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    Racism allegations could derail right-wing populist Nigel Farage’s bid to become Britain’s next PM | CNN
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    Racism allegations could derail right-wing populist Nigel Farage’s bid to become Britain’s next PM | CNN

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    1. Temporary-Guidance20 on

      allegation

      /ˌalɪˈɡeɪʃn/

      *noun*

      plural noun: **allegations**

      1. a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof.

      he should be deported to russia but bitch please, stop with ‘alleged’ stuff.

    2. Agreeable_Falcon1044 on

      Shouting Bernard manning whenever anyone asks about his childhood views will probably do that.

    4. According_Parfait680 on

      Let’s hope so. No one who has aimed gas chamber jokes at a Jewish person should ever be anywhere near office. He shouldn’t even be an MP. He’s a disgrace, as is anyone trying to defend him.

    5. TheFergPunk on

      Honestly surprised it has any effect.

      I mean, I get that he’s always attempted some form of deniability in how he approaches these things. A sort of stepping up to the line of acceptability and only occasionally having a toe go over the line, but I’m a bit surprised that this was actually having any impact on anyone. I always just took it as something disingenuous people circled over to make themselves feel better, I never thought people were actually fooled by it.

    6. OhBeSea on

      I mean I doubt it does anything to his current base but it could impact any people not yet planning to vote reform – might explain the rumours that they’re open to a coalition with the Tories, if they think they’ve peaked with the numbers they have atm

    7. barnburner96 on

      Yes I’m sure the 30% of people currently planning on voting for Reform will be outraged by this

    8. BlondBitch91 on

      If anything a few old racism allegations will boost his support with their key voter demographics.

    13. Sunshinetrooper87 on

      It shouldn’t be could. It should simple be have. He isn’t fit to lead as he is a filthy amoral, racist, Putin ass kissing anti-semite.

    14. Cute-Cat-2351 on

      As they should. They are very consistent with his approach to politics throughout his privileged little life.

    15. TacticalTeacake on

      Oh, the guy who regularly associates with far right racists turned out to be a bit racist. Who’d have thought?

    16. ChickenPijja on

      If anyone thinks that farage saying racist things, either now or in the past will harm his chances of becoming pm then I have a bridge to sell you.

    17. Street_Adagio_2125 on

      His defence is “the BBC used to air the minstrel show” which is basically an admission of guilt

    18. Youbunchoftwats on

      Really? This is the kind of stuff his supporters love. I don’t see how it damages him with a typical Reform voter at all.

    21. appletinicyclone on

      It won’t. We’ve seen how the far right work online. Trump encouraged a march on the US capitol and got re-elected. And US and UK politics sadly generally dovetail because of thatcher Reagan

      We were lucky we got through our days of conversation mystery austerity but there’s still economic problems from the weakened infrastructure and systemic wealth distribution problems particularly post covid

    22. Emperors-Peace on

      Most of the people voting for him don’t care. They’ll either agree, say worse things, think it’s just banter or “Woke PC nonsense” that he can’t say that.

      I don’t think all reform voters are racist, but they clearly aren’t overly averse to a bit of casual racism.

    23. NaiveBadgers on

      Guys been in the game for a long long time. Where were these allegations when he was pushing UKIP or making a fortune being an MEP? 

      Why now? 

      I can’t stand the guy, he’s a weasel, but I also don’t like feeling like I’m being played and pushed into opinions by a biased media. 

      So why are these allegations coming so thick and fast? 

      Why are there always “reform councillor quits” or similar? 

      Why the obsession with Reform on this sub? 

      There’s some manipulation going on somewhere by someone and it stinks and it’s working.

    24. Aedamer on

      I couldn’t care less about a joke an adolescent allegedly told 50 years ago. Even if you paid me millions I couldn’t pretend to care.

      Why is this a story given the various crises currently afflicting this country? What’s wrong with the media?

    27. restingbitchsocks on

      It’s a smokescreen. We should really be looking at the influence of Russia and other unfriendly regimes on both Reform and our politicians in general.

    28. AnalThermometer on

      When people are worried about the economy, migration, and losing rights to jury trial someone saying a racism 50 years ago doesn’t register. The benefit of Trump popping the purity politics bubble is you are actually judged mostly on policy in 2025 and not this kind of distraction, refreshingly.

    29. ImColinDentHowzTrix on

      The people who will vote for him won’t care about this. They’ll either say it’s exaggerated or they’ll say ‘I don’t love that about him but xyz’ and vote for him any way. This isn’t going to make so much as a dent in his support. Everybody already knew he thought like this and they liked him in spite of/because of it.

    30. Ritualixx on

      No it won’t. He wants to distance himself directly from racism, but the dog whistles shows he needs it.

    32. Primary-Effect-3691 on

      Man things could derail Nigel Farage’s bid to become Britain’s next PM

      Racism will not be one of them. His voters don’t care

    33. wondercaliban on

      Why? Anyone who is appalled probably wouldn’t vote for him anyway. Anyone who would would dismiss/minimise/agree with him

    34. Astriania on

      They won’t. The people offended by this would never have voted Reform in the first place. And despite the article-every-day attempt to use it to smear him, the people who might vote for him don’t care about 40 year old racism.

      What will derail that push is the fact that they’re shit politicians with terrible policies in the present day.

      Especially if Labour are actually getting to grips with immigration, which is the one policy area that people agree with Reform on. Their economic policy is completely mental Trussism turned up to 11, it’s completely non-credible, and their social policy is traditionalist nostalgia that much of the electorate won’t agree with.

    36. Annual_History_796 on

      No they couldn’t. As far as his supporters are concerned the racism is a feature, not a bug.

    37. shady_emoji on

      Trump said racist things during his campaign and it didn’t hurt him one bit, why would unproven allegations from when he was a child have any impact at all?

    38. Sinkrim on

      No, given the majority of immigrants to Britain are very low-wage and very low-skilled, and come from incredibly poor countries, the opportunity of 5 years of work in Britain still remains incredibly attractive. So if you absolutely insist on protecting the current employment model of the care home system, temporary visas work fine.

      I knew you wouldn’t support it though – the labour market isn’t your concern, it’s an excuse to pursue your real goal: mass migration for the sake of it.

    39. caesium_pirate on

      Mmmm taking some words said from someone’s childhood and schoolyard rumours and castigating them for it, that’s certainly going to deter the “freedom of speech” crowd, certainly going to deter the people who have concerns about immigration but fear they’ll be called racist. There’s so many other things to politically attack Farage on from his much more recent chequered past and his shambolic party. Doesn’t surprise me if this strategy came from Labour as they have a miraculous way of always shooting themselves in the foot.

    40. g0_west on

      Have a look at comments sections outside of places like reddit and the guardian. Most I’ve seen are to the tune of “so what it was 50 years ago”/”we were all doing it”/”but the BBC was doing minstrel shows so it’s fine actually”

    41. jenny_905 on

      The racism is the entire point.

      The media seem to want to pretend that far right politics isn’t all about racism for some stupid reason.

    42. ToryFucker1 on

      Hold up. 

      A negative article about farage?!

      This sub won’t like that, best ratio the shit out of this post via good ol astroturfing and spreading of apathy.

      This fucking sub, man. Tiring.