And, in doing so, Farage reminded us exactly why his Brexit Party is flying so high in the polls, why he’s being tipped as a future prime minister, and why the current shambles of a Conservative party is so inadequate to the task of beating him…
Interviewer Andrew Marr began by making the huge mistake of treating Farage like the BBC treats all politicians to the right of Lenin: with unutterable contempt, as if he were a dangerous idiot with wacky views which no civilised person could possibly hold.
Marr began (from a long list of “gotcha” questions designed to make Farage look like an extremist) with climate change:
“Do you still believe that worrying about global warming is the stupidest thing in human history?”
Farage was ready:
“I believe that if we decide in this country to tax ourselves to the hilt, to put hundreds of thousands of people out of work in manufacturing industries, given that we produce less than 2 per cent of global CO2, that isn’t terribly intelligent.”
Then he segued seamlessly into an attack on the BBC:
“Here we are with one of the biggest changes in politics that has ever occurred and you don’t want to talk about it. What is wrong with the BBC?”
A more nimble interviewer might have changed tack at this point.
Not Marr.."
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