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Nigel Farage vows to topple Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May with Brexit Party in a political revolution
NIGEL Farage will try to pull off the biggest upset in British political history this week – and claim the scalps of two party leaders.
He believes his new Brexit Party will become a major force by trouncing Labour and the Tories in the European elections.
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And he warned that victory will hasten the demise not only of Theresa May but Jeremy Corbyn, too.
Mr Farage predicted: “Westminster is in for a seismic shock. And the elections on Thursday will only be the start.”
It’s barely a month since the former Ukip leader launched his fledgling party, yet it is already topping the polls and has 100,000 paid-up supporters.
The groundswell has convinced him the EU elections can be a springboard to a revolution in politics.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun on Sunday, Mr Farage said: “What we’re doing now is way bigger than Brexit.
“Many of our supporters have completely lost faith with the whole system and want to break it up and start again.
“This is not a party I am leading. It’s a movement and our goal this time is to change politics for good.”
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If the Brexit Party wins on Thursday, Mr Farage will set his sights on the next general election – and already has 1,300 would-be candidates pleading to stand.
He admits his next goal will be to remove Brexit-blocking MPs and win enough seats in the Commons to hold the balance of power.
But first he is gunning for the two main party leaders and predicted a resounding result would kill two “lame ducks” with one stone.
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He declared: “The best way to get rid of Theresa May quickly is to vote for the Brexit party. She said she’s going to lay out a timetable for standing down but that could be months down the road.
“If the Tories get smashed this week, then Mrs May will be gone pretty quickly. Their traditional supporters realise this is a way of getting rid of possibly the worst Prime Minister in the history of our nation.
“But there’s also a huge internal war going on within Labour. The Remainers are gathering momentum and want to make it a full-on second referendum party.
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“There are five million Labour supporters out there who voted Brexit and in my experience of door-to-door campaigning they are among the most fervent Brexiteers in the whole country.
“So the impact we have will not just affect the Tories but Labour, too. I think we can hurt both those parties and we may well end up with two different leaders as a result.”
The Brexit Party bandwagon is targeting Leave-voting Labour seats in the Midlands, North of England and South Wales.
Mr Farage senses his army of supporters are not just “lending” their votes as a protest but are ready to stick with him for a general election.
“What’s happening in politics now is way bigger than Brexit itself,” he said. “This is the beginning of a political revolution. Millions of people have completely lost faith in the whole system. They want to break the whole thing and start again.
“While Ukip was a vehicle to achieve Brexit, what we are doing now is way more radical, way more ambitious.
“When I entered the political fray, I never thought I could lead a party that could win significant numbers of seats in the House of Commons or potentially be in government.
“But now I’m up for that fight. The day after the referendum, I realised the people in charge were the same people I’d fought against for 25 years. My battle now is about replacing those people.
This is not a party I am leading. It’s a movement and our goal this time is to change politics for good.
Nigel Farage
“Now I think we can damage them so much. I don’t see why we can’t win enough seats to hold the balance of power. I mean it. I genuinely believe this is true.
“In 2015 I led Ukip to four million votes – an amazing achievement in itself. This does not feel like a four-million-vote party to me. It is much, much bigger. If you suddenly become a six million vote party, you start to win seats in real numbers, whether that’s 30, 40 or 50, I don’t know but it feels much bigger than anything I’ve been involved in before.”
Some Tories fear they could finish in fifth place in the EU polls – prompting Mr Farage to quip Mrs May would have more chance of leaving Europe if she ran a football team.
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He added: “The Conservative party thinks it has a divine right to exist, just like the Church of England. The truth is, it doesn’t but they are still stuck in that mind set.
“Brexit has changed everything. The genie is out of the bottle and it can’t be put back. People have ditched their old party loyalties of right and left, Tory and Labour. They now identify themselves as Leavers or Remainers.
“There is a re-alignment of politics going on that most people in Westminster haven’t yet understood. But they will pretty damned soon.”
SMEARS SHAME
BREXIT wreckers are “shameful” for smearing those who voted to leave the EU, Nigel Farage says.
Millions of ordinary people have been dubbed thick, old or racist in a three-year wave of vile insults hurled by intolerant Remainers.
Mr Farage said: “If we had lost the referendum and I had encouraged this sort of behaviour, I would be in prison for incitement. It’s bad enough that so many Remainers refuse to accept the result of the biggest democratic exercise in our history. But the vicious attacks are beyond the pale, as are the attempts of so many MPs to derail the whole process.”
Taking aim at Labour’s Brexit chief Keir Starmer and others, he declared: “Democracy only works with the losers’ consent. But the losers — Blair, Clegg, Starmer and friends — simply won’t give it. I don’t think there has ever been a time in our democratic history where this has happened before.”
Mr Farage shrugs off personal attacks on himself saying it only makes support for him stronger.
He added: “They call us fascists, but they are the ones trying to stop our meetings.”
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