Nigel Farage has told people to “forget the Russia conspiracy” over Brexit and Donald Trump’s election after it wss revealed that the EU has helped fund Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The former Brexit Party leader used “the Farage moment” on his daily GB News show to point out that the EU bought 52 percent of Russia’s liquid gas last year.
This was despite the fact that sanctions were supposed to be imposed over Putin’sd invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Farage noted that “everyone laughed” at Donald Trump when he warned EU countries that they were funding Russia’s military build up by buying its gas when he was still President.
And he said it made a mockery of claims that the vote for Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum was “part of a Russia conspiracy.”
In a bombastic section Mr Farage said: “Can you believe it that the European Union over the courtse of the last year have bought 52 percent of the liquified natural gas that has been sold by – wait for it – Putin’s Russia!”
He went on: “Yes while they put sanctions on and talk about supporting Ukraine in the war they are actually directly funding the Putin regime.
“It all goes to show they may have laughed but when Trump said to them at the United Nations, to the Germans in particular, ‘you are becoming way to dependent on Russia’, everyone laughed at him.”
He added: “The Russia conspiracy was the Trump was elected because of Russia, Brexit was because of Russia but all the way along it was the European Union funding them.”
Mr Farage also used his show to take aim at SadiqKhan’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) expansion and also linking it to the EU.
He pointed out that the engine specification regulations being used to justify ULEZ charges of £12.50 a day on non-compliant vehicles are still the old EU ones agreed before the UK left the bloc.
He said: “It is all Euro standards – we may have had Brexit we haven’t left these behind.”
However, he said that it means that drivers could get around a potential annual cost of £4,500 a year they could apply for a euro standard certificate.
