Wales legend Neville Southall has slammed the Conservative party and taken Nigel Farage to task on his GB News show.
Speaking in his home town of Llandudno on Thursday evening, the 64-year-old former Wales international goalkeeper joined other guests such as Robin Millar, MP for Aberconwy, and Sam Rowlands, north Wales MS.
In a clip widely circulated on social media, Southall criticised the Tories for not doing enough to help the most vulnerable in our society, adding he felt the gap between the richest and poorest in this country was continuing to widen.
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“I’ve sat here all night and I’ve disagreed with nearly 99.9% of it," Southall said at the beginning of the clip. Farage, the former Brexit Party leader, replied: “Now here’s the chance, we’ve had a couple of Tories on tonight, we’ve had an independent on tonight, you are, Neville, a strong supporter of the Labour party.”
Southall said: “Yeah, I believe in looking after the most vulnerable and I think that's what any good country should be doing and we don’t seem to be doing it, we seem to be loading it on the top.
"We should be looking at the bottom of the rung and the most vulnerable people of our society should be treated with the greatest respect and dignity and helped so we don’t have that society.”
Farage asked: “Don’t you think, with the benefits system and everything else, we do enough as a country for those at the lower end of the income range?” Southall replied: “No, nowhere near.”
Farage countered: “Really?” Southall added: “Why should we keep loading the top up? The gap between the rich and the poor has got wider and wider.”
“That’s true,” Farage agreed. Southall then asked: “Why is that?” Farage responded: “Well Mr Blair started all that didn’t he?”
Southall brushed that off, replying: “It doesn’t matter who was in power, the way we should be looking at society is how we treat the most vulnerable and at the moment we don’t treat them very well, do we? The electric has gone up, everything has gone up and what are they going to do for them?
“Nothing. There’s going to be people dying this winter and there’ll be people in power that won’t give a monkey’s.”
That statement was met with a warm round of applause from the GB News audience, with Farage left nodding in agreement.
"I think, overall, when I look at what's in power at the moment, I think we've had the most dangerous people in the world, Boris Johnson, (Donald) Trump..." added Southall, before Farage interrupts, saying "They're not that bad, are they?"
"Yes they are," Southall maintained. "They are dangerous. Look what he's done to the country. Boris Johnson was always going to mess up."
He concluded: "I like people who look after the most vulnerable. And none of them do."
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