‘I rarely listen to the BBC!’ Nigel Farage urges Brexiteers to seek 'better alternative'
NIGEL Farage says he “rarely listens” to the BBC and that there are “better commercial alternatives”, while referring to Keir Starmer speaking on radio yesterday about the Labour Party wanting to stay in the customs union.
Nigel Farage makes dig at BBC during Leave Means Leave event
Nigel Farage admitted he “rarely” listens to the BBC during his Leave means Leave rally in Bournemouth yesterday evening.
Mr Farage declared: “When I heard Sir Keir Starmer on the radio this morning, one of the rare times I listen now to the BBC.
“I find there are some commercial alternatives that are rather better.”
The former Ukip leader continued: “But anyway, and there was Starmer basically saying the Labour position now is Labour wants to stay in the customs union.
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“Labour no longer has any desire for this country to be able to make its own trade deals - we’ll have them done on our behalf by the European Union, and they retain the right to go for a second referendum.
“There are 5 million Labour voters who as we speak are literally being betrayed by the Labour Party, and it’s time we told them how wrong that is.”
The comments come after Labour Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, argued for a customs union with the EU on a permanent basis.
Speaking on the Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys asked: “Tell us what you, the Labour Party, would do if you were now in Theresa May’s place in Brussels on Wednesday.
“What would you be arguing for, the Labour Party?”
To which Mr Starmer declared: “We would argue for a customs union with the EU, both on a permanent basis and a strong single market deal.”
Referring to protecting the Good Friday Agreement, the service sector and the manufacturing sector, Mr Starmer said: “We are saying we know what our existing obligations are, and our future relationship has to work with those obligations not against them.”
Nigel Farage also made a dig at Jean-Claude Juncker during the pro-Brexit rally, revealing that the European Commission President called him a “b******”.
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He said that the jibe happened a day after the Brexit referendum, during an emergency debate.
Mr Farage admitted: “I walked into the well of the Parliament, about a hundred cameras there, and there waiting for me was European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
“He came up and put an arm around me and said: B******.
“Which is probably why I did say to them on that morning, when I came here 17 years ago, I said to you I would start a campaign to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union.
“And you laughed at me. Well I said, you’re not laughing now are you.”
