Letter: Farage cares passionately for the welfare of our country
Nigel Farage is not an extremist; he is not a right-wing fascist; he is not even trying to make political capital out of Brexit.
Watch the videos of his speeches as an MEP in Brussels, and you will see someone, who believes passionately in the democratic rights of his countrymen and cares deeply about the insidious erosion of our way of life and our irreplaceable freedom.
Why else would he work so hard to put himself out of a very well-paid job?
The immigrant poster on the bus had already appeared as a cartoon by Heath in the Mail on Sunday on February 7 last year, which was also devoid of women, children and elderly refugees and shows a bus, crammed with young, strong male immigrants, headed for England, as does the poster.
Why is it ok for the MoS to point this out, but not Nigel Farage?
We would all love a united, co-operative Europe; what we don’t want is the prison that was being so carefully constructed by a very tiny elite in Brussels, of which, devastatingly, most people seemed unaware.
We were being sold a nightmare of economic loss and demise, being destroyed as a great trading nation and having it promoted as the great European dream.
Our country was in terminal decline, thanks to all the EU’s senseless directives.
They have undemocratically ridden rough-shod over our legal system and replaced our priceless habeas corpus with their own illegally created laws; they have not allowed our government to save our industries, although France and Germany have both been allowed to bale out their troubled steel.
They were going to launch a whole new raft of directives on June 24 had we voted to remain. Nigel Farage has been in the wilderness for 25 years, fighting pretty courageously in the light of all the grossly unfair flack he has received.
He speaks with moderation, unlike many has-beens that have been dragged out of storage recently, and has a superb inside knowledge of the workings of Brussels, far better than that of most MPs.
History informs us that genuinely passionate, caring people, are usually more than unwelcome to those in power, and usually vilified. He has seen beyond the myopia of many Europhiles, who cannot seem to get beyond the economy, and understands the broader sweep of what it will mean to leave the EU.
When, not if, we get hit by the next drought, (of which Peter Rhodes wrote so wisely in his piece about the preciousness of water recently) which, this time round, would bring this country to its knees, with our extra 9.5 million population and our demands on water the like of which we have never seen before, then, perhaps, finally, the penny will drop for all those Remainers, who insist on calling Leavers “racist”, that actually, it’s not about racism, it’s about survival.
Our country is no longer sustainable; there are just too many of us and our ship is already half-submerged.
Will Knott, Shrewsbury