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”;.
