As everyone in Britain knows, Brexit became a real possibility only once Nigel Farage was elbowed out of the leadership by Michael Gove and Boris Johnson. But you can forgive Farage for pretending otherwise in his six-minute speech to the Trump rally as he tried to make out that Brexit and Trumpism are the same kind of thing. In fact, Brexit is a prime example of how a country avoids Trumpism. The kind of referendum that puts people like Farage out of work, and puts parties like Ukip out of business.
Anyway, Farage seems to have learned from the campaign experience and borrowed Boris’s habit of addressing his audience as ‘folks’. David Cameron will be reassured to know that he was booed, almost as loudly as Barack Obama. It was fairly plodding stuff from the now-resigned Farage. ‘They put us ten points behind. And they were wrong.’ Farage could have added that he himself predicted defeat for Brexit on polling day – so he can count himself amongst the experts who got it wrong.
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