Yeah, umm, err.... wow ?
Nigel Farage’s surprise call for Britain to prepare for a second EU referendum has ignited hopes among anti-Brexit campaigners that both sides of the debate will back a poll on Theresa May’s final deal. The former Ukip leader shocked his colleagues on Thursday by suggesting another Brexit vote should be held, arguing it would lead to a more decisive victory for the leave campaign and silence remain supporters for a generation.
“Of course I don’t want one, we won a referendum and that should have been that. But I do not trust the sheer dishonesty of our political class,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Farage said his recent meeting with the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, had convinced him a “decent deal” would not be offered and parliament would reject it. “The idea that, in that circumstance, we’ll just crash out on WTO [World Trade Organisation] rules, I don’t believe our political class will accept. So, I’m out of denial. I was in denial. I was saying: ‘We’ve won, it’s all over.’ I have now got myself mentally ready for the possibility – as happened in Denmark and Ireland and other countries - that they’ll make us vote again and we must be prepared.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/11/nigel-farage-backs-fresh-brexit-referendum-to-kill-off-issue
The referendum to end all referendi? (What is the plural of referendum?)
ReplyDeleteI'll go with referenda.
ReplyDeleteHe seems to have changed his mind again.
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