“There is an historic battle going on across the west, in Europe, America, and elsewhere. It is globalism against populism. And you may loathe populism, but I’ll tell you a funny thing. It is becoming very popular! And it has great benefits.” — Nigel Farage
Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage gave his departing speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday past bringing to a close the 47 year history of the United Kingdom’s association with the European Union (EU).
Farage has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England since 1999 and leader of the Brexit Party since 2019. He was also leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2016.
In his final speech to the EU parliament, Farage said, “So this is it, the final chapter, the end of the road, a 47 year political experiment that the British, frankly, have never been happy with. My mother and father signed up to a Common Market, not a political union, not to flags, anthems, presidents, and now, you even want your own army!”
Nigel Farage gives grand departure by waving the EU goodbye, the EU parliament chair cut off Farage for raising the British flag in the EU parliament assembly. Video courtesy The Telegraph.
Farage expressed his thoughts on the European Union before the EU Parliament saying, “I even became an outright opponent of the entire European project [the European Union].” At times his remarks were biting against the globalist EU. “In the UK and indeed, in the Brexit Party, we love Europe, we just hate the European Union.”
In June 2016 after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Farage gave his speech before a sober European Parliament.
He said, “Isn’t it funny? When I came here 17 years ago and I said that I wanted to lead a campaign to get Britain to leave the European Union, you all laughed at me – well I have to say, you’re not laughing now, are you? The reason you’re so upset, you’re so angry, has been perfectly clear, from all the angry exchanges this morning.”
When I came here 17 years ago … you all laughed at me – well I have to say, you’re not laughing now, are you? — Nigel Farage
At that time Farage pointed out the failures of the EU and why the UK wanted out. “You as a political project are in denial. You’re in denial that your currency is failing. Just look at the Mediterranean! As a policy to impose poverty on Greece and the Mediterranean you’ve done very well.”
In June 2016, Farage said from the EU Parliament floor, “You’re in denial over Mrs. Merkel’s call for as many people as possible to cross the Mediterranean – which has led to massive divisions between within countries and between countries.”
Citizens of the United Kingdom united to demand their country leave the European Union through Brexit.
“Because what the little people did, what the ordinary people did – what the people who’d been oppressed over the last few years who’d seen their living standards go down did – was they rejected the multinationals, they rejected the merchant banks, they rejected big politics, and they said actually, we want our country back, we want our fishing waters back, we want our borders back.”
“…what the ordinary people did … the people who’d been oppressed … who’d seen their living standards go down … they rejected the multinationals, they rejected the merchant banks, they rejected big politics and they said we want our country back…” — Nigel Farage
“We want to be an independent, self-governing, normal nation. That is what we have done and that is what must happen. In doing so, we now offer a beacon of hope to democrats across the rest of the European continent. I’ll make one prediction this morning, the United Kingdom will not be the last member state to leave the European Union.”
That was three and one half years ago when Brexit initially passed. Just this past week Farage addressed the full EU Parliament in his departure speech.
‘Leave and take your flags with you’ said a furious EU parliament chair Mairead McGuinness as she switched off Farage’s microphone during his triumphant departure speech in Brussels – for waving the UK Flag.
‘Please remove the flags … put your flags away. You’re leaving, and take them with you if you’re leaving now.’ –— EU parliament chair Mairead McGuinness
Farage declared Brexit a victory in the “historic battle going on across the west” against Globalism. He had his microphone cut off by the Parliament’s chair during his final remarks.
Farage spoke Wednesday during the debate on the withdrawal agreement of the anti-democratic European Union which drove the British to vote to leave. Members of the EU on ratified the treaty Wednesday worked out between the United Kingdom and Brussels.
Citing a key turning point for himself and many other Brits who became Euroskeptics, meaning those skeptical or critical of the European Union, Farage reflected on the attempt in 2005 for the European Union to enhance its long march towards statehood by giving itself a constitution. Many member states were not comfortable with the direction and development of the EU and voted against the new direction by holding national referendums. But, the EU simply ignored the referendums, relabeled their initiative and pushed it through anyway without consent of those now corralled into the EU globalist scheme.
Farage told the EU parliament, “We don’t need these institutions and all of this power. And I can promise you, both in UKIP and in the Brexit party, we love Europe. We just hate the European Union.”
“We love Europe. We just hate the European Union.” — MEP, Brexit leader, Nigel Farage
Farage made it clear that Britain leaving the European Union was a populist revolt comparable to that led by President Donald Trump and other global developments without mentioning them by name. He said: “There is an historic battle going on across the west, in Europe, America, and elsewhere. It is globalism against populism. And you may loathe populism, but I’ll tell you a funny thing. It is becoming very popular! And it has great benefits.”
Yet as he was making his final remarks on looking forward to Britain working with Europe in the future as a sovereign state, the chair of the session cut off Farage’s microphone because he was holding a small, desk-size British flag above his head as he spoke. Clearly angered by the violation of a new European Parliament rule that bans the presence of any national flag or banner, chairwoman McGuinness gave a strongly worded response and said: “Please sit down, resume your seats and put your flags away. You’re leaving, and take them with you if you’re leaving now. Goodbye.”
“There is an historic battle going on across the west, in Europe, America, and elsewhere. It is globalism against populism. And you may loathe populism, but I’ll tell you a funny thing. It is becoming very popular! And it has great benefits.” — Nigel Farage
Despite having had his microphone turned off, Mr Farage could be heard responding in the chamber: “That’s it, it’s all over. It’s finished, we’re gone!”
Farage’s Brexit Party colleagues joined him in waving the small desk flags which were until recently a common sight in the European Parliament chamber, which by design makes no distinction between members based on their national origin.
Nigel Farage: Full Departure Speech to EU Parliament
So this is it, the final chapter, the end of the road. A 47-year political experiment that the British frankly have never been very happy with. My mother and father signed up to a common market, not to a political union, flags, anthems, presidents, and now you even want your own army.
For me, it has been 27 years of campaigning and over 20 years here in this parliament. I’m not particularly happy with the agreement we’re being asked to vote on tonight. But Boris has been remarkably bold in the last few months… he’s promised us there will be no level playing field, and on that basis, I wish him every success in the next round of negotiations, I really do.
What happens at 11pm this Friday the 31st of January 2020 marks the point of no return. Once we’ve left, we’re never coming back and the rest frankly is detail. We’re going, and we will be gone.
And that should be the summit of my own political ambitions. I walked in here, you all thought it was terribly funny but you stopped laughing in 2016. But my view of Europe has changed since I joined. In 2005, I saw the constitution that had been drafted… and saw it rejected by the French in a referendum. I saw it rejected by the Dutch in a referendum. And I saw you, in these institutions, ignore them.
[You brought it back] as the Lisbon treaty, and boast you could ram it through without there being referendums. Well, the Irish did have a vote and did say no, and were forced to vote again. You’re very good at making people to vote again, but what we’ve proved is the British are too big to bully, thank goodness.
“I’ll make one prediction this morning, the United Kingdom will not be the last member state to leave the European Union.” — Nigel Farage, June 28, 2016
So I became an outright opponent of the whole European project. I want Brexit to start a debate across the whole of Europe. What do we want from Europe? If we want trade, friendship cooperation, reciprocity. We don’t need a European Commission, we don’t need a European court. We don’t need these institutions and all of this power. And I can promise you, both in UKIP and in the Brexit party, we love Europe. We just hate the European Union.
I hope this begins the end of this project. It is a bad project. It isn’t just undemocratic, it is antidemocratic.
It puts in that front row, it gives people power without unaccountability. People who cannot be held to account by the electorate and that is an unacceptable structure.
There is a historic battle going on across the west, in Europe, America, and elsewhere. It is globalism against populism. And you may loathe populism, but I’ll tell you a funny thing. It is becoming very popular! And it has great benefits. No more financial contributions, no more European Courts of Justice. No more European Common Fisheries Policy, no more being talked down to. No more being bullied, no more Guy Verhofstadt! What’s not to like.
I know you’re going to miss us, I know you want to ban our national flags, but we’re going to wave you goodbye, and we’ll look forward in the future to working with you as a sovereign nation… [Farage was cut off by the chair]
Editor Comment:
After 47 years as a member of the largest globalist camp in the world, several Prime Minister’s, deaths and shakeup’s in the Royal family, decline in the morality of the British nation, the invasion of the UK and Europe by hordes of Middle Eastern “refugee’s”, the tiny island nation that once ruled the seven seas and the world, where the sun never set upon their empire, has once again become a sovereign nation beholden to no one except God, and the British people. The eyes of the world and of history were looking down upon a once great and powerful nation, to observe if the once proud people had the courage of their race to stand and re-establish herself as a sovereign nation. Almost a half century after entering the belly of the beast of the European Union, the United Kingdom has escaped the claws of the globalist cabal, and this is a minor, or perhaps major, miracle. The events of Brexit remind me of a statement made by Winston Churchill following the bombing of Great Britain during WWII:
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender.”
Indeed, the Brits haven’t surrendered! Welcome back to independence and sovereignty!
Michael Reed is Editor of The Standard.