Thursday - January 30, 2020

Brexit, Stage Right

Will It Actually Happen Tomorrow, Finally?

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage delivered his last-ever speech in Brussels as his Brexit Party MEPs waved their Union Jack flags in defiance of EU rules.

The Brexit Party leader launched a brutal attack on the bloc just days before the UK is due to leave on Friday, January 31.

He said: “This is it, the final chapter, the end of the road, a 47-year political experiment that the British have never been happy with.”

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Mr Farage said the UK “is never coming back” as he gave his final speech at the European Parliament.

He added: “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 and, Ms von der Leyen, he’s promised us there will be no level playing field.

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“What happens at 11pm this Friday, January 31 2020, marks the point of no return, once we’ve left we are never coming back and the rest, frankly, is detail.”

Earlier Mr Farage told reporters that he believes Brexit is the “beginning of the end” for the EU.

He said: “That’s because we made such a Horlicks of leaving.

“I think many of the Eurosceptic groups around Europe began to shake their heads and say ‘Oh, perhaps it is not possible to leave’.

“Now it’s actually happening, if we chart a clear path - and provided that Boris Johnson sticks to the very clear promises that he made in his manifesto - then I think all of that will change a couple of years down the line.”

So this is a kind of sorta-kinda situation? They’ll be out, free, but still have to negotiate a bunch of stuff for the next bunch of years? Whatever. Purge your nation, control your borders, and get your economy moving again. Best of luck!

Best line of Farage’s speech: “Populism turns out to be popular!”

Posted by Drew458     on 01/30/2020 at 08:58 AM   
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