BRITAIN teeters on the edge of chaos, Nigel Farage declared today, as he vowed to throw serial offenders behind bars for life.

The Reform Party chief warned that “simmering anger and disgust” over the flood of migrants entering the country could ignite a national meltdown.

Mr Farage pointed to violent clashes outside a small boat hotel in Epping, Essex, as proof that the public’s faith in the state to protect them is rapidly crumbling.

The fiery protest was triggered by a 38-year-old Ethiopian illegal migrant, who was arrested and later charged with three counts of sexual assault.

Mr Farage said: “On Epping, I don’t think anybody in London even understands just how close we are to civil disobedience on a vast scale in this country, and I regret saying that.

“Don’t underestimate the simmering anger and disgust there is in this country that we are letting in every week, some days, many hundreds of undocumented young males, many of whom come from cultures in which women and young girls are not even treated as second-class citizens.”

Unveiling Reform’s £17.4bn crime and policing plan in Westminster, Mr Farage vowed to slash illegal behaviour in half if he triumphs in the next election.

He pledged to impose life sentences on anyone convicted of a serious crime three times.

Mr Farage also promised to recruit an extra 30,000 police officers within five years of taking office.

Doubling down on his hardline stance, the Reform boss revealed plans to ship Britain’s 10,000 worst paedophiles and murderers to serve their sentences in countries like El Salvador.

Reform’s pledges on crime and policing

• Recruit 30,000 more police officers
• Open pop-up “Nightingale prisons” to create 12,400 more cell spaces
• Fast track arrests through 100 pop-up custody centres for crime hot spots
• Rent 10,000 prison spaces for Britain’s worst criminals in third party countries such as Estonia and El Salvador
• Repurpose or reopen 50 mothballed premises for use as courts
• Life in prison for serious offenders who commit more than three serious crimes

He said: “I haven’t spoken to El Salvador yet, but we do know they’re quite happy to take American violent offenders, so I don’t see any reason why not.

“They want the money, they want the income,” he added.

On migrant crime, Mr Farage vowed to deport every foreign criminal and claimed he’s already struck a deal with Albania’s PM Edi Rama to take back Albanian offenders.

Reform MP and ex-magistrate Sarah Pochin lashed out at “woke policing,” warning Brits have had “enough.”

She fumed: “We have had enough of our police being in denial about the increasing threat to our own safety from the influx of illegal immigrants.

“Enough of police no longer using stop and search to tackle knife crime, enough of police ignoring mobile phone theft, ignoring the rise of blatant cannabis use on our streets, sympathising with protest groups that simply do not reflect the views of the majority of the British people.

“Police need to police with impartiality.”