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As much as I dislike Farage and everything he stands for (1) British politics is better off without him and his toxic divisiveness and (2) his party is so small that he couldn't make any difference anyway.

He's done enough damage so please let him go and let's hope he stays gone this time around (he already left once before and then came back to campaign for the 'leave' camp).

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> As much as I dislike Farage and everything he stands for (1) British politics is better off without him and his toxic divisiveness

That would be nice, but I'm guessing he's coming back in a few years either as a Conservative of some sort or to help with far-right power plays in the Labour heartlands à la US Southern Strategy.

> his party is so small that he couldn't make any difference anyway

> He's done enough damage

These seem contradictory.

His party hasn't made any difference, he as an individual has.

His party has only 1 single seat. But Farage as a person has been instrumental in creating strife. Much like Wilders in NL (who has far more seats in parliament here), politically he doesn't have much clout but he is very capable of fomenting dissent and division within our society (and the press is complicit in giving him a disproportional amount of airtime to spew his provocative bile).

> His party has only 1 single seat.

Number of seats in Parliament is a poor measure of influence. UKIP has had a major impact on British politics, particularly at the last General Election.

So much so that the EU Referendum was called, and indeed, a majority voted to fulfil the central purpose of UKIP.

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