Nigel Farage declares war on Labour AND Tories

[Warlord]

Nigel Farage today announced the Brexit Party will contest every seat across England, Scotland and Wales at the general election on December 12 unless Boris Johnson ditches his divorce deal.

Mr Farage effectively declared war on both the Tories and the Labour Party as he said he had 500 MP candidates ready to fight across the nation.

But he kept hopes of an election pact between the Conservatives and the Brexit Party on life support as he gave Mr Johnson a November 14 deadline to find a way to form a Leave Alliance.

Last night Donald Trump urged the two men to agree a pact in a move which he said would make them an 'unstoppable force' but senior Tories have categorically ruled out doing a deal.

Mr Farage said that the offer of an alliance still stood but only if the Prime Minister ditched his divorce accord with the EU and pursued a 'clean break' Brexit.

Mr Johnson has made clear that he will fight the election campaign on a pledge to deliver his deal, seemingly making a pact impossible.

Eurosceptics fear that if the two parties do not come to an arrangement they will split the Leave vote in numerous constituencies across the country, opening the door for pro-EU parties to come through the middle and win.

That would represent a hammer blow to Mr Johnson's hopes of securing a parliamentary majority.

Mr Farage admitted that the 'risk of the vote being split is very real' as he launched the Brexit Party's election campaign at an event in London this morning.

He urged Mr Johnson to 'reconsider' his divorce accord with Brussels and 'drop the deal because it is not Brexit'.

He warned Mr Johnson that if he refused to budge then the Brexit Party would spend the next six weeks ensuring every home in the UK is aware that his deal is a 'sell out'.

In those circumstances Mr Farage said: 'We will contest every single seat in England, Scotland and Wales. Please don't doubt that we are ready.

'Do not underestimate our determination or organisation.'

Mr Farage said he hoped that 'common sense prevails over the next two weeks' and that the two parties can strike a pact.

The Brexit Party leader also said he would aggressively go after Labour-held Leave-backing seats in areas like the east Midlands, the north east of England and South Wales.

He said those were 'absolutely among our top targets' as he attacked Labour's plan to hold a second referendum.

He said Labour's proposal to pitch a Brexit deal negotiated by Jeremy Corbyn against Remain at a national ballot would represent a 'complete and utter betrayal' of Leave voters.

He then insisted it was 'nonsense' to suggest that such areas could vote for Mr Johnson and that as a result the 'Brexit Party poses a very major problem to Labour'.

Delivering his November 14 ultimatum to Mr Johnson, he said: 'I will say this to Boris Johnson: drop the deal, drop the deal because it is not Brexit, drop the deal because as weeks go by and people discover what it is you will have signed up, they will not like it.'

Insisting that an alliance would usher in a majority for Brexit-backing parties, Mr Farage added: 'No one party owns the Brexit vote, that even includes the Brexit Party.

'This is something that crosses all traditional loyalties and divides and it's why the only way to get Brexit done is to form a Leave Alliance and to win this election with a big stonking majority.'

The Tories responded to Mr Farage's comments by restating their opposition to a pact.

James Cleverly, the chairman of the Conservative Party, said: 'A vote for Farage risks letting Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street via the back door - and the country spending 2020 having two referendums on Brexit and Scottish independence.

'It will not get Brexit done - and it will create another gridlocked Parliament that doesn’t work.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...t-Party-election-hit-list-HUNDREDS-seats.html

 

[Swordsmyth]

I don't know if this will be resolved without chaos unless the public wakes up and vote BREXIT party or Boris wakes up and makes a deal.
Nigel needs to make a deal with UKIP, no splits in the leave movement can be allowed.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Anti-Brexit "People's Vote" Campaign Collapses In Civil War https://t.co/Wvn0XTM1zH
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[Zippyjuan]

Brexit Party currently polling just eleven percent of voters.

Conservative: 37%
Labor 22%
Liberal Dems: 19%
Brexit: 11%
Green Party 7%
UKIP: 1%
Plaid Cyrmu 1%
Other: 1%

 

[Zippyjuan]

Trump jumped into the fray and claimed that if there is a Brexit deal, the US would be unable to have any trade deals with the UK. Not true.

 

[Warlord]

Boris Johnson has rejected the suggestion from Nigel Farage and Donald Trump that he should work with the Brexit Party during the election.

The Tory leader told the BBC he was "always grateful for advice" but he would not enter into election pacts.

His comments come after the US president said Mr Farage and Mr Johnson would be "an unstoppable force".

Downing Street sources say there are no circumstances in which the Tories would work with the Brexit Party.

In an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said the "difficulty" of doing deals with "any other party" was that it "simply risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10".

"The problem with that is that his [Mr Corbyn's] plan for Brexit is basically yet more dither and delay," Mr Johnson said.

Mr Johnson also said there was "no question of negotiating on the NHS" as part of any future trade deal with the US, but he did not rule out expanding the amount of private provision in the health service in the future.

But Labour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said the public "can't trust the Tories on the NHS", saying they would "increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump".

When pushed on whether he would rule out a deal with Mr Farage, Mr Johnson replied: "I want to be very, very clear that voting for any other party than this government, this Conservative government… is basically tantamount to putting Jeremy Corbyn in."

The UK is going to the polls on 12 December following a further delay to the UK's departure from the EU, to 31 January 2020.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50264395

 

[Swordsmyth]

the prime minister said the "difficulty" of doing deals with "any other party" was that it "simply risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10"

That is what not doing a deal with Nigel threatens to do.

 

[Warlord]

That is what not doing a deal with Nigel threatens to do.

Yes it seems Boris is just flat out lying now. You were right to be suspicious of him.

 

[Republicanguy]

Only when the election happens, will anybody knows how it will go. If Labour get in via the Scottish national party, well, they'll get their referendum, but I don't care much if it doesn't happen. Idealism is one position, and the other is dealing with reality as is. Scotland probably won't vote to leave the UK.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Johnson had previously pledged to take Britain out of the EU with or without a deal on Oct. 31, before lawmakers voted to force him to seek an extension until Jan. 31.
But he has abandoned the threat of a no-deal Brexit in his Conservative Party’s manifesto for the Dec. 12 election, the Times newspaper reported on Saturday. It added that the focus would be on getting his Brexit deal approved.
On Friday, Johnson rejected a call from the Brexit Party to drop the deal he negotiated with the European Union last month in order to form a new electoral pact, saying that he could put his deal through parliament after any election win.
“What we’ve got is a fantastic deal that nobody thought we could get,” Johnson said. “As soon as we get back in the middle of December, we can put that deal through.”
In Britain’s tortuous journey since the 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU, businesses and economists have cautioned that leaving the bloc without a deal to smooth the transition would hurt the British economy.
Proponents of a no-deal Brexit say it provides a clean break from EU rules and regulations.
“If The Times are right and Boris Johnson will abandon a clean break Brexit, and he wins an election on this, we will never be free of EU rules,” Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage said in a tweet.
“The deal is simply not Brexit and does not get Brexit done.”

More at: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-b...l-brexit-in-manifesto-the-times-idUKKBN1XC050