Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
KEVIN MAGUIRE
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ESTABLISHMENT lickspittle “Sir” Nigel Farage’s coveted knighthood will surely finally arrive from a grateful Boris Johnson.
The Thatcherite city slicker – a Tory for a decade before switching to UKIP then creating the Brexit Party – yearns for a Ruritanian title and is disappointed it wasn’t conferred after the 2016 referendum. The
Q AHe originally demanded Mr Johnson drop his Brexit plan or face 600 candidates. Yet he has backed down. The Brexit Party’s vote was already being squeezed, but it could now become irrelevant. charlatan, who advocated privatising the NHS, is wrestling Johnson to see who climbs furthest and fastest up Trump’s colon.
Labour’s fighting Johnson’s Tory Brexit Party and Farage’s Brexit Tory Party. Chump “Sir” Nigel’s simplified those battle lines. Voters see Boris Farage and Nigel Johnson are two cheeks on the same Tory backside.
was offered one last Friday. Ridiculous – the thought they can buy me. But I’m not interested.”
Mr Farage said his party would fight 300 seats, but left the door open to ditching more if looked like the Brexit Party was a threat to the Tories ahead of December 12. Last night, a former Brexit Party candidate vowed to stand as an independent.
Neil Greaves will contest the Leavevoting Harlow constituency in Essex.
He said: “Nigel has let Brexiteers down. I don’t regard Boris Johnson’s deal as Brexit. Farage has been totally outmanoeuvred and out-negotiated.”
THE BBC apologised for a “mistake” which led to film of Boris Johnson at the Cenotaph in 2016 being used in a BBC Breakfast piece about this year’s Remembrance service.
Mr Johnson was better groomed than on Sunday, when he looked dishevelled and laid a wreath upside down.
“If you wanted to send a message to 17.4 million people you don’t give a f*** about what they just said, why don’t you just say so?” Despite the Remain alliance, Green chief Caroline Lucas may not have Jo Swinson on her Christmas card list, given her views on stopping Brexit.
As the regular right-wing voices attacked Labour for refusing to commit to nuking an imaginary enemy, Gary Lineker weighed into the debate. The Match of the Day host said: “Nuclear thing is bonkers. We’re all f***ed if they’re ever used.”
On Friday, the PM said he will not drink until Brexit is done – despite being pictured with a whisky a day earlier. Yesterday, he enjoyed a pint in Wolverhampton.
“He’s like a footballer who doesn’t have a position, just runs about doing mad sh**,” said a voter in Hartlepool on Nigel Farage’s decision not to contest a parliamentary seat.
Halloween is over but some Tories are still scared. Former minister Mims Davies has ditched her seat of Eastleigh, targeted by the Lib Dems, to stand in Mid Sussex – formerly held by Sir
Nicholas Soames,
Winston Churchill’s grandson.