NIGEL Farage last night urged voters to ‘cause an earthquake’ in Parliament and elect him for the UK Independence Party in Buckingham.

The former UKIP leader urged voters at Buckingham Community Centre he opposed a high speed train plan and backed grammar schools and immigration controls.

Race dominated questions from the public, with one resident saying he could see ‘little difference’ between its policies and those of the British National Party.

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Mr Farage said: “I would be a good constituency MP because I don’t take no for an answer and, as you have seen, I’m not especially terrified of authority.

“And so I say to the electors of Buckingham ‘go on, I dare you, let’s cause an earthquake in Westminster politics’.”

Princes Risborough and the surrounding area will leave Aylesbury and join Buckingham constituency.

Mr Farage told The Bucks Free Press: “They can’t vote Labour, Lib Dem or Conservative but they don’t know Mr Bercow. So they are in a very very difficult position.”

Support for UKIP in the area was ‘very very strong’ he said, though it was clear people wanted to remain in Aylesbury constituency, won in 2005 by Conservative David Lidington.

Four independent and a British National Party candidate are also challenging incumbent MP and Commons speaker John Bercow.

Some voters are angry that Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are not challenging Mr Bercow, saying it is Commons tradition.

Yet Mr Farage said this is ‘nonsense’ and pointed to Labour and Social Democrats opposing speaker Bernard Weatherill in the 1987 election.

Mr Bercow said: “There is no great historic convention that the speaker is not opposed.

“It is a modern invention and it says everything I need to know about just how cosy and intertwined the professional career political class in Westminster have become.”

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He acknowledged many voters believe Mr Bercow is ‘a good local MP’.

Yet Mr Farage said: “A good local MP is fine but what good is it really when actually our country and our Parliament are being given away.”

He said Mr Bercow was the wrong choice for speaker because of questions over his expenses and said ‘his own party can’t stand him’ after he leaned more to the left.

Mr Bercow was a Conservative MP but sits as an independent, as did other speakers.

In a passionate speech which won many rounds of applause, Mr Farage blasted the ‘phoney General Election’ and said main parties had ‘deliberately concealed the truth’ on immigration.

There were laughs when someone said ‘at least we can get a plumber’ when Eastern European immigration was raised – but Mr Farage said he would need a work permit and laws should be set by Parliament.

He said voters ‘cannot put a cigarette paper’ between the three main parties and UKIP was representing ‘mainstream, majority opinion’.

Mr Farage said of the three parties: “They are too frightened to speak up on the issues – they are always too frightened to give offence.”

Grammars ‘are the best vehicles in Britain to give children from poor backgrounds the real ability to move up the ladder’ he said.

And he slammed Labour’s bid to run a high speed train line through the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to connect London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.

He said: “Given the mess we are in, we simply can’t afford it and I think a more practical and sensible option would be to upgrade the existing lines to Birmingham, even if that means we lose potentially ten minutes [travel time].”

Mr Farage was backed with speeches beforehand by journalist and Private Eye founder Christopher Booker and UKIP leader Lord Pearson, who was pressed by a resident on immigration.

He was asked: “Could you tell us what, if any, differences there are between UKIP and BNP immigration policies?”

Lord Pearson said UKIP wants a freeze on permanent settlements but an ‘important difference’ is its opposition to voluntary repatriation, paying immigrants to return to their country of origin.

Lord Pearson said of the BNP: “We want nothing to do with them at all, they are racist socialists.” He said Mr Bercow is a ‘little prat’.

Mr Farage said: “We believe it is a matter of space, not race.”

There was laughter when BBC Newsnight reporter Justin Rowlatt recounted Tory leader David Cameron’s description of UKIP as ‘fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists’.

“Which one are you?” he asked.

Mr Farage said he did not mind being called a ‘fruitcake’. He said of the ‘closet racist’ remark: “I think that particular comment did him and the Conservative Party an enormous amount of harm because, effectively, what he was saying is that if you believe in British democracy, if you believe in proper border controls, somehow you are a closet racist.”

Another asked if UKIP would ban the burqa. Lord Pearson said it was a ‘security risk’ as it conceals identity.

The ban call is to ‘raise debate and consciousness about growing Sharia law in this country and the dangers of violent Islam which are with us all over the world’ he said.

He said ’98 per cent’ of Muslims are peaceful and must challenge those who are violent.