The quoted line is a first-person statement of preference, so public sources cannot verify whether Huw Spanner actually "really likes" the idea; that is a private mental state. Public reporting does show that the underlying reference was real: Manganeses de la Polvorosa in Spain had a tradition of tossing a live goat from a bell tower, and AP/CBS reported in 2000 that the town was forgoing the annual goat toss under pressure from animal-rights activists. Servimedia reported in 2001 that the village had decided to suspend the tradition, and Le Monde noted in 2011 that goats had not been thrown from that bell tower since 2002. So the allusion is historically grounded, but the speaker’s personal liking for it cannot be publicly corroborated. Sources: CBS News/AP (cbsnews.com), Servimedia (servimedia.es), Le Monde (lemonde.fr). (cbsnews.com)