Former UKIP leader and the man who advocated for Brexit a decade before anyone thought it was possible, Nigel Farage, has a new idea about future policy in the UK, floating the idea that if terrorist attacks continue at the increased pace of the past few months, it won't take long for "reasonable people" to start to have a conversation about "internment" of Muslims.



Farage told Fox News Sunday afternoon that there were more than 3,000 people on a "known terrorist list" in the UK and a further 20,000 suspected radical Islamists.



[PM Theresa May] did say Enough is enough,' however I would say we should have reached that conclusion many years ago," Farage said. "And let us not forget that [May] was the Home Secretary, she the person in charge of our homeland security for six years starting in 2010."



"What we need to do today is recognize we have not stopped radicalization taking place in our schools, prisons, and mosques," he continued. "Over 400 known Jihadi fighters have come back from Syria to Britain, and we have only stopped one.... The British government has been too weak. Frankly we've been too politically correct."



"We are as a people very slow to anger. We are remarkably tolerant of things, but... bear in mind this is now the third terrorist attack that has happened in my country in as many months," he concluded. "The mood that I get now in the country is that we want real action. We don't just want speeches given outside #10 Downing St. We want genuine action."



"And if there is not action, then calls for internment will grow," he warned.



"We have over 3,000 people on a sort of known terrorist list, and we're watching and monitoring their activities. But a further 20,000 are 'persons of interest,' meaning they are linked in some way to extremist organizations. Unless we see the government getting tough, we will see public calls for the 3,000 to be arrested."



"I am not sure that is the right course of action, it might alienate decent, fair-minded Muslims. But whatever happens, we do need action."



Farage also explained the situation in a second interview on Sunday:



