THE Conservative government has failed to implement Brexit according to Nigel Farage.
Mr Farage made the claim during a fiery debate on GB which also saw ex Commons Speaker John Bercow blast Brexit as a “grotesque blunder”.
Mr Farage said: “It was a mistake to leave the European Union exit in the hands of something called the Conservative Party.
“They never believed in it, they dragged their heels, and we were put through three years of total misery.
“The truth of it is to me, three years ago we moved house, and there were lots of new rooms and lots of excitement, but to make it work, we have to be truly dynamic and make real change.
“And the truth is most of those packing boxes are still there.”
In a discussion with Esther McVey and Philip Davies on GB News, he said: “If you ask me right now, am I disappointed with Brexit? I’m sorry to say, I’m going to have to say ‘yes’.
“The Government has made an absolute pig’s ear of the whole thing in purely economic terms. The sovereignty argument is simple. We’re self-governing.”
He added: “We should have triggered article 50 on the 24 June 2016. It should have been done immediately.
“If we had done that, there wouldn’t have been time for the Remainers, the second referendum…we should have got on with the job. We have done none of those things.
“There are five and a half million people in this country running small businesses. They expected to see relief from excessive regulation.
“It will be seven years in a couple of months since that vote, and as yet they’ve seen nothing.”
The former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow said: “What Nigel wants to do, because he can’t abandon the religiosity of his lifelong support for Brexit, is to blame someone else whose mysterious forces if you like…frustrate the will of the British people or the designs of Farage.
“I mean, really, it is nonsense on stilts.
“Why not start by admitting first that people are poorer, wages are down, foreign direct investment has slumped, Sterling has taken a permanent 10% hit, the economy has been hit to the tune of about £100 billion.”
He added: “It’s one thing to excoriate Theresa May or indeed before her David Cameron by saying, ‘well, neither of them was a believer in Brexit’ and that will be true.
“I think she did her honest, plodding, inadequate, grossly unimaginative best to be fair, but I accept that she presided over the matter in political terms with absolutely crass ineptitude.
“Where your argument seems to me to be on very difficult ground is that you can’t very well lacerate Boris Alexander de Pfeffel.
“On the same front, Boris Johnson came out explicitly in support of Brexit. He wanted Brexit, he favoured Brexit, he championed Brexit, he wanted in fact a Brexit not dissimilar to that we choose to support.”
