'It was a racist poster' Iain Dale savages activist boss over controversial Brexit ad
THIS is the moment Iain Dale explodes at one of the activist behind a controversial Brexit ad, featuring a white skinhead, during the referendum campaign.
Iain Dale GRILLS charity boss over 'racist' poster
The LBC host tore into Simon Woolley, the director of Operation Black Vote, who’s "A Vote Is A Vote" campaign sparked accusations of discrimination.
Speaking to Dale, the activist defended the poster said: "Our poster was a warning call to society - if you engage in a wretched, toxic immigration debate..."
Cutting him of the LBC host said: "No, what it was, it was a racist poster of its own.
"To depict a white race as a skinhead, we all know what you were talking about there.
Iain Dale took the director of Operation Black Vote to task over its Brexit poster
No, what it was, it was a racist poster of its own
Mr Woolley replied: "There is a tiny minority. That poster, of that individual was not a depiction of the average white person. It clearly wasn't."
Having none of it, Dale insisted: "That's what most people took it to be."
To which Mr Woolley, a former Commissioner for Race on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, retorted: "They're wrong. I'm telling you, from the source, they're wrong.
“We made a caricature of a minority of hateful individuals and actually that has been born out to be the truth. And worse!
Simon Woolley defended the poster on LBC
"There is a minority and that minority has risen, that has been truly hateful. We wanted to stop it, we couldn't, we are where we are now and it's not a nice place to be."
And as the LBC host asked Mr Wolley to imagine if another organisation had made an equivalent poster depicting all Muslims as a suicide bomber, he thundered back: "You keep saying all Muslims.”
“I keep telling you: we depicted a tiny minuscule minority.
"In your mind you did," said Dale replied, "But that's not what how most people took it."
"Where does that character look like the average person on London streets?" Mr Woolley blasted back.