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As a life-long Eurosceptic, Farage joined UKIP- a party mainly focused on the secession of the UK from the EU- on its foundation in 1993. He would subsequently be elected as an MEP (Member of the European Parliament) for the South-East England constituency in 1999, and later as serve as leader of UKIP on two seperate occasions- firstly serving from 2006-2009 and then from 2010-2016. Under his second period of leadership in the 2010s, UKIP would experience a significant growth in support, attracting the growing number eurosceptics in the country and defecting [[File:Con-t.png]] Tories who were disappointed in the more liberal direction the party was going under [[File:Cameronism.png]] [[Liberal Conservatism|David Cameron]], alongside former voters of the [[File:BritNeoFash.png]] neo-fascist [[File:BNP.png]] [[British Fascism|British National Party]] who found UKIP easier to stomach due to the latter’s non-fascist background. During this time, UKIP was branded as a [[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|Classical Liberal]]/[[File:Libertarian.png]] [[Libertarianism|Libertarian]] party with nationalistic and populist tendencies. UKIP also caused much controversy, due to their heavy focus on anti-immigration and British nationalism, which caused people to deem them as "racist" and "xenophobic". While not getting any seats in the UK parliament due to the country's FPTP system, it got the third highest popular vote in the 2015 UK election and got the most seats in EU parliament in 2014.

 

 

Another splinter group from UKIP was the [[File:ForBritain.png]] '''For Britain Movement'''. The FBM was founded by anti-Islam activist [[File:AMWaters.png]] [[Homoconservatism|Anne-Marie Waters]] after failing to win the leadership of UKIP in the 2017 party leadership election. Waters and the FBM were commonly described as [[File:BritUltranat.png]] [[Ultranationalism|ultranationalist]] and far-right, and had multiple controversies regarding some of its candidates showing [[File:Neonazi_ball.png]] [[Nazism|neo-Nazi]] and [[File:Whitesup.png]] [[White Nationalism|white supremacist]] views. In 2022, Waters announced that the FBM would be ceasing operations, and eventually, Waters rejoined the UKIP the following year.

 

 

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