Farage appears at Trump rally, urges supporters to ‘stand up to the establishment’

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage appeared at a Donald Trump rally on Wednesday night, urging supporters of the Republican presidential nominee to “stand up to the establishment”.

Midway through a speech in Mississippi, Trump hailed Brexit as a bid for independence and Farage as a leader who stood up to the EU “against all odds”. He drew parallels to his own campaign, declaring that a Trump presidency would bring about “American independence”.

“We reached those people who have never voted in their lives but believed by going out and voting for Brexit they could take back control of their country, take back control of their borders and get back their pride and self-respect,” Farge said.

Farage criticised US president Barack Obama, who had urged the UK to remain in the EU, saying he “talked down to us, as if we were nothing”.

While he didn’t explicitly endorse Trump for president, he made it clear who he would not vote for if given the chance.

“I could not possibly tell you how to vote in this election,” he told the crowd of around 15,000. “But, you know, I get it. If I was an American citizen, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me. In fact, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinto if she paid me.”

He said that American voters had a “fantastic opportunity” to “beat the pollsters…the commentators…Washington”.

“And you’ll do it by doing what we did for Brexit in Britain. We had our own people’s army or ordinary citizens…If you want change, you better get your walking boots on, you better get out there campaigning, and, remember, anything is possible if enough decent people are prepared to stand up against the establishment.”

He compared the federal government in Washington DEC to the European Commission, saying many people felt it had become “its own country”, and claimed that the Democrat nominee, Hilalry Clinton, epitomized the status quo.

I’m going to say to people in this country that the circumstances, the similarities, the parallels, between the people that voted Brexit and the people that voted Clinton in a few weeks’ time here in America are uncanny.”