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To think Nigel Farage should be locked up?

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nobodyssons · 04/06/2026 07:05

He was inciting violence with his “address to the nation” speech, calling for rage.

Meanwhile, he doesn’t care when women are actually murdered by the police

https://x.com/nigel_farage/status/1371213488882847749?s=46

Surely enough is enough and they need to take action?

Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) on X

We must not allow the tragic murder of a young woman turn into attacks on men and attacks on the police.

https://x.com/nigel_farage/status/1371213488882847749?s=46

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Sgcloset · 04/06/2026 09:01

JuliaBraverman · 04/06/2026 08:56

Are we still looking for evidence??????

Yes (six exclamation marks), because I haven’t seen it. The incompetence and gullibility of individual police officers is not the same thing as evidence of 2-tier policing from "police documentation and training material".

sittingonabeach · 04/06/2026 09:01

I bet many of the people protesting in Southampton the other day won’t remember Henry’s name in a few weeks time.

Monty36 · 04/06/2026 09:00

CurlewKate · 04/06/2026 07:13

What do you want to happen? Who do you want the rage directed towards? The police? Police dogs? Maybe Henry Novak’s father?

Beautifully put. Basically really, Farage wants rage against anyone who is not white.
He is not really remotely interested in immigration either. Nor in becoming PM. He loves disorder and is a provoker and antagonist. And agitator.

FabiaQuintilla · 04/06/2026 09:00

Naunet · 04/06/2026 08:50

Or maybe a lot of us have seen it for ourselves with the whole trans bullshit. Women being arrested for calling men, men on social media whilst nothing happened to the men threatening women with rape and murder?

I was as angry about this as anyone. I’m not arguing that the police don’t have serious issues either. However, let’s not pretend that these things aren’t exploited by people with very dangerous agendas. This needs to be resisted.

The situation re trans activism has also moved on significantly without GC women threatening trans people or smashing up property.

luckylavender · 04/06/2026 09:00

YourGoldSquid · 04/06/2026 07:11

He is doing the exact thing that Starmer did by kneeling after the death of St. Floyd. He said he was angry about it. His words and actions encouraged violence and riots.

So please, spare us the moral superiority.

It's not the same at all.

JuliaBraverman · 04/06/2026 09:00

YourGoldSquid · 04/06/2026 08:58

@CheeseyOnionPie :
"Your rage at the police is only triggered when you perceive them taking the side of a non-white person over a white person. They have been doing the exact same thing to non-white people for decades."

Not at all. All people should be treated with fairness and dignity. All people deserve due process. All crimes should be spoken of and treated equally regarded of who committed them.

IMO, people are reacting to systemic condemnation of the majority. Of course Henry was a racist! He was a well-dressed white boy. And because of his skin color, he was handcuffed, stated he was stabbed, and told "I don't think you are, mate." The last words this boy heard were the reading of his rights. He died being falsely condemned as a criminal. Surely, this injustice as just as shameful as the injustices experienced by minorities. And yet, the elite and political class don't kneel for him. What is the difference between Floyd and Nowak? The color of their skin. And the British political class won't give this innocent boy the same respect they gave to a career criminal, drug dealer, and woman beater. Is it any wonder that white people are pissed off?

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StandFirm · 04/06/2026 08:58

I am also beyond tired of the false equivalence drawn between the George Floyd murder and Henry Nowak. George Floyd was put to death by a police officer like (or worse than) an animal. I remember the footage. Henry Nowak was not killed by police. However, as I have mentioned on other threads, he was disgustingly failed by police and I do believe there is a case of negligence here. The officers who failed him have to be punished appropriately and justice must be seen to be done- but Reform's manipulation of this tragedy is beyond awful!

YourGoldSquid · 04/06/2026 08:58

CheeseyOnionPie · 04/06/2026 08:48

Your rage at the police is only triggered when you perceive them taking the side of a non-white person over a white person. They have been doing the exact same thing to non-white people for decades.

If it was the abysmal policing itself that was being protested we would have seen the same riots for Sarah Everard and again a couple of weeks ago when serial rapists were allowed to walk free.

@CheeseyOnionPie :
"Your rage at the police is only triggered when you perceive them taking the side of a non-white person over a white person. They have been doing the exact same thing to non-white people for decades."

Not at all. All people should be treated with fairness and dignity. All people deserve due process. All crimes should be spoken of and treated equally regarded of who committed them.

IMO, people are reacting to systemic condemnation of the majority. Of course Henry was a racist! He was a well-dressed white boy. And because of his skin color, he was handcuffed, stated he was stabbed, and told "I don't think you are, mate." The last words this boy heard were the reading of his rights. He died being falsely condemned as a criminal. Surely, this injustice as just as shameful as the injustices experienced by minorities. And yet, the elite and political class don't kneel for him. What is the difference between Floyd and Nowak? The color of their skin. And the British political class won't give this innocent boy the same respect they gave to a career criminal, drug dealer, and woman beater. Is it any wonder that white people are pissed off?

anniejo55 · 04/06/2026 08:58

Farage is an utter scumbag with no morals. He doesn’t care about the wishes of the family, he will use whatever means necessary to pedal his own grimy agenda. It’s shocking how many people support the clown but then look at Trump, there will always be crazy and/or uneducated people who will buy into this kind of radicalised crap. I agree it’s scary.

Pedallleur · 04/06/2026 08:57

nobodyssons · 04/06/2026 07:09

It’s scary. They just don’t seem able to see what he’s doing.

They do but they share the same views or worse. It's women, foreigner/migrants, EU. Rinse/repeat

Seymour5 · 04/06/2026 08:57

TallSturdyGirls · 04/06/2026 08:56

Two things can be equally disgusting.

They can. But we seem, nowadays, to excuse certain behaviours more readily from specific parts of the population.

JuliaBraverman · 04/06/2026 08:56

Sgcloset · 04/06/2026 08:55

Please quote or link this "undeniable" evidence of "2-tier policing based on race", then, so we can all see it.

Are we still looking for evidence??????

TallSturdyGirls · 04/06/2026 08:56

Seymour5 · 04/06/2026 08:54

I was amazed that people in Batley weren’t jailed for the threats they made to a teacher, who, with his family, had to leave his job, and move away. They are still in hiding.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/31/batley-school-what-teacher-in-hiding-can-tell-us-about-our-failure-to-tackle-intolerance

Two things can be equally disgusting.

HectorPlasm · 04/06/2026 08:56

Hardly a traitor! Every government since WWII on the other hand ....

northernspanishlass · 04/06/2026 08:56

We all shoild have cold rage about what has happened. COLD RAGE means calculated, controlled rage. Farage used his words to define the type of rage we should have.

Sgcloset · 04/06/2026 08:55

Ablondiebutagoody · 04/06/2026 07:15

Get a grip. Farage is right on this one. 2 tier policing based on race is undeniable. Its there in the polices own documentation and training material. Hence Labour trying to make this about Farage.

Please quote or link this "undeniable" evidence of "2-tier policing based on race", then, so we can all see it.

TallSturdyGirls · 04/06/2026 08:54

YourGoldSquid · 04/06/2026 07:09

Someone is a bit salty that Farage is right. And you can no longer deny it. The proof is undeniable.

And unless your called out Starmer for stoking racial violence after St. Floyd, you have no moral authority to lecture anyone about Farage encouraging "rage." Perhaps rage from the working class majority is exactly what is needed.

Disgusting. He has he used the death of a young man for his own political pursuits. Anyone that cannot find this abhorrent needs to do some serious soul searching.

StandFirm · 04/06/2026 08:54

YourGoldSquid · 04/06/2026 08:49

I suppose I'd like to see the government in the UK and the US recognize this rage and acknowledge that 1) the majority matter just as much as the minority, 2) the experience of poor whites is is just as challenging as any other struggle, 3) that working-class whites are not guilty simply because of being western and white.

I'm not familiar enough with the history British politics, but in the US, accusations of racism have been used against conservative people for 60+ years. Not just conservative politicians. But conservative voters. And it just doesn't work anymore. So are we really surprised that the younger generation are speaking positively about "the Austrian painter?" I could never have imagined that the younger generation would embrace the painter and long-standing anti-Semitic tropes. That they would openly talk of "Black Fatigue." But here we are. And rather than condemn these people, let's understand how we got here. Simply dismissing these folks as stupid racists only reinforces their beliefs. It radicalizes people. This path is untenable. And the sooner our governments understand this, the better.

Except that the people who embrace the 'Austrian painter' as you so quaintly put it really are fucking racists.

Menopausalsourpuss · 04/06/2026 08:51

Seymour5 · 04/06/2026 08:47

Have people forgotten why grooming gangs, certainly in Rotherham, were not tackled? The police and council officials were frightened of being thought racist, of upsetting a specific community. Plenty of evidence proved that to be the case.

From the Lawrence murder, never investigated properly due to institutional racism, to the Nowak murder, where a young white man is disbelieved because the coppers believed the perpetrators, the pendulum has swung too far.

Yes and the Manchester arena bombing happened because a security guard was scared to challenge a brown man with a rucksack and both Rudekabana and Calcone weren't challenged because people in authority didn't want to stereotype black men with knives. This toxic ideology (CRT, DEI has etc) had claimed many lives and needs to be swept away.

JuliaBraverman · 04/06/2026 08:51

ERthree · 04/06/2026 08:48

OP do you not feel cold hard rage against Henry's killer, the murders family and the Police officers that handcuffed Henry and to brass that lied to Henry's family for months? I certainly feel it and i don't need to wait until i am told by a politician. Farage is not someone i would vote for but he has the right to highlight just what is going on in this country. There is a two tier system in Policing, the justice system and housing. We have a Prime minister that won't support our country's values or heritage and takes great delight in making sure our veterans are prosecuted. British people are fed up and have the right to voice their opinion and take to the streets in peaceful protest. I don't agree with the violence but i can understand why it happens.

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Firetreev · 04/06/2026 08:50

YourGoldSquid · 04/06/2026 07:09

Someone is a bit salty that Farage is right. And you can no longer deny it. The proof is undeniable.

And unless your called out Starmer for stoking racial violence after St. Floyd, you have no moral authority to lecture anyone about Farage encouraging "rage." Perhaps rage from the working class majority is exactly what is needed.

What he is is a racist hypocrite. When Sarah Everard was murdered by a police officer he called for calm.

To think Nigel Farage should be locked up?
Naunet · 04/06/2026 08:50

FabiaQuintilla · 04/06/2026 08:45

Many feel
there is 2 tier policing and despite documents coming out proving it over the past few days, the government still deny it.

Yes, because they are repeatedly being told there is by people who are skilled in exploiting division and emotion and highly determined when it comes to their goals.

Or maybe a lot of us have seen it for ourselves with the whole trans bullshit. Women being arrested for calling men, men on social media whilst nothing happened to the men threatening women with rape and murder?

Backedoffhackedoff · 04/06/2026 08:49

This is Southport all over again by the way. It’ll blow over when the hot heads move onto something else and the victims families trauma will be increased for life due to their actions. Which absolutely happened with Southport.

they won’t do anything, no postive action no working for change, no commitment. They’ll just move onto something else

farage is excellent at triggering the football hooliganism mentality.

AlternateLook · 04/06/2026 08:49

Well, it's not as if the people on the Left, or the factions they support and sponsor, resort to violence, so at least there's that...

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