‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims

Meanwhile Starmer is celebrating getting a dual national into the country who tweets about harming white people. I hate that it’s come to this, but political parties seem to rapidly be dividing based on identity, which is why these reports aren’t hurting Reform.

The letter:

“You will recall that at the recent and lengthy meeting about the selection of prefects, the remark by a colleague that Farage was a ‘fascist but that was no reason why he would not make a good prefect’ invoked considerable reaction from members of the [staff] common room.

“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views, and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set that he had to be removed from his lesson …

“Yet another colleague described how, at a [combined cadet force] camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs; and when it was suggested by a master that boys who expressed such views ‘don’t really mean them’, the college chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are deep-seated and are meant.”

The letter concluded: “You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. I have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation’s future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these leaders are enlightened and compassionate.”

Can’t stand the bloke, but genuinely, who cares?

All these claims will only ever be ‘he said, she said’ and ultimately not something that could ever be proved or disproved.

Just a bit of a waste of time when he’s done and said some bad things as an actual politician which should probably be a bigger focus

Why didn’t this come out during the other 30 years of his career in politics?

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Sadly, with the current state of social media and the Overton window shift, the more it’s clear that he’s racist, the more votes he’ll attract.

While I appreciate speaking to likeminded people here on Reddit, I also speak to non-Reddit users IRL in poor former Red Wall towns in the northwest and they’re all voting Reform no matter how much of their toxicity is exposed. It’s a sad state of affairs.

Offence archaeology.

If the strongest weapon you have against Farage are claims about things he said 50 years ago as a boy – in this instance, claims denied by the deputy master and the school chaplain – then you’re really in trouble.

Time wasted on this might be better spent on coming up with an actual plan of government for the remaining 3+ years of this parliament and implementing it.

Someone at the Guardian must have a bonus reliant on this.