Farage: Confidence in May to deliver Brexit falling by the day
He likened the current Prime Minister to someone who “blows around in the wind”.
Nigel Farage has said Theresa May is a “weather cock and not a signpost”, and that his confidence in the Prime Minister to deliver on Brexit is falling by the day.
The former Ukip leader was in Clacton-on-Sea as he joined the party’s candidate for Clacton Paul Oakley for a morning of campaigning – his first of the General Election.
Mr Farage’s visit came as the news broke that Tory candidate Craig Mackinlay, who beat him to the South Thanet seat two years ago, has been charged over allegations relating to his 2015 election expenses.
Mr Farage described Margaret Thatcher as a signpost who knew the direction to take, but likened the current Prime Minister to someone who “blows around in the wind”.
“She is a weather cock and not a signpost,” he said.
“I, for the life of me, have no idea what she believes in, Brexit being the best example.”
Mr Farage said it is “tough” to believe Mrs May and said his confidence in her to deliver has “fallen by the day”.
He added that she “U-turns on everything”.
“I have very little confidence in her, her record of delivery as the longest serving Home Secretary since the nineteenth century was abysmal,” Mr Farage said.
“She clearly can’t stick to a course because she does just get blown off course.
“I think she may well have been the Tories’ big asset on April 18, but she is now their biggest liability.”
Picture-seeking passers-by regularly stopped the MEP as he made his way past amusement arcades and on to Clacton Pier on Friday.
Once he arrived, Mr Farage was followed around the town by a group of Ukip placard-carrying supporters, and he regularly stopped to speak to voters and answer their questions.
Before he stopped for a post-campaigning pre-midday pint at a pub, Mr Farage addressed claims he is a “person of interest” to the FBI and said the allegations are “total baloney”.
He added: “I have never been to Russia, I have never done business with Russia, I have never borrowed money from a Russian bank – I have no Russian connections whatsoever.
“This is wild conspiratorial nonsense.”
Mr Farage was also pressed on his thoughts about President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, to which he stated the move was “democracy” in action.
“He puts in his manifesto ‘I will break the Paris Accord and seek a better deal for America’ and he is elected on that,” he said.
“Then do you know what he does? Unlike every other western world leader, including Theresa May, he sticks to what he promised he would do. It is called democracy.”
Quizzed on whether he would have upheld the agreement, Mr Farage said he is not Prime Minister or President, but that he does think it gave “developed countries a pretty rotten deal”.
