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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Reform gets misquoted all the time. The most recent one being that Farage was advocating that people should demonstrate ‘rage’, and even ‘white rage’ on the BBC, when he actually said ‘cold rage’, which is quite different.
Cold rage is a reaction to something that makes you absolutely determined to do something about it. This is what he’s advocating.
And those people who say he was trying to stir up division know very well that’s not what he was doing at all. He was saying what most people with brains are saying - that the police should be treating everybody the same.
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I agree the BBC misquoted Farage. But my point is that Reform shouldn't then misquote Badenoch. You say it's fighting fire with fire; I think it's gutter level politics.
I don't think you'll find anyone saying that police should not be treating everyone the same. The last report we had on this (2017) said that ethnic minorities were bring treated worse. It's time to see what the current situation is. Are they still being treated worse? Or is the British white majority now being treated worse? Or are both being treated the same? Let's take an evidence-based approach not an anecdotal one.
For a politician like Farage to call policing two tier at this stage is irresponsible. He has ceased to look and act like a PM-in-waiting.