Ukip attacks BBC over EU funds after stinging mockumentary
UKIP yesterday launched a stinging attack on the BBC ahead of what the party labelled a “pro-EU” mockumentary that was aired on BBC 4 last night.
The Storyville programme “The Great European Disaster Movie”, authored by Italian director Annalisa Piras and ex-editor of The Economist Bill Emmott, envisions a dystopian post-EU future where rioting and the far right dominate the continent and Isis is on the borders of central Europe.
In this fictional future Nigel Farage is the Prime Minister of “Great England” and is presiding over the deportation of all immigrants who arrived in the UK over the past decade.
Ukip pointed out the Beeb had received £22m from the EU in the last seven years while Ukip MP Mark Reckless claimed Emmott told him the Corporation had received EU money to help make tonight’s film.
The BBC replied that no EU money was used in the making of the “fictional” programme.