Brexit hopeful at conference
THE Brexit Party “conference on tour” arrived at Southport Theatre last Friday – and Southport prospective Parliamentary candidate Darcy Iveson-Berkeley was among the guest speakers.
Supporters from all over the North West came to the town for the event, which was also attended by the party’s regional general Election candidates.
Darcy, who was born and bred in the town, described Southport’s situation as similar to that of Britain in Europe.
He said: “Southport pays its local taxes to Sefton Council, it is then passed through layers upon layers of bureaucracy, finally ending up in the local community. Exactly the same happens in the European Union – there is no value for money.
“I am standing here today putting myself forward to not only improve the value for money which my fellow Southport residents receive from their taxes, but to rid the UK of the leaking sieve that is Brussels.
“The Brexit Party has given me, a young man not from the political bubble of Westminster, nor from a fancy private school, the opportunity to make my voice heard and stand up for my local community.
“I want to see Great Britain restored to being a proud independent nation, governed by people we elect, by judges who have the British system of justice as their inheritance, and the ability of industrialists and financiers to trade in free and open markets, not constrained by petty fogging EU regulations.
“We are constantly told that all Brexiteers are all stale, white males... well I challenge those remainers to truly look at the people the Brexit Party have brought into politics – some for the first time in their lives.
“I am a prime example of this party’s diversity – I am 19 years old, from a mixed heritage believe in Brexit.”
Other speakers at the conference event included party leader, Nigel Farage, MEP, and the three North West MEPs, Henrik OvergaardNielsen, Claire Fox and Dr David Bull. and