NIGEL Farage urged Britons to seize the moment of a lifetime and vote to sever ties with Brussels as he kicked off Ukip’s campaign to quit the EU last night.
The Ukip leader said that the current migrant and refugee crisis engulfing Europe had focussed people’s minds on the ineptness of the European Union, insisting life would be better outside the 28-nation bloc.
His rallying cry to more than 1,500 supporters comes after a recent poll showed that 51 per cent of people would vote to quit the EU if a referendum was held now.
It shows a major swing towards the Eurosceptic camp and comes as a hammer blow to David Cameron.Speaking to the Daily Express ahead of last night’s rally in Margate, Kent, Mr Farage said the momentum was now with the “No” campaign.
“The poll, Cameron’s plans unravelling and the Electoral Commission changing the referendum question – it’s looking good for us at the moment,” he said.“There are going to be loads of fluctuations,” he said.
“I have said that the key issue will be immigration, open borders and control. The migrant crisis has made people really concerned about what is going, whether we should be part of a European Union which has embarked on a disastrous policy failure.”
He said he was pleased that Tory Party was fighting amongst itself while his grassroots-led campaign gathers momentum.
“There seems to be no one else out campaigning at that moment so that’s good for us. And you only have to look at the Tory revolt in the Commons to see that all is not well in their camp.”
Mr Farage, looking recharged after spending the summer holidaying in the South West, fishing and playing cricket, returned to a familiar stomping ground to launch what he hopes will be a more successful campaign than his run at becoming the MP for South Thanet in May.
“I suspect the referendum will be sooner rather than later but a longer campaign would suit us more,” he said.“It is now time for people in Briton to seize the moment whenever the referendum is.”
Mr Farage said he “hoped” that some Tory Ministers would quit their posts so they could campaign to leave the EU.
“The Migrant crisis, low growth in the Eurozone and tensions in Brussels really say that Cameron isn’t going to get very much at all from his renegotiations. It will be interesting what some senior Tories do when he doesn’t come back with anything worthwhile.”
The Ukip leader reiterated his wish for Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn to campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
“A Corbyn victory would be a game changer for the referendum,” he said.
In a wide-ranging interview he also hit out at George Osborne, who announced at the weekend that millions of pounds of the foreign aid budget would be spent on councils to cope with an influx of refugees coming to Britain.
“Last year when we had the somerset floods with a lot of people really suffering I asked for a tiddly widdly bit of foreign aid money to be used for Somerset and was told plain know,” he said.
“We have been very critical of the foreign aid budget but I have never been against giving money for humanitarian relief.”
He said the government was in chaos over whether to carry out air strikes on Syria.
“I have not heard one decent argument from them yet,” he said.
source: express.co.uk
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