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brooklynite

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Fri Nov 1, 2019, 09:49 AM Nov 2019

Farage to Johnson: join forces or Brexit party will contest every seat

Source: The Guardian

Nigel Farage has launched his general election campaign by saying his Brexit party will contest every seat in the country unless Boris Johnson agrees to drop his deal with the EU and sign up to a “leave alliance”.

The former Ukip leader also praised Donald Trump for his intervention in which he suggested the prime minister and the Brexit party should form an alliance.

At the launch in central London on Friday, Farage said his message for the prime minister was: “Drop the deal because it’s not Brexit. Drop the deal because as these weeks go by and people realise what you’ve signed up to … people will not like it.

“Simply, it is not Brexit. What we’re doing here is kicking the can down the road.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/01/farage-to-johnson-join-forces-or-brexit-party-will-contest-every-seat

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Farage to Johnson: join forces or Brexit party will contest every seat (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2019 OP
Nigel deserves a milkshake IronLionZion Nov 2019 #1
He's a nasty piece of shite kimbutgar Nov 2019 #2
Update: Johnson says no muriel_volestrangler Nov 2019 #3

muriel_volestrangler

(101,158 posts)
3. Update: Johnson says no
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 03:43 PM
Nov 2019

At same link:

In response the prime minister flatly rejected the idea of any electoral pact on Friday evening, saying a vote for any other party risked a Labour victory on 12 December.

“The advantage of our deal is it’s oven-ready, it’s there to go, you put it in, come back in the middle of December, and we get it done and Brexit is over the line,” he told the BBC.

Pressed about whether he would be prepared to strike any kind of deal with Farage, he said: “Now the difficulty about doing deals with any other party is that any other party, I’m afraid, simply risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into No 10.”

If both parties stick to their guns, then predicting the election result becomes almost impossible.
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