Nigel Farage Admits ‘Brexit Has Failed’ In Astonishing Newsnight Clash | HuffPost UK Politics

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  1. > “Economically, the UK would have been better off staying in, wouldn’t it?”

    > Farage said he “doesn’t think that for a minute”, but insisted the Tories had been worse than the European Commission at running the economy.

    ???

    “At least we’re destroying our economy ourselves?”

  2. >“Economically, the UK would have been better off staying in, wouldn’t it?”

    >Farage said he “doesn’t think that for a minute”, but insisted the Tories had been worse than the European Commission at running the economy.

    How can he say we would not have been better in it, but then go on to say the tories did a worse job?

    Contradicted himself in the same sentence….

  3. Strong “communism isn’t a bad idea it’s just never been done right” energy to Farage here. Brexit is perfect it’s just not been done breixity enough. This will always be his retort to Brexit not working. Always perfect, always held back by those damn politicians.

  4. Brexit is working exactly as intended. Workers’ rights are in disarray, small companies are folding and large companies are enjoying record untaxed profits.

  5. I remember Farage saying he would go live abroad if Brexit was a failure….

    Let me know where you’re off to.

  6. Why would anyone care what this clown says or thinks. He used to brag about not doing his job as an MEP no wonder alot of the EU don’t like us when this is who we had as a representative.

  7. Farage is a failure on so many levels, and even now he misreads the objective data that shows Brexit was always going to fail.

  8. You have to wonder who is still supporting it. No one has changed their mind and said it’s a great thing, a lot who voted leave have (statically) passed away, and everyone who brought you this beautiful unicorn have disowned it and ran far away

  9. Not for Farage and his lying band of merry men. I’m sure they have piled away the cash in some British protectorate, just like several generations of their families.

  10. As usual, when it comes to right wingers, it’s always someone else’s fault.

    The Tories did not swivel their eyes hard enough, which is why Brexit is a shit show, according to its chief protagonist.

  11. what hes saying is that its failed because of the current gov, when election time rolls round he’ll offer a ‘solution’ that will hoover up red wall people and then hand those votes to the tories.

  12. Absolute clown and a perfect demonstration of how stupid the Brexit vote was in the first place. Reducing something as complex and ingrained in day to day workings of the country to a binary yes/no vote was utterly moronic.

  13. The state of the UK and then world is bigger than just Brexit. It’s been building for around 15 years. The Tories were not a Brexit in or out party they just use what ever they are faced with to make money for themselves personally. Johnson had two bloody scripts already pre written.

    World banking practices have changed and there’s been huge wealth moved around. The world has been turned upside down because individuals want to fulfill their childhood fantasies no matter the cost to society in general.

    There have been huge deals done in the US around 3 nm chips with the Dutch which is putting China’s nose out as they are 10 years behind on the research.
    Right now the truth is we would be in the same state Financially as we are now if we were in or out of the EU as the same greedy people would have just made money and deals in other ways. The outcome is the same. Until we realise this we just blindly allow ourselves to be pick- pocketed.

  14. I’m from Belgium and I for one would be happy to welcome our British friends back into the EU.

    But please… whatever you do, don’t bring this moron back with you. Send him to Antarctica or something.

  15. The MPs who campaigned for brexit are the same people who implemented it. If they couldn’t make it work then *no one can*

    There’s literally no one else left to try (or at least pretend to try)

  16. Anyone with half a brain has predicted he would say “Brexit sucks but its not my fault, its that they did brexit wrong”. That has always been his plan, at no point did he actually believe the EU was bad.

    Its all about the grift.

  17. Farage is a firestarter and a coward. He loves starting trouble then hides his hands or points at someone else.

    He blames immigrants for EVERYTHING yet here we are post brexit with full control of our borders and economy and life right now is the worst it has ever been.

    People in yellow dingies are not the reason houses cost £650,000+ in London or electrictiy costs 40p pkwh or your weekly shop is now TWICE the cost it used to be.

    Nigel and other hard right brexiteers lied and lied and lied, then when we got out and everything went to shit they suddenly disappeared to their nice country homes to ride out the utter collapse of the country.

  18. I wish *anyone* would be held accountable for “Project Fear”

    We were saying *from the beginning* this would happen, and got treated like the villains for it. Then we were “moaners” for wanting to undo it. Now we’re “captain hindsight” or whatever because we won’t just hand wave it away and forgive them for ruining the country

  19. The twat made sure his kids held onto German passports so his family could have the advantages he was intent on deninying the rest of us.

  20. Yeah, the tories coulddnt stop filling their pockets for 5 minutes to sit down and govern our damn country. We were hopelessly unprepared for the reality of losing the benefits of EU membership and the fact we had to vote on the concept before seeing the hard facts of negotiation only made things worse because at that point they had us by the balls since we coulddnt back down because we voted on it

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