he's done
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nothing wrong you thought you could just
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steamroll him like you did everyone else
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in the past but actually it turns out
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that ruper L is already an MP so you
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can't change that doesn't need your
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money so you've got no way of
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controlling him and actually wants to do
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the right thing not just by himself or
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by others but by the country and so now
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you have created a man who did nothing
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wrong has now got a huge amount of
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public backing because everyone is on
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his side not yours Nigel by the way just
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in case you had noticed and actually may
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find himself in the position you wanted
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to be in because it turns out that Elon
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Musk has said well if Rupert low wants
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to start a party I might give him
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backing according to the financial times
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who knows where that goes the worst case
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scenario is that ruper low is subsumed
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into the Arcane Machinery of the
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conservative party and essentially
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disappears off of the face of Frontline
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politics but the best case scenario at
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least for people who care about the
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country is that he takes benhabib up on
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that offer he takes Elon Musk up on
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those offers and he says yeah you know
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what we are going to start a party and
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instead of Nigel farage's fragile Ivory
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Tower it's going to follow the trumpan
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mold of being a robust big tent that is
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actually for everyone and we are
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actually going to stand on the point of
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principle because at this point ruper Lo
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has walked back nothing he has embraced
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fully the no I'm right I'm doing the
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right thing for the right reasons and
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I'm saying the right message and I'm
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standing on this and I'm not going to
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bend in in the face of the media in face
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of the smears in face of my own party
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trying to destroy me man that is
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admirable that is goddamn admirable and
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I'm not surprised Elon Musk saw through
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Nigel farage instantly was like no he's
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not the guy this rer low guy I like the
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cut of his jib like everyone everyone
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else I've had to bite my tongue over
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Nigel farage and be like oh God okay
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fine we'll just let him do this let him
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do that maybe he'll understand why he
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needs other people's help moving forward
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and everyone would say well look he's
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the only game in town and it's it's
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either this or nothing it's like yeah
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okay but what if he's not the only game
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in town what if there is something else
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that is actually credible that would
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start with an MP that would start in
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Parliament that would have a Fighting
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Chance because it would have lots of
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good and capable people behind it what
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if there was something else so suddenly
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the gloves can come off suddenly we can
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actually say no we can actually get
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something done that is ours and not
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theirs not in some way compromised and
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I've got to say it felt pretty good
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watching rer low sauntering into
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Parliament today behind Richard Ty and
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Lee Anderson who couldn't even bear to
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turn and look at him they knew they were
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the ones in the wrong they knew they'
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stitched him up they knew he' done
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nothing wrong and so so did he oh this
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did not go the way that you thought it
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was going to go did it Richard did it
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Isabel did it Nigel did it Zia this is
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something you did to a good man who
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didn't deserve it because you are
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spiteful and callous people and this
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doesn't last forever sooner or later
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like the ghosts of Christmas Past these
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people come back and you are now reaping
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what you've SED in the same way that
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ruper low is reaping what he SED and
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what did what does his crop look like
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what does his fruit look like his fruit
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is people coming out and saying No this
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is a great guy and we're not having this
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yours is these are the knives in my back
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put there by Nigel farage anyway thank
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you for watching folks if you'd like to
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are anything to go by there's going to
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be a huge amount of regret of not
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getting this third one because this is
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the one in which I've done the
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translation and essay for The Wanderer
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among many other essays go and get it
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