nets. there was an even entire column about the eu making condoms too small.um none of this were true but he thought it was great fun. he told an interviewer quote, i was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall and listening to this amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over in england. everything i wrote from brussels was having this amazing explosive effect on the conservative party, and it w really gave me this, i suppose, rather weird sense of power. end quote. the right wing newspaper which flashes headlines on the front pagee about the secret evil pl of european bureaucrats to take over british life and rule the u.k. from afar and his newspaper readers learned to distrust and hate the eu. those readers included a lot of conservative lawmakers, and he watched with glee, as civil war broke out in his own party about howok anti-europe they should b. because people who know him well
0 you both for coming on, appreciate it. that is all in on this thursday night msnbc prime starts now with ali veteran good evening ali. ht msnbc prime starts now with ali vetera joining us this hour. he was fired from his very first job for lying. it was his first job as a newspaperjo reporter in london, and he got caught making up quotes. but a more right wing newspaper didn t see that as disqualifying so they stacked him up and sent him to brussels to cover the headquarters of the european union. once there he spent the early 1990ars doing what he did best. he made things up. filed reports about how the autocratic foreignersad running thefi eu were making hair-brain rules about what the u.k. could and couldn t do. thingsai like the shape of britain s strawberries. and how british cheese could be made. and making good old-fashioned english fishermen wear hair nets. there was an even entire column about the eu making condoms too small.um none of this were true but he thought it was