CIVIL unrest could sweep through Britain because of a decades-long failure to control immigration, Nigel Farage has warned.

said he is “deeply worried”; that riots like those in Northern Ireland and Southport will spread after successive governments opened the floodgates to foreigners who refuse to integrate.

claimed communities feel “completely ignored”; when raising concerns about the arrivals’ impact on and public services.

He said that years of brushing off complaints as “you’re a bad person”; has turned the country into a pressure cooker — “and in the end it explodes”;.

Mr Farage spoke to The Sun on Thursday at The Talbot in , .

His warning came in the wake of , .

What began as a peaceful protest responding to the arrest of two Romanian teenagers accused of attempted rape turned into nights of hate-filled riots.

Mr Farage said: “Nobody condones setting fire to houses and hunting down foreigners.

“But there was a population of people, the Roma people, that were put into Ballymena who cannot possibly integrate with the locals and have a completely different set of standards of life beliefs.”;

He added: “The truth of it is that immigration only works if you have integration with it. If you don’t, you have a divide.

“And where human beings are divided, history teaches us, you get conflict.

“I am very, very deeply worried about what’s happening.”;

Responding to the , which began on Tuesday, a spokesman for Prime Minister said he “utterly condemns the ongoing violence”;.

said the local have the PM’s “full support”; in “continuing to restore order to keep peace and to keep people safe”;.

Nigel Farage speaking at a press conference.Nigel Farage has warned that civil unrest could sweep through Britain because of a decades-long failure to control immigration