Nigel Farage: Promoting Multiculturalism the ‘Biggest Mistake’ Europe Has Made

"The first thing we have to do is to recognize the mistakes of the past. Let's be absolutely frank, honest about this. We now have within many European countries, and dare I say it within the USA too, a fifth column living within our own countries, people, mercifully few in number, but people who are out to destroy our whole civilization and our way of life. And, of course, the really sinister thing about today is, what price now a cartoonist, a satirist, even a commentator?

You know, the implications on free speech and our democracy are very serious. So let's recognize the mistakes we have made, uncontrolled immigration, just not knowing in many cases who the people were who were coming into our country. We have allowed -- and I'm certainly speaking for Britain here -- within our mosques people coming in, heavily funded by some Middle Eastern states, pushing a deeply unpleasant and anti-Christian heritage culture. And we have also -- and here's the biggest mistakes the governments have made -- we have promoted multiculturalism. We have promoted division within our societies.

We have said to large numbers of people, you can come here from any part of the world. Oh, and, by the way, please don't bother to learn our language. Don't integrate in any way at all. You can take over whole parts of our towns and cities, and we will say it has made us a wonderful, diverse nation. That hasn't worked. So learn from those mistake from the past. And in going ahead from here, I think we have got to start being just a bit more assertive about who we are and what our values are. And I'm not saying that we should all be forced to go to church on Sundays or anything like it. But we come from countries with Christian cultures and Christian constitutions. And it's about time we started standing up for that."