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The social contract goes. Only those that are tolerant are tolerated. If you break it you only have yourself to blame.
He's not dead. Sounds like he's being tolerated more than some victims of conservative belief.
What a pathetic frog-faced snowflake.
nazis crying at the slightest pushback as always
Liberal tolerance is the only reason that milkshake cup was just filled with milkshake
Sounds like he's pretty lactose intolerant
MTG lacks toes, too. And she's defo intolerant.
This is fucking disgusting. How dare he call us liberal.
Yeah, the Lib Dems are still basically irrelevant.
Oh hey Nigel F
Fancy a milkshake? 
He's just jealous of all the free milkshakes the effigy is getting.
"The paradox of tolerance."
lol liberals are only intolerant to fascists.
Tolerance doesn't necessarily entail "turning the other cheek". Jesus actually said, "Show them both cheeks!"
That's tolerance for ignorant, illiterate, bigoted racist fascists that is the extreme right.
Oh, is that what goatse was all about? Now I get it.
Well played, Chesterfield Pride, well played 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
why does nigel care its not like he's ever in the uk doing the job he was elected to do
Not being a fascist is intolerant, says fascist.
So, they're intolerant... of him? That's pretty targeted intolerance, almost as if they're not targeting an entire group of people based on one shared trait
They are. The shared trait is intolerance.
The Milkshake King 👑🍼
Britain, I beg of you, please finally shut this fucker up. Holy crap how can you deal with him being there still, talking, words falling out of his fishman mouth?!
We elected him as MP for checks notes Clacton... Unfortunately
I can totally see farage standing in for one himself for money. Imagine that. £70 to barrage the farage
I’m asking from across the pond here. How the fuck is this guy still relevant at all? Wasn’t he the face of UKIP a few years ago? And now he rises from the ashes as an MP?
Look, I know we have our own dirty laundry to deal with here, and for the sake of the rest of the planet, I sincerely hope we do. Guys like Nigel farage and Donnie douchebag need to be launched into the fucking sun. How do we make this shit end?
He campaigned in a constituency which as far as I understand it is economically depressed. Apparently that is somehow the fault of a party that isn't in power, and therefore they chose to elect a right-wing extremist who will spend most of his time campaigning for Trump in the United States, and not doing his actual job in th UK. This may be a blessing in disguise really, but technically he should be in parliament.
He's popular because he has easy answers for hard problems. At least he claims to have easy answers to hard problems, but since him and his merry band of morons don't have a snowballs chance in hell of getting anywhere near power, he can claim whatever he wants, without having to face the inconvenience of actually implementing any of it.
In some ways him being in parliament now is actually a good thing because when he inevitably fails to deliver on any of his rhetoric, his brand will be damaged.
The same troll farms, bots and organised disinformation campaigns that support Trump in the US, support bottom-feeders like Farage in the UK, the FN in France, the (literal) fascists in Italy, Orban, Erdogan, and other shitstains ad nauseam. In all those cases, there are indigenous groups that believe they have common cause with Putin, with the goal of weakening Western democracy, scapegoating marginalised groups and polarising civil society. And Putin needs dissension in the west, within and between countries, in order to weaken Western resolve to resist the resurgence of Russian imperialist ambitions and to interfere with measures to address the climate crisis, which weaken the demand for fossil-fuel exports. Fossil fuels are Russian's primary source of export revenue.