No Boris and Nigel

Back in August I wrote about the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election in which the incumbent Conservative was unseated by the Liberal Democrats. This victory was achieved by the other Remainer candidates in the Green Party and Plaid Cymru standing down. They literally sacrificed their individual success in the election for the Remainer cause and they were perfectly eager to do so, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/08/boris-and-nigel.html. This was a very important watershed in British politics because it reveals the emergence of an anti-Brexit coalition, if only informal at this point. I said at the time that it was essential for Brexiteer politicians to do the same. It was US President Trump who first said: "Nigel, get with Boris." Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is a very new flag only launched in January 2019 after Farage quit UKIP in disgust at their fielding Carl Benjamin, known online as "Sargon of Akkad", as a candidate in the EU Parliamentary election. Since then it has seized most of the political space UKIP formerly occupied leaving the latter a "zombie party". After the failure of the Halloween Brexit, Boris Johnson called a general election and, against all odds, succeeded. It will happen on December the 12th. UK elections are hardly ever held in winter; the last time it happened was in 1923. Brexit has turned the entire British electorate into single-issue voters and the Remainers will capitalize on that nationally as they did in Brecon and Radnorshire. We may even see a Labour- Lib Dem alliance, in the same way the Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party formed an alliance for the 1983 general election, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/02/gang-of-seven.html. I said back then that the obvious solution was for the Brexiteer organizations to do the same; in fact I believe it is essential. Together they would be unstoppable, even with the inevitable dirty tricks in the form of electoral fraud and fake news (and possibly more; I'll say more about that later). The Tories are currently around twenty points ahead in the polls, a very comfortable lead. However, as I've said before, there are times when Nigel Farage appears to lose his mind, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/01/farage-loses-his-mind.html. When there was a council by-election in Torksey, Lincolnshire I wondered what would happen. The ward has been a safe conservative one, although there is a rising Liberal Democrat presence. The council, West Lindsey, is in the Parliamentary constituency of Gainsborough whose MP is a leading Tory Brexiteer, Sir Edward Leigh. He has sat for Gainsborough since 1983. Therefore Brexit is obviously a major commitment of the local Conservative Party branch and voting public. So what did Farage do? He put up a candidate against the Tory one! This is outright insanity. As it happens, the Tory, Jayne Ellis, won the seat, but with a majority twenty-two points down from the previous one. Source: https://www.gainsboroughstandard.co.uk/news/politics/conservatives-hold-torksey-seat-in-west-lindsey-by-election-1-10069515.

Torksey was a near-miss. If the Lib Dem had won, then this time the blame would lie not with the Remainers, but with the Leavers; specifically with Farage for splitting the Brexiteer vote. Under the British system only the majority candidate gets any representation which means if two parties with the same agenda compete against each other they will destroy each other. It's the ultimate in divide-and-conquer. If this pattern translates nationally then the same could well happen on December the 12th in Westminster. I assumed this would be obvious, but then yesterday, amazingly, Boris Johnson revealed that he would not be cooperating with Nigel Farage in his campaign. He said he would consult with Farage, and was "grateful for advice", but ruled out any kind of pact. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50264395. He claimed that it would risk a Labour victory, but as far as I can see the opposite is the case. We, the British people, don't care about party politics; right now least of all. We care about the future of our nation which includes leaving the European Union as mandated by the 2016 referendum. I'm not sure what Boris playing at, and he evades the question in his interview with Laura Kuenssberg. There are only three possibilities: 1. He has lost his mind. 2. He is a fraud, a globalist agent, a Remainer in disguise, as Caroline Stephens has maintained, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L1eQlJY6oM. 3. He knows what he is doing and has some kind of trick up his sleeve that he is keeping to himself. Obviously, I hope to God it is the third possibility.

See here for background: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-extension-livestream.html.

And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2019/10/boris-letters.html.

And: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2019/10/programme-343-podcast-halloween-brexit.html.

And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2019/10/another-bloody-delay.html.