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After the big news about Boris and GE2015 we now have further details about Nigel Farage’s intentions. It looks as though he is going for South Thanet – a seat that had been strongly tipped and where he has stood before. A selection meeting has been fixed for August 26th though it does look like a formality for the party leader.
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That doesn't necessarily mean Ukip will end up winning lots of seats though as the political class will probably use lawfare to stop it.
Someone like Peter Sissons perhaps?
Edit to remove crappy blockquotes
Being pointlessly offensive is allowed on Fridays (no one really bothers much on other days either)
Farage got 5% when he stood in the constituency previously in 2005.
Sounds like a tough gig.
Or some limp-wristed shandy drinking stuff that a politically correct grief-whore from the professional Taking Offence Brigade thought could be worth money or a column in the Guardian?
Louise Mensch @LouiseMensch · 37s
In fact, Jacob Rees-Mogg for next leader. By far our most intelligent MP.
With the new 2014 - 2015 Football League season starting tonight, I've backed the promotion favourites Cardiff City to win or draw at Blackburn at 4/5 with Betfair.
DYOR.
= Landslide for Farage
(if there is a God)
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/07/could-farage-win-if-he-stands-in-thanet-south/
Every idiot on pb was predicting that for years.
To the best of my knowledge being drunk in (charge of) a thread is not yet illegal. But I'm sure the bureaucrats are working on it. Anyway, half of us here would probably doing porridge if that were the case.
Mr. Llama, cats sound quite vindictive.
Still, this is what we got promoted for, and it is the best Leicester side and best manager since the MON years.
Never heard of the latter till mouthy Kippers tried to get them banned mind.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/13/ukip-comedy-tour-jonny-baptists_n_4957257.html
I think people (not necessarily just on the left) underestimate how their comedy or attempts thereat on things like Have I Got News For You reinforces and encourages more people to move to UKIP.
It's not a tiny little fringe anymore.
Would he even want to win? And have to stop grandstanding in the Euro parliament (which he is very good at).
As regards the handicap markets, most bookies tend to take these down as soon as the season starts, so now's probably the time to put your money down!
Well thats what they told me. Have to say some of the older clientele seemed to be splitting their sides at the "paki uk immigration man joke"
It's not necessarily politically correct.
Monty Python disabled Olympics definitely not PC but still pretty funny.
Mr. Owls, thanks, hope you enjoy it.
She mentioned, in passing, that if you die alone in a locked flat, a dog will lie by your side, starving, and pinning you for days. A cat won't even make it past *ahem* dinner time.
She said it was the worst thing she'd ever seen in her career.
Maybe I am wrong. Cant see him coming out for any party though TBH
First draft's done, but it'll need a lot of mangling, especially at the start (weirdly, a lot of change can be easier than less, because I'll probably just axe some bits and write whole new sections rather than having to amend what's currently there, which is harder and takes longer).
No ETA. Outside chance of this year but much likelier 2015. Before that, Sir Edric's Treasure [this year, hopefully], at least one short story and perhaps some others will emerge.
He is still really funny though.
http://www.newstatesman.com/comedy/2010/12/ricky-gervais-ince-office
Hope it makes you feel leftwing guilt for laughing at Sir Edric's exploits.
Edited extra bit: cheers, Mr. Lilburne. May you titter with mirth throughout.
Chaucer was a class traitor
Shakespeare hated the mob
Donne sold out a bit later
Sidney was a nob
Marlowe was an elitist
Ben Jonson was much the same
Bunyan was a defeatist
Dryden played the game
There’s a sniff of reaction
About Alexander Pope
Sam Johnson was a Tory
And Walter Scott a dope
Coleridge was a right winger
Keats was lower middle class
Wordsworth was a cringer
But William Blake was a gas
Dickens was a reformist
Tennyson was a blue
Disraeli was mostly pissed
And nothing that Trollope said was true
Willy Yeats was a fascist
So were Eliot and Pound
Lawrence was a sexist
Virginia Woolf was unsound
There are only three names
To be plucked from this dismal set
Milton Blake and Shelley
Will smash the ruling class yet
Milton Blake and Shelley
Will smash the ruling class yet.
Some estimates have put this influx in the thousands but it is difficult to judge because this is post-2011 for the most part. Although there has been something of an uptick in younger age groups from 2001 to 2011, which is possibly catching the early stages of this phenomenon.
Oh, and thans for posting my profile of the seat volcanopete.
Sir Ben Ainslie, Roger Allam, Kirstie Allsop, Steve Backley, Dickie Bird, Cilla Black, Gyles Brandreth, Will Carling, Colonel Tim Collins, Ronnie Corbett, Simon Cowell, Steve Cram, Lord Michael Dobbs, Ranulph Fiennes, Ben Fogle, Sir Bruce Forsyth, David Gower, Sir Max Hastings, Gloria Hunniford, Sir Mike Jackson, Sir Mick Jagger, Griff Rhys Jones, Jemima Khan, Gabby Logan, Dame Vera Lynn, James May, Andy McNab, Al Murray, Peter Oborne, Sir Michael Parkinson, Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Cliff Richard, Hugo Rifkind, David Starkey, David Suchet, Daley Thompson, Alan Titchmarsh, Roger Uttley, David Walliams, Zoë Wanamaker
Just my take on the names that stood out as potential or probable Conservatives.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text
'cause deriding past greats is merely their norm.
http://www.ukipcherwell.co.uk/parliamentrary-candidate
Free money IMHO.
Hope I don't get Mike sued..
Too much to hope for two crossovers in one day I guess!
Get an early night ready for #CrossOverSaturday
#champagnesocialists
I concur with HYUFD that laying Farage will likely be a nice little earner!
Mind you, I start every season optimistic, the triumph of hope over experience.
Southampton to go down is one of my bets, they have sold the team and got a new manager.
Yes - 40%, No - 46%, Undecided - 14%