‘He was a deeply unembarrassed racist’: Nigel Farage, by those who have known him

Nigel Farage, who leads a party with candidates that call immigrants scum, that wish we hadn’t fought against Hitler, and that are openly misogynistic. Farage who admires Putin’s skills as a political operator and likes to talk about Hitler. No, he couldn’t be a racist. He just likes drinking pints down at the pub and telling it how it is. Nothing fascist about him, he’s just having a laugh.

One of the good things about him actually being relevant again is that there’s a lot of butt hurt tories who will now be revealing the real Farage. We know about the songs he used to sing, the comments he used to make etc. The press gave him a free ride as he was on their side. Now, and after the count is finished, you will see more of these stories

An incredible amount of copium going on these past few weeks since Nige stood for election.

Plenty of people shitting themselves for the impact he may have.

Democracy hey. Isn’t it fun.

They’ve been saying this for over a decade and it doesn’t seem to make the slightest difference.

I didn’t know Farage has only got one ball.

The similarities with the other fellow don’t end there either.

Imagine if by some weird set of circumstances he became Prime Minister, and had to deal head on with the consequences of brexit. I’d laugh my cock off as I took my place on the next SpaceX rocket to Mars.

Let us put aside the niceties of biological theories. There exists a concept called ‘structural racism’, to wit, that our ‘social structures’, our ‘societal edifice’, our cultural and economic practices and infrastructure, happen to serve us better than they do other people – as seen in, say, NHS health outcomes, or crime rates, or employment figures.

And this is a concept that has come into being because, despite ‘racism’ being a severe *faux pas*, and seemingly almost all of society avidly detesting it if not being ‘anti-racist’, and everyone being told to not be racist, disparate outcomes still occur. Even [treatment with beta-blockers](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395337/) is more effective than ‘diversity training’. If the flesh is willing, the spirit of our culture must be the point of weakness.

This is a very handy concept, because it puts ‘racism’ into stark relief. Do you want our country to operate optimally in our interests, or as close as we can get it to; or do you want – as increasingly seems necessary – every last stave of our ‘cultural architecture’ to be demolished and built anew to, it is hoped, provide equal – or near-equal – outcomes to anyone, whoever they are?

Currently they are smashing up the staves. People of colour, quite possibly – nay, almost certainly – due to the detrimental effects exerted upon them merely by existing in our society, are applying bladed implements to each other in less than healthy ways. How do we react? By passing absurd laws that make it a crime to possess gardening tools we have got by with for *centuries*. If Labour get in, bye-bye machetes.

[Knives with a sharp edge, a point, and a serrated edge are already on the block](https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/junior-apprentice-star-online-store-stops-selling-knives-after-murders/) – not because there’s anything special about them, but because people of colour, largely, are using them on each other, and under ‘anti-racist’ sentiments, that *must* be stopped. No word on whether we will get to keep our bills or hatchets, but if those disparate outcomes keep happening, as is likely given our structurally racist society, they will be next.

Now if you like to do some gardening – or have a nice tree by your house with branches that need seeing to every now and then – or simply think the British should keep the rights they have enjoyed for centuries, the choice is clear. Let us keep our gardening tools. Let us vote for Reform, and preserve our societal architecture, howsoever ‘racist’ it may be. Who knows, we may soon [be able to use concentrated sulphuric acid for home chemistry without a ‘licence’](https://www-pwtag-org.webpkgcache.com/doc/-/s/www.pwtag.org/new-rules-in-force-for-possession-of-sulphuric-acid/), and our children may be able to [buy a penknife without the shopkeep being a criminal](https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2023/march/tougher-measures-introduced-for-retailers-selling-knives-to-children/).

I know, it is very sad to think of those poor people of colour, perforce staying elsewhere in the wide world for fear of disparate outcomes in Great Britain and Ireland, which only occurred due to our racist societal structures. But it is a *very* wide world. Africa is the most resource-rich continent in it. We all know about the great riches of Arabia. India is the new Space Superpower. China is China.

I am sure, some day, they will make a great success out of it, and this modest island off the coast of Europe will fade into nonentitude. None save those conducting ethnological studies will bother to come here. But at least we will have kept our primitive, tribal society, that so happens to serve us best. After all, that’s why our ancestors built it up to begin with.

Or maybe, when we deluded ourselves into thinking we led the world in chemistry, and culture (well, so long as you think Shakespeare, Hardy, Dickens, etc. worth a tittle compared to Chinua Achebe or V. S. Naipaul) we had completely the wrong idea about personal liberty, and that is why our awful, structurally racist society is what it is, and everything will get so much better once we have destroyed it and in rebuilding it made anything anyone could hurt anyone else with illegal or require a licence?

Soon you will get to put your decision into practice. I have no great confidence in Farage as a person or a politician. But he is *the* protest vote, and if you are a ‘structural racist’, by Jingo do you need to protest.

This won’t matter to the people who want what he’s offering. No more than anything Trump does matters to his fanbase.

Just so you know, this is a wasted effort. The type of people who’d even consider supporting Farage are the types of people who’d consider barely veiled racism, fascism and outrage from the Guardian all as excellent boons.

He’s scum that appeals to scum. The one silver lining is that, just like the Tories, if he ever gets any power, he’ll make life unpleasant for his scum followers as well as everyone else.

So we choose between this guy who allegedly said racist things decades ago when he was a child, or a party that allows openly racist people like Diane Abbott to stay? Hmm, tough one. If only Farage had said racist things about white people the guardian would be praising him.