Farage delivers tirade against BBC’s ‘double standards’

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Nigel Farage launches into a tirade against the BBC, including its past television shows, for "double standards", following allegations of racism during his schooldays at Dulwich College. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I thought this morning's performance by one of your lower-grade presenters on the Today programme

00:04was utterly disgraceful, I think, to frame a question around the leader of reform's relationship

00:13with Hitler, which is how she framed it, was despicable, disgusting, beyond belief.

00:21Are you surprised that half a million people every year refuse to pay the licence fee?

00:26Let me say this to you. The double standards and hypocrisy of the BBC are absolutely astonishing.

00:35At the time I was alleged to have made these remarks, one of your most popular weekly shows

00:40was the black and white minstrels, right? The BBC were very happy to use blackface.

00:48Oh, and not just in the black and white minstrels, you did it in It Ain't Half Hot Mum as well.

00:56I did it in It Ain't Half Futures

00:57You were very unhappy with this, I was saying,

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