Brexit betrayal: Three years, NO EU exit- we must not trust Westminster, says NIGEL FARAGE

Brexit has suffered three major betrayals by the political establishment. Yet the worst may be to come. We could be facing the biggest betrayal of all if they prevent the UK from leaving on the new deadline of October 31. Let’s just remind ourselves of those three great Brexit betrayals.

The first was even before the referendum, when the Westminster parties deceived voters into believing that our vote would count.

In June 2015, MPs backed a referendum by 544 votes to 43. During the referendum campaign, David Cameron’s government spent £9million of public money sending a Remain propaganda pamphlet to every household, stating clearly that “the Government will implement what you decide”.

We have learned that they should have added “…so long as you make the right decision, to Remain”.The second great betrayal came in the 2017 general election. Both the Tories and Labour stood on manifesto commitments to implement Brexit and break free from the rules of the European single market and customs union.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour promised “to respect the result of the referendum” and that “the freedom of movement would end once we leave the EU”.

Theresa May’s Conservatives spelt out that “no deal is better than a bad deal for the UK”. Two years later, both perfidious parties have been conspiring to block a clean-break Brexit.

The third betrayal came on March 29 this year. Mrs May told us we would definitely leave then – indeed she told us on 108 occasions. And then March 29 came and went, without Britain going anywhere.

Now, three years of deceit later, we may face the fourth and biggest betrayal of all.

I truly hope Boris Johnson keeps his word and delivers Brexit. Yet there are already signs of another betrayal in the making.

Like other Leaver candidates, he set aside all his condemnations of Mrs May’s appalling deal and voted for it at the third time of asking.

Now there is talk of Prime Minister Johnson trying to pass a warmed-over version of that defeatist treaty through Parliament.

If we want to see a warning sign, look at the support for Boris from ex-Tory chancellor George Osborne – the architect of Project Fear.

Three years and three Brexit betrayals have proved one thing: that 17.4 million Leave voters were right to reject the weasel words of the Remainer establishment. And we’re surely right to think not twice, but 108 times, about trusting Westminster to deliver now.

On October 31, not just for the Tories but for British democracy, it is now a case of Brexit – or bust.