CIVIL unrest could sweep through Britain because of a decades-long failure to control immigration, Nigel Farage has warned.
The Reform chief said he is “deeply worried” that riots like those in Northern Ireland and Southport will spread after successive governments opened the floodgates to foreigners who refuse to integrate.
Mr Farage claimed communities feel “completely ignored” when raising concerns about the arrivals’ impact on crime and public services.
He said that years of brushing off complaints as “you’re a bad person” has turned the country into a pressure cooker — “and in the end it explodes”.
Mr Farage spoke to The Sun on Thursday at The Talbot in Blackpool, Britain’s first Reform pub.
His warning came in the wake of rioting in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.
What began as a peaceful protest responding to the arrest of two Romanian teenagers accused of attempted rape turned into nights of hate-filled riots.
Mr Farage said: “Nobody condones setting fire to houses and hunting down foreigners.
“But there was a population of people, the Roma people, that were put into Ballymena who cannot possibly integrate with the locals and have a completely different set of standards of life beliefs.”
He added: “The truth of it is that immigration only works if you have integration with it. If you don’t, you have a divide.
“And where human beings are divided, history teaches us, you get conflict.
“I am very, very deeply worried about what’s happening.”
Responding to the Ballymena rioting, which began on Tuesday, a spokesman for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he “utterly condemns the ongoing violence”.
Downing Street said the local police have the PM’s “full support” in “continuing to restore order to keep peace and to keep people safe”.
Nigel Farage has warned that civil unrest could sweep through Britain because of a decades-long failure to control immigration[/caption]
