Farage inciting hate and division - Hos much longer do we have to endure this hideous individual?

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So Farage now has a video statement on Twitter claiming that the current rioting is “nothing in comparison to what is to come.”

Anyone else hearing reverberations of Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech back in the 70s?

He is also, ‘just putting it out there’ that the police and authorities are ‘withholding the truth’ - ie. insinuating that the murderer in the Southport tragedy was actually acting on behalf of a wider terrorist network and this is being hushed.

If this isn’t inciting fear, paranoia, violence and division, I don’t know what is!

I notice he’s gone very quiet about his pathetic accusation that Channel 4 tried to set-up Reform by somehow planting an ‘actor’ to trundle around Clacton spouting racist filth.

No Nigel, you know full well who that campaigner was - and the other Reform campaigners in Clacton caught on camera with their hate speech. These are your people.

I cannot abide this man. The damage he had caused to the U.K. I have been abroad this last month and don’t want to come back. Years and years he’s been provoking hate. He has ruined the country with Brexit - but he always has someone else to blame. I don’t think I’ve ever despised a U.K. politician so much. How much longer do we have to tolerate this?

Disagree, I think every single person on this thread would condemn it.
I think there’s a slight difference in backdrop though given these protests started with attacking mosques, so I can understand why Muslims felt under attack given that in several places they were quite literally.
I’m not sure why the large group of while men felt under threat by the mosques in Southport in that first place. However I don’t agree with it counter violence, and even counter protests in general. I think this sort of thing shouldn’t be pandered to in the first place.

Many MP's might've done. Shame Johnson didn't... sacked from every job he's ever held.

Being the Director of Public Prosecutions is very relevant to being PM. Being a bigoted newspaper columnist isn't.

Agreed, this is a big MALE violence issue.

Because they've seen men like Trump or Boris leading countries with their attitudes towards women. They see 'men' like Andrew Tate online and hear what he has to say on women. They are radicalised and it's more often than not a rabbit hole to other far right ideals.

The video today of ‘protestors’ checking whether people were white driving cars is absolutely sickening

WTAF

Tbh, the phrase "the race card comes out" is not usually used by non-racist folk.

Something to ponder.

But but but he's only saying what those of us have been told to think!!!!! wake up sheeple blah blah

Listen to the people who live in these cities being destroyed by the riots.

They are the voices of the people suffering the consequences.

And they want the perpetrators to feel the full force of the law. They don't want this.

I know he was a toolmaker. I know Starmer was once a civil servant. We've all been told ad infinitum. It's time to move on.

And also, thank goodness, quite a few clear-headed, thoughtful, insightful comments which I wish I'd made myself.

Much like homophobes using the gay card, misogynists using the female card.

Yes to symptom and you may have a point about the rest

Yes, he's explaining how we go from here in regards to justice. His background in prosecutions means he has a keen understanding of our system and what can be done, rather than just sticking a finger in the air and hoping someone else will find a solution.

Being DPP during the 2011 riots is highly relevant I’d say. I imagine most people would agree with me.

“Not listened to” .. you couldn’t make it up.

If anything, they have been listed to too much. Their views are published in the papers every day, they have thier own TV channel, they have representatives on Question Time (all the time), they have government policy built around their views (Rwanda), and the party in Governent trotting our phrases such as “stop the boats”

They have been listened too way too much .. legitimacy has been given to the view that all of thier problems are caused by immigration, rather then their own poor life decisions.

If it wasn’t immigration, it would be another group to blame.

We need to stand up to Racism, not build govt policy around it

I wonder how fluent Yaxley-Lennon is in Spanish?

Director of Public Prosecutions actually.
During the 2011 riots.
He has experience in this.

Why should he deny it?

14% is a pretty small minority. The majority of British people will not ever stoop to support a racist, far right party. As a nation, we are better than that.

Oh dear god, how are you using racist riots as an excuse to have a whinge about VAT on private school fees?

His press conferences have not had the desired effect

He probably has a bit more grace but if the riots keep repeating I don’t think past job will help

I lives next door to where asylum seekers were living for a couple of years and they definitely weren't 'lounging around'. They were always walking around in small groups and playing football together in a field next door, to pass the time. They were friendly and said hello very politely, in English, when they walked past. A lot of interviews were done with many of them, by independent journalists and they were all very frustrated, and wanted to work, to improve their situations. A lot were professionals, such as doctors. I've never seen any evidence that they were fraudsters and not needing refuge. If they were from a safe country then they'd be sent back. They had to put up with hateful protests outside of their living place with red paint thrown all over the front gates. During COVID they were locked up almost 24 hours per day in shared dormitories with just one twenty minute walk per day permitted, even though the rest of the country was allowed out to go to the supermarket, short walks etc, as much as they wanted. This continued for them, even when a lot of restrictions were lifted. They ended up rioting when people in their dorms were suffering with COVID pre-vaccines and they weren't moved into separate dorms to keep them safe, and so Priti Patel sent all the locals a letter calling them criminals.

Exactly. Reform UK PLC/Brexit Party/UKIP share of the vote has remained consistent and never grown significantly.

Farage's bank balance however...

What’s the “desired effect”?

Many of them worked for the British in Afghanistan, the issue is they were of benefit to the England and now perhaps not so

I don't think I suggested that he should deny it, just that he really doesn't need to keep reminding us. It's almost as though he can't believe it himself. Didn't prosecutions for rape go down when he was in charge?

I disagree.

I think the desired effect of his press conferences was to provide assurances to the general public that he wasn't going to pander to extremist thugs and to emphasise that those involved in the violence would feel the full force of the law. I think he succeeded on both counts.