Farage on America: You May Need Your Own UKIP

Daily Stormer
September 9, 2014

During his US tour, Nigel Farage gave an interview with Breitbart in which he suggested that America may need to form a new conservative party in order to conserve the values of the people.

Breitbart:

“I have no idea what the Republican Party stands for,” Farage said at the Breitbart News Embassy on Capitol Hill. “I meet lots of individuals within it who want it to say one thing or another, but collectively it’s pretty blurry, it’s pretty unclear,” Farage said of the Republican Party in the U.S. “If I was living over here, I would say to myself alright number one we’ve got to reclaim our party—we’ve got to take it away from being safe and establishment, because that way you’re never going to win because the Democrats have certain built-in advantages. If you are unable to reclaim your party, you might have to do a UKIP.”

Farage helped form UKIP in the early 1990s in response to the Conservative Party, the U.K.’s version of the Republican Party, and Labour Party, the U.K.’s version of the Democratic Party, both throwing their full weight behind the U.K. joining the European Union.

“For me it was easy,” Farage said. “For me, it was a treaty passed 20 years ago called the Maastricht Treaty when John Major was Prime Minister, a Conservative that handed over a significant chunk of our ability to govern ourselves to the institutions of the European Union. For me, that was a watershed moment. I don’t know what your moment is—and hey, let’s not be negative, maybe you can turn this Party around.”

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While Farage was wrapping up his U.S. tour, President Obama delayed a planned executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Though GOP leadership had, after prodding from the right, ramped up its criticism of what would have been a brazen rupture with the longstanding constitutional order, a key GOP operative reacted to Obama’s decision in a way that underscored the deep divide in the GOP.

“The president’s empty rhetoric and broken promises are a slap in the face to millions of Hispanics across the country,” said Republican National Committee spokeswoman Ruth Guerra, seeming to attack Obama from the left for his inaction.

“This is more evidence that Democrats never really wanted to fix our immigration system when Republicans were sitting at the table. Immigration reform will continue to be the President’s biggest failure as long as he keeps playing politics and refuses to work with Republicans,” Guerra added. The remark drew quick criticism from Ingraham, who said, “The RNC sure seems crestfallen that President Obama didn’t sign an executive amnesty.”

“It’s not easy, it’s not easy, because the big parties have become part of the establishment with the donors and patronage and with government contracts—all of this actually working hand in glove, so it’s not easy,” Farage said. “But the answer is actually pretty simple: Courage. Courage. You need a leader of the Republicans who’s prepared to say: ‘You know what? We’ll live without this. We’ll get our money somewhere else. We’ll do this differently. We’ll engage the people.’ It has to be done and it’s going to take courage.”

Breitbart News hosted Farage last week in New York and Washington, D.C. in a trip orchestrated by the Breitbart London team which focused on the parallels between the U.S. and British political landscapes. Many observers predict the U.S. will face many of the same cultural and political problems as the U.K. in years to come.

Farage also sat down with Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon for a taped interview that aired Sunday evening on Sirius XM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday radio program.

“I think there’s some parallels, some real parallels, between British politics and American politics,” Farage said to kick off the interview with Bannon.