“Torna a casa”: i resoconti dei compagni di scuola di Farage portano il totale dei presunti comportamenti razzisti a 34
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/08/go-back-home-farage-schoolmate-accounts-bring-total-alleging-racist-behaviour-to-34
di BlackCaesarNT
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It’s at the point where there’s no point denying it. Or screaming Bernard Manning. And no they aren’t all lying, no it’s not an orchestrated attempt, yes they can remember what happened then and no it wasn’t what we were all saying at that time.
You either see what’s there or you don’t
Worth noting this is at Dulwich College, an elite school for the wealthiest Londoners which was a hotbed of sexual abuse and threatened to report students to the police for protesting sexual harrassment.
You have to work *really* hard for people who went to that kind of school to remember you as notably racist.
He needs to shut this down before it gets out of hand. Better feign loyalty to Israel
It’s like Kavanaugh, he prob did but if there is no hard evidence then it can’t really stick.
His support base won’t mind though, if there’s plausible deniability.
*one more Farage is a racist story Gary, it’ll definitely cut through this time*
>REF +1
*oh well at least a few people read the article we’ll try again next week*
The news that Nigel Farage has always been a nasty racist bigot is the very definition of “fork found in kitchen”.
Exsqueeze me comrades, but this relates to statements made over 10 years ago, and therefore has no bearing on today’s politics
Will we be getting reports from his nursery school next?
I’d love for the Guardian and its fellow travellers on here to still be crying about this come 2029.
Surely a better strategy is to focus on the things Farage does that AREN’T popular with his voters. No Reform voter is gonna read about Farage being racist and not be delighted
The people you want to care about this don’t give a shit.
At this point he’s struggling to find anyone he knows not prepared to go on record to call him a racist bully
That’s big for Dulwich too. Having met and played against a lot of them, you’d have to be realllllllly racist to stand out there.
Are the guardian still bleeting in about this. No one cares
Why is no one asking why these people are complaining after all these years – why not when he was an MEP, why not during Brexit, why not during UKIP etc. It’s all crap and even if any of it were true, it was about 40 years ago and has no relevance today. Its only purpose is to try and limit Reform in polls.
Just for clarity, I wouldn’t vote for him at any time.
Honestly, let’s assume he said all these things: Even if it’s dreadful: This was over half a century ago. There are plenty of things you could say against Nigel Farage, but if you’re having to dig *that* far back and this is *all* you find, that’s *r*ather disappointing.
If you look way less deep into Keir Starmer’s past: he was a Trotskyist and a member of a European marxist lawyer group. He was a full-fledged communist (or what was called a Pabloist which was a kind of intersectional communist of the time) at a time where communism was practically enslaving half of Europe. He also spent two years in Czechoslovakia at a communist work camp too, to make this context even more clear. Practically, too, you could insinuate that Starmer wasn’t just a communist but a *traitor* given the cold war context with the UK.
However: Farage making racist jokes when he was in school? Way more dramatic, naturally(!)
Come to think of it, I remember walking past Nigel 45 years ago and I could’ve swore I heard something racist.
Can I have some publicity please?
Shameful that so many British people would actually vote for this guy….
If anything, this will boost his support among right-leaning voters.
This is a party political broadcast by the Reform party
For reform voters, this sort of behaviour is a feature, not a bug.
Leader of racist party is a racist. No shit sherlock!
Just waiting for the Reform cultists. bots and paid trolls’ responses to defend the indefensible. 3…2…1 and there they are!
We all know Farage said this stuff. It’s so on brand for the fool.
Said at school ? Lol
This is weak sauce. If anything it demonstrates there isn’t anything for them to find in his adult life.
Pathetic.
The people that are going to vote for Farage don’t care that he has the morals of a particularly awful estate agent.
country is going to be the same mess as it’s always been regardless who’s in power
we need someone who grew up poor to truly make changes
Does anyone – *anyone* – care about this who actually supports Farage?
This just feels like such a massive waste of time.
He’s better off doubling down on this as it will only increase his popularity. Very interesting however that the media isn’t letting this die
Why is this being brought up 50 odd years later yeah it’s bad but this is ridiculous ?
Nobody cares outside the G’s leftist echo chamber. I really don’t think another article about this is helping anything, at this point it’s just giving Farage extra name recognition.
Was he a racist dickhead at school? Yeah, almost certainly. Is that relevant to politics today, 40 years later? No. Nobody who is thinking of voting Reform is going to be put off by this.