British Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to postpone a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal means her credibility is "now absolutely shot," and the United Kingdom will be in the middle of a historic constitutional crisis, Nigel Farage, one of the architects of the original Brexit plan, said Monday.
"The prime minister had struck a deal with the European Union on our withdrawal," Farage told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "Many in Parliament, myself included, thought it was a bad deal. I've coined it the worst deal in history. We were going to give away a huge amount of money. We were potentially going to be trapped in the European Union's rules indefinitely."
If May's plan, which calls for a compromise allowing the United Kingdom to leave the EU while staying within its economic orbit fails, that will cause "one of the biggest constitutional crisis it has seen for perhaps over 100 years, he added.
May pulled back the deal after she realized she'd lose her push by a large amount, said Farage, but she has one last chance to save it.
She goes to Brussels on Thursday for a meeting with the other 27 presidents and prime ministers of Europe and she will try to get concessions at that meeting which she will bring back to Westminster next week," said Farage.
He also commented on the violent riots going on in France over President Emmanuel Macron's carbon tax policies, saying not to think the violent scenes over escalating fuel prices are only in Paris.
"Last Thursday there were tax offices out in the regions that were being petrol bombed," said Farage. "This is very close to being a modern day revolution."
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