Nigel Farage

[Black Orchid]

British politician Nigel Farage has revelled in the demise of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull while commending Australia's tough stance on immigration.

The Brexit Party leader is in Sydney this weekend to headline the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), billed as one of the country's largest gatherings of conservatives.

Speaking with SBS News, Mr Farage celebrated the fall of conservative leaders who he said were not true conservatives, including former UK prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa May, and Australia's Malcolm Turnbull.

"Mr Turnbull was masquerading as a conservative," he said, adding that Prime Minister Scott Morrison was a "decent, honest, sincere guy".

Mr Farage told SBS News that Australia's immigration policy was "very sensible".

"You do it according to what skill sets you need in what sectors, it all makes sense ... The basic principles of the Australian system are the right ones," he said.

"The difference with the UK is we went from net migration of 30,000 per year, which we had for about 60 years, to 300,000 a year and we wonder why our roads are full and why our hospital waiting times have gone up ... We need to use similar principles to Australia," he said.

"There is this strain of globalist argument that says we're all global citizens and there should be a total free movement across the world. It doesn't work and it's not what people in a democracy want."

He said the Coalition's surprise election victory was a result of ousting Mr Turnbull, calling him a "snake" who "hijacked" the Liberal party.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/a-snake-nig ... m-turnbull

[Bogan]

Anyone interested in a debate about refugees, and who wishes to witness the stunning intellect of Nigel Farage should watch the "Monk Debate" on refugees, on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z-eZIsLHAo

Nigel Farage and Mark Steyn square off against noted Human Rights activists Simon Schama and Louise Arbour. It is an absolutely first class debate, whatever your position on this subject.