Ant Middleton has revealed what Nigel Farage asked him when he met him for the first time.
Speaking at the GB News Reform conference he said: “Am not hear to speak about politics – what I know is national security.
“I got asked a question by Nigel – how do you fix a broken country.
The former SAS: Who Dares Wins celebrity was explaining his strategy around dealing with recruits and compared it to how he would deal with Britain’s broken borders.
He explained how he compared the organisation of Britain’s borders to his bootcamp, he said: “Close the camp unless those who want to enter benefit the environment, if they benefit the individuals within my camp and if they adhere to the rules and regulations of my camp.
He explained how it was about “whether people feel safe in a community.
He added: “You start to trust that community. If you feel safe in a country – you start to trust that country.”
During his speech to the crowd of around 3000 at the Reform Conference in Birmingham, Middleton said he was “almost disgusted” that the Royal Navy “are being put on the back burner, and not allowed to do their jobs” of protecting UK waters.
He said: “We haven’t got a secure camp because we don’t know who’s coming in. They’re certainly not benefitting the environment, they’re certainly not adhering to the rules and regulations and they’re certainly not benefitting us as a nation.
“Now, interpret that as you will, let’s say that’s the border, I don’t want to get in too much trouble and be cancelled again.”
“No shadow of a doubt, we have the best Navy in the world – and they’re not allowed to do their job to protect our waters.”
He explained that he answered Nigel’s question by saying: “We haven’t set up a secure camp – we need to re-establish trust and unity in this country.”
After speaking about the role of identity in his approach to rebuilding people, Middleton said: “What’s British identity? British culture. What’s British culture? British history.
“So why is that being eradicated? Why is that being trampled all over? Why aren’t we allowed to be the umbrella culture of this country?”
Mr Middleton went on to highlight the role of Christian values in the UK’s history, saying: “Those values have worked for years, centuries and centuries, to get us where we are today.
“The moment we lose our identity, guess what we lose? Our purpose, our focus, our direction. What happens when we don’t have an identity? We get confused.”
He said he lost his identity and got confused after leaving the military, saying: “When you have a nation of confused people, guess what happens after? Frustration. You get frustrated, very much like the individual.
“What happens after frustration? Anger, violence. What’s happening on our streets right now? Violence.
“We are at a very, very important and crucial stage before it teeters into civil unrest, which we want to avoid at all costs, but it’s coming, we’re on that edge where violence has hit the streets, we’ve all seen it, I don’t need to mention what it is, we’ve all seen it.”