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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
What, when he was a kid? Do come off it, you are as bad as they are, making up stupid stuff.
The point is, he has a set of policies that none of the other parties like, but they know this is really what most people want. That, and nothing else, is the issue, and not what Farage did when he was a mischievous youngster (if indeed that is even true - people will say anything these days).
As for scrutiny, you will find regular press conferences given by Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf, when the press have plenty of opportunity to quiz them over their policies and their personal convictions. Watch them on YouTube. The fact that you don’t hear much about it is because the mass media and the opposition politicians want to shut them up. So they just sling mud and make false accusations.
Nor did Farage, according to Farage. People making allegations does not make it true.
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Farage was 17 or 18 when he was alleged to have said these things. Not a kid as you state. Farage says 20 people can't possibly remember that far back yet for someone reason he has super-human powers and can!
That's the kind of nonsense that you might readily swallow, but I don't. One thing most of the country has learnt is to start believing the victims. We're seeing Reform in full-on Donald Trump mode. If you were Jewish and someone made such comments to you when you were a teenager then it would be hard to forget them. Particularly as there would be generations still alive who had fled Nazi persecution whose traumatic life stories would be all too familiar to you.
Remember, we're not talking about an old-fashioned use of language but what seems to be very hurtful bullying of minorities which has
led to holocaust survivors asking him to apologise.
No one's perfect in their teenage years. But Farage would be better off apologising for his behaviour then and disowning those opinions now. Calling the victims liars is only making the situation worse.