(June 25, 2016 at 7:23 am)abaris Wrote: You know, I wonder what they get out of it. It can be safely said, they're not having the wellbeing of the people in mind, but an agenda of their own.
In the case of Johnson, there's at least some kind of explanation, since he probably achieved his victory by kicking Dave out of office, but what's Farage's deal?
I'm not sure, but I suspect, that he simply wanted to score political points with UKIP constituents. Whatever economical and political consequences leaving EU may have - the ideas of controlled immigration and freedom from outside regulations will always resonate with certain portion of the voting public. If nothing else - Farage will always be the guy, who made the big bad EU go away. Sure - at least half the population will always hate him for it, but then - they always have.
Although I also suspect, that Farage didn't really count on winning the referendum. The campaign was a good way of presenting himself as an important political player and had the vote to leave failed - he'd still be able to point to his efforts, in order to blame pro-EU politicians for whatever issues might come up in the near future.
In other words, I think he was just doing his usual xenophobic song-and-dance, pandering to his base - and he got more than he hoped for.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
