Farage says he faces NO CHOICE but to fight EU election BATTLE – ‘i’d rather NOT do it!’
Leading Brexiteer Nigel Farage launched the Brexit Party at an event in Coventry on Friday morning and warned European Union leaders it is “no more Mr Nice Guy”. Last week the EU agreed to extend Britain’s departure from the bloc until the end of October 31 after Theresa May asked for a delay. The decisions means the UK will be forced to take part in European elections if the Prime Minister cannot get her deal through the House of Commons by the end of May.
I would rather not have to but I am going to do it
Nigel Farage
In a furious rant on 60 Minutes Australia, Mr Farage said: “Here we are three years on and it hasn’t happened, which is why I am now going to have to reenter the political fray.
“I would rather not have to but I am going to do it.”
He added: “I have got no choice. I can’t give something 25 years of my life and watch our career politicians roll it over and just stand aside.
“So, I am going back. It is 90 percent likely that we will fight the European elections again in this country on May 23rd. I will be in that battle.”
The former Ukip leader said he would “much rather not” run in the EU elections but added: “I am going to do it and we will win again.”
Mr Farage said he is “definitely” proud to be referred to as “Mr Brexit” – insisting he has changed the whole political discussion in the UK.
He said: “There’s a strong possibility now that the two party system, that for 100 years has dominated British politics, is about to fall apart. We are about to get new electoral choices in this country.
“Is change a bad thing? I think change can be a very good thing.”
The Brexit Party could be in for a shock win in May’s European elections, with a top pollster showing the eurosceptic group being already just one percentage point behind the Conservative Party.
YouGov political research manager Chris Curtis believes the UK is set for “another Farage-shaped upset” in next month’s European election.
He wrote in the Guardian: “It is entirely plausible that we are facing another Farage-shaped upset at the ballot box. While there are more than five weeks of campaigning to go, I certainly wouldn’t bet against him.”
If the election had taken place over the past weekend, the Brexit Party would have come in third with 15 percent of the votes, according to a YouGov survey which was carried out between April 10 and 11 on 1,843 voters.
Some 24 percent of voters said they would choose the Labour Party and only 16 percent of British citizens expressed a preference for the Conservative Party.
Mr Farage’s former party, Ukip, came in fourth, with 14 percent of the votes.
Among the “many reasons” to believe Mr Farage’s new party, founded in January 2019, could close the gap with both Tories and Labours there is the fact that voters are “dissatisfied” with the way Brexit has been handled by Theresa May and the Tory Party, Mr Curtis said.
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