The Brexit party is a post-politics entity

NIgel Farage’s Brexit party has no policy, no arguments and no ideas. Instead it is running on an emotional narrative of betrayal.
Remainers are making a pig’s ear of the European elections

Campaigning without any coordination means Remain parties could easily end up without any seats at all.
Week in Review: Ukip loses the plot completely

Ukip leader Gerard Batten is helping the party shift further to the right into explicit Islamophobia, like Donald Trump and Viktor Orban.
Week in Review: The ‘civil unrest’ horror story

The cautious warnings of Labour politicians are increasingly looking like an accommodation of the far-right.
Farage’s allies in Italy are normalising far-right politics

Italy’s Salvini turning down refugee ship Aquarius was a violation of the Hamburg Convention, but it was just the beginning. The Italian politician announced that he will prevent access to rescue boats in the future.
Hard Brexiteers will never be happy

Whatever the outcome, they will say the British people have been betrayed
Labour MEP takes Farage to task for Soros witchhunt

Labour MEP Seb Dance writes a furious email to Nigel farage over his use of a far-right trope that George Soros is trying to subvert democracy
Ukip Hillsborough fiasco reveals party’s true colours

The party will do and say anything to win votes
The extreme right-wing views of new Ukip leader Paul Nuttall

New Ukip leader is in some respects even more of a hardline right-winger than Nigel Farage
Pick of the week: Farage is now Trump’s lapdog

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