{"id":1300562,"date":"2023-05-28T04:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T08:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/farage-britain-addicted-to-cheap-imported-labor-and-let-down-by-dishonest-globalist-conservative-party\/1300562\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T04:10:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T08:10:08","slug":"farage-britain-addicted-to-cheap-imported-labor-and-let-down-by-dishonest-globalist-conservative-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/farage-britain-addicted-to-cheap-imported-labor-and-let-down-by-dishonest-globalist-conservative-party\/1300562\/","title":{"rendered":"Farage: Britain Addicted To “Cheap Imported Labor” And Let Down By “Dishonest, Globalist” Conservative Party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Farage: Britain Addicted To “Cheap Imported Labor” And Let Down By “Dishonest, Globalist” Conservative Party<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Former conservative politician Nigel Farage has claimed that post-Brexit net immigration into the U.K. would have fallen below 50,000 a year if he had been in charge, and refused to rule out a return to frontline politics to take on what he described as a \u201cdishonest, establishment, globalist\u201d governing Conservative party that has failed Brexit voters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The former Brexit Party and UKIP leader spoke to Sky News on Thursday, hours after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest immigration figures, which showed net migration had spiraled to 606,000 in the last calendar year \u2014 the highest figure ever recorded despite Britain leaving the European Union and supposedly \u201ctaking back control\u201d of its borders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He told interviewer Beth Rigby that the Conservative party had never been serious about implementing the socially conservative pledges its multiple leaders had made during successive general elections, and took aim at former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who instead of enacting a new immigration policy to reduce the numbers which Brexit voters had expected, had relaxed wage thresholds and work visa requirements and overseen the largest explosion of mass immigration into Britain ever recorded.<\/p>\n

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“If they put me in charge of it, I would have got it down to 50,000 a year, no question about it.”@Nigel_Farage<\/a> insists that he would have met his 2016 pledge to cut net migration down in the UK.#Rigby<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/PAiZ4D1jU3<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcfa Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com\/qkgn5Pyfha<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) May 25, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cA lot of this is down to a breach of trust between what has been promised at elections and what has been delivered,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Farage told viewers.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he would advocate reducing net migration even if it meant labor shortages, Farage was unequivocal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that meant there was a realistic chance of people finding somewhere to live, a school for their kids to go to that was local, and people getting access to the NHS, then yes, of course!<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore 2004, when this really kicked off, cabbages were not rotting in the fields of Lincolnshire. Elderly people were not being left alone in old people\u2019s homes,\u201d the conservative broadcaster stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve now become addicted to cheap, unskilled, foreign imported labor,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Farage added, insisting it was high time this policy of mass immigration was reversed.<\/p>\n

Put to him that high levels of immigration have led to economic growth, Farage remained defiant, telling Rigby: \u201cI\u2019ve been hearing this for a quarter of a century! If increasing the British population by 8 million people has added a few decimal points here and there to GDP, so blimmin\u2019 what?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is something far more important than the size of our GDP. There is something called community, called quality of life in this country. These are things that nobody in Westminster even talks about,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The former Brexit Party and UKIP leader was continuously hassled by Rigby throughout the 15-minute interview, who appeared desperate for Farage to admit responsibility for the failure of Brexit, despite the fact he has never been in a position of power and had no authority to implement policies he advocated during the referendum campaign.<\/p>\n

If they had put me in charge of (tackling migration), we\u2019d have got to 50,000 a year, but they didn\u2019t,\u201d Farage replied stoically.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nobody more disappointed than me at what this government has done. I would have loved to have been in a position of responsibility, but I wasn\u2019t,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Farage accused the governing Conservative party of hating the Brexit result and doing all it can to water down its effect. \u201cWe\u2019ve had years of hesitancy, and even when they seem to finally get the message, they didn\u2019t get it. They have never, ever as a party, believed in this.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at that 2019 Tory manifesto, the way it was put to the people, and frankly it was a big lie,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Analyzing the current political landscape in Britain, Farage claimed \u201cthe gap between Westminster and where people are is even bigger than it was 10 years ago\u201d and warned that there will soon be \u201canother insurgency in British politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it will be Reform, whether it will be me, whether we get a new Nick Griffin (former leader of the far-right British National Party). Maybe we get genuinely the far-right into British politics, (but) something has got to change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Asked by Rigby whether he will ever return to frontline politics, Farage remained coy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. I haven\u2019t ruled it out, I haven\u2019t ruled it in. If I could see that by doing it there was a really clear achievable goal, then I might well. I haven\u2019t worked that out yet. If we had an electoral system that was representative in some way, then it would be much easier.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI think if I stood again, it would be a much more revolutionary agenda than just Brexit. It would be fundamental change to the voting system,\u201d <\/strong>he added.<\/em><\/p>\n

Farage was an eternal thorn in the side of the U.K. Conservative party throughout his career in frontline politics. As UKIP leader during the 2015 general election, his party managed to amass 3.9 million votes \u2014 12.6 percent of the vote share \u2014 however, due to the first-past-the-post electoral system in Britain the party won just one parliamentary seat out of 650 available.<\/p>\n

The threat of a genuine right-wing party and rising Euroskepticism, however, led Prime Minister David Cameron to promise a referendum on Britain\u2019s membership of the European Union, which ultimately led to the vote for Brexit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the vote, Farage went on to found the pop-up Brexit Party ahead of the final European parliamentary elections in Britain and stormed to victory as the largest U.K. party in Brussels.<\/p>\n

He later retired from frontline politics and became a broadcaster for the newly launched GB News channel in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 05\/28\/2023 – 07:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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