Nigel Farage said he blamed a 1988 advert on the high number of youngsters attending university. He added that Britain should look at legalising drugs including heroin Millions will remember Maureen Lipman’s TV character Beattie praising her grandson when he ‘got an ’ology’. But the TV advert from 1988 has been blamed by Ukip leader Nigel Farage for encouraging a generation to study for what he considers to be worthless degrees. The BT commercial shows Miss Lipman being told her grandson has failed almost every subject in his GCSEs – but passed sociology. Clearly relieved, she tells him: ‘You got an ’ology, you’re a scientist.’
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BT advert features Maureen Lipman praising grandson on his 'ology'
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'We are sending too many youngsters to university,' UKIP leader said
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Farage said that he 'blames' Lipman for 'the whole thing'
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Also said Portugal's decriminalisation of heroin may be 'more enlightened'
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Suggested UK laws are ineffective and called for a Royal Commission
‘I personally think that the war on drugs was lost many, many years ago and that the lives of millions of people in @placeholder are being made miserable by the huge criminal element that surrounds the illicit drugs trade and I do think that Portugal does show us that perhaps there is a better, more enlightened way to deal with this’, he said.