'This is WHY anti-EU parties are SURGING!' Heseltine DESTROYED over EU's punishment stance
RADIO host Iain Dale took apart Michael Heseltine's defence of the EU's stubborn Brexit stance, after the former deputy prime minister said sacrificing European jobs for the sake of the European project was the sensible approach to take.
Host Iain Dale CLASHES with Lord Heseltine in Brexit debate
Michael Heseltine was ripped apart during his LBC interview with Iain Dale after the Tory Remainer struggled to defend the EU's stubborn punishment stance on Brexit.
Britain and the EU have become embroiled in a bitter row, with several UK politicians demanding that the European negotiators show some flexibility in the divorce talks.
The radio presenter hit out at Lord Heseltine for trying to defend the EU, before he blasted the bloc for sacrificing their own people "on the altar of European unity".
The clash between the LBC presenter and the pro-EU Tory erupted over the EU's insistence that the post-Brexit UK-EU deal would not make trade "frictionless or smoother".
Donald Tusk, the EU Council president, claimed the deal was likely to be the first in history that would "loosen, not strengthen, economic ties".
Lord Heseltine openly admitted that the Europeans knew they would be sacrificing jobs in their country in order to perserve the European project.
However, he defended the EU’s stance, saying: “We are the ones going, we are the ones breaking up the arrangement.
“They’re not going to allow us, by our own doing, to endanger their overall vision of a United Europe.”
Dale delivered a scathing response: "So, German politicians will be happy to sacrifice up to 800,000 German jobs in the name of the European project? They should be ashamed.
Lord Heseltine left speechless after trying to justify Brexit claim
So, German politicians will be happy to sacrifice up to 800,000 German jobs in the name of the European project?
"And we wonder why the AfD is doing so well! No-one is suggesting that the single market is threatened by Britain leaving the EU.
"This why these extremist parties all over Europe are doing so well because the political elites are acting in their own interests rather than the interests of their own people."
The former deputy prime minister claimed the LBC host's use of a "punishment Brexit" was "language that suits the view from this side of the Channel".
Dale retorted: "Well, I do tend to look at it from this side of the Channel rather than the other side!"