Reform UK leader doubles down on a defence of Donald Trump’s claims last year.
Nigel Farage has claimed that Eastern European migrants are stealing and eating swans from Royal Parks in Britain as he highlights major cultural differences being imported due to mass immigration.
The comments came as he was challenged over his defence of Donald Trump last year, when the Reform UK leader insisted that the then-Republican candidate would likely be proved right after claiming that illegal immigrants from Haiti have been eating dogs.
LBC’s Nick Ferrari played back Mr Farage’s previous defence of the US president’s claim, in which he said Mr Trump would likely be proved correct within a month.
Mr Farage said: “Whenever he says something like this that sounds absolutely crackers, in the end there always proves to be some truth in it.”
The pair put £10 on whether Mr Trump would be proved right within a month of making the comment, which received backlash in the US.
Asked whether he can prove it’s now happened, Mr Farage said he would pay Ferrari if he could prove it hasn’t happened.
Mr Farage hit back: “If I said to you that swans were being eaten in Royal Parks in this country, that carp were being taken out of ponds and being eaten, by people who come from cultures that have a different … would you agree it’s happening here?”
Ferrari conceded that he had heard about carp being stolen from ponds.
Asked who was doing the theft, Mr Farage suggested the migrants are from Eastern Europe.
Some videos have gone viral on social media in recent years, appearing to show migrants in possession of swans and geese, however these have not been proved.
Turning Point UK, the British branch of Charlie Kirk’s American organisation, has shared a couple of videos including one supposedly showing an RSPCA worker catching migrants cooking a bird she did not believe was a chicken.
A second video showed migrants in the hallway of a flat holding a live goose, and replying “yeah” when asked by the onlooker whether they were going to eat it.
Other videos have been posted online of migrants appearing to fish from community ponds.
Older stories from around 2013-2015 report similar incidents.
A 2012 Evening Standard article reported that the “biggest threat to Britain’s carp and pike is no longer environmental change and disease – it’s Eastern European migrants.”
It said that the fish are “considered a delicacy” in their countries, with illegal poaching causing the fishing industry enormous amounts.
Donald Trump made his claims during his debate with Joe Biden last year, in which he claimed that illegal Haitian migrants in Springfield “are eating the dogs.”
“The people that came in, they are eating the cats. They’re eating – they are eating the pets of the people that live there.”
City officials told the BBC that they had “no credible reports” of such a thing happening.
Nigel Farage doubled down on claims made by Donald Trump (Image: LBC)
