EU chief mocks UK’s Brexit ambitions with comparison to limbless Monty Python knight

‘The first vice-president of the European Commission has mocked the UK’s post-Brexit trade ambitions by comparing a Ukip MEP to a comically over-confident character from a Monty Python film.
Frans Timmermans likened Eurosceptic politician Ray Finch to the Black Night in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a hopelessly optimistic character who refuses to concede a fight even after all his limbs are severed.
Mr Finch had told the Strasbourg assembly the EU would suffer while Britain was negotiating new trade agreements with countries outside the bloc.
Mr Timmermans responded saying the Eurosceptic politician operated according to the “Farage doctrine” of making “outrageous statements” and running away without waiting for a reaction.
He added that Mr Finch’s claim “that the whole of the European Union is going to suffer terribly in the G20 [group of nations] because of Brexit is a bit rich frankly”.’
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