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It's uncomplicated : Farage was a lousy racist back then at Dulwich College, and he is still a vile, stinking racist now. He's more covert about it now, because it both enthuses fellow racists, but also repels decent humans who might be thinking of voting for him because they're fed up with the other lot.

What the 28 odd former school contemporaries of Farage have done in coming forward to expose Farage's teenage bigotry and the racist abuse they suffered at his hands is important. Because Nigel Farage wants to be Prime Minister of the UK, and if opinion polling is to be believed, actually stands a plausible chance of doing so, absurdly risible though the very notion of that may be. It forces those decent human voters to consider the question of whether they really want such a man as Prime Minister - a question to which the answer can only be no.

Alan Sked, one of the very early UKIP people, called Farage out as a very crude racist many years ago. Hopefully this gets some coverage.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 2:07 pm It forces those decent human voters to consider the question of whether they really want such a man as Prime Minister - a question to which the answer can only be no.

Unfortunately, I get the impression that the decent are outnumbered by the indecent.

Boiler wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:25 pm

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 2:07 pm It forces those decent human voters to consider the question of whether they really want such a man as Prime Minister - a question to which the answer can only be no.

Unfortunately, I get the impression that the decent are outnumbered by the indecent.

They're not outnumbered, but under first past the post, they don't need to be. Farage needs about a third of the electorate to win. Are a third of the population Hitler licking antisemites who get a hard on at tales of Farage making gas noises to Jewish schoolkids? No evidence of that at all. I'd guess it's less than 5% and they'll be shared with YourParty and Galloway. The question is can Farage attract another 25%.
Maybe.
Who are these people? Mostly he attracts the don't knows, the non-voters from 2024, people who think Labour are going to steal their money and give it to other people and, with the collapse of the Tories, the way to stop Labour is to vote Reform. Will these non-voters be so inspired by Farage to bother to vote next time, we shall see. I'm certain the neo- Nazi stuff puts off more than it attracts.