Nigel Farage is outraged over smoking ban from Starmer's 'nanny state!'

so smoking could be banned in Pub Gardens outdoor restaurants and outside of sports stadiums so join us now as the leader of B UK Nigel farage Nigel morning to you um you are a smoker you are a parliamentarian is this going to be something you'll be raising in the Commons next week absolutely and also I'm a pubgo and is interesting that our politicians are a strange Bunch you know they're not really very sociable and very few in House of Commons I suspect go to pubs I love pubs because everyone's a parliament you know we discuss local issues National issues international issues they're really important places and back in ' 06 when smoking was banned indoors pubs and clubs took a 20% Financial hit it's one of the contributors to 7,000 of them closing over the last 20 years if you ban people smoking in gardens and ban people smoking outside the front of pubs that is the end of the British pub gone no more boozers there' be restaurants that masqueraders pubs but there will be no more pubs and that's because you know quite a high proportion of Pub goers enjoy the odd smoke as well so I think it's massive government overreach uh I think it's an intrusion uh that is just a step way too far because if you're outside there's no reason why your smoke should affect anybody else at all um but I also think there's a danger here and the danger is this if you turn through regulation and through tax on the price illegal activity into effectively an illegal activity you hand it straight to the criminal gangs and this has happened in Australia packet of cigarettes in Australia is the equivalent of 35 quid good Lord so what has happened what has happened is the black market in tobacco is now hit huge no self-respecting criminal dealer bothers with cocaine anymore there's no money in cocaine no it's cigarettes it's tobacco and gang Warfare in Melbourne has led to wait for it 97 firebombings of shops and houses in the last two years if you over tax a product you make it almost impossible to use legally you drive it into the hands of the wrong guys we will not be smoke free by 2030 sakure we will Not Be Drug Free by 2030 we won't be alcoholism free we won't be obesity free you know no one's encouraging anyone to smoke but please please government steps too far it'll have the wrong effect niga we always suspected that K starm would come in with a fairly authoritative view of how he was going to run the country that he knows best that the collective is always more important than the individual but have you been surprised by how much he has access accelerated uh all sorts of changes I'm thinking particularly as well in terms of free speech in such a short period of time uh yes and no I mean let's not forget please that Richie sunak uh was putting forward the most ludicrous law where in a decade's time a 25y old could buy a packet of cigarettes and a 24 year old couldn't so so both parties are on this on this direction um and by the way it'll be alcohol next the World Health Organization now saying there is no safe limit for alcohol but I think the attack um and we heard it in Germany yesterday you know worried about the snake oil of populism um but the only way to deal with it is delivery well 1100 people over the channel in the last two days is not delivery I think starma is genuinely scared genuinely scared that the mass of the population are deeply unhappy with legal and ille illegal immigration at these levels and say the attempt to smear everybody who feels that way as being far right to take some people out um and put them in prison for saying unpleasant things on Facebook or elsewhere these to me are symptoms of fear he would say of course that what he's doing Nigel is keeping us all safe that he wants to save lives and that this smoking ban is only part of that what would you say to that suggestion we are not going to be smokefree by 2030 it isn't going to happen I mean you know I'm old enough to remember decades ago being told there'd be a War on Drugs well how successful has that be millions of people taking drugs illegal drugs every week in this country there is a limit to what government can do but if you drive a legal activity into the hands of the criminals you make the situation worse not better and I believe that very very strongly uh and yeah you know his authoritarian nature is coming through but he won't have any positive effect on public health whatsoever you've only been in the comments a few weeks n but what what is your sense do you think he could get this through the comment because I don't think sunak would have got his ludicrous idea of stopping 14 year olds buying [ __ ] in 10 years time through the commons with Tory support because there was so many Tories were opposed to it but labor has a huge majority now this could H this could actually happen yes I think it probably will happen Andrew and I suspect most conservatives will support it I mean there is so little difference between these two parties uh you know the conservative party that uh that you and I might remember from our youth that believed in small state and individual liberty uh I think it's a long time gone so I suspect this will go through the commons um I mean I will probably never go to a pub again yeah yeah it it I I was I was thinking this morning if you are a smoker and you like going to the pub this is literally the kind of thing that would make you want to leave this country and go and live somewhere else yeah what with that B and Rising taxes and and Regulation and all those things and here's the worry it's a separate point but you know you raise the point Bev but the real worry is this it's not the rich that are leaving Britain some are it's the 30-some entrepreneurs that are leaving Britain yeah they're seeing as a place that is lacking an opportunity and isn't it ironic that our former partners in the European Union have to let you go because of time that's [ __ ] farage leader before we get into the papers we just what's your view proposed ban on smoking tell about that next you know what no we were going to do have that next off but however it's so outrageous I think I think it's outrageous I don't want to live in a society where they're dictating me what I can do and say and and you know you know when you think about obesity is a way bigger killer now than smoking so we we going to stop people eating cakes in Pub Gardens or we stop going to stop eating ships in Pub Gardens because far because the doctor right report wants to ban smoking C well but in California they're starting to do that this they there's a there's a um an apartment block that wants to bound inside everyone smoking now I don't see how someone smoking on the third floor is going to kill you if you're on floor too I don't I just don't get it I do think you know I hate when I when I'm outside a hospital and I see people was one leg who clearly lost it because of smoking when I see them puff and [ __ ] I think this is not right there's something wrong with this but I think for the baguer hospitality industry which is only just recover but also I would very much defend that person with with one limb missing I would still defend their right to smoke if they want to I this is extraordinary but I've actually agreed with Carol God my chairs are um I actually hate attempts to control what we put in our bodies it's for that reason that I think that drugs should be legal as well uh I think that smoking I don't like smoking personally I don't enjoy it myself but I it's absolutely my right to do it I think it's ridiculous and stupid this attempt to ban people from buying cigarettes as well we have this new escalator law that Su this airra idea unforce so you're going to have a situation 30th time where of um 45 year olds are going to have to ask their 46 year old mates to buy them to buy them cigarettes because over a certain threshold you won't be able to buy anything without declaring who you are what you find the fundamental point is that people have the right to smoke and other people have the right not to not to have that smoke force which is why I agree with smoking indoors Garden that is where people go to enjoy themselves think about it you know you say we have the people have the right of make and I do hate smoking as a as a former smoker I hate it however the National Health has to pick up the bill for your smoking um you know and yes cancer L cancer mortality rates have decreased over the past 10 years by 16% and and over the past 30 years by 32% however NHS services are picking up the bill however I'm I'm still like you I I think it's wrong where we're dictated to about and just I'm going to hear smoker shouting at the TV Cera saying yeah I pay a lot of flipping tax on my yes and you know what the thing is an awful lot if the government was determined to ban smoke it could do it in a heartbeat it could stop [ __ ] tomorrow but it would lose a lot of Duty stop and that's why well that would be really bad as well because then it would just become like any other illegal drug and it would just become counterfeit it would become unregulated become even more dangerous than it is already drug prohibition does not work it never has worked and going the same way it's just going to have the same so what is driving him as a labor man what is driving Sak stama to be taking such extraordinarily invasive measures into people private lives I look I don't know if this actually is going to be policy right now it's speculation you know starma has well there's pretty the sun is pretty written it pretty hard they've seen the documents front page of the sun what're and some people on the labor frv mention at all they do have I suppose some kind of instincts which are which you might like to the Nan State and I that actually something you I suppose you could call it authoritarian and it's something that is shared by a lot of people in the conservative party because sunak was exactly the same sunak was very much in the Nan State tradition so I don't think it goes on party political lines it's not my politics I'm much more I'm much more I suppose it's I don't myself as a Libertarian any way but I certainly would Shar that got that smoking band through with Tory support it would only have gone through with labor support there were so many to whoos it was it was a free V it was AE anything that smacks of a dictatorship we we should F rail against it at every opportunity do you think drugs should be legal then Carol absolutely not well then why not what's the difference what do you mean what's the difference the difference what's the difference between shooting up heroin and and smokings day herin is not the only the difference between taking crack the difference between taking cocaine on a regular basis the difference between smoking you know strong weed which can make you um schizophrenic which can give you lots of other problems that's why it should if you know about the risks and you go educated the RIS and if they're regulated and taxed and sold official andit by in official shops so Scotland did exactly what you're talking about didn't legalize drugs well do you want to let me finish so Scotland let people go into centers pop up centers to to shoot up safely that's for addicts yeah and you don't think everyone who takes heroin as an addict you know heroin is a specific but people to take they allow safe places for people to take drugs what's happened drug deaths have rocketed it's the highest drug death Center of Europe and Drug taking has rocketed in the countries where they've legalized it like Portugal which is always held up as the great big example of how it works it does not there are more people addicted to drugs in Portugal now than they ever were less drug decks fewer drug deaths because people can go save places to do with but more drug addicted people young people specifically what about for cigarettes then what about for people who are addict to cigarettes is that I mean but there are always going to be people who are going to be addicted to drugs or who are going to want to take drugs it's about the criminality issue it's about whether we to yes of course and that's why there should be education about all these things but I just don't agree with putting people who take any kind of drug through the criminal justi but on the criminality thing on the smoking how on Earth would this being banned being forced it well couldn't possibly be I mean are the police going to have to go outside a hospital and say you're arrested well do you know what I can see the cops under this government do exactly that because they went after 11y old boy yesterday from the Southport Ri so why wouldn't they that um you we haven't got enough coppers to police that it would just be a ticket and farage said today he said this will be the end of