Brexit leader Nigel Farage: 2016 was start of global populist revolution

[TomSea]

Brexit leader Nigel Farage: 2016 was start of global populist revolution
Michael Walsh
Reporter
Yahoo NewsFebruary 24, 2017

British politician Nigel Farage heralded 2016 as the beginning of global populist revolution during a speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md.

In a speech titled “Brexit and What it Means for the World,” Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP), said that future schoolchildren would study 2016 as the dawn of a new political era — ushered in by the so-called Brexit referendum in the U.K. and the election of President Trump in the U.S.

“When in years to come, the generations that follow us study the history of this period, there is one year that will stand out,” he said. “There is one year that every schoolchild will know, and that year is the year of 2016, because in 2016 we witnessed the beginning of a global political revolution and it’s one that is not going to stop. It’s one that is going to roll out across the rest of the free world.”

Farage, who has fought against Britain’s membership in the European Union for decades, said “politically corrupt rulers” had given away Britain’s independence and democracy for 40 years. But he argued that everything changed at 3 a.m. on June 24, 2016, when it was clear that the U.K. had voted to leave the EU.

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[dfwgator]

I hope he's right.