‘This is how ordinary people speak’: Farage defends Reform UK candidates after anti-Islam and far-right comments exposed
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/nigel-farage-defends-reform-uk-anti-islam-comments-revealed/
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‘This is how ordinary people speak’: Farage defends Reform UK candidates after anti-Islam and far-right comments exposed
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/nigel-farage-defends-reform-uk-anti-islam-comments-revealed/
Posted by Aggressive_Plates
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‘This is how ordinary racists speak, and they are our main voter base. I will have a democratic mandate to be racist’
He’s right, this sort of language was common just after the Manchester area bombings.
You’d have to have a short memory to not remember something comparable said at the time.
Edit; I’m clearly talking about the Islam comments.
> Mr Farage dismissed the remarks, saying: “People chuck stuff around on Facebook and they like comments.”
You can find any kind of batshit comment you can imagine on social media lol, imagine if politicians had free reign to say whatever nonsense came into their heads and justify it by pointing to some random tweet
> In a wide-ranging phone-in Mr Farage also said he’d never seen a Frenchman who works after lunch, and said the Germans need to ‘get a sense of humour’ over divisive football chants.
Totally not xenophobic guys.
“No they don’t”.
Maybe broadcasters can call him out? And maybe get him out of his comfort zone to talk about other pressing issues.
“Mr Farage dismissed the remarks, saying: “People chuck stuff around on Facebook and they like comments.” This is literally what your voter base do hahahaha.
Normal people hate women and are neutral on Hitler? I think perhaps when Mr. Farage is talking about “our” history and culture, he’s talking about the wrong side.
I mean last time I checked Reform Uk has the same policy as a the British Union of Fascists.
I don’t believe that the British people speak in that way.
>On the prospect of disciplining candidates for their views, Mr Farage said: “What can you do? The name is on the ballot paper I can’t remove it.”
lol the usual “I would if I could but I can’t” waffle from Farage he’s been peddling about candidates of his party for well over a decade.
He’d really like us to think reform does no research on the candidates they field, but I’m sure they know exactly who they’re fielding, they just don’t care because they agree with all of it.
I’m getting pretty sick of being told what ‘normal’ people think, feel and say by absolute fuckheads.
No this is how the people he surrounds himself with speak.
If we’re using comments on Facebook to decide what is and isn’t acceptable things are going to get quite unpleasant.
Any LGBTQ+, disabled, POC, or women voters going for him really should look at what he’s saying here, because if he’s saying what’s said online is what we should be seeing as ordinary we’re all in for a rough time.
Some people on Facebook say the Earth is flat is that a view Reform are also going to take?
>In the YouTube video from 2017, he likened the religion to the Nazis, saying: “They both want to kill Jews.
>“They both hate homosexuals, they both want to kill homosexuals.”
“Islam; Nazis – they are the same thing”.
I wouldn’t say they’re the same by any stretch of the imagination, but it can’t be denied that fundamentalist Islamic extremism does indeed have those views.
His point is that Islamic extremism is a dangerous ideology, and he’s right.
Maybe so, maybe not. A huge chunk of people probably are anti-Islam.
What I do know is that a lot of ordinary people are getting very sick of this trend where snitching prefect types will scour your social media to find any controversial comment they can to use to try and ruin your life and career. Nation of cops.
So much hate for Farage in this thread, just to balance it out…
Farage is amazing! You’ve got this!
I really don’t know anyone who speaks like this, I wish Nigel would stop acting like he speaks on behalf of ordinary people.
Ah, a very typical posting from “Aggressive_Plates”.
What was the line from Reform supporters a couple days ago? Oh yeah, you can’t judge the whole party on a few bad apples. They didn’t have time to properly vet candidates, they’re not representative of the party as a whole. I am not a rube and I definitely have not been tricked into supporting a band of fascists and charlatans.
I’m always hearing ordinary people say “we should have stayed neutral with Hitler.”
Every religion is a scam but targeting one to promote uniformity of another is beyond disgusting. You never go picking on people falling for MLM schemes do you?
Why do they give this guy so much airtime over the greens? The greens have far more councillors than Reform, and actually have a sitting, democratically voted MP (i am not counting the defector 30p Lee)… where is the balance?
No its how racists and bigots speak, and they should be shouted down by their betters when they do
That light aircraft crash really was a missed opportunity.
Islamaphobia is a word used by fascists to manipulate morons
It is the job of politicians to listen to the people and then turn their desires into a workable solution.
Just parroting the public’s concerns gets us nowhere.
Example:
GOOD:
Me, “my shower doesn’t work, it’s useless, I should rip it out”.
Plumber, “I can fix that for you by doing X, it will cost £Y. Do you want that? Whereas ripping it out will cost £Z and you’ll be without a shower.”
BAD:
Me, “my shower doesn’t work, it’s useless, I should rip it out”.
Plumber, “yeah, it’s useless”
Me, “yeah useless”.
Plumber, ” yeah useless”.
Here we go. Five more years of the Overton Window intentionally being dragged to the right. Unimaginable that this would be openly said by a so called top 3 party ten years ago.
Farage is not an “ordinary person “… but an upper class dickhead…
The bigot is the one arguing with you. The supremacist is the one winning the argument. When left is going to call you bigot regardless of what you are saying