Interviewing Tice on the Today program on Thursday morning, Barnett mentioned: “Let’s speak about your chief Nigel Farage’s relationship when he was youthful with Hitler.” Tice then dismissed the claims as lies.
“I believed this morning’s efficiency by one in every of your decrease grade presenters on the Today program was totally disgraceful,” Farage informed a BBC reporter on the press convention on Thursday. “To body a query across the chief of Reform’s relationship with Hitler, which is how she framed it, was despicable, disgusting past perception.”
While denying he had ever racially abused anybody, Farage accused the BBC of “double requirements and hypocrisy” as a result of within the Nineteen Seventies, on the time he was alleged to have made the feedback, the broadcaster aired many comedy exhibits that contained racist humor which might now be completely unacceptable.
He listed “homophobic” and “racist” content material, itemizing exhibits akin to “Are You Being Served,” “It Ain’t Half Hot Mum,” and performances by “Bernard Manning.”
“I can’t put up with the double requirements of the BBC,” he mentioned. “I would like an apology from the BBC for just about every part you probably did all through the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s.”
Farage learn a letter from a faculty up to date which mentioned the tradition was very completely different within the Nineteen Seventies. “Lots of boys mentioned issues they remorse at the moment,” the letter mentioned. Farage’s feedback had been “offensive” typically, “however by no means with malice.”
