„Er sagte immer Dinge wie „Hitler hatte Recht““: Farage sieht sich mit weiteren Vorwürfen wegen rassistischen Verhaltens in der Schule konfrontiert
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/19/nigel-farage-allegations-racist-behaviour-school
Von PurchaseDry9350
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As much as I dislike Farage, this is a low brow way to critique him
We all said dumb stuff at school
Lets take on his policy rather than trying character deformation, rise above this
I’m quite sceptical on this tbh.
I feel like the Guardian have “stooped low” and found themselves a select few who are willing to say a few negative things about him decades later due to opposing political views.
It seems like a desperate attempt to change peoples opinion on him. This approach is a risky game, as it could very easily go the other way.
As much as I dislike Farage, I’m not going to judge him for what he said 40-50 years ago as a daft kid.
There’s plenty of modern stuff to judge him for.
Hope not Hate has been outing Farage as a fascist for years, and Farage even settled out of court when they sued him for libel.
There’s pretty good evidence of him being a proud fascist at Durham.
Apologies: Dulwich
Yawn. I really don’t care. Incredibly desperate line of attack to go after something allegedly said 40-50 years ago.
Farage is 61 years old. Why are we hearing about what he may have said when he was 14.
This just comes across as pretty desperate for clicks.
Do they need to call him a nazi that badly that they’ll dig up some high school drama from half a century ago? With no evidence beyond „trust me bro I was there“?
He was 14. He is now 61. Come on now.
Hitler was right about one thing; he killed Hitler.
If we just keep throwing the racist and facism word at him, reform might just go away..
When me and my friends were 14 we used to say all sorts if disgusting things and then laugh about it, for shock value.
Children will say abhorrent things because they don’t comprehend the full magnitude of them, and they want shock value and attention.
Imagine the Daily Mail trotting out some unknown alleging Starmer said „Mao was right“ when he was 14. It would be pretty pathetic, and so is this.
The Guardian are seriously barking up the wrong tree here. Engage with what he says now, not what he allegedly said fifty years ago.
Well that settles it. We will all be better off going back to vote for the labour party and the conservatives.
Farage has a *lot* of things you can rightfully criticise him for in the modern day without turning politics into a slapfight where one side points out the fascist ties of one political wings‘ youth and the other points out the extensive history of tankies and unapologetic Maoists and Stalinists infesting universities during the same era.
There’s nowhere useful or good this nonsense will go; pretty much everybody involved in politics said things as a teenager that they really don’t want dragged back up, left or right.
Either we purge our entire political establishment, or we leave things said as teenagers in the past. I’m up for either but it really is one or the other, unless we want to go full stupid.
People aren’t outraged because either they’re with him for that very reason OR/AND they already know that about him I.e. his views.
Pretty astonished how many people are happy to brush this off. These allegations are nothing new. Acquaintances at school and uni have reported how he used to revel in his initials being ‚NF‘ at a time when the National Front was very open about its racism and its advocacy of violence. How far away from those views has he moved, really? Is this this really the sort of character we want anywhere near running our country?
Young people will say shit to test the boundaries its nothing new.
Do we really need an article about this every day? Come on Guardian.
Nobody really cares about what someone did 40 years ago. Plenty of kids like to play the edgelord and say racist or homophobic or sexist stuff, and even if he really meant it rather than doing that, it’s just so long ago it’s irrelevant.
As I’m sure the Guardian would agree if someone dug up that Angela Rayner or Jeremy Corbyn acted like an idiot in their school days.
This is just a way of riling up their own base, it will have absolutely no effect on anyone thinking of supporting Farage, and if you actually want to hurt him politically there are far better ways to do it.
F*ck the bots. A real person should be mortified by this. People don’t change. Not really. If anything, Farage is even more racist and horrible now than he was when he was young.
How is this not libel?
As much as I dislike farage, some apparent school friend repeating something he apparently said 40/50 years ago?
Fuck off.
Really? I don’t like Farage but let’s not get pathetic here. Critisize him for relevant things. Not some heresay from 40 years ago.
>“Farage used to say things like ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas em’, you know, that sort of thing. But he also used to sing this song, which I later discovered was based on George Formby’s Bless Them All.
>“He had a whole load of ‘lyrics’ on this which are pretty awful. I can remember it verbatim: ‘Gas em all, gas em all, into the chambers they crawl. We’ll gas all the Paks, and we’ll gas all the Yids, and we’ll gas all the coons and all their fucking kids.’”
This is the sort of stuff he was saying, for everyone defending him.
I do wonder about the people on here saying they want to avoid discussing how a prospective future PM might have had a Hitler-loving phase. To me it’s an automatic disqualifier.