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Leading Brexit supporter Nigel Farage has claimed people do not want “flags, anthems and President Juncker’s” during a scathing attack on the EU project. Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk in Strasbourg, Mr Farage questioned the EU's approach to national identity. He said: “If you’re patriotic to your nation-state - that is bad, that’s nationalism, that is evil, that is xenophobic. “But, if you are patriotic towards the European flag, that is good and that is virtuous, and it is absolutely bizarre.

“What they want, is they want all of us in Europe to sign up to a new form of identity. “They want us to say that we are European first, and we are German second, or French second. “All the evidence is that this is not what people want. They actually want to live in nation states. “They want to make decisions at nation-state level an whilst they want to cooperate with their European neighbours, they don’t want flags, anthems and President Juncker’s.

They don’t want flags, anthems and President Juncker’s Nigel Farage

“Right at a sense, it gets right to the middle, what this whole European debate is about.” The European Union is currently embroiled in a huge debate with countries including Hungary and Poland following rows in recent years over migrant issues. During his State of the Union address in the European Parliament, the President of the European Commission, claimed: “Unchecked nationalism is riddled with poison”. He said: “I would like us to say no to unhealthy nationalism and yes to patriotism. The patriotism is two-fold, European and national.

Nigel Farage ripped into Jean-Claude Juncker's State of the Union address