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Brexit Party Rally of the day number two. This time in Huddersfield. Another packed room.
Party source says 650 tickets sold.
“Chants of Nigel, Nigel, Nigel”
Pure pantomime. “Snarling” @guyverhofstadt and pity for @theresa_may.
Farage: “people have been saying I’m going around the country stirring up anger- I’m not. I’m going around the country saying don’t get angry, get even.”

Which, it must be said, sounds a little angry.
There is such genuine excitement here.
I ask one woman in her 60s why she likes Farage: “I find him quite sexy to be honest with you.”

Me: “What in particular that gets you going? The beer? The fags?”

Woman: “Yes, both.”
This is at the heart of it all. I ask one group which is the more powerful, the EU or UK? All reply: “the UK”.

Which holds the cards, I ask.

“UK. If we just leave they’ll be banging down our door.”

If you think that, any deal where the UK makes *any* concessions, won’t cut it.
I ask why they’re so sure the UK would come off better in no deal:

“Well we beat them in two world wars didn’t we?”

Me: “What’s that got to do with anything?”

Woman: “A lot. It matters a lot.”
I still feel like the Brexit Party is a bigger problem for the Tories than Labour. Many of the ex Labour people at the rallies haven’t been Labour for a while. But the party’s vote feels v brittle. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if we see big shifts in northern areas on the 23rd.
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