Farage’s racism

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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?

I imagine that poster is racist themselves, so sees no issue with racism.

I'm quite sure some of the posters defending Farage and saying we should just let it go, they were jokes, etc, would be singing from a different hymnsheet if accusations of Starmer being a racist bully in his late teens came out.

Some posters on here wouldn't have coped in the 70s.

Wait until they learn about the views of the guy on the Liam Tuffs podcast, they will head spin in anger and realise people pointing out the context of 70s culture and untrustworthy media are the least of their worries.

I grew up here in the 70s. Not long after Enoch Powell's " Rivers of Blood" speech.

Oh no I can't believe you said this i imagine being a brown person in the 70s wasn't a barrel of laughs, but were expected to just brush it off, as I said previously Nigel Farage and his views have not changed he doesn't actually care if he is thought of as racist he is quite proud of the fact.

For Farage (like Trump) the there's nothing such thing as bad publictity adage is so true.

He'll be loving this. It just bolsters his position as normal man of the people, standing up for those who aren't allowed to say what they think.

These comments and behaviours were reported as happening until he was 18.
For me the egregious thing is that he is trying to deny/fudge it. If he said, 'Yes, I remember saying and doing some appalling things; it's no excuse, but I was young and thoughtless. I'm throughly ashamed of that behaviour now.' I would have at least a bit of respect for him.

My dad is the same age as Farage and was very badly bullied at school for being Jewish, sounds similar to these stories.

Certainly didn't feel like a joke to him.

My Jewish kids are starting secondary next year. Won't feel like a joke to them/me either if they are treated similarly.

Why would he bother? They left aren't a Catholic priest who will offer forgiveness, they would probably ask Starmer to bring back hanging for him.

He's a very clever man. He won't do that because he knows amoung his target voters, this will increase his popularity and make them even more steadfast.

Nah the Starmer trip was hilarious and the fact that he tried having it taken off all the social media platforms makes it even funnier. Grow a sense humour Kier, FFS 🤣🤣

Yes, I know. I'm a very different beast from NF's target voter.

Nigel Farage went to the same school as Enoch Powell so we know the contempt it was breeding.

What did you hope would happen by creating this thread OP?

I would love to see when the left has ever called for hanging. Unless this is more pointless hyperbole.

I am not as left as I used to be. I have many issues with Starmer. Being boring isn't one of them though.

There are people who want a return to the death penalty on the right, I wouldn't be surprised if the left start campaigning for it also.

The right want it, so you think the left might start wanting it too? With respect, that's a bit of a reach, isn't it?

So you're a racist then? Since the only reason you won't say the things that you said in the 60s now is because it's 'not allowed'.

If people are obsessed with racism it's because it's abhorrent and ruins people's lives. I appreciate that you won't care about that because those people have no worth to you.

Two cheeks of the same arse.

Corby has signed some of Ruperts letters.

Oh well, at least the ageism is about a man for a change…..

Bloody Starmer and his refusal to laugh at Racist jokes!!!

Christ the replies on here are depressing. Yes casual racism was more common years ago, but it was never acceptable to decent people. Telling people to 'go home' and saying you agreed with Hitler has never been ok.

Years of social media propaganda drip drip of racist poison has led to vile people thinking everyone agrees with them, Nigel's a decent bloke, raise the colours, you can't even say you're English anymore, etc etc etc. It's disgusting and everyone who agrees with him is a racist cunt.

I think he is a disgusting man. I understand you can't judge the past by today but even back then what he said was awful. Yes he was 15 and we all know how 15 year olds try to be edgy and outrageous but even so - what's that saying, give me the child when he's 7 and I'll give you the man.

It's not a new story either which shows the lack of integrity of the press. I have such contempt for the way activists masquerading as journalists sit on things until it's politically expedient for their political team. I expect honesty and integrity, print the news not curated propaganda. There'll be queued up stories about Wes Streeting's violent threats and the Green Party's horrifying Challenor abuse scandal, kept to one side waiting for a useful moment when it should all investigated and immediately exposed.

Anyway, back to Farage. The depressing thing is what he thought is probably more common than we'd think among politicians across the whole spectrum from right to left. The carpetbagger shouldn't even be an MP, there's no reason to have a political framework that allows someone to stand in 8 different seats all around the country, at what point do we say someone's had their chance?

Corby [sic] isn't the mainstream left.
But anyway, I still haven't heard a convincing reason for why NF should bot acknowledge his past actions and that they're unacceptable.