Nigel Farage dropped from LBC talk show after Black Lives Matter comment

Nigel Farage has lost his LBC radio show after comparing the Black Lives Matter movement to the Taliban. The station announced that Farage was stepping down with immediate effect.

Officially, LBC gave no reasons for his departure. But insiders claimed there had been pressure from staff and fellow presenters who were furious about his comments.

After the statue of Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol, Farage tweeted: “A new form of the Taliban was born in the UK today. Unless we get moral leadership quickly our cities won’t be worth living in.”

In an appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain two days later, the former UKIP leader said: “The slogan Black Lives Matter and wanting to end injustice and inequality is a laudable aim. The organisation Black Lives Matter is a Far Left Marxist organisation whose chief aim is to defund and close down police forces so that we would live under anarchy.”

Making the announcement, LBC said: “Nigel Farage’s contract with LBC is up very shortly and, following discussions with him, Nigel is stepping down from LBC with immediate effect.

However, a friend of Mr Farage said : “He is the third-highest paid presenter on the station because he attracts such big audiences and advertising revenue, so this is not about him being surplus to requirements.

“I think we all know what this is about. There are people who want to take him down just because they disagree with him.”

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