Nigel Farage, aka “Mr. Brexit,” had some harsh words for the US and President Biden while discussing the issues on both sides of the pond in an interview with Fox News Digital.
“[The U.K.] caught the sickness of America’s awakening, and now has a stranglehold on our institutions, much to the dismay of the silent majority,” Farage said.
Farage lamented the change in the US-UK relationship since Biden took office, arguing that the two countries had a better dynamic when former President Trump was in power and that Trump could have signed a free trade treaty. trade with Great Britain, helping the country. as he continues to find his footing with Brexit.
Despite saying he didn’t think Biden “liked the UK very much”, he stressed the potential benefits for each country that would flow from helping grow the famed “special relationship”.
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“In the longer term, clearly, the United States, for God’s sake, we speak the same language,” Farage said. “We have common law. We are the largest foreign investor in the US, the largest foreign investor here, and tremendous cultural ties.”
“So I think trade with the United States between us and the United States should grow. Trade between [the U.K.] and India, I think, should grow. And those are the two really big areas where I see opportunities for us to move forward.”
Nigel Farage spoke to Fox News Digital on a range of topics relating to the current and potential political landscape in the UK.
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Farage also criticized Biden for “doing everything possible to slowly but surely” move the United States away from leadership as an energy exporter.
As tough as Farage was on Biden, he spared little love for Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, saying the current British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, whom Farage called “Britain’s first Goldman Sachs prime minister” , had “virtually disappeared” and “is not a leader.” ”
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“In terms of leadership, he doesn’t have the ability, which is why he lost the race to become the leader of the Conservative Party, he lost it by some margin to Liz Truss, and yet by default, in the end, he got the better work,” Farage said. “Yes, he may be a very smart man, but he is not a leader.”
Farage blamed many of the country’s current problems on the ruling Conservative Party, such as the lack of a “reasonable” response to nationwide strikes in various industries in Britain and a Brexit-type failure to deliver. voters waited.
King Charles III welcomes Rishi Sunak during an audience at Buckingham Palace, London, where he invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, Tuesday October 25, 2022.
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“I have to say that when it comes to life-saving jobs like driving ambulances, I personally don’t think strike action is morally acceptable, but I think the government’s aloof position on this is not correct,” Farage explained. “I think they should really advise these unions at 10 Downing Street and say, look, what do you want? Is it class warfare? Is it bringing down a Conservative government which, in the case of the railway unions, Does there seem to be a hard leftist agenda?”
“I think with the others you can make reasonable compromises and yet they won’t get pay increases in line with inflation,” he added.
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The Conservative Party has also failed to clamp down on the rise in illegal immigration, something Brexit is supposed to have stymied. Farage pointed to an incident with the Australians, who faced widespread international criticism after turning back a boat of Indonesian refugees trying to enter the country.
Britain struck a deal to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda, but the first planned deportation flight to Rwanda was blocked in June by a last-minute court order granted by the European Court of Human Rights, and the legality of the strategy was challenged. later in the High Court of London. reported Reuters.
A group of more than 40 migrants with children board an inflatable boat as they leave the northern French coast to cross the English Channel, near Wimereux, France, on November 24, 2021.
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Britain should have had the “guts” to stand up to the European Court, but Sunak and his government were more concerned with international condemnation and reactions from foreign allies than sticking to their policies, according to Farage.
“They’re stuck,” he said. “They keep promising they’ll deliver. I promise you they won’t.”
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Farage accused Britain’s main parties and media of never accepting the Brexit referendum, which has prevented the country from seizing the real opportunity presented by independence.
“Brexit is pointless unless you implement supply-side reforms, unless you take the opportunity of not being in the European single market to make regulations, to make the rules simpler, cheaper and easier,” Farage said. . “The great sadness is that the Conservative government has done literally nothing, absolutely nothing, nothing for their little company on the high street, nothing for their big brokerage house in the City of London.”
A view of overflowing bins in the Grassmarket area of Edinburgh, where Edinburgh City Council cleaning workers meet on the fourth day of eleven of the strike, in Scotland, Wednesday August 24, 2022.
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“I can tell you, as you know, man [who] has been baptized Mr. Brexit as someone who dedicated his life to it. This is not the Brexit he wanted, and I am very, very disappointed,” he added, acknowledging that the current form of Brexit is not delivering on the promises made, but stressed that independence remains popular.
Such independence, he insisted, allowed the UK to take a leading role in supporting Ukraine when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered their invasion and implemented vaccines when and how they wanted thanks to the ability to regulate and approve vaccines at country’s own pace.
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“A lot of people are starting to wonder, what was all this for? And again, the point is crucial: this is not a failure of Brexit, this is a failure of the Conservative government who, frankly, never believed in it, only took that position to stop me,” he said.
“Okay: I was happy with it at the time,” Farage continued. “They never believed it. And he’s leading to a growing level of disenchantment.”
Royal Mail workers hold signs and banners as they gather in Parliament Square, for a pay and jobs protest, in London, Friday, December 9, 2022. The Communications Workers Union has planned a six-day strike for wages.
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All this turmoil and lack of leadership has created an excellent opportunity for a “political insurgency” for a new centre-right party, according to Farage. He believes the Conservative Party has slipped to the left, ending up in the centre-left, with other parties further to the left.
The two main parties, the Conservative Party and the Labor Party, now “virtually mirror each other on all major policies” and leave “no choice” over ideology or significant policy, which Farage believes has led to leaving the practically impassable country.
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However, any new party may have to emerge without his help, as Farage reiterated that returning to the political front is “not the first thing on my wish list” but has left the possibility open.
“I’m considering my options,” Farage said. “I haven’t made up my mind. I’m not ruling it out.”
