Britain’s most famous Brexit preacher, Nigel Farage, is turning his back on his project. Since leaving the European Union, the country has been sliding from one crisis to another. Farage feels a “breach of trust”.
“We have not benefited economically from Brexit, although we could have,” Farage said on BBC television Monday evening, described by many as the architect of Britain’s exit from the EU. “Unfortunately, what Brexit has shown is that our politicians are just as useless as the Brussels commissioners. Brexit was a failure.”
In the interview, Farage was confronted with Britain’s exploding numbers of migrants, labor shortages and weak economic development. “The only reason we won the referendum was because people thought that controlling our borders would reduce the number of[migrants].”
Farage speaks of “breach of trust”
In fact, the numbers would now “explode”. In this regard, the ruling Conservatives had committed a “breach of trust”, he criticized. In addition, legislative decisions in the economic sector would “drive the companies out of this country.” In 2017, the Brexit driver announced in a radio interview that he would leave Britain if leaving the EU turned out to be a “disaster”.
“We are in control, but we regulate our companies even more now than when we were members of the EU,” said Farage, who did not rule out a political comeback against this backdrop.
As head of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and member of the European Parliament, Farage spent years campaigning for his country to leave the EU. This particularly affected the Conservative Tories, whose boss and Prime Minister David Cameron subsequently announced an exit referendum for the 2015 general election. Since Cameron surprisingly won the election, he had to carry out his announcement.
Farage led the Brexit Party until 2021
The referendum narrowly ended in favor of leaving the EU, as neither the Tories nor the opposition Labor Party were united in favor of remaining in the European Union. After turbulent negotiations with the European Union and two early parliamentary elections, Brexit was completed at the end of January 2020.
Farage left UKIP in 2019 and joined the newly founded Brexit Party, which he led until 2021. The party renamed itself “Reform UK” after the UK left the EU.
Source: Krone
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