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The people of Wales voted to leave the European Union and return our United Kingdom to the status of an independent democracy.

— Gerard Batten

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Source: Plaid Cymru's Adam Price says Brexit must be stopped BBC News (3 October 2018)
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Successive governments have refused to accept the threat posed to our society by Islamic fundamentalism and extremism and to take the necessary measures to meet it head-on. We should esteem our own values of freedom, free speech and liberal secular democracy and start defending them.

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What we do know is that if we do not leave the EU it will mark the end of democracy in the UK.

Instead of asking the EU how we may leave we should have been explaining to them how we are going to leave.

We are determined to protect our freedom of speech and the right to speak our minds without fear of the politically correct thought-police knocking on our doors.

[Tommy Robinson is] entitled to speak at rallies organised by people who believe in democracy

If Parliament does not take Britain out of the European Union it will be the biggest constitutional crisis since the English Civil War. In 1642 the king put himself in opposition to parliament. Parliament won and the king lost his head.

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