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Courtesy of the Telegraph, Nigel seems to think we could leave in 15 months and not have severe problems.
Brexit will have to be fought all over again after the “great deception” of a transition deal pushing back the date of the UK-EU divorce, Nigel Farage said today in a fiery debate in the European Parliament. MEPs in Strasbourg were debating ahead of Friday’s Brussels summit where EU leaders will formally agree that Britain can move onto trade and transition talks after making “sufficient progress” on the financial settlement, citizens’ rights and Ireland. Theresa May asked for a transition deal of about two years in her Florence speech, which would mean Britain would not leave the EU until 2021. During that time it is expected Britain will pay into the EU Budget and observe EU law but lose its voting rights.
“I fear Brexit at some point in the future will need to be refought all over again,” said Nigel Farage, a MEP and former leader of the UK Independence Party. “We will effectively, once transition is granted, have left the EU at the end of March 2019 in name only,” he said, before suggesting a future British government could extend the terms to keep Britain in the EU’s single market and customs union.
Mrs May agreed a joint report with the European Commission on the three key issues last Friday morning, which was hailed as a long-awaited breakthrough in the Brexit talks.
“You managed to make a British prime minister leave Downing Street in the middle of the night, fly to Brussels and go and forge an agreement with unelected bureaucrats based in Brussels,” said Mr Farage, who described the £39 billion Brexit bill as "ludicrous". “It’s a form of ritual humiliation which she was prepared to put herself through. She has danced to your tune all the way through this. You must be very, very pleased indeed,” he told MEPs to laughter from his supporters.