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INAE OH
JUN. 24, 2016 9:29 AM
As Britain awoke on Friday to the news that it had voted in favor of withdrawing from the European Union, voters were introduced to their new reality with a stunning admission from Nigel Farage, the pro-Brexit advocate who leads the U.K. Independence Party. Farage said that the Vote Leave campaign's signature pledgethat leaving the European Union would allow for £350 million to be spent on the U.K.'s National Health Servicewas a "mistake."
Farage's mea culpa was made during an appearance on Good Morning Britain, where he was asked if he could continue supporting that promise after the campaign to extract the United Kingdom from the European Union had succeeded ...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/nigel-farage-admits-his-bold-brexit-claim-was-mistake
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)The blowback from all this will be interesting.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)People who believed him are now calling him a tosser
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Dickhead. Douchebag. Motherfucker.
I could go on.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)"A "tosser" is literally a man who is overly fond of masturbation. By extension in general usage, it denotes someone (usually male) who behaves in a selfish and inconsiderate manner. It is almost identical in meaning and usage to the word "wanker" but is perhaps considered slightly less vulgar."
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I have determined the Brits have somewhat of a fixation on masturbation and a vast lexicon to go along with it
I thought it might be related to such. That or the guy in the rugby scrum who passes gas
Love reading the British press today such colorful language.
"Bog off Boris, you Top-up Tory"
It's like another language
Stallion
(6,473 posts)at its base its usually racism or nationalism
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Who could've fucking thought?