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bigmo
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Report mouse muldoon May 22, 2019 7:35 PM BST
His Romanian neighbours say he's anything but.
Report CLYDEBANK29 May 22, 2019 7:41 PM BST
Who think's he racist?  I don't.  I just think he's full of populist bluster and BS and less trustworthy than a used car salesman.
Report conditor May 22, 2019 7:47 PM BST
People don’t think, that is the problem,social media controls (no matter which side of the argument you sit ) that little bubble people sit within social media is the be and end all, ... zombies
Report CLYDEBANK29 May 22, 2019 7:49 PM BST
These racist accusations don't really exist.  They are just a PR gimmick used to suggest that he's an antidote for all the PC nonsense that has eneveloped social media and the BBC and left mainstream politicians running for their apologist phrase books.
Report conditor May 22, 2019 7:51 PM BST
^^ yep totally agree
Report Just Checking May 22, 2019 7:53 PM BST
Change UK woman on C4 news just linked Brexit and Farage (in so many words, then didn't deny that's what she meant when questioned) to the rise of Hitler.
Report DenzilPenberthy May 22, 2019 8:43 PM BST
That morbidly obese fool who threw the milkshake claimed Farage was racist and how can someone on C4 news associate Farage with Hitler without any challenge?
Report HGS May 22, 2019 8:47 PM BST
Some think that the 17.4m who voted leave are racist. Its a brexit thing.
Report asparagus May 22, 2019 8:50 PM BST
No one thinks all the 17.4m are racist.
Report mouse muldoon May 22, 2019 8:52 PM BST
Apart from Jon Snow.
Report Baphornet May 22, 2019 9:23 PM BST
he has ran this campaign without mentioning immigration, some don't even understand that
Report Crisp77 May 22, 2019 10:24 PM BST
Is he racist because he prefers working in the 99% white European Parliament rather than our culturally diverse British one?
Report n88uk May 22, 2019 10:25 PM BST
Because he drives division between cultures and often fails to criticise the blatant racism of those surrounding him.
Report DenzilPenberthy May 22, 2019 10:26 PM BST

May 22, 2019 -- 10:25PM, n88uk wrote:


Because he drives division between cultures and often fails to criticise the blatant racism of those surrounding him.


You obviously mean the racism against white people.

Report akabula May 22, 2019 10:30 PM BST
Because he drives division between cultures

Any specific examples of that?
Report n88uk May 22, 2019 10:32 PM BST
His comments a few weeks ago about Oldham and Manchester having streets with on one side everyone black and the other white, with no integration.
Report themightymac May 22, 2019 10:34 PM BST
I don`t think he is a racist, just a very clever opportunist.
Report themightymac May 22, 2019 10:35 PM BST
Them Nationalists are all the same Crazy
Report n88uk May 22, 2019 10:36 PM BST
He just plays up to what people with what they want to hear with no idea of how to bring it all together. In fact Brexit actually happening in his way would likely make him disappear altogether, as he wants to throw darts from outside, not actually have any responsibility.
Report Crisp77 May 22, 2019 10:38 PM BST
Basically by modern standards... Everyone is racist
Report n88uk May 22, 2019 10:39 PM BST
No that's just what racists what to hide behind to normalise their views.
Report n88uk May 22, 2019 10:39 PM BST
*want to hide behind
Report akabula May 22, 2019 10:56 PM BST
Farage was labelled a racist when he spoke of controlling our borders.
Yet ask any MP if they want completely open borders with no restrictions at all and the vast majority if not all will say no.
Realist would be more apt.
Report aaronh May 22, 2019 11:00 PM BST
but plenty on this forum say that certain parties are fully for open borders, they can't be lying as they pride themselves on their truthfulness.
Report Coachbuster May 22, 2019 11:02 PM BST
not everyone is racist as such  but in life we are all predijuced sadly   ...  so racism is probably a part of this with a  few people  and is something the brain can't  do much about .

In other words you have no choice over what you find  appealing/agreeable etc . 

What i would like to know is at what point does a white racist person draw a line  ...  and does this racism include other whites  ?   Polish immigrants   for example .

Its a bit confusing tbf
Report mouse muldoon May 22, 2019 11:03 PM BST
Makes life easier to put them all in little boxes

Farage: racist
Corbyn: communist
May: incompetent
Report mouse muldoon May 22, 2019 11:03 PM BST
Actually, the third one is true.
Report aaronh May 22, 2019 11:03 PM BST
when open borders is really only favoured by the very far left (no, not Labour as much as you would like to deem them real radicals) and certain types of libertarian free market types.
Report themightymac May 22, 2019 11:10 PM BST
Mouse - Surely a Deluded incompetent.
Report aaronh May 22, 2019 11:11 PM BST
that's a bit harsh on mouse
Report mouse muldoon May 22, 2019 11:12 PM BST
I can take it.
Report akabula May 22, 2019 11:14 PM BST
We'll be in safe hands if Labour get in.
Diane has all angles covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMh_WlrZT0
Report themightymac May 22, 2019 11:14 PM BST
May ffs Laugh
Report akabula May 22, 2019 11:15 PM BST
Macs always had it in for Mouse ever since he ditched Minnie.
Report asparagus May 23, 2019 8:00 AM BST
It's pretty obvious Farage veers towards being a racist. The disgraceful stuff like the  'Breaking Point" poster, his general unwillingness to condemn racist supporters and many other examples.  He's a man with few morals and principles hoodwinking those low in intelligence. Unfortunately the country is full of them. Sadly whilst 17.4m are not all racist a large percentage are either outright racist or xenophobic in some way. Farage has added to this with his rhetoric.
Report smartie3 May 23, 2019 8:18 AM BST
its called economics
Report Hanx May 23, 2019 8:21 AM BST
Why do people think Nigel Paul Farage is racist?

Because their Twitter feed told them he is.

My hunch is that if we were to be able to identify those who make up this troupe of virtual Howler Monkeys, it would turn out that we are allowing our way of life to be steered by little more than pimple-faced Kleenex fillers, intimidated by the cavortings on Redtube into not even trying to get laid and upset that Mum's just shouted up that it's lasagne again and she's serious about no more turkey twizzlers.
Report smartie3 May 23, 2019 8:23 AM BST
brilliant phrase Mum's just shouted up that it's lasagne again and she's serious about no more turkey twizzlers.

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Report aaronh May 23, 2019 8:27 AM BST
Hanx posting that unironically, unaware that trump and Brexit lovers are far more uniform in their views than their opponents
Report Hanx May 23, 2019 8:53 AM BST
Really?

I've generally found the Right to be more open to discussions, debate, freedom of speech etc.

it is the Left who wants nothing doing except to rid the world of any counter views, opinions and actions. They're the ones who call for angry demonstrations on the streets, burn cars, shops and cause havoc on our streets when things don't go their way. It is the left who want to ram their intolerant and authoritarian views down our throats.

Go down the list of all Twitter hate mobs, people sacked, voices throttled, calls to boycott, divestment and sanction against businesses and countries, visiting music and theatre acts hounded out, conservative speakers de-platformed from university debates...I could go on and on....but you will soon come to conclusion that the Left is now totally out of control.

Emboldened by friendly media like CNN, NYT, BBC etc. and presidents, chancellors and prime ministers like Obama, Merkel, Macron, Blair etc. apparently on their side, these modern-day thought-police have started showing their true colours.
Report twizzle22 May 23, 2019 9:15 AM BST
Lovely post Hanx..couldn't agree more.Take a look at this Canadian Journo asking a simple question.

https://www.therebel.media/tommy-robinson-burnley-ready-made-protesters-wont-answer-questions-funding-signs?utm_campaign=js_tommy_protesters&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
Report Aspro May 23, 2019 9:17 AM BST
Is Nigel Farage racist?

It's in the initials WinkGrin
Report smartie3 May 23, 2019 9:28 AM BST
Hanx is spot on..as the great man once said "Hail the New Puritan!"
Report smartie3 May 23, 2019 9:29 AM BST
MES was about 30 years ahead of his time
Report Just Checking May 23, 2019 12:19 PM BST
"it is the Left who wants nothing doing except to rid the world of any counter views, opinions and actions."
Absolutely true, there is overwhelming evidence this is the case. In the past month alone or so, in amongst other things, we've had the left wing academics get Jordan Peterson fired from lecturing a bit at oxbridge before he'd even done any, and again at oxbridge a researcher who had done research the left didn't like as they didn't like the results, fired as well.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/09/the-lynch-mobbing-of-noah-carl/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cambridge-scholar-noah-carl-sacked-for-questioning-sacred-left-g3d6qvwzm
Report aaronh May 23, 2019 12:42 PM BST
Hanx offering a whole load of info irrelevant to my post that said those types of people think far more the same than people who dislike Farage, or trump for example. It's not like anyone on here as much working knowledge of left politics beyond what they heard from outrage merchants on the internet.

The right seem to be open to freedom of speech until someone says a mean word and then they ge1t just as outraged as SJWs or whatever. Seems to be some imaginary world that you lot are living in when all the authoritarian or authoritarian-lite politicians on social issues are all conservatives. Duterte, Orban, Bolsanaro, Trump etc. Its certainly not the left seething on another thread on here about kids being told that gay people exist.

What's wrong with BDS? it's people exercising their right to say that what Israel is doing is bad. Was it the same when there were boycotts in apartheid-era South Africa and a restriction on freedom of speech? Conservatives decide to shut down this debate by calling all supporters of it anti-semitic, while elsewhere engaging in that elsewhere.

You listed 4 politicians that are centrists at best and no leftists btw.

Unsurprisingly, you and JC buy into the idiotic culture war about campus politics, which noone really cares about but it's good to rile up the old base.
Report Just Checking May 23, 2019 12:50 PM BST
"Unsurprisingly, you and JC buy into the idiotic culture war about campus politics, which noone really cares about but it's good to rile up the old base."
We are all aware of where the idiocy is coming from on this thread.

When 50% of whatever of people are now going to uni, especially the future movers and shakers, it takes a quite incredibly level of idiocy to not see what's wrong with them all being educated by left to very far left people in left wing ideology, and anything that can even be accused of being "right wing" thought being suppressed, no platformed, and banned. But there we are, welcome to the world of the BF left wing troll.
Report aaronh May 23, 2019 12:56 PM BST
Probably works that way cause the more intelligent you are, the less likely you are to fall for reactionary conservatives. The extent of left wingers I saw and heard from at uni when I was there just over 5 years ago was seeing annoying SWP people selling their stuff outside the union from time to time.

I know you all like to imagine it's this radical hotbed of commies but that really isnt the case. Teachers can't get students to do all their reading, never mind brainwash them into thinking like they do!

What right wing views are often being suppressed btw, are they banning speakers calling for lower taxes or perhaps promoting privatisation of resources. Or maybe, the banning of anyone who believes in free market economics to an extreme extent. Or is it hateful idiots engaging in falsehoods most of the time?
Report aaronh May 23, 2019 12:58 PM BST
It's good that Kermit cant continue his grift, he already got exposed when he actually debated a proper leftist speaker who turned out to not be like the straw man created or a unprepared student
Report UBLE/REGY May 23, 2019 12:59 PM BST
Anybody who proposes any sort of immigration control is always accused of being a racist

It is like a big wooden club to beat them over with


But if you look in a Dictionary that is NOT the definition.

The definition is hatred towards people of another race because they are of another race.


But most people do not have this hatred, they just do not want them living here

because a) it means we have too many people in the country,

    and b) it threatens our traditional British Culture we do not want to lose, and some aspects of their culture

           do cause us problems, read this forum everyday lool



If they stay in their own country I have no problem with other races
Report UBLE/REGY May 23, 2019 1:01 PM BST
over the head
Report donny osmond May 23, 2019 1:12 PM BST
Anybody who proposes any sort of immigration control is always accused of being a racist



simply not true
Report Just Checking May 23, 2019 1:16 PM BST
"Anybody who proposes any sort of immigration control is always accused of being a racist"
"simply not true"
It's very true. Actually it's not entirely true, they are often called fascists instead.
Report bigmo May 23, 2019 1:22 PM BST
Glad to see many sensible views. I understand that some people won't like him but to suggest he's racist is desperate.
Report Hanx May 23, 2019 1:34 PM BST
What right wing views are often being suppressed btw, are they banning speakers calling for lower taxes or perhaps promoting privatisation of resources. Or maybe, the banning of anyone who believes in free market economics to an extreme extent. Or is it hateful idiots engaging in falsehoods most of the time?

Look at the cases of Toby Young and Roger Scruton, sacked without compunction from Government Advisory bodies because of their views (and in Scruton's case, wholly misrepresented, self-confessed hatchet job by the 'journalist' in question). Jordan Peterson's no-platforming is also well documented.

Whether you can call any of the above's view's 'right-wing' is a moot point, since a problem arises when the spectrum of left to right is used to scare people with a relativistic notion that they are "extreme", forgetting that the left has pulled the fulcrum of the see-saw way towards itself over the last twenty years - accelerating the process in the last ten.
Report UBLE/REGY May 23, 2019 1:42 PM BST
It's very true. Actually it's not entirely true, they are often called fascists instead.
very true just checkingLaugh
and a Nazi and worse

By doing this they close all sensible discussion on this subject

We need to reject this one word defence …. and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of immigration in a meaningful way
... so people can make a considered opinion
Report UBLE/REGY May 23, 2019 1:47 PM BST
You are correct Hanks, if parties can be labelled extreme, that is another way of defeating them without argument

Farage's triumph, was he was able to keep the UKIP in the mainstream, so the word extreme could never be used
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