This election is making me feel very alienated as an Indian woman

Sunak, I mean!

I agree and just listened to what may have been the same interview.

It was an undoubtedly racist comment @Carowe

Of course what Farage said was a dog whistle. In fact it wasn’t even a dog whistle because even humans could hear it.

Farage does this often. Saying something racist then claim he meant something else. He always says it in a calm ‘gentlemanly’ way so as to seem reasonable but he’s done it that often that his intent is clear.

He claims he meant Sunak is too rich and upper class to understand ‘our culture’. This must mean the King also doesn’t understand our culture. Farage himself is from wealth and was a stock broker. Does he not understand our culture? We know what he meant.

Nevertheless I wonder if the right wing non-white, non ethnically English Tories are feeling less smug and more uncomfortable now? People like Patel and Braverman and even Sunak himself who’ve courted the UKIP/Brexit/Reform voters and were ok when they were targeting others e.g staying silent when Farage said he wouldn’t live next to Romanians or saying shit about Muslims. It wasn't racist and all ok then. Remember Patel dancing with Farage at the Tory conference?

Do they now realise he meant them too when he said to stop immigration? When Braverman screams about Britain’s needing to have more babies to out breed foreigners at Nat C conferences, does she realise her brown babies are not wanted?

Farage is disgusting and hopefully more people can see he’s led the country into poverty and international embarrassment. Nevertheless, Sunak helped him. Notice the Tories said almost nothing against Reform racism until today when one of their MPs said Britain should have appeased Hitler? If Farage hadn’t expressly targeted Sunsk yesterday, they would have said fuck all.

Yes, I feel that that the reaction against Rushak was completely overblown and used in a derogatory and racial way against him.

He attended and made a speech, for God's sake, but this was completely forgotten in the subsequent onslaught against him. I found it quite shocking and I am not even a Tory voter.

As someone tweeted to Nige when he was making his thinly veiled racist jibe at Rishi, it was good of him to go, given his side lost.

Reform is a racist party getting far too much airtime from the right-wing media, they don't set the tone for everyone.

Meanwhile everyone know Farage is a racist prick. The best that can be done is to ignore him and draw as little attention as possible in his direction.

My only objection to rishi sunak is his politics. He leads a party who are currently exceptionally unpopular. Its got nothing to do with his ethnicity.

I'll be supporting the local labour candidate who is of indian heritage but more importantly i agree with his political position.

Farage's comment about Sunak was completely out of order, and I'd have preferred it if the other opposition parties had condemned it in stronger terms (I've just been listening to Angela Rayner giving an interview where she firmly disagrees with Farage's specific comments but doesn't condemn them or call them racist).

I've not seen much else in that line though, thank goodness.

A lot of right wing commentators and reform party candidates have tried to insinuate that because of his Indian heritage, Sunak cannot understand the cultural significance of D-Day.

That’s definitely racism.

I think you're looking for a racist slant on it. He was disrespectful, nothing to do with him being Asian.

I personally, didn't let Boris get away with anything, he was a total cunt