Possibly, but the key point is that Reform is ultimately Farage's baby. While Carswell was less prominent than Braverman or Jenrick, he was more of a policy wonk, and in a contest, lost heavily - which is why he's over in Mississippi rather than front line British politics.
No, I think NF will want to be PM. He's about more than just being the pub bore, and he wants power - and I think can see a way to getting it. If he does choose to stay in the background, he'll do it with someone who he thinks he can control - and both Jenrick and Braverman have demonstrated that they are not controllable.
Gathering like flies round excrement
If the polling continues to be strong for them and it looks like they'll win the next election I think he will lead them into it, become PM and do it for a bit, until the first scandal, embarassment or whatever then he will quit. He will have the clout from being a former PM then which lets face it is all he has had a lifelong ambition to even become an MP let alone the PM. He doesn't have the actual work ethic to long term be an MP or Minister let alone the PM.
I don't. By assuming it's all about money, you underestimate him. Badly.
I still disagree. I think power is the main aphrodisiac - money is just a nice second best. And I don't believe Tice has an altruistic bone in his body.
I don't. Tice is Farage's meal ticket - and the usage is that way round
I think it is about the money.
Most people's morals start to become flexible when money is involved. And nor do many people care particularly where money comes from. If most of us, for example, suddenly received thousands of pounds unexpectedly into our bank account, we wouldn't stop and ask where it came from. We'd immediately be booking a 5 star holiday with it, no questions asked.
I still think you confuse two separate things. I think he's more willing to work than you give him credit for, but I share your views of his ability to do the sustained hard graft of being PM, and of his love of money.
It's been suggested Labour moved fast on the by-election to try and impede other parties getting campaigns running properly. Gaffes like these back that up.
Ah, I see your point. And yes, probably; there are easier ways than politics to make a big pile of cash.
Matt Goodwin, GBNews presenter and Reform candidate, has some interesting views about people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Apparently being born in the UK and living in the UK doesn't make you British.
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I think you grossly overestimate the ability of Reform voters to identify hypocrisy...
Isn't that route pencilled in for a tram or tram/train service? If so, the new MP could only cancel it rather than anything else (if that's in their powers?)?
I can't remember where I read it now, but I did laugh at him being connected to the area because he delivered takeaways there while at university. Why try to play up a guys local links if they're so tenuous, it just looks silly. My wife said she might run because her car broke down on the M67 once. She had to spend a few hours at the local Sainsburys.
She already sounds like a better candidate!
She already sounds like a better candidate!
