Nigel Farage the leader of the UK Independence Party appeared on CNN Tuesday afternoon to discuss his support of Brexit, but was subjected to almost an interrogation-like interview from their reporter. “How much damage are you prepared to see,” CNN’s Richard Quest demanded to know, “How much damage are you prepared to accept before you rebuild the house?”
The interview was combative right from the start with Quest asking Farage about a speech he gave to the European Parliament earlier in the day, “You were almost gratuitously rude to the parliamentarians. And you enjoyed it!”
Farage explained that they were the ones shouting over him to the point where the president of the body had to quite them down, but Quest was having none of it, “But the point is, Mr. Farage, it hardly endears you to the very people who are going to have to give their consent to an agreement in two years’ time if you are rude to them.”
Quested wanted Farage to help make sense of the whole thing for the American audience, while also fear mongering about the markets, “How can Britain thrive, I didn't say survive, I say thrive outside of the European Union when the banks are being decimated in the share price and the threats have been very severe? … And the pound has fallen 13 – 14 percent. ”
Farage shot back stating:
And FTSE is up 3 percent today, 12 percent up since its lows in February, sterling is marginally lower than it was in February. So can we stop this nonsense about the markets?! You know, the Pound has been in a bear market since July, 2014, fact. Now, American viewers, imagine if NAFTA was a political union. Imagine if a court in Mexico could overrule everything that congress did. Imagine if you had free movement of people with Mexico. How would you feel?