Nigel Farage: Brexit should be celebrated, the EU now is ‘a basket case’

NIGEL Farage has said that Brexit is to be celebrated, as the UK is in a better economic position while the EU has turned into “a basket case”.

The GB News presenter said: “Let’s just remember that four years ago today at 11pm, we left the European Union and I was there with a huge party in Parliament Square.

“It was something to celebrate because it wasn’t just the referendum. It was the attempt over the next few years by almost the entirety of the British Establishment to overturn that result. The fact we got over the line on that day is something to celebrate.

“If we look at what’s happening across the European Union right now, it’s a basket case.”

In a discussion with Andrew Pierce and Bev Turner, he continued: ”They’re at each other’s throats on migration. We’ve got Euro-scepticism growing across the whole of Europe, and some really pretty extreme parties of right and left are doing well.

“Are we better off out? Undoubtedly. For those that cast out on the economics of it, well, of course there are some inconveniences when you change things, there always are. But just looking at the GDP figures, you can see that actually since 2016, we’ve done better than France, and Germany and Italy.

“But the disappointment is this. Whether Boris Johnson really believed in Brexit or really understood Brexit, I don’t suppose we’ll ever know, but what we can say with some certainty is that the Conservative Party that took office with an 80-seat majority in 2019, the party as a whole didn’t believe in Brexit.

“They never understood it. They viewed it as a damage limitation exercise, rather than an opportunity, and they have done precious little over the course of the last four years to move us away from European Union rules to make life easier for men and women running small businesses in this country.

“And on the really big one, controlling our borders and reducing immigration, which is why we had the huge turnout in 2016, it has been a complete and utter breach of trust and faith. So, delighted we left, historically the right thing to do, but it’s not been delivered.”

He added: “It is all a huge disappointment and it’s going to lead, of course, to a catastrophic Conservative loss at the next election. The Labour Party already pledged to take us closer back towards European Union rules.

“It is all very disappointing, but the important thing is the constitutional break has been made. We’re out. We’re not going back. In time, everyone will realise the benefits.”