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  • >> Neil: BORIS JOHNSON WANTED TO

  • SUSPEND PARLIAMENT.

  • ONE PROBLEM, HE HAD THE GET

  • QUEEN ELIZABETH TO GO ALONG.

  • GUESS WHAT?

  • SHE WENT ALONG.

  • SHE DID.

  • SHE APPROVED HIS SUSPENDING

  • PARLIAMENT FOR UPWARDS OF A

  • MONTH TO CLOSE THE DEAL OR AT

  • LEAST THAT'S THE IMPRESSION.

  • BREXIT PARTY LEADER NIGEL FARAGE

  • JOINS US ON THE PHONE.

  • WHAT DOES THIS MEAN NOW?

  • WHAT IS PUT IN PLACE?

  • >> IT'S NOT, NEIL, AS PEOPLE MAY

  • THINK.

  • WE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL POLICY

  • WHICH MEANS THAT PARLIAMENT

  • OPERATES THROUGH -- NOT THE

  • POWER BUT THE AUSPICES OF THE

  • QUEEN.

  • WHAT BORIS JOHNSON HAS DONE IS

  • CLOSED THE CURRENT SESSION OF

  • PARLIAMENT.

  • AFTER REOPENING, BORIS JOHNSON

  • WILL LAY OUT HIS NEW LEGISLATIVE

  • PROGRAM FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

  • IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE THE STATE

  • OF THE UNION SPEECH THAT HAPPENS

  • IN AMERICA.

  • IT'S ALL BEING PORTRAYED SOME

  • SORT OF TERRIBLE TRICK THAT

  • BORIS IS PLAYING ON THE BRITISH

  • PEOPLE.

  • IT'S ACTUALLY A NORMAL THING.

  • >> Neil: SO IS THERE ANYTHING TO

  • STOP THE BREXIT, YOU KNOW,

  • DECISION TO MOVE, TO GO AHEAD

  • AND BOLT FROM THE REST OF THE

  • EUROPEAN UNION?

  • >> HOW DO WE LEAVE?

  • DO WE LEAVE WITH A CLEAN BREAK

  • BREXIT OR WITH WITHDRAWAL

  • AGREEMENT THAT HAS BEEN PUT TO

  • PARLIAMENT THREE TIMES AND THEN

  • REJECTED.

  • HERE'S MY CONCERN.

  • MUCH AS BORIS HAS BROUGHT GREAT

  • OPTIMISM AND ENERGY TO THE JOB,

  • THINGS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS

  • IDENTIFIED, IT LOOKS LIKE HE

  • WANTS TO GO FOR AN AMENDED FORM

  • OF THAT WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT.

  • THAT WOULD STILL LEAVE US VERY

  • TIED TO E.U. RULES AND WOULD

  • MEAN WE COULDN'T DO A TRADE DEAL

  • WITH THE U.S.A. FOR SEVERAL

  • YEARS TO COME.

  • SO WHAT I'M DOING AS LEADER OF

  • THE BREXIT PARTY IS PUTTING AS

  • MUCH PRESSURE I CAN ON BORIS AND

  • SAY COME ON, WE SPENT THREE

  • YEARS WAITING TO DO THIS.

  • LET'S GET OUT WITH A CLEAN BREAK

  • BREXIT AND GET ON WITH OUR

  • LIVES.

  • >> Neil: THE FEAR IS IF YOU DID

  • THAT, THERE WOULD BE HELL TO PAY

  • AND YOUR BRITISH TALENT HAS BEEN

  • TUMBLING ON THE CONCERNS THAT

  • THIS WILL HURT YOU MORE THAN THE

  • EUROPEANS AND THE REST OF THE

  • WORLD.

  • WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT?

  • >> I SPENT 20 YEARS WORKING IN

  • ECONOMICS BEFORE I GOT IN

  • POLITICS.

  • IT'S ALWAYS THE OLD THING.

  • SELL THE RUMOR BY THE FACT.

  • FRANKLY ONCE THE U.K. HAS LEFT

  • THE EUROPEAN UNION, IF YOU DO IT

  • THE CLEAN WAY, INVESTMENT WILL

  • FLOOD INTO THE UNITED STATES

  • BECAUSE WE WILL BE FREE OF

  • GREECE AND ITALY AND THESE

  • ECONOMIES THAT ARE DOING SO

  • BADLY.

  • THE ARGUMENT AGAINST LEAVING ARE

  • THOSE FROM THE STATUS QUO.

  • THE BIG FIRMS THAT WERE DOING

  • VERY WELL.

  • AND LIFE IS LIKE THAT.

  • YOU ALWAYS GET THE BIG AND THE

  • RICH THAT WANT NO CHANGE.

  • ACTUALLY, THE TIME HAS COME NOT

  • JUST ECONOMICALLY TO CHANGE BUT

  • DEMOCRATICALLY.

  • WHY SHOULD MY COUNTRY BE RUN BY

  • UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS IN

  • RUSSELLS?

  • I WANT TO BE FREE.

  • >> Neil: OBVIOUSLY I THINK YOU

  • KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE

  • BETTER THAN I DO, BUT MAYBE

  • BORIS JOHNSON IS FORCING

  • EUROPE'S HAND HERE.

  • YOU SAY YOU WON'T RENEGOTIATE

  • THE DEAL.

  • THE CLOCK IS TICKING.

  • YOU BETTER OR WE'RE OUT.

  • >> OF COURSE.

  • LOOK, A LOT OF THIS IS

  • NEGOTIATION.

  • I DO THINK BORIS JOHNSON TALKING

  • TOUGH ON NO DEAL IS BECAUSE HE

  • ACTUALLY WANTS THE EUROPEAN

  • UNION TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE

  • DEAL THAT MRS. MAY PUT IN PLACE.

  • MY ARGUMENT IS THIS.

  • THE DEAL MAY PUT IN PLACE WITH

  • AMENDMENTS HAS BEEN A TERRIBLE

  • DEAL AND THE WORST DEAL IN

  • HISTORY HAND I'M GOING TO

  • CAMPAIGN FOR A CLEAN BREAK

  • BREXIT.

  • WHEN WE'RE CLEAN, WE COULD BY

  • CHRISTMAS HAVE CENTRAL TRADE

  • AGREEMENTS WITH THE U.S.A.

  • HOW BAD IS THAT?

  • >> I WONDER WHETHER THE

  • EUROPEANS ARE MORE WORRIED ABOUT

  • THIS THAN THEY LET ON.

  • IT'S A CLUB THAT YOU DON'T WANT

  • TO BE A PART OF.

  • YOU MENTIONED WHAT IS HAPPENING

  • WITH SOME MEMBERS LIKE GREECE,

  • ITALY, PORTUGAL, SPAIN, THAT ARE

  • STRUGGLING AS MEMBERS OF THAT

  • EUROPEAN COMMUNITY.

  • MAYBE THE EUROPEANS FEAR BELGIUM

  • FIRES MORE TO THE POINT THAT YOU

  • GO, ALL BETS ARE OFF.

  • >> I THINK THAT'S RIGHT.

  • YOU KNOW, US BREAKING FREE, TWO

  • YEARS DOWN THE ROAD SEEMING TO

  • DO WELL WILL BE THE END OF THE

  • EUROPEAN UNION.

  • AND OF COURSE, THE EUROPEAN

  • UNION IS AT THE HEART OF THE

  • GLOBALIST PROJECT.

  • BREXIT, TRUMP WINNING, BIG

  • FIGHT-BACKS AGAINST GLOBALISM.

  • GLOBALISM IS ABOUT LOSING A

  • DEMOCRACY, LOSING YOUR

  • INDEPENDENCE, LOSING CONTROL OF

  • YOUR BORDERS.

  • SO AT THE MOMENT, WE ARE WITH

  • THIS BREXIT BATTLE, WE'RE ON THE

  • FRONT LINES OF SOMETHING THAT

  • DOESN'T JUST AFFECT US, IT

  • AFFECTS AMERICA AND AFFECTS THE

  • WHOLE OF THE WESTERN WORLD.

  • IT'S FROM MONEY FROM HALF A

  • DOZEN MULTINATIONAL BANKS AND

  • BUSINESSES.

  • DOESN'T SUIT MEN AND WOMEN THAT

  • WANT TO SET UP ENTERPRISES OR

  • DEMOCRACY THAT OUR FOREFATHERS

  • MADE SO MUCH SACRIFICE TO

  • DEFEND.

  • I KNOW IN MY HEART THAT BREXIT

>> Neil: BORIS JOHNSON WANTED TO

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