Enda Brady
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It's Labour.
It's the Conservatives.
You know, Farage keeps pumping out this rhetoric that all Britain's problems are created by others.
And this anti-migrant rhetoric, which he bangs on every single opportunity he can get, he's telling people what they want to hear.
You can't get a doctor's appointment.
Why is that?
Because 41,000 migrants sailed over from France on dinghies last year.
Crowborough, East Sussex, little town.
And then you go online on social media and you'll read stories about all migrants are getting priority health care.
Migrants are getting priority housing.
And this resonates and people believe it.
Whether it's true or not, people believe it.
And he is telling a lot of English people what they want to hear.
comes from a very fine middle class, upper middle class English background, privately educated, went to one of the best schools in London, worked in the city, worked in hedge funds, made a lot of money.
You know, as much as he is pictured drinking pints of ale and beer in traditional pint pot glasses in English pubs and being a man of the people, he's a man of the elite people, a lot of his critics would say, private education, working in finance at the highest level.
And then, yes, he went into politics.
Now, it took him seven attempts to get elected in terms of the actual UK Parliament.
But he made his name in European politics, despite the fact that he has no time for the European Union.
So he was elected in 99 as MEP for the southeast of England.
And that was a seat he held until 2020.