Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage‘s cell phone must have been blowing up over the weekend given that “Conservative, Inc.” plus Conservative Party officials freaking out for weeks over the upcoming December 12 general election. With nomination papers due into the government on November 14, Farage planned to field 600 candidates that could be spoilers.
Many establishment conservatives among the political and media class worried themselves sick that the insurgent Brexit Party could split the pro-Brexit vote, thus handing the far-left Labor Party and a coalition of smaller anti-Brexit parties majority in parliament, the House of Commons. Marxist anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn would become prime minister under that dismal scenario.
Under Prime Ministers Theresa May and now Boris Johnson, there is still no proof that the Conservatives can deliver a “proper” Brexit that respects the 17.4 million U.K. citizens who voted to leave the European Union on June 23, 2016 and reclaim their country’s self-governance.
To date, Johnson and other Conservatives in Name Only have have been pushing Brexit in Name Only 2.0 which is May’s failed surrender document with a few concessions extracted from EU negotiators.
It was pressure from UKIP, Farage’s previous party, that convinced Prime Minister David Cameron to authorize the Brexit referendum in the first place. Cameron, who backed Remain, resigned shortly after the referendum.
Johnson and other members of his inner circle had arrogantly rejected Farage’s proposal of a Leave Alliance in the general election.
Despite that, Farage announce today that his party would unilaterally stand down rather than contest 317 seats across the county that the Conservatives won in the 2017 snap election. This unfortunately means that those Remain Conservatives who are running for reelection will get a pass from the BXP. The change in electoral tactics is no doubt a profound disappointment for those withdrawn candidates, but they undoubtedly knew going in that this turn of events was a possibility.
Watch Nigel Farage’s press conference below:
No fan of the Conservatives (a.k.a. Tories) based on their lackluster track record after 3-1/2 years of delay in fulfilling their promise to implement Brexit, Farage explained that if Labor, the Liberal Democrats, and several smaller parties gained control of parliament, they planned to orchestrate a rigged second referendum where the choice boils down to Remain or Remain.
A Boris Johnson video released Sunday night in which the PM said he would seek a straight-up trade deal with the EU while severing all political entanglements with Brussels and that the transition period would not be open-ended convinced Farage (at least based on his public remarks) to drop out of the Conservative constituencies.
The Brexit Party will face off against Labor in Leave-supporting areas where voters would never back a Tory under any circumstances.
There is no indication so far that any Conservative candidate with no chance of winning in a given constituency will reciprocate and give BXP a clean go at a seat. The BXP could still be influential even if wins a small number of seats. After the 2017 election, the 10-seat Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland propped up Theresa May after defeats for a sizable number of MPs.
Farage, perhaps the world’s best orator who is an elected member of the mostly ceremonial EU parliament where BXP is the largest party, explained his thought process for the stand down in this Periscope video update even while acknowledging doubts over the Conservatives’ genuine level of conviction in actually implementing Breixt.
“We will focus our effort into areas where we’ve got a serious chance to be a challenger to the incumbent Labor MP. And that is where are efforts are going to go because if we leave the Conservative Party to their own devices, they will let us down…what we need to do is get people elected into the House of Commons to hold them to account, knowing that if they let us down, we will take huge numbers of voters and support off them just as Mrs. May lost vast numbers of voters to us earlier on this year when I first founded the Brexit Party. The entire strategy can be summed up as putting country before party…Boris did at least to some degree has put my mind at rest, but we must keep him to his promise…”
Breitbart London‘s James Delingpole sized up today’s events that resulted in Nigel Farage’s unilateral Leave alliance:
“Having fought for Brexit for three decades, Farage understandably doesn’t want to blow it now by splitting the Leave vote and placing Britain’s future in the hands of an unholy alliance of greens, Marxists, dripping wet liberals and Remoaner hold outs.
“At the same time, though, it’s undoubtedly a humiliating surrender of power and influence, cruelly imposed on him by a combination of electoral mathematics and the most tremendous and well-orchestrated pressure from the Conservative Establishment attack machine…
“The good news from Farage’s point of view is that there’s now no danger of his going down in history as the arch-Brexiteer who killed Brexit. Also, in the nearer term, he has removed a lot of heat from his back and he will earn much praise and many sighs of relief from all those Brexiteers (both in the Conservative party and in the surrender-wing of the Brexit Party) who had persuaded themselves that he was a threat…
“Still the good news from a Brexit point of view is that Farage may possibly have leveraged what remained of his political capital into pushing Boris Johnson’s Conservatives into a more solid Brexit – ‘a super plus Canada deal’ – than they might otherwise have negotiated.
“Let us just hope now that the Brexit Party manages, somehow, to win at least a few seats in the constituencies where it is still fielding candidates.
Will Boris Johnson live up to his promise if voters hand him the keys to 10 Downing Street (the London equivalent of the White House) or will he cave in to the EU and the globalists?
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