Nigel Farage: “DEFENDING SOVEREIGNTY: WHAT’S AT STAKE?”

Comments made at the “SECOND SOVEREIGNTY SUMMIT” July 29, 2024.
https://sovereigntysummit.org/the-sovereignty-summit-2/

HONORABLE NIGEL FARAGE, Member Of The U.K. Parliament For Clacton And Leader Of Reform U.K. Party

TRANSCRIPT:

Nigel Farage, MP: Always a pleasure, Frank, to talk to you. And, uh, yeah, you've got your sovereignty summit. I mean, sovereignty ought to be my middle name, really? Because, well, you know, it's 30 years ago, over 30 years ago. And I was a businessman working for a Chicago-based brokerage company in financial and commodity products. And I could see that you know, we'd signed up to this European club. It was all very innocent. It was all about being friendly with our neighbors and trading. But I could see over 30 years ago that this was actually about the sovereign nation state becoming subordinate. So, you know, my fight has been for sovereignty for 30 years.

Well, I did 20 years and seven months in the European Parliament, and over 10 years of that was as a group leader. So, you know, sitting on the front row. And they had to invite me to all the special meetings and all the visits from foreign heads of state and dignitaries. Very interesting. I mean, the analysis upon which all of these organizations have been set up and I'm talking United Nations, I'm talking European Union. The whole post-war construct was based on a mistaken idea. It was based on the thought that the very existence of a nation-state had led to two cataclysmic world wars that had affected everybody. You know, costs cost tens of millions of lives in both conflicts. And so, the thinking was, we'll set up a new form of government, basically leading to world government, where the clever people, the educated people, will decide what's good for all the rest of us. And if we eliminate the nation-state, we will eliminate war. We will eliminate poverty. And that was the thinking behind all of it. But of course, at no point was this explained to individual voters in our respective countries.

So kind of what I learned during those 20 years and seven months is that the political classes had bought into this hook, line and sinker that anybody that put up a counterargument, a as I used to call it, “negationist argument,” was somehow a bad person that will lead us to war. Well, I did manage to win that battle, and we did get our sovereignty back. We did leave the European Union, which probably is the biggest historical constitutional change in these islands for 300 years. But now I'm in the British Parliament, and I've been there for just over three weeks, and the vast majority of those sitting in the British Parliament think regaining sovereignty was a mistake, and would love to hand some of that sovereignty back to globalist institutions like, the European Union, like the United Nations, and relevantly, the World Health Organization, because, you know, we all saw their baleful, baleful influence during the pandemic. And there they were at the end of May this year with their pandemic treaty, and they were all ready to take a whole host of powers away from voters, away from nation-states. And we were all cheering when the Geneva Conference ended with no agreement.

Well, folks don't cheer too much. One thing I learned in Brussels about the globalist project is even if they don't get what they want, they're prepared to wait and wait and wait because every time they gain a bit of sovereignty, every time they gain a bit of power, they never, ever give it back. And so now we learn that actually, they're hoping to renegotiate this treaty, which would give them the right to tell us to lock down. I mean, think about it. You know, Florida would not be able to make the wise decisions that it did with Ron DeSantis as governor. And they're hoping to get this done and dusted before the US presidential election. Now, I don't think that time frame is workable, but believe you me, they are going to come back with this idea.

Just a final word. That's why, Frank, you know, I was so worried about the WHO that I've helped co-found “Action on World Health.” We're established. We're up and running. We're a legal entity in both the UK and in America. We're there, we're ready. We were prepared for Geneva. It hasn't happened. But I will not be taking my eye off the ball in any way at all. You know, we're going to use action on world health, and we'll do it. Try and get together big petitions. We can even, you know, do it in America if necessary to try and get ballot measures, you know, perhaps on a state-by-state basis when relevant elections come along. So don't underestimate me. I'm very committed to this cause and the idea that we give up, you know, our ability to decide whether we have mask mandates to decide whether vaccines have to be compulsory, to decide whether we should be locked back into our houses again. I'm very serious that we have to continue with this fight.