Next week’s vote could influence efforts to leave the E.U. and the future of Theresa May.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage campaigns in Pontefract, England, ahead of next week’s European Parliament election.
The demands of the Brexit Party seem simple: Get us out of the E.U. Now. Honor the 2016 referendum result. Do Brexit. These 1,500 in Peterborough last week were not natural rebels, but Brexit has managed to radicalize them. They are, or rather once were, mostly Conservatives. Many of my seat-mates confessed they had voted Tory all their long lives.
“She has reduced us to a state of national humiliation,” Farage said. “She has made us a laughingstock in the eyes of the rest of the world — and yet her own gutless, spineless, career politician MPs haven’t had the courage to get rid of her!” Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage at a rally in Peterborough, England, on May 7. Traditionally, anti-establishment parties do well in these low-turnout elections that take place every five years. UKIP won last time, with 27 percent of the vote, while the mainstream Labour Party claimed 24 percent and the Conservatives took 23.
A big win for the Brexit Party could push May and her Conservatives to hurry up and pass her deal, or, as Farage prefers, leave the E.U. with no deal. Writing in the Guardian, former Labour prime minister Tony Blair described the stakes as: “This is not a vote to choose a prime minister or a government. It is a vote for the Farage Brexit — or against it.”
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