How Nigel Farage Won Brexit
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Nigel Farage joins Senator Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles to break down what led to the UK’s dramatic exit from the EU, discuss what Huawei's spy tech could mean for the Five Eyes relationship, and drop a few bombshells about the most important issue of our time, Megxit.
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| 0:00.0 | When Nigel Farage told the European Parliament that the UK would leave the European Union, they all laughed at him. |
| 0:07.3 | Well, look who's laughing now. |
| 0:09.4 | And look who's in our studio. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:19.3 | Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. We are joined by a now unemployed member of the European Parliament. |
| 0:27.6 | Nigel Farage, thank you for being here. And Senator Cruz, I have to thank you for not only being a number one podcaster in America, but also apparently a very good booking producer because you brought your friend, |
| 0:38.1 | Nigel along. |
| 0:40.4 | Well, and this was pure happenstance. |
| 0:44.1 | So Nigel came and joined the Republican conference for lunch. |
| 0:46.4 | And he was talking to us about Brexit. |
| 0:49.2 | He was talking about his incredible leadership and bringing that about. |
| 0:50.7 | It was absolutely fascinating. |
| 0:54.7 | And so I walked up to him afterwards and said, well, look, we're doing this podcast. |
| 0:57.4 | Can you come join us? And boom, here he is. |
| 1:02.5 | I am so glad that you were able to come because this is going to sound like a very stupid question. |
| 1:07.7 | But I thought in 2016, the UK votes for Brexit. They're going to leave the EU. |
| 1:09.8 | Then for some reason, it doesn't happen. |
| 1:19.5 | 2017, 2018, 2019. Now we're in 2020. It finally happens. What is the Brexit? And even, what is the European Union? Well, it's a great question. And thanks, guys. It's great to be here. I, you know, I spent most of my |
| 1:25.3 | business life before politics working for American companies. |
| 1:28.0 | So I know a lot of Americans, a lot of smart, well-off Americans, and they've never quite got what the European Union was. |
| 1:34.9 | They kind of thought it was a bit like NAFTA. |
| 1:37.4 | But it isn't. |
| 1:38.8 | The European Union is a political union. |
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