Posted on 08/27/2016 5:28:25 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Since I announced that I was going to stand aside as Ukip leader in the wake of the successful Brexit campaign, I've had more time to do other things.
This included a trip to Cleveland for the Republican Convention and the adoption of Donald J. Trump as their Presidential candidate.
I was astonished that everybody I met wanted to talk about Brexit – not just the delegates to the convention but ordinary people, including a group of US Navy veterans who told me we should have done it years ago.
There was a chance meeting, in a bar of course, with the delegation from Mississippi.
They were wildly enthusiastic Brexiteers and told me that their State Governor Phil Bryant was delighted with the result and would love me to visit.
So in what I thought would be the quiet days of August, I was happy to accept their invitation.
The plan was simple: I would speak at a dinner hosted by the Governor to speak about the Brexit campaign and to draw parallels with voters in America, who are looking for many of the same things.
It was not until I arrived and was having dinner at the magnificent Governor's Mansion in Jackson that I was told that on the following evening there would be a rally at which up to 15,000 people would come to hear Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Read this earlier. Such a beautiful story :)
British Leader Farage Points Out Parallels Between Brexit and Trump’s Campaign
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/23938-british-leader-farage-points-out-parallels-between-brexit-and-trump-s-campaign
Nigel Farage (shown at microphone), former head of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), addressed some 15,000 Trump supporters in Jackson, Mississippi, on Tuesday night to encourage them in their fight against the Washington political establishment. He drew parallels between the fight for Brexit, which he and his party strongly supported but which polls showed likely to lose right up until the day of the vote, and Trump’s fight:
You have a fantastic opportunity here. You can go out, you can beat the pollsters, you can beat the commentators, you can beat Washington, and you’ll do it by doing what we did for Brexit in Britain.
He added:
Little people … people who have never voted in their lives [turned out to vote in Britain].… Anything is possible if enough decent people are prepared to stand up to the establishment….
We made June 23 [the day of the vote to exit the EU] our Independence Day when we smashed the establishment.
Excellent article. Well worth the click to read the whole thing.
Nigel must have made Hillary really grit her teeth. Her and Obama BOTH told the Brits to stay with the EU.
its fascinating how a man who has done so much is still awed by Americans and our rally’s.
Thanks for sharing :)
"A very rattled, anxious-looking Hillary Clinton responded in a press conference and attacked my presence on the stage with Trump. She trotted out a series of wilful misinterpretations of things that I had said."
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"Perhaps if I donate to the Clinton Foundation her views on me might soften."
I was about to cut and paste the same thing. Funny stuff.
This is what makes me know that Trump/Pence are going to the White House, I don’t even worry about voter fraud...I just know that America is going to get that last chance to become Great Again!!!
MONSTER VOTE
Don’t forget how small the U.K. is compared to the continental United States. Great Britain is grouped with a few other relatively small countries whose influence has made them at times appear gigantic. I’m speaking of such countries as Japan, Germany and France. All three have indelibly left their mark in the history books, for good and for ill.
The concept is personified in Napoleon Bonaparte, who was said to have the ‘small man syndrome’. He thought big and acted accordingly.
Nigel is a good story teller. It’s clear he enjoys spinning a yarn, and at his own pace. Maybe he’s really Irish.
The monster vote!
You can’t barrage the Farage! I really enjoy his whole personality.
Absolutely agree. Enjoyed Nigel’s remarks at Trump’s rally too.
The concept is personified in Napoleon Bonaparte, who was said to have the ‘small man syndrome’. He thought big and acted accordingly.
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And he did a lot of good for the “little people”..........much still remains like his insistence on education for everyone.
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