Nigel Farage has defended UKIP’s controversial billboard campaign ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections, which have been widely described as “racist” and “scaremongering”.
Commentators from across the political spectrum have dubbed the billboard advertisements as racist, and reminiscent of the British National Party (BNP), with the imagery of pointing fingers and a Union Jack on fire.
Speaking on ITV’s Daybreak, Nigel Farage defended the campaign, saying:
“Any debate on immigration is closed down automatically, declared as racism, do not talk about it, brush the issue under the carpet. We are not going to do that.”
In the wake of the billboard posters, Farage has had to deflect questions about his German wife, who works as his secretary, taking a job away from a British person, something the posters appear to be campaigning against.
