Nigel Farage, the British politician who heads up the UK Independence Party, says President Barack Obama’s calls for voters in the country to reject a push to leave the European Union likely helped the Brexit cause.
During an interview with Breitbart News Daily on Sirius, Farage said political opponents of the British split with the EU just learned a “really big lesson.”
“Don’t threaten people repeatedly,” Farage said. “Because if you do… they just stop believing you.
“We had that from our politicians and our chancellor, ‘you know, if you vote this way you’ll be poorer, terrible things will happen,’” Farage added.
The UKIP head said that Obama’s foray into British politics pushed many people in the country who were on the fence to vote for the Brexit.
“When Obama came it was project threat,” Farage said. “Threatening people too much insults their intelligence.”
Obama’s attempts to tell British voters what to do, Farage contends, were a slap in the face to many Brits who have long respected the U.S.
“A lot of people in Britain said, ‘How dare the American president come here and tell us what to do?’ ” he said.
“It backfired. We got an Obama-Brexit bounce, because people do not want foreign leaders telling them how to think and vote,” the British politician concluded.
And the theory makes a great deal of sense, considering the entire Brexit push was sparked by a population of Brits tired of being pushed around by the EU’s leadership.
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump took a slightly different view of what the Brexit success means in light of Obama’s warnings to British voters.
“The world doesn’t listen to him,” Trump said.
The billionaire businessman also vowed that if he’s elected, he’ll do everything possible to provide American support to the newly independent Britain.
As for what comes next, Farage predicts that before too long “the European Union project itself will come tumbling down.”
British voters, he contends, have proven that “people power” is still a viable way to shut down the political establishment in democratic countries.
“You just have to embrace it,” he said. “It’s the will of the people. What happened should have happened, and they’ll be stronger for it.”
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