Nigel Farage launched his Brexit Party’s campaign Friday for the European Parliament elections – a vote Britain was never meant to take part in but which is now being seen as a referendum on its stalled drive out of the EU.
The former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader was a leading light of the pro-Brexit camp in a bitterly divisive 2016 referendum that voted to pull Britain out of the European Union after nearly half a century.
He now hopes to transform Prime Minister Theresa May’s failure to complete the split by its original March 29 deadline into big gains for Brexit supporters.
“I genuinely believe right now this nation, we are lions led by donkeys,” Farage told his maiden campaign event in Coventry – a mediaeval central England city left in ruins by World War II bombing raids.
“We can win these European elections and… start to put the fear of God into our members of parliament in Westminster — they deserve nothing less.”
Britain has found itself in the embarrassing position of having to prepare for a European vote three years after deciding to leave the bloc.
May’s struggle to get her EU divorce terms approved by parliament forced the other 27 nations at a summit…
