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Because it's obvious that anyone thinking that anything that affects Farage in terms of being an MP or not does not make a blind bit of difference in the amount of damage that prick does to the UK. He wasn't in charge of ANYTHING when he got all his tentpole ideas implemented by various governments, and if he isn't in charge of ANYTHING when all this shit ends, it won't limit him in the slightest.
People need to wake up to this shit.
I disagree. You're basing your argument on him continuing to have the same levels of support from the public and media. That's hardly a given, is it? Even sections of the right wing media that have blown so much smoke up his cloaca for years are starting to turn on him.
and are they likely to turn away from the stuff he wants to have happen, and will the revert the things he made happen?
You’re asking if the fall of Farage will automatically make right wingers, euroskeptics, racists, and grifters suddenly stop being terrible people?
what fall?
I doubt if the billionaire media owners acquired their fortunes any more honestly than Farage got his much smaller one, and they'll continue to amplify his every brain fart. And as long as Reform is targeting people hated by the vast herds of gammon and the hooligans, they'll keep supporting Farage. They don't care if he's bent. They'd be a rich cunt like him if they could. He's a crook, but they see him as their crook.