FREE FOR DEMOCRATS COME TO ONE OF OUR 11 REGIONAL RALLIES! I N SEPTEMBER BOOK ONLINE NOW JULY 2019 THE NEWSPAPER OF THE BREXIT PARTY ISSUE #0001 THEBREXITPARTY.ORG/EVENTS BREXIT PARTY STARTS POLITICAL PAGE 3 ANN WIDDECOMBE PAGES 4-5 BREXIT BOOSTER: OUR INVESTMENT PLAN ‘WE’RE TURNING ANGER PAGE 7 WETHERSPOON’S TIM MARTIN INTOby BREXIT PARTY LEADER HOPE’ NIGEL FARAGE How? By turning people’s anger over the estab- lishment’s betrayal of Brexit into hope. THE Just THE BREXIT PARTY IS MAKING By giving millions of politically homeless voters BREXIT HISTORY AND CHANGING a positive vision of a brighter future in a freer, more PARTY 6 weeks old! POLITICS FOR GOOD. democratic Britain. Since launching in April we have already: Politics is broken, with Westminster now more WON the European elections with more votes disconnected from normal people than at any time in LABOUR living memory. TORIES than the Tories and Labour combined. TOPPED national polls for a UK General A damning recent survey reveals that just SIX Election. PER CENT of voters think ‘British politicians under- RECRUITED over 115,000 paying supporters. stand people like me’. Meanwhile 74 per cent agree We have become the most successful, fast- that ‘the UK political system is currently not fit for EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS MAY 2019 est-growing new party in modern UK politics. purpose’. Enough is enough. Continued on Page 2... Continued from page 1... That’s why Britain needs the Brexit Party. ST To put trust back at the heart of our OCTOBER 31 : democracy. To give a voice to ‘people like SAT OCTOBERFRI us’ who have had enough of being ignored THURS WEDS TUES and insulted by those with power. MON SUN To make the UK political system ‘fit for purpose’. And to ensure parliament’s BREXIT democratic purpose is to represent the mass of the people, not to rule over them like aristocrats of old. The Brexit Party is the one party which truly believes in a clean-break exit from the EU – what 17.4m voted for three OR BUST years ago. That is our starting point. The battle Three years Are we now for Brexit still needs to be hard fought and won against the combined forces of the Remainer establishment and their media of broken facing the allies. But this battle is now about much promises and worst betrayal more than the EU. It is about what sort of country we want Britain to be. trust betrayed of all? If a parliament packed with Remain- er MPs and Lords can overturn the biggest We have just passed the third an- then March 29th came and went, mandate in British history, then what kind niversary of the 2016 EU referen- without Britain going anywhere. of democratic society do we really live in dum, when 52 per cent of us voted After three years of deceit, we today? could face the worst betrayal of The Brexit Party is now turning its Leave. Yet we have still not left yet. attention to Westminster. We are getting That’s 17.4m votes. Three years. all, if the political establishment ready for a General Election, whenever it No Brexit. The new deadline for the again fails to deliver Brexit by the comes. With the Conservative and Labour UK to quit the EU is October 31st. ‘final’ deadline of October 31st. parties both in chaos, that could well be That date will loom large in many Let’s hope that whoever takes sooner rather than later. people’s minds as it gets closer. over from Mrs May as Conserv- Yet why should we trust the ative prime minister will finally Westminster parties to deliver get it done. But let’s also remem- Brexit this time? Their record over ber that all the Leaver candidates Britain needs the past three years is a trail of bro- to become Tory leader voted for “ ken promises and trust betrayed. her appalling withdrawal agree- the Brexit Party Remember how, in the 2016 ref- ment at the third time of asking. erendum campaign, David Camer- The best these Tories seem like- and the Brexit on’s Tory government spent £9m ly to offer is a warmed-over version Party needs sending every household a glossy of that defeatist treaty – some- you. Remain propaganda pamphlet? It thing a nation normally signs only promised that ‘The Government after losing a war. Meanwhile Cor- Whenever it comes, this will be a will implement what you decide’. byn’s Labour moves closer to com- Brexit General Election. And we will be Remember how, in the General ing out as an anti-Brexit party, for fighting to win every seat. Election of June 2017, both Theresa a second referendum and Remain. In the couple of months since I May’s Tories and Jeremy Corbyn’s That’s why October 31st looks launched the Brexit Party, our remarkable Labour stood on manifesto com- set to be a decisive moment. The success has frightened the life out of the day when we finally get the Brexit establishment parties. They have respond- mitments to implement Brexit? ed in panic by hurling lies, abuse and polit- Labour pledged to ‘respect the we voted for – or the Remainer es- ical libels at our candidates and supporters. result of the referendum’. The tablishment finally abandons Let them come. As a veteran of Bomb- Tory manifesto stated in any pretence of respect- er Command wrote to assure me, ‘You only black and white that ‘no ing the democratic start getting flak when you’re getting near deal is better than a will of the people. to the target.’ With your support, we are bad deal for the UK’. If the worst be- ready to take them on. And whatev- trayal of all is com- I hope you enjoy this first edition of er happened to ing, it will not eas- our party newspaper, The Brexiteer. We Brexit Day, March ily be forgiven. On have made a great start. But this really is 29th? Mrs May told October 31st, not only the beginning. just for the Tory Please get in touch, get involved and us that we would support the Brexit Party. You’ll find details definitely leave on Party but for British on the back cover. Britain needs the Brexit that date. In fact she democracy, it is now a Party. And the Brexit Party needs you. told us 108 times. And case of Brexit – or bust. PAGE 2 WIDDECOMBE EXCLUSIVE ‘I’VE BEEN CHEERED IN WORKING MEN’S CLUBS I’D NORMALLY BE CHASED OUT OF’ ANN WIDDECOMBE IS THE COME- sels is. I’m a Member of the European Parliament, but I ward reason – we’re all on the same side, we want out of cannot propose legislation, I cannot repeal legislation, I this mess, we want something to change radically in the BACK QUEEN OF BRITISH POLITICS. cannot table questions; I cannot do any of the things we way politics is delivered. There was a shared energy in When other MPs move from Westminster into ce- take for granted at Westminster. the room for that.’ lebrity TV and pantomime, it signals the end of their po- ‘The whole thing is in the hands of the unelected What of the contest to be Tory leader and prime litical career. Commission. It’s certainly not a democracy as we under- minister? ‘I would want Boris to win because he is at Not our Ann. She retired as a Conservative MP in stand it.’ least talking about a decisive Brexit. Whether Boris will 2010, waltzed off to Strictly Come Dancing – and has The Brexit Party campaign showed thousands of then be able to deliver Brexit on October 31st is a very now come stomping back onto the political stage as a British voters do understand what democracy should different question.’ Brexit Party MEP for the South West region. look like. ‘The campaign turned people’s anger into ‘I think there will still have to be a bit of a fight be- ‘I retired from politics,’ she says, ‘for the simple rea- something positive – support for the Brexit Party. Every- fore we get Britain out. son that, after 23 years in Westminster and seven years a where we went, the Tory shires or the Labour heart- ‘And I know that the only vehicle for getting Brit- minister, I’d had enough. And I certainly didn’t regret it. lands, we got terrific receptions. People right across the ain out is the Brexit Party. I loved retirement, I loved the birdsong in my garden, I political spectrum want change.‘ ‘The Brexit Party is a huge coalition, going from loved the fun things I was doing like pantomimes. For some of us, a defining image of that campaign left to right. When we had our first get-together as 70 ‘But I got more and more frustrated with Westmin- was Farage and former Tory minister Widdecombe be- European election candidates, I thought – what is differ- ster’s betrayal of Brexit. And then I thought to myself, “I ing cheered to the rafters of Featherstone Working ent from the Tories? After about 20 minutes I realised: can go on lamenting the situation from my armchair. But Men’s Club in the old Yorkshire coalfields. you hadn’t got a room full of people, all of whom want to maybe I need to do something about it”. ‘They tell me these are the Labour heartlands,’ Ann be prime minister! ‘I really didn’t want to come back! But I could see told the crowd of ex-miners and their families.