St Nigel's Last Speech.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/video/well-thats-it-its-all-over-finished-11921041
Is he now the most successful politician in history?

[Zacs-Master]

Define 'successful'.

[diddlydo]

One of the biggest a???????s on the planet.

[jim360]

He's enjoyed the wonderful privilege of wielding a great deal of power and influence without any actual responsibility.

[Old_Geezer]

Someone who achieved a good deal of what they set out to do ?

[jim360]

Farage didn't really achieve it though. Others did the achievement for him.

[dannyk13]

Jim// Others did the achievement for him//
Spurred on by him, I would suggest.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM: He has the achieved his stated aim of UK independence, without ever setting foot in the HOC

[ToraToraTora]

he alone made UKIP a force, a force to scare Cameron into ceeding the referendum, that's the key to this.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, I suppose if you count standing at 5 GE's and 2 by-elections and not getting elected in any of them successful then.............

[jim360]

All this is true but still the fact is that Farage is being given credit for what is ultimately other peoples' work. Yes, maybe he scared them into doing his work for him, but that's their lookout not his. And, lest we forget, he trashed the end product. What you get on Friday is not anything like what Farage was after, in the details at least.

Still, I can't say I blame you for not caring about that, and I hope in turn you can't blame me for sourness.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM, the measure of political success is often in those things but the fact remains that he's achieved his goal without.

[ToraToraTora]

jim, you are entitled to be sour, fair enough, but I hope you are not going to be hoping for catastrophe so you can say "told you so" like diddly and co.

[diddlydo]

TTT - there'll be quite a little gang of us saying "told you so" - and it'll be sooner rather than later.

[Peter Pedant]

cant you photoshop your icon to show duct tape over his mush?

anyway st nige is the prophet they could not gag innit ?

[Ellipsis]

> He's enjoyed the wonderful privilege of wielding a great deal of power and influence without any actual responsibility.

But ...
With great power comes great responsibility

[ToraToraTora]

so diddly, you didn't get your own way so you want things to go wrong just so you can gloat? Remember Ms Genius that you live here too!
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[diddlydo]

TTT - when the Brexiteers come to their senses and realise what a huge mistake they've voted for, there will be a huge push to rejoin.

[ToraToraTora]

diddply quite possibly, why not start the mirror image of UKIP and do what Nigel did? You could call it the VBQC party.

[diddlydo]

What's VBQC when it's at home?