tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post7584040380151843489..comments2024-03-28T09:36:30.991+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Real EstateDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-13240151075703837472018-01-13T15:47:43.280+00:002018-01-13T15:47:43.280+00:00Stop reading after the first line. Ridiculous. Com...Stop reading after the first line. Ridiculous. Completely and utterly ridiculous.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-91833182992835777782018-01-13T13:52:51.596+00:002018-01-13T13:52:51.596+00:00There’s have been no “leave campaign” nor any refe...There’s have been no “leave campaign” nor any referendum at all without him. <br />In the event he turned what looked like certain defeat into victory when Vote Leave came begging to him as it trailed in the polls, and he told them to focus on immigration, the moment the campaign transformed its fortunes.<br /><br />He never called for a second referendum yesterday. He made his views clear in his Telegraph column that day if you read it (“I never wanted a second referendum but we have to be prepared for one”).<br /><br />As the excellent Peter Oborne wrote on why Nigel Farage is the fourth most influential political figure of the last 30 years.<br /><br />“”By my estimate, only three politicians have made a genuine, enduring difference to Britain in the past 50 years. First, there was Roy Jenkins, Labour’s Home Secretary in the Sixties. He was regarded as the father of the Permissive Society — legalising homosexuality, abolishing hanging, ending censorship, reforming abortion and divorce laws.<br /><br />Then there was Edward Heath, the Tory prime minister in the Seventies who negotiated Britain’s entry into the nascent European Union (then misleadingly known as the Common Market).<br /><br />Third was Margaret Thatcher, the greatest prime minister of the post-war period. She destroyed the power of the over-mighty trade unions, yanked the economy off its knees and restored national pride. We’re still benefiting from her foresight and bravery.<br /><br />Now, in the aftermath of Brexit, we can add Nigel Farage as a fourth change-maker. I believe future historians will consider him as significant as Roy Jenkins and a bigger figure than Heath. <br /><br />Consider the facts: David Cameron would never have called a referendum on Britain’s EU membership but for Farage and the fear of losing votes to Ukip.”<br /><br />https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3715544/amp/PETER-OBORNE-Lefties-loathe-truth-man-changed-history.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-76748268993193547222018-01-13T13:29:20.005+00:002018-01-13T13:29:20.005+00:00There certainly won't be any after yesterday.
...There certainly won't be any after yesterday.<br /><br />Farage was not even part of the official Leave campaign.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-41521911360848526082018-01-13T13:25:41.165+00:002018-01-13T13:25:41.165+00:00Im crying with laughter at this “Nigel Farage is n...Im crying with laughter at this “Nigel Farage is not a significant figure.” No, not at all. He’s only permanently changed the entire course of British politics by achieving a referendum and a vote to leave against all the mainstream Parliamentary parties and put Britain on course for a withdrawal from the EU that was unthinkable just 5 years ago. <br /><br />Peter Oborne is right. There ought to be statues to Farage, the most influential figure of the last 30 years, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com