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Farage’s racism

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CuriousKangaroo · 25/11/2025 09:03

I haven’t yet seen a post about this story: Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays? | Nigel Farage | The Guardian

Farage no longer categorically denies these incidents, and is now trying to fudge things by saying he didn’t mean any harm and it was a long time ago - presumably because he knows it is true and realises that 20 separate people saying it means only the truly deluded wouldn’t believe he was a racist.

But what I am interested in is does this actually assist his election chances? We already know that many of his supporters are racists - does it actually work for him that this blatant racism from him shores up their support? Are they secretly (or perhaps not so secretly in some cases) pleased?

And what do those of you who are Reform supporters but believe yourself not be racist think? Does it make you change your mind about him or Reform?

Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?

Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/22/nigel-farage-racist-past-who-is-telling-truth-schooldays

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PandoraSocks · 06/12/2025 09:08

BIossomtoes · 06/12/2025 08:42

He’s quite deliberately inflammatory, his resting face is a supercilious smirk and his rudeness is unparalleled. I hate the way he interrupts people and shouts them down. I thought it was the Labour guy who asked him to mind his manners.

His smirk makes me want to slap him with a wet fish. He is horrible.

Morningsleepin · 06/12/2025 09:12

Friendlygingercat · 25/11/2025 09:20

The fact that people are up in arms about what someone did aged 15 or 16 shows how absolutely pathetic they are. I did and said a lot of things in the 1960s which would not be allowed now. For gods sake get a grip. The woke brigade are obsessed with racism.

We must be about the same age and I NEVER knew anyone to be antisemitic back then because we'd all grown up learning about the horrors of the concentration camps.

PandoraSocks · 06/12/2025 09:57

This really isn't going away for Farage. There is yet another a phone in this morning about it on LBC. He is in the jaws of a dilemma and I dearly hope it eats him alive.

Efacsen · 06/12/2025 10:21

The first Guardian 'exclusive' on this was over 2 weeks ago - if only there was some way for Farage to make it all stop.............

DuncinToffee · 06/12/2025 10:25

Je Suis Bernard Manning isn't working.....

Problem is he hasn't stopped being racist.

Hazlenuts2016 · 06/12/2025 10:30

Dollymylove · 27/11/2025 10:28

I wonder how much these people have been paid to suddenly remember all this.
Funny isnt it that they all only remembered when Reforms popularity started to rocket due to have a completely tone deaf government in power!!

There have been reports going back over a decade about this behaviour. Nobody is being paid to report this. People are coming out because they believe his behaviour at school is linked to the kind of leader he is on course to be.

Hazlenuts2016 · 06/12/2025 10:33

Friendlygingercat · 25/11/2025 09:20

The fact that people are up in arms about what someone did aged 15 or 16 shows how absolutely pathetic they are. I did and said a lot of things in the 1960s which would not be allowed now. For gods sake get a grip. The woke brigade are obsessed with racism.

Yes people said things they would regard now as a bit politically incorrect back in the day. But how many people do you know who bullied Jewish kids with phrases like 'Hitler was right' and making hissing sounds to mimick gas Chambers?

LlynTegid · 06/12/2025 10:35

Hazlenuts2016 · 06/12/2025 10:30

There have been reports going back over a decade about this behaviour. Nobody is being paid to report this. People are coming out because they believe his behaviour at school is linked to the kind of leader he is on course to be.

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Which is lack of any apology shows.

LlynTegid · 06/12/2025 10:36

Hazlenuts2016 · 06/12/2025 10:33

Yes people said things they would regard now as a bit politically incorrect back in the day. But how many people do you know who bullied Jewish kids with phrases like 'Hitler was right' and making hissing sounds to mimick gas Chambers?

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None of the tv shows which Nigel Farage references as being shown in the 60s and 70s did that either. Much as they were disgraceful.

BIossomtoes · 06/12/2025 10:40

LlynTegid · 06/12/2025 10:36

None of the tv shows which Nigel Farage references as being shown in the 60s and 70s did that either. Much as they were disgraceful.

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As that brilliant Jonathan Pie clip articulately explains. It appears to escape Farage that Until Death Does Us Part was satire.

PandoraSocks · 06/12/2025 10:47

BIossomtoes · 06/12/2025 10:40

As that brilliant Jonathan Pie clip articulately explains. It appears to escape Farage that Until Death Does Us Part was satire.

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Also, the latest revelation of racism when Farage was 17 would have happened in 81/82. The Black and White Minstrel Show, Love Thy Neighbour and Until Death Us Do Part were all long gone and Manning's racism was anathema to most young people.

BIossomtoes · 06/12/2025 10:52

I can’t get my head round how someone with such archaic views can be more than a decade younger than me. My youth was in the hippy/flower child era and they were considered ridiculous then.

PandoraSocks · 06/12/2025 11:03

BIossomtoes · 06/12/2025 10:52

I can’t get my head round how someone with such archaic views can be more than a decade younger than me. My youth was in the hippy/flower child era and they were considered ridiculous then.

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It is rather bizarre. His expensive education certainly did nothing to broaden his mind.

CurlewKate · 06/12/2025 11:07

BIossomtoes · 06/12/2025 10:52

I can’t get my head round how someone with such archaic views can be more than a decade younger than me. My youth was in the hippy/flower child era and they were considered ridiculous then.

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Yes, me too. It’s like the Mumsnet “Oh, she’s old, she doesn’t know any better, it was different in her day” when it turns out “she” is 60! My mother would be nearly 100 if she was still alive and she knew better. And made sure her children did too.

BIossomtoes · 06/12/2025 11:33

Our parents’ generation - mine would have been 107 and 109 - would have been appalled. They remembered the liberation of the camps and the devastating images that emerged.

SerendipityJane · 06/12/2025 11:40

PandoraSocks · 06/12/2025 10:47

Also, the latest revelation of racism when Farage was 17 would have happened in 81/82. The Black and White Minstrel Show, Love Thy Neighbour and Until Death Us Do Part were all long gone and Manning's racism was anathema to most young people.

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In 1981 I was listening to Alexie Sayle and various Comedy Store clips that were doing the rounds on mixtapes. I was 100% aware of the alternative comedy backlash to racism and sexism. So the sequence when Neil became a fascist pig and wore sunglasses to see everyone as black in order to beat them up made perfect sense. (My DM went on a march in Southall over the murder of Blair Peach).

So I have no time for this cunt trying to rewrite my history. I know what was when in London. And I know the sort of of people Farage and his reich were.

Timeforabitofpeace · 06/12/2025 11:43

I don’t believe he’s stopped being racist.

CurlewKate · 06/12/2025 11:45

BIossomtoes · 06/12/2025 11:33

Our parents’ generation - mine would have been 107 and 109 - would have been appalled. They remembered the liberation of the camps and the devastating images that emerged.

One of my earliest memories is being told why we couldn’t buy South African oranges….

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 06/12/2025 11:47

CurlewKate · 06/12/2025 11:45

One of my earliest memories is being told why we couldn’t buy South African oranges….

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Me too, @CurlewKate, only in my case, it was South African apples.

PandoraSocks · 06/12/2025 11:48

SerendipityJane · 06/12/2025 11:40

In 1981 I was listening to Alexie Sayle and various Comedy Store clips that were doing the rounds on mixtapes. I was 100% aware of the alternative comedy backlash to racism and sexism. So the sequence when Neil became a fascist pig and wore sunglasses to see everyone as black in order to beat them up made perfect sense. (My DM went on a march in Southall over the murder of Blair Peach).

So I have no time for this cunt trying to rewrite my history. I know what was when in London. And I know the sort of of people Farage and his reich were.

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Farage would have been called a fascist cunt by his peers in 1981. Same as today.

Teanbiscuits33 · 06/12/2025 11:49

His supporters won’t care. They are bending over backwards in his defence, and the overt racism online is sickening. I’m so depressed at the state of the country right now. I have totally lost any shred of faith I had in the electorate and I despair for what we could be living in in less than 4 years.

I would like to think people would know better but we’ve had Brexit and Trump elected again in the US so I think Reform will definitely do it, especially with Russian interference even if they don’t win fairly. The ease with which people are manipulated never ceases to amaze me. The current government aren’t helping the cause by playing into their hands either.

I wish I could leave the country but I can’t! I will be literally suicidal if they get anywhere near power and I’m not even exaggerating. I’m not brown but I’m disabled and have mixed race relatives, and I don’t want to live under that shit, thanks. The only consolation is the thickos who voted for that vermin will soon realise their mistake.

PandoraSocks · 06/12/2025 11:52

@Teanbiscuits33 I wholeheartedly believe that if all of us who oppose Reform, whether Tory, Labour, Lib Dem, Green, SNP, PC, organise and vote tactically we can keep Farage from No. 10. Don't give up hope.❤️

SerendipityJane · 06/12/2025 11:53

CurlewKate · 06/12/2025 11:45

One of my earliest memories is being told why we couldn’t buy South African oranges….

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Oh, DM was big on boycotting anything SA. Since I can recall (so late 60s).

I feel sorry for the people of her generation. Now lost to us and unable to prevent cunts link Farage and too much of MN blithely assuming anyone born before the war had to pass their racism 11+ before they could enter society.

As long as I have breath I will tell anyone who cares that most certainly was not the case. Live wasn't perfect. And it wasn't free of racism or sexism. But at the same time neither was ever allowed to fester unchecked by a society willing to let things slide. Because my parents and grandparents had to live through what happens when you do.

never again.

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