"I'll drink to that! Cheers!"
Posted on 06/24/2016 7:15:58 AM PDT by mandaladon
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's vote to leave the European Union is a triumph for Nigel Farage, the abrasive anti-immigration politician who tapped into a deep well of popular anger that rivals failed to understand.
On a night that seemed to start badly for the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), with the last opinion polls predicting defeat for the Leave camp in Thursday's referendum, Farage said at first it looked like Remain would win.
But it ended with victory for him and on Friday morning he declared jubilantly that the vote for a British exit from the EU, or Brexit, heralded a new dawn for the nation.
"The EU is failing, the EU is dying. I hope we've knocked the first brick out of the wall. I hope this is the first step towards a Europe of sovereign nation states," he said, predicting that the Netherlands and Denmark would go next.
Not for the first time causing outrage, he said the result had been achieved "without a single bullet being fired".
The comment drew accusations of insensitivity after the killing of pro-EU lawmaker Jo Cox last week, after which a man charged with her murder told a court his name was "death to traitors, freedom for Britain".
But with his blunt approach, Farage has finally achieved the goal he has pursued relentlessly in his 25 years in politics.
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"In terms of the impact he's going to have on Britain and its place in the world, he's more significant than most prime ministers have been," Ford told Reuters.
Farage, who as a boy went to a prestigious private school and later worked as a commodities trader, has often been called hypocritical for presenting himself as a man of the people...............He reminds me of Trump!
"I'll drink to that! Cheers!"
Trump is similar to him.
Just because they voted to leave the EU doesn’t mean they’ll be allowed to do so. The Global Money Changers will seek to punish them severely for daring to seek restoration of sovereignty... and return them to captivity!
Isn’t it interesting how an “anti-immigration” man gets added adjectives like “abrasive” while there is no such denigration of the very peoples he wants to stop who actually KILL people?
People dismissed Nigel Farage as a loon, as a crank, as a racist.
His anti-EU campaign won big last night, humbled the establishment and brought down a sitting Prime Minister.
I wrote that it was his night. It went a heck of a lot better than any one envisioned.
Once the blowout began in bellwether Sunderland, the bells tolled for Brexit.
As JimRob has pointed out, repeatedly....Trump’s conservative ideals have been proposed in his books, for decades.
Farage and Trump have both been on the same page, on several issues, for years.
Loving your country and wanting what’s best for your countrymen, your children and yourself is the bottom line. Trump has always been a nationalist and a patriot. And unlike some, who’ve been a Republican longer, Trump doesn’t welcome foreign invaders into the country with soccer balls and teddy bears.
The EU has already told Britain not to let the door hit their posteriors on the way out.
They are not conservatives.
They are populists.
Populists don’t like globalism, neo-liberalism, open borders and the rotgut sold by the establishment.
Its hard to tells where the Left and Right differ these days.
All the same thing more or less - which boils down to unfiltered contempt for the common man.
His name can now be linked to Churchill’s in defending Britain’s freedom!
Bingo!
Brexit! It’s so good to have positive news for a change. And the SCOTUS slap-down of Obama yesterday made me happy, too.
Yep - even when he self identified with Democrats and was promoting abortion and contributing to the DNC. True patriot stuff.
LOL! Come back to me when you can post your own thoughts and not Jim’s.
LOL!
Which is why Farage stands alone. He's been doing this for much longer than June 2015.
you have a point, that will be blunted once Sweden, France, et. al begin their exits
So Trump didn’t publish the original edition of Time to Get Tough until June 2015? And those videos that have him making the same patriotic America First case from decades ago...they’ve been what? Doctored to look old when in fact they were made a year ago?
Thatcher was against “union”. That’s all I need to know.
Even Reagan was a Democrat until he was in his 50s.
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