RE: Following in his fathers footsteps13 Nov 2019 15:57
"This is a quite exceptional, indeed totemic, constituency, and one which Nigel Farage himself fought in 2010.
"I am honoured to stand, and to put the argument for a true and immediate Brexit to the electors of Buckingham.
"In the battle of ideas, we need not defer to the wrong opinions of others, or to counsels of expediency.
"We must say what we believe, and vote for it.
"We may be attacked as obstinate, caricatured as extreme, and pilloried for taking votes from other parties.
"All these assaults Nigel Farage has suffered for 25 years.
"So let us be as courageous as him, as principled as him, and as resolute for success as him.
"We do not need to be blown by the wind and tides of the news cycle - we can make the weather.
"We will be heroes to those that come after, for once we regain self-rule, this great country will not look back.
"It will prosper and flourish, with a great wave of invention and enterprise, and trade with distant lands.
"We will soon come to shudder at the memory of a period of growing subjection to an impersonal, alien, and distant rule.
"Our best days lie ahead: and if we seize every opportunity that Brexit brings, soon every inhabitant of these islands will say what I believe is true, that “there has never been a better time to be English, to be British”.