Nigel Farage: we’re attempting a peaceful political revolution

This article is an edited transcript of Nigel Farage’s speech at the Brexit party rally in London on 21 May. 

Do you know we only launched this party five and a half weeks ago. In that space of time we’ve managed to assemble this fantastic team of candidates. We’ve managed to go to the top of the opinion polls in five and a half weeks – that’s not bad, is it? We’ve managed, in five and a half weeks, not just to frighten the establishment. Oh no, they’re not freighted  – they’re absolutely terrified.

Perhaps most important of all… What we managed to do in those five and a half weeks since we launched in that factory in Coventry, is we’ve managed to give millions and millions of people in this country, who were frustrated, upset, angry, on the point of saying that they’d never engage the democratic process again, so sick to death were they at the shenanigans in Westminster… we’ve given them hope, optimism, and belief in their country.