"I’m sure that you, with me, share the absolute horror and total revulsion at what happened in Paris last Friday. And we should not for one moment pretend that this was an isolated one-off attack, it just happens to be the worst one that we’ve seen on European soil...The truth is out there, ladies and gentlemen!
It was so utterly and entirely predictable. I think we’ve reached a point where we have to admit to ourselves, in Britain, and France, and much of the rest of Europe, that mass immigration and multicultural division has for now been a failure... And I’m afraid there is, and we have to be honest and frank about this and talk about these things without being fearful, there is a problem with some of the Muslim community in this country...
We have to be honest about it. Our politicians, I’m afraid, haven’t had the guts. We’ve known for years about the hate preachers saying things for which any of the rest of us would have been arrested on the spot. We know about the problems of the Trojan Horses that we’ve seen in our schools and our prisons.
And we also have to look perhaps at the population. There are now three million Muslim people living in Britain. That is an increase of seventy-five percent over the course of the last ten years. And yet, within that now significantly large group of people, there is considerable alienation. Particularly amongst many of their young.
It is deeply worrying that after the Charlie Hebdo attacks earlier this year in Paris, when polled, twenty-seven percent of British Muslims expressed some sympathy with the motives that had carried out that massacre. Eleven percent of that three million said they thought that the people who produced those cartoons of Muhammad actually deserved to be attacked.
And amongst the sixteen to twenty-four year-olds there are about a third of young Muslims in Britain who’ve got very split and divided loyalties. In fact, it seems that a third think their loyalty to their religion... is greater than it is to this country... I have to say that in many ways our perpetual neo-con approach, where we go on trying to get rid of leaders of Arab and North African countries and think bombing is the answer to everything, in many ways we’ve made it easy for some of these people.
But we have to attempt to stop this constant dripping of poison in the ears of young British Muslims. And we have every reason to believe that the main source of this problem is coming from money. Money that is pouring into our universities, money that is pouring into our mosques. And it’s coming from Saudi Arabia. SAUDI ARABIA IS FUNDING THIS EXTREME IDEOLOGY!
Incidentally, this is the same Saudi Arabia who have so far refused to take a single person from war-torn Syria or anywhere else in the region. The same Saudi Arabia who said they don’t want to take large numbers of refugees or migrants because they fear it might upset the balance of their society. And yet it’s the same Saudi Arabia that is now prepared to fund the building of two hundred mosques in Germany.
I was told tonight by a media source, well Mr Farage, what you’re saying would threaten our trade with Saudi Arabia. I think our security and our safety matters more than our trade with Saudi Arabia...
We cannot go on with our so-called friend Saudi Arabia doing these things...
And yes, we need some plain speaking about this word ‘multiculturalism.’ For the great and the good, and the political class, it has been in many ways their test of moral superiority. You know, ‘I support multiculturalism therefore I’m a better, finer person than you'... But... actually what we’ve seen from our political leaders, in this case of radical Islam, is we have seen appeasement. We have seen gutlessness. We have seen a total failure of leadership.
I was in the car, in June, listening to a Radio 4 morning interview with the Prime Minister. And the interviewer said, well Mr Cameron, you know do we not face a real threat from Islamic State? Oh no, no, no, the Prime Minister said. You mustn’t call it ‘Islamic State,’ it’s got nothing to do with Islam! And today Theresa May, the Home Secretary, in the House of Commons, in her statement responding to these appalling events in Paris, said that ISIS is nothing to do with Islam. Well I’m sorry, but again we have to be frank. Every single one of those killers believed they were doing what they were doing in the name of Islam.
And our weakness, the weakness of our leaders, has actually allowed in our country the creation of a parallel society. Tens of thousands of cases of Female Genital Mutilation performed in this country every single year. And as yet not a single person has been convicted. A blind eye turned to polygamy, to forced marriage, and now eighty percent of Muslim marriages in Britain are conducted completely outside and unregistered by UK civil law. And yet our leaders effectively aren’t brave enough to do anything.
And when I hear that there are now four hundred jihadi fighters fresh back as battle-scarred veterans from Syria living out in our communities. And yet I listen to the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary who say we want to remove the passports of people who want to leave Britain to go and fight in Syria. I’m sorry, I want to remove the passports who’ve been to fight in Syria and not let them back into the country...
We need to start to promote our own values, unashamed of our culture, unashamed of who we are... Occasionally we hear these things from our government but sadly they don’t deliver because they don’t really mean it...
It was only two years ago that the British government, if you remember, wanted to arm the rebels against Assad. And luckily they were stopped from doing so. Now, they want to start bombing some of the rebels. So does that mean they’re on Assad’s side, or do we bomb him as well? I’m not sure. I’m not actually sure what we’re proposing.
We have, over the course of the last fifteen years, pursued a series of policies believing that bombing is the answer to everything. And believing that removing Arab Heads of State will somehow make those countries better, safer and stabler. I would suggest that, before we rush in to start bombing again in another country, that we actually take a long, cool, hard look at whether that policy has been successful.
And I would say that if you look at Libya for example. Where Mr Cameron and President Sarkozy were so gung-ho that they went in and removed Gaddafi. I’m not arguing that Gaddafi was a good guy. But I am arguing that actually we’ve made Syria worse and we’ve increased radicalisation. We will not beat ISIS by just bombing in Iraq and Libya.
Frankly, if we want to beat ISIS militarily, we will have to put together a grand coalition of Arab and African states. They will have to provide the troops. We will provide some of the hardware. We will provide much of the intelligence. And we would need to go in to fight them simultaneously in country after country...
We may well need to rethink who our enemies really are. Because for the last few years the West, whether it’s Obama, or France, or Britain, or our friends in the EU… and more on them in a minute. But they’ve decided that Assad and Putin are evil and that they are our enemies. I’d think we’re going to have to rethink that strategy entirely...
Assad and Putin may not be our bosom buddies, but they are not the biggest threat we face in the World today. The biggest threat we face in the World today does come from ISIS. And on that great battle they are on the same side as us, and it’s time the government recognised that.
So as I say, we already have in this and other European countries a Fifth Column that we’ve welcomed into our country and done little to stop. But what makes me really angry... is that the European Union’s Common Asylum Policy is taking a bad situation and making it even worse. Making it even worse, if it wasn’t bad enough for Mr Juncker to have said that anyone who sets foot on European soil can stay.
If that wasn’t bad enough then we had Mrs Merkel committing, I think, one of the most major policy errors we have seen from a European leader in modern times. Inspired, I can only assume, by some kind of wergild. And leading to a stampede. Indeed, it has led to an exodus of biblical proportions.
And yet the warnings were pretty clear. ISIS themselves have said they will use the migrant tide to flood the European continent with half a million of their jihadists. Now even if that figure’s wrong, I would suggest fifty thousand is too many. Even if only one percent of that figure is right, I would suggest five thousand is too many. I would suggest five hundred is too many. It only took eight to cause that destruction in Paris the other night...
And we were warned by Libyan government ministers. We were even warned by the Jordanians, when Mr Cameron went to visit the camp. And I have to say, at least Mr Cameron is not encouraging people coming across the Mediterranean and through the western Balkans. But when he went to visit that camp in Jordan, the Jordanian minister who showed him round said be careful Mr Cameron, because two percent of this camp are jihadists intent on getting to your country and doing harm...
I’ve tried again, and again, and again over the course of the last few months to argue that we must not let our compassion imperil our civilisation... However difficult, however rough it is for many of these people, it is total madness to open the door and to import yet more jihadi terrorists into Europe and ultimately to Britain. And that is a reality that Mr Juncker, it would appear, has not faced up to. That Monsieur Hollande has not faced up to, because both of them today have said they will continue with exactly the same policy. And I think that is dangerously complacent. In fact, I think that is absolutely mad.
This dream of the free movement of people, this dream for others of the Schengen Area, hasn’t just meant the free movement of people. It’s meant the free movement of Kalashnikov rifles, it’s meant the free movement of terrorists, and it’s meant the free movement of jihadists. And it’s time that democratic movements in Britain and right across Europe stood up, and fought, and gained in strength. And said 'an end to this, we want back border controls, we want back national security'...
Mr Cameron tells us that the reason we’ve got to vote to stay part of this European Union is because we’ll be safer and we’ll be more secure. Well I ask you do you, in the light of what has happened in Paris last week... in the light of the fact they’ve decided to continue the open door to the Mediterranean and the western Balkans, do you feel safer as members of the European Union?
Or do you think, like us, that it’s time to say no? To take back control of our borders? And to make sure that never again do we have unprecedented immigration into Britain without our ability to check whether people have criminal records? Whether they have trades and skills to bring to this country? Whether they’re bringing their own medical insurance? What I’m saying to you is that to be safer, to be more secure, we have to say no in this referendum...
Just a month ago, after a European summit, Mrs Merkel again made a big decision. And she’s decided to fast-track Turkey as members of the European Union. So let’s just be clear what this means. What it means is we will open up to a country of seventy-five million who are on average even poorer than Romania and Bulgaria and Croatia... In terms of security, we will be in a political union with Turkey. Who of course have extensive borders with Iraq and Syria. Will we be safer and more secure in a political union with Turkey? I don’t think so.
And Mr Cameron will argue that we’ll have better economic security as part of this European Union. You see, he argues what they all argue. They argue that Britain isn’t big enough, Britain isn’t strong enough, Britain isn’t capable and able of standing on the world stage and doing things for itself. They argue that we need to be part of a bigger European club.
And this really first hit me, though that it was more than that, when last year I did those two one-hour debates with Nick Clegg... And Clegg was making the argument that we haven’t got clout on the world stage unless we’re part of the European club... And I countered Nick by saying that Iceland, with a population of less than a third of a million, had just signed off its own trade deal with China. I said it seemed to me that, if Iceland was big enough to negotiate its own trade deals on the world stage, that we were big enough to negotiate our own trade deals on the world stage.
But then I turned to Nick and I said to him it isn’t about us being big enough. I said Nick, you just don’t think we’re good enough do you? And do you know what folks, that is the truth of it. Our political class... don’t think we’re good enough to stand on our own two feet, to govern ourselves, to make our own laws, to make our own trade deals and to control our borders...
Through forty years of lies and deceit they’ve actually thrown away, given away, sold the most important valuable thing that we possess as human beings. Our ability as free people to be the masters of our own destiny. To govern our own country. Our rights of democracy and self-government are so fundamental and so important that those that went before us were prepared to risk, and in many cases sacrifice, everything they had. So that we could be born and grow up as free people. What they have done, ladies and gentlemen, is that they have literally given away our country.
And this referendum is our golden opportunity. Perhaps a once in a lifetime chance to undo the wrong that by stealth and deception has been done to us...
I want my country back.
We want our country back!"
Farage may not dare say it all but he says enough to make most of the long-sufferers realise that they are no longer alone.
And that might just make all the difference.
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