The Reform leader made the warning at his party’s conference in Birmingham, where he set out plans to call a “national emergency” should the party win the next election, AJ Bell reported.
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Farage told the party conference: “Parliament will sit, if necessary, for 24 hours a day, for six days a week until we pass the necessary legislation, and our policies will be explicit in our offering document to the British people.
“I expect the House of Lords to honour that, as they’ve done with the Salisbury Convention for over a century. But if they don’t, well we will present them with an idea.
“It’s not a new one, it has been used before. We’ll appoint hundreds of new peers so that we have a majority in the House of Lords.
“And if that proves difficult, we will hold a referendum on the current composition of the House of Lords, and they would be swept away by a British public appalled by them.”
He suggested the judiciary could be another “obstacle” to his plans, and hinted at a desire to change how senior judges are appointed.
Farage said: “We don’t want the courts striking down, do we, the will of the people.
“But ultimately, it is Parliament that makes the law, and we will remove the ability of judges to lean on outdated conventions like the European Convention on Human Rights, which will be gone.
“Parliament makes the law, judges interpret the law. We will do whatever it takes, and perhaps have to consider how judicial appointments work in the future.”
He added: “The same goes for the Civil Service.
“If we are elected with a majority on clear manifesto promises, it is the job of the Civil Service to make sure we can carry that out on behalf of the people in a democratic country.
“But if they try to obstruct us, they will be removed from their posts and replaced by people from outside, from the world of business.”
The Reform leader added: “I’m tired of being told what can’t be done. I’m tired of being told, ‘Oh, we couldn’t do it because of this. We couldn’t do it because of that’.
“That is not what the public want. The public want action, the public want genuine change, the public do not want any more of the same. And our attitude is can do, and will do.”
