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25-05-2014, 11:46 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638377/Now-I-destroy-Tory-party-In-crowing-interview-Nigel-Farage-reveals-quit-politics-hes-got-UK-EU.html
'Now I will destroy the Tory party': In a crowing interview, Nigel Farage reveals he will quit politics... once he's got the UK out of the EU
- UKIP leader reveals ambitions ahead of European election results
- Party is expected to gain more than 20 MEPs - a historic victory
- Farage says idea of Tory majority at next General Election is 'a fantasy'
- He added that he plans to retire from politics by the time he turns 60
- Aged 50 now, Farage hopes to have Britain out the EU within a decade
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Triumphant: Nigel Farage at his home in Kent on the eve of the European election results. The UKIP leader hopes to have Britain out of Europe within a decade
Rampant Nigel Farage aims to destroy the Tory Party, take over a new Right-wing British political party, get Britain out of the EU - and then quit politics.
The UKIP leader’s breathtaking ambition, revealed in an interview with The Mail on Sunday, comes hours before he is set to achieve a historic victory in the European elections.
The results from Thursday’s polling, announced today, are expected to show UKIP will have gained more than 20 MEPs, more than the Conservatives, with the possibility of a total wipeout of all Lib Dem MEPs.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/24/article-2638377-1E2A7AF100000578-634_634x537.jpg
Ambition: Nigel Farage dismissed jibes that the rise of UKIP will hand power to pro-EU Ed Miliband at the next General Election by taking votes from the Tories
Mr Farage rejects claims by David Cameron that UKIP’s challenge will fade away in next year’s General Election, and says today’s gains mark the beginning of the end of the Conservative Party.
He aims to repeat the destruction two decades ago of Canada’s Conservative Party, when the rebel Right-wing Reform Party, compared by many to UKIP, sparked a political earthquake.
In an interview with this newspaper earlier in the campaign, Mr Farage said a Canadian-style Tory meltdown ‘could happen’ here – and compared attacks on him to those on Reform Party leader Preston Manning and Reform’s first Canadian MP, schoolteacher Deborah Grey.
‘They called him a Right-wing extremist, a nutter, away with the fairies, he’ll never get anywhere and what happens? They won one by-election, a schoolmistress way out West, who resisted every bribe and temptation to rejoin the Conservative Party.
‘Now you have a Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, who was first elected on a Reform ticket, as were half the Cabinet.
‘Don’t think this can’t happen here. The public want something different. We are catalysing a big change in British politics on fundamental issues that have been brushed under the carpet and ignored by a completely out-of-touch career political class for too long.’
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/24/article-2638377-1E239DEF00000578-695_634x472.jpg
Celebration: Nigel Farage aims to use UKIP's new support from Labour voters to force a weakened Ed Miliband to take a tougher stance on the EU in next year's election
Canada’s Conservative Party was destroyed overnight in the country’s 1993 election by the populist, low-tax, Reform Party.
The century-old ruling Progressive Conservatives lost all but two of their 156 seats after sensational gains by Reform, which had been called racist, sexist and homophobic, just as David Cameron famously called UKIP ‘fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists’. The split in Canada’s Centre Right enabled the Liberals, Canada’s equivalent of our Labour Party, to take power.
But after ten years of infighting, the Reform revolution succeeded. The Canadian Alliance, a merger of Reform with the ruins of Canada’s old-style Tories, led to former Reform official Stephen Harper becoming Prime Minister in 2006.
And it had all started with the victory of a sole Reform MP, Ms Grey, in 1989. Mr Farage hopes a victory by UKIP’s Roger Helmer in the Newark Parliamentary by-election on June 5 will trigger a similar political shake-up at Westminster.
In his interview with The Mail on Sunday, Mr Farage dismissed jibes that the rise of UKIP will hand power to pro-EU Ed Miliband at the next General Election by taking votes from the Tories.
He said: ‘The arithmetic doesn’t suggest that. Firstly, the reason Conservative voters have deserted the party is that they do not believe Cameron is Conservative. It’s got nothing to do with me, but thinking there is going to be a Conservative majority is fantasy.
‘The second reason is the Tories are dying as brand in the North of England just as they did in Scotland.The third reason Cameron can’t win a majority is he can’t get the blue-collar vote. Thatcher got it, Reagan got it, John Major got it. But these two guys (Cameron and Osborne) who allegedly don’t know the price of a pint of milk, don’t connect with the blue collar.’
http://www.hilltimes.com/sites/hilltimes.com/files/story_image/2013/03/12_0.jpg
Left to right: Nigel Farage meeting with Preston Manning in 2013 - who brought down the established Canadian Tories in the early 1990s, along with former Australian Prime Minister John Howard who reformed the National Liberal Party of Australia.
While Farage says publicly an Ed Miliband victory next year would be a ‘disaster for the economy,’ some of those who know the UKIP leader well claim that in private, he says it could help him achieve a Canadian-style upheaval here.
One UKIP aide said: ‘If Miliband wins, the Tories would be shattered and split with Eurosceptics on one side and Europhiles on the other. Nigel could team up with the Eurosceptics and possibly lead them. And, if, as Nigel believes, Miliband would be a pathetically poor PM, a Labour Government could collapse quickly with another election. Then, the Canadian scenario is on.’
Mr Farage aims to use UKIP’s new support from Labour voters to force a weakened Ed Miliband to take a tougher stance on the EU in next year’s election.
‘If I want to get this country out of the EU, I have got to change the position of the Labour Party on the referendum. If you accept it is impossible for Cameron to win a majority on his own, there could be a UKIP-Tory coalition after the election. Who knows? If it looks less and less likely that Miliband can form a majority without a referendum pledge, he’ll do it.’
Farage, 50, insists he is not interested in power for himself – and by the time he turns 60, wants to have quit politics – with Britain out of the EU.
‘I will consider my job’s done and I would be very happy to hand over to people who might be very good at running the country. I’m in politics because I want to change things, not because I want a career. I don’t want to do this for ever, I don’t want to sit here in ten years’ time, I want to be doing something else by then, in the media, radio, writing, hopefully enjoying myself.’
He has no desire to move into No 10, emulating ‘Canada’s Nigel Farage’ Stephen Harper. ‘I think I could do it but do I think that’s really what I would be best at in life?
‘No. What I’m best at is spotting when something’s wrong and needs to change and agitating to wake people up to what’s gone wrong.’
I tend to reference the Reform Party a lot on here when we're talking about party politics and I thought some of you may be interested in this article that's come out - reaffirms what I have been hearing that Ukip officials have been in contact with former Reform Party officials discussing methods and tactics to help bring this about, all under a FPTP electoral system as is Canada. The Tories are in serious trouble having not won a parliamentary majority since 1992, and indeed if you look at the Lord Ashcroft polls that came out yesterday they still have no hope of reaching the magic 322 in the Westminster parliament.
He certainly has my backing.
Thoughts?
'Now I will destroy the Tory party': In a crowing interview, Nigel Farage reveals he will quit politics... once he's got the UK out of the EU
- UKIP leader reveals ambitions ahead of European election results
- Party is expected to gain more than 20 MEPs - a historic victory
- Farage says idea of Tory majority at next General Election is 'a fantasy'
- He added that he plans to retire from politics by the time he turns 60
- Aged 50 now, Farage hopes to have Britain out the EU within a decade
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/24/article-2638377-1E29F71900000578-310_634x718.jpg
Triumphant: Nigel Farage at his home in Kent on the eve of the European election results. The UKIP leader hopes to have Britain out of Europe within a decade
Rampant Nigel Farage aims to destroy the Tory Party, take over a new Right-wing British political party, get Britain out of the EU - and then quit politics.
The UKIP leader’s breathtaking ambition, revealed in an interview with The Mail on Sunday, comes hours before he is set to achieve a historic victory in the European elections.
The results from Thursday’s polling, announced today, are expected to show UKIP will have gained more than 20 MEPs, more than the Conservatives, with the possibility of a total wipeout of all Lib Dem MEPs.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/24/article-2638377-1E2A7AF100000578-634_634x537.jpg
Ambition: Nigel Farage dismissed jibes that the rise of UKIP will hand power to pro-EU Ed Miliband at the next General Election by taking votes from the Tories
Mr Farage rejects claims by David Cameron that UKIP’s challenge will fade away in next year’s General Election, and says today’s gains mark the beginning of the end of the Conservative Party.
He aims to repeat the destruction two decades ago of Canada’s Conservative Party, when the rebel Right-wing Reform Party, compared by many to UKIP, sparked a political earthquake.
In an interview with this newspaper earlier in the campaign, Mr Farage said a Canadian-style Tory meltdown ‘could happen’ here – and compared attacks on him to those on Reform Party leader Preston Manning and Reform’s first Canadian MP, schoolteacher Deborah Grey.
‘They called him a Right-wing extremist, a nutter, away with the fairies, he’ll never get anywhere and what happens? They won one by-election, a schoolmistress way out West, who resisted every bribe and temptation to rejoin the Conservative Party.
‘Now you have a Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, who was first elected on a Reform ticket, as were half the Cabinet.
‘Don’t think this can’t happen here. The public want something different. We are catalysing a big change in British politics on fundamental issues that have been brushed under the carpet and ignored by a completely out-of-touch career political class for too long.’
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/24/article-2638377-1E239DEF00000578-695_634x472.jpg
Celebration: Nigel Farage aims to use UKIP's new support from Labour voters to force a weakened Ed Miliband to take a tougher stance on the EU in next year's election
Canada’s Conservative Party was destroyed overnight in the country’s 1993 election by the populist, low-tax, Reform Party.
The century-old ruling Progressive Conservatives lost all but two of their 156 seats after sensational gains by Reform, which had been called racist, sexist and homophobic, just as David Cameron famously called UKIP ‘fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists’. The split in Canada’s Centre Right enabled the Liberals, Canada’s equivalent of our Labour Party, to take power.
But after ten years of infighting, the Reform revolution succeeded. The Canadian Alliance, a merger of Reform with the ruins of Canada’s old-style Tories, led to former Reform official Stephen Harper becoming Prime Minister in 2006.
And it had all started with the victory of a sole Reform MP, Ms Grey, in 1989. Mr Farage hopes a victory by UKIP’s Roger Helmer in the Newark Parliamentary by-election on June 5 will trigger a similar political shake-up at Westminster.
In his interview with The Mail on Sunday, Mr Farage dismissed jibes that the rise of UKIP will hand power to pro-EU Ed Miliband at the next General Election by taking votes from the Tories.
He said: ‘The arithmetic doesn’t suggest that. Firstly, the reason Conservative voters have deserted the party is that they do not believe Cameron is Conservative. It’s got nothing to do with me, but thinking there is going to be a Conservative majority is fantasy.
‘The second reason is the Tories are dying as brand in the North of England just as they did in Scotland.The third reason Cameron can’t win a majority is he can’t get the blue-collar vote. Thatcher got it, Reagan got it, John Major got it. But these two guys (Cameron and Osborne) who allegedly don’t know the price of a pint of milk, don’t connect with the blue collar.’
http://www.hilltimes.com/sites/hilltimes.com/files/story_image/2013/03/12_0.jpg
Left to right: Nigel Farage meeting with Preston Manning in 2013 - who brought down the established Canadian Tories in the early 1990s, along with former Australian Prime Minister John Howard who reformed the National Liberal Party of Australia.
While Farage says publicly an Ed Miliband victory next year would be a ‘disaster for the economy,’ some of those who know the UKIP leader well claim that in private, he says it could help him achieve a Canadian-style upheaval here.
One UKIP aide said: ‘If Miliband wins, the Tories would be shattered and split with Eurosceptics on one side and Europhiles on the other. Nigel could team up with the Eurosceptics and possibly lead them. And, if, as Nigel believes, Miliband would be a pathetically poor PM, a Labour Government could collapse quickly with another election. Then, the Canadian scenario is on.’
Mr Farage aims to use UKIP’s new support from Labour voters to force a weakened Ed Miliband to take a tougher stance on the EU in next year’s election.
‘If I want to get this country out of the EU, I have got to change the position of the Labour Party on the referendum. If you accept it is impossible for Cameron to win a majority on his own, there could be a UKIP-Tory coalition after the election. Who knows? If it looks less and less likely that Miliband can form a majority without a referendum pledge, he’ll do it.’
Farage, 50, insists he is not interested in power for himself – and by the time he turns 60, wants to have quit politics – with Britain out of the EU.
‘I will consider my job’s done and I would be very happy to hand over to people who might be very good at running the country. I’m in politics because I want to change things, not because I want a career. I don’t want to do this for ever, I don’t want to sit here in ten years’ time, I want to be doing something else by then, in the media, radio, writing, hopefully enjoying myself.’
He has no desire to move into No 10, emulating ‘Canada’s Nigel Farage’ Stephen Harper. ‘I think I could do it but do I think that’s really what I would be best at in life?
‘No. What I’m best at is spotting when something’s wrong and needs to change and agitating to wake people up to what’s gone wrong.’
I tend to reference the Reform Party a lot on here when we're talking about party politics and I thought some of you may be interested in this article that's come out - reaffirms what I have been hearing that Ukip officials have been in contact with former Reform Party officials discussing methods and tactics to help bring this about, all under a FPTP electoral system as is Canada. The Tories are in serious trouble having not won a parliamentary majority since 1992, and indeed if you look at the Lord Ashcroft polls that came out yesterday they still have no hope of reaching the magic 322 in the Westminster parliament.
He certainly has my backing.
Thoughts?