"Pamela" wrote in message
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On 22:18 16 Dec 2019, Steve Walker wrote:

On 16/12/2019 18:10, Pamela wrote:
On 18:00 16 Dec 2019, alan_m wrote:
On 16/12/2019 13:56, Pamela wrote:
On 07:52 16 Dec 2019, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa 2\)" wrote:


I see Zack lost his seat.
Brian

I see the Brexit party and UKIP didn't get a single seat.


Didn't all those "remain" MPs that changed parties or stood as
independents lose their seats?

I don't think they were standing for BXP or UKIP.

As I recall Farage was going to make the government quake from the
massive
popular mandate he expected the BXP to get in the election.

He stood down candidates from seats where the Conservatives had a good
chance of winning, so as not to split the vote, so he was hardly trying
to make the government quake.

SteveW

Farage was forced to stand down half his candidates

He chose to do that, he wasn’t forced to do that.

in exchange for nothing
at all. Boris made it clear he didn't want to agree anything with Farage.

The other half of Farage's candidates who stood got nowhere.

Farage wasn't happy with Boris's Brexit deal and tried to harden it but
now
it's possible Boris may actually soften it to meet his own deadlines.

In fact he has already announced that he will harden it with no extension
to the time to reach a new trade agreement.