NIGEL Farage is reportedly planning a £100,000 “Brexit Celebration Party” in Parliament Square for the night of January 31.
The Brexit Party leader is drafting arrangements for the bash, which is set to include fireworks, bands and comedians to mark the moment Britain will leave the EU, at least according to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s desired timetable.
Despite Brexit’s inherently political nature, Farage insists that his Brexit Party party “will be a good-natured, upbeat, optimistic, genuine celebration with no direct political edge whatsoever”.
Farage is applying to the Greater London Assembly – which licenses events on Parliament Square – to stage the party.
It will be organised under the Leave Means Leave banner, with 5000–10,000 members of the public expected to pay to attend.
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