Nigel Farage For The House Of Lords?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3886780/Call-Lord-Farage-Ukip-leader-finally-enter-Parliament-leadership-runners-pledge-secure-peerage-Mr-Brexit.html

[ichkeria]

Mikey
In my opinion, AOG has a point here: leading a party that got 4 million votes is definitely worth more of a peerage, if that is what floats ones boat, than being a bishop. I have nothing against bishops, but all the same ...

[ladybirder]

EDDIE why do you say he is ideally suited to claiming the £350 allowance?

[ichkeria]

"Ichkeria....Farage is only a caretaker Leader at the moment, due to UKIP's inability to vote a real leader in for more than 18 days at a time."

I know, but I was thinking that they might need an emergency leader again :-)

[Baldric]

He's a very able and personable politician, scares you doesn't he Mikey?

[anotheoldgit]

Mikey4444

He doesn't necessarily have to be the leader of UKIP to represent the party in the House of Lords.

[Ninefingers]

Our favourite lefty warrior will be comparing Farage to Trump shortly.

Every other manifestation of a politician is in there why not Farage?

If memory serves one SNP Member in the past was offered but rejected the peerage, their basic policy is vehemently opposed to the House of Lords! next argument??

Oh PS Jenny Jones Green Party 2013, another group vehemently opposed to the House of Lords

[naomi24]

The panic on this thread is palpable - not to mention highly amusing. He scares the hell out of some people.

He's done more for this country than all the other politicians - of all flavours - put together. I hope it happens. Good for him!

[hereIam]

^ Hear hear !

[mikey4444]

ninefingers....." favourite lefty warrior"

That is the nicest thing that anybody has said about this week.....thanks !

[mikey4444]

AOG....I agree but why should he have a seat in the HOL, when the SNP and PC, who have 59 MPs don't ?

He might get in, by default, as a Nominated Person, but who would nominate him ?

[ladybirder]

Quite right naomi, there is nobody who comes near.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //why should he have a seat in the HOL, when the SNP and PC, who have 59 MPs don't ? //

Because none of them have done what he's done - or even attempted to do what he's done.

[Gromit]

Won't happen.

Politicians do mot give away power to their rivals.

[mikey4444]

UKIP will soon cease to exist, as its capacity for tearing itself limb-from-limb knows no bounds. So its an academic question in many ways.

[New Judge]

“The make up of the HOL doesn't take into account the Parties that come 2nd, 3rd and 4th.”

Of the 813 “eligible members” of the HOL, 206 are Labour Peers and 104 are LibDem peers. UKIP already has three peers, Lord Rannoch of Pearson, Lord Stevens of Ludgate and Lord Willoughby de Broke.

“Farage's best bet for Membership of the Second Chamber, is to serve in the 1st Chamber for a while, and then brown-nose the Tories, so that they let him into the Upper Chamber at some date in the future.”

Large numbers of peers have never set foot in the House of Commons and many of them have had no involvement in politics whatsoever.

“…when the SNP and PC, who have 59 MPs don't ?”

Plaid Cymru has one representative, Lord Wigley (aka Dafydd Wynne Wigley, leader and President of PC for two spells, 1981 to 1984 and 1991 to 2000).

If anybody deserves a peerage it is Mr Farage. He has worked tirelessly to secure the UK’s escape from the EU, an event that would not have been a remote consideration but for him and his party. No, he has not been elected to the Commons. But he has achieved far more without being a member than all the 650 within it (with a few honourable exception, a motley collection of assorted charlatans and slimeballs) ever shall. In a few years’ time, when the full benefits of Brexit are realised, the EU has imploded and its wretched currency and all its institutions have been flushed down the kharzi of historical disasters, the nation will wonder whether a peerage was quite reward enough.

[naomi24]

//UKIP will soon cease to exist.....So its an academic question in many ways. //

No ... it isn't.

[ToraToraTora]

if anyone deserves it he does. Lord Farage of Brexit has a nice ring to it.

[Bobsy]

Yeah .Democracy innit ?

[david small]

Nigel Farage is a man of personal integrity. His immense efforts over many years are vastly undervalued. I think the man is a hero, and one day all those who derided him will have egg on their smug hypocritical faces.

[naomi24]

^No.