YouTubeNigel Farage, the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, whose goal to get Britain out of the European Union was accomplished this summer with a successful Brexit vote, spoke at a Trump rally held in Jacksonville, Mississippi yesterday.
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He said that as a foreign citizen, he would commit the same sin by telling Americans how they should vote.
“I could not possibly tell you how to vote in this election”, he told the crowd.
“I think you have a fantastic opportunity right now with this campaign”, Nigel Farage, a key figure in the successful movement behind Britain’s June vote to leave the European Union, told attendees at a rally in Jackson, Miss., last night.
The Ukip leader said: “You have a fantastic opportunity here with this campaign”.
Farage said there were similarities between Trump’s campaign and the Brexit campaign, which he called a “people’s army of ordinary citizens”, reported the BBC.
Initially, Farage expressed reticence in directly addressing the politics of the election, noting that he himself had criticized President Barack Obama’s speech in Britain before the Brexit vote.
“He talked down to us”, said Mr Farage.
“That is who Donald Trump wants by his side when he is addressing an audience of American voters”.
According to the Guardian, a quick random survey of the crowd saw eight out of ten spectators admitting to not knowing who Mr Farage was or what Brexit was.
The majority of Mr Farage’s speech focused on the success of the campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
The appearance, an apparent effort to draw connections between Brexit and Trump’s candidacy in the U.S., was an extension of the GOP presidential candidate’s so-called “America first” platform.
In a tweet last week, the property mogul said: “They will soon be calling me Mr Brexit”. “I was very supportive of their [Britain’s] right to do it and to take control of their own future, like we’re going to be voting for on November 8th”, Trump told rally attendees, according to media reports.
“The parallels are there: there are millions of ordinary Americans who have been let down, who have had a bad time, who feel the political class in Washington are detached from them”, he told the rally.
Earlier, on a visit to Florida, Mr Trump said polls showed him trailing in the state.
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Farage also brought up that David Cameron, the former anti-Brexit Conservative prime minister, invited President Obama to speak to Britons about the vote.
