‘Rishi cannot cease the boats’: Nigel Farage launches Reform marketing campaign
Nigel Farage warned Britain is in the middle of a ‘national security emergency’ today as he warned of a growth in the numbers of young men with ‘radical anti-British’ views.
The Reform founder sounded the alarm about inner cities and towns moving into an era of ‘sectarian politics with women completely excluded’ as he waded into the election campaign.
Mr Farage was launching the Howard Cox as the party’s Dover candidate this morning – having refused to stand for a seat himself.
In a tough speech, he claimed Rishi Sunak called an early election on July 4 because he knew his plan to deport Channel migrants to Rwanda would not work.
He also doubled down on his attack on British Muslims, despite criticism from the Tories and other politicians over using the term ‘invasion’ to describe the situation facing Britain.
Complaining that Channel migrants had access to services like housing and dentistry before locals, Mr Farage said: ‘Frankly, I think this is very dangerous. You only have to look at what has happened in Sweden, in cities like Malmo, to see that a large influx of young males coming from an entirely different culture – and certainly coming from a culture in which woman are not even regarded as second-class citizens – has had frankly disastrous social effects.’
The Reform UK president launched its election campaign in Dover today – despite refusing to run for a seat himself at the general election.
In a hardline speech he claimed the Prime Minister called an early election on July 4 because he knew his plan to deport Channel migrants to Rwanda would not work.
Mr Farage posed for some very damp photos on the seafront in Dover today
The Reform president struggled with an umbrella as he campaigned today
He also doubled down on his attack on British Muslims, which has led to criticism from the Tories and other politicians, and defended his use of the term ‘invasion’ to describe the situation facing Britain.
Mr Farage said: ‘I think what we ought to be doing with this situation here is declaring a national security emergency and this is an emergency.
‘I talked over the course of the weekend to Trevor Phillips (on Sky news), about the small but worryingly growing number of young men, predominantly young men in this country, adopting radical views, views that aren’t just un-British, but views that frankly are extremely anti-British.’
He added: ‘You might have noticed that Angela Rayner yesterday was campaigning in her constituency, begging, begging a group of Muslim leaders to please vote Labour, you will have noticed not a single woman in the room.
‘So we’re moving into an age in our inner cities and towns, I’m afraid, I’m worried to say, of sectarian politics with women completely excluded.’
He cited recent hardline comments by his former enemy, Polish PM and ex-EU leader Donald Tusk about the threat of migrants arriving in Poland from Belarus, saying: ‘If it is a matter of national security in Poland, I think what we ought to be doing with this situation here is declaring a national security emergency. And this is an emergency.’
Mr Farage stood in front of a Union Flag backdrop with the words ‘Britain needs reform’ and in front of a podium that said ‘Rishi can’t stop the boats’ as he spoke.
He said Mr Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer were ‘men with the appearance and energy of middle managers vying to become a national leader.’
Mr Farage said he was ‘very disappointed’ to decide not to stand in the election and said he felt he could not fight a seat and campaign around the country in six weeks.
He has previously failed to win a seat in seven attempts.
He clashed with Richard Madeley today as the Good Morning Britain host challenged his controversial comments on Muslims by asking, ‘What on earth were you talking about?’
The Reform UK honorary president provoked a backlash on Sunday when he warned of the ‘growing number of young people in this country who do not subscribe to British values’ and ‘loathe much of what we stand for’.
He later clarified he was talking about Muslims.
Mr Madeley challenged the former UKIP leader on his comments this morning by quoting the findings of a major review of the existing polling carried out in 2018 by IPSOS Mori.
‘They found absolutely conclusively that Muslims in the UK attach more importance on being British than the general population,’ he said.
’85 per cent feel they truly belong to Britain, 55 per cent feel that their national identity as British is very important to them and that compares to 44 per cent of the general population. So I’m bound to ask, what on earth were you talking about there?’
