Nigel Farage calls on Britons to seize back ‘our BIRTHRIGHT’ in the EU referendum
NIGEL Farage has vowed Britain will become "a proper democracy" if voters reclaim "their birthright" and vote to leave the EU.
Nigel Farage has urged Britain to seize back its 'birthright' and leave the EU
The Ukip leader urged the electorate to seize back power from Brussels with tighter border controls, higher basic wages and new trade agreements.
Mr Farage blasted the “hopelessly pessimistic Remain campaign” and vowed to turn the nation into "Global Britain" by re-establishing trade links with the Commonwealth.
The anti-EU campaigner also vowed to introduce an Australian-style system to “bring down numbers significantly to sensible levels”.
He said: “The post-war average rate of net migration was between 30,000 to 50,000 per year. That to me seems a sensible level, rather than the hundreds of thousands every year that we’ve seen under Mr Cameron’s premiership.
“By taking back control of our borders, our country can gain all the benefits of migration while ensuring that never again do our own people have their living standards pushed down.”
Mr Farage vowed to slash immigration and increase wages post-Brexit
The suffering for millions of ordinary, decent British folk caused by EU open-door immigration may be a price worth paying for Mr Cameron and his friends
Mr Farage added: “The suffering for millions of ordinary, decent British folk caused by EU open-door immigration may be a price worth paying for Mr Cameron and his friends so that they can attend fancy summits with the overpaid EU elite, but the social and financial cost of uncontrolled migration to British workers will never be acceptable to me.”
The Ukip leader asserted that by reclaiming control of British borders it would raise the wages for homegrown workers.
Mr Farage wants Britain to take back control of its own affairs from an unaccountable Brussels
Farage hopes to reduce immigration to between 30-50,000 a year
He told the Telegraph: “The minimum wage would no longer be the maximum wage for so many of our citizens. Our younger generation would have a proper chance of getting their foot in the door, with employers encouraged to train them, rather than simply relying on cheap migrant workers.”
Mr Farage believes Britain has neglected the Commonwealth countries in favour of an “inward looking EU” - something he describes as “shameful”.
He said: “The way that we have treated many of our traditional allies in the world by locking ourselves into the inwards-looking EU is a disgrace.
"After leaving the EU we would be able to treat all who wanted to come here on an equal basis, strengthening our proud ties to our kith and kin in the Commonwealth.
“It is shameful that we have discriminated against those countries in favour of the EU. That would end. We would no longer be acting as Little Europeans, but a Global Britain.”