The surging, grassroots Brexit Party is in for the long haul, regardless of what happens in the EU parliamentary elections on May 23, the group’s leader Nigel Farage announced today. The Brexit Party will field candidates “with real-world experience” in the next U.K. national election for the House of Commons, the domestic parliament, whenever that occurs, Farage explained in another tour de force speech and press conference.

For openers, the Brexit Party will contest a June 6 special election for a currently vacant parliamentary seat with a “first-class candidate” on June 6.

Nigel Farage and party chairman Richard Tice explained that the Brexit Party seeks a clean-break Brexit under World Trade Organization terms. “We want democracy respected and repeated promises to be kept,” said Farage. Prime Minister Theresa May repeatedly promised that the U.K. would leave the EU on March 29, but the departure date subsequently was extended to October 31.

The flawed deal she “negotiated” with the EU amounts to Brexit in Name Only, or what Farage calls a surrender document, leaving the country trapped under EU control contrary to the June 23, 2016, referendum results.

The possibility does exist that the Conservatives and Labor could do a withdrawal agreement deal that would short-circuit the EU election, although Farage seems to think that it is unlikely. “Our political class has behaved despicably” in refusing to deliver Brext as both parties promised in the June 2017 national election, the former UKIP leader declared.

Moreover, Theresa May’s government has now confirmed that the EU elections will go forward, the Guido Fawkes blog reports.

Parenthetically, in skillfully fending off a smear from a Guardian reporter, Farage shows how it’s done. U.S. politicians take note.

Farage added that the Brexit Party will receive support from both Conservatives and Labor voters as well as unaffiliated new voters. “We won’t be lied to and deceived anymore by our political class,” Nigel Farage concluded.

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