Mr Farage said he had “done my bit” following the UK’s referendum vote to leave the EU. He said the party was in a “pretty good place” and said he would not change his mind about quitting as he did after the 2015 general election. Leading UKIP was “tough at times” but “all worth it” said Mr Farage, who is also an MEP. He added that the UK needed a “Brexit prime minister”.
Good jorb guys. Almost every major politician involved in the Brexit cluster fuck has now left the building.
update: Christoph Waltz criticised Mr Farage for not failing to see it through and stand up for what he had been vigorously campaigning for throughout his political career.
“Well, I mean, of course the head rat would leave the sinking ship,” Waltz said in a Sky News video posted to Twitter.
“It’s inevitable, you know. They tried to dress it up as a heroic exit — no, it’s conceding defeat. It’s putting the tail between their legs and as rats do, leave the sinking ship, leave the mess for others to clean up and retreat into some profitable other business,” he continued. “That shows you how despicable these people are that they can’t even stand up for what they caused.”
update 2:David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage have been described as “rats fleeing a sinking ship” following their resignations in the immediate aftermath of Britain’s historic European Union referendum.
Guy Verhofstadt, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, made the comparison the day after Mr Farage resigned as the leader of the UK Independence Party: “The Brexiters do not have a clue what needs to be done. Cameron, Johnson and Farage behave like rats fleeing a sinking ship.”
His unflattering depiction of the three senior British politicians came as Jean-Claude Junker, president of the European Commission, accused the former London mayor Mr Johnson and Mr Farage of quitting when things got difficult. “The Brexit heroes of yesterday are now the sad heroes of today,” Mr Juncker told a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “Those who have contributed to the situation in the UK have resigned, Johnson, Farage and others. They are as it were retro-nationalists, they are not patriots. Patriots don’t resign when things get difficult, they stay. Instead of developing the plan, they are leaving the boat.”