Nigel Farage has declared he can halve crime as he warned that parts of British society are ‘collapsing’.
The Reform leader insisted he could achieve the enormous reduction within five years, suggesting there would be a New York-style ‘zero tolerance’ approach.
At a press conference in London, Mr Farage pointed to shoplifting and muggings in London, and argued that large numbers of immigrants were making the streets less safe.
Mr. Farage, however, was questioned about the project’s cost and criticised for making extravagant claims without providing information on how they would be funded.
He estimated that £17.4 billion would need to be spent over the next Parliament, but said the country could not ‘afford’ to tackle crime, which was costing far more.
Mr Farage said the police would be required to investigate all crimes – and see serious offenders spend years more behind bars in ‘proper justice’.
Measures include the introduction of ‘saturation stop and search’ in heightened crime areas, with as many as one in five people stopped to send out a message that criminality will not be tolerated.
To eliminate the necessity for early release, thousands more jail spaces would be constructed on property that was formerly owned by the Ministry of Defence.
El Salvador’s infamous supermax prisons are among the institutions abroad where the most dangerous offenders could be sent to spend their sentences.
He admitted he had not yet spoken to the authorities there, but stressed they were already willing to take prisoners from the US.
Mr Farage said he was in talks with Albanian leader Edi Rama about taking back all nationals serving sentences in the UK.
The MP committed to recruiting 30,000 new police officers, ending early release for prisoners convicted of serious violent, sexual or knife crimes.
Mr Farage revealed that very little of the programme will be possible until the UK leaves the European Court of Human Rights.
The UK would have to give six months’ notice of the exit to the Council of Europe – a separate organisation to the EU.
But a Reform government would almost certainly have to pass legislation confirming the desire to exit, comparable to that required for Brexit.
Experts believe Mr Farage would also have to abolish or greatly amend a swathe of domestic legislation, including the Human Rights Act.
In the absence of approval from Holyrood, all devolution laws might need to be torn up, including the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.
He said: ‘We will cut crime in half. We will take back control of our streets, we will take back control of our courts and prisons.’
Mr Farage voiced fears that ‘nobody in London understands how close we are to civil disobedience on a vast scale in this country’.
‘Don’t underestimate the simmering anger and disgust that there is in this country that we are letting in every week many hundreds of undocumented young males, many of whom come from cultures in which women and young girls are not even treated as second-class citizens,’ he said.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Mr Farage said he was putting criminals ‘on notice’ that Britain’s soft-touch justice system will come to an end if Reform wins the next election.
Mr Farage warned that law-abiding members of the public have been left feeling ‘helpless’ by the way crime has been ‘normalised’ in recent years – and pledged to ‘take back control of our streets from the criminals who currently plague them’.
‘Reform UK will be the toughest party on law and order this country has ever seen,’ he wrote.
We need to stop migrant invasion, and then you substantially decrease criminality, which will also help with the prison crisis. That will give us time to build more prisons to accommodate our own home-grown wrong-uns, who we can then bang up for a significant length of time.
However, by doing all of this, Nigel, it then cancels out our human rights. Our movements through Brexit have been restricted, and now he wants to get rid of our rights altogether. Simply don’t make their passage to the UK so cosy. Don’t feed them, don’t give them accommodation and don’t give them any money. All of this makes it far too appealing for them, and if they still keep coming, accommodate them in detention centres, and then ship them to an island where they have to fend for themselves.
The most crucial question in all of this is how Nigel Farage plans to pay for all of his proposals. Political suicide would also result from tearing up the Good Friday Agreement.
We do need millions of these migrants out of our country, especially those who do not comply with our way of life, but how on earth are we going to do it? Our government(s) let them in, but now they can’t get them out.
Nigel is the only politician, I suppose, who is paying attention to the people of the United Kingdom, but I believe that all of this will be in vain since the harm has already been done.
It’s all an extremely good concept in theory, but how is Nigel going to do it and how is it going to be financed? Or is he, like all of them, blowing smoke up our backsides?
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