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“If Brexit fucks everything up, I’ll just leave and let the rest of you deal with it”
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by calmocean@feddit.uk to [deleted]
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floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’s still here fucking stuff up
Rothe@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Farage: "On second thought, I think I will stay around and fuck up some more of your shit."
Voters: "Yes please!!!!!!"
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s what Dyson did, didn’t they? They supported Brexit with a ton of money to transform UK into a no-worker-rights hellhole, and when that didn’t happen fast enough, they moved production to Asia.
CummandoX@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be fair this is no self inflicted punishment whatsoever.
The guy basically said: “If I turn the place we all live in into a living hell, I will leave it”
No shit Sherlock, I am sure a lot of your compatriots are doing just that right now
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I mean he spends more time in the States than in Clacton so…
DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
It was always meant like: “If I fuck up with this Brexit, you guys can pay the price! I will live comfortably somewhere else!”
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who could have thought, that separating yourself from one of the top three economic blocks on the planet, would have negative consequences?
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But the sovereignty!
JTskulk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Trump said something similar, he said if he lost to Biden he would move out of the country. Unfortunately that was lie like everything else.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No other stable country would tolerate him. Except Russia.
Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Russia aint stable
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You UK folks need to start making stronger milkshakes. Possibly with hydroflouric acid.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This got a lot more likely five eaving the EU has removed a lot of food safety regulations in the UK.
SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I think liars make really good politicians. They make wealth, we all lose it, but their ego gets inflated, so thats good, I guess…
Rothe@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Narcissistic psychopaths have the best traits for becoming succesful politicians.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Same guy who thought it’d be a good idea to have Sargon of Akkad join UKIP.
It used to feel weird when my niche internet obsessions started bleeding into the real world, but nowadays it’s become so common that I barely react when some obscure internet drama that I think is funny, suddenly blooms into real world politics and I’m just sat here like “oh… again, huh?”
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They seriously let that clown join the national party of clowns? I guess he fits right in there, but wtf is a youtuber doing in a political party?
Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
He wasn’t even alone. Count Dankula also joined, and later left because he found the party to be unserious and cringe. He made a video about it at one point. I don’t agree with Dankula about every opinion he has, but I do find him to be smarter and more level-headed than most of his peers.
Sargon of Akkad went from being a youtuber who was a bit full of himself, to getting a minor god complex once he joined UKIP and spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to impress the infamous internet troll Mister Metokur, which is a whole saga in its own right. It was fucking hilarious to follow in real time.
Meanwhile, the press did what the press does and dug up all kinds of stupid shit that sargon had been saying over the years and, well, he quickly became a liability.
I had been pretty pissed with Sargon since the Candid scandal that most people seem to have forgotten since, so I was just enjoying the show, watching this dumbass making an utter fool of himself. I think a lot of UKIP’s bad press and failure as a party can be traced back to Sargon because when he joined the party, they were still somewhat seen as a respectable party that you could take seriously even if you disagreed with their politics. After sargon, they were seen as a clown show and I also think Farage left the party shortly after - unless I’m misremembering. It’s been awhile.
I don’t watch reality TV because I have the internet and it’s lolcows. The fact that these politicians allowed sargon of akkad into their party without doing a proper background check is fucking insane 🤣 they allowed him and Dankula in their party to catch the attention and support of their followers and they paid dearly for that, lol. In ignorant theory, it seems like a good idea to try and utilize influencers to further your party’s cause and reach a younger crowd - potentially - but back then, politicians did not understand internet culture nor how fucking insane it is. Overall, politicians seem a tiny bit more aware today, but they are still not getting it. That mixing brain dead entertainers with your cause could possibly backfire. Especially if your party appeals to the more reckless among us in society.
Of course, there could be many more factors as to why Farage decided to leave UKIP and for the party kinda falling apart at the seams other than just Sargon, but it is incredible how fast shit hit the fan after thel let Sargon join their party. Everybody who knew about Sargon knew that this was gonna end badly and we were all there for it. Rightwingers as well as leftwingers. Joined in harmony, laughing at the circus.
Somehow still more entertaining than when Kanye West hired Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos as his campaign managers.
At some point you can’t do anything but laugh.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Oh, so if your policy fails, you’ll abandon ship ?
And you want to be a politician ?
Listen, it’s time for you to stand in front of the wall
You and that other blond hair ducker
We have suffered your continued existence long enough.D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Just. Fucking. Die! Cunt.
60d@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Just GTFO cunt
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Nonono, let the Brits keep their garbage.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah wtf don’t send us this guy.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So why is he still in the UK? Not really a guy keeping his word, or did all other country reject his request for permanent residence, because they already have their quota on assholes fulfilled?
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Trump said We’d never see him again. Fascists just lie a lot…
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Brexit succeeded - just not in the way he told you it would
dumbass@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
As an Aussie, I hate to say this, but it kinda fits for you, Fuck off we’re full.
derry@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Just not here please. We (US) are full up on town idiots. But I’m sure somewhere there’s a town missing their idiot.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Sorry, but it’s traditional for us to dump our unwanted over there.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I think the US is the best place he could go, it’s already so bad even he will hardly make it worse, and more factions and intra-right tension might even be a good thing that could come out of it
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bye bye, Nige.
radiouser@crazypeople.online 3 weeks ago
Now that oxygen thief is doing the same crap again with the
DeformReform party and the UK are lapping it up.sirico@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Sadly, his real country USA didn’t want him
Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Russia, more like. There was a huge amount of Russian-sponsored disinfo found to be circulating during the Brexit referendum.
The main link between the US and Brexit is only that the US is currently following Russian masters as well.
bless@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m picturing a movie poster: Brexit Has Fallen
martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Somehow that’s poignant
Ron@zegheteens.nl 3 weeks ago
We don’t want him on Europe’s main land, ship him to Moscow or something.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Raxiel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nigel Mirage. Appears everywhere until there’s actual work to be done, then vanished completely.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t like the guy, but indeed he is being taken out of context if you read the full interview. What Farage means is that Brexit is not happening the way he wants it to happen. He wants more trade deals, stricter immigration, and leaving the obligations from international rules like the ECHR.
MBech@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I see, he’s as realistic about politics as a 5 year old. Farage - “I want all the nice things, with none of the obligations and without giving anything in return”. That’s the mindset of a child who wants allowance but without mowing the lawn.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That pretty much summed up the entire brexit mindset. “We already have one of the sweetest EU deals, but we want only good stuff and no bad”
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Indeed, he’s an idiot.
People are afraid if he becomes prime minister. The thing is he’s a harmless idiot because he is all complain and rhetoric without offering any specific plan on how to implement them. Should he come to power, it’s just going to be whatever the hell happens. His potential leadership will end up collapsing like the far right tenure in Sweden, Finland and The Netherlands. Farage never really have had any significant leadership experience, because he spent most of his career beating the drum but never leading the band.
But from my personal perspective, his premiership, if he does become PM and even if it fails, will set precedence and open the floodgate to a cleverer authoritarian demagogue that could plunge UK to a full fascism. I think most people are short sighted about the snowball effect of current actions.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And I want a pony but that’s not realistic either.
individual@toast.ooo 3 weeks ago
where’d he go?
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The issue I see here is, and I believe I’m speaking for the entire rest of the world here, we don’t want him
knowone@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
He should just be exiled to some random, remote uninhabited island. Then he’ll never have to deal with another foreigner again and we wouldn’t have to deal with him
Denjin@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
What about North Sentinel Island?
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can we send Trump and his mates there too?
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I know a few other people that deserve this teeatment, but I fear we don’t have an island big enough.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
That would be a bit of a dick move to all the fish and bugs that live on and near those islands, they don’t deserve to have to put up with him either. I suggest a planet somewhere.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He is like a shit that won’t flush.
jaded_genie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ll take him as my neighbor in a heartbeat! Send him over here!
My kids wake up randomly at night screaming, torturing the entire neighborhoods - send the twat over here to get some banshee in the middle of the night treatment