'We’ll get our Brexit' Ukip MEP accuses Remainers of not respecting EU referendum result
A UKIP MEP has vowed that Britain will leave the European Union despite the High Court’s decision to block Theresa May from triggering Article 50.
UKIP's Patrick O'Flynn: "We WILL get our Brexit"
Patrick O’Flynn hit out at Remainers who he accused of “not respecting the result” of the historic June referendum and said there is “stone cold anger” over the delaying tactics being used.
Last Thursday the High Court upheld a challenge which prevents the Prime Minister of triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and formally starting the UK’s exit from the EU without a Parliamentary vote.
Speaking to Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRADIO, Mr O’Flynn blasted the Remain side for tying up the Brexit procedure in knots.
The eurosceptic MEP said: “I think what’s happening here, the Remain side – or many people in it – are not accepting the result.
Remain are skating on very, very thin ice here – we will get our Brexit
“They say they do and it’s just about scrutiny, I think they’re hoping to delay things, to tie it up in procedural red tape and to thwart Brexit.
“Remember, all they have to do, any day, is just stop us leaving – we are still in the EU four and a half months on from that vote.
“I’m afraid the delay of Theresa May’s Government and this strategy of not triggering Article 50 till next spring has left us wide open.”
Mr O’Flynn, a former Daily Express journalist, added that he had attended public meetings and the feeling amongst the crowds is of “stone cold anger” and predicted a large-scale political demonstration if it looks likely Parliament will block Britain’s exit from the EU.
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Continuing to discuss a potential Brexit block in the House of Lords, he said: “I think the Lords would be incredibly foolish if the unelected chamber were to openly defy the will of the people.
“But there are some people in the Commons who will – some surreptitiously, some openly – Daniel Zeichner the MP for Cambridge is another one who said he’d be voting for Remain.
“I just think we’re here heading towards a constitutional crisis and I think the people who voted Remain, who in my knowledge, were overwhelmingly absolutely bewildered and gobsmacked on June 24 and hadn’t conceived the vote could possibly go against them.
“We should reflect that on that day they did not understand the majority of people in their own country.
“They should wise up and keep that in mind that they still don’t and they’re skating on very, very thin ice here – we will get our Brexit but it would be nice if we could now move on and embrace the future but we’re right back in the heat of the bitterness.”
Mr O’Flynn’s Ukip colleague Nigel Farage has announced he is set to lead a 100,000-strong march through London.
The protest will start in Trafalgar Square and finish in Parliament Square, just metres away from the Supreme Court which will decide on the Government’s appeal to carry out the will of the people.
The march is expected to take place on December 5, which is due to be the first day of the hearing over the landmark court case.
The Supreme Court has scheduled up to four days for the hearing and proceedings will be streamed live via its website.
A Leave.EU spokesperson told the Telegraph the march would act as a “reminder about what we voted for, so there is no slippage on the single market which we think this case was used to get a negotiating stand on the single market”.