GETTY Nigel Farage has said Cameron has made his job easier after blundering TV appearance

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In a barnstorming speech to supporters in Westminster, the Ukip leader said that he is now certain of victory in the referendum and said David Cameron's blundering performance in Sky's televised debate on Thursday night “has made my job easier." It came as Mr Farage announced that he will lead a 60 boat flotilla down the Thames to Parliament to call for Brexit. The Ukip leader hailed the “conversion" of senior Tory figures Boris Johnson and Michael Gove to Ukip's Australian style points system for immigration.

“They've gone outside the M25 and talked to real people," he joked. “I even saw them having a drink in a pub. I wonder where they got that idea from." Mr Farage accused the Prime Minister of showing a "sheer level of dishonesty and deception" as he answered voters' questions about controlling the UK's borders in the TV grilling. "All I have to do next week is tell the truth because the British public are ready to hear it," he said, ahead of another live broadcast where the two politicians will appear separately. Vote Leave - spearheaded by Mr Johnson and Mrl Gove - came out in favour of imposing an Australian-style points system to control new arrivals if Britain leaves the EU.

GETTY Mr Farage accused the Prime Minister of showing a 'sheer level of dishonesty and deception'

Mr Farage said that after years of being pilloried by the establishment, Ukip's ideas were "now at the centre mainstream of political debate".

All I have to do next week is tell the truth because the British public are ready to hear it Nigel Farage

"What was once considered to be wrong is now mainstream. I think we saw this week the turning point in this referendum," he told them. "People are beginning to understand that the Prime Minister cannot answer this fundamental question. "When he says that we can maintain control of immigration while remaining a member of the European Union, people increasingly know this Prime Minister is simply not telling the truth. "I don't believe a word that he says any more, I really don't. "Now that there are lots of big voices saying this, I believe this referendum will be won by the Leave side and that's why I went to the bookmakers and put my money on."

He said a "flood" of EU migrants meant some communities had been "turned literally upside down" - with people struggling to get their children into schools, secure a GP appointment or buy a home. Assertions that migrants pay more in tax than they take out does not allow for the costs of such pressure on public services, he said. He blasted the pro-EU camp for focusing only on the economic side of immigration, in terms of its impact on the GDP measure of national wealth. "This is about more than money. We should measure things in terms of quality of life," he said.

GETTY The Priminister got a grilling on Sky's televised news debate

"We are being sold that this is all about trade and that the single market is soft and cuddly and lovely like a baby puppy. "But actually it is a smokescreen for the real, simply proposition of this referendum. "It's actually rather simple: do you wish us to be a self-governing, independent, democratic nation or part of a bigger, broader, European Union?"

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