Politics & Power Quote by Nigel Farage

Farage’s jab lands because it’s framed as a procedural complaint but engineered as a cultural insult: the Constitution isn’t merely flawed, it’s alien. “Does not reflect” positions the document as a mirror held up to the nation and found wanting, a neat way to recast technocratic lawmaking as a betrayal of identity. The phrase “ordinary people” does the heavy lifting. It’s not a demographic description so much as a moral credential, implying a silent majority whose legitimacy has been siphoned off by elites who draft, negotiate, and ratify in rooms far from the shop floor.

Then comes the practical wedge: “nothing for jobs or economic growth.” Constitutions don’t usually promise employment figures; that’s precisely the point. Farage’s intent is to reroute a debate about governance and sovereignty into a referendum on daily insecurity. By demanding that a foundational text deliver immediate economic returns, he makes it sound like the EU (or EU-adjacent constitutionalism) is not just abstract, but useless - even parasitic - to household concerns.

“Widens further still the democratic deficit” supplies the clincher, borrowing Brussels’ own critique-friendly vocabulary to indict it from within. The subtext is that decision-making has migrated upward, away from voters and toward institutions that feel unaccountable by design. Contextually, this is classic Euroskeptic rhetoric in the post-Maastricht era: fuse democratic anxiety with economic frustration, and you don’t have to win the policy argument. You just have to make the system sound illegitimate.