Comment on ‘I wasn’t even listening,’ Farage says of donations scandal meeting
Naich@piefed.world 2 days ago
At the moment they are in firefighting mode. They need to retain their core base, so any excuse no matter how ridiculous will give their followers something to clutch at.
frunch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And believe you me–they’ll take anything
Sequence5666@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Believe you me” is so funny to read as a English phrase
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Absolutely it sounds nonsense.
It’s perfectly grammatical, but it’s one of the few commands where the subject isn’t elided. The others that occur to me are “hear ye, hear ye,” and “look on my works, ye mighty, and despair,”from Ozymandias, both of which are definitely very old fashioned sounding.