Nigel Farage: David Cameron’s ‘fanaticism’ is to blame for Libya migrant crisis

Nigel Farage tends to stick to one line on foreign affairs: no more foreign wars. On the Sunday Politics today, the Ukip leader claimed that the migrant crisis and tragedies in the Mediterranean are the fault of countries such as Britain and France who bombed Libya in 2011:

‘Actually, it was the European response that caused this problem in the first place — the fanaticism of Sarkozy and Cameron to bomb Libya and what they’ve done is to completely destabilize Libya; to turn it into a country with much savagery; to turn it into a place where for Christians the situation is now virtually impossible and we ought to be honest and say have we directly caused this problem.’

When Andrew Neil pointed out to Farage that there were migrants heading across the Mediterranean before the bombing, Farage again said that Western invention had 'destablised' the country:

‘There were no migrants coming across from Libya in these quantities before we bombed the country, got rid of Gaddafi — however bad he may have been — and destablised the whole situation, of that I have no doubt.