Can I just start by saying that I am not a racist. Thanks.
This is my AIBU.
Lots of people on mumsnet say Farage is a racist.
But this is what I think.
He is a geezer. He is a city boy. He smokes. He wears dodgy coats. He looks weird. He says non PC things, like my FIL does. He doesn't like overcrowding and change.
But I am beginning to think that he is not a racist.
What he is in fact is a man with an absolute obsession with British parliamentary democracy and an absolute hatred of EU waste, extravagance and unaccountability. He is totally obsessed with getting the UK out of the EU and independent again.
He is enraged and infuriated by the wasteful things the EU does like moving the EU Parliament from Strasbourg to Brussels all the time and wasting millions and millions of British taxpayers money that could be spent in his beloved UK.
I don't even think he is that interested in immigration.
But he is so obsessed with his aim of UK independence that he will work with anyone. So when free movement of labour became the big issue - years after he started his campaigns - he was willing to embrace it. And there have therefore been racists in UKIP. He is not choosy.
But I don't think Farage himself is a racist.
He seems to be genuinely delighted now that he can stand on a platform with Kwasi Kwateng or Frank Field.
He does his weird grin when he is with people like them.
All he wants is UK independence.
What do you think? AIBU?
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To timidly suggest that Nigel Farage is not a racist
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Millyonthefloss · 10/06/2016 10:30
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